Happy Mothers Day

Hello everyone, here in the UK we celebrate Mother's Day this month so for my DT card at Cheery Lynn Designs I thought it would be nice to share some inspiration that could easily be adapted into many other occasions by changing the centre sentiment.

Using Craft Consortium's paper pad "Wild Rose" for my card I cut out my Heart Stacker Die and layered on my Stitched Squares which I distressed at the edges to give a material patchwork effect. 

Next I layered my Doily onto the centre.

My flowers were cut in White Cardstock and shaded with Distress Inks adding Flower Soft into the centres of one of my favourite smaller flower Dies - Sweet Christine and my Chrysanthemums I added gems to their centres.

My heart I backed onto White Cardstock and kept all the negative cut hearts adding onto my card for extra detail.

Thanks for stopping by and I do hope you have a lovely week with some time to create.

Happy Crafting, 

Julie x   

Cheery Lynn Dies Used :

DL103 Italian Flourish Doily

CAS018 Heart of Hearts Die

B434 Sweet Christine

CAFLRS10 Flourish#10

LSC1- LG Silver Stitch Tool-Square

DL295 Heart Edge Square

M4 Circle Classic

LSC4 LG Silver Stitch Tool- Circle

B311 Chrysanthemum Strip

Craft Consortium - Wild Rose Paper Pad  

I would like to enter this in to the following Challenges - 
Ooh-La-La Creations - Challenge #224 Spring is in the Air
Crafty Cardmakers - #184 For a Special Woman
Crafting from the Heart - Challenge 150 - Anything Goes
Card Mania - Pastel Colours
Happy Little Stampers - Anything Goes with Dies
Sir StampalotChallenge - Close to Nature ( Sentiment Stamped ) 
Crafty Calendar Challenge - Mums Day / Special Female
Scrap - Craft Inspiration #1 Celebrations 

Lady Steampunk

Hi everyone, I do hope you are having a lovely weekend preparing for the forthcoming Festivities. Today for my DT card at Cheery Lynn Designs I thought it would be nice to share a card using the fantastic Steampunk dies that Cheery Lynn make.  I love the versatility of these dies and have fun making them look grungy, masculine or giving them a feminine shabby look. So let me take you through the details on my card.

My Steampunk corners, cogs and butterfly wings were all heat embossed with Frantage powders, tucking accents of cogs behind my paper layers with touches of lace and cheesecloth.

My corset was mounted onto patterned paper and trimmed around the edges. I repeated this process cutting out the bust area only and glued in place on top of the corset with silicone glue to add dimension. The belt was made using the Hinges die adding a little thread. I finished my corset with lace edges and some bling then mounted onto my Butterfly.

My roses and leaves were cut in coordinating paper to compliment the roses on my paper.

Shop at Cheery Lynn for:

• CABD-106 Corner #3
• CAFLRS-13 Flourish #13
• B367 Gears Butterfly
• CAFLRS-10 Flourish #10
• CABD-52 Corset
• B399 Hinges Set of 8
• B433 Small Gardenia
• B340 Gears Set of 9
• XL20 Pierced Stacker #2
• LPC-1 Square Pierce and Cut Tool
• XL-3 Square Inverted Scallop

Thanks so much for stopping by today, I am sorry I have fallen behind looking at all your lovely blogs but I am under the weather at present and do hope to catch up with all your blogs soon.

Good luck to everyone entering the Bi-Weekly Challenge  at Cheery Lynn Designs.

Crafty Hugs,

Julie x