Cheery Lynn Designs - Anything Goes

Good Morning :) 

My card today is for our new challenge this week at Cheery Lynn Designs, where we have a fabby theme of 'Anything Goes'!  Brilliant :)  As always the winner will receive a wonderful prize of a $20 voucher to spend online in the Cheery Lynn Store, so well worth joining in if you can.

Now this week I wanted to have a really good play with some more of the New Release dies.  There is such a variety of styles and themes, but I wanted to show how they all work so well together too!

I used a 6 x 6 inch scalloped card base and stitched Prima papers to white American Crafts cardstock.  I used this cardstock for all the dies cut on this project and it cuts beautifully :)

I cut the gorgeous Bird Cage, and the Cherry Blossom flowers, twigs and Babys Breath from the Build a Flower Embellishment #2 set and arranged them in the top right corner.  The Lace Hummingbird Flourish was layered onto stacker circles, and then also embellished with Mini Butterflies and cherry blossom.

The border was created using another of my favourite Celtic Band borders and decorated with more cherry blossom flowers.  I finally added pearls and glamour dust/snow glitter with a glue pen to give shimmery highlights.

All dies used on this card are:

B200 - Celtic Band

D138 - Mini dimensional butterflies

B192 - Lace Hummingbird Flourish

B198 - Bird Cage

B188 - Build a Flower Embellishment #2

L-4 - Silver Stacker Circles

XL-5 - Purple Stacker Circles

This was quite a quick card for me and the dies take all the credit for making it look so delicate and pretty :).

I hope we see lots of entries again this week, as its Anything Goes you can just let your imagination and creativity roam free.  You have until Sunday to join in and dont forget there is also daily inspiration from the rest of the talented DT over on our Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration Blog.

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Deep Ocean Challenge - Things with Wings

Dies to Die For Challenge - Anything Goes

 

I hope everyone has a smashing week and thanks so much for visiting today.

Sweet Stampin - Out of the Frame

 

Good Morning :)  I hope everyone has some fabby plans for the Bank Holiday Weekend! :)

 

My card today is for our new challenge over at Sweet Stampin where this week the theme is 'Out of the Frame'.  We are sponsored by the brilliant Sew Sweet and our monthly sponsor is the generous Joanna Sheen.  Excellent prizes! :)

 

Now, 19 years ago on a sunny Bank Holiday Monday my wonderful husband David and I got married at Gretna Green.  I have never remembered the date - lol, so we always just celebrate on the Bank Holiday Monday.  I am not really a gushy romantic (I leave that to him - lol ;) but he is a keen photographer, and I know he will love this card :) 

 

I used a gorgeous Penny Black stamp, Prima Faery Belle papers, Spellbinder dies, twine from Joanna Sheen and camera charm from stash.  As you can see, I have also been giving my mini sewing machine some hammer this week too - I luvs it! :)

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

A Gem of a Challenge - Animals or Teddies
Penny Black & More - Whiskers or Wings
My Mums Craft Shop - Anniversary - this is my anniversary card for my hubby :)
 

I might be a little quiet on the grid the next couple of weeks as we have our holidays, but I will still be popping along with my usual posts and visiting when I can.  Have a smashing weekend,

 

Charisma Cardz - Lovely Lace

Good Morning :)  Back again today with my last DT card for Charisma Cardz - boo hoo :(

 

I have had a fabulous time being part of the team, they are such a wonderful bunch of talented friendly girls, and I will miss them lots.  :)

 

Anyway, our new theme this week is 'Lovely Lace' and we are sponsored by the generous Joanna Sheen and the brilliant Meljens Designs - fabulous prizes!

 

I fancied a change from a square card, so dug out one of my old rectangle cards in 7 x 5 - it felt huge! lol :)  I stitched Anna Griffin papers onto bazzil kraft coloured cardstock and layered up more Anna Griffin embellies - the scroll die cuts and the holly leaves.   I also had a good rummage through some of my older stamps too and found some flourishy leaves which I stamped round Tilda in brushed corduroy DI.  I used a mixture of Cheery Lynn, Spellbinder and Doo Hickey dies, flowers from WOC, string from Joanna Sheen and cheesecloth from Amazon. 

 

The gorgeous lace was a wonderful gift from my fabulous blogging buddy Judy, thanks so much hun! :)

 

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

 

Totally Tilda - Kraft

Crafts & Me - Autumn Colours

Dies to Die For - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Pins & needles

 

 

Thanks so much for looking at my blog today and I will be catching up soon :)

Cheery Lynn Designs - Doilies

Good Morning :)

My card today is for our new challenge over at Cheery Lynn Designs and this week we want to see Doilies on your creations.  There is a fantastic $20 coupon for the winner to spend in the Cheery Lynn online store, so well worth playing along.

I used a stunning doily die from our New Releases called Notre Dame Cathedral .  I knew when I saw this doily that it would be perfect for fantasy images and oh wow does it cut crisply - its fabulous!

I stitched Prima papers to American Crafts white textured cardstock before layering and sticking to a 6 x 6 card base.  I also used the same textured card for the rest of die cuts and it worked beautifully.  After adding the doily, I criss-crossed the centre weave of the stunning celtic chain border - (officially my new favourite border!), and added some leaves to the corner.

I then created the carnation using the Build a Flower #2 carnation petals and leaves.  I cut approximately 16 petals, inked the edges and then just  scrunched and layered them adding the leaves lastly and securing with a white brad.  You can create endless types of flowers with these dies and they have such impact.  I stamped my greeting on one of the Sentiment Frames and for the finishing touches I added some beautiful Mini Dimensional Butterflies and white pearls

All dies used on this card are:

Notre Dame Cathedral Doily

Celtic Chain Border

Build a Flower #2

Sentiment Frame #1

Mini Dimensional Butterflies

Flourish Leaf Strip

Doilies make such elegant additions to your projects, so I hope you find time to enter our challenge this week.  Dont forget there is always fresh daily inspiration from the rest of the talented DT over on our Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration blog.

 

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

 

Papertake Weekly - Pins & needles - I have stitching on my card.

Divas by Design - Anything Goes

The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes

Emerald Faeries - Punches and Dies

Fab n Funky - Leaves

Creatilicious - Fantasy

Stamptacular - Lets hear it for the Girls

Bearly Mine - Anything Goes

 

 

I hope everyone has a smashing day and thanks so much for visiting my blog.

Joanna Sheen - Totally Sentimental

Good Morning fellow bloggers - what a glorious warm and sunny day here yesterday, I hope it was lovely where you were too :)

My card today is for our new challenge at Joanna Sheen where this time our theme is 'Totally Sentimental'.  We would love to see your creations with a sentiment as a focal point.  Now I often forget to add a sentiment at all to my cards, so it was good for me to concentrate on just that! lol :)  As always there is a fab £15 Joanna Sheen voucher for the winner to spend online.

I used this gorgeous rubber stamp set called Take One Step and stamped and embossed on vellum the sentiment, the lace border and the really beautiful lacey heart. 

Now most of you know I am a keen hand-stitcher, and mostly because I am quite terrified of sewing machines!  - (They dont like me much either lol).  Anyway, I was needing to speed the process up a little last week, so I dug out a little mini sewing machine I won (about the size of a teapot and worth about £20 LOL!) and decided to conquer my demons.

So........................ this is my first attempt at machine stitching on my cards - Ta Da!! :) Simples! LOL

I used Bazzil cardstock, Prima Fairy Belle papers, blue and brown vellum from stash and white embossing powder.  The dies are a mixture of Doo Hickey and Marianne and the large flowers are WOC.

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Stampalot - Take Flight

My Mums Craft Shop - Kraft it

Creative Craft Challenges 2 - Just a sentiment

Chocolate, Coffee, Cards - Emboss

Crafts & Me - Lace

Totally Gorjuss - Strings the thing

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today and I hope everyone has a cracking Sunday!

Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge - Add a Letter

Good Morning - Its such an exciting day today!!! We are showcasing some stunning new release dies on our Cheery Lynn Inspiration Blog so pop over and take a look at all the fabulous creations made by the DT!

This is a such a fun new release, packed with lots of different themes so I hope you find time to check them out, and I also hope you find time to enter our challenge this week too which is 'ABC' or 'Add a Letter'.

My card uses 3 of the new release dies: Spooky Tree, Ornamental Gate and just one of the gorgeous labels from the Sentiment Frames set.

I used a 6 x 6 card base and layered black bazzil cardstock, scrummy Prima Papers and the spiders web corner from the Lace Corner Deco H set for my background. 

I then joined together 2 of the Ornamental Gate dies (to make a fence) and placed the Spooky Tree on top. 

The fun letters were made from the LSLC alpabet set and I handwrote the 'To You' with a versamark pen and heat-embossed with white powder on the Mini Sentiment Label.  The moon was actually made from an insert from another of the really versatile mini-tags & labels.

I paper-pieced Tildas dress and shoes, and added dotty ribbon and googly eyes from stash.

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

I ♥ Promarkers - Gardens
Magnolia Stamp Lovers - Fall
Magnolia-licious - Autumn Splendour
A & T Challenges - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly - Spots & Stripes - I hope my gates count as stripes! :) lol If not please delete my entry.

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today :) and a big Hi to my new followers.  I will always follow back if I can find a link to your blog, so if I havent popped by please just leave me a comment so I can find you :)

Sweet Stampin - Things With Wings

Good Morning :) and happy weekend! Yay!

Todays card is for our new challenge over at Sweet Stampin where this week our theme is one of my favourites - 'Things with Wings'!.  We are sponsored by the brilliant Lili of the Valley and also the very generous Joanna Sheen!  Excellent prizes, so I hope you find time to play along.

I think I kept this card pretty simple - I loved the Prima papers, so didnt want to really cover them up - lol!  I coloured this gorgeous Lili of the Valley 'Never too old for a hug' Fairy with PM's and a little bit of stickles.  The doily die, butterfly and leaves are Cheery Lynn and the punch is MS.  The silver baby's breath flower (and 2 tiny black roses) are WOC and the dotty ribbon is Joanna Sheen.

I am entering this card in the below competitions:

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp - Bingo - glitter, free, die cuts

Divas By Design - For a female

Totally Papercrafts - Frame it

The Stampman - Metal/medals - Silver, I have silver metal spacers behind my brads and a silver flower.

Oldie but Goodie - Friends

Crafters Companion - Best Friends

Lexis Creations - Sparkle & Shine

Dream Valley - Die Cuts & Punches

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today, and I hope you have a really great weekend!

Flora & Fauna - Charisma Cardz

Good Morning :)  Back again today with my card for our new challenge over at Charisma Cardz where this week our theme is 'Flora & Fauna', and we are generously sponsored by The Stamping Boutique.

This was a great excuse to get out my PB's and use this adorable Hedgie image which I coloured with Pro-markers.  I hand-stitched K&Co papers (from my scraps box) onto white bazzil card and punched a border with my favourite MS Doily punch.  I used a mix of Memory Box and Spellbinder dies on this, and a McGill punch for the white fronds.  The flowers are WOC and the sentiment is Pink Petticoat.

I will be entering this card in the below competitions:

Crafty Catz - Pink

Songbird Challenges - Anything Goes

Penny Black & More - Whiskers or Wings

Dream Valley - Die Cuts & Punches

Crafters Companion - Best Friends

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Oldie But Goodie - Friends

Simon Says Stamp - Bingo - ribbon, free, blooms

Cute Card Thursday - Tag You're It

Do You Stack Up - 4 Legged Friends

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today and all the lovely comments.  I am a bit slow at getting round this last couple of weeks, but I will catch up soon :)

Cheery Lynn Designs - Shaped Card

Good Morning :)  I hope everyone has been making the most of the gorgeous summery weather!  Its been beautiful here! 

This week the Cheery Lynn DT were given some gorgeous Imaginisce products to play with, and I fell in love with this beautiful blue 12 x 12 paper from the Making Waves Collection!  These are double sided papers, great quality and really wonderful to work with.

Our new theme this week on the Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge is 'Shaped Cards', so no squares or rectangles allowed! :D lol.

I made my own 6 x 6 shaped card base using the largest size French Flair Scalloped Stackers.  I folded a 12 x 12 piece of ice white 300gsm Centura pearl cardstock in half, and placed the top part of the die just a little above the crease so it still held itself intact.  I then layered alternate sheets of paper and card from the:

French Flair Scalloped Stackers - the 3 largest sizes

French Flair Silver Stackers - the 3 largest sizes

French Flair Doily Stacker - the 2 largest sizes (I love these doily dies!)

I then added a couple of mini flourishes and an exotic butterfly, centred my image on Scalloped Circle Stackers and Classic Circle Stackers and cut 3 starfish shapes from the leaves part of the Large Rose & Medium Rose dies!

I coloured my image with PM's, chalked the cloudy background and added ribbon, charm and pins from stash.  The sentiments are Pink Petticoat.  This was a totally new shape of card for me, and I have to say I was really pleased with the result and how well all the dies and layers just fitted together perfectly. 

I hope you find time to join in this week, and dont forget if you leave a comment on the 'kickoff post' on the Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration blog you are in with another chance of winning a $20 gift certificate to spend online.  There is also more fabulous inspiration on the Imaginisce blog and a further chance to win a great prize there too! :)

I am entering this card in the following competitions:

Dutch Magnolia Lovers - Vacation/Holiday

Totally Tilda - Summer Fun

Moving along with the Times - Summer

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp - Bingo - Die Cuts, Free, Glitter

Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes

Fab n Funky - Pearls or rhinestones

The Paper Shelter - Going Round - circles

Divas By Design - For a Female

Lexis Creations - Sparkle and Shine

7 Kids Challenge - Shaped Cards

Dream Valley - Die Cuts/Punches

Passion for Promarkers - At the Beach

Top Tip Tuesday - Focus on the Ribbon

Bearly Mine - Sparkle & Shine

Everybody Art - Summer

PaperPlay Challenges - Layer it Up

Challenge up your Life - Everything Goes

Magnolia Mania - Twinkling Stars - I hope my starfish count! :) If not, please delete my entry.

Thanks so much for visiting today and have a smashing day

Cheery Lynn Designs - Hot Summer Colours

Good morning :)  My card today is for our new challenge over at Cheery Lynn Designs this week where our theme is 'Hot in the Summer'.  One lucky winner will receive a $20 voucher to spend online and as there are so many fabby dies to choose from this is a brillo prize!

Now I admit to getting in a tizz with my card, and this was my second attempt.  I tend to naturally favour really cool colours or darker shades, and I have quite a stash of discarded bright papers that hurt my eyes! lol :D  (I save em for my nieces!)   However, luckily I had just bought this gorgeous Dovecraft Garden Party paper and it was perfect for this.

I layered my papers onto buttercream Bazzil cardstock and before sticking the layers down I tucked under the medium sized Doily Stacker Circle and the Lace Light Deco Border.  I added the Tropical Flourish and Small Butterfly to the side panel and made the tiny cute flowers from the Darling Daisies Die (I LOVE these wee daisies!)

All dies used on this card are:

Tropical Flourish

Exotic Butterflies - Small

Lace Corner Deco C

Darling Daisies

Doily Stacker Circle

Scalloped Circles

Circle Classic Silver Stacker

Lace Light Deco Border

I hope you find time to enter the challenge and dont forget there is always fresh and inspirational projects uploaded daily by the rest of our talented DT over on our Cheery Lynn Designs Inspiration blog too.

I will be entering this card into the below competitions:

Deep Ocean Challenge - Anything Goes

Divas By Design - Flowers

Creative Inspirations - In the Garden

The Stampman - Anything Goes Celebration

Totally Gorjuss - Pearls

Stamptacular Challenge - Patterns Galore

Dream Valley - Summer

Emerald Faeries - Flourishes/Swirls

Creative Craft Challenges - Summertime

Crafts & Me - Green with Envy

Bearly Mine Challenges - Anything Goes

I ♥ Promakers - Spots & Stripes - I might be stretching this a bit, but the stripes are on the twine!! :D lol

Thank so much for looking at my blog today, and I will be catching up later,