Lillybet's Papers

Welcome back to this weeks Sunday night CASEing the CATTY bloghop. This week we are looking at Love & Sympathy cards and projects on pages 44-55. I have chosen the cute card on page 54 using the super sweet Weather Together Bundle. Today we did the baby wipe technique in class so I made this card using Bermuda Bay, Tempting Turquoise, Pool Party and Pacific Point inks. The variegation in the colours is a really nice effect and works well with stamps of a medium size.  Although it works best with solid image stamps I was really pleased with this line image version. To create a solid patch of colour to stamp the sentiment stamp I simply used one of the larger stamps from Timeless Texture stamped repeatedly to cover a small area. I really love the script in this set and the "Thanks" had gone unnoticed until today but I love it I used a scrap of the retired Kraft and Silver DSP  which already has the raindrops on it  - see if you can spot my mistake...

This gorgeous card was made by my friend Heather. She has such a talent for colouring and she wanted to share this card with the CTC Challenge this week but since she doesn't currently have a blog I'm posting it for her. I think I need to throw a party so I can get this gorgeous Hostess Set. Thank You Heather for sharing and inspiring! thanks for looking,  Liz

So I do really love a card that sits up or has a fancy you fold, and this design is super simple and ever so effective. I have seen it before but it surfaced again recently on the GDP challenge which I follow avidly ( though I seldom get a chance to enter despite my best intentions). This is a simple card which folds flat for postage, and I will have a whole stash of them at the Rockhampton Handmade Expo Markets markets next week . I will also be running a class to make this later in the year. Take piece of A4 cardstock and trim it to    25cm x 15cm Cut panels 4 at                                              5cm x 14.5cm cut 3 pattern panels and one plain panel at   4.5cm x 14cm cut two circles of scrap cardstock                1.25inches front decorative panel whatever size you like Wit...

How cute are these stamped images and sentiments? I have a selection of these available at the Handmade Expo Markets this weekend. These stand up cards fold flat for posting. "Friends Don't Let Friends Wine Alone" is still under construction but here's a little sneak peak at some of them.... This gives a better view of standing and then folded flat I will have a tutorial on these soon, but it too is still under construction!! Thanks for looking, Liz

Welcome ro the Sunday  night  CASEing the Catty  blog hop. This week we are taking inspiration from the Chapter on Thanks , pages 38-43 in the Catalogue. You may have come from jackie  or you may be starting here. We hope you find something to inspire you in these projects. There are so many ways to say thankyou, but I don't think we send cards nearly as often as we should. I feel I have so much to be grateful for so I love to send Thankyou notes. However, for this week I took inspiration from the fabulous packet on page 43, and I used this a model for  my Welcome Package at my Catalogue Launch Party today. I had a lot of fun playing with the fabulous new set Falling Flowers. It has some really great images in it and I have had a bit of a play with it this week. (You can see some other samples with them Here  and here )  There are matching framelits too which make life really easy but for these I just did some random collage st...

While this card is made with not all Stampin' Up! products it is a blend of old and new, nothing borrowed but something blue. Next weekend is the Handmade Expo Markets here in Rockhampton and I always like to have a stash of wedding cards. This is one which I think fits the bill for both these challenges. The GDP challenge #040 is to CASE  the Designer and using Shawn de Oliveira's card I have reversed the layout to have the long strip and ribbon accent on the left. I am really glad I purchased the new Falling Flowers and May Flowers bundle. The stamped images are crisp and clear and the framelits are magic. I have heat embossed in white both the leaves and berries onto Naturals White cardstock (wish they'd bring this back), and also one onto some pale DSP which I had left over. Then I coloured the berries with my blender pen using Mint Macaron. The die cut leaves are from the same set of framelits and I used some shimmer white paper which I had watercoloured fo...

Don't you just love it when a card comes together quickly without too much rearranging? I have been working very hard to clear a lot of thos 'bits and pieces' off my work area. I am a bit of a chaotic crafter and always end up with extra bits left over from projects  - which I struggle to throw away.!!!! So this card actually used up 8 elements ( including a stamped envelope) which were left over from other projects and it all just fell together. I am really glad I purchases the Falling Flowers set as it is truly lovely - nicer than the catalogue would suggest. I hope you get a chance to play with it sometime. the matching Framelits are brilliant, especially the large Dahlia, and I'll have more fancy fold cards to show you this week using it too. Having said that, this set would work well as just the stamps on their own. I do love the leaves from the Fabulous Flora set stamped along the edge of the card like this. It's a technique I used a lot for Onstage....

Well my new products arrived and this is what I had in mind for last weeks CASEing the Catty entry. I ended up using the "YOU" framelit which you can see here , for last week, but this brilliant flower die is so much more satisfying! The other framelits in this set are gorgeous too- leaves and berries and lots of flowers.  I have another card in the same colours using some of the other elements at the Just Add Ink challenge here I love the Mint Macaron with the Sweet Sugarplum and Sahara Sand (colours inspired by the Blooms and Bliss DSP ). That cute border and the sentiment is from the Tin of Cards Stamp set - so versatile. Other fabulous products - the new Mint Macaron Sheer Linen ribbon, Blushing Bride sequins and Metal Rimmed Pearls. Who doesn't love a shaker! Thanks for looking, I have one more project to share using the May Flowers Thinlits tomorrow. Hope you find some time to be creative, Liz

Just a quick post as I rush to get in before the deadline!! I have finally had some time to play with some of my new products from the new Catalogue, and I'm loving the new May Flowers Framelits and the matching stampset Falling Flowers. JAI has a sketch challenge this week The new DSP Blooms and Bliss was the inspiration for my colour palette of Sahara Sand, Mint Macaron and Rich Razzleberry. And how could I not use the beautiful Copper Embossing Powder . For the smaller panel behind the focus flowers I used another new product - the Petal Burst embossing folder. I'm glad the silver rimmed pearls have carried over this year, they are an easy accent. Thanks for looking, I have some other projects to share next using some more of the Framelits, they are really stunning. Liz

Hello again, welcome back for our Sunday night blog hop. this week on CTC a we are taking inspiration from the Christmas section which is Chapter 2 in the lovely new Catalogue from pages 26-37 You may have arrived from Bec , or you may be staring here, but jump in here and follow around the group. Well I don't know about you but I can't possibly think about making Christmas projects yet!!! But that's quite OK because  the idea of CTC is to use the catalogue as a springboard. for instance You can use one or any or several of :- A colour combination A card layout A stampset  A project in the catalogue .or  ..... The possibilities are endless. So what did I use? ....the cute card on the bottom of page 33 Now I did have plans of using a new detailed thinlit but sadly it didn't arrive today so I did a quick rethink,  and I still managed to use a few new products. This technique is an inlaid diecut technique so I first cut the word from Pink...