Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Soar to New Heights with Cheery Lynn

 Happy Tuesday everyone!Today on the Cheery Lynn Blog I share this fun circle scalloped card that I made with the winter scene die and the hot air balloon die with angel wing! The winter scene is cut and layered to give the appearance of houses on a hillside. I completed my all-occasion card with the sentiment soar using a gear for the letter "o". I love how this card turned out! I hope you do too! Cheery Lynn Dies used Gears (Set...

Friday, December 27, 2013

Altered Dollar Store Finds

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Art Journal Calendar--January 2♥14

Happy last Friday of 2013! Can you believe this year has passed so quickly?? This is the time of the year that I look back to what I have done, the goals I set last year and think about what I want to accomplish in the next year. Each year for about the past 3 years I've tried to take part in a monthly altered art calendar challenge and for the past three years I have been short of completing the whole year. This year I will once again attempt...

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Be Mine Valentine!

 Today on the Cheery Lynn Blog I share this fun Steampunk Valentine For You! I adore these Streampunk--if you haven't already guessed and this Hearts and Gears set works perfectly with the individual Gears set and the larger Gear Mesh Border! I love using the Optimistic Set to make a Steampunk alphabet by adding in gears for the "o"s in words! The mesh was cut in Black and placed on the Peek-a-boo right and rubbed with a pink Inka Gold...

Saturday, December 21, 2013

A Very Merry Holiday Steampunk Blog Hop!

WELCOME!!! It's my last blog hop of the year!! Welcome to my Very Merry Holiday Steampunk Blog hop!! I have collected a talented group of crafters and artists who all share a love for all things Steampunk! We are celebrating Winter Holidays Steampunk style! I can't wait to see what everyone has brought to the hop! So let's get started!!! Today I created a fatbook triptych using Cheery Lynn Dies and  to make my scenes across the tiles....

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Weekly Challenge | Celebrate!

It's time for the last challenge of 2013 with Digital Delights by Louby Loo! This week at Delightful Challenges our challenge is Celebrate!  You can choose any celebration! I chose New Years! Little Dumpling New Year Boy is perfect for this with his sash, horn and top hat! This is a super simple card to make with a metal paper matte and some foam tape! I hope you enjoy it! Thank you for looking! Digital...

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Wishing you a Shiny New Year!

 Happy Tuesday everyone! Today on the Cheery Lynn Blog I am sharing a New Year card created with my favorite gears and the super fun metal colored card stocks [including the gold mirror card stock]. For the focal pocket watch die cut, I cut the watch die with the gold mirror card stock. I then used the angel wing die to cut a white background for the watch. I completed the watch by incorporating some metallic colored gears and a copper...

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Holiday Cheer with Altered Arts Magazine!

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Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Snowflake Ornaments with Cheery Lynn Dies

Happy Tuesday everyone! Today on the Cheery Lynn Blog I am sharing a quick and easy tutorial on creating snowflake ornaments from Cheery Lynn's fabulous doilies! For each ornament cut 2 of your favorite doily, 2 of the smallest horizon circle boutique stacker, 1 of the large horizon boutique stacker and I cut a circle about a half inch smaller than the total doily to build my snowflake on. I used a brushed silver card stock for...

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Weekly Challenge and New Release | You're a Gem!

It's time for a new challenge with Digital Delights by Louby Loo! This week at Delightful Challenges our challenge is You're a Gem! The new release is super fun and I love the Christmas Mouse. I printed him on a tan piece of card stock ad colored him in with Spectrum Noir, white charcoal and Wink of Stella Silver glitter! I hope you enjoy my card! Thank you for looking! Digital...

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Heat Up some Fun with Lutradur and Cheery Lynn Dies

I have something fun to show you! With the last release, Cheery Lynn Designs brought in a cool new "fabric" substance to play with for your mixed media needs. It's called Lutradur and it's this crazy product that originally came from the automotive industry. It's white and webby and can be colored with a variety of methods but today I left it in it's white form for my snowy card. I began by die cutting the miniature rose and the daisy strip....

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Weekly Challenge | Favorite Things

It's time for a new challenge with Digital Delights by Louby Loo! This week at Delightful Challenges our challenge is Favorite Things! This card is loaded with my favorite things! Sweet Ollie Owl from Digital Delights, glitter, string, metal, Cheery Lynn Dies and KRAFT CARD STOCK! [yes I'm living dangerously with the Kraft card stock...none of us want the repeat intervention from a few years back! Ollie is perfect for...

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Tuesday Tutorial with Digital Delights | Creating a Countdown Spinner!

Hi everyone! Today on the Digital Delights blog I am sharing the Tuesday Tutorial introducing you to the brand new How Many Days to Christmas set!! In this tutorial I share with you how to add in your favorite character and create a fun count down spinner for your Holiday!  For this project Twitter at @leslierahye | Facebook at leslierahye.| YouTube at leslierahye |...

Have a Cool Yule with Cheery Lynn Designs

Today on the Cheery Lynn Blog I am sharing with you a festive Yule card created with several yummy dies from the October New release! I love the snowflake mesh and the fringe dies along with the Horizon Boutique Circle die! This card is folded off-center so as to accommodate the large 4¾" Horizon Boutique die. The snowflake mesh is actually on the "inside" of the card on the right side so as to "peek" out around the circle edge of the face of...

Sunday, November 24, 2013

The Key to My Heart

 Good afternoon everyone! I wanted to share with you some fun new products that I've been experimenting with this weekend! This is chipboard and embossing powders and glazes from Globecraft and Piccolo! I'm very excited about these embossing powders! They are blended with a variety of sizes so that you get spurts of color and chunkyness in your project depending on how much you heat them. For the chipboard hearts, I layered three coats of...

Friday, November 22, 2013

You are my Best Friend!

Hi everyone! I'm sharing a fun fat book page on the AlteredPages.com Art-Sociates Blog today featuring some new items in the store! I hope you enjoy! Materials : G45 Steampunk Spells Glitz Rhinestones Glitz Stickers Ephemera Treasures AP Rubber Stamps : Time on Your Side Set Dylusions Stencils AP Silly Sticks Mix'd Media Inx Truffles and Black Adhesive Cork Sheets Liquitex Modeling Paste Ranger Distress Glitter Clear Rock...