Hello beautiful people!  Chrissy Mac here with a "Well Wishes" custom card in a style I have dubbed "A Little Shabby and a Little Chic."  This one is full of yummy textures with knitted lace, corrugated paper, dyed twine and regular card stock. 



I used Cheery Lynn Design's french flair which is such a great building shape as it has a nice outside shape that is decorative, but clean at the same time.  I wanted to play with some lace edging.  I staged it under my already cut circles and I knew instantly that I had to use it.  This drove some later design decisions such as using the corrugated paper (an unlikely candidate normally) for building a dimensional flower and creating a flower center through repeatedly knotting the purple twine.



Another technique I used to help give it that shabby chic vintage like styling is using a die cut using the Cheery Lynn Square Deutschland Doily and carefully flipped it and removed only some of the outer most cutouts so it had a rougher more imperfect look when layered over the grey french flair.  Perhaps others will like the end result.  I almost want to just frame it as it is so layered and has a sturdier look than the average card, but someone should receive these well wishes! 


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Hello all!  It's Christmas Theme Week on the Cheery Lynn Design blog and today I am sharing a project using my favorite Cheery Lynn Designs Christmas and Winter die designs.


It's that time of year again that always seems to just fly by, but is filled with fun, friends and family.  I personally have always loved this time of year and although some years are easier than others to get in the holiday spirit, I have to admit I love all that the end of the year holidays bring...baked treats, pumpkin yummies, festive lights, sparkle, the smell of pine and cinnamon and spending quality time with the ones I love.  Time to really get our craft on...right?!  Us artsy craftsy people will be busy making special cards, gifts, themed baskets, special memory books, party and holiday decorations and more.  Today I am sharing a festive card spreading that oh so important message of peace. 

We could all use some more peace along with joy and plenty of love!


I like the elegance and simplicity of this color scheme which is a dark matte metallic silver and gold.  Throw in the lovely Cheery Lynn die cuts and some glitter and voila...we have ourselves a merry and festive creation that can be used for either Christmas or New Year's.

Me and dimensional flowers have become BFF's of late so I just had to use this lovely Cheery Lynn Designs Poinsettia die.




Cheery Lynn Designs has a wide variety of Christmas dies to choose from.  These are just a few of my favorites.  Head on over to Cheery Lynn Designs and take a look at the Christmas Section to see all the fabulous dies that are available.  I hope I have helped even if just a little tiny bit to inspire you with some ideas for a holiday card or other holiday themed project.

Thank you so very much for joining me!  It means so much that you stopped by.  Please feel free to ask any questions you would like and as always your comments, thoughts and ideas inspire me to keep on crafting so by all means share in the comments section.

Hello everyone.  Chrissy Mac here with another quick custom card project.  Life is full of trials and tribulations, but ultimately life IS good.  Sometimes people could use a quick friendly reminder with this positive message whether it is to tell them they have done a great job, that they are special to you because they are part of what has made life good or sending a congratulations for reaching a special milestone.  That is why I just had to use this Cheery Lynn Designs sentiment die. 

I really like using stamps, but sometimes it is nice to just do a nice die cut for your card's main message.  The nice thing about the Life Is Good die is that it is a "one cut and your done" die so it is ideal for a quick and simple card projects or scrapbook layouts.


Since I chose to use a cardstock background that has a pretty bright and colorful design, I opted for a solid color card base (pink) and a white embossed layer to separate my bright and vivid colored paper used for the "Life IS Good" die cut from that bright and colorful middle layer.  I made this with a girlfriend's birthday in mind so that is also why I went with the bright colors and whimsical flower designed paper as the driving color and style element on this card project.


Since I wanted to keep this card design pretty clean and simple and have the message be the focal element, I opted to put one gorgeous little flower on there.  I pretty much think all flowers are gorgeous and I love every single Cheery Lynn Designs dimensional flower die I own.  I am looking forward to picking up some more soon to add to my choices.   This card was as easy as can be but came out pretty sweet and consisted of the following:  Pink cardstock base with pierced edge detail (inside of card has a simple white backer card so I can write to my heart's content), center design card stock with pierced edge detail, white embossed cardstock with pierced edge detail, one orange daisy with pearl center and green leaves, and one "Life Is Good" die cut.