Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration Blog

Monday, October 22, 2012

Corner Adorners Challenge Winner

The winner of our Corner Adorners challenge
picked by Bj, owner of Cheery Lynn Designs is

Congratulations, Gaynor. 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 Texture challenge.

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Sunday, October 21, 2012

Frills and Hearts Christmas

Tamara Morton 3:30 AM 10 Comments

Hi everyone, Tamara here with your Sunday Inspiration. I will be sharing with you a Christmas Card that I have created but before that why not join us for our weekly challenge over on Cheery Lynn Challenge blog . A new challenge start tomorrow (Monday)

To enter you need to use a Cheery Lynn Die, you could be in with a chance at winning a $20 coupon to spend in the Cheery Lynn Store.

Cheery Lynn also have an inspirations blog where you can pick up tips, tricks and lots of ideas on how to use and create with Cheery Lynn Dies we have inspiration 24/7 with a different designer every day so remember to visit often..

Below are the links and names of the Dies I used to create my project.

Cheery Lynn Dies Used

Build a Flower

Frills and Hearts Border

Lacey Christmas Ornaments

Sliver Square nesting Stackers

Scalloped Square nesting Stackers

Wreath Strip

I love making Christmas Cards, I think its the colours, the glitter and the gorgeous papers. The poinsettia below has been created using the Build a Flower series #1 from Cheery Lynn. I distressed with Fired Brick Distress inks (nice and messy) then added the centres with have been glittered. Behind the flower I have used the Lacey Christmas Ornaments which have also been glittered..

Most of my cards are 14.5cm x 14.5 cm (5/6inch Square)

for this card I cut my card size then cropped about 7cm off the bottom of the front of my card, I then die cut the Frills and Hearts border to create a lovely decorative edge.

Copic Colours

Greens - G29, 28, 24, 21

Browns - E49, 47, 44, 43, 42, 41, 40

Reds - R39, 37, 35

Yellow/Orange - YR24, 23, 21

I used a white highlighting pen for the little dots on the present and slippers.

This is the inside view

Other crafting items

Stamps

Lilli of the Valley

Whimsy Sentiment stamps

Scrim (for the ribbon)

Cheery Lynn Dies

Authentique Design Paper

Core dinations Cardstock - Classy Reds- Scarlet

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Spooky Halloween

Jodi 3:30 AM 8 Comments

Hello! Jodi here with a fun Halloween card.

I created the base of the card using the largest of the Classic Coved Rectangle Stacker Nesting dies. I then layered with the next smaller size followed with a Classic Coved Rectangle Silver Stacker Layer. The Mini Pearl Rectangle Reflections dies was used to create the matte behind the postcard. For a bit of spooky fun, the Creepy Gate is tucked in on either side of the post card.

I propped the Spooky Tree with foam adhesive to add a bit of dimension. I folded the wings of Going Batty for a bit of fun texture and dimension.

The design of my card was inspired by Pagemaps.

There is still time to play along with this weeks challenge for your chance to win the $20 shopping spree! Details Here

Thanks for stopping by!!

# Coved Rectangle # gate

Friday, October 19, 2012

More fun with the New Release

Unknown 3:30 AM 10 Comments

Hi everyone, well it's Friday... let the weekend begin!

Today I would normally do a post for our current weekly challenge at Cheery Lynn Designs but I am having so much fun with the new release dies I couldn't help myself. I made a project using some of my New Release dies and I was having so much fun I pulled out some of my oldies but goodies to do a second project.

For my first project, I want to show you a card I made using the new Lacey Christmas Ornaments. They are so delicate and pretty and I know you are going to have a lot fun using them. They even have a built-in hanger so you can actually hang them up! How cool is that! I also thought the Merry Christmas sentiment was the perfect accompaniment to make a lovely Christmas Card.

Here's a closer look so you can see what I mean.

For this project I used the following dies:
B215 - Expandable Tiny Borders
B216 - Wreath Strip
B160 - Queen Anne's Lace Border
B186 - Merry Christmas Set
DL227 - Lacey Christmas Ornaments
XL-7 - Oval - Classic - LG Stackers Nesting Dies

As well and in keeping with this weeks challenge theme Corner Adorners (must use a corner embellishment), my second project is a card in honor of a sweet friend. I know she loves these colors together and the inspiration for the color combination came from her. For this card I used the Spring Flower Burst Doily die with Angel Wing and cut it once in each color. I then cut and layered sections of the doily with each of the colors to get this effect. It is a little time-consuming but the results are so worth it. I hope you will give it a try : )

Here is photo of how it came together:

For this project I used the following dies:
B117S - Mini Fanciful Flourish
B149 - Cuties 1
B165 - Lace Corner Deco E
D137 - Sweet Williams
DL221 - Spring Flower Burst Doily
XM-7 - Oval

Don't forget to visit the challenge this week and put in your entry where the theme is Corner Adorners (must have a corner embellishment)!

You have a chance to win a $20.00 shopping spree at Cheery Lynn Designs and with all of the wonderful new dies announced this week I have no doubt you will be able to put your winnings to good use!

Also, for more fantastic inspiration I hope you can visit the other talented ladies from the Cheery Lynn Design Team.

Alison – 'xtglx'
Donna Smith
Gini Cagle

Jodi Baune
Kianel

Sandie Edwards
Sandy Hulsart

Sheila Lygo
Tamara Morton

Have a Cheery Day!

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I love Pansies...

Sandie 3:30 AM 10 Comments

This week for Cheery Lynn Designs, I have been playing around with the Build A Flower Series once again, and seeing what flowers can be produced using the die system.

One of my favourite flowers is 'the pansy', they look so beautiful and are available in so many colours these days. To create the pandy, I used the BAF #2 (flower petals and leaves) teamed with the Embellishment #2 (base, stem, and centre fronds). The trick to getting the petals right is to use a wooden popsicle stick to manipulate the flower petals. Using a popsicle stick allows for the paper to stretch, and shape beautifully. I also used this method on the leaves on the BAF #2 - care needs to be taken not to tear the paper, just gently manipulate and stretch.

Detail was added using a Pigma Micron Pen, and some lightly applied Star Dust Stickles.

The card itself, I discovered on a blog. Sadly, I cannot read the imprint (German I think) to give credit of the instructions - sorry! It is a card which would be perfect for including photographs or a personal letter 'in' the actual card, as it opens up to different areas.

Circle Classic and Circle Scalloped for the shaped areas, and teamed with corners using the Lace Corner Deco B. Mentioning 'corners' - this weeks challenge on the Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge Blog, is 'Corner Adorners'!

Another section opens, that has been decorated with the Lace Edger. The sentiment sits upon the Scandinavian Hearts, more Circles, and then the very pretty Sentiment Frame #2.