Imaginisce Blog

Welcome to our blog swap with Cheery Lynn Designs.

We are thrilled to have teamed up with this company and their fabulous product and designers.

We've a week filled with incredible inspiration, ideas and prizes.

Today we have Imaginisce Design Team member, Rhonda Van Ginkel sharing an amazing project with us.

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Happy Sunday to you!

Today kicks off an exciting week of hopping between Imaginisce and Cheery Lynn Designs! What a wonderful mix of perfect scrappy goodness!!!

My project is fairly large so let's kick this off!

First off, I have a secret... I have an *ahem* rather luxurious assortment of Cheery Lynn Dies. Some might say it's a habit of collection of sorts, but I just love them! They are so pretty and add so much to a project! When we received the products for our exchange, I was giddy!

I received the: Large Sunflower Doily, Olive Branches and Daisy Lace Bracelet to work with. What to create? As you may have seen, we recently released the all new Christmas Cheer collection. I've always wanted to create a "December Daily", but haven't attempted it. I thought this would be the perfect way to use these products together.

The first thing to do was to choose an album. I selected one of the divided page protector types along with one refill of regular full page protectors. It's a 6x8.

I used our i-Rock Mini Iron and i-Rock Motif to decorate the spine.

I also dug out some number pages from an older Imaginisce collection that I had. Ironically, I only had the numbers and some rub-ons left. The colors coordinated perfectly for this project, so I decided it was time to use those up! The photo's here are taken with the page protectors on.

This is the first interior page. I used the Cheery Lynn Window Frame A for this and trimmed beneath it with the Anastasia border. Santa and Rudolph are peeking through the window on the top.

Anastasia Border used here on the left 4x6.

Olive Branches decorates my "3".

Anastasia Border, Large Sunflower Doily, Daisy Lace Bracelet and Fanciful Flourish

Olive Branch decorates my "9".

Daisy Lace Bracelet peeks out under my layers.

The French Lattice Large die is used here on top of vellum and white cardstock.

Large Sunflower Doily and Mini Fanciful Flourish

Anastasia Border

Daisy Lace Bracelet

Anastasia Border

Sentiment is from Sole Sisters.

Fiona's Magic Mirror and Mega Holly Flourish, cut apart.

Mega Holly Flourish and Large Sunflower Doily

Anastasia Border and Daisy Lace Chain

Fiona's Magic Mirror

Large Fanciful Flourish

There are a variety of dies used throughout my pages and you'll see them accenting elements in addition to being a featured part of a page. I added others dies as I went along the way from my personal collection and noted them.

Some techniques used here are re-use of packaging as layers. The relief frames from our stickers were used on days for "9" and "13" I loved how nicely that worked to frame the numbers. I am going to embellish more with my i-Rock and i-Top as I work my photos and memorabilia in through the season.

Ingredients: Christmas Cheer papers, Chipboard, Sticker Stackers, Canvas Stickers and Die Cuts, Sole Sisters, Geek is Chic and Cottage Christmas (daily numbers and rub-ons), i-Magicut, i-Rock Mini Iron, i-Rock iron on motif, foam tape and Pogo by Imaginisce. Cardstock by Bazzill. Large Sunflower Doily, Olive Branches and Daisy Lace Bracelet, Anastasia Border, Fionas Magic Mirror, Mega Holly Flourish, Mini Fanciful Flourish, Fanciful Flourish, French Lattice Large and Window A. Snowflake punch by MS, Tab punch by Fiskars, Silhouette for number 1 and 16. Baker's twine by The Twinery, Snowflakes by Momenta, Album by Simple Stories, Technique Tuesday 3x4 cards, Archiver's 4x6 cards, 5" Creative Station and Adhesive by Xyron,. Inks, Mini Attacher and Glossy Accents by Ranger. Other: Sewing Machine, vellum, music paper and ribbon.

Thanks so much for stopping on over and spending some time with me today!

Have a super scrappity day!!!

~ Rhonda

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Thank you Rhonda!!

Wow!! What a fantastsic project that you are going to treasure for years to come.

Can't wait to see it all filled up with photos, etc.

To make this week of inspiration even better

we are going to add in a GIVEAWAY!!!

Here's what you need to do in order to be entered into the random draw to win:

• Leave a comment HERE (on our blog) on every post during this blog swap (Aug.5th-11th)
• Leave a comment on the Cheery Lynn Designs blog posts all week (Aug 5th-11th)

We will randomly select a winner to receive a

package of the Makin' Waves collection

(winner will be announced Sun., August 12th)

Good luck everyone!

And thanks for joining us today.