Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration Blog: Reflections Mega dies

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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Manly Birthday Wishes

Sandy with you today, Alison is a bit under the weather. She will be back with you next week. 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

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Say it with Flowers

shulsart 3:30 AM 7 Comments

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 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

# Borders # flourish

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Boy oh Boy!

Jodi 3:30 AM 4 Comments

Hello! Those of you that know me know how much I love to add texture to my projects, and what better way than by embossing plates!

The little critters on the Turtles and Frogs Embossing Plate are sooo cute!! After embossing, I brushed on a little chalk to emphasize the textured pattern. The Celtic Chain Border is the perfect boyish accent!

Dies Used:
Turtles and Frogs Embossing Plate
Celtic Chain
Birthday
Scalloped French Flair Stacker Nesting Die
Classic French Flair Silver Stacker
Scalloped Circle Stacker Nesting Die
Classic Circle Silver Stacker
Mini Pearl Rectangle Reflections Boutique
Scalloped Rectangle Reflections Boutique

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# Birthday Sentiment # border

Saturday, February 9, 2013

Best Wishes

Jodi 3:30 AM 9 Comments

Hello! Today I have a card featuring some of the new winter dies.

The card base is cut using the Scalloped Rectangle Reflections Boutique set. I added texture to the white portion of the background using the Petite Hearts Embossing Plate. I added some trim from the Expandable Tiny Borders plate, and Lady Kate Edger for lace.

The flower cluster was created using Build a Flower #3 to create the yellow flower. Cutie Fringe 4 makes the most adorable spiky flowers, shown here in burgundy. The Daisy Strip has three different sizes on one die, making cutting so much quicker! Two different sizes are tucked into the bouquet. Foliage is from Build a Flower #3, Rose Leaf Strip, Stacker Flower #1 Leaf, and Olive Branches. To the bottom right corner is the new Best Wishes Phrase, and a Mini Butterfly fluttering about.

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# border # Borders

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Orchid Tutorial

Jodi 3:30 AM 8 Comments

Hello! Don't you just love the Winter Release dies at Cheery Lynn Designs?! I think the new Orchid is so beautiful! I created a simpler card because I really wanted the flower to stand out on it’s own.

I want to share with you how I assemble my Orchid. Remember, you can enlarge any photo just by clicking on it!

On the left I have arranged the dies in which I assemble them, on the right you see the my die cut petals in accordance with the dies. I’ve numbered the petals to make it a bit easier to follow along.

Once I have my petals inked it is time to shape them. I use a small foam block (from Stampin’ Up) and an embossing tool. I made a little clip of my process.

A close up of the shape of the center.

I’ve glued petals 2 & 3 to petal 1, overlapping 1 slightly.

Here you can see the curvature of the flower taking shape.

I’ve adhered petals 4 & 5 to the backside, angling slightly.

Holding the center in the curved position, I add a dab of glue to the end….I use Rangers Glossy Accents because it dries so quickly and has a strong hold.

I place the center so that it sticks straight out from the flower, just like the real flower.

Another angle so you can see the depth of the flower.

The flower completely assembled.

Please let me know if you have any questions, or if I can help in any way! I can’t wait to see your version!

To create the card, I started by cutting the base using the Scalloped Rectangle Reflections Mega die. The white matte was cut using the Mini Pearl Rectangle Reflections Mega die. I love that the Reflections dies have the added piercing and stitching, adding visual interest and texture. Next, I added the new Ankara Lace Doily, layering with a frame from Sentiment Frame #1. I chose to cut the matte, doily, and sentiment frame from the same color allowing the new Orchid to pop off as the focus. For a bit more texture, I tied a smaller Tag #1 to the flower. To the bottom I added the Best Friends Phrase, again cutting in white so not to take away from the flower. Gently resting on the sentiment is a Mini Dimensional Butterfly.

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# Build A Flower # Butterflies

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Hugs

Jodi 3:30 AM 7 Comments

Hello! Today I have a card featuring the new Build a Flower dies from Cheery Lynn Designs.

I started by cutting the base from Scalloped Rectangle Reflections Boutique. Adding a little texture, I used my favorite Diamonds & Starburst Embossing Plate. The Polynesian Sails Oval doily is the perfect delicate base for my image. Above the image hovers a dragonfly from the new Tiny Things with Wings….such cute little critters in this set!

The larger flower was created using the new Build a Flower #3 set. The flower center, as well as the smaller burgundy flowers were cut from Build a Flower Embellishment #3. Daisies being my favorite flower, you are sure to see more from the Daisy Strip in the future! Foliage from Pair of Ferns, Wreath Strip, Rose Leaf Strip, and Small Leaves #2. Tucked in the flowers is the new Hugs sentiment atop Sentiment Frame #1.

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# Build A Flower # Dimensional Leaves

Saturday, January 19, 2013

Mini Doily Fun!

Jodi 3:30 AM 6 Comments

Hello! Don’t you just love the new dies from Cheery Lynn Designs?! The design team has shared some gorgeous inspiration with them this week!

One if my favorite new additions is the Mini Doily line! I decided to have a little fun with them by using them to create the background for my layout!

I started by using the Lady Kate Edger to create the lacy edge around my background. I cut several of the Canadian Kaleidoscope Tiny Doily, Italian Flourish Tiny Doily, and Sophie’s Heart Mini doilies, staggering the shapes throughout the background, added texture and visual interest. The Mini Pearl Rectangle Reflections Mega Die created the prefect photo matte. The Classic French Flair Silver Stacker atop the Scalloped French Flair Stacker Nesting Die is ideal way to create your own journaling block.

Dies are a quick, fun way to dress up stickers! I added a jute bow around the canning jar, then adhered it with foam adhesive. Using Daisy Strip and Small Leaves 2, I added more texture, color, and dimension. I also added some little flowers from Build a Flower Embellishment #3.

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# Borders # Build A Flower

Saturday, December 8, 2012

Collaborating with Hampton Art

Jodi 3:30 AM 16 Comments

Hello! I want to give a huge thank you to Hampton Art for sending us such a wonderful package of goodies to play…um, I mean work with! I really enjoyed using their products!!

This week, the designers from Hampton Art and Cheery Lynn Designs have teamed up to share with you some beautiful Christmas projects to help you get into the holiday spirit!

The blogs will be sharing new projects throughout the week - plus each company is giving away a fantastic prize to one lucky commenter.

From Hampton Art one lucky winner will recieve this fun bundle of goodies

and from Cheery Lynn Designs one lucky commentor will recieve a

$25 Gift Certificate

I created a holiday card with the stamps and inks I received.

I started by stamping the The Snow Cardnial with Prussian Blue on white cardstock. I cut the my card 3.5 inches x 6 inches and extended to 4x7 inches on the bottom to make my folds. I stamped the background paper with the Musical Border using Warm Red ink. The card base and matte were cut using the Mini Pearl Rectangle Reflections Mega Dies. To the right of the image, I added a portion of the O Tannenbaum X-mas Tree, adding color and filling in the scene. On the first fold, I added the Garden Gate (distressed with Chestnut Roan), adorned with the Christmas Light Swag. Pine Branches in the top corner add more color and texture. Snowflakes flutter about.

Snow flowers #1 dress up the sentiment stamp (Love & Cheer), stamped in Dark Moss.

Supplies From Hampton Art:

Chestnut Roan-SN71403

Warm Red-SN71417

Prussian Blue - SN71407

Dark Moss - SN71401

Snow Cardnial J - PS0700

Love & Cheer H - PS0718

Musical Border - PS0670

I hope you have enjoyed our venture with Hampton Art this week! Be sure to browse back and see the gorgeous inspiration my teammates my created for you this week.

Also, head over to Hampton Art and elxpore the fabulous ways they have used our dies!

There is still time to enter this weeks challenge for your chance to win the $20 gift certificate!

Detail Here

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# Branches # Christmas

Monday, November 19, 2012

Beautiful Butterfly

Unknown 3:30 AM 5 Comments

I hope that you had a lovely weekend, and are getting ready for Thanksgiving!

I love layering my Cheery Lynn Designs Dies, because even though the cards aren't difficult, the results are stunning. This card is really straight forward - no tricky cuts. But hopefully it will inspire you!

The new challenge this week is to create a tag using your Cheery Lynn Designs dies. We would love to have you play along for your chance to win a $20 gift certificate to the store.

Cheery Lynn Designs Dies

Ribbon Eyelet Border B116

Small Lace Butterfly with Angel Wing DL156

Horizon Coved Rectangle Mega Doily DL193

French Flair Doily Stacker DL177

Patterned Papers: Pion Designs

# Butterflies # flowers

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Christmas card - Kianel

Kianel 3:00 AM 9 Comments

Hello dear Cheery lynn Designs friends,

Kianel here with you today for a christmas card i made using my wonderful Cheery lynn designs dies. Yes, Christmas is just around the corner and it's time to think about the christmas cards, already?!?!

My card today is 17,5 x 17,5cm but not square.

For the base, i used the Mini pearl french flair mega doily reflections set, size 6 to make the first layer and size 5 to make the second one, that i turned 90° and placed in the center.

To cut my image i used a XL silver circle stacker as a template and combined it with the XL scalloped circle stackers.

The flower is made with Build a Flower set #1 and i put a snowflower #2 in the center together with some stamens. Each petal is embossed with white embossing powder from Creative Inspirations to give a winter feeling.

I decorated the flower with Holly leaves set adding some puffy velvet white to each leaf.

The sentiment is called Merry Christmas set, that comes in 2 different sizes and i went for the biggest one. I just didn't use the "merry" part and took away the snowflake decoration so that it would fit my card.

I also used snowflower set #1 and snowflower set #2 combined with the snowflakes die where you have many small snowflakes in the set: sooo pretty!

Tilda stamp and papers are from Magnolia's brand new collection. All die cuts from Cheery Lynn designs and all embellies from a french online store.

Don't forget our weekly challenge every monday for a chance to win a 20$ shopping spree.

See you next week, love from France, Kianel.

# Build A Flower # Kianel

Thursday, November 1, 2012

vintage card - Kianel

Kianel 7:02 AM 5 Comments

Hi there everybody,

Well Blogger was playing tricks on me all morning long so i couldn't download anything but it's back now so here is my card for today:

The card is 15x15cm.

Here are the dies i used on the card:

Mini pearl rectangular mega doily

Cardmaker rectangle classic

Notre Dame cathedral doily

Dimensional small leaves set #2

Dimensional large leaves set #2

Cherry blossom

Exotic butterflies small

Mini dimensional butterflies

Expandable quilling strips die

All papers are handmade with stamps from La Blanche/Hampton Arts/Florilège Design and distress/colorbox/versafine inks.

Don't forget our weekly challenge which this week is "Vintage" and enjoy my fantastic DT mates' creations each day on both blogs!

Love from France, Kianel.

# Butterflies # Dimensional Leaves

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Vintage card + tutorial - Kianel

Kianel 3:30 AM 12 Comments

Hello dear Cheery lynn designs lovers,

Kianel here today with a vintage card and a tutorial.

Today i am showing you how to create a very elegant frame for any shape of the XL or little stackers that has inverted scallop option.

The card is about 16x16cm. The base of the card is made using the Mini pearl french flair mega doily, biggest size. The paper i used is white and i then inked it and stamped it.

I then placed a Kaleidoscope lace french flair mega doily.

Using the XL french flair stackers, i cut size 4 in printed paper and placed it on white cardstock to cut a bit larger, for it to fit my Kaleidoscope shape.

I added an elegant frame to decorate my image, using Little scalloped oval stackers and Little inverted scallop oval stackers (see the tutorial right under this project).

I used the same idea for the expandable tiny borders that i decorated with thread too, having exactly the same design! Mini fanciful flourish, wreath strip, 3 butterflies from the mini dimensional butterflies set.

I added a sentiment "Love", tiniest one in the top corner.

To build my flower, i used the Cherry blossoms that i inked and stamped with a text. I shaped it using embossing tool and placed a brad in the center.

I added olive branches on the sides, a mini dimensional butterflies and a sentiment frame #1 for my text.

Dies from Cheery Lynn Designs, inks from Ranger and Colorbox, printed paper from MME, stamps from Cartoscrap / Stampabilities / Hampton Arts, embellishments from a french online store.

Let's now focus on this frame and i am going to show you how to make one easily:

All it takes to do it is the Little scalloped oval stackers largest size and a smaller Little inverted scallop oval stackers. You can do that with the ovals, but also with the circle and the squares.

First, cut a scalloped oval.

Take the die that you will use of the inverted scallop die and mark the "highs" with a pen on the back of the die (don't hesitate to do that on several areas all around the die to make sure you align correctly before cutting (here is just to show you how that looks): that is to be able to put them in line with the "lows" of the scalloped die. Not sure i am making myself clear here but i guess you'll see what i mean on the next step, lol. Put the die in the middle and cut.

So here is what you get, pretty cool isn't it? Don't worry if it's not "perfect", you can hide the "wrong" parts with decorations later on. It takes several attempts to get the perfect one.

To make my frame elegant, i just used some cotton thread and laced it around the cut frame. First time i wind it around like that. (Just attach your thread with a tiny piece of double sided tape for the beginning and then just go through the frame).

And here is what you get after you went through the whole frame another time but in the other direction.
Now you just have to grab your stackers and give it a go as this is really cool!

Don't forget to join our weekly challenge for a chance to win a 20$ shappoing spree and discover the marvellous projects of the challenge blog DT girls!

Have fun with your dies!

Love from France, Kianel.

# Dimensional Butterfly Bundles # flourish

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.