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Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Earth Laughs in Flowers Card by Amy Voorthuis

Good morning lovely fans.
Today it's my turn again on this amazing blog and I would like to share a flower shaker card. Although my fellow DT ladies are all into the Fall/ Halloween/Christmas cards I will show you a different type of card as I am still in summer mood lol. Here in The Netherlands we are enjoying some nice late summer temperatures this week we are going to hit 20 degrees. Oh that feels so good as do not love winter at all!

Earth Laughs in Flowers:

This card was made with Maja Design papers from the Vintage Summer Basics collection since I had some leftovers from the layout I made this week. I think it is really easy to use your scraps for cards as I tend to do most of the time.

The shaker is filled with some dress my craft sequins and some mica flakes {amazing stuff}
The centers of my card are made with some foam balls that I dipped into some prills. At the end I added some white spray and a word strip.

Cheery Lynn Designs dies used:
K111 - Flourishing Flower Shaker Set
FRM144 - Chicken Wire Frame
C184 - Judys Blooms
B129 - Cherry Blossom

Thank you so much for visiting the blog today!

I hope you enjoyed my post and I have inspired you to use your Cheery Lynn Designs dies. You could also visit my blog at Amy's Pretty Papers for more inspiration.
Have a wonderful day!

Saturday, July 8, 2017

My Happy Place with Laurie Schmidt

laurie 12:30 AM 2 Comments

Hi everyone!

Laurie here from Stamping Up North sharing a card I made with Cheery Lynn's Shuttered Window Shaker die.

One of my "Happy Places" is my house. I love to to look out my window! Each season is so special. Right now I'm enjoying my pots full of pretty flowers.

For this card I used a piece of the Mandy Doily to make a curtain for my window, and also added some under the window ledge. Sitting on the ledge is a pot of tiny flowers with a watering can from the Doily Companion Square set. The tiny heart at the top of the window is also from that set. The greens are from the Floral Bouquet kit, and I added a tiny pearl in the middle of the heart. I backed all of it on the Lattice #2 die. Finally, I stamped my sentiment at the bottom,"My happy place!"

Here's a list of the dies I used:

Cherry Lynn Shuttered Window Shaker K110
Cheery Lynn Mandy Doily DL276
Cheery Lynn Doily Companion Square DL310
Cheery Lynn Floral Bouquet Kit B777
Cheery Lynn Lattice #2 CAFR22

Thanks for stopping by!

# Doily Companion square # Floral Bouquet Kit Die Set

Friday, June 23, 2017

Summer Smile Card by Amy Voorthuis

Amy Voorthuis 3:00 AM 1 Comments

Good morning lovely Cheery Lynn Fans.
For today I have another card to share. This time it's made with my favorite color {purple}! For my card I used some pretty papers by 49 and Market. I also added a cute fairy with purple shades and flowers around her. For this card I used some of my precious flower dies by Cheery Lynn Designs.

Summer Smile:

The flower centers are just home decor art stones that I treated with gesso, and some prima waxes. I also made a tear in my card and stitched a thread through after I punched holes in it.

For my flowers I used some of my all time favorite flowers dies by Cheery Lynn. The centers of my little flowers are made with some cute bubbles stones I had in my stash. I finished my card by spraying two colors of Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays on it.

Cheery Lynn Designs dies used:
B338 - Black Eyed Susan Strip
C184 - Judys Blooms
B434 - Sweet Christine
SF-3 - Stacker Flower #3
B574 - Summer {set of 2}
B502 - Smile {set of 2}

Thank you so much for visiting the blog today!

I hope you enjoyed my post and I have inspired you to use your Cheery Lynn Designs dies.
Have a wonderful and lovely weekend!

# Amy Voorthuis # Black Eyed Susan Strip

Sunday, June 18, 2017

Beach Bum by Laurie Schmidt

laurie 12:30 AM 1 Comments

Hi everyone!

Laurie here from Stamping Up North, back with another summer themed card to share.

It's been raining and dreary the last few days up north, so I decided to make a cheerful, sunny card.

My thoughts drifted to the beach, and I made a little beach scene with the Surfs Up set. I added some sand by using just a small piece of a pierced circle tucked behind the wave. The tiny flower with the cute smile is from the Oval Companion set. I added the Whimsical Sun and Clouds,and backed everything on a pierced circle and scalloped rectangle.

Here's a list of the dies I used:

Surfs Up B646

Whimsical Sun and Cloud set B797

Circle Pierce and Cut LPC4

Wave Edger B341

Rectangle Scalloped Stackers XL15

Doily Companion Oval DL311

Thanks for stopping by!

# Cardmaker Rectangle Scalloped # Circle Stitch and Cut Tool

Thursday, June 8, 2017

"Fun & Sun" with Laurie Schmidt

laurie 12:30 AM 1 Comments

Hi everyone! Laurie here from Stamping Up North.

Today I'm sharing a card using some of Cheery Lynn's "fun & sun" summertime dies. I started with a pierced circle and added a sun from the Whimsical Sun and Cloud set.

The Surf's Up set has 10 fun pieces including this surf board. I inlaid the letters in a bright and cheerful yellow. The leaves from the Mehndi Botanicals 2, and the flower from the Doily Companion Oval set, reminded me of the tropics. I added an enamel dot in the flower's center,and stamped the sentiment in black.

Here's a list of the Cheery Lynn dies I used:

Circle Pierce and Cut Tool LPC4

Whimsical Sun and Cloud set B797

Mehndi Botanicals 2 set B863

Doily Companion Oval set DL311

Surf's Up set B646

I hope you have a fun and sunny day!

# Circle Pierce & Cut Tool # Doily Companion Oval

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Groovy Summer Card by Amy Voorthuis

Amy Voorthuis 3:30 AM 4 Comments

Good morning lovelies.

Oh how much I long for summer. We had just a lovely day yesterday and now it's very windy.

Today I would like to share a card with you, using some of the older dies I have in my beautiful "Cheery Lynn Designs"collection. For this card I used the pretty "Life by the Sea"collection by Maja Design. When these dies came out a couple of years ago I fell in love instantly and they are still some of my favorites to use.

Groovy Summer:

I just layered the Ship's Compass on top of the Ships Helm to get more dimension. On top of that I added a cut out piece from the Maja Design collection. I added some different papers behind the lighthouses and placed them behind each other. On top of that I used the "GROOVY" word die {love it} and it's now on sale in the Cheery Lynn Designs store yeahh.

Cheery Lynn Design dies used:

B385 - Ships Helm

B395 - Ships Compass

B644 - Lighthouse Set {set of 2}

B696 - Groovy

B574 - Summer {set of 2}

Thank you so much for visiting the blog today!

I hope you enjoyed my post and I have inspired you to use your Cheery Lynn Designs dies.
Have a wonderful week.....

# Amy Voorthuis # card

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Fabulous Summer 8x8 Layout by Amy Voorthuis

Amy Voorthuis 3:00 AM 8 Comments

Good morning lovelies.

Don't you just love the North America collection and did you already hop with us? I for sure had fun with the "Florida"die! But that's not all, there is a wonderful release coming up in May too.

I am so excited for it and I can't wait to show you my work.

Today I'd like to share a 8x8 layout I made with the "Vintage Summer Basics" collection by Maja Design and this time I went for the earth colors & blue.

Fabulous Summer:

The picture I used is one of my beautiful nieces Jamie who was born in Florida but now she moved somewhere else in the States. Don't you just love that sea? It's so pretty it makes me long for summer even more. On the base of my layout I painted with some white gesso and then I added some paste with a stencil of dots by Finnabair. On those dots I added some pretty star dust stickles to make it shine a bit. I also did that with the text.

The first time I was on this amazing design team I got the B394 - Ships Anchor & the B395 - Ships Compass as a new release and I thought well I need to use them again that's why I ordered the B279 - Sand Dollar & Starfish & the B267 - Seahorse Family to have more of those kind of dies.

Cheery Lynn Designs dies used:

B279 - Sand Dollar & Starfish

B267 - Seahorse Family

B312 - Burlap Border

B394 - Ships Anchor

B395 - Ships Compass

B574 - Summer {set of 2}

B629 - Fabulous {set of 2}

B644 - Lighthouse Set

Thank you so much for visiting the blog today and for the lovely comments you always leave on every design team member posts - we really appreciate them.
I hope you enjoyed my post and I have inspired you to use your Cheery Lynn Designs dies you don't use that often. If you love the Cheery Lynn Designs dies I used, you could always enter our bi-weekly challenge to win a $20 shopping spree.

This time it's challenge #227 "Handmade Flower Theme" I can't wait to see your work, there are a bunch of amazing entries already enjoy creating!

# 8x8 layout # Amy Voorthuis

Sunday, June 23, 2013

Patriotic Summer Scene with Guest Designer Holly

Holly 3:30 AM 5 Comments

Hi folks! It's Holly posting today, and I'm sad to say this is my last post as a Guest Designer. I have truly enjoyed coming up with these fun and creative cards to share with you this month. Many thanks to BJ, Lori, and Gini for asking me to be a guest designer and for helping me out with my questions. I have had a great time!!

For my card today, I was thinking about the upcoming 4th of July holiday, and I wanted to make a patriotic summer scene card. This Patriotic Swag die fit the bill perfectly. If you haven't checked out this die, it comes as one large connected die. There are three pieces connected by some very thin strips of metal. It's easy to snap them apart into three individual dies. Look at the picture below. You can see I separated the three pieces and then cut each piece with a different color of cardstock.

I used the following dies on my card:

Patriotic Swag
Victorian Picket Fence
Clouds and Rain
Grass Border

I started by sponging some blue and green inks on white cardstock and then I stamped the tree to one side. The clouds were adhered so that some of them were floating past the edges of the scene. The picket fence is actually some kraft cardstock that I distressed to look like a whitewashed fence and then I added the grass border to the bottom. Finally I put the swag together and glued it to the fence, and then I pulled some of the grass out so it would be "blowing" against the swag.

Thanks so much for checking out my artwork this month. It's been a wonderful experience, and I know the next Guest Designer will have a great time. I hope you all have a wonderful week and a Happy and Safe 4th of July! :-)

# Clouds and Rain # Grass Border