Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration Blog

Monday, February 10, 2014

Masculine Valentine's Inspiration with Rhonda

Happy Monday crafty friends! It's Rhonda here today to share a project with you.

I thought I would challenge myself to create a masculine Valentine's card without including a heart in the design. Here's what I came up with:

"Always" (A2 size card)

I started with the Fiona's Magic Mirror frame, then added in a Rectangle Horizon Boutique Stacker Frame in red, some Chicken Wire which I cut into my own shape and layered on.

The hinges are cut from a scrap piece of cereal box chipboard. I then inked them with some dark brown chalk ink and then added a bit of Viva Decor Paint in copper with a pin to each of the nail holes. You can also punch these pieces out, but I left them in place for texture.

On the upper left you'll see some Wheat Heads and a Tiny Fanciful Flourish, on the bottom right, two Miniature Roses with Olive Branches beneath.

Cheery Lynn Designs dies used:

Fiona's Magic Mirror - FRM140

Horizon Rectangle Boutique Stacker Frames - DL270

Horizon French Flair Boutique Stacker Frames - DL271

Ship's Compass - B395

Medium Rose - B154

Miniature Rose - B152

Hinges - B399

Chicken Wire - FRM144

Olive Branches - B147

Lace Deco Corner D - B164

Wheat Heads - B388

Sentiment Tag 2 - B425

Tiny Fanciful Flourish - B387

Did you have a chance to see our latest challenge? It's all about framing in your project. Check out all of the details here for your chance to win a $20 gift certificate to the Cheery Lynn Designs online store!

Thanks so much for stopping on over today!

~ Rhonda

Sunday, February 9, 2014

Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge 119 - Frame It

shulsart 3:30 AM 2 Comments

What wonderful entries we had last week for our Add a Flourish challenge. Thank you to all who entered, we enjoy seeing your creations with our dies. This week our challenge at Cheery Lynn Designs is to

Frame It

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.

The winner will be chosen based on merit by Cheery Lynn Designs. They will receive $20 towards shopping at the Cheery Lynn website. The challenge will end on Saturday night at 18:00 Eastern time.

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

Debbie Brownmiller
Dies used:
Clocks Embossing Plate, Lattice Heart and Vines, Large Rose,
Rose Leaf Strip, Valentines (set of 2), Step Card
Horizon Oval Boutique Stacker, Oval Doily Stacker

Karen Maldonado

Dies used:

Small Exotic Butterflies #1, Rose Leaf Strip, Flourish Leaf Strip,
French Pastry Doily, Large Rose, Silver French Flair Stackers,
Silver Circle Stackers, Circle Stackers, French Lattice Small Frame,
Dutch Scallop Square Frame

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

# challenge # Debbie Brownmiller

Add a Flourish Challenge winner

shulsart 3:25 AM 7 Comments

My goodness this was a another tough week, there were so many amazing entries.

Bj decided to award 5 winners this week.......

#1 Neala

#3 Stacey Chic

#13 Karen Stasus

#20 Karen Wallace

#26 Carolyn

Congratulations, Ladies. 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 Frame It challenge.

# winners

Saturday, February 8, 2014

Feminine card with Amy

Amy Voorthuis 3:30 AM 6 Comments

Hi everyone,

It's Amy here with you today, and I would like to share a card with you!

Cherish:

It feels like ages ago since my last post. There is a lot of things happening in my personal life that I had to deal with (the loss of two wonderful women in my life, my granny and my husbands granny in just one week four days apart.) With this card I would like to honor their life and show you how much I loved them and still do.
Cheery Lynn Designs is such a wonderful team to be on!
So I'd like to take the opportunity to thank Sandy, she offered to take my day and post her wonderful creations thank you so much for being there ;-)))
I went with this weeks challenge and created a card with the gorgeous Gardenia Strip, you can make so many different flowers with that one die. Which is awesome because I love to make my own flowers.

I love using the feathers of the dream catchers Cheery Lynn offers to make my flowers clusters more appealing to look at.
I would try and make a tutorial very soon to let you see how to created a couple different flowers with the Gardenia Strip.......

Cheery Lynn Designs dies used:

DL253 - Horizon Square Boutique Stacker Frames

B339 - Gardenia Strip

DL263 - Lilith Doily w/Angel Wing

B241 - Rose Leaf Strip

B318 - Dream Catchers #2

B415 - Cherish (set of 2)

DL112 - Small Exotic Butterflies #1 w/Angel Wing
DL113 - Small Exotic Butterflies #2 w/Angel Wing

You still have a chance to win a $20 shopping spree if you play with our weekly challenge 118 Add a Flourish....
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and I'm off to party our Sweet son Kevin turned 9 yesterday and today we are celebrating it!

Love

# Amy Voorthuis # card

Friday, February 7, 2014

Pink Flowers with Feather

Holly 3:00 AM 7 Comments

Hi everyone! My name is Holly Brown, and I am thrilled to be the guest designer for Cheery Lynn Designs this month. I fell in love with Cheery Lynn Designs when I saw their dies a couple years ago, and I have had so much fun building up my collection and playing with all the different dies.

That's exactly what I did for this card today. I just pulled out some dies and started cutting. After mixing and matching and moving things around, I ended up with this. The tiny pink flowers on the sides are from one die - Cuties 3. I cut some of the Cuties 3 strips in half and rolled them up. I left the top two rolled up and didn't pull the petals out. The next two are the same thing except I pulled some of the petals out. The two at the bottom are the whole Cuties 3 strips with the petals partially pulled out.

I used the following dies on this card:

Chrysanthemum Strip

Cuties 3

Ivy Strip

Polynesian Sails Oval

Polynesian Sails Angel Wing

Quill and Ink Pot

Tiny Things with Wings

Wreath Strip

Thanks for stopping by to visit! I'll be back next Friday with another creation to share with you. Enjoy your weekend!

# Chrysanthemum # Cuties 3