What To Do With All Of These Christmas Cards?

I've been on a Christmas card making frenzy! I mean between submitting for publication and creating for design teams and just plain making Christmas cards because they are my favorites, I have amassed quite a collection. So...what to do with them all? I mean, yes, I always think that I am going to mail them out, but the amount of postage that it'll take makes me think twice. Maybe one of these days, I'll set up an etsy shop or something. In the meantime, I'll just keep creating them.

Here are my latest Christmas card creations. They were all created with Jillibean Soup Christmas Eve Chowder collection. I just adore a cute Christmas line, don't you?

The first card was made for the Petaloo blog. We joined up with Jillibean for a joint blog hop. Tons of ideas were shared...check them all out here.

I made this card just because I couldn't help myself. Once I saw those adorable penguins, I knew I had to use them on a project. Each penguin on this card represents a member of my family (me, my hubby, and our 2 boys). Cute right?

Here's a close-up of our sparkling attire.

And last, but not least is a card that I created for the Basically Bare blog. I put up step by step instructions for creating the glittery embossed ornament. So check it out!



As always, I thank you for stopping by and leaving such sweet comments!! Until next post...

What's With All The Cards??

It's been a while, probably a month, since I last created a layout. What's up with that? It probably has a lot to do with the fact that I need to change printers and don't have any inspiring pictured printed out...or maybe the fact that I've been on sort of an altered item kick...or just enjoying card making. I don't really know, but here are 5 more cards. I made these for Paper Craft magazine's WCMD contest.





Thanks for stopping by today. I hope to have some layouts to share soon!!

Catching Up

I don't know if it's the warm weather or the lack of mojo, but I just haven't felt like doing much in the way of blogging or scrapbooking. I've been spending a lot of time outdoors, putting a little more time at the gym, and desperately searching for a job, so it's been a long 2 weeks since I last posted any projects.

I hope to get back on track, but in the mean time, I have quite a few Cheery Lynn Designs projects to share with you today.

The first project is an 8x8 layout featurnig my handsome boys and Bella Blvd's Mr. Boy collection. I used several of the new dies that were released from CLD this month. To see more projects using the new dies, check out the blog.


Next up is a 12x12 layout featuring my "Little Monsters". This layout was published in the Summer issue of Scrapbooking & Beyond Magazine.

This layout was also created for the joint blog hop between Creative Imaginations and May Arts. I used Samantha Walker's Bloom collection.

How cool is that embossing plate? Perfect for Father's Day, right? I embossed a piece of Core'dinations cardstock and then lightly sanded the pattern to make it pop.

I used Jillibean Soup's Dutch mustard Soup collection on this "Thank You Bunches" card.

Favorite Cards of 2010

I made more cards in 2010 that ever before and there's no slowing down now. Seems like the more I make, the more I fall in love with card making.

These are my 10 favorite cards from 2010:

Spider Halloween Card


Thanks Card
Joyeux Noel Card


Kraft Butterfly Card


Get Well Card


Pleated Flower Card


Be Happy Card


You Color My World Card


Thanks A Bunch Card


Perfect Pair Card

Half A Dozen Cards

Last month, Paper Crafts Magazine held an awesome contest for World Card Making Day. I made 8 cards and sent them off for a chance to win a prize package and have one of my cards published in their magazine . Although I didn't win, I am happy to know that the cards that I sent in will be donated to Operation Write Home, an organization that supplies our troops with blank handmade cards to write home on.

Here are 6 of the cards that I created:

supplies: Patterned Paper- Echo Park (Christmas Countdown, Merry Border Stripe); Cardstock- American Crafts; Flowers- Petaloo; Stickles- Ranger; Ribbon- AC Moore; Shimmering Spray- Creative Imaginations Luminarte; Pearls- Queen & Co; Rub-on- Pink Paislee; Border punch- Fiskars; Other: twine, vintage button

supplies: Patterned Paper- Echo Park (Christmas Countdown), Jillibean Soup (Cup Of Yak), Making Memories (Big Dot); Ribbon, floss- Making Memories; Button; Rub-on- Pink Paislee; Ink- Clearsnap; Stickles- Ranger; Adhesive- Helmar Premium Craft Glue, Zapdots, Quick-Fix Permanent Tape Runner

Patterned Paper- Jillibean Soup (Cup Of Yak); Cardstock- Bazzilll; Buttons- Stickopotamus; Twine; Rub-on- Royal & Langnickel; Pen- sharpie; Ink- clearsnap' Lace- Prima; Border Punch-Fiskars; Adhesive- Helmar Premium Craft Glue

Patterned Paper- SEI; Rub-on- Royal & Langnickle; Border punch- Martha Stewart; Ribbon- Joann’s; Adhesive- Helmar Premium Craft Glue, Zapdots; Other: twine, vintage button

Patterned Paper- The Girl’s Paperie; Cardstock- Worldwin (kraft), American Crafts (white); Stamp- Hampton Arts; Ink- Ranger (black), clearsnap (brown); Other: twine, vintage buttons, thread

Patterned Paper- Days Away; Cardstock- Bazzill (blue), Worldwin (kraft), American Crafts (white); Floss- Making Memories; Embossing folder- Cuttlebug; Pen- sharpie; Ink- Clearsnap; Circle Punch- Marvy Uchida; Rub-on- Scenic Route; Other: thread; Adhesive- Helmar Premium Craft Glue, Zapdots

Thanks so much for stopping by today!! Have a scrappy day!