GIVEAWAY TIME!

IT'S TIME FOR ANOTHER DREAMWEAVER GIVEAWAY!!!

Each week for the entire month of April, I will feature one or two of my favorite projects created with Dreamweaver stencils and giveaway one of the stencils used! Since I am stepping away from the Dreamweaver Design Team because of other commitments, this is just my way of trying to encourage more of you to get behind the versatility and creativity of Dreamweaver stencils! Remember to check out the Dreamweaver Design Team blogs for additional inspiration as well as the Dreamweaver Facebook page for exciting news and more giveaways!

This week I'm feeling a bit nostalgic so I thought I'd share a couple of cards I designed using the LL 3032 Large Cherries stencil. 

The first card uses the stencil and the rouging (circular) technique for applying pigment ink:

And this second version uses the same stencil on aluminum and colored with Dreamweaver's ColorSolutions alcohol ink:

Do you have a favorite? I can't decide. Leave me a comment below before midnight, Monday, April 21 and you could be the lucky random winner to win this stencil:

AND NOW FOR THIS WEEK'S WINNER!!!

CONGRATULATIONS TO LUCKY NUMBER 4: 

LINSEY!

Linsey, send me your snail mail address by email to: 2nd-childhood@comcast.net and the Sandcastle stencil featured last week will be on its way to you!

Again, thanks for all your comments last week and be sure to leave a comment on this post to be entered in next week's random giveaway drawing! 

Hugs,
Cherylynn

A Dreamweaver Giveaway!

Welcome to April. This is a very sad post to write as of the end of this month, I will not be "officially" on the Dreamweaver Design Team. Don't misunderstand me, I am still totally in love with Dreamweaver products. However, because of all that is going on with my life right now (school, work, grandkids...), I wasn't feeling like I was able to devote the time I wanted to and that Dreamweaver deserved. It has been an incredible 2+ years and I will forever be grateful to Lynell and Pam for all their encouragement and inspiration. (And who knows, nothing is forever so maybe I'll be back!)

There's a silver lining to this news. Now that I'll have a little more time to just create for fun and not for design team deadlines, I'll hopefully be able to post a little often, including throwing in some stamping and other crafty stuff. And that definitely means more Dreamweaver posts, including taking part in the monthly challenges. I LOVE ME DREAMWEAVER PRODUCT!!!

And now for the Giveaway part!

Each week for the entire month of April, I will feature one or two of my favorite projects created with Dreamweaver stencils and giveaway one of the stencils used!

For this week, since it is April 1, I thought I'd share a couple of cards that use the LG 737 Umbrella stencil.




Paste-embossed on acetate with the original Dreamweaver embossing paste and then colored with pigment inks. Raindrops were silver-paste embossed and sprinkled with glitter.



Silver paste-embossed and colored with Dreamweaver alcohol inks

The umbrella stencil is an incredibly versatile stencil and works great for those who like to zentangle or "stentangle" as I like to refer to it!

Want to win the Umbrella stencil? Well, that's so easy to do! Just leave me a comment on what Dreamweaver product you love the most, a technique you would love to try, how you would use the stencil...anything as long as it somehow relates to Dreamweaver or stencils. I will draw one name at random from all the comments posted before midnight, Monday, April 7.

The winner will be announced next Tuesday, April 8 along with the next giveaway!

Think of this as my way of trying to encourage more of you to get behind the versatility and creativity of Dreamweaver stencils! Remember to check out the Dreamweaver Design Team blogs for additional inspiration as well as the Dreamweaver Facebook page for exciting news and more giveaways!

Thanks for supporting me these past 2+ years. I hope you'll continue to stop by and say hi!

Hugs,
Cherylynn

Thanks so much!

Thank you ALL for sharing this month of Spring Clean (and Simple) with me! I've had a lot of fun and I hope I inspired at least one of you to take 10 minutes to play and create.

For my last post of March, I thought I'd share a card we will be making tomorrow at our Spring Fling. It uses the Dreamweaver LL516 Bearded Iris pasted with black paste and crackle paste. The coloring uses Dreamweaver's gorgeous Color Solutions alcohol ink.

Dreamweaver LL516 Bearded Iris; Black Matte paste, Crackle Paste, Color Solutions Alcohol Ink: Thistle, Sugar Plum, Citron, Pine Bough and Gold Star; Stampin Up Sincere Salutations stamp set; Ink is VersaMagic Purple Hydrangea and die-cuts are Spellbinders.

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and come on back next month to see what April showers will bring to my creations!

Hugs,
Cherylynn

Needing a rainbow

I have a friend who is going through a tough time and so I thought I'd send her a little note to help her keep her spirits up.

She has a wonderful positive attitude and a great sense of humor so I hope that, being from Oregon, she'll appreciate the sentiment behind this card.

The paper is a discontinued pattern from My Mind's Eye's Quite Contrary collection. Living in Oregon, this paper sure struck a chord with me since we have two seasons, rain and sun! The umbrella is from Dreamweaver and pasted with silver paste and then colored with their new Color Solutions Alcohol ink. And the sentiment is from Penny  Black.

I hope you'll join me tomorrow as we explore the weekly Dreamweaver Design Team challenge!

Until then, may today be filled with sunshine and rainbows, if only in your mind!

Hugs,
Cherylynn

A Sneak Peak: ME 2

Next month I will be teaching classes at Stampin Cat in Salem and Karen and Friends in Springfield.

The first class at both stores is called ME 2 for Machine Embossing 2. It is a fun class where everyone gets to use their Cuttlebug, Big Shot, Wizard, Vagabond....with Dreamweaver stencils. There are so many different techniques to choose from so each time I teach one of these classes I try and mix it up so that both beginners and repeat students ALL learn something new.

One of the cards we will be making uses Colored Aluminum with Dreamweaver's awesome Color Solutions alcohol ink. I hope you like it as much as I enjoyed making it.

I'm going to take the weekend off from posting so I hope you'll come back next week and I'll share some more from my upcoming classes.

Have a great weekend and happy creating,
Cherylynn