Sunday 15 June 2014

Hope You Enjoy your Day!

Hello Bloggers,

Todays card is for Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge No. 136 – Creative Corners. I’ve made the card using Cheery Lynn Lace Corner Deco B B162 corners.  It’s a set of three and they are very pretty.  I’ve also used the Cheery Lynn English Tea Party DL101 doily die, it’s definitely in my favourites, actually I really love all their doily dies, but the English Tea Party and French Pastry are my favourites.

For the flowers, I’ve used the Heartfelt Creations Tattered Blossoms die HCD 722 and the matching stamp HCPC3468 Tattered Blossoms PreCut Set.  I’ve stamped the flowers in Victorian Velvet Distress Ink and once they’ve been die cut I’ve inked them in Antique Linen and Victorian Velvet Distress Inks.

The sentiment stamp is from JustRite Papercrafts and is out of the Grand Birthday Sentiments set CL-04745 and it’s been stamped in Versafine Olympia Green ink.

The designer paper is a left over from an older Kaisercraft paper, I’m not sure of the name, sorry!

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I hope you’ve enjoyed today’s card and thank you for stopping by.  I would love it if you would leave a comment to let me know you’ve visited my blog.

Have a wonderful day!

Cheers

Jenelle

Sunday 1 June 2014

I Love Roses

Hi Bloggers,

I love roses and I love making roses.  Cheery Lynn’s Challenge for this week is Roses, so I had to enter.

This is my entry for the challenge and I have used several of Cheery Lynn’s dies including Dancing Doily Lace Border DL134, the Rose strip dies in all three sizes, Wheat Heads B388, English Tea Party Doily DL101 and Wreath Strip B216.

I used the JustRite Elegant Fronds Background Stamp CL-03695 and stamped it in Dried Marigold Distress Ink on smooth white cardstock and cut out the stamped image.  Then I’ve inked the edge of a larger piece of white cardstock with Ripe Persimmon Distress Ink and adhered the stamped piece to the inked piece and used my Mini Perfect Layers rulers to get a perfect 1/8” border.  I’ve attached the panel to my card front with foam tape.

I die cut my doily and cut it in half, then inked the curved edge with Ripe Persimmon ink and attached it to the left hand side of my card.  The Dancing Doily lace border was die cut from white cardstock and inked with Ripe Persimmon ink and glued just slightly down from the middle of the card.

I tied a bow from seam binding and attached it to the left hand side level with the border strip.  My flowers were die cut from white parchment paper and shaped and glued together with hot glue.  I attached the flowers with silicone and tucked the leaves underneath while the silicone was still wet.  I poked in a few large stamens to look like buds and finished the card off with some pearls.

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I hope you’ve enjoyed todays post.  I would love it if you would leave a comment to let me know you’ve been to visit.

Cheers

Jenelle

Saturday 3 May 2014

Catch Up!

Hi Bloggers,

This post is to catch up from the last few weeks because I’ve been really slack.  No excuses, just slack.

 

Card No. 1

“Have a Lovely Day”

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This card was designed for Jacqui to use for card classes at Kookaburra Crafts. The flowers have been die cut from an older Joy Crafts die and hand painted with Silks Acrylic Glazes in “Fire Opal”.

Ingredients:  Cheery Lynn “Flourish Leaf Strip” B178, Joy Craft Flower 6002/0025, Our Daily Bread “Beautiful Borders” CSBD51, Spellbinders “Framed Labels Eighteen” 3D embossing folder, JustRite “Birthday Vintage Labels Four” CR-04580, Silks Acrylic Glaze, rhinestones, white A4 cardstock and red Bazzil cardstock.

 

Card No. 2

“Wishing You Everything Happy on this Special Day”

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Another card for classes at Kookaburra Crafts.  The flowers have been die cut and shaped and the micro beads used for the centres of the flowers.

Ingredients: Spellbinders Resplendent Rectangles S5-147, Spellbinders Radiant Rectangles S5-161, Black Eyed Susan Strip B338, Cheery Lynn Wreath Strip B216, JustRite Birthday Vintage Labels Four CR-04580 and pearls.

 

Card No. 3

“Thinking of You”

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This card was made by request for a friend who was wanting a Thinking of You card for her brother.

The fishing bits have been cut from white cardstock and coloured with copic markers.

Ingredients: Kaisercraft 6 1/2” Paper Pad “Vintage Timeless”, JustRite “Large Fancy Sentiments” CR-03815, Cottage Cutz “Fishing Set” CC4x4-143, scraps of designer paper from my scrap box, brown 12x12 Bazzil cardstock, Ivory A4 Cardstock, bronze brads and kitchen string.

 

Cards No. 4, 5 @ 6

“Get Well”

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Card 4 was made for my Father-in-Law who ended up in hospital due to a recurring health issue and I just wanted to give him something to let him know that we were thinking of him.

Cards 5 and 6 where made for Kookaburra Crafts class.  I showed Jacqui a pic of Ian’s card and she loved it, so it became a class card.

Ingredients:  Card 4 the designer papers where loose sheets amongst my 6 1/2” Kaisercraft paper pads, so I’m no too sure exactly which pads they came out of.  Cards 5 and 6 the designer paper is from Pion Designs and the images on all three cards were from Pion Designs. Bazzil cardstock backed the designer paper for all of the cards and the die cuts are from Spellbinders Opulent Ovals.  The sentiment is from JustRite “Large Fancy Sentiments” CR-03815. Pearls and ribbon were also used.

 

Card 7

“Happy Birthday”

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This card didn’t start out as a card.  I started out playing with the stamps for the Heartfelt Creations Flower die Sun Kissed Fleur.  I stamped the image, die cut them, coloured them and then thought they looked way too pretty to put in a box for “one day”, so I had to make a card to go with them.  It is now going to be used in Kookaburra Crafts card classes.

Ingredients:  JustRite “Large Fancy Sentiments” CR-03815, Heartfelt Creations “Sun Kissed Fleur PreCut Set” HCPC 3533, Heartfelt Creations “Sun Kissed Fleur” HCD734, Spellbinders “Fancy Lattice” S5-152, Joy Crafts “Oval French Lily” 6002/0254, 8mm Silver Acrylic Round Flatbacked Dotted Rhinestone Gems, Spellbinders “Classic Triple Scallop” E8-003 & lots of pearls.

Ok, all caught up…..I think!  I’m going to have to get into a better routine of blogging as I go, so I don’t have to go back through looking up names of die sets and stamp sets for a heap of cards. 

Thanks for dropping by, please leave a comment so that I know you’ve visited my blog.  I hope you’ve enjoyed looking at my cards as much as I’ve enjoyed making them.

Have a wonderful day!

Cheers

Jenelle

Bling It Up

Hi Bloggers,

I started designing the card in this post for a card challenge at Kookaburra Crafts and the challenge was for a gatefold card.  That didn’t end up happening, but Jacqui has been wishing I’d do some more Cheery Lynn Challenges.

So I decided to turn my attention to the challenge at Cheery Lynn this week, Challenge No. 130  “Bling It Up”.  Who doesn’t like a bit of bling in their life.  Well I definitely think my card fits the criteria of Bling with 110 rhinestones glistening away.

The doily, butterfly and all of the flowers are cut from Cheery Lynn dies.  I traced around the doily die for the blue mat behind the doily.

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Cheery Lynn dies used: Daisy Strip #B259, Tiny Flower Kit #B376, Ivy Corner Flourish #B315, French Pastry Doily Die #DL102, Exotic Butterfly Small #DL112 and Small Angel Wing DL112A

Other Products and Dies Used:  Spellbinders Standard Circles Small #S4-116, Spellbinders Standard Circles Large #S4-114, JustRite Grateful Heart Vintage Labels Two #CR-04450, lots of rhinestones, Ivory A4 Cardstock, Blue cardstock from a DCWV Cardstock stack and designer paper and stamps from Prima “Fairy Belle Collection” (a freebie paper stack from the “Australian Simply Cards Magazine)

Thanks for stopping by, please leave a comment to let me know that you’ve been to visit.  I hope you’ve enjoyed todays card and have a fantastic day!

Cheers

Jenelle

Tuesday 18 March 2014

Thinking of You!

Hello Bloggers,

I was asked to make todays card by a friend.  Her sister-in-law has been diagnosed with a serious illness and she wants to let her know she’s in her thoughts.

The white cardstock is a combination of linen, hammer and sand all 270gms, so it is a really sturdy card.  The designer paper is an off cut from another card from long ago and the strip with the company and paper name is missing, I think it may have been a Kaisercraft paper.

The frame die I’ve used today is Spellbinders “Majestic Labels Twenty-five” S5-189, I’ve used dies 5 and 6 to create the frame and kept the inner section for another card.

The panel in the centre is the Heartfelt Creations “Raindrops on Roses” die, HCD743. The sentiment tag is die cut from Spellbinders “Grommet Tags” S4-322, embossed and while still in the die, I’ve lightly inked around the edge with Victorian Velvet Distress Ink. I’ve stamped the “Thinking of You” sentiment from JustRite “Large Fancy Sentiments” CR-03815 in Versafine Onyx Black ink.

Organza ribbon was threaded through the holes in the grommet tag before it was attached to the card with double sided foam tape and the ends where taped behind the whole panel before it was attached to the card. I then made a double bow from the ribbon and a decorative pin from bits and pieces from my stash, I attached the bow with silicone and popped the pin in behind the bow.

Cheery Lynn Rose strip dies miniature and large where used to make all the roses and the large rose and small rose below the bow where inked with Victorian Velvet distress ink.

Pearls from my stash were added to finish the card off.

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Thanks for dropping by and please feel free to leave me a comment to let me know you’ve visited.

Have a wonderful day!

Jenelle

Monday 17 March 2014

Sending Wishes Your Way

Hello Bloggers,

I’ve made todays card for class at Kookaburra Crafts, I will happily admit I’ve based it on a card that I saw perusing the net one night. Unfortunately I can’t remember where I saw it, I have a feeling it was on Pinterest, so sadly I can’t give credit to the person who made the original that I cased.

I’ve made my version using the Magnolia Ink Vintage Pink A Moll paper, it also gobbled up 3 sheets of A4 white linen cardstock.

The dies used are Joy Crafts – 6002/0135 – French Lily Corner, Spellbinders S5-147 Labels One #4, Spellbinders S4 -379 Decorative Labels One #2 and #3 and Cheery Lynn Wreath Strip Die.

The sentiment stamp is by Justrite Stampers – CR-04460 – Celebrations Labels One and it’s been stamped in Onyx Black in by Versafine.

I’ve also used a Pink Cherry Blossom Flower, 2 X 1.5cm White Roses, White Ribbon and Pearls.

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Thanks for looking and please feel free to leave a comment to let me know you’ve been to visit.

Have a wonderful day!

Jenelle

Sunday 16 March 2014

Birthday Cards!

Hello Bloggers,

I’ve used the Spellbinders Radiant Rectangles S5-161 for both cards. I absolutely love these Spellbinders dies and I’m probably going to bore everyone to death by overusing them, but I really, really love them. 

This first card was for my Mother-in-Law, Shirley, for her birthday.

I’ve used (working from the middle die out) dies 3, 4, 6 and 7 from the Radiant Rectangles set. They’ve all been cut from ivory cardstock and embossed.  Die number 3 was very lightly inked with Rangers Dusty Concord Distress Ink, while it was still in the die.

The designer paper is “Violet Bouquet” by Graphic 45. The purple cardstock for the mat is from Bazzill. 

The “Happy Birthday” sentiment is from the JustRite Papercrafts CR-03815 “Grand Sentiments”.

The purple rose is made from Ivory linen paper and the Heartfelt Creations “Vintage Floret Die” HCD727, it has been inked with Dusty Concord ink.

I’ve used organza ribbon and pearls from my stash, along with a headpin and beads from my stash for the decorative pin.

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My second card is also a birthday card, not made for anyone in particular, I just wanted to play with the flowers.

This card uses dies 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. I’ve discarded the outer piece cut from die no. 7. 

I’ve used a lighter blue bazzill cardstock and a white linen cardstock for the various layers.

The sentiment is again from the JustRite Papercrafts CR-03815 “Grand Sentiments” (I love this set, the sentiments are beautiful) stamped in Versafine Onyx Black ink.

The blue scrunched flowers have been made from the Heartfelt Creations “Vintage Floret Die” HCD727, inked with distress ink and a pearl in the centre.  The smaller flowers are from a McGill Baby Blossoms Punch and have also been inked with distress inks, the cherry blossom type flower has stamens (held in place with silicone) in the centre. The leaves are punched from what I believe to be an old Carl punch (I bought it second hand) and the wreath leaf is from a Martha Stewart punch.

The pearls are from my stash.

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Shirley’s card has been remade for a class card, we used a bought flower on the class version and the second card is on the list to be used in class.

Thanks for stopping by for a look and please feel free to leave a comment to let me know you’ve been for a look.

Have a wonderful day!

Jenelle

Sunday 2 March 2014

Boy Cards!

Hello Bloggers,

I’d like to share some boy or should I say men's cards that I’ve made recently.  These two cards have been used in card classes at Kookaburra Crafts in recent weeks also.

Motorcycle Birthday Card

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This one’s for the man in your life that has a love affair with motorbikes.  It’s quick and simple. The card measures 11.5cm x 14.5cm (4 1/2” x 5 3/4”).  I’ve used a 270gsm white cardstock for the base card, sentiment panel and the stamped motorcycle panel. The black mats and cogs are from bazill cardstock.  The stamped image is “Motorcycle” from Deep Red Cling Stamps.  The sentiment is from the JustRite Papercrafts stamp set “Anchors Away” CR-03710 and has been die cut with JustRites “Antique Labels One” JB-03830. The gears are a set from Cheery Lynn Designs “Gears” B340. The silver mirror board has been embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder “Checker Plate” I’ve used some silver eyelets for a masculine embellishment.

Boating Birthday

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This card measures 14.5cm x 14.5cm (5 3/4” x 5 3/4”). I’ve used a smooth ivory cardstock for the base card and both of the stamped layers. The blue cardstock for the mats is by bazill. All of the stamps are by Our Daily Bread Design, “Fishing Boat” F452, Fishing Net Background” F450 and the sentiment “Ornate Frame Sentiments” F514. The brown is Vintage Sepia by Versafine and I’ve used distress inks for the boat background and over the fishing net background.  I’ve used the “Trellis Border” die 98476 by Memory Box to represent a fishing net rather than a trellis.

I hope you’ve enjoyed these cards.

Thanks for looking and have a wonderful day!

Jenelle

Monday 10 February 2014

Class Cards

Hello Bloggers,

I’ve been entering the Cheery Lynn Challenges this year and I’ve really been enjoying it.  It’s helped me get my mojo back, which I’d lost last year due to ill health.  One of the main reasons I decided on following and entering the Cheery Lynn challenges is that I love to make flowers and Cheery Lynn have a wonderful range of dies related to flower making, their flower strip dies make die cutting so quick and easy if you are wanting to make multiple flowers.  The cards that I’ve been making for the challenge are often too big or have way too many handmade flowers on them to use in classes at Kookaburra Crafts, so Jacqui and I have been down sizing them, changing the flowers and generally tweaking them for classes. I thought I’d share some of the tweaked versions with you today.

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This first card I have to admit I didn’t make this version, Jacqui made it, she based it on a card that I made (click here to see the original card) for my Mothers birthday and decided to enter it in  a competition for our Christmas party for Kookaburra Crafts. It won and so many of the girls liked it that Jacqui wanted to do it for a class this year. Jacqui made it a bit smaller and used a bought flower in the centre where I’d used a handmade one.

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Card number 2 is based on a card I made for CLD challenge number 114 – Winter Whites (click here to see the original card), I remade this one and basically just changed the embossing folder for one that Jacqui had in stock in the shop, we also changed the handmade roses on the original card for bought ones.

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Card number 3 is based on the card I made for Challenge number 115 – Snowflakes (click here to see the original card).  As I said in the original post, snowflakes where a major challenge for me, as I’ve never seen snow and I don’t have too many things in my stash that relate to snowflakes.  We’ve changed this one quite a bit, we made it smaller, changed the embossing folder (to one that doesn’t have snowflakes), we eliminated the die cut snowflakes, changed the handmade roses for bought ones and we added a sentiment.

I hope you’ve enjoyed todays cards!

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Jenelle

Sunday 9 February 2014

Vintage Birthday

Hello Bloggers,

Todays card is for Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge No. 118 – Add a Flourish.

I’ve kept it fairly simple this week, going for a vintage look, I’ve used one of Cheery Lynn Designs doily dies, the large Rose Strip die and a corner flourish that I have cut up.  The rose is cut from white parchment paper and inked with Antique Linen and Tattered Rose distress ink before being shaped and put together. The papers I’ve used are from a Kaisercraft 6 1/2” paper pad and I’ve distressed and inked everything.

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Ingredients for this card:

Cheery Lynn dies used: DL102 French Pastry Doily die, B155 Large Rose and B313 Ivy Corner Flourish.

Other Products Used: Smooth Ivory A4 Cardstock, green Bazzil card stock, Kaisercraft “Vintage Timeless” 6 1/2” paper pad, JustRite “Grateful Heart Vintage Label 2” CR-04450, Tim Holtz Distress Inks – Vintage Photo, Tattered Rose, Bundled Sage, Antique Linen, Peeled Paint and Forrest Moss, pearls and ribbon from my stash.

Thanks for stopping by for a look and I really do appreciate and comments that you leave.

Have a wonderful day!

Jenelle

Saturday 1 February 2014

Celebrating Your Love

Hello Bloggers,

I’ve made todays card for the Cheery Lynn Design Inspiration Blog Challenge No. 117 – “Tickled Pink”.

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The card measures 21cm wide x 14.8cm high.  All of the flowers are handmade using Cheery Lynn dies. The butterfly and corner dies are also from Cheery Lynn.  The hearts were cut from Heartfelt Creations “Timeless Amour” dies. The gorgeous little sentiment is from Justrite.  I am having a lot of fun playing along with the Cheery Lynn challenges.  I lost my mojo for a while and they truly are helping to get it back and occasionally stretching my comfort zone.

Cheery Lynn Dies used:  B216 Wreath Strip, B178 Flourish Strip, B338 Black Eyed Susan Strip, B188 Embellishment 2, B150 Cuties 2, B151 Cuties 3, B162 Lace Corner Deco B, DL112 Exotic Butterfly Small, DL112A Small Angel Wing.

Other ingredients for this card: Ivory cardstock, bazil cardstock, designer paper  from Kaisercraft “Enchanted Garden” Collection, image from Kaisercraft “Sweet Nothings” 6 1/2” paper pad, rhinestone flourish. pearls, JustRite Stampers “Ever After Antique Labels One” CR-03825, Heartfelt Creations “Timeless Amour” HCD728, Tim Holtz Distress Inks by Ranger Victorian Velvet, Scattered Straw, Bundles Sage, Antique Linen and Faded Jeans.

Thanks for looking and do appreciate any comments that you may leave.

Cheers

Jenelle

Saturday 18 January 2014

Snowflakes

Hi Bloggers,

Todays card is an entry in this weeks Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge No. 115 “Snowflakes”.  Snowflakes!!!!  I grew up in central Queensland and I’ve never seen snow in my life, so this was a challenge for me.  I own snowflake dies and embossing folders, but even for Christmas cards, I’m not big on snowflakes, because it doesn’t snow here.  But anyway, challenge or not, I’ve given it a go.

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I have embossed my white core cardstock with the CLD Snowflake Flurries embossing plate, I’ve left the paper attached to the plate with painters tape and lightly sanded the cardstock to bring out the embossing.  The darker cardstock for the mat and Elegant Labels 4, I’ve actually coloured with a pearl ink because I couldn’t find just the right colour to use.  I’ve used the same ink to colour both the light and dark poinsettias. The centres have been filled with silver micro beads and the holly flourish has been cut from white cardstock and coloured with a silver mist. Unfortunately, even though Cheery Lynn have a huge range of snowflake dies, I don’t own any.  So I’ve used a snowflake die from Die-namics (I’m unsure of the name of it, I’ve owned it for a number of years), I’ve attached the snowflakes with foam tape and kindy glitzed them, for a bit of sparkle.

Cheery Lynn dies used:  B148 Holly Flourish, DL113 Exotic Butterfly small #2, DL113A Small Angel Wing, B324 Poinsettia Strip, B154 Medium Rose

Other Ingredients in this card:  S4-190 Spellbinders Labels 4, S6-005 5x7 Elegant Labels 4, Die-namics Snowflakes, ribbon, pearls, rhinestone flourish, micro beads, white core cardstock from DCWV, 90gsm white regal parchment paper (for the flowers), white linen cardstock (for the card base)

Have a great day and thank  you for looking.

Cheers

Jenelle

Friday 10 January 2014

For Your Special Day!

Hello Bloggers,

We’ve been having a heatwave here over recent weeks and it’s just been so uncomfortable, we’ve lost guinea pigs and a chook and I know of others that have lost pets also, but finally some real relief today, it has rained/drizzled almost all day today, and the temperature has been lovely.  Going from one extreme to the other I feel for those in America living through a blizzard, my heart goes out to them.

On with my card for today, I’ve made it for a Cheery Lynn Designs blog challenge “Winter Whites”.

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To make the card base I cut 2 pieces of linen cardstock at 8 1/4” x 6 1/2” then 1 piece at 1” x 8 1/4” scored this at 1/2” and used it as a hinge to join the first two pieces.

Layer One:  Cut linen cardstock to 8” x 6 1/4”, cut hammer cardstock to 7 7/8” x 6 1/8” glue or tape this to the linen cardstock then attach panel to the base with double sided foam tape.

Layer Two:  Cut linen cardstock to 6 5/8” x 4 7/8”, cut smooth cardstock to 6 1/2” x 4 3/4” emboss in a 5” x 7” embossing folder (I used a Cuttlebug folder, unfortunately I don’t know it’s name) glue or double sided tape to the linen cardstock. Attach to layer one with double sided foam tape.

Layer Three:  From linen cardstock use Spellbinders Decorative Labels Eight to cut out the frame, then use Labels Eight to cut the centre out. Die cut the Cheery Lynn French Lattice Frame (FRM132), turn the decorative label eight panel face down, lay the lattice panel on top and mark where you need to cut it to sit nicely behind. Cut it out then glue behind the decorative labels eight frame.  Use the labels eight die and trace around it and cut out, use double sided foam tape to attach the frame to this.  Attach to layer two with double sided foam tape.

Sentiment:  The sentiment is from JustRite PapercraftGrand Birthday Sentiments” and is stamped in “Smokey Grey” ink by Versafine onto smooth white cardstock.  This is then diecut using the Spellbinders “Labels Twenty’Eight” die number 3 and embossed”.  The panel is then attached to the lattice with double sided tape or glue.

Flowers:  The largest flower is cut using Cheery Lynn Designs “Sweet William” strip die.  I’ve used all the pieces, I’ve lightly misted them, then wrapped each petal individually around the barrel of a pen and pinched them.  When they are dry I’ve used a stylus in a circular motion in the flower centre, cupping them more the smaller they get, I’ve put the flower together with a rhinestone brad from small to large alternating the petals as I went.  The roses were made with the Medium Rose strip die from Cheery Lynn Designs, there are many tutorials on making roses with these dies on Youtube.   I’ve lightly inked the calyxes with Bundled Sage Distress Ink from Ranger.  The smallest rose is made using little flowers from the Cheery Lynn Embellisment 3 B265 in the same way as the bigger ones. The leaves are die cut from Cheery Lynn “Wreath Strip” B216, I only used the tips not the whole leaf. I lightly inked the leaves with Bundled Sage Distress Ink also.  All of the flowers and leaves were lightly spritzed with “Perfect Pearls Mists” by ranger, to give them a little shine.

The bow in the corner is 1/2” ribbon tied into a triple bow and then I’ve blinged the card up with some pearls.

Thanks for stopping by,

Regards,

Jenelle

Sunday 5 January 2014

A Quick Post

Hi Bloggers,

Just a quick post tonight.  In my last post I shared with you a “Thank You” card that I made for a challenge at Cheery Lynn Designs.  I am very excited to say, that I came an equal first.  This is the first time that I have ever entered an online challenge, so for me, this is very exciting, but I am also very humbled as the other entries were gorgeous. Here is the link to the announcement that also shows the other winner Julie Lavalette. http://networkedblogs.com/SysWI

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheers

Jenelle

Friday 3 January 2014

A Thank You Card for a Competition!

Hello Bloggers,

This is a first for me, I’ve made a card to enter into an online card challenge.  I love Cheery Lynn dies, especially the flower making ones.  Cheery Lynn Designs Blog does a weekly challenge and this week it’s a thank you card. You will find the details of the challenge “here”.

I’ve used an old Prima 6”x6” paper stack pad called “Fairy Flora”, I bought it 3 years ago when I was in Mackay for Christmas with family.  I love the paper in it, but find it hard to use because it’s too pretty to cut up!….lol.  The brown cardstock is from a cardstock pack that I bought at Kmart and the cream is from a junk shop.

I’ve also used a new die that Jacqui has gotten in at Kookaburra Crafts, it’s a Joy Crafts die 6002/0304, it’s so pretty and lacy.

All of the flowers and leaves are die cut using Cheery Lynn Designs dies from 190gsm White Regal Parchment paper and coloured with Tim Holtz Distress Inks then shaped and glued together.

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Finished card is 6 1/2” x 7”

Ingredients used in this card:

Prima “Fairy Flora” designer paper, cream cardstock, brown cardstock, regal parchment paper, Cheery Lynn Designs dies – B339 Gardenia Strip, B376 Tiny Flower Kit, B152 Miniature Rose, B188 Embellishment #2 and B216 Wreath Strip, Joy Crafts die 6002/0304, JustRite Papercraft Stamp set “For All You Do Vintage Labels Three” SW-04420, Tim Holtz Distress Inks – Vintage Photo, Tattered Rose, Shaded Lilac, Antique Linen, Bundled Sage, Old Paper, Peeled Paint, Evergreen Bough, Iced Spruce and Forest Moss, Versafine “Vintage Sepia” ink, stamens and rhinestones.

Thank you for stopping by, I hope you will pop over and check out the other entries in the competition and maybe even join in yourselves.

Cheers

Jenelle

PS. I am also going to enter this card in the Splitcoast Stampers challenge WT460 – That Awesome Feeling.  You’ll find the details of that challenge “here” and the gallery for the challenge “here”.