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Thursday, May 26, 2016

Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge #230 - Lots of Layers Theme

As always, the entries we had for our Red, White and Blue challenge were fabulous. Thank you to all who entered, we enjoy seeing your creations with our dies.

Our new bi-weekly challenge theme is

Lots of Layers

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 the end of this post; no back posting, only new projects are allowed
You MUST link to this challenge in your blog post or on your gallery post
You may only enter the challenge ONCE per week for a total of 2 entries per bi-weekly challenge.
Be sure to let us know which Cheery Lynn Die or Dies you used on your project.

The winner will be chosen randomly. They will receive $20 towards shopping at the Cheery Lynn website. The challenge will end on Wednesday afternoon June 8th at 15:00 Eastern time. We will also showcase the Top 3 picks from our Design Team.

And now to our inspiration for today (for details on each project, click on the designer's name and it will take you to their blog).

Corina Finley

Cheery Lynn Designs Dies used:
Tags #2 (Set of 4) - CABD-98, Baby's Breath Flower Kit (Set of 3) - B364

Shasta Daisy - B310, Chrysanthemum Strip - B311

Olive Branches - B147, Horizon Square Boutique Stacker Frames - DL253

Square Scalloped LG Silver Stackers (Set of 6) - L-2, Square Classic - Silver Stackers - L-1

Bonnie Garby
Cheery Lynn Designs Dies used:

DL325 Royal Scandinavian A2 Card Facer, B777 Floral Bouquet
LPC-16 Rect Pierce & Cut Tool Lge Silver

Remember, you MUST use a Cheery Lynn Designs die to enter this challenge.

# challenge

Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge #229 Red, White and Blue Challenge Winners

Bonnie Garby 3:30 AM 4 Comments

What wonderful entries we had last week for our Red, White and Blue themed challenge.

Our randomly selected winner is:
Random Integer Generator
Here is your random number:
13

Judy Woodland

Congratulations Judy. Please contact Judy at Cheery Lynn by clicking here for your $20 shopping spree to Cheery Lynn Designs. Be sure to grab the winner's badge from the right sidebar for display on your blog.

Our Top 3 Picks for Challenge #229 in no particular order are:

Cheryl

Donna Phelan

Birgit

Great job! Be sure to grab our Top 3 badge from the right sidebar for display on your blog.

Thank you to everyone who joined in on the challenge. We hope to see you again in this week's 'Lots of Layers' challenge.

# winners

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

This Hope...with Lisa Blastick

Lisa 3:30 AM 5 Comments

Hi everyone! Are you ready for a new card inspired by this week's challenge with Cheery Lynn Designs? This week's challenge Red White and Blue is right up with my favorite upcoming holiday, The Fourth of July! You may have noticed that I'm still on beach mode and well, I suppose nautical is close enough. LOL This card can be used for that favorite man in your life too!

This shaker card was super fast to make today! The papers did most of the work for me. I added 2 "ship's anchors" and "wave border" to the bottom half of the card. The chain on the anchor I colored with a white signo pen.

The shaker in the center was cut using "circle silver stackers" I used the 2nd and 3rd smallest. together for the top and again with white foam. I then used the 3rd largest "circle" in acetate and white cardstock for the background with sentiment. Layer them together and I added some red beads, but you can add whatever you want in your center for the shaker part. Last but not least, I added silver stickers on the top of the circle to give it the appearance of a window on a ship.

Hope you enjoyed!

Cheery Lynn Designs Dies Used:

L-4 Circle- Classic Silver Stacker Layers

B341 Wave Edger

B394 Ship's Anchor

Be sure to check out this week's challenge and your chance to win $20 from the Cheery Lynn Designs Store! See you next week!

Hugs Lisa

# Circle Classic Silver Stackers # Lisa Blastick

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Caring Thoughts Card with Bonnie Garby

Bonnie Garby 3:30 AM 5 Comments

Hi everyone, it's Bonnie again from Make Time to Craft. Today I'm filling in for Amy and I'm showcasing some more of the wonderful May New Release Dies from Cheery Lynn Designs.

I'm really loving the new frame and flower dies. This card features the Sakura Flower die which was a favorite from our Blog Hop. I cut the die twice - once using green cardstock which I used as the base and a second time using a piece of watercolor paper colored with Ken Oliver Colorburst pigments. I snipped the flower portions off from this die cut and glued them to the green base.

I chose to make a white on white muted background by cutting the Quatrefoil frame from white and layering it on a white background. I love the subtle look this creates.

Cheery Lynn Dies Used:

FRM154 Quatrefoil A2 Frame 2

B776 Sakura Flower

XL-20 Pierced Stacker #2

CABD-109 Nesting Dolls Tag #1

The Sakura flower is mounted on the Pierced Stacker #2 which is layered over coordinating ribbons from Really Reasonable Ribbon. The small sentiment was cut out using the Nesting Doll Tag and trimmed with some baker's twine and burlap string.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Don't forget, there is still time to enter our current 'Red, White and Blue' themed challenge for a chance to win a $20 gift certificate to Cheery Lynn Designs.

# Bonnie Garby # Nesting Doll Tags #1

Monday, May 23, 2016

Thank You Card by Bonnie Garby

Bonnie Garby 3:30 AM 0 Comments

Hi everyone. Bonnie from Make Time to Craft here today with a fun summery card featuring several of the May New Release dies from Cheery Lynn Designs.

I am super LOVING this new Chevron A2 Frame die. I love the design and I also love the fact that it's a 2-piece die so you can either cut the chevron and then cut it out in A2 card size to use it on a card base or you can use just the chevron part to cut the actual front panel and have the 'peek-a-boo' effect on the front. I'll share a card done like that soon.

For my Cheery Blossom flower cluster I cut out three layers. The base is green and then I cut the flowers and buds from red and the flower centers from white. I layered all the colors and attached the flower cluster to the bottom of my card.

Cheery Lynn Designs dies used:

B781 Thank You Circle Sentiment *NEW*

FRM155 Chevron A2 Frame *NEW*

B775 Cherry Blossom *NEW*

M-4 Circle Classic Sm Silver Stacker

XM-4 Circle

XL-21 Pierced Stacker #3

The beautiful bow was created using ribbons from the May Ribbon Club Assortment from Really Reasonable Ribbon. The Ribbon Club theme for May is Patriotic colors. The bow was created on my Bow-it-All V3.0.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Don't forget, there is still time to enter our current 'Red, White and Blue' themed challenge for a chance to win a $20 gift certificate to Cheery Lynn Designs.

# Bonnie Garby # Cards