Make it Manly with Cheery Lynn Designs

The Cheery Lynn Designs challenge this week is Make It Manly.  Guy cards can be a challenge but this was a pretty quick card that I think would work great for a guy.  Using my Royal Coved Rectangle Mega Reflections dies, I created the overlay on the card base and the center panel of my tent card.  These dies are so versatile, you can create almost any size you need.  I hand trimmed the card base and the patterned paper pieces using the dies as templates.

Rather than using flowers, I have added a mix of leaves, pines and an acorn to make this manly embellishment.  I used some Distress ink to age the paper a bit.  Finished size is 5.5 inches square.  The paper is from the Paper Loft; the sentiment is from Hero Arts.

Be sure to visit the Cheery Lynn Designs challenge blog for more inspiration and to join in on this week's Make It Manly challenge for a chance to win $20 to the store.

Cheery Lynn Designs dies used:

Royal Coved Rectangle Mega Reflections dies

Dimensional Leaves Large #1

Dimensional Leaves Small #1

Pine Branches

Sweet Dreams

The Cheery Lynn Designs challenge this week is Lots of Layers.   I love to add layers to my cards, mixing and matching papers.  I used my Mini Pearl Square Mega Reflections dies to make the card base, the rectangular panel and the border piece.  The circle was die cut using my Mini Pearl Circle Mega Reflections.  I just love the sweet little scallops and stitching lines along the edge.

 I die cut this beautiful Dream Catcher from chipboard coloring it with Memento markers.  I added a silver gem to the center.  I popped it up with dimensional foam.  The last step was this digi image called Fairy Dust from Scrapbook Stamp Society.  The gorgeous papers are from the Dreamcatcher 6x6 paper pack from First Edition. Finished size is 5.5 inches.

Be sure to visit the Cheery Lynn Designs challenge blog for more inspiration and to join in on this week's Lots of Layers challenge for a chance to win $20 to the store.

 Cheery Lynn Designs dies used:

Mini Pearl Square Mega Reflections 

Dream Catcher #1 

Mini Pearl Circle Mega Reflections 

Circle Lg Stackers

The Paper Loft Happiness is...

As guest designer for The Paper Loft for the month of April, I created this fun card using paper and sentiment blocks from the In the Zone collection.  My card is 5 x 7 inches and I created all the panels using paper from this collection.  The sentiments are from the Happy and Our House accessory sheets. 

The image is from Karen's Doodles; Fisher Dad, I sized it and then printed it onto Cryogen metallic paper with my laser printed.  Copics used:
Faces – E000, E00, E11
Eyes – B02
Hair – E21, E23, E25
Dad – E41, E42, E43, BG93, BG96
Girl – R81, R83, R85, C2 (on shoes)
Boy – B21, B23, YG01 and C2 (on shoes)
Fish – YG00, YG01, YG03, R20
Shadow – W3, W5

For more great inspiration using The Paper Loft products stop by their blog. 

Wild Rose Studio Bella with Flowers

The Cheery Lynn Designs challenge this week is Mother's Day.  Nothing says love like flowers.  I have created an easel card with this adorable image, Bella with Flowers from Wild Rose Studio.  I began by cutting my card base with my Scalloped Square Mega Doily Reflections dies.  I used the 5 5/8" die.  I love the large scallops and the piercings along the edge.  I used my Scalloped Circle Lg Stackers and coordinating Silver Circle Stackers for the stamped image.

In the Cheery Lynn Designs new release this month, we have two new mesh border dies: Hearts Horizontal and Hearts Vertical.  How nice to have both directions.  As you can see I used the Vertical Hearts on the front of the card, and the Horizontal Hearts on the base.  I created these lovely flowers with my Shasta Daisy Strip die; medium and small sizes.  I curled the ends of the petals around a paint brush handle to give them some shape before adding the brad. Also in this month's new release was a Mini Fanciful Flourish Reverse.  I have used both it and the original Mini Fanciful Flourish for my greenery.  So nice to have them curving both directions!  The last embellishment was my Love Always, stamped onto a Sentiment Frame #1.  The beautiful paper is also from Wild Rose Studio.  Finished size is 5.5 inches square.

Be sure to visit the Cheery Lynn Designs challenge blog for more inspiration and to join in on this week's Anything Goes challenge for a chance to win $20 to the store.

Cheery Lynn Designs dies used:

 Scalloped Square Mega Doily Reflections

Scalloped Circle Lg Stackers

Silver Circle Stackers

Mesh Hearts Horizontal Border

Mesh Hearts Vertical Border

Shasta Daisy Strip

Mini Fanciful Flourish

Mini Fanciful Flourish Reverse

Sentiment Frame #1

Cheery Lynn Designs Pretty in Purple

The challenge this week at Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge blog is Pretty in Purple.  I began with a 5 x 7 card base adding a panel embossed with Diamonds and Starbursts embossing plate.  Next came a panel created with the new City Girl Edger.  On top of that I added a panel embossed with Hearts and Rose Leaves embossing plate.  Using my Scalloped Oval Large Stackers and the matching Silver Oval Stackers, I die cut the computer generated sentiment and its matching purple oval.  For the flowers I used the new Chrysanthemum Strip die (love, love, love it)  The last step was to add the leaves from my Ivy Strip.
Won't you join in on this week's Pretty in Purple challenge for a chance to win $20 to the store.

Cheery Lynn Designs dies used:

Diamonds and Starbursts embossing plate

City Girl Edger

Hearts and Rose Leaves embossing plate

Scalloped Oval Large Stackers

Silver Oval Stackers

Chrysanthemum Strip

Ivy Strip

Parchment Craft at My Creative Classroom

Sweet Stamps is sponsoring my online Parchment Craft class at My Creative Classroom starting on April 17th. 

This class is open to anyone who has internet access.  Parchment Craft the Sweet Stamps way is much easier than the traditional parchment craft of hand tracing your design onto vellum. We use stamps especially suited to this beautiful art. You will be able to produce amazing results in a very short amount of time.

• Lesson 1 - Tools: piercing and embossing, vellum, ink and coloring methods
• Lesson 2 - Heat embossing and dry embossing
• Lesson 3 - Piercing and cutting out your image, mounting on cardstock
• Lesson 4 - Working with the grid

Sweet Stamps is extending my students a 15% discount on class supplies. This class includes narrated slide shows, downloadable PDF tutorials, forums, and student gallery.

Course Start Date: April 17

Course Length: 4 Weeks

Course Fee: $30

(Students will have access to the classroom for at least 6 weeks)

Cheery Lynn Designs Always

Today Cheery Lynn Designs is releasing an amazing collection of dies for April.  Be sure to pop over to the Inspiration blog to see what the rest of the team has created.  For my card I have used an assortment of new dies along with a sentiment frame.  I layered my Ambergris Tiny Doily onto the full size Ambergris Doily backed with it's matching angel wing.  The center flower is created with 4 of the largest petals from the new Shasta Daisy Strip.  The border is a combination of the new Tiny Bubbles Border and the new Sweethearts Edger.  I cut a square 1.75 inches and centered it on the Ambergris Doily to create the corner adornment.  Using one of the new vase dies (comes in a set of 4), I die cut the vase then used the die to cut out a piece of Tiny Bubble border as an overlay.  I used two pieces from the new Ivy Strip die to create the stem of my flower.  I used the smallest of the petals from the Sweet Williams Strip to make the flower.  The new Always (from a set of 2) is mounted onto a die cut from my Sentiment #2 set.  Finished size is 6x6 inches square.

Cheery Lynn Designs dies used:
Ambergris Doily w/angel wing
Vase (set of 4)

Always (set of 2)
Ambergris Tiny Doily
Sweet Williams Strip

Shasta Daisy Strip
Tiny Bubbles Border
Ivy Strip
Sweethearts Edger
Sentiment Frame #2

Life is like riding a bicycle

Sandy here with you today.  I apologize for my late posting, Michigan weather is at it again.  We had a pretty major lightning and thunderstorm last night and it fried my network port on my desktop computer so I was unable to connect to the internet.  But enough about that, for my card today, I have a cute easel card using an adorable image from Sarah Kay.

 
I created my card base with my Scalloped Square Lg Stackers adding background papers with the coordinating Silver Square Stackers.  I added a Pinwheel Doily w/Angel Wing and then used my Scalloped Oval Lg Stackers and coordinating Silver Oval Stackers for the stamped image.  I added a couple of Zig Zag Ric Rac border pieces on the left and across the top.

For the base of the card, I added Victorian Picket Fence, Grass border and Little Pink Bicycle.  These great papers are from the Paper Loft Everyday Life collection and so is the sentiment in blue on the upper panel.  The last step was to add the Sending Smiles sentiment from Hero Arts stamped and layered with Tags 2.  Finished size is 6" square.

Be sure to visit the Cheery Lynn Designs challenge blog for more inspiration and to join in on this week's Anything Goes challenge for a chance to win $20 to the store.

Cheery Lynn Designs dies used:

Scalloped Square Large Stackers

Silver Square Stackers

Scalloped Oval Large Stackers

Silver Oval Stackers

Pinwheel Doily w/Angel Wing

Zig Zag Ric Rac border

 Victorian Picket Fence

Grass border

Little Pink Bicycle

Tags 2

The Paper Loft Circle of Friends

Here is another clean and simple card I have created using my Cheery Lynn Designs French Flair Lg Stackers and the coordinating Silver French Flair Stacker dies.   I am using The Paper Loft Gentler Times collection; it has such a warm vintage look that I love.  The sentiment comes from one of the Gentler Times accessory sheets; I fussy cut it out to make it fit the french flair better.  The only additional die I used was my Ribbon Eyelet with Piercing border die.  Finished size is 5 5/8" square. 

Be sure to visit the Cheery Lynn Designs challenge blog for more inspiration and to join in on this week's Back to Nature challenge for a chance to win $20 to the store.

Cheery Lynn Designs dies used:

French Flair Lg Stackers

Silver French Flair Stacker 

Ribbon Eyelet with Piercing border

Back to Nature with Cheery Lynn Designs

Being the Queen of Procrastination is not a good thing when your crafting Mojo decides to desert you.  I started my Cheery Lynn Designs card for today about 9PM (normal for me) and after 3 failed attempts I finally came up with this one at 1:50AM, ugh!  I am not totally happy with it, but it is what it is!  I used the always so beautiful English Tea Party doily as the center focal point of my 6" square card.  I created the larger flowers using my Daisy Strip die.  I added greenery using my Olive Branches and then the tiny blossoms from my Embellishments #3 die.  I did not want my Bird Cage to be see through so I hand trimmed the back piece and then added a hummingbird and a small dragonfly from my Tiny Things with Wings set.  The last step was the sentiment stamped on layered Tags 4 dies.

Be sure to visit the Cheery Lynn Designs challenge blog for more inspiration and to join in on this week's Back to Nature challenge for a chance to win $20 to the store.

Cheery Lynn Designs dies used:

 English Tea Party

 Daisy Strip

 Olive Branches

Embellishments #3 

 Bird Cage

Tiny Things with Wings

Tags 4