Cherry Lynn Challenge #169 - Anything Goes

My daughter gave me three day notice that they are getting married this Sunday and I love a challenge so I volunteered to hold the reception at my house as well as being the photographer.  They were getting married this summer but due to penalties for not having insurance, they rushed to get married to meet the Federal deadlines.  Therefore, I have three days to make a card, do the reception, make cakes, cook for a number of people, etc.  In this small town about 4 hours from a city, I had to make everything myself as well as become the photographer at the wedding and hold the reception at my house since there wasn't any restaurants open on Sunday.  I used the butterfly from Cherry Lynn along with making some paper flowers for the cake and floral decorations.

I just received the Cherry Lynn Anastasia Border and used it for my outside frame of the card.  I also got the Cherry Lynn Small Tea Rose die with the same order from Cherry Lynn Company.  I did a few tea roses using this die but added this time two Prima pink flowers behind the roses which added some dimension and contrast.  The miniature white flowers are from the Cherry Lynn Baby Breath Flower Kit die and added the Ranger Liquid Pearl and the Congratulations is also from Cherry Lynn.  Their is a small dragon fly from the Cherry Lynn Tiny Things That Fly die.

The couple is made using the Tattered Lace Couple die and added Ranger Liquid Pearl to the dress.  The gold frame is from Spellbinder and I added gold embossing on the outside of the frame.

Below is the Cherry Lynn Lace Flourish Butterfly.  I did the arrangements using real flowers, paper flowers and plastic flowers.   I baked two cakes and used the cream cheese frosting.  I made errors with my photography since I forgot to clean the lenses and making a special filling in my  cakes was a challenge.  I covered some of the errors with flowers.  I learned alot and enjoyed the challenge and especially the wonderful company and wedding. I learned a few things for the next large gatherings at my house.

Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge 168 - Sweethearts and Design Team

 This card is for the weekly challenge as well as for the Design Team selection. 

I had a lot of fun but spent loads of time thinking about the next steps for each square.  Normally, I don't spend this much time on a card but occasionally, I enjoy spending a lot of time thinking about the person and what I want to express in my card to them and taking my time to create it. 

This Valentine's Explosion Box card will go to my son and his girl friend who might get married this year.

I make a lot of my cards and flowers using shimmer paper.  This card was using the cream color of the Recollection Shimmer Champagne paper and sponging it with Stampin Up Pink Pirquettie for the doily and heart. I keep sponging until I get the color that I want.  It still shimmer after applying the ink.
The following dies used:
Cherry Lynn B154 Medium Rose 
Cherry Lynn B304 Ivy Strip
Cherry Lynn DL102 French Pastry
Cherry Lynn B144 Celtic Heart 
Behind the Celtic Heart was the Spellbinder Heart.  I made the heart box using the CL flower Cutie Four  inside of my heart and be able to glue the lids together.  

 The left square was using the Recollection Shimmer Champagne paper and sponging it with Stampin Up Sage Shadow on the Cherry Lynn DL218 Manon's Wedding Garland.  I added the smallest flowers from the  Cherry Lynn B264 Baby's Breath Flower Kit die set.

The couple is from the Tattered Lace dies and sponged with Stampin Up Pink Pinquette and the made is sponged with Stampin Up Going Gray.

 The top square is using the Recollection Shimmer Champagne paper and sponging the Cherry Lynn B152 Miniature Rose and B154 Medium Rose.  I didn't sponge each petal to give it some dimension.  I sponged the Cherry Lynn Celtic Heart with Stampin Up Pink Pinquette and them used the Versa Mark embossing.  I used the Ranger Melt Art Ultra Thick clear embossing powder for the heart.  It gives the heart a glassy 3-B look.  I have lately been using the Ranger Melt Art Ultra Thick clear embossing powder more most of my cards.

 The right side was using the Tattered Lace rose and Impression Obsession cupids.  There is a Cherry Lynn butterfly from the B266 Tiny Things With Wing set.  I used pink vellum paper for the cupids and then applied the Ranger Melt Art Ultra Thick embossing powder and added some glitter to the wings.  I did the same for the Cherry Lynn butterfly and the pink flowers.  Again, notice the glassy look.

 The bottom side was using the Spellbinder die.  The cupid is from the same set of Impression Obsession.  Again, I applied Ranger Melt Art Ultra Thick embossing powder to the cupid and the arrow.

 The lid is created using the
Cherry Lynn DL102 French Pastry
Cherry Lynn B144 Celtic Heart
Cherry Lynn Happy Valentines
I applied the Ranger  Melt Art Ultra Thick embossing powder to the Happy Valentines as well as to the top of the rose along with glitter to the rose and double heart. 

I often use organza ribbon since I can apply the hot embossing gun to the ribbon (applied to this ribbon) and it crinkles giving it a vintage look.  Also, one can apply different colored ink to organza ribbon and let dry before forming the ribbon to give it a vintage look.

The heart was using the Cherry Lynn heart set and the Cherry Lynn B333 Sophie Heart Border.  I applied the Ranger Melt Art Ultra Thick to the letters after sponging the letters with the pink ink.

Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge 167 - Snowflakes

I love coloring this little angel from Wee Stamps with Copic Markers and used Stickles Crystal glitter glue throughout the picture..  I used the Cherry Lynn wording, "Thank You".  The embossing/cutting folder is Die'Sire Create-A-Card from Crafter's Companion.  The snow flakes were cut using an ole Sizzix snowflake strip.  I wished I had the Cherry Lynn small snowflakes for this card and will need this for next winder.

I love using organza ribbon to create my bows.  For the vintage look, I applied the hot air gun, normally used for embossing, on the bow and within a minute, the bow will start to crinkle.  Also, if you don't have but the white organza ribbon, apply a color such as the Distress inks on the ribbon and rub it a little.  After it dries, it also adds the vintage look as well as using the hot air gun after you created your bow.  I love to create my bows just using my three fingers.  I am still learning more techniques and would like to be even better at it.

Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge 166 - Winter Whites - DT

I enjoyed getting out my older Cherry Lynn dies to create this Winter White card using a Wee Stamp.  I embossed the picture using the Darcie snowflake embossing folder and framed it with the Cherry Lynn DL218 Manon's Wedding Garland.  I added Ranger White Opal Liquid Pearl on parts of the garland/doily and on some snowflakes.

I embossed a 5x7 paper using a Couture Creation embossing folder.  The border around the embossed card is created using the Cherry Lynn Francesca B159 border die.  I cut out four of the borders and created a frame for the card. 

The flower bouquet is created with the Cherry Lynn Flourish Leaf Strip B178 that was cut with white glitter paper.  The smaller flowers are made from the Cherry Lynn Baby Breath Flower Kit B364.  I glued the flowers onto the branch and then added Art Glitter Crystal Transparent glitter to the flowers and branch.  I added the same glitter to the Cherry Lynn Gardenia Small B433 flowers that was actually created using fabric.  Unfortunately, the picture doesn't bring out the glitter on the flowers and branches.  The Thank You is from the Cherry Lynn B230 and 235 and was cut using white glitter paper.