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 Strip, Fanciful 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

Flourish Leaf Strip B178
Fanciful Flourish B117
Flourish #13 CAFLRS13
3D Daisy B704
Chrysanthemum Strip B311
Gardenia Strip B339
Shasta Daisy Strip B310
Stacker Flower #5 SF5
Tea Rose Medium B436
Monarch Butterfly B668
Small Exotic Butterflies #1 DL112AB
Small Exotic Butterflies #2 DL113AB
Embellishments #3 B265

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!

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Christina
Ginny

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Cheery Lynn Walking Zombie

 Hi crafty friends!  I'm back today with a Halloween card using some of the latest Cheery Lynn dies from the Fall and Winter Release.  I love this Walking Zombie, he's got great detail and he can be dressed up in so many ways.  He's also really different.  I tend to collect Halloween dies and I have nothing like him.  He's an individual!  

 I began this card with a 5.5 inch white card base.  I then adhered an orange square cut with the Castle Edged Squares die. On top is a piece of patterned card stock cut with the Square Pierce & Cut Tool. It has a great little pierced detail edge. I cut the Zombie once to create the body and then again to make his clothes.  The shirt was cut out of green paper and his pants out of blue and they were aged using distress ink.  I added a little bit of red card stock behind his clothing and blue behind his eyes to accentuate his scars and eyes. 

The grass was made using both the Grass Border and the Grass Border 2 dies.  The little toxic beaker was backed from behind with black paper.  The Happy Halloween sentiment is from the new Witch's Skirt set.  

Cheery Lynn Dies

Walking Zombie B833

Witch's Skirt B853

Castle Edged Squares DL296

Square Pierce & Cut Tool LPCI

Grass Border B126

Grass Border 2 B593

Thanks for visiting today and I hope you'll join in the current Back to Nature challenge for a chance to win a $20 gift card to the Cheery Lynn Designs shop!

Cheery Lynn Fall & Winter New Release: Christmas & Winter

Hi friends!  Today I'm here with a card showcasing two new dies from Cheery Lynn's New Fall and Winter Release. Be sure to join us every day on the Cheery Lynn BLOG from July 22nd to August 3rd to see all the wonderful July Holiday new release dies.  One random commenter during the promotion will win a $20 gift certificate so comment each day for the best chance to win.

For this card I cut two Christmas Wreaths out of white card stock.  I colored it green with a sponge makeup applicator and distress ink.  I used red stickles to create berries.  Once the glitter glue dried I molded the leaves with a stylus tool.  The bow was also cut twice and molded the same way.  The bells were covered in gold embossing powder and then I drew a glitter line along the accent on each bell.

I glued the two wreath layers down to a card face cut using the Royal Scandinavian A2 Card Facer.  The bells were adhered with foam adhesive and I glued in the Merry Christmas sentiment from the Winter Holiday Word Set.  The back of the card facer was layered with a green rectangle and then an A2 sized rectangle behind so the interior of the card is nicely finished.

Cheery Lynn Dies
Christmas Wreath B839 (New)
Winter Holiday Word Set B834 (New)
Royal Scandinavian A2 Card Facer

Thanks for joining me here today.  Don't forget to stop back  on the Cheery Lynn Blog tomorrow and leave a comment  daily from July 22nd to August 3rd for a chance to win a $20 gift certificate.  Stop over each day and comment for the best chance to win! Also join in the current Christmas in July challenge.

Cherry Lynn You Are Awesome!

Hi crafty friends!  This relatively new 3D Marigold Flower die from Cheery Lynn is very cool and I've been itching to use it again.  The die only partially cuts out the largest flower (in the three die set) so it's perfect to accent with colored paper behind.  It can also be easily cut out with a few snips.  You can see how I used it like that in my last marigold card HERE.  It's a three piece die set and the other two smaller flowers can be used to layer on top like I did here or to make individual smaller flowers like I did in my previous card.  It's an incredibly versatile and beautiful flower - can you see all the gorgeous veining detail?  

I began with an A2 card base and then layered pink, dark gray, patterned pink and then another piece of white on top.  The You Are Awesome sentiment was cut four times and layered using the background papers.  The multiple layers add interest and the sentiment sits raised above the card top.  I cut the marigold and then used a stylus and molding mat on the petals to get them to curl.  I wanted enough curl to be able to see the colored paper behind for contrast.

Cheery Lynn Dies

3D Marigold Flower B773

Whimsical You Are Awesome B806

Thanks for stopping by the blog today and don't forget to join in our current Anything Goes Challenge for a chance to win a $20 gift certificate to Cheery Lynn Designs!

Cheery Lynn July Blog Hop - IOE Birthday Embossing Folder!

Welcome to the Cheery Lynn Designs July Blog Hop!  I am so excited to show you the fabulous new IOE Birthday Embossing Folder.  If you arrived from Debbie's Blog you are on the right track.  If not, you can head back to the blog HERE to start from the beginning.  Comments are appreciated and make sure to stop back and answer the questions on the Cheery Lynn Designs Blog for a chance to win a $20 gift certificate.  

If you haven't seen the IOE Plates in action yet, make sure to watch this video HERE and check out the new video HERE to see more Birthday folder ideas.  There are so many combinations that can be made with just the new Birthday Embossing Folder and IOE Plates.  The IOE Plates can be used with your existing embossing folders - and if you are like me, you have a ton of them.  The possibilities really are endless.

For this card I used the new IOE Birthday Embossing Folder, then adhered it to blue card stock with foam adhesive and then mounted it onto an A2 white card base.  The large flower is the Cheery Lynn Daisy Strip die.  It cuts six daisies in one run through my big shot, two of each of three sizes, to create one gorgeous flower.  You can scrunch the petals or roll them in or roll each down like I did here or up for at least four different looks with one flower die.  The blue flowers are Chrysanthemums.  These are smaller and the leaves are slightly wider than Cheery Lynn's Chrysanthemum strip die. The foliage was cut out of patterned paper using the Floral Bouquet Kit.

Cheery Lynn Designs Supplies

IOE Birthday Embossing Folder (NEW)
Floral Bouquet Kit B777
Daisy Strip B259
Chrysanthemum CABD72

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

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Julie
Lisa
Amy 
Ginny
Bonnie
Debbie
Jenny (You are Here)
Eva
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Cheery Lynn Thinking of You

Hello crafty friends!  This card is on the Cheery Lynn Blog today.  Lately I've been making tons of flowers using different Cheery Lynn dies.  They are easy to create and I love how they come to life once assembled.  I matched a few flowers to the striped Bo Bunny card stock and then developed the card. The card is a 5.5" square with the Scalloped LG Stacking Square as the base.  I layered a piece of white card stock on top, then the patterned paper, then the doily and then the sentiment.

I chose the Quadrafoil Square Doily as the central point of the design.  Both the Shasta Daisy and the Black Eyed Susan were colored with distress ink and the center of the Black Eyed Susan was rolled with a quilling tool.  I added a little distress ink to the edges of the blue petals as well as the edges of the Thinking of You Sentiment Square. 

Cheery Lynn Dies

Thinking of You Sentiment Square B768

Quadrafoil Square Doily DL314

Black Eyed Susan Strip b338

Shasta Daisy Strip B310

Flourish Leaf Strip B178

Flourish #13 CAFLRS13

Scalloped LG Stacking Square XL2

Thanks for stopping by today and make sure to join in the current Pretty in Purple Challenge for a chance to win a $20 gift certificate to Cheery Lynn Designs!

Dies R Us Going Camping

Hi friends!  I'm back today with an inspiration card for Dies R Us's new challenge Outdoor Fun.  The camping dies are from Cheery Lynn's last release.  This card was created on an A2 card base.  Everything was colored with sponges and distress ink.  The stamped sentiment is from Riley and Co. and reminds me of a friend of mine and fellow scout mom.  I get a kick out of this saying, it's how I'd like to camp too.  

Dies R Us Dies

Cheery Lynn Designs Camping Set

Cheery Lynn Designs Ship's Compass

Cheery Lynn Designs A2 Rectangle (Out of Stock)

Thanks for looking and I hope you can join in the current challenge at the Dies R Us challenge blog for a chance to win a gift card to the Dies R Us store.  Make sure to check out the great sale this weekend too!