Friends fill your life with Joy

Hi friends!  Happy May Day!  It is a very warm and humid day out there today but that's going to change in the next few hours.  We are supposed to get a cold front and we might wake up to temperatures in the 30's.  Wow!  Seems like the weather is getting crazier every year, huh?  It's a good thing I can stay inside to play with my stamps and papers and dies!

I saw a sketch on the Random Acts of Creativity blog and I just fell in love with it.  I decided to combine it with the Bling challenge on the Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge blog.  So I pulled out my Vintage Bliss 6x6 paper pad (Simple Stories) and cut the blue chevron paper and the floral paper and adhered them to a white card base. Next, I cut some orange paper into a small rectangle and cut a smaller piece of white paper. I stamped this beautiful sentiment from the Floral Vintage Labels 2 set (JustRite) with black ink onto the white paper.

Now here's the fun part - playing with the new Cheery Lynn Designs dies that were just released a couple weeks ago. I started by cutting some orange paper with the new City Girl Edger and I adhered it to the bottom of my sentiment piece. The blue flower was cut with the new Shasta Daisy Strip die (gorgeous!) and the orange flower was cut with the new Sweet William Strip die (love the new smaller sizes!). I fastened both flowers together with some rhinestone brads.

I added a piece of the Silver Rhinestone Swirls across the sentiment piece and up into the floral paper. The blue and orange flowers were affixed at the bottom of the rhinestone swirl. I die cut some leaves from the new Ivy Strip die (Cheery Lynn Designs) and tucked them in around the flowers. The last thing I did was cut a piece of Chalk White seam binding, tied it into a bow, and glued it down under the leaves in the corner.

Have you ordered any of the new Cheery Lynn Designs dies from the Classy Cards 'n Such store yet? You will love playing with these new dies. I am certainly having a great time creating with them! As always, you can use this code, Holly-10, to save 10% off your order when you go shopping.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

Cheery Lynn Designs #78 - Bling It Up

Saturday Sketchbook Challenge #95 - Sketch
Love to Create #63 - Punches and/or Dies
Pile it On #17 - April Showers bring May Flowers
Stampavie and More #192 - Lots of Die Cuts
Fresh Brewed Designs - Flowers
Crafts and Me #131 - Floral Frenzy