Lillybet's Papers

Welcome to a Sunday Night Share. The regular CTC challenges are on a little break now, so we are in relaxed mode just sharing a few projects. This is a set of cards I made for my daughter just to have on hand for those occasions when you need to say thanks, although most are blank all purpose cards. I have used the beautiful Lighthearted Leaves set, and my blender pens and/or aqua painter to get the multicolours. I love the leaf images because they are so versatile for male or female card givers. I went with a versatile colour scheme too of Navy, Crushed Curry, delightful Dijon and Mint macaron. They are all slightly different with minimal use of sentiments and embelishments.     I used my trusty Envelope Punch Board to make a box from Kraft card to match, and tied it up with some chevron ribbon. The ribbon is anchored to the box at one point only on the rear flap. thanks for looking, hope you enjoy the relaxed season after the rush...

Happy Christmas to you. I hope you are enjoying the festive season.  Is is the last of my cards, have made and posted or delivered more than 40 now. ( and made and sold about 100 more) but I still love making them. It's a fairly simple design and uses a water colour panel and mossy meadow tree. The dots are white dots from Stampin' Up! which I have coloured with a blendabilities pen. They look very shiny. Hope your Christmas is lovely, Thanks for looking, Liz

Christmas is the perfect time to give gift cards and Card making is the perfect way to dress them up. I have made the envelope cards before (you can find more details and instructions here ) and this one is adapted from a previous card for an order for a lady who didn't want anything too fussy as it was for her boss.  The card is in the envelope and the gift card is in a mini envelope inside which is held in the hinge so it folds over to write on the card. The striped flap of the envelope is held in place by the silver foil circle. thanks for looking, Liz

Welcome back to the CASEing the Catty bloghop for our last Hop for 2015 where we are CASEing each other!!! That's a bit of a thrill since there are so many amazing projects when you start looking back. It has been a wonderful experience to be part of the design team and I have learnt so much from so many talented crafters. Our lineup will change a little next year. but for this week we are each CASEing one of the design team members. I am CASEing Rebecca Scurr which is a challenge itself as she has created so many wonderful things over the year. I have had a lovely time going back over her posts and tossed around a few designs which I really loved. In the end I have combined two - some people say I have trouble making a decision...... Rebecca's post from July 24 "Oh how I love a Good Box" f or the Gift Wrap and Packaging had 2 beautiful projects and I love both but the flower caught my attention,so I thought I would have a go at that. She described using white env...

Well you've gotta love a Saturday Postal Delivery!!! Some customer orders and some new toys for me arrived this morning. Thankyou to all the hard working postal staff at Australia Post. I'm sure this time o f year is crazy for them.  I'm supposed to be finishing the Christmas cards but seem to have been sidetracked temporarily..... One of the fabulous new sets in the coming Occasions Catalogue is called Number of Years and it has beautiful numbers, some flowers which are a lot like Painted Petals with their watercolour look, both birthday and anniversary (hooray) sentiments, and it even comes with matching framelits. Lots of fun. The pile of new catalogues arrived in the order also along with the Sale-a-bration brochures. There are so many gorgeous new lovely stamps, ribbons, paper and goodies.  You are definitely going to want some of these. Don't forget I do GIFT VOUCHERS for any amount. If you would like one for  Christmas please get your family to get in touch with ...

Just a quick Thankyou using the new set Going Global and some bits and pieces that were lying on my desk. The new set of DSP is a 6x6 paper pad of gorgeous papers on the Going Global suite. It will be available after january 6 so if you would like a catalogue when they become available please get in touch with me. Thanks for looking, Liz

I am thrilled to be able to join in again this week at The Global Design Project challenge. This week it is a great sketch. If you haven't been following GDP you should check it out - there are really some amazing designers involved I am also thrilled to create a card because I have some new products to play with from the new occasions catalogue which will launch January 5.  The Going Global set has some great images,  and the going places coordinating paper pad has lots of brilliant papers.  These will be really easy to use for masculine cards.  The pad contains lots of marbled pages, lots of maps, some constellations pages and is in a fabulous colour palettes. I have used only 2 designs for this card. This card is a shaker card with little gold stars and clear beads. Liz Thanks for looking,  Liz

Welcome to the Bloghop for CTC this week where we look at Christmas trees!. You may have come from Stasia's blog or you may be starting here. Either way you are welcome. Be sure to cruise all the way around the hop to see everyone's projects. If you get lost you can find the full list of participants at the CASEing the Catty webpage.  Well it's time to put the tree UP! In the past it's been hard to balance Christmas and birthday in our house because my daughter's birthday is the 11th so we used to wait until after her birthday and not make much fuss about Christmas in the early part of December. However,  now that it's just the two of us left at home we can put it up earlier which is lovely. This weekend is the one! Our 3 children have all left home, and the problem with living in a regional area is that they are all minimum 7 hours drive away. We will have to travel to them to spend time with them all over Christmas. They are all busy and I know they w...

This is the same layout and materials, just a slightly different assembly, but how different are these two. I will have this card at my card buffet tomorrow night so people can choose which occasion they would like to use the card for. The birthday option is stamped in Wild Wasabi, and then clear embossed directly over the first image, with a tiny bit of sponging in the Wasabi.  The third colour is Rich Razzleberry. Thanks for looking,   Liz Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

It's been so long since I was able to participate in a challenge but I have really enjoyed looking at all the entries each week in the Global Design Project. The design team are amazing and I have learnt quite a lot from the sidelines. But this week I'm just jumping in while I can. It's a colour challenge with old olive so a real Challenge for me as it's my least favourite green!  I have gone with some simple sponging and a random pattern using the large dots stencil sheet and a sponge dauber. The little flowers are stamped on vellum in real red, and the ink is on the reverse,  and the sentiment is from the Sheltering Tree set. I watched a You tube clip recently on making your own enamel dots from paper. (found the link, it was the Frugal crafter ), its' so easy and it worked! punch out small circles of paper, burnish them with your scoring tool into a dome then heat emboss them with 2 layers of clear embossing powder, bingo! Not sure if you can see the shim...

Welcome back to CTC for this week's entry - to be inspired by a 3D item or giftwrap and packaging from the Occasions Catalogue.You may have arrived here from Helen's great blog, or you may be starting here, but wherever you have arrived from you are very welcome, and I hope you enjoy linking to each blog in the hop for some great ideas. I have some boxes for you today. It's always so nice to give a beautifully wrapped present - both for the giver and for the recipient. Stampin' Up! have some great options to make it easy with a big range of tag options, gorgeous ribbons and boxes and bags.... Since Christmas is also a time when budgets are stretched it's a great opportunity to take advantage of the hugely discounted items in the Clearance rack. Have you been and had a look lately? I have decided to showcase some of the great gift wrap options for you. Here are some great Gift Boxes which come flat and are super easy to assemble The gift tag is 2...