Good morning everyone, it's Joann here with you today and I am super excited to share a project I recently made with some of the fabulous January new release dies.


This project actually made the trip to CHA in January and was on display in the Cheery Lynn booth along with many other fabulous projects created by my Cheery Lynn Designs Teamies : )

The photo below gives you a closer look so you can see the detail of the Bricks and Stones embossing for the pathway under the Arbor. To create this pathway, I embossed a piece of plain card stock with the Bricks and Stones Embossing Plate and added some distressing. I then fussy cut the shape to give it the appeal of a "winding" path.


For this Garden Arbor Swing, I created the actual arbor frame out of white card stock. Once I had the frame together, I used the new Mesh Border to fill in my frames on the arbor. The actual swing was created using the Victorian Picket Fence die and topped off with corners from the Hawaiian Luau Doily Frame. I absolutely adore this die, it tends to be one of my "go-to" dies in so many of my projects.

The lovely pink flowers on top of the arbor were made using the new Cuties Fringe 2. I am in love with these new Cuties dies, they make such a pretty flower and are a great addition to Cuties flower series! To create the vines and greenery, I weaved the Flourish Leaf Strip and the Mini Fanciful Flourish through the arbor frame.

Here's a list of the dies used for this project:

B117S - Mini Fanciful Flourish
B123 - Victorian Picket Fence
B166 - Lace Corner Deco F
B178 - Flourish Leaf Strip
B188 - Embellishment #2
B254 - Mesh Border
B256 - Cutie Fringe 2
B266 - Tiny Things with Wings
DL193 - Horizon Coved Rectangle Mega Doily
E101 - Bricks and Stones
FRM150 - Hawaiian Luau Doily Frame

I hope you can find some time to visit the challenge this week and put in your entry where the theme is Add a Flourish! With your entry you will have a chance to win a $20.00 shopping spree at Cheery Lynn Designs!

Have a Cheery Day!

It's Friday and I am thrilled to be back with another project to share with you this week!

Our challenge this week at Cheery Lynn Designs is All About Texture.  So with that in mind, I wanted to show you a really neat technique that you might way to try.  For my project, I started by inking up my Wicker Embossing Plate with distressed black ink and embossing my card stock.  I then used my Big Weaver die to cut the card stock into strips to resemble wood.  Once I had my strips cut, I then distressed the entire sheet with several different colors of distressed inks to give the appearance of wood that looked somewhat "aged." 

One of the great things about the Wickers and Weavers dies is that they are made so that there is no cut line at one end so that you can extend the die cut to the width of your paper.  This is also the case for both the new Expandable Tiny Borders and the new Expandable Quilling Strip Die.

For the supports on the wagon and the seat bench, I simply used my Big Wicker die but did not emboss this with the Wicker embossing plate, just a bit of distressing to give the feeling of old "faded" leather.



Here is the finished Fall Wagon





Here is a closeup to see the texture I created


This was such a fun project to do and it gave me the opportunity to use my Cheery Lynn dies in some different ways.  I hope this gives you some ideas when looking at your dies.  I think you will find there are some wonderful unexpected surprises contained within each and every one of them!

For this project I used the following:
B188 - Build a Flowers Embellishment #2
B240 - Fall Pumpkins
D133 - Small Leaves #1
D134 - Small Leaves #2
D135 - Large Leaves #1
D136 - Large Leaves #2
G18 - Wicker Embossing Plate
W102 - Big Wicker 1/4" Strips
W104 - Big Weaver 1/2" Strips

Also, don't forget to visit the challenge this week and put in your entry where the theme is All About Texture!

You have a chance to win a $20.00 shopping spree at Cheery Lynn Designs!

Of course, if you would like more inspiration please visit the other talented ladies from the Cheery Lynn Design Team.  I know you will be glad you did!
Have a Cheery Day!

 Here are the rules:

• You MUST follow the theme and use at least one Cheery Lynn Designs die, of course, we would love to see more than one. 
• You MUST add a link to your blog post in the InLinkz at CHEERY LYNN's Challenge post; no back posting, only new projects are allowed
• You MUST link to Cheery Lynn's Challenge blog in your post

The winner will be chosen based on merit by Cheery Lynn Designs. They will receive a $20 coupon for shopping at the Cheery Lynn website. The challenge will end on Sunday night at 22:00 Eastern time.
 I am sharing two versions of the same card with the lighting changed...you will have to tell me which you like better. I am one of the team members that also have a hard time with cards for men...I just love to add flowers to everything...lol
I don't think the greenery counts, do you?

 Wanted to share a close up of the frame inked with Tim Holtz distress inks and also the texture on the fence and inks to bring out the texture.