My Family's V-Day

The boys were both so excited about Valentine's Day, especially Donovan. All week he kept exclaiming that he COULDN'T WAIT until Valentine's Day. He even helped me out by writing out all of the cards for his and Xander's classmates. They both came home with a bag full of cards and little treats.

I surprised all of my guys with a sweets table filled with their (and my) favotite treats, including red velvet cake, strawberries, twizzlers, lemonheads and appleheads, and peppermint patties, cards for everyone and balloons for the boys. Troy sent me a pretty bouquet of pink, white, and red tulips and chocolates and I made dinner for everyone. All in all, it was a very sweet day!

Hope you had a LOVEly day!!

Valentine's Day Cards | Cheery Lynn Designs

Happy Valentine's Day bloggers!!! I am sharing a load of Valentine's Day cards that I created using Cheery Lynn Designs dies. I just love how versatile the dies are; they can be used straight forward or changed up to create an out of the box design.

I made this set of mini cards to go along with some goodies for my niece and nephews using XL Nested Scalloped Circles and Little Stackers Coved Rectangle. As you can see here, I used the scalloped circle as and embellishment on one of the cards and as the base of the other.

I created this next card for my sister's Valentine. Since the card is for a guy, I wanted to make it as masculine as possible. I achieved this look by adding a lot of texture. I cut the By The Sea Frame from patterned paper and chipboard and then used the Cement embossing plate from the grunge series to emboss it.

The frame actually cuts several pieces at a time, I just wanted the outer shape and the inner circle to create the faux scalloped border, so I put scotch tape around the parts that I didn't want cut out.

Here you can see the cement texture on the frame

I remember when the Heart to Heart Doily arrived at my house. I opened the package, but instead of seeing a heart, my mind's eye saw half of a butterfly wing and from that point, I couldn't wait to create a pretty butterfly with it. See I told you the dies are versatile! I used the Dots/Lines embossing plate to add some texture to the card base.


Here's a close up of the wing (err heart).


Below is a list of the supplies used on the cards. Click on each photo to find it in the store.









Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today. Have a wonderful Valentine's Day!!!

MIA

Man have I been swamped this month. CHA is just 2 short weeks away and I am up to my neck in projects. I love this time of year because I get to see a lot of the new stuff before it hits the stores, but man am I feeling the pressure...not to mention the fact that my mojo is trying to abandon me but I'm hanging on for dear life! I'm not attending CHA this time around, but I will have lots of projects in Creative Imaginations, Cheery Lynn Designs, Petaloo, Bella Blvd's booths. I can't wait to share with you what I've created!! Fun stuff!

Additionally, I will be teaching 2 mini albums classes for Croptopia Getaways in Whippany, NJ next month. You can get more detailed info here.

Today, I took a break from creating to try and regroup. I do, however have a few projects to share.

I recently ordered Echo Park's new Be Mine collection and all I can say is WOW!!! It's truly gorgeous! I created the following 2 cards with the collection.

Always In My Heart was created for gonescrapbooking/examiner.com


Be-Leave In Love (I know it's a little cheesy) was created for Cheery Lynn Designs using the new dimensional leaves. Click here to see what the rest of the design team created with the new dies.


Finally, I created this frame a while ago for Petaloo. I turned a $1 wooden frame into a beautiful gift for a friend, using Mulberry flowers, glittered dazzlers, bees, and glitter paper for the background.


Ok, well it's time for me to climb in the bed. I'm beat!! See ya next post. For all of my scrappy peeps in the NJ area who are attending the Croptopia Getaways crop...hope to see you there!!!

Love You Gift Set

Just sharing my latest Cheery Lynn Designs project, an altered truffle box with matching card.


I started by covering a chocolate truffles box with patterned paper, cardstock, Petaloo flowers, and some of my favorite Cheery Lynn Designs die cuts.

Here are a few close-ups of the truffle box:



Next, I created the card and used Love Expressions sentiment, which I cut after embossing and 1/2" School Days Font. I added ribbon, more Petaloo flowers, and stickles and there you have it...a quick and easy gift set.


Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today!