Ornate Wedding Card

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Hi Everyone, sorry I am behind catching up with your blogs this week, but haven't been too well. Thank goodness Chris does my photography and posting of my blog.

This week's Cheery Lynn Designs DT card I am showcasing the wonderfully romantic 'I do' die. This die has so much versatility for use on Wedding / Anniversary and Prom cards, but equally beautiful on a Scrapbook page or Gift Box.

Having worked with the new Alpine Flourish Doily on a few cards recently, I thought it would make a beautiful ornate window frame and compliment the happy couple. I love the result and hope you do too.

Let me talk you through how I made this. I layered 2 shades of grey card onto my 8x8 ready cut scalloped card, stamping a flourish stamp over the card for a little detail to the plain cardstock adding Stickles around the perimeter.

I made my flowers, mixing and matching the Tiny Flower Kit, adding stickles into the centres. My leaves and little flourishes on the Bride's bouquet and window box are pieced from the same die used in the corner of my card.

My window I layered a piece of grey card and lace behind it, adding on my window box and layering onto my Doily. Some of you will recognise the window part of the die as it normally is decorated with the Shutters at either side.

My Groom I edged with a little Iced Spruce Distress ink to highlight the edges. My Bride, I did the same using Tattered Rose, giving her a diamanté necklace, bouquet and veil. The veil was gathered with a little stitching at the top and her floral crown was made using a little strip of paper covered in flower soft. I mounted the couple onto my card using foam pads and a little silicone glue to hold her veil at the back. The veil, I secured on the front with small dots of glue which were then covered by Flower Soft to disguise.

Hope you all have a crafty weekend and I look forward  to catching up with your blogs soon as I'm up to it.

Julie x

Shop at Cheery Lynn for :

• B516 I Do
• DL282 Alpine Flourish Doily
• B315 Ivy Corner Flourish
• FRM151 Shuttered Window w/Flower Box
• B376 Tiny Flower Kit (set of 3)

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

#18 Bountiful Harvest - A Vintage Journey

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Hello fellow blog friends, nice to have you visiting. Firstly I would like to thank everyone who visited my blog and left a comment on my first post with A Vintage Journey - Dare to Shop , I was overwhelmed with all your kindness and support.

Sandy is hosting the challenge this fortnight over at A Vintage Journey called Bountiful Harvest, where you will find all the details on how to enter this challenge and to see the outstanding inspiration from my fellow Creative Guides. You are certainly in for a real treat.

I initially gathered my inspiration from a photograph of a wagon filled with an abundance of fruit, vegetables and grains. I brought these aspects into my project adding several of Tim's techniques to get my desired effect.

You may want to grab yourself a cuppa at this point as this is a long post with many details for you to enjoy.

I purchased a few wooden bread boards from my local bargain stall to alter and thought this challenge was the perfect base to suit my project. I started by giving it a light sanding and a coat of Gesso to seal my board.

While my second coat of paint was still damp I picked up some Distress ink onto a baby wipe  and rubbed over my stencil. This lifted back the damp Gesso and also placed an outline of ink from my stencil. 

I love how Tim always creates real depth to a tag and I wanted to replicate this on my board so I applied several colours of ink through my stencil, heat setting.

So next, I gathered several Autumnal shades of ink that I had, ideally it  would have been all Archival inks I used at this point, for their vibrance and permanent effect. Anyway, I started off by second generation stamping various leaves and colours, heat setting as I built this up. Now with first generation ink,  I carried on stamping my leaves, which now gave me different tones from the same colour of inks. 

I added my crackle stamp and a little distress around the edges, finally heat setting my whole board for several minutes so it was now no longer reactive to water.

I die cut out Cheery Lynn's Burlap Border, applying a little Distress Paint to the edges. Next, grunge paste mixed with distress paint and applied with a palette knife, letting it dry. 

I sealed the back of it with Multi Medium. Next, I applied a thick layer of Prima's Clear Crackle Paste and again let it air dry for a few hours. 

Once dry I rubbed over Distress inks to highlight my crackles. I then mixed up some Scattered Straw Distress Paint into my Grunge paste and placed my Wheat Stencil back over my Burlap Border.

Once dry I replaced my stencil back on and rubbed some more Distress Ink onto the raised areas of my wheat.

Some of my leaves were left over from my Autumn Inspiration project. The technique on what I did is here. The bigger leaves I applied 2 colours of Distress stain, a little Gilding wax to the edges along with raindrops from Glossy Accents. My acorns I applied Tim's crackle technique with Clear Rock Candy painted on the surface and Distress ink added over the the top once dry. My little pine cone and stick I had saved from a winter walk last year.

My image is from La Blanche and was stamped onto Speciality Stamping paper. I sprayed a little water onto my craft sheet to dip my Distress Pens into, this way I could gradually built up my colour, as I wanted a shabby effect without my colour shades being too bold. I tore my paper around the edges rubbing in Distress inks to highlight the edge. I finally added some Crackles with my stamp and placed Tim's Splatter Stencil on to add more age and interest to my image.

Using a Cheery Lynn die, I cut out several Wagon Wheels from a Cereal Box. I glued them together, painted them, added a little Gilding Wax for a highlight. Adding Tim's Hitch Fasteners, don't they just add the perfect finishing touch. 

Now for my embellishments on this project I was really struggling, but by luck I had visited the Craft Fair in Glasgow with my daughter last week and managed to get my wheat and raffia. The photograph that had first given me my inspiration had Pumpkins and Breads on it and I felt this would just finish my project off. So it was time for a little salt dough modelling, something I haven't done in about 15 years.

The mix for salt dough is 2 parts plain flour to 1 part salt and a little splash of oil to help make it pliable, add water until you have a formed ball and knead for about 10 mins. Once you have the shapes you like dry in an oven at about 75 degrees Celsius until hard. These small pieces I made took about an hour to dry.

My pumpkin I painted with some PaperArtsy Paints Butternut and Brown Shed. I then pressed Rusty Hinge Distress Stain on the top and lit it drip down the sides, finally heat setting it. I pleated a loaf, scored a loaf into sections and added poppy seeds onto the other one. They were all sealed with several coats of Mod Podge Gloss on my pumpkin and Mod Podge Matte on my bread. You normally seal salt dough items with varnish but I didn't have any.

I arranged everything on my board and added some computer generated words to finish.

I hope you are now feeling inspired to join in the Challenge at A Vintage Journey, it would be lovely to see your creation. You could be the lucky winner of a £10 shopping spree voucher from our sponsors Country View Crafts where you will find lots of Tim's goodies, with free P & P.

Take care, thanks for stopping by and Happy Halloween !

Julie x

Most of my products used you will find at :

Cheery Lynn Designs

Countryview Crafts

Ornate Vintage Card

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Hi Everyone, hope you are all having a lovely weekend.

For my Cheery Lynn DT card this week I decided to showcase the versatility of one of my latest favourite dies from the newly released Cheery Lynn Designs Doily Collection called Alpine Flourish Doily. 

This die comes as a set of 2. You have the option to have a solid centre or use the ornate centre in the middle of your doily. For my card this time, I opted to have the solid centre as I wanted to stamp and mount a verse to place on it using the card maker die, this also fits perfectly as a mount to the back of my Alpine Flourish.

You will notice the ornate sides on my card are die cut using the centrepiece from my doily. I then mounted onto my plain card stock to make my design pop forward.

My flower and leaves were shaded with distress inks and mounted onto the Italian Flourish Mini Doily. I die cut out 2 doilies and made a cut into the centre on both of them. Next folding back and forward in a concertina style, I glued them together at the edges to form the full circle again.

I added a little stickles and distress around the edge and pearls to finish.

Cheery Lynn New Release:

• DL282 Alpine Flourish Doily

Other Cheery Lynn Dies Used :

• XL2 Square Scalloped
• CM2 Card Maker Rectangle Scalloped
• D134 Small Leaves # 2
• B241 Rose Leaf Strip
• DL233 Tiny Italian Flourish Doily
• B307 Sweet Williams Strip

Thanks for stopping by to see my card today. 

Julie x