Lillybet's Papers

Hello again and welcome to the Sunday night hop where we are CASEing anything from the SALE-a-bration Catalogues. You may have come from Helen's blog  and her beautiful project.  I have chosen to CASE the card top left on the back page of the supplementary SAB brochure which has 3 new awesome products available until Mar 31. The little Pedal Pusher set is super cute and very easy to colour, and it can be yours FREE with any purchase over $90. I made the card for the CTC#68, but I was already playing with these colours because of Bronwyn's fabulous The Colour Tree Challenge#7 which you can see   here . Each week she has a new colour challenge and they are a great starting point for any project. If you follow me you may have noticed that I try and make a point each week of creating my chosen layout with both a new and an old stamp set- just to show how versatile an inspiration point can be. So this week I used the same layout (which is dead ...

Well we made the twisted Easel card in class a few weeks ago , and you can find the instructions on the post from Feb 16 TCTC#6, but for a regular Easel cards there are loads of instructions online at various Pinterest and paper crafting sites. I guess that's because there is no one set of dimensions that you have to follow. You might find more cards on this blog under the Label "FANCY FOLDS". I recently posted some of my Easel Cards for the Markets here . But here are a few more samples which I have to share. The first was a Birthday Card for a lovely friend. The Grateful Bunch Daisy looks good in a range of colours, and the largest daisy is so easy to Watercolour. Next I was using up odds and ends that have been lying around unfinished for ages. It felt good to turn them into something useful! Flowering Fields again - another twisted Easel. The Shine On Specialty DSP is so much nicer in Real Life. The silver accents are on one side of each of ...

Hello again, the Colour combination at The Colour Tree had me struggling at first, but once I started playing with the colours I really enjoyed using them. I have always loved the Turquoise but I was daunted by the Gold. That's the beauty of Challenges - they get you thinking! I'm also linking up with the CAS(E) this sketch#160.   The gift bag (top, right) inspiration from the SAB catalogue. In the end it's essentially a monochrome card with some Gold highlights - a few gold sequins and the fabulous Gold Washi tape on the peg. (though they don't show up very well in the photo) The Washi is from the Sale-a-Bration specials on at the moment, as is the gorgeous Pedal Pusher Stamp. Such a cute image and very easy to colour.  I used both a blender pen and the aqua painter. I don't make a lot of bags but was inspired to try the one at the back page of the Sale-A-Bration brochure. the Catalogue has such a lot of inspirational projects. You should c...

Hello again this beautiful Sunday. You may have come from  Kathryn's  blog, her Birthday Bloom card was awesome. Welcome to the hop. Hard to believe but tonight is our 100th HOP, that's certainly worth celebrating. This week will be a treat seeing all the beautiful creations from the gorgeous Birthday Suite in the occasions Catalogue from pages 8-15. There are so many beautiful products in these pages. I was so excited when I first saw the Number of Years bundle. Being able to personalise any card with the gorgeous big numbers is fabulous, and even better I love the font for the sentiments. I have been waiting a long time for SU to bring out a set that simply said Happy Anniversary, and this is it!I have chosen to CASE card on p10.   I do have a special couple in mind for their Anniversary this year. my parents in law The  numbers images in the Number of Years set are big and bold but so pretty. Cutting them out is a breeze with th...

Just a few Easel Cards I have in stock for the Handmade Markets this weekend. I love a fancy fold that folds flat for postage. And I have to say I am enjoying using the Grateful Bunch stamp set and matching punch. I'm sad the Hello set is no longer available but there are 3 new gorgeous Sale-A-Bration products which are ever so cute.The large daisy watercolours so easily with an aqua painter. All my envelopes for the markets are lined or decorated or handmade too.

We made a Twisted Easel card at Saturday's class and I promised I would upload some instructions - It's good to have them in one place, So they'll be searchable here under Fancy Folds. I'm sure there's another edition on this blog from a little while ago. So I made another version and this time I used the very purple  Colour Combination at The Colour Tree Challenge#6. I have to admit that I used Wisteria Wonder in place of Plum, which was a bit of a challenge for me but I dug through my bits and bobs and found an old brad and some ribbon, and all the DSP is from retired packs but that's enough purple in my box! And again I am using the Pocket Sketch Challenge   As I mentioned last time, Julie provides all the measurements ready to go which makes this super fast and easy. I haven't altered the dimensions this time as I don't think it matters that the Australian  metric card base is slightly narrower than the US imperial (ours is 5-1/2 x 8-1/4...

The theme this week at a JAI is Just add V - so valentine's is perfect. I made these few Valentine's cards for a friend at work who asked me to create something with red and pink! The first card I stamped, coloured (with the aqua painter) and cut out the bug and balloons and simply popped them up on the DSP. I'm not sure if you can see the sparkle in the second image but the Wink of Stella adds such a lovely glimmer. The Beautiful Ride set has so many possibilities, and it's actually easier to colour that it first appears. The second card is stamped directly onto whisper white and coloured the same way. The Archival black ink is perfect for colouring and gives such a clear image I am really impressed with it. The texture around the card is using the brilliant new Timeless Textures stampset. Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

Welcome back for another Sunday Night bloghop. You may have arrived form Kathryn's Honeycomb goodness , or you may have jumped in here. Stick around there's plenty to see. and Happy Valentine's Day to you all. Hope you have had a lovely day with the people who mean the most to you. This week we are able to choose any inspiration at all from the SAB catalogue ( it could be a layout, a colour combination, or an image, a theme or technique) - well that's a big call since I love it all, but there's a cute little simple card on page 5 which catches my eye every time I open the flier so I figured that was where I should start. Let's face it, we all need simple right? Old Olive background, and the cute little Wattle image from Flowering Fields, with a hint of some of the flowering fields DSP and a Sneak Peak of a new product - the Gold Washi Tape which will be one of the 3 new Sale-a-Bration products available after the 15th Feb.(very cool to use). The ...