31 Days of Halloween & a VERY Spooky Halloween Steampunk Blog Hop

During the month of October I am participating in a month-long blog hop with some amazing artists. Everyday you will find a new Halloween project on all of the blogs listed below. Each project must have stamping on it, be it digi or ink. There are prizes to win, be sure to check out all the rules HERE and information on the daily scavenger hunt is posted there! You must go HERE to find the item/s you are looking for the scavenger hunt.

Good Morning! I welcome you to my 4th Annual Very Spooky Halloween Steampunk Blog Hop. This is a special hop for me. This is where my friends joined me for the very first time to share a love of Halloween and Steampunk. My blog friends come from a variety of craft and art backgrounds and bring lots of exciting creativity to the hop! I hope you enjoy their projects today!!!

I want to start by bringing you a fantastic creation by my creative friend Vince! On the first Spooky Steampunk he created this fabulous steampunk ghost. He now has it available on his own blog...Be sure to go over there and check out all of Vince's FREE digital designs! He creates such awesome digis! I invited him to play along and he created another steampunk inspired Halloween digi and brings us this precious bat outfitted in his special steampunk flight gear!! Love him!!! Thank you VERY much Vince!!! To save, simply right click on each image and choose save image as an put into the folder of your choice.

Now take a moment to hop to each stop along the way and be sure to see my last post for my project and another give away!!! Thank you so much for joining us! Enjoy!!! Nothing says love like leaving a comment, following a blog, sharing a link! 

leslierahye* Peg Rounds* Barbara Lyneen Michelle Frae Cummings* leslierahye*

...and while you're hopping be sure to check out the amazing talent below!!! They're part of a crazy 31 day hop that I'm a part of this October--a month-long celebration of the Hallowed MONTH! Join us!

Smeared Ink Wicked Bloggers 2014

Terra | Black Dragon | Lyneen | Maureen | Rebecca

Julia | Lisa | Teresa | Keren | Renee | Alison

De-stempelwinkel Designers Blog | Jane

The Nanny (Sue) | Sarah | *leslierahye* | Jessica

Kelli | Karen | Airless Chambers | Sara | Kapree

Shoni | Altered Pages | Shell | Art Jypsy | Alex

Dreamweavers Stencils DT | Kim | Nanette

Erin | Susan | Creepy Glowbugg | DominoART

Steph | Sandy | Sarah | Stefanie | Barbara

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31 Days of Halloween | Day 23

During the month of October I am participating in a month-long blog hop with some amazing artists. Everyday you will find a new Halloween project on all of the blogs listed below. Each project must have stamping on it, be it digi or ink. There are prizes to win, be sure to check out all the rules HERE and information on the daily scavenger hunt is posted there! You must go HERE to find the item/s you are looking for the scavenger hunt.

If you're looking for my Delightful Challenges post, it is here.

Welcome to Day 23 of the 31 Days of Halloween hop with SmearedInk.com! Today I have a bit of news...since I so publicly shared my fears over the biopsy last week, I am pleased t share the news artfully and publicly as well.I got the call from the doctor's assistant today that my results came back and my nodule is benign--or BEE-nign! :)  Yes, I'm pleased beyond words...and relieved...and EXHAUSTED. Worrying is tiresome. So I go back in 6 months to monitor the lumpy lump and see how it goes. Thank you all for your concerns. I appreciate each and everyone of you! SO...today I use my favorite BEE Afraid digital image pre-colored from Digital Delights by Louby Loo and create another fat book tile announcing my results. To create this tile I printed my bee with sentiment onto transparency with my way-cool color laser printer--have I told you how much I LOVE this printer?!?!? For the "dark night" I used some of the resist Kraft from Tim Holtz's collection and misted black Dylusians and Pewter Perfect Pearls Mist. I dried it completely and then sprayed white to "shadow" my clear image using a mask I had cut from a cardstock image of the same size. When I was happy with the whiteness of my "shadow" I dried the tile again and affixed my clear overlay  to the tile with brads! 

I hope you enjoyed my fat book tile! Please come back tomorrow!!

Smeared Ink Wicked Bloggers 2014

Terra | Black Dragon | Lyneen | Maureen | Rebecca

Julia | Lisa | Teresa | Keren | Renee | Alison

De-stempelwinkel Designers Blog | Jane

The Nanny (Sue) | Sarah | *leslierahye* | Jessica

Kelli | Karen | Airless Chambers | Sara | Kapree

Shoni | Altered Pages | Shell | Art Jypsy | Alex

Dreamweavers Stencils DT | Kim | Nanette

Erin | Susan | Creepy Glowbugg | DominoART

Steph | Sandy | Sarah | Stefanie | Barbara

Coming Soon to a Blog Near You!!!

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Pop Up Box!

 Happy Tuesday everyone! Today on the Cheery Lynn Blog I share this fun Pop Up box with the match box dies! To create these you need the matchbox, a spring (I borrowed mine from a dried up click pen), something to "spring up", and some embellishments.

You create your matchbox and embellish with some dies or a bow and a bead pull for the drawer.

You will need to "adhere" your spring into your drawer and to your popup image. I embedded my spring into some molten emboss enamel.This worked to hold it in place. A thick bodied glue like E6000 would also work. Once the spring is in place, add the image to the spring.

To create your popup surprise, fold the spring down and position your popup in place. For added festivity, you can place glitter or confetti inside to pop out when the box is opened.

I hope you enjoyed my project! It's a fun favor for Halloween parties! 

Cheery Lynn Dies used

Matchbox Small (Set of 2) - B328
Matchbox Medium (Set of 2) - B329
Spider Web Mesh Border - B322

Thank you for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed my project!

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Remember there is still time to join the new challenge!!! Challenge #155 is Vintage There is a chance to win a $20 shopping spree at Cheery Lynn Designs. Thank you for stopping by today!

Digital Delights Images Used

Helga Frightner

Weenie Toad

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31 Days of Halloween | Day 18

During the month of October I am participating in a month-long blog hop with some amazing artists. Everyday you will find a new Halloween project on all of the blogs listed below. Each project must have stamping on it, be it digi or ink. There are prizes to win, be sure to check out all the rules HERE and information on the daily scavenger hunt is posted there! You must go HERE to find the item/s you are looking for the scavenger hunt.

Welcome to Day 18 of the 31 Days of Halloween hop with SmearedInk.com! Today I'm sharing this simple card. I stamped on PAPER my image and then glued mini Popsicle sticks to the back. I separated the sticks and sanded and inked around them. I then reassembled then on a piece of black cardstock. I added the puzzle piece and the ribbon to the front of my orange card  base! Voila! Easy Peasy! I hope you enjoy my project! Please come back tomorrow for more!

Smeared Ink Wicked Bloggers 2014

Terra | Black Dragon | Lyneen | Maureen | Rebecca

Julia | Lisa | Teresa | Keren | Renee | Alison

De-stempelwinkel Designers Blog | Jane

The Nanny (Sue) | Sarah | *leslierahye* | Jessica

Kelli | Karen | Airless Chambers | Sara | Kapree

Shoni | Altered Pages | Shell | Art Jypsy | Alex

Dreamweavers Stencils DT | Kim | Nanette

Erin | Susan | Creepy Glowbugg | DominoART

Steph | Sandy | Sarah | Stefanie | Barbara

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31 Days of Halloween | Day 17

During the month of October I am participating in a month-long blog hop with some amazing artists. Everyday you will find a new Halloween project on all of the blogs listed below. Each project must have stamping on it, be it digi or ink. There are prizes to win, be sure to check out all the rules HERE and information on the daily scavenger hunt is posted there! You must go HERE to find the item/s you are looking for the scavenger hunt.

Welcome to Day 17 of the 31 Days of Halloween hop with SmearedInk.com! I first want to thank you all for the outpouring of well wishes and kindness that you all offered. You're intentions were felt and appreciated! Thank you. My appointment went well and except for some soreness I came through fine on the other side. We will know more next week as to the results of the tests.

...AND now on to my tag! The sentiment with the moon and cemetery scene were created using 3 stamps from Viva Las VegaStamps. It was layered on a piece of burlap, a piece of embossed purple core card stock and a piece of orange Bazzill. All pieces were distressed and inked with my favorite Frayed Burlap! A bit of white chalk pencil doodling and pen stitching and a simple bow completed the tag! I hope you enjoy my project! Please come back tomorrow for more!

Smeared Ink Wicked Bloggers 2014

Terra | Black Dragon | Lyneen | Maureen | Rebecca

Julia | Lisa | Teresa | Keren | Renee | Alison

De-stempelwinkel Designers Blog | Jane

The Nanny (Sue) | Sarah | *leslierahye* | Jessica

Kelli | Karen | Airless Chambers | Sara | Kapree

Shoni | Altered Pages | Shell | Art Jypsy | Alex

Dreamweavers Stencils DT | Kim | Nanette

Erin | Susan | Creepy Glowbugg | DominoART

Steph | Sandy | Sarah | Stefanie | Barbara

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Mad About You!

if you are looking for my 31 Days of Halloween post it is here!

 Happy Tuesday everyone! Today on the Cheery Lynn Blog I share another fun Halloween card today playing along with the black and orange challenge. I've cut a number of square mats in orange and black to mount the focal image of the mad scientist. I cut out large circles from the Lattice Circle Background and smaller circles from the Tiny Bubbles Borders in orange and black to create bubbles for the scientist's experiments.

Cheery Lynn Dies used

Lattice Circle Frame - FRM116
Tiny Bubbles Borders - B296
Pretty Pretty Bows (Set of 2) - B422
Square - Scalloped LG Stackers Nesting Dies - XL-2
Horizon Square Boutique Stacker Frames - DL253
Thank you for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed my project!

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Remember there is still time to join the new challenge!!! Challenge #154 is Black and Orange There is a chance to win a $20 shopping spree at Cheery Lynn Designs. Thank you for stopping by today!

digital image from DigitalDelightsbyLoubyLoo.com

Mad Scientist

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31 Days of Halloween | Day 14

During the month of October I am participating in a month-long blog hop with some amazing artists. Everyday you will find a new Halloween project on all of the blogs listed below. Each project must have stamping on it, be it digi or ink. There are prizes to win, be sure to check out all the rules HERE and information on the daily scavenger hunt is posted there! You must go HERE to find the item/s you are looking for the scavenger hunt.
You are missing days 11-13 for me...they are being restored daily...we had a mishap with the storms while I was out of town for the weekend...check back soon.

 Welcome to Day 14 of the 31 Days of Halloween hop with SmearedInk.com! Today I'm sharing a small tile that I created with a piece of artist board and emboss enamels. I layered on enamels until I had a think molten tile and then I stamped the spiderweb rubber stamp into my molten EP. Once it cooled, I traced over the imprinted web with first white paint pen and then glitter pen to add some extra sparkle--thus making it virtually impossible to photograph directly! I finished the piece with black paint pen around the edges. I hope you enjoy my project! Please come back tomorrow for more!

Smeared Ink Wicked Bloggers 2014

Terra | Black Dragon | Lyneen | Maureen | Rebecca

Julia | Lisa | Teresa | Keren | Renee | Alison

De-stempelwinkel Designers Blog | Jane

The Nanny (Sue) | Sarah | *leslierahye* | Jessica

Kelli | Karen | Airless Chambers | Sara | Kapree

Shoni | Altered Pages | Shell | Art Jypsy | Alex

Dreamweavers Stencils DT | Kim | Nanette

Erin | Susan | Creepy Glowbugg | DominoART

Steph | Sandy | Sarah | Stefanie | Barbara

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Happy Halloween

if you are looking for my 31 days of Halloween post, it is delayed due to medical emergency--it will be up later today.

 Happy Tuesday everyone! On the Cheery Lynn Blog today I share a fun Halloween card. I die cut the Lacey Pumpkin Corner in orange. I kept the orange pieces of the pumpkin to fill in the lace after I colored the lacey die cut with brown. When I layered the lacey corner onto the distressed matte, I glued in the orange pieces and colored in the leaf pieces with green watercolor. 
I layered two of the sentiment tags and added the small Happy Halloween sentiment to the front. I completed the card with some penwork and white chalk.

Cheery Lynn Dies used

Lacey Pumpkin Corner Flourish - B138
Happy (Set of 2) - B226
Halloween (Set of 2) - B344
Sentiment Tag 1 (Set of 3) - B424

Thank you for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed my project!

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Remember there is still time to join the new challenge!!! Challenge #153 is Halloween There is a chance to win a $20 shopping spree at Cheery Lynn Designs. Thank you for stopping by today!

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31 Days of Halloween | Day 6

During the month of October I am participating in a month-long blog hop with some amazing artists. Everyday you will find a new Halloween project on all of the blogs listed below. Each project must have stamping on it, be it digi or ink. There are prizes to win, be sure to check out all the rules HERE and information on the daily scavenger hunt is posted there! You must go HERE to find the item/s you are looking for the scavenger hunt.
If you are looking for my Globecraft & Piccolo post it is here.

Welcome to Day 6 of the 31 Days of Halloween hop with SmearedInk.com! I love this cute little image and decorative paper. I stamped this Viva Las VegaStamps dancing skeleton's image with Archival Ink and distressed the edge of the paper and rubbed yummy distress ink over the top. I added a bit of raffia to the base mat and layered on the papers and cardstock to finish the card. 

Smeared Ink Wicked Bloggers 2014

Terra | Black Dragon | Lyneen | Maureen | Rebecca

Julia | Lisa | Teresa | Keren | Renee | Alison

De-stempelwinkel Designers Blog | Jane

The Nanny (Sue) | Sarah | *leslierahye* | Jessica

Kelli | Karen | Airless Chambers | Sara | Kapree

Shoni | Altered Pages | Shell | Art Jypsy | Alex

Dreamweavers Stencils DT | Kim | Nanette

Erin | Susan | Creepy Glowbugg | DominoART

Steph | Sandy | Sarah | Stefanie | Barbara

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