Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration Blog

Friday, April 6, 2012

A Tisket A Tasket- You Bet I Have A Basket

Did you see the news this week? Oh yea I am thrilled to be here today with my first Cheery Lynn project as a team member!!!

This week our challenge at Cheery Lynn Designs is

Make A Basket

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 our 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.

Oh yea I had so much fun making this basket! Let me share a list of the dies I used.

Fanciful Flourish

Large Rose

Medium Rose

Queen Anne's Lace Border

Princess's Garden Window Frame

Let me say that when I got my shipment of dies from Cheery Lynn I couldn't contain my excitement...oh yea I was like a little girl with new toys!

Can you believe these were the only dies I used? lol

I started by using four square pieces of thin chipboard as my base.Just building the basket piece by piece.The papers I used are called Laces and Grace from Glitz Design, all the colors and patterns in my 8 x 8 pad worked well for creating this basket.

I used adhesive backed card stock for my flourishes, made it easy to attach and form around the handle.

I tried to share a few views of the details.My favorite is the window frame on each panel, I love how perfect this frame cuts out and looks.Each panel was given three eyelets and tied together with a clean white ribbon from Really Reasonable ribbon.

Well by now you should know how I love to create using Cheery Lynn dies, they cut perfectly and have such intricate designs they work well with my style.

I hope to see you play along with us this week, looking forward to seeing some more ideas for baskets.

Thanks for checking out my first project, can't wait to share more each week.

What a doll!

Jeannie from PolkaCabana.wordpress.com 4:42 AM 8 Comments

Today I am using my Cheery Lynn Dies along with some fabulous stamps and embossing powders from Wow Embossing Powders by the lovely Suzy West.

I cam across this adorable bookmark on Etsy:

I always look at things and think..ooh, I could do that even though I do not have the exact supplies the original was made out of. With all my Cheery Lynn Designs dies, I knew I would be able to make my own version of this Japanese Kokeshi doll.

Here is my version...

Mine is much bigger and I have turned it into a plaque rather than a bookmark.

For the doll and clothing I used Scalloped Circle Stackers and Scalloped Oval Stackers.

I enhanced the dies and patterned paper with the Wow Embossing Powders and Stamps.

The flower and lace embellishments are made with Queen Anne's Lace, Buttons1 and the Medium & Miniature Roses.

The final touch was applying the sweet sentiment attached to an individual Pennant.

I just love how this cute little doll turned out and I hope you do also.

This has been Jeannie with The Polka Cabana with today's post.

Be sure to visit the Challenge Blog to get in on the chance to win ad $20.00 Shopping Spree to Cheery Lynn Designs.

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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Vintage boxes - Kianel

Kianel 4:26 PM 14 Comments

Hi there my dear Cheery Lynn designs friends!
Kianel here with you today showing you a box i started at the scrap show we had in Paris this week end and for which i had the incredible opportunity to meet the "Doily Lama" himself!!!

Mike and i demonstrated the Cheery Lynn Designs dies there and i started this little box to show the possibilities of the frames and the corners. I finished it at home so here it is:

You know how i love to use dies for other purposes than what they are designed for and this time i played with my lace corners again. Do you remember this flower made out of Lace corner D?

As this one sold out after the 1st day of demonstration, i thought i would try to play with another one so i chose lace corner E this time and made a flower out of it:

I used the one which is on the top of the picture, which really is alike lace:

The base of the box is made with cardstock. I then used an XL square stackers to open 2 of the sides. To decorate those opened sides, i chose to use the french lattice small.
On the lid i decorated all the sides with the Wedding garter border.

I also decorated each side of the box with dies. On the left side, i used the exotic butterfly small #2 and the angel wings small # 2, that i placed on a fanciful flourish.

On the right side, i created the flower using one of the dies in the Lace corner D set. This flower is decorated with the Victorian Romance Flourish that i cut to size my box. I finished with a small exotic butterfly die and the small angel wings coordinated die.

The big red flower is made out of one of the dies from the lace corner E set that i cut 5 times and flipped each in 4 as an accordeon. I then glued all the centers together and added a smaller flower in the center that i made using the miniature rose die and the medium rose die.

I then added leaves from the pine branches die and the Victorian Romance Flourish to which i added two pieces of the same die in another color.

I made a tag with the Little french flair stacker and the Little silver french flair stacker and added an exotic butterfly small and the exotic butterfly small angel wings .

I also would like to share another project that i made during the show for a lady who was selling ready made boxes and asked us to decorate one of them.

I never got a chance to finish the box but this is what i made using dies from the Easter collection:

I used the little spring basket which i backed up with 3D pads to give some volume.

I inked the little rabbit and placed it there too.

I then inked a fanciful flourish that i cut into several pieces and placed in the basket.

And finished with flowers made using miniature rose and medium rose dies.

On the front side of the box, i used the Dancing doily lace border.

I made a stencil out of the italian flourish die and inked the left side of the box using it for my background.

The lace egg six is cut twice and placed on a cardstock cut with the egg stackers.

I also used the pine branches die that i inked with distress and one of the gorgeous exotic butterfly small #2 dies.

I would like to thank Mike and Cheery Lynn for such a great time and for those marvellous dies they design! Don't forget thta from now on, you'll find our weekly challenge on its own blog with a chance to win a 20$ shopping spree! Take care and see you in a week, love from France, Kianel.

# Butterfly # Doily

Baskets Inspiration

Unknown 3:30 AM 11 Comments

Hi Alison here, and I am chuffed to bits to be sharing my first project for the Cheery Lynn Designs Team. I am so excited!. This is also my first 'host post' on a DT blog too, so I hope I get it right :)

Now I got quite carried away making spring baskets as they were such fun, and so easy to decorate by using just a few really gorgeous Cheery Lynn dies. You still have plenty of time to make one in time for our challenge which ends on Sunday.

On this first basket I used:

B136 - Anastasia Border for both the handle trim and all around the bottom of the basket.
B117 - Fanciful Flourish
D137 - Sweet Williams - A terrific die for making a gorgeous shabby flower!
D134 - Dimensional Small Leaves #2 - I added extra leaves behind the flowers, inked and curled the edges.
B162 - Lace Corner Deco B - Sticking 2 together to make the side decoration - these are so classy looking.

I inked the edges of all the components before sticking them down, as it gives a great finish, and just added some little chocolate eggs to make a lovely gift.

Second Basket:

To decorate this I used:

B133 - Lace Light Deco Border - Again for both the handle trim and the basket decoration. I used double-sided snow-white pearl card for this, so it looks just as beautiful on both sides.

DL146 - Large Dragonfly w/Angel Wing - These are so delicate and fluttery. I affixed them to the basket with white brads to stop them flying off ;) lol

B164 - Lace Corner Deco D & D133 - Dimensional Small Leaves #1 for the scrunchy flower at the top of the handle. I love the way these leaves emboss!

Now I actually made 3 baskets for an Easter table display, and to give as gifts for my family, and on the 3rd basket (you can just see tucked behind in the below picture) I used B149 - Cuties 1 for the border trim (this is a rolling flower die, but very versatile and such a cute border. DL128 - Two of Hearts for the tag and trim.

I hope you find time to play along with our challenge, I cant wait too see your fab creations! :) Thanks so much for visiting our challenge blog today, and you can also checkout our Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration Blog for more amazing ideas this week too.

Alison - aka 'xtglx'

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Happy Birthday

shulsart 3:30 AM 9 Comments

I got this adorable image from Nellie Snellen and thought she would make a perfect birthday card. I stamped her onto Cryogen paper, colored with Copics then cut her out using my Coved Rectangle Little Stackers. For the frame behind the image, I used my Horizon Coved Rectangle Reflection dies. I also created the pink border pieces with these dies. They are so very versatile! I added an Italian Flourish doily behind the image panel and corner adornments from the Lace Corner Deco B set. I used my Scalloped Circle Little Stackers to cut the pink panel behind the sentiment from Netty's Cards. The DP is from My Mind's Eye. Finished size is 6" square.

Don't forget to check out the new Cheery Lynn Designs challenge blog and join in on the fun for a chance to win a $20 shopping spree at Cheery Lynn.

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