My Rainbow

Hi everyone, for my DT card at Cheery Lynn Designs this week I challenged myself to make a clean and simple styled card. This is something I find very hard to do as I always want to add more details within my design. So I guess this is probably as minimalistic as I can manage and I hope you like it and feel inspired to also step out of your comfort zone too.

I started by die cutting my smallest square in my stitched stackers in colours of the rainbow to compliment my stamped sentiment, adding my small Doily which was cut in half and placed in the centre.

My next layers were all added with foam strips for added dimension along with a few flowers to sit on my cloud. Adding a final touch of some squiggly lines around the edge of my card.

Cheery Lynn Dies Used:

B797 Whimsical Sun and Clouds

DL153 Polynesian Sails Doily Oval

B376 Tiny Flower Kit

LSC1 LG Silver Stitch Tool

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you have a lovely weekend.

Crafty Hugs, 

Julie x.

The Dressmaker and Card Tutorial

Hello everyone, today for my DT post at Cheery Lynn Designs I am sharing a new style of card to "me" which I thought was a perfect style for my idea of a shop window. I had noticed this style of card being sold on the Craft Channels and thought I could easily makes this, so let me share with you how I made it.

I started by cutting 2 sheets of cardstock to measure 10 x 6 inches and then scored both sheets at 1.5", 2", 8" and 8.5". Next I glued my 6" square of paper in place on both my background layer and top layer. Once dry I die cut my aperture out using my Square Stacker Die, you will also notice I have added the Anastasia Border around the centre of my aperture and to the sides of my card. I also added strips of patterned paper onto my sides sections and glued both end panels on each side together.

My stylish ladies and dressmaker stamp from Crafty Individuals have been fussy cut and  glued onto my card with Silicone Glue.

I also added Die Cut flowers on to the Ladies clothes.

My sewing machine was Heat embossed with Black Frantage, adding some thread onto the spool and Gold Promarker pen onto the handle and base.

My corset was cut out in Maja papers, adding touches of lace and lots of pearls.

My dress I added lots of bling a tiny flower and placed onto my diecut hanger which was cut out in Kraft card adding a touch of Silver onto the hook. 

My tailors dummy was also cut out in Kraft cardstock. I then layered my dress on with a touch of Silicone Glue behind to hold the curved shape, adding lace and more tiny flowers.

I finished with touches of cheesecloth, tiny buttons, scissors and bobbins of thread.

I hope you feel inspired to make a card like this which folds flat for posting. You could also use different shapes of your Stacker Dies to create different style aperture windows.

Happy Crafting,

Julie x

Cheery Lynn Dies Used :

B899 Decorative Accesories

B882 Antique Dress

CABD 54 Dress

DL103 Italian Flourish Doily

B136 Anastasia Border

B376 Tiny Flower Kit

CABD 56 Sewing Set

L1 Square Classic Silver Stackers

Songbirds

Hi everyone thanks for stopping by, today for my DT card at Cheery Lynn Designs I am sharing some more inspiration using their fabulous new Vintage Dies.

My card has lots of layers using coordinating papers from Pion Design. I started by Die cutting my layers and adding Gilding Wax around the edges. This was to compliment my Gilded Birdcage and to give an opulent feel to my card.

You will also notice my diecut corners have had Gilding Wax rubbed all over them.

The corner of my paper was placed into my Die and cut to give a curved edge and I fussy cut around the bird and foliage, mounting in place with some Silicone Glue and a touch of Cheesecloth.

My centre layers I layered in place with foam tape for added dimension, adding some sweet birds onto my Birdcage for extra detail.

Finishing with a pretty Floral bouquet, some die cut feathers and bling.

Wishing you a lovely week.

Happy Crafting, 

Julie x

Cheery Lynn Dies Used :

B880 Decorative Bird Cage

B888 Flourish Frame 2 Piece

B883 Dusty Miller Frame Corners

CABD Feathers Set of 4

B376 Tiny Flower Kit

B438 Birdbath Set of 2

B147 Olive Branches

B129 Cherry Blossom Set of 2

XL20 Pierced Stacker #2

D177 French Flair Doily Stacker

LPC12 French Flair Pierce and Cut Tool

Cheery Lynn Designs - Shaker Dies Blog Hop

Hi everyone. It's blog hop day at Cheery Lynn Designs and we are all super excited to be sharing our designs with the fun new Shaker Dies.

We have all been assigned a different Shaker die to use for the hop and I was given the Heart Die along with the Love You and Heart Shakers.

My card is made in a Shabby Chic style adding Silver Embossing around my Shaker Heart by rubbing my small Versamark ink pad around the edges and heat setting my Powder in place. My shakers were placed under the acetate and I also added some Glass Glitter for extra sparkle.

The edges of my card were tattered and embossed. My flowers I inked in the centres adding some bling into the centres of the smaller flowers and Silver Flower Soft into the larger ones.

I had a lot of fun making this card and they make a great noise when shaken. Please check out the video HERE on how to make these fun Shakers.

I'd love if you left a comment before hopping to your next stop on the hop - Lisa's blog.

Please carry on the hop to see the rest of the teams inspiration  and to be in with a chance of winning a $20 shopping spree at Cheery Lynn Designs.

Thanks for stopping by today,

Julie x   
Cheery Lynn Dies Used :

• K107K Heart Shaker Card Kit
• B436 Tea Rose Medium
• B376 Tiny Flower Kit
• CABRD4 Border #4
• DL239 Felicity Doily w/Angel Wing
• B117S Mini Fanciful Flourish Left
• B291 Mini Fanciful Flourish Right
• DL303 Pierced Banners 

Lollipop Card Tutorial

Hi fellow crafters, for my DT post at Cheery Lynn Designs this week I am sharing a tutorial on my Lollipop card and I hope it inspires you to make one with all the gorgeous doily dies we have here at Cheery Lynn Designs.

I decided to make my Lollipop card a 3D design and concertina my doily, so I started by cutting out 5 doilies and shading with some ink at the edges. You will notice in the photo I cut half way into my doilies and scored down the sections to fold.

I then glued all my doilies together to form my rosette shape, gluing on to co-ordinating Angel Wing.

Next I added several layers of foam tape to the centre so my topper would have stability when I glued in place.

My topper in place as seen here.

I cut out another Angel Wing Doily decorating it to complement the front and drop shadowed my Thank You sentiment to make it pop.

I held my straw in place on my decorated back panel with some extra strong tape.

I used a fast drying glue to adhere the front to the back, holding in place until it gripped.

My Flourish was embossed with a Shabby Pale Green shade. Adding on my flowers and leaves.

My paper tassels were made by recycling bead ends from an old necklace and using my Cutie Fringe die strip.

Finishing off with some small flowers and pearls.

Good luck to everyone who is entering the Cheery Lynn Designs current challenge Pretty in Purple.

Thank you for all your lovely comments on my previous scheduled post, we had a lovely few days away celebrating my Daughter's 21st Birthday.

Crafty Hugs,

Julie x

Shop at Cheery Lynn For:

• DL151 Victorian Romance Flourish
• DL103 Italian Flourish Doily
• DL103A Italian Flourish Doily Wing
• B315 Ivy Corner Flourish
• CABD-72 Chrysanthemum
• DL272 Horizon Circle Boutique Stacker Frame
• XM-5 Circle Scalloped Stackers
• M4 Circle Classic
• B258 Cutie Fringe I
• B376 Tiny Flower Kit  

I wish to enter this in to the following Challenges :

• Cut it Up Challenges - 3D Project
• Creative artiste Mixed Media - Anything Goes
• Fussy and Fancy - Say it with Flowers
• Crafty Creations Challenges - Anything Goes
• Frilly and Funkie - Pastels and Pearls
• Stampin Royalty - To die for
• Craft-dee Bows - Anything Goes with hand made bow
• Emerald Faeries  Challenge - Anything Goes
• Lets Create Challenges - Hearts and/or Flowers
• Pink Gem Challenge Blog - Anything But a Card 

Happy Easter

Happy Easter Weekend to all my lovely followers and thank you so much for the comments on my Springtime card, I was overwhelmed with all your kind words. Today for my DT post at Cheery Lynn Designs I decided to make a Spring card filled with Easter inspiration.

I started by layering 2 layers of paper onto my base card adding Stickles at the edge for a touch of sparkle. I layered on part of my doily as an accent, this helped my Basket pop from the design against the busy floral paper.

My Happy Easter was layered twice for a shadow effect, adding my branches and flowers which had been shaded with Copics.

My sweet Easter Chicks were shaded with Distress Inks. I coloured their feet and beaks with Copics and finished them by adding a little black liquid pearls onto their eye. Mounting them onto the Grass Border Strip.

My Basket I die cut in purple cardstock and then used our Special Effects technique demonstrated HERE to get the background. Layering in my Eggs with a touch of Silicone Glue and adding a little Satin Bow.

Thanks for stopping by today and good luck to everyone entering the Cheery Lynn Designs Current Challenge - Anything Goes.

Crafty Hugs, 

Julie x 

Shop at Cheery Lynn Designs for:

• B528 Chicks (set of 3)
• B662 Chicks 2 (set of 3)
• B466 Branch (set of 2)
• B593 Grass Border 2
• B529 Happy Easter
• B376 Tiny Flower Kit (set of 3)
• DL101 English Tea Party Doily
• CABD 76 Easter Eggs (set of 4)
• CABD 10 Flower Basket (set of 4)

Just Married

 

Hi Everyone, firstly I would like to thank you all for your lovely visits and comments on my blog during the Cheery Lynn blog hop last week, you really made my day. Today for my DT card at Cheery Lynn Designs I am sharing a Wedding card using the New Release words 'Just Married'. Let me take you through my techniques used on this card.

I used pearlised cardstock for my stacker layers and used a Silver Pen to shade all my Silver accents and scalloped layers. My top stacker layer I embossed with my Hearts Embossing Plate.

My Bride I glued on an overlay of lace and once dry replaced back into my Die to trim off the excess lace. I shaded the Happy Couple with Distress Inks and added some Bling and a Floral Bouquet.

My Chandelier was coloured with a Silver Pen and a little touch of Gold Gilding wax on the Tassles. For my candles I painted on a little Beeswax I had melted in my Meltpot, the flames were shaded with Copics and a touch of Glossy Accents added. Finishing it off with lots of bling.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

Crafty Hugs, 

Julie x

Shop at Cheery Lynn for:

• B692 Just Married
• CABD-1 Chandelier
• B516 I Do
• B376 Tiny Flower Kit
• LS1 Silver Stitching Stackers
• DL 253 Horizon Square Boutique Stacker Frames
• CAFLRS-13 Flourish#13
• B216 Wreath Strip
• XL2 Square Scalloped LG Silver Stackers
• E136 Petite Hearts XL Embossing Plate

Little Birdhouse

Hi Everyone, today I am sharing with you a small balsawood birdhouse which measures approximately 3" x 5" high, that I got from Michaels in San Diego recently. Yes I hear you asking, when did you go there ? Well both of my daughters work in the Airline Industry and I came up with the idea I could go virtual shopping when they came across a craft shop, isn't technology amazing ! So they simply Face Time me and walk around the craft shop showing me things I would like. Isn't that a COOL idea !

The shape of this sweet little birdhouse caught my eye and I knew straight away what I wanted to do with it.

I wrapped garden string all around the roof gluing as I went, giving it a coat of Multi Medium to seal it.

I wanted a brick effect on my house and with a stencil just not being practical to place on the shapes I decided to make my own bricks out of packaging from my Tim Holtz Stencils.

I started laying my bricks pushing into Texture Paste similar to laying tiles and this is the finished effect.

My fence is a Magnolia die. My grass and tiny flowers are from Cheery Lynn.

I decorated my die cut fence colouring my flowers with Copics and shading my fence with Distress before adding to my house.

I then added a little Flower Soft to the base to look like grass.

My little Doves were a wooden die cut. I heat embossed some Lindys Embossing Powders into and added a little Distress Paint to shabby it up.

My birds are from Cheery Lynn's Bird Bath (Set of 2). 

My branches were all shaded with Copics and my Blossom flowers added.

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today. I have some more Birdhouses of different sizes which I will be decorating shortly.

Julie xx

Shop at Cheery Lynn for:

• B466 - Branches
• B376 - Tiny Flower Kit
• B126 - Grass Border
• B438 - Bird Bath ( Set of 2 )

I wish to enter this in to the following Challenges:

• That Craft Place - No Cards
• Anything but Cute Mixed Media Challenge - Vintage Garden 
• Rhedd's Creative Spirit - Anything Goes Challenge
• Altered Eclectics - Anything Goes Challenge