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Delightful Thursday | Happy Birthday to Me!

It's Delightful Thursday and the Digital Delights design team is sharing inspiration on the Digital Delights Blog today! 
Today I'm sharing a quick birthday card using a pre-colored Celebration Owl! Precolored images are great for super quick cards to send to your friends. I paired it with some beautiful artsy paper from Rebecca Baer, bias tape and some bling. I hope you enjoy this quick and easy  card today in celebration of my own birthday!  Thank you for stopping by today! 

Celebration Owl
Card Strock : Neenah, DCWV, RebeccaBaer.com Other : Bias Tape and Bling
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Springtime Dream Big Tag

Happy Tuesday everyone!Today on the Cheery Lynn Blog I am sharing a spring tag! I love the colors purple and green together and with watercolor it has a wonderful spring feel. I used the Dutch Daisy Borders, Boutique stackers and doilies to complete this tag! All pieces started out as file folder and were hand water colored with greens and purples. 

I began by cutting the border dies out of the bottom of the tag. I used the border edger and the negative space die from Border Set #2. The base was then watercolored with greens and spotted. The center of the Dutch Daisy Doily was used as a stencil to apply watercolor and ink in the corner. 

Next a ½" strip of folder was colored green and placed the ribbon-like strip from the Border Set #1 on top--it was also cut from file folder and painter purple.  The sentiment square was colored green and the negative shape of the Dutch Daisy Doily was stenciled on there as well. The doily and the sentiment square were layered on the tag. Crystal Bling was added above the cut daisies and a dot for the "i" in  the word "big". 

 Cheery Lynn Dies used

A2 Frames Rectangular Classic (Set of 7) - CM5

Dutch Daisy Border Set #1 (set of 3) - B521

Dutch Daisy Border Set #2 (set of 3) - B522Dutch Daisy Boutique Stacker Frame (set of 4) - DL293Dutch Daisy Doily (Set of 2)Dream Big Phrase - B245

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Delightful Thursday | Pressie Josh Birthday Card

It's Delightful Thursday and the Digital Delights design team is sharing inspiration on the Digital Delights Blog today! 
Today I'm coloring the delightful Pressie Josh! I love all of the "Pressie" series of images in the store but Pressie Josh is my favorite to color. Yesterday was my son's birthday and so I made this card for him! I've been trying some new coloring techniques and today you will notice I've gone back to using both my spectrum noir with my BIC Mark-its. For me they produced the perfect greens in the bow and hat and shirt. Thank you for stopping by today! I hope you enjoyed my card.

Pressie Josh Markers : Spectrum Noir & BIC Mark-Its Ink : Vintage Photo Card Strock : Neenah, Core'dinations, Prima Other : Art Glitter Adhesive Dries Clear, Queen & Co. Bling
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Delightful Thursday | Valentine Molly

It's Delightful Thursday and the Digital Delights design team is sharing inspiration on the Digital Delights Blog today! 
Today I'm using Valentine Molly and coloring her with my yummy Spectrum Noir Markers! Molly is so cute with her bow and large lacey valentine. This will be a perfect card for me to send to my daughter in the Post Office at her school! She is so excited for Valentines Day this year! Thank you for stopping by today! I hope you enjoyed my card.

Valentine Molly

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Delightful Thursday | Mrs Bugs of Love

It's Delightful Thursday and the Digital Delights design team is sharing inspiration on the Digital Delights Blog today! 
Today I'm using my favorite Mrs Bugs of Love set!  Wendy created this cutie to match Bugs [a cute little boy bunny]. I printed her on Kraft card stock and colored with my Primacolor pencils. I love the effect of them on the colored background!  I hope you enjoy my card! Thank you for stopping by! 

Mrs Bugs of Love Set 
Prismacolors Core'dinations Bazzill Kraft
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Once Upon a Time

Happy Tuesday everyone! Today on the Cheery Lynn Blog I share another example using the new release dies. I am using the Royal Scandinavian Border Set which matches perfectly the Royal Scandinavian Doily which was part of a previous release. The Doily is cut with a solid center and layered onto a matted square. The Once Upon a Time sentiment was adhered with a piece of bling for the dot on the "i". 

To create the layered trim across the center of the card, I cut my card stock pieces and taped the dies to hold the placement. For the yellow strip I ran the card stock through twice to cut on both edges. I love that these dies can be used on an edge of any 8" or shorter piece of card stock to add a fancy touch.  A bit of bling in the centers of the motifs added the perfect embellishment.

  Cheery Lynn Dies used

Once upon a time (Set of 2) - B543*
Royal Scandinavian Border Set (set of 3) - B524*
Royal Scandinavian Doily (Set of 2)

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

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Love Tag

Happy Tuesday everyone! Today on the Cheery Lynn Blog I share a valentine tag. I began by diecutting the snowflake mesh border out of acetate to use as a template. I spray-misted with opaque white over the top of kraft card to create the "texture" on the background. Next I stamped a grid pattern over the kraft tag and distressed and inked the edges with pink.]

For the ruffle on the bottom of the tag, I adhered a liquid glue to the back of the kraft tag and attached my crumpled Ankara Lace Border to the edge. A bit of Ankara Lace also peeks out of the side of the tag where the kraft  is ripped.

To finish off the tag, the snowflake doily was layered with the Two of Hearts and some scrolling bling. Love and You were cut and added to the bottom of the tag.

  Cheery Lynn Dies used

Snowflake Mesh Border - B372
Ankara Lace Border - B332
Snowflake Doily w/Angel Wing - DL279
Two Of Hearts - DL128
Love (Set of 2) - B227
You (Set of 2) - B235

I hope you enjoy my Love Tag! Thank you for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed my project!

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Merry Steampunk Holiday Blog Hop | Festive Fat Book

For the hop today I went to my happy place with Steampunk emboss folders, Frantage emboss powder, Cheery Lynn Dies for snowflakes and cogs and some pearl bling to finish it off! I hope you enjoy my project! Thank you for stopping by!

Be sure to stop at all the stops!! Happy Holidays to you and yours!

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Weekly Challenge | Celebrate--the last challenge.

A Note from Wendy

Welcome to another Delightful Challenge and sadly it is the last ever Delightful Challenge this week. It was decided to close the challenge site to devote more time to Digital Delights by Louby Loo designs. Digital Delights by Louby Loo will NOT be going anywhere and will continue to bring you fun and exciting daily posts and new designs.

We wish to thank everyone who has joined in our weekly challenges and hope that you will all stop by each week and see all the amazing designs on the digital delights blog and at www.digitaldelightsbyloubyloo.com

We wish you an amazing Holiday Season and keep on crafting!
***** And with that it is now time for our last challenge with Digital Delights by Louby Loo! This week at Delightful Challenges our challenge is Celebrate! I am using the colored image of Dapper Boo Boo! He's ready to step out and celebrate! I added a bit of frantage and some bling to keep him festive!  I hope you enjoy it! Thank you for stopping by! Join me in the new year for continued Digital Delights creations! I will be joining the Digital Delights Team on the main blog! See you over there!
 

Dapper Boo Boo

Card stock : Bazzill, MME

Accessories: Embossing powder, bling

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Celebrate!

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To enter twice when using a Digital Delight image,

for your 1st entry use your card link.

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 and add "2nd entry" after your name

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**Please be sure to follow the challenge theme and rules or it will be removed.

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Shaking Up Some Cheer

Happy Tuesday everyone! Today on the Cheery Lynn Blog I am playing along with this weeks challenge Sparkle and Shine. I have created a shaker card with the circle stackers and Horizon Circle set! 

I love how easy it is to cut a frame for your shaker I simply lined up a smaller circle inside my Horizon die, secured them with some washi tape, and cut them together in my machine.

I cut all of my snowflake pieces in white which was a little stark compared to the rest of my paper. I used pearl mists to add gold and pearl shimmer to my snowflakes and dull the stark white card stock.

For the shaker I cut a circle for the background and a circle out of clear acetate. I adhered the acetate to the frame with a clear lacquer.

I then added foam tape to the back of the frame to give my sequins and sparkles a space in which to move. If you desire chunkier shakings use another layer or two of foam tape. Make sure you have all of your pieces touching so there are no holes for shakings to escape!

I stack my shakings in the middle before adhering the frame. Here I used sequins, snowflake glitter and some crystals.

When you adhere the frame, make sure all sides are secure and then give it a shake to make sure it works! 

I added my shimmer snowflakes to the frame and then used a clear gem as a spacer for a smaller snowflake to be placed on top. It added just the right height and was clear so could not interfere with the top layer of snowflake

As a final touch I added crystals here and there to centers and along the flurry strip!

  Cheery Lynn Dies used

Dancing Snow Flurries - B486
Circle Classic - Silver Stackers - L-4
Scalloped Square - DL205
Horizon Circle Boutique Stacker Frames - DL272
Snowflake 2 - DL166
Snowflowers Set Two - DL226
Snowflowers Set One - DL225
Joy to the World Wreath - B481

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

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An Ornament Card

Happy Tuesday everyone! Today on the Cheery Lynn Blog I am playing along with this weeks challenge Red & Green. I chose to create an ornament with the Circle Stacker Die and assorted shaped dies and doilies.  Below is a brief tutorial with all the tips.

I  began by aging the papers that I die cut with ink and layered them along with the Dancing Snow Flurries.

I created pine branches on brown jute strung. I began by straightening and stiffening the string with a coating of lacquer.

Once straight, I spun the lollipop strips onto the jute string in a fashion to create pine branches.

 

The circle  die cut was also aged with ink and then smeared with red oil pastel to create a dimensional ball shape. The "ball" was attached to the card base with foam tape and the pine branches and poinsettias were attached with lacquer. a pine cone was created with a cutie die and lacquered to create shine. poinsettias and the bow and pine cone topped the "ball" 

  Cheery Lynn Dies used

Alpine Flourish Doily (Set of 2)
Poinsettia Strip - B324
Card Maker Rectangle Scalloped - CM-2
Dancing Snow Flurries - B486
Horizon Fishtail Banners (3 Dies) - DL278
Pretty Pretty Bows (Set of 2) - B422
Small Lollipop Fringe Cutie - B390
Cuties 2 - B150
Circle Classic - Silver Stackers - L-4

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

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