Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration Blog

Monday, March 4, 2013

Die Cut Flowers Challenge winner

The winner of our Die Cut Flowers challenge is

Congratulations, Barbara. Please contact me for your $20 shopping spree to Cheery Lynn Designs. And thank you to everyone who joined in on the challenge. We hope to see you again in this week's Doilies challenge.

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Sunday, March 3, 2013

Under the Sea....

Tamara Morton 5:16 AM 6 Comments

Hello everyone, welcome to Cheery Lynn's inspirational blog. Its my turn (Tamara) to give you some inspiration using Cheery Lynn Dies.

We have a new challenge starting tomorrow on Cheery Lynn Challenge blog and the theme is...
"Dollies"
The challenge gives you the chance of winning a $20 spend coupon to spend in the Cheery Lynn Store

Today's card I have used an image from Lill of the Valley I brought this stamp specially to go with these cute little seahorses.. I cut them out in Core'dinations card stock

Most of my cards are 14.5 x 14.5 cm square.

I have used a 14.5 x 14.5 cm card and distressed the edges in iced sprue distress ink. Sand distressed the edges of the card, flower and the Seahorses.

Here's a close up view of stamp

Copic Colours

BG49, 15, 13, 11

E77, 74, 71

E43, 41, 40

E29, 25, 51

With the flower I inked and sanded the edges then added a large pearl brad.

The burlap ribbon came from The Ribbon Reel and the metal charm came from Ebay..

The design papers are Basic Grey.

Family of Seahorses

Judy's Blooms

Mini Flourish One

Core'dinations - Out to Sea

Circle Classic Silver Stackers

Cheery Lynn - XM Scalloped Circles

Saturday, March 2, 2013

Spring Fever

Jodi 3:30 AM 6 Comments

Hello! I have got Spring Fever and decided to create a fun springy card using my dies.

I started by cutting the Little Pink Bicycle twice and piecing the parts together. The flowers in the basket are from Build a Flower Embellishment #2. The Grass Border is layered twice, with the bike tucked between the layers. I inked the background onto a Classic Oval Silver Stacker, layering it atop the Scalloped Oval Stacker Nesting die. Of course we need a couple Mini Dimensional Butterflies! The Swedish Spring Oval Frame has the perfect dainty touch to bring it all together. For some fun texture, I embossed the yellow banner with the Flutter Bys Embossing Plate, and the card base with the Dotted Swiss Embossing Plate. The card base was then cut from the Classic Coved Rectangle Silver Stacker, layered with the Scalloped Coved Rectangle Stacker Nesting Die.

There is still time to enter this weeks challenge for your chance to win the $20 shopping spree!

Details Here

Thanks for stopping by!

Friday, March 1, 2013

The Graceful Gardenia

Unknown 3:30 AM 7 Comments

Hi Everyone and Happy Friday to you!

For today's inspiration, I wanted to share with a you a Gardenia Flower I created using my Build a Flower #3 dies.

There are so many flowers you can create using your Build a Flower dies, the possibilities are truly endless! The Gardenia flower is one of my favorites, I think it might have something to do with it's presence being so tranquil and elegant. I decided that such a lovely flower deserved a home worthy of it's beauty so thought I would use it to decorate this pretty bird-cage.

I wanted to include a bird in my birdcage so here he is protecting his beautiful Gardenias. Just in case you are wondering, I picked up this cute little bird at my local Dollar Store. As well, since the Gardenia has waxy type leaves so I used glossy accents to give them that wet/waxy look. This was the first time I tried this technique and will use it again, the leaves look real.

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

B178 - Flourish Leaf Strip
B264 - Build a Flower # 3
B268 - Koala Bear (just the tree)
B277 - Leaf Edger
B278 - Lady Kate Edger
C184 - Judy's Blooms
DL161 - Small Lace Faerie Queen w/Angel Wing
DL181 - Large Sunflower Doily
DL221 - Spring Flower Burst Doily
XM-6 - Inverted Scalloped Circle

I hope you find some inspiration both here on the Challenge blog and on the Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration blog. You still have time to visit the challenge this week and put in your entry where the theme is Flowers (Must be made with a die)! With your entry, you will have a chance to win a $20.00 shopping spree at Cheery Lynn Designs! Remember, the challenge closes on Sunday night at 22:00 Eastern time. I can't wait to see what you create!

Have a Cheery Day!

# Build A Flower # Butterflies

Addicted To Cheery Lynn Dies

Lori 3:30 AM 11 Comments

Happy Friday everyone, it's Lori here with another Cheery Lynn Creation. During the making of this card it came to my attention...I'm addicted to Cheery Lynn Dies. Actually I think I already knew it but I'm coming clean to the world. Darn if they aren't just wonderful. Everything on this card used a Cheery Lynn Die and if I could have squeezed a couple more on there, I think I would have, LOL. All of the flowers were handmade and woven throughout the chicken wire. I really wish everyone could see this one in person, because I love the final outcome.

This week our challenge is die flowers...so I hope I've inspired you to give some flowers a whirl yourself and enter our challenge. You could win a $20 shopping spree. CLICK HERE to join our challenge.

Here is a complete list of all the dies that are used.

B189 Sentiment frame #1

B178 Flourish Leaf Strip

B188 Build a flower embellishment #2

B136 Anastasia Border

FRM144 Chicken Wire Frame Die

B166 Lace Corner Deco F

B265 Build a Flower Embellishment 3