A Cheery Lynn Designs Valentine

Happy Thursday to you! It's my day to host the blog over at Cheery Lynn Designs and share a project.

I have card to share that is more clean and simple today.  I wanted to play along with our all new challenge "Tickled Pink", so I paired my pink sweetheart frame with a black square cardstock base.

I added a square scalloped LG stacker to the back of the card to frame it. The center square to back my sweetheart frame was cut from my square classic LG stackers. I shaped the Heart and Arrow and adhered with foam dimensionals for interest.

Cheery Lynn Designs Dies Used:
Heart and Arrow - B530
Sweetheart Frame - FRM127
Square Scalloped LG Stackers - XL2
Square Classic LG Stackers - XL1
XOXOXO - B375

Thanks so much for stopping on over today, be sure to play along with our Tickled Pink challenge this week if you have some time. You can win a $20 gift certificate just for playing along!

Have a wonderful week!

A Romantic Valentine with Cheery Lynn Designs

Happy Monday to you!  It's my day to share a project over on the Cheery Lynn Designs blog.

I have a soft romantic card with flourishes in pink, brown and green tones to share with you today. This week's challenge is to add a flourish and I thought I would make a Valentine's style card to meet the challenge criteria.

I started with the largest Card Maker Scalloped Rectangle die, then cut a layer in the brown quatrefoil pattern from the Card Maker Rectangle dies.  I thought some pretty border cuts would look nice and soft behind these layers, so I adhered from behind.  

Each of these layers is attached with foam squares to give a little dimension and interest.

After adding the Oval Boutique Stacker, I knew I wanted to use the Lattice Heart and Vines on this card. The soft green vining behind it is the Celtic Heart.  

I cut two Lattice Heart and Vines, one in a darker pattern that I trimmed the heart border from and and adhered to my first cut to help frame it. I backed the heart with some darker pink patterned paper to emphasize the lattice. 

Diamond Stickles were added to the center of my Cuties 2 flower and the lighter colored vines outside of the heart and my Mini Butterfly. A bit of lightweight florist wire and a quilling tool were used to create my butterfly antennae. I used a glassine bag and cut a Tiny Fanciful Flourish and you'll see it spraying out from my butterfly faintly.  

Cheery Lynn Designs dies used:
Celtic Heart - B144
Lattice Heart and Vines - B368
Cuties 2 - B150
Tiny Fanciful Flourish Left and Right - B387
Flourish Leaf Strip - B178
Ankara Lace Border - B332
Dancing Doily Lace Border - DL134
Horizon Oval Boutique Stacker Frames - DL252
Card Maker Rectangle Classic - CM-1
Card Maker Rectangle Classic - CM-2
Mini Butterflies with Angel Wings - D138
Tags 4 - B263

Other Products Used:
Primrose pattern papers by BoBunny (New Release)
Cardstock by WorldWin Papers
Foam Squares by 3L
Glossy Accents by Ranger
Heart Stick Pins by Maya Road
Butterfly Stick Pin by Jillibean Soup
Glassine Bag
Florist Wire
Quilling Tool
Seam Binding Ribbon
Distress Inks:  Victorian Velvet, Spun Sugar, Walnut Stain, Bundled Sage

Please join us this week for our "Add a Flourish" challenge here on the blog!  You could be the very lucky winner of a $20 gift certificate to go shopping at the Cheery Lynn Designs online store!

We always enjoy seeing your inspirational creations!

Thanks so much for stopping on over today!!!

~ Rhonda

Valentine's Inspiration with Cheery Lynn Designs

Happy Monday to you!  It's my day to host the blog over at Cheery Lynn Designs and share my project.

Have you seen our latest challenge?  The theme is "Sweethearts" which I took inspiration from.  Since it's been so very cold here, the next fun thing we get to look ahead to is Valentine's Day, which is so fun to think about and create cards for.

"XOXOXO" (A2 Card)

I've used the Fancy Corner Cuts #4 on the bottom white layer here. 

The white layer is elevated with foam squares.

I used the Lattice Hearts and Vines die and layered the flourishes under my black Horizon Coved Rectangle Boutique Stacker.  A few Tiny Flowers were added into the vines for a soft touch. The hearts here are from the Heartland America XL die.

I cut apart the XOXOXO sentiments in both sizes for the accents here as well.  I love to take pieces of the dies and create something a little unexpected.

Cheery Lynn Designs dies used:
Lattice Heart and Vines - B368
Horizon Coved Rectangle Boutique Stacker Frames - DL251
Tiny Flower Kit (Set of Three) - B376
Fancy Corner Cuts #4 - B431
Heartland America XL - DL111
Index Card - A107
Sophia's Heart Border - B333
XOXOXO - B375

Other Products used:
Pattern Papers - Head Over Heels - BoBunny
Cardstock by Bazzill
PowderPuff Chalk Ink in Pink Cheeks and Midnight Confessions, Quick Quotes
Ribbon and Ric-Rak
Sewing Machine and Thread
Foam Squares by 3L
Diamond Stickles by Ranger
Glossy Accents by Ranger
Other:  String

We hope you can join us this week for our "Sweethearts" challenge on the blog. The lucky winner will get $20 to spend in the online Cheery Lynn Designs store!

Have a fantastic Monday!

~ Rhonda

Happy Valentine's Day!

Valentine's greetings crafty friends!

Today over on the Quick Quotes blog we are celebrating Valentine's Day in a big creative way.  The entire design team has created beautiful cards, so be sure to stop over for some wonderful inspiration!

I decided to use the new "Dusty Road" collection and a few of our new Powder Puff Chalk Ink colors to create a masculine card.  I just love the honeycomb pattern in this collection!  The papers here are from the all new 6x6 paper pad.  Quick Quotes is so clever, they included in the pad a few pages that have Quotes and journaling spots as well!  That is what was used for the sentiment banner.

Our new Coconut PowderPuff Chalk Ink:

Wow - do I ever love the contrast effect of the white chalk ink on darker paper! I also used our new Plum Crazy PowderPuff Chalk Ink on my sentiment banner and on the strip of bike path.  The bike was cut using a Memory Box die.

By the way, there is a giveaway on the Quick Quotes blog for a few of the all new Powder Puff Chalk Inks.  Leave a comment there for your chance to win!

Thank you so much for stopping on over today!  Have a super scrappity day!

~ Rhonda

Love You More Release Party!

Happy Monday to you crafty peeps!  It's a big day over at Imaginisce, we are celebrating all this week with the brand new "Love You More" release party.  

Love You More is our romantic new release that you will not be able to put down!  This collection is incredible!!!  New embellishments include washi tape, buttons and some pretty cool alpha stickers too!

"Always and Forever"

My first project is a layout that I created using one of our wedding photos.  The inspiration was the "Always and Forever" sentiment on the 4x6 card.  I had my husbands ring engraved with this sentiment so it seemed the perfect fit to use it for my title work here.  

I selected one of our wedding photos in black and white to compliment the grey tones in the collection.  The lacy border was fussy cut and layered under my photo with some additional die cuts.  I used the washi tape and layered it with some ribbon to the right of my photo.  

Tip:  To help keep thicker ribbon together when using your iMagicut ribbon cutter to make a chevron cut, use a bit of washi tape to keep your fold in place.  

Ingredients:  Love You More collection, Foam Tape, POGO, i-Rock, Glam Rocks Heart, Hot Rocks Compact - Crystal, ImagiCut by Imaginisce.  Cheery Lynn Anastasia Border Die, MFT Scallop Border die and Fishtails, Spellbinder's Grand Oval and Rectangle Scallop dies, Memory Works die, Corner Chomper by We R Memory Keepers, Jenni Bowlin Studio Tab punch and gray stick pin, Maya Road heart stick pin, Cardstock by Bazzill.  Other:  Sewing Machine, thread, seam binding ribbon.

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"For You With Love" (A2 Card)

My next project is a card. I wanted to create something that can be used for a loving note of encouragement or a birthday. You see several of the stickers from the collection here. Some foam tape was used under my sentiment for dimension. A bit of thin ribbon tied simply finished the card.  

The inside of the card features one of the 3x4 journaling cards.

Ingredients:  Love You More collection, Foam Tape and POGO by Imaginisce, Doily Die by Cheery Lynn Designs, Corner Chomper by We R Memory Keepers, Cardstock by Bazzill

I hope you enjoyed my projects today!  Be sure to visit the Imaginisce blog all week long for some incredible projects featuring this stunning line!!! 

Have a super scrappity week!!!

~ Rhonda

Love is in the Air!

Greetings all my Valentine swooning crafty friends!  Go on and admit it, we all love the opportunity to create some swoon-a-licious projects for our loved ones!!!

Over at Imaginisce, the Design Team were assigned various love themed projects to focus on.  What fun!  My assignment was an altered/home decor project.  After pondering a few different ideas I thought it would be fun to do something girly and all for me for a change!

This project gave many of the Imaginisce tools a workout and it was too much fun!

• This started out as a simple heart shaped wooden box for $1 at Michael's.  It's hinged and has a magnetic closure at the point.
• I started with a base coat of red paint, then covered it using some papers from Little Cutie and the pink pattern paper on the bottom is from Garden Party. 
• The d-stress was used to sand the edges and helped me finish that step so fast!
• The musical overlay is a Hambly acetate sheet which I trimmed to fit and then modge podged over the top of my pattern Little Cutie paper with their glitter Modge Podge.

 

• The i-rock got a work out making a decorative edge of hearts along the bottom of the entire box.  It took a little bit of time but the effect was so worth it!!! 
• The i-bond was used to hot glue the trim and for assembling all florals. 
• Roly rosies and pop up posies were used to create the floral focal point for the top, along with a cute little tag and the stamped "xoxo" sentiment is from A Jillian Vance Designs stamps. Love that sentiment!!! 

• A bit of Smooch pearly pink was added to give some sheen and flair to the big bloom.  The smaller flowers on the side were created with MFT dies.

Imaginisce Product List:

Little Cutie

Garden Party

d-Stress

i-Rock

i-Bond 

Clear Mini Glue Sticks

Heart Glam Rocks

Petal Roller
Roly Rosies

Other Products Used:
"Sending My Love" Stamp Set, A Jillian Vance Design
Acetate Music Print, Hambly
Bakers Twine, The Twinery
Tag Punch, EK Success
Floral Dies, MFT
Ribbon and leaf trim
Glitter Modge Podge
Smooch by ClearSnap
Distress Inks by Ranger

That's all for me today, but be sure you stop on over to the Imaginisce blog for even more amazing Valentine's inspiration!  Word has it that there are prizes to be had too!