Monday, August 15, 2016

Cheery Lynn August Blog Hop - Flower Power!


Hi crafty peeps!  Welcome to the Cheery Lynn Designs August Flower Power Blog Hop featuring my personal favs - flower dies! 




I am so excited to show you some of Cheery Lynn's amazingly beautiful and versatile Flower Dies.  Check out my teammates blogs along the hop so you can see more flowers in action!  If you arrived from Debbie's blog you are on the right track.  If not, you can head back to the main blog HERE to start from the beginning.  Make sure to stop back at the Cheery Lynn Designs Blog and comment there for a chance to win a $20 gift certificate. 



Flowers are so fun to play with!  This summer I challenged myself to use all the Cheery Lynn flower dies to create different bloom effects by folding and scrunching petals various ways.  For instance I found that the Daisy Strip (which has become one of my favs) can look like three completely different flowers by folding petals up, down or leaving them to lie flat.  I used some of the flowers to create this name frame for my new niece.  All the flowers were cut with white paper and colored with distress ink.  Using inks gives the flowers a realistic look.  It's also easy to layer, blend or add color until you achieve your desired effect.  For shimmer, glimmer mist was sprayed on some flowers and glitter glue was added to a few leaves.  



I used dotted paper for the background cut to the size of the frame.  Then I cut  Fanciful Flourishes and glued them around letters from my stash.  I played with flower placement until there was enough visual balance between style and color.  For the leaves I used three different dies:  Flourish Leaf StripFanciful Flourish, and Flourish #13.  The peach flower is the Gardenia Strip die, the dark pink is the Tea Rose Medium, the white flowers are the Chrysanthemum Strip, the yellow are the Shasta Daisy Strip and the 3D Daisy and the largest pink flower is the Stacker Flower #5.  The center of the Stacker Flower was made using the Embellishments #3 set.


Cheery Lynn Designs Dies

Thanks so much for joining me here on the hop!  Your next stop is Eva's Blog.  Don't forget to leave a comment on the main Cheery Lynn Designs Blog for a chance to win $20 towards Cheery Lynn Designs goodies!

BLOG HOP

37 comments:

ellyscard creatief said...

Beautiful creation.
Love the bunch of flowers.

Birgit said...

What a stunning piece of art work! This is totally gorgeous!!

ionabunny said...

What a yummy selection of flowers. Beautiful. Hugz

Jane said...

Such lovely flowers, well done using so many x

www.cricutcraftyclare.blogspot.com said...

More professional looking flowers! Fabulous!

Seawoman (Светлана) said...

WOW! It is cool idea!!!

MsMad said...

love the framed project....such great flowers.
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Bonnie Garby said...

This is FABULOUS Jenny! Can you make me one?? :) I just love the bright, cheerful color palette and your flowers and butterflies are amazing!

Gloria said...

Wonderful project! Would make a great gift. WOW

Unknown said...

That is gorgeous! Beautiful butterflies too!

Diane said...

What a great idea making a shadow box of all the wonderful Cheery Lynn flowers! Beautiful!

Unknown said...

Oh what a beautiful piece of home décor for your Niece Your flowers are beautiful perfectly scrunched and folded. LOVE your colors and this design, it is beautiful!!!

Michele H. said...

This is a great idea. I loved this and the colors you used. I can totally see this in a college dorm room!!!

Unknown said...

What a beautiful arrangement! Blessings

Jessica said...

What beautiful flowers. Your love of them shows in your work!

Sherri P said...

Certainly pretty!

Unknown said...

So glad you framed this it's a fantastic piece of work. I hope your niece cherishes it. Just completely gorgeous, very well balanced. I ,love all your cards too. Thank you for becoming a designer.

Diane said...

Beautiful Jenny...a gorgeous array of flowers!

Judy said...

Your layout really wowed me when I first spotted it. So very lovely. Thanks for sharing with us.

Unknown said...

Amazing! I love the colors and shading you did on the flowers!

Suzi said...

Awesome shadow box! I can see doing this! TFS!

Patty Sue 2 said...

I want to pick a bouquet from your card. What lovely flowers! It is hard to believe they are not real! Beautiful card, it will brighten someone's day!

Colleen said...

I love the vine hiding under the flowers. The butterflies are a great accent. A wonderful wall hanging!

Liz said...

What a beautiful and refreshing card. Love it!

Sparkly Engineer said...

Wow, You surely created a masterpiece of flowers.

Unknown said...

It is amazing so many beautiful flowers are made out of paper. They are breathtaking!

CraftinGranny said...

OMG, I'm in awe of this gorgeous flower project. The butterflies and vines are an added bonus that anyone would love hanging on their wall. TFS

Lynn Dalby said...

Such a Stunning Piece. What a wonderful gift this would make and even better to receive.

Arnette said...

Very Beautiful shadow box! I love everything about it!

Arnette said...

Very Beautiful shadow box! I love everything about it!

Carole Pollard said...

Beautiful so pretty Love and hugs Carole x

Ольга said...

incredible ) I like very much. Beautiful flowers

Diane17Lynne said...

Your name frame for your niece is stunning. I especially like the Stacker Flower #5. It is my favorite and it looks so real. The dotted swiss background paper is just subtle enough to carry the entire project. Excellent choice for this hop.

Debbie's Time Out said...

Jenny this really does deserve to me framed. It is a real show piece and the flowers are stunning

Nancytllz said...

Wonderful proyect

Debbie said...

What a gorgeous frame of flowers!!! Love all of them. Wish I could buy all of these dies to make one!! The butterfly is very pretty too!

fusiafscrapping said...

Love the butterflies among the flowers. The variety of flowers is pleasing to the eye.