Winter Wonderland

Hi everyone, today for my DT card at Cheery Lynn Designs I am sharing some Festive inspiration on my latest Wintry card.

My Icicles and Snowflakes have all been cut out of white glitter card for a nice frosty feel and added onto my tattered layers, you will also notice I tucked some of my Snowflakes between layers.

My Poinsettias I added a snowflake into the centres along with some sparkly Stamens. My Holly flourish was cut into sections and placed around my flowers and the pine branches were heat embossed with a sparkling Embossing powder.

Finishing my card with lots of sparkle and small polystyrene snowballs.

Cheery Lynn Dies Used:

B324 Poinsettia Strip

B146 Pine Branches

B148 Holly Flourish

DL175 Laced Pine Snowflake

B472 Icicles Border

C146 Snowflakes 

Thanks so much for stopping by today and Happy Thanksgiving Weekend to all my American friends.

Crafty Hugs,

Julie x

Cheery Lynn October Blog Hop

Hi everyone and a warm welcome to my blog. Today at Cheery Lynn Designs we are having a blog hop sharing lots of inspiration with our Winter themed cards. So let me take you through my design.

I started by cutting out a stitched rectangle stacker die in white cardstock. I sprayed some Wintry shades of Distress Sprays and a little water onto my mat and swiped my card through picking up the ink. I dried my card and next sprinkled some Frantage for a snowy effect, finally adding some glittered diecut snowflakes and mounting onto my glittercard.

My houses were diecut out in white glitter card adding some yellow card behind the windows. I coloured the trees with Copic Pens and finished with a little Archival Ink on the edges of the houses and some Snowtex and Glass Glitter for extra sparkle.

My Polar Bear and Penguin are both cut out in several colours of glitter card, layering together and adding extra detail on the embossed areas of my Dies with a fine liner pen and finishing the hats with more Snowtex and Glass Glitter.

I'd love for you to leave a comment before you go, I love reading them all and please be sure to leave a comment as you arrive back at Cheery Lynn Designs to be in with a chance of winning a $20 shopping spree.

Thanks so much for stopping by today and your next stop on the Hop is Lisa's lovely blog HERE.

Crafty Hugs, 

Julie x 

Cheery Lynn Dies Used :

DL226 Snowflowers Set of 2

B472 Icicles Border

B323 Winter Neighborhood Watch

B910 Snowy Day Bear

B909 Penquin Pals

C146 Snowflakes

B575 Winter

B393 Holidays

B672 Polaroid Film

XL15 Rectangle Scalloped LG Purple Stackers

LSC16 Rectangle Stitch & Cut Tool

Winter Wishes

Hi Everyone, I am so pleased to be sharing my post today at Frilly and Funkie as their Guest Designer after winning their recent challenge A Vintage Holiday my Altered Frame which you will see HERE. Clicking to enlarge the photographs highlights all my glittered areas better. As you know glitter is so difficult to capture in photos. 

With their current challenge - Winter Wishes I was asked to design something expressing what I love about winter. This was rather hard as I hate our cold wet winters in Scotland with long dark days. But I do like on the rare time when we wake up to everything glistening white and I love to feed the birds in the winter time especially my beloved Robin - Ronald.
Now gathered with inspiration I decided to make a wall hanging using a Canvas Board.

I first of all glued a Cheery Lynn Snowflake die all over my board.

I layered on some scraps of old music sheets and used Texture paste to add my Ivy. Once dry I placed my stencil back over my textured areas and started to add Distress Ink, building up colour. I also added in Pine Needles later on.

My little Robin's body was cut out 3 times in chipboard to make him more 3D. I added Distress paint to shade him and then used a flourish stamp and Archival ink to add shading. His eye was Black Liquid pearls.

My letters were also cut from Chipboard. I gave them a coat of Gesso. Once dry I added Glossy Accents and Rock Candy Distress Glitter, letting dry before adding some Distress Ink to the edges.

I added a selection of winter greenery die cuts, more snowflakes, glittered icicles, Flower Soft and lots of glitter to give a frosty feel.

Thanks to the Super Talented team over At Frilly and Funkie for asking me to Guest for them today and I hope you all enjoyed your visit to my blog today.

Julie xx

Shop at Cheery Lynn for:

• B146 - Pine Branches
• DL175 - Laced Pine Snowflake
• B472 - Icicles Border
• C146 - Snowflakes

Holidays are Coming

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Hi Everyone, hope you have all had a busy and creative week of festive crafting.

This week for my Cheery Lynn Designs DT Post I decided to keep my design flat on my Christmas card to demonstrate how you can still get lots of interest  and the illusion of depth onto a card. At the same time being able to put in an envelope for ease of posting.

My 2 base layers were cut out using my stacker dies. I went around the edge of my patterned paper with my distress tool and added a little ink and stickles around the perimeter. My Santa image I also used my distress tool at the edges.

My image I used a little Frantage on and added onto my die cut frame along with some more Stickles.

My Reindeer were cut out in the same brown card as my frame and a maroon coloured card. I glued them together offsetting them slightly to give a shadow effect.

Finally scattering some die cut snowflakes all over my card. You will notice I have put some partly under the frame and others on the top, this also gives an illusion of depth.

Have a great weekend and see you all next week.

Julie x

Cheery Lynn Dies Used :

• L1 Square Classic
• XL-2 Square Scalloped
• CM1 Cardmaker Rectangle Classic
• CM2 Cardmaker Rectangle Scalloped
• C146 Snowflakes
• B484 Deer in the Forest

Snow Globe Card

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Hi Everyone, here in Scotland we are now into the dark winter nights with our clock change last weekend.  I love seeing a crisp winter morning with snow, but unfortunately here we have more chance of it being wet and wild. So my inspiration for this card was made thinking of snow and how elegant it looks when there are no footsteps or tyre tracks in it.

For my Cheery Lynn Designs DT card this week I am using the newly released Deutschland doily, I decided to cut out the solid centre using my inverted scalloped circles and mounted gold card behind it and a piece of acetate. Top tip : If you dust the acetate lightly with your chalk powder bags used in stamping this helps to take the static off it and stops the glitter clinging too much.

Next stage, I stamped my image, cutting it out with the inverted circle die and mounting it onto some red card. I glued this onto my partly layered card and added some clear foam tape right around the edge of my stamped image. I then carefully added a mix of glitter and mica flakes into the centre and placed the top doily part on with silicone glue at the edges.

My Poinsettia has a little gilding wax added to the edges, a spritz of mica spray and stamens in the centre for added dimension. I cut out 2 flourishes placing one on complete and the other one I cut in half before placing on both pieces.

I finished by adding bling around the centre of my doily, scattering some snowflakes and stamping my sentiment onto my card.

Cheery Lynn Designs  Newly Released Doilies are all very versatile and could be easily adapted to this style of card. Please take a look at them here.

Thanks for stopping by today to see my card and I hope it has inspired you to start your Christmas cards. 

Have a lovely weekend.

Julie x

Cheery Lynn New Release :

DL285 Deutschland Doily

Other Cheery Lynn Dies used :

XL2 Square Scalloped

XL6 Circle Inverted Scallop

B456 Add a Flourish (set of 2)

C146 Snowflakes

B324 Poinsettia strip

Brr It's Cold Outside

Hi everyone, thanks so much for all your fantastic comments on my previous two posts, it's so much appreciated and does wonders for my creativity. This week the challenge at Cheery Lynn Designs is to use texture on your card, so for my DT card I injected lots of textures in to this card.

I used the brick plate and ran some co-ordinations paper through my die cutting machine and then sanded it back to reveal the coloured core. Next I die cut this piece of paper and sprayed some glue onto it and added extra fine glitter for a frosty feel.

My tree I layered up and sprayed with some gold mica spray and dried with my heat gun. This helps to curl the paper and gives it a firmer feel. I added Flower-soft snow, glitter, red stickles, my little birds and snowflakes all to give a winter feel. The Tree comes with some wonderful decorations dies also and you can see it decorated here on one of my previous cards.

My window I wanted a frosty feel to, so I added some icicles....I adore this die. They we're die cut in white card with a little distress added to the points of them, I then sprayed glue and added glitter too them and placed onto my window frame with a little snow. I also made some curtains for behind my window using my Cuties strip die.

My wording I layered up twice for a shadow effect. I wish you could see all the sparkle on this card but the camera has unfortunately only picked up a bit of it.

Cheery Lynn New Release dies used:

• B472 Icicles Border
• B475 Merry Christmas Hanger
• B483 Build a Christmas Tree

Texture Plate used:

E158 Old Brick

Other dies used:

• B438 Bird Bath set of 2
• XL-2 Square Scalloped LG Stackers
• DL253 Horizon Square Stackers
• XL-1 Square Classic LG Stackers
• B149 Cuties 1
• FRM 151 Shuttered Window w/Flower Box
• C146 Snowflakes

Thanks for stopping by today and I'd love it if you had time to leave me a comment. Hope you all have a creative weekend.

Julie x

I would like to enter this in to -
Sugar Creek Hollow - Word Play Challenge

Merry Christmas my Deer

Lovely to have you popping over to see my DT post for Cheery Lynn Designs today.  I thought I would share over the next few weeks some cards I have made using some of the new dies from the Cheery Lynn July 2014 release, to give you some ideas for planning, dare I say it.....your Christmas cards.

My icicles were cut out in glitter card and I offset them slightly and layered them twice to give depth to my card.

My frosty trees are the base die from the build a Christmas tree die. This die I love as can be used as a decorated tree or bare tree layered up or on its own, also as foliage with your flowers and the decorations as accents on other things. I cut my die out in various shades of card stock and sprayed with an adhesive and dipped into a fine glitter. I glued down the spine of the tree so it would lie flat to the paper and my branches were lifted up to add more dimension.

My window was cut out using the oval die and stamping snowflakes onto the frame. My winter scene was made using inks and embossing powders. To the side of the window you will see my Mistletoe, this was die cut out and glitter applied in the same way as the trees and I also place some liquid pearls onto it to represent the little white berries.

My deer I cut out in brown and white card which I'd applied glitter to and I then layered them together slightly offsetting to give a shadow effect. Finally, adorning my card with snowflakes and more glitter to finish.

Julie x

Cheery Lynn new release dies:

• B483 Build a Christmas Tree
• B484 Deer in the Forest
• B474 Mistletoe
• B472 Icicles Border

Other Dies

• L-7 Oval classic
• C146 Snowflakes 
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I wish to enter this in to :

That Craft Place Anything Goes Challenge
Winter Wonderland Challenge Blog - Blue Christmas Challenge