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Sunday, March 4, 2012

Spring is on it's Way

A good almost Spring Sunday to you, Donna here, back into the world of crafting, and so happy to be working with Cheery Lynn Designs again, using their fabulous dies.

On this card I have a few layers to go with this week's challenge LOTS OF LAYERS, don't forget it ends today.....you still have a little time.You can find all of the details HERE

I've used a new Sarah Kay stamp, cut out using the Oval LG Stackers Nesting Dies, then mounted onto the Kiwi Oval Frame. You'll notice I left all the bits in the frame, so it didn't detract from the Daisy Lace Frame underneath that. Plus alongside the edges of the Daisy Lace Frame I have used the Queen Anne’s Lace Border. I think it makes a beautiful border and frames it just lovely. I love the lace loops in the design. I’ve added some pearls to the middle of the loops, and paper pierced the oval, the Daisy Lace Frame edging and the edge of the paper.

I've also used a couple of the Small Exotic Butterflies (well it wouldn't be Spring without butterflies would it) I cut them out of some glittershine papers I've had for years. The flower is the Sunflower which I did in two layers of pink and white and used one of the dimensional buttons for the centre which I've tied some pink ribbon through. I've also used a couple of leaves and also the Lace Rose and Florishes underneath.

I've finished off the card with a sentiment using the silver stackers ovals and the scalloped ovals (smallest size)

Thanks for stopping by today and for any comments you leave

~hugs~

Donna

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Enchanted Forest

Jodi 3:30 AM 9 Comments

Hello! Jodi here today with a card featuring the Enchanted Forest Frame.

Frames are an excellent addition in enhancing a photo, sentiment, stamp image, or even a rubon image. I have a very minimal stamp collection yet, however I have gathered many rubons and journaling tags!

The details of the Enchanted Forest Frame really is the perfect finishing touch to this card!

Dies used:

Enchanted Forest Stacker Frame

Olive Branches

Small Dimensional Leaves 2

Small Dragonfly with Angel Wing

Anastasia Border

Instructions for the Joy Fold Card can be found at Splitcoast Stampers.

A special thank you to Phillis Gullick from Diamond Card Craft for providing the Eazi Score board used to create my card.

There is still time to enter this weeks challenge for your chance to win the $20 gift card. Details here.

Cheery Lynn Designs in looking for a few designers. Details here!

# Borders # Branches

Friday, March 2, 2012

Lots of Layers & Flowers

Jeannie from PolkaCabana.wordpress.com 3:30 AM 11 Comments

I was visiting blogs the other day for our Lots of Layers challenge entries and one lady's blog post really stayed in my mind. She was talking about Cheery Lynn Designs challenge and said "I can do layers."

I thought that was so cute, and she did do a fabulous job on her entry. I felt the same way about the challenge this week, "I can do layers, too!!"

I have used a lot of dies and I do have a lot of layers, so brace yourself!

To start, I took the FRENCH LATTICE SMALL cut it out in a patterned red, backed it with ad nice textured white and mounted that on a kraft card front. I added some machine stitching, because I think it adds a lot of flair to a card.

Next, I took the SWEDISH SPRING OVAL and cut it out in a patterned blue and layered that on top of the lattice.

The last time I used the FRENCH LATTICE SMALL die, I thought all those cut out squared would make a cute something, I just didn't know what. But today when making my card, I knew they would make perfect flowers and mini pinwheels.

You can see my finished card here.

I also used the basket from BUNNY IN BASKET, CUTIES 4, MEDIUM ROSE, DARLING DAISIES, LACE CORNER DECO D and DOTTIES RIC-RAC to complete this card.

The fluffy yellow flowers are made out of piece of tissue paper my 7yo brought home from school for me. I made the yellow flowers with the MEDIUM ROSE and layered them on one of the DECO CORNERS. The stems are made from DOTTIES RIC-RAC.

The mini pinwheels and pinwheel flower are made from the leftover squares from the FRENCH LATTICE SMALL as I mentioned above.

Here is a close up of the fluffy roses.

The flowers in the basket are a combination of the leftover LATTICE squares and the DARLING DAISIES . Just by layering a lot of the squares and daisies, I was able to make these adorable flowers.

Here is one more look at my card that I am sure you will agree has LOTS OF LAYERS.

I hope you have enjoyed this fun card I have come up with. Be sure to join in on our challenge, like I have mentioned, the theme is LOTS OF LAYERS.

You can find all the details here.

Have a great day, this has been Jeannie from The Polka Cabana with today's post.

# Basket # Corners

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Girly birthday card - Kianel

Kianel 3:33 AM 15 Comments

Hello dear Cheery lynn designs lovers!

Kianel here with you today to show you a girly birthday card i have made for the last TOMIC challenge and the actual challenge here at Cheery Lynn Designs which is layers and using the fantastic reflections dies. Have i told you that those dies are amazing? The possibilities are just endless and next week i will share a tutorial with you on how to extend the possibilities of your reflection dies so stay tuned!

So here is the card i made:

Many different layers on this card. The base of the card is made using the XL square stacker combined with the Large silver square stacker. On the right side, you can see an exotic butterfly small decorated with pearls.

For the clustering i used the large rose die, the leaves from the Judy's blooms die. The pink tulle is a stacker flower #6 die that i flipped in 2 and placed under the rose.

One of the layers is made using the horizon coved rectangle mega doily (size 1).

A second layer is made using the beautiful Lace square heart mega doily (size 4). You can also see that i used the mini pearl circle mega doily (size 3) under my stamped image and the base of the stamped image is made using the Large silver classic circle stackers as a template. The patterned paper is cut using the cardmaker's rectangle stacker.

To build the band on the left side, i used the Mini pearl rectangle mega doily (size 3).

And you know how much i like to use the leftovers from my cutting so here i used the leftovers from the lace square heart mega doily and made a kind of banner around my image with them. I just added some pearls in the center of each little heart (those hearts measure approximately 6x5mm, super tiny but super cute!).

The cardstock is from Bazzill, the stamps from the brand new collection by Magnolia, the patterned papers are also from Magnolia, the colouring is made with versafine + distress + creative inspirations shimmer paints, all the embellishments are coming from a french online store.

I also wanted to show you a card i made for a monthly kit i am DTing for here in France in a vintage style and where i could use some Cheery Lynn designs dies:

On this card i used the following dies from Cheery Lynn Designs: Cardmaker's rectangle stackers, dimensional butterflies, olive branch and the mini pearl circle mega die around the vintage picture.

Don't forget that you have the huge opportunity of winning a $20 shopping spree by joining our weekly challenge.

See you next week for the tutorial, love from France, Kianel.

# Butterfly # Card Maker Stackers

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Little Girl Banner

Celeste Glover 3:49 AM 10 Comments

Hello and welcome back.

This Wednesday I am showing you my banner. It was completed just before the weekend. I was very excited to be doing a banner, as I thought no one else had made one. Then to my surprise, Jeannie's creation came up. All I can say is, "Jeannie, great minds think alike" and I hope you like mine just as much as all the fantastic comments you gave Jeannie.

So here goes!

I started off with wooden off the page flowers from Kaiser and went about covering them with Sweet Nothings 6 1/2 paper pad also by Kaiser. Starting with the Dainty Dutch Deco Frame, I cut the middle out and used that for the middle of each flower. On top of the flower are bling alphabets with small wings just underneath. The edges of the flowers are covered in pearls. The flowers are made up of the Miniature Rose, the Cuties 2, the Darling Daisies and the Stacker Flower #1 Leaf. Finishing off with ribbon and binding them all together used pink links.

Dies used:

A196 Darling Daisies

B150 Cuties 2

B152 Miniature Rose

DL141 Dainty Dutch Deco Frame

SF-1 Stacker Flower #1 Leaf

Thanks for stoping by and if you would like to join in the fun at Cheery Lynn Designs, click here to find the latest challenge.

Happy Scrapping Celeste.

# altered project # Celeste Glover