Easter Chicks

Hi Everyone, today for my DT card at Cheery Lynn Designs I thought it would be nice to share an Easter card with Spring colours and these three gorgeous little Chicks from our recent CHA release.

Here are the steps on how to make it, this first photo shows the reverse side.

Using the French Flair Scalloped die cut the largest die in Orange and Green cardstock. Cut the Orange layer in half, down the middle and attach with adhesive onto the back of your Green layer for a shadow effect around the edges.

Repeat this process using the second largest French Flair Scalloped die and Yellow and Striped Pattern Paper.

Die cut Happy Easter in Orange, Yellow and Green cardstock offsetting and adhering each layer together.

Die cut your Easter Chicks in Orange and Yellow cardstock again slightly offsetting. Lift the Yellow layer of wing slightly up. On the reverse of your Chick lightly press the point of a Black Pen into the centre of the eye. This now defines the eye area.

Die cut your Heart Oval in White Cardstock and mount Yellow card in the coordinating die cut from the Classic Ovals.

Cut out your Shasta Daisy Strip in White Cardstock and using your Craft Dauber or a small ball of cotton wool begin tapping some Scattered Straw ink into all the centres.

Once dry shape petals on a foam mat with a stylus tool. Assemble layers up to desired effect with adhesive. Finally adding a layer of Flower Soft into the Centres with adhesive.

Die cut the Leaf Strip in Green and shape leaves on a foam mat with stylus tool.

Using a square card 5"7/8 by 5"7/8 start to adhere you layers onto your card as in photograph. Adhere Happy Easter with glue onto the Oval Centre and then layer onto the card with foam pads.

Finally arranging and adhering on the Chicks, Leaves and Flowers to the card to finish.

I hope you have all enjoyed my tutorial and feel inspired.

See you all next week.

Julie xx   

Shop at Cheery Lynn for :

• B528 Chicks (set of 3)
• B529 Happy Easter
• B178 Flourish Leaf Strip
• B310 Shasta Daisy
• XL13 French Flair Scalloped
• DL254 Heart Oval BoutiqueStacker Frames
• L7 Classic Ovals.

Celebration Card

Hello Everyone, for my Design Team card this week at Cheery Lynn Designs I have made a card showcasing the New Release die - Pour the Wine.

I cut out my wine bottle and backed onto silver paper which I fussy cut around. I then applied lots of little gems into the centre of the flowers and a little sticker on to it. My wine glasses were cut out and I then placed a little colour core paper behind and fussy cut too, adding some bling to finish.

My rose was made with bazzill card stock and the Large Rose die.

Thanks for stopping by my Blog today. I am off on Holiday today for two weeks but still have my posts scheduled for going up. I hope to still catch up with your blogs while away.

Julie x

New Release dies used:

• B493 Pour the Wine

Other Cheery Lynn Dies used :

• B315 Ivy Corner Flourish
• B155 Large Rose
• L7 Oval Classic
• B133 Lace Light Deco Border
• DL254 Heart Oval Boutique Stackers

Main stamped image is from Penny Black

On Your Special Day

Thanks for stopping by at my blog today. I have had blogger issues this week that I think a lot of you have also had, so apologies if I missed a post by you. Also. my mojo has been at an all time low recently....don’t you just hate when that happens. So for my Cheery Lynn Design post I decided to play along with their Wedding Theme Challenge and I was soon back on track.

I decided to make a 6x6 card and thought it would be nice to have colours resembling the bride, groom and bridesmaid on my card, so I chose White, Grey and Lavender to work with. I cut out my French Lattice die twice in grey card and pieced them together to fit over my lavender paper to form a square. When doing this I found it easier to have my lilac paper cut roughly to the size I needed. I then worked out where my crosses matched best to make my join and re-align the 2 pieces together and glued onto my lilac card,  finally trimming around the edges. My topper is two stamps stamped onto a pearlised linen card and die cut out with a little grey card mounted behind to make the design POP.

You will see I have used my Cuties Strip around my card. The die makes gorgeous flowers but is also great to use as accents onto your card. I die cut out in white card and inked the edges with a lavender shade. On the reverse of the paper I pressed my embossing tool into each petal, this gives a little more dimension to your card as doesn’t look flat when glued on.

 I placed the Victorian Flourish die onto my card and used a couple of the waste pieces onto my design too. My miniature roses were cut out from linen card and when the glue had dried I rubbed over some lavender ink. Everything was placed onto my card along with my final touches of bling.

Hope you have a lovely weekend and get some time to be creative.

Julie x

Shop at Cheery Lynn for -

• DL151 Victorian Romance Flourish
• FRM132 French Lattice Small Frame
• B215 Expandable Tiny Borders
• B178 Flourish Leaf Strip
• B151 Cuties3
• DL254 Heart Oval Boutique Stackers 
• B154 Medium Rose

Friendship Card

Hello all my friends and new followers...Welcome.  I have made a Friendship card to share with you all today.

All my dies were cut out using white cardstock and shaded with Distress inks apart from my little butterflies of which I used Pearlised cardstock. 

On the front edge of my card I cut this to be about half an inch shorter than the back edge. I then positioned 2 layers of the Dancing Doily die on the front and 2 on the inside of the card.

I absolutely adore the design and elegance of the new Southern Charm Valance die. I placed a strip along the top and bottom of my card and then cut out another 2 strips and paper pieced the middle section into the sides of my card.Thanks so much for visiting and I really appreciate all your comments.

Julie x

Shop at Cheery Lynn for -

• B454 Southern Charm Valance
• DL254 Heart Oval Boutique Stacker Frame
• DL112AB Small Exotic Butterflies#1 w/angel wings
• DL134 Dancing Doily Lace Border 
• L-1 Square Classic Silver Stacker Layers

Stamp Used -
The Friendship is the poetry of life stamp is by Stempelglede - just a note A5 stamp plate. 
( Available from Live and Love Crafts in about ten days time )