Bride and Groom

Hello and welcome back.  Celeste here with you for this Wednesdays post.

It was my 19th wedding anniversary last week and since I received the new release Wedding Garter border, it seemed appropriate that I do something regarding my wedding day!

Here is my wonderful hubby and myself on our wedding day.  I used the Diamonds & Starburst embossing plate under the photo and on top of that, I placed the Dutch Doily Rectangle Frame over the photo.  I then added the Wedding Garter border around the embossed paper and added the bride and groom lettering.

All the flowers were cut out of white card stock and inked with various Tim Holts distress inks.  This took a while but the end result was quite worth it!

I found that the best way to stick all these flowers down, was to use glue dots.  After sticking down most of the flowers, the Fanciful Flourish and Olive Branches were inserted underneath.

The flowers were to represent my bouquet, but I got a little carried away! They were so much fun to play with.  In my veil I had small crystals, so to incorporate these, I used crystals in the middle of my big flowers.

I am entering this layout in the following challenges:

Paper Crafting Journey Challenge 1 - Floral
Moving Along With The Times - Challenge 133 Blooming Marvellous
UnstampaBells Challenges - Anything Goes
Truly Madly Crafty - Anything Goes
The Shabby Tea Room - Week #98 - 'Sparkly and Bright'
Paper Creations Ink
Make My Monday - Week 33 - Flowers and Leaves
Make It Monday #73
My Mums Craft Shop - Challenge 41 - Flowers
Creative Belli Blog - Challenge #135 Frames Make it Fancy
There She Goes - Clear Stamps - Challenge 140 - Love Is In The Air

I hope you like my layout this week, as I had a great time reliving the memories of my special day.

Till next time Celeste

Sister

Hello.  This is Celeste here, and this is going to be a big blog!  So get comfortable, grab a cuppa, take the phone off the hook and be prepared to be wowed :)

This is an album I made for my sister, who lives in America.  We are only 14 months apart in age and are very close.  I miss her very much.  Anyway this is for her birthday! 

In the above picture is the front cover of this album.  I have used numerous dies and the paper is from My Minds Eye, Sunshine collection.  I used the Judy's Blooms die for the cover adding a pin and a photo of myself with my sister.  Thickers were used for the title.

On the first page, above left, I used the Sweetheart Frame with the Medium Rose and Large Rose dies.  These were glued down flat so that they would not get ruined in transit.  On the second page, above right, I used my all time favourite die, the Fanciful Flourish, in gold and added Darling Daisies in gold and black card stock.

For the third page, above left, I liked this paper too much to cover it up!  So using the French Flair-Classic, I just cut out one of the nesting dies and popped a photo on and used a rub-on up the top which I will put her name in.  To make the fourth page, right hand side, I wanted it to look kind of uniform.  So I just cut another of the French Flair-Classic dies and put a photo on that one too.  I added ribbon and some bling because you always need bling somewhere!!

For the fifth page, above left, I used blue (also in the Sunshine Collection) to break up the album with.  The English Tea Party die was used as the base while the inside of the Dainty Dutch Deco Frame was popped on top.  It was fun taking these two dies and putting them together to get this great outcome for the page.  Another one of my favourites is the Tropical Flourish, which I have cut in black for contrast.  I added the Olive Branches and Stacker Flower #1 Leaves and then making (with great effort!) roses with the Cuties 2 die.  The sixth page, above right,  the Fanciful Flourish was used again! with the Darling Daisies and Olive Branches.  This time I used the larger two French Flair-Classic dies, inked around the edges and put pearls around too, before adding the photo.

On the seventh page, above left, I made a pocket for some tags and journaling.  I used again! the French Flair-Classic nesting dies and the Lace Light Deco Border, which is fast becoming another favourite!!  I kept this page nice and simple so that the tags could be the focus.  They are shown further down the blog.  On the eighth page, above left, to keep uniform again, the French Flair-Classic die was cut and a photo of my sister's dog, Gordon, was popped in.  For the corner of this page I used the Victorian Romance Flourish with the Olive Branches and the Large Rose die, popped on top.

For the ninth page, above, I used the French Flair-Classic nesting dies and used them to make a frame for the photo.  I loved the way it turned out and as you can see I LOVE the French Flair-Classic die.  Until it's out of my system you will be seeing it everywhere LOL.

For the back cover, I cut around this bird that was on one of the papers, and just popped him on the back.  Seeing as the album will be mostly sitting on this side, I didn't want anything on the back that might get caught.

These are the four tags that are inserted into the spaces between the pages.  From left to right, the first tag has the Tropical Flourish with the Medium Rose on the front and on the back, photo below left, I used a transparency and some rub-ons.  In the second tag, Judy's Blooms and a Large Rose die made up the flower, while the French Flair-Classic nesting dies made for the photo mats.  On the reverse is space or journalling.  The third tag has space for journalling or small photo, and I cut the Medium Exotic Butterfly out of gold and popped it onto the black background of the tag.  On the reverse of the third tag I used the Judy's Blooms leaves with the Miniature Rose die, the French Flair-Classic die and the Ribbon Eyelet Border Die at the bottom with yellow ribbon wound thru.  The last tag on the far right has the Lace Light Deco Border up and down both sides with a photo at the bottom and pearls at the top.  On the reverse of this tag is a picture and a left over part of the Lace Light Deco Border that fit the photo perfectly.

The photo below is just a close up of the Cuties 2 die and how it should come out.  I believe Sandy put up a quick tutorial on the blog (which was invaluable) sometime last week.  You must check it out and have a try.

And lastly here are the two tags that sat in the pocket on page seven.  One was made from the French Flair-Classic, again! nesting dies.  The other tag was made using a shipping tag and covered in my collection of papers.

Well.  You have made it to the end of my blog!  I thank you sincerely for reading it all and coming on this Cheery Lynn Designs journey of dies.  I had such fun making this album and I know my sister will be thrilled with it.

Dies used:

XL-12 FRENCH FLAIR-CLASSIC NESTING DIES  (Of Course)

A196 DARLING DAISIES

B116 RIBBON EYELET BORDER

B117 FANCIFUL FLOURISH

B127 TROPICAL FLOURISH

B133 LACE LIGHT DECO BORDER

B147 OLIVE BRANCHES

B150 CUTIES 2

B152 MINIATURE ROSE

B154 MEDIUM ROSE

B155 LARGE ROSE

C184 JUDY'S BLOOMS

DL101 ENGLISH TEA PARTY

DL114 EXOTIC BUTTERFLY MED.#1

DL141 DAINTY DUTCH DECO FRAME

DL151 VICTORIAN ROMANCE FLOURISH

FRM127 SWEETHEART FRAME

SF-1 STACKER FLOWER #1 LEAF

Ok folks, thats it!  Please head on over to the Cheery Lynn Designs blog and look out for the weekly challenge.  Using these dies you could create an album like this.  Have a go!

Till next time Celeste

Bathing Beauties

Hello everyone, it's Celeste here again to share with you my latest project.

It is the first in a series of three projects that I have been working on.  I hope you like it!

This first project is an 8x8 layout.  I first found this paper and it gave me the idea to use the French Flair-Classic LG Stackers in addition with using the French Flair-Classic - Silver Stackers .  I nestled  these two together and then popped my picture in the middle, whilst surrounding the picture with the dies.

I used the Stacker Flowers #5, the Stacker Flowers #6 and Judy's Blooms for the main flower.  The  Pair of Ferns, Victorian Romance Flourish and  Judy's Blooms Leaves

were all cut out, inked, stickled  and put under to create the greenery.

Up on the top left hand corner I made two small flowers using the  Miniature Rose die combined with the Stacker Flower #1 Leaf.  These too were inked and stickled.

Finally I added a Small Dragonfly with Angel Wings to the top right hand corner.  I was originally going to leave this space alone, but when I looked more closely it felt like it needed something.  After playing around I found the dragonfly and I think it looks perfect!

Dies used:
French Flair-Classic LG Stackers Nesting Dies
French Flair Classic - LG Silver Stackers
SF-Stacker Flower #5
SF-Stacker Flower #6
B118 Pair of Ferns
DL151 Victorian Romance Flourish
C184 Judy's Blooms
B152 Miniature Rose
SF-1 Stacker Leaf
DL152 Dragonfly with Angel Wing

Thanks for joining me today and I hope you come back next Wednesday to see the next instalment of my Bathing Beauties series.

Don't forget to head on over to the Cheery Lynn Designs Blog and get all the information for the up coming challenges.  You could be in the running for a $20 voucher just by producing a piece of work using these amazing dies.

Thanks for stopping by Celeste

Christmas Wreath

Hello everybody.  My name is Celeste and welcome to my very first Cheery Lynn Designs post as the newest member of the Design Team.  I am thrilled to be a part of this wonderful "family" and can't wait to share with all of you my newest creations.

My first post is just in time for Christmas.  This is a wreath I created to hang on my front door.  I have always wanted one but have refused to purchase those that are in the local shops, as they were too over the top and way too big for my front door.  The next best thing was to make myself one!

To start with I used a foam circle obtained from my local craft store, and sat down to mark out how many flowers I wanted to use and where to place them.  I used (a lot!) of the  SF-2 STACKER FLOWERS #2.  I cut my flowers using three different papers, each with aspects of gold on them, and proceeded to put the flowers together making sure I didn't put the same papers on top of each other.  This made sure that all the flowers were different.

I also added some silver baubles in threes and jotted them in between the flowers, just to break the flow of all the gold.  I did the same with the silver ribbon and the two silver leaves on the side.  I then used the B147 OLIVE BRANCHES and just had them jut out the side to replicate branches.  I really like the effect it gave, and to me softened the harsh outline of the circle.

To adhere the flowers, I found that brads were the best.  As there were two flowers stacked on top of each other, I simply put the two flowers together and put the brad straight thru.  Then instead of bending the backs out, I just left them and pierced the brad straight thru onto the foam.

I encourage you to have a go, as it is a simple and easy project that anyone can do!

Dies used:

SF-2 Stacker Flower #2

B147 Olive Branches

Why don't you head on over to the Cheery Lynn Designs Blog and try the challenge for this week.  "Flowers - made with dies" is the theme and you have a chance to win a $20 spending voucher.

Thanks for joining me

Celeste