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Showing posts with label pan pastel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pan pastel. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Bokeh with Cheery Lynn Designs

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Happy Tuesday everyone! Today on the Cheery Lynn Blog I share a fun background technique used in creating this card!

Bokeh is a photography aesthetic quality where out of focus parts of an image develop  a character. The look created by photographers purposefully creating a shape on the blurred background is the inspiration for this background technique.
I began with a piece of Mixed Media Paper and added watercolor pencil and applied water to activate and smear the background. I set it aside to dry and in the mean time created a stencil on acetate with the circles stackers and the blueberries dies from the deep dish dies sets.
Once dry I applied circles with Pan Pastel in White using my template.  Circles were allowed to overlap to give the impression of the photography inspiration. Once I was happy with the look, I added my sentiment "Awesome" to the front of the card and matted with a piece of black cardstock using the A2 Frames!

 Cheery Lynn Dies used

Thank you for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed my project!
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Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Steampunk Love

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Happy Tuesday everyone!Today on the Cheery Lynn Blog I share a Steampunk Valentine using the Gears Mesh as an insert in the Mirror Mirror Doily Frame. I cut the center of my doily out with the thin oval die provided and then fit my gears behind it. Both the Gear Mesh and the Wings were cut out of black card stock and sponged with gold chalk powder to produce the shimmer.The focal heart was simply layered with the large Two of Hearts in the back, the wings and then the smaller Heart 'n Gears die cut. 

  Cheery Lynn Dies used
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Tuesday, November 4, 2014

I Spy a Birthday!

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 Happy Tuesday everyone! Today I am sharing on the Cheery Lynn Blog a few more dies from the recent release. The I Spy binoculars are great! They are perfect for layouts involving sightseeing and hunting/target shooting themes. For a cheeky birthday card, they are great for spying a milestone birthday--"Lordy, lordy look who's 40!" I just couldn't resist. The binoculars are detailed with some pan pastel and glossy accents to bring out the features of the die cut. The Mirror Mirror Doily Frame is perfect to create a mirror to look into for this card. I cut it out of a beautifully colored coffee bag that I upcycled. To further accent the theme of time, I added the Gear Mesh to imply clock gears...as time passes. 
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Zooming by with a Hi!

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 Happy Tuesday everyone! Today on the Cheery Lynn Blog I share three of the new release dies. The first is the On the Road motorcycle die...this is just beautiful. The scrollwork in the detail is elegant and is perfect for a manly card but could also be used for a lady biker! I also use one of my favorite new dies...the SAY WHAT? set. The thought bubbles in this set are so versatile! Not only could you use them for their intent, but they make great "clouds of smoke" or clouds for scenes, running animals, bikes that go zooming by! LOVE! 

 And then finally I used my most favorite doily!!! The Florence Filigree can be used several different ways. Today I cut the doily twice without the center die--once in red and once in orange. I used the orange base and I punched out the "negative space" of the red doily and placed it into the holes of the orange doily. These little swirly twigs would make a great wreath or background "twigs" for floral bunches. I like the way the red and orange kinda of resemble flames. In cutting without the center, I created a solid space for my motorcycle. 
Cheery Lynn Dies used
On the Road
Say What? (Set of 16)
Florence Filigree Doily (Set of 2)
Thank you for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed my project!

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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Happy Fall Y'all!

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 Happy Tuesday everyone! On the Cheery Lynn Blog today I share a Autumnal Equinox greeting. Fall is my favorite time of the year...crisp mornings, colorfuln leaves, pumpkins!!! Naturally I wanted to share this fall greeting! I distressed some kraft core card stock and crumpled up the papers. I diecut my leaves and brought out veins with chalks. I layered my sentiment on leaves and a doily and a distressed background. I created a focal flower with the sunflower die and used the fringe strip of the black-eyed susan for the center. Some burlap string and a molded bee embellishment completed the card
Cheery Lynn Dies used

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Monday, September 22, 2014

leslierahye's Very Fall Steampunk Blog Hop

9/22/2014 09:29:00 PM  , , , , , ,  8 comments

Fall greetings everyone!! leslierahye here with my Very Fall Steampunk Blog Hop! I am joined by several of my creative friends to celebrate the turning of the calendar seasons to Autumn, Steampunk-style! This is my favorite time of year and I love to pair it up with my favorite style! It's a smallish hop with talented designers, take a moment to sit back, relax and enjoy the projects! You won't be disappointed!
For my project I created a fall tag with bits of molded emboss powder steampunk gears and fantastic fall leaves created from crinkled core'dinations cardstock and die cut with Cheery Lynn Dies. These were layered on the tag and dusted with Pan Pastel. A final molded embellishnment of a clockworks reminds us of the passing of time into the Fall! 


I hope you enjoyed my tag! Be sure to hop by each stop and leave some love! We all appreciate comments!
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Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Spooky Fall Tag

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 Happy Tuesday everyone! Today on the Cheery Lynn Blog I share a Spooky Fall Tag using the Birch Tree with little animals--it has a fantastic owl. My tag is layered with a decorative paper, an orange matte that reveals a piece of lace, and a piece of embossed stone-colored paper. 
I distressed the edges of the layers and chalked with pan pastel. Silver metallic pan pastel over the black iron fence and earthy brown pan pastel over the birch tree enhance the card. Small bats flutter through the trees complete the look.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Dream | A Mixed Media Canvas

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Today my canvas is featured at Unruly PaperArts. Unruly PaperArts is a collaborative blogozine featuring a panel of regular and guest columnists as well as reader-submitted articles. We hope you will join us and come back often as we feature articles on stamping, mixed media, collage, altered art, and scrapbooking.




Supplies

Begin by adhering strips of newsprint (leaving part of canvas uncovered) and die cut burlap to canvas using Beacon Fast Finish Decoupage and Art Glitter Glue Designer Dries Clear. 


Adhere die cut pieces of the gear mesh to parts of the canvas that were not covered with newsprint. Brush over the die cut parts first with grey and then with brown set aside to dry. Once dry mark over canvas with oil pastels, accentuating the edges of the canvas, rubbing over die cuts to make them POP! breaking up the print surface with some color.

Next add some walnut ink mist and droplets to canvas surface. With Enamel Powder Adhesive Fluid, rub over edges of canvas and sprinkle with Vintage Bronze Powder--heat set. Add die cut balloons, compass rose, bicycle and flourish and corner. Add metallic Pan Pastel to die cuts.


With Enamel Adhesive Fluid, apply enamel powders to chipboard dream and gears. Heat emboss. Adhere to canvas with Art Glitter Glue. 


Print out quote and cut to fit Horizon Square die. Distress edges of quote and add Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink to quote. Adhere to die cut square and apply to canvas. Mark around gears with charcoal pencils to highlight the gears some more.

Read my Artist's Spotlight at Unruly PaperArts here.
Unruly PaperArts
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Wednesday, June 18, 2014

A Jazzy Note for You!

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  Happy Wednesday everyone! Today on the Globecraft and Piccolo Blog I share a "note" card to send to your friend to "jazz" up their day! I love the way emboss powders make simple card stock look like rich metal! I stamped my background notes using the Enamel Powder adhesive with Micro White powder on Kraft card stock. I then layered on colors of chalk to get the colored background. Next I tore the edges and curled them a bit and added more adhesive to dip the edges in my favorite Victorian Bronze!
I die cut 2 alto saxophones...I used one as a template for applying the shadow and highlight with chalk on the center of my card. I "double dipped" the embossing on the 2nd one. First I applied the adhesive, sprinkled Victorian Bronze and then heat set. Next I applied another layer of adhesive, sprinkled with Gilded Rose and heat set. Finally I embossed an ATC Bubble Background with Victorian Bronze and trimmed apart sections to float around my Saxophone.
I mounted this on a piece of black card stock to enhance my metal embossing...the inside of the note will have a slip of white paper to make writing with normal utensils easier! 

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

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Sunday, April 6, 2014

Impossible Things

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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Inspired Owl Card

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Happy Tuesday everyone! I am sharing on the Cheery Lynn Blog today a card inspired by my creative daughter and teammates. Last week when Fancy and I were making Valentine boxes for her teachers, she looked at the Heartland America Large die and said, "I see an owl!" I asked her to show me what she saw. She indicated that the doilies in the top of the heart were eyes, the heart in the bottom the body and she indicated that a heart on the doily was his beak! So, this week I have transformed my Heartland America die cut into this cute owl! Also, I have also been enamored by my teammates' use of the cuties dies into foliage like pine branches!! I tried my hand at this this week, as well as transforming another cutie die into pine cones! This card also serves to remind you of our current challenge : Shaped Card!

Cheery Lynn Dies used
 Thank you for stopping by!! I hope you enjoy my "inspired" card!

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Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Love the Tiny Flowers!

2/04/2014 04:00:00 AM  , , , ,  3 comments


 Happy Tuesday everyone! On the Cheery Lynn Blog today I am playing along with this week's challenge Add a Flourish! I have been creating a lot of projects lately with the Tiny Flower Kit and the Tiny Fanciful Flourishes! I love them! To create this filled letter look on any card is very easy.  I began by selecting a chunky font on my computer and printing out the letters for "love." With chalk I colored over the back of the letters to make it easy to transfer to my card stock. Next I positioned each letter and traced around them with a pencil, transferring the chalk from the back of my letters onto my card stock. I used a black marking pen to retrace my chalk lines and highlight the shape of the letters.
Next I glued down a flourish and stacked flowers starting with the largest and working my way to the itty bitty flowers in the Baby's Breath Flower Kit to fill in the tips. I added mini butterflies when I finished with the flowers!

Cheery Lynn Dies used

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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Tickled Pink with Cheery Lynn!

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 Happy Tuesday everyone! Today on the Cheery Lynn Blog I am playing along with this week's challenge Tickled Pink! I created my card with shades of pink from a distressed paper pad. To add the green color to the vines and leaves, I used chalks. I bit of line work around the word "love"helps it to stand out against the background. I'm totally loving the paper bow among the flowers!

Cheery Lynn Dies used

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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Soar to New Heights with Cheery Lynn

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 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

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