Happy V-Day!

Happy Valentine's Day!!
Today I'd like to share a few Valentine's Day cards with you.

This card was made using Pretty Little Studio's  Love notes collection as well as the fun heart doily die from Cheery Lynn Designs.
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Today on Practical Scrappers we are getting inspired by Pinterest for our "pinspiration". I found this beautiful home decor piece originally posted on Chase The star. I love the color combination and the unique sunburst.

I decided to make a similar looking card with my window die. In her decor piece she used red and white striped straws, I chose to use baker's twine. To make them stiff, I used Helmar's fabric stiffener. Worked like a charm!

You can see more Pinterest inspired projects today on the Practical Scrappers BLOG.

You Make Gross Look Cute

Hello! Its a sad day that I am making my last official post for My Little Shoebox. As you may already know, Helen Chu (My Little Shoebox's owner and designer) has decided to focus her design interest on bags. Which are super cute by the way!! The scrapbook side is being put on hold while she pursues this new adventure.  So sad for me! sniff sniff

I decided to pull out one of my favorite MLS collections from last season, Up In Trees. As you know, I am a huge fan of fun, bright colors so this collection is a clear choice for me.

Supplies Used: My Little Shoebox's Up In Trees; Bird's Eye View, In The Trees, My Way, Free As A Bird, 3D Roll Up Flower Diecut sheet, Firecracker Muse Alphabet stickers.


For my card below I made a window shoppe scene complete with a flower pot and banner.

Supplies Used: My Little Shoebox's Up In Trees; My Way, Woodgrain Love,
Notebook's Truly Yours, Keepsake's Music To My Ears.

I want to take the time to express my gratitude for Helen and the My Little Shoebox company for the opportunity to serve on this FABULOUS DT for the past year. It has been a sure joy and I have enjoyed myself very much!!!! I am very sad to go but I truly wish My Little Shoebox the best of luck and success.

The My Little Shoebox company is so generous and I have so many supplies left over that you can bet you'll see me use more.

 

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful weekend!!

Pretty In Pink

My sweet niece has proven that a touch of pink is all you need to look absolutely fabulous, darling! (in my catwalk voice)

I used My Little Shoebox's Cherry Delight collection once again (I seriously love it!) It brings out the "girly" in me.

I cut out a few die cut flowers and layered away with the help of Helmar's 450 Quick Dry Adhesive . It does the trick every time.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!!

Easter Sunday layout

Hi scrappers! Today I want to share a layout I made just for fun using the Lovely Day collection from My Little Shoebox. I decided to pull out my floral dies and get cutting.


I love the way paper flowers can look so realistic if you simply add some color to the edges and manupulate the petals for realistic wrinkles.







That's all for today! Enjoy your Monday!

Sweet Girl

Hello scrappy people! If you've followed my blog for a while, you'll know that I love die cuts. Thanks to my DT term with Cheery Lynn Designs, I have a good collection of several different shaped dies but the flowers are my favorite. Today is Challenge Me Tuesday on Practical Scrappers and we are featuring projects using die cuts, either store-bought or home-made.

How about a sketch to go with it?

Memorable Seasons is having their 3rd annual Throwdown contest so I entered this LO and the card below for that. Lots of fun stuff going on in the scrapbook world! :)

~Liz Pin It

Jazzing up with pins

Hi y'all! I haven't posted in a while. I was able to go to Washington DC for a week to visit my husband. It was a blast! I even went shopping at the mall without any little kids. I went where I wanted to and walked at my own pace...seems trivial but it was wonderful. Those with little kids understand. ;)
Today on Practical Scrappers we are featuring projects that are jazzed up with pins. I made this layout for the challenge. I used my sketch 144 for inspiration.

The pins I used are jazzed up with a simple flower and button.



I loaded my page up with flower dies from Cheery Lynn Designs and Groovy Petals from Creative Charms.

Oh, by the way, Creative Charms is having a massively awesome clearance sale right now so stock up!

Till next time!

Oh Happy Day with Practical Scrappers

Today at Practical Scrappers we are featuring projects with black matting. Here is the layout I created for the showcase.
I got my inspiration for this layout from the fabulous Heather Leopard. One of the challenges at Birds Of A Feather this month is to scraplift a project from the gallery, this one caught my eye for sure.

Since the challenge is to do matting in black I chose to outline several of my elements with a Sharpie marker. I love the way it turned out - nice and crisp.

Its been a while since I used my Cheery Lynn Designs dies, I love these things!



Have a scrap-happy day!

Using my BOAF scraps

Hey, kit subscribers! If you're anything like me, when you get to the last few pieces of your kit, you have several scraps leftover. I like to find new ways of using my scraps so this time I pulled out my French Flair die from Cheery Lynn Designs and got cuttin'!


I cut out several of these shapes and overlapped them. I love the one of a kind look. In the "Dictionary of Liz", when I look up the word cute, these little fellas show up. LOL!

Does the design look familiar? I used sketch sketch 135!


By the way, there is only one of these Birds Of A Feather kits left so hurry and you could get lucky!

Getting ready to Party!

This year we are having a big Halloween party to celebrate my daughter's birthday who turned 11 this month. I am really excited! I have been working on the treat table decor and I'm really getting into it.
This is the centerpiece for the table.


I used papers and elements from Best Creation's Happy Haunting collection. The doily and little bats are from Best Creation.

I made these simple invitations to the party using a bunch of leftover scraps from the Happy Haunting collection as well. They came together SUPER quick...like in half an hour. Gotta' love that!



Have a wonderful day!

Who's Ready for Fall?

Hello! This is sadly my final post for Cheery Lynn Designs. When it came time to re-apply or not, I chose not to. Like I wrote before, my load just got to be too much. I assure you I will use CDL dies in my day-to-day projects, I REALLY do love these dies and the company. Once you work with the best there's no going back. :)

I don't know about you but I've got Fall fever! I love waking up to the crisp cool air and seeing the leaves begin to change. I made a layout using the super-detailed Dimensional Leaves dies.





I arranged the leaves as if they are floating off the Autumn tree. To make the tree I used several sized circles from the Little Stackers Nesting Dies. I used the twig shaped arms from the Frosty The Snowman die to make a few branches. (I love that trick:))





Other dies used on this layout:
Basic Optimistic Font alphas
Grass Border
Never Ending Love Hearts
Apple

(Papers from this layout are Crate Paper from the October kit at Birds Of A Feather.)


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I just HAD to make a Halloween card using some of Cheery Lynn Design's cute Halloween dies.

The Silly Spider is just adorable, I couldn't wait to use him. I hung him from a string (think web) and centered him in a black English Tea Party Doily die.

(These papers are Best Creation's Happy Haunting collection.)

Apple Of My Eye

Well, hello! Today I want to share another layout using dies from my favorite die company, Cheery Lynn Designs. For this project I kept the design very simple because I wanted the focus to be on the dies.


I used several of the flourishes and flower dies to create this flowing cluster of goodness. ;)



I added the apple, heart and key die to pull my theme all together.



I used the beautiful flourish ends of the gorgeous Lace Rose and Flourish die on either side of my floral cluster to draw an end with the eye.

Other dies used:
French Flair Nesting Die
Snowflake Edger
Garden Gate
Darling Daisies
Sweet Williams Flower
Judy's Blooms
Stacker Flower Leaf
Pretty Petal
Heart Chain Border

(Like the papers? Its Crate Paper from the new October kit at Birds Of A Feather!)

Till next time, have a scrap-happy day!!

September Cheery Lynn Designs New Release

I am really excited about this month's new releases at Cheery Lynn Designs. They've come out with even more fabulous doilies, borders and frames.
I made this card using the new Mediterranean Lace Rectangle Frame, Lace Rose and Flourishes, and the Stacker Flower leaf.


I love how intricate and detailed these amazing dies are. There really is nothing like them.

Check out their website and BLOG to see all of the other releases ( yes, there is A LOT more) and more beautiful projects from the DT.

Joy Of A Boy

Hello! Today I'd like to share another project using the oh-so fabulous Cheery Lynn Designs dies. You know, I look back and several of my most favorite layouts are the ones using these dies. They really are amazing and I have been so blessed to be apart of this team.
I LOVE the way this layout turned out.

Here is the list of dies used today:

English Tea Party Doily
Ribbon Eyelet Border
Large Window1
Border Carnivale
Dragonfly
Dimensional Large Leaves 2
Floral Heart
Sunflower
Pretty Petal
Micro Mini Alphabet
Basic Optimistic Alphas
Ribbon Flower

Cheery Lynn Designs Hello card

Hi and happy Thursday! Today I want to share a card I made using Cheery Lynn Designs dies and this cute paper from Echo Park. (The papers and stickers are in the Birds Of A Feather Sept kit.)


I love the way the Little Pink Bicycle complements the lamp post sticker. It really makes a cute scene. I embossed the top part of the card with the Petite Hearts embossing plate and the Embossing pads. Finally, I added a few Darling Daisies and a cut out of the Dotties Ric Rac border.

Have a nice day!

Cool In The Pool with Cheery Lynn Designs

Happy Thursday!!
I have another layout to share with you featuring fabulous Cheery Lynn Designs dies.


To make this layout I did a little bit of layering and then I embellished away with a great border die like the Embossed Scalloped Hearts border. And if you know me at all, you know I HAVE to include lots of flowers. My dies of choice this time are the Judy's Blooms, Tropical Flower and the Darling Daisies.



Other dies used:
Never Ending Love Hearts
Buttons3
License Plate
Tropical Flourish
Pennant Die
French Flair Nesting Die
Mini Font alphas

The Echo Park papers I used are from the beautiful September Birds Of A Feather kit.

Baby Hugs with Cheery Lynn Designs AND Core'dinations!

Hello and happy Thursdya! Today I want to share another layout I made using lots of fabulous Cheery Lynn Deigns AND everyone's favorite cardstock, Core'dinations!! It is so fun to be teaming up with them this week!
For this layout I was going for a very clean look so I used plenty of vibrant colors from the backsides of Core'dinations cardstock along with a few patterned papers of my choice.




This is my oldest daughter with her cousin, Oliver. We just adore him!!

Here are the fun dies I used this time around:
Bird On A Branch
Little Stackers Nesting Circles
Judy's Blooms flowers
Pretty Petal
Large Dragonfly
Floral Heart (flowers)
Dimensional Small Leaves 2
Sweet Williams flowers
Darling Daisies
Pennant Die
Dutch Tulip doily
Border Carnivale
Heart Chain Border