Lillybet's Papers

I have been having a little play with this new stamp set. It's pretty easy to use. The Serene Scenery DSP is great and easy to use here, with nature prints on one side and geometric patterns on the other. The sentiments are all from retired sets and the bits of hardware are from my stash - still using up bits and pieces lying on my desk!! thanks for looking, Liz

Welcome to the CASEing the Catty Sunday night blogshop where we use a section of the Catalogue to inspire this weeks projects. Designers can take a layout, a colour combination, or any element as the starting point to create something new. We invite you to tour around the hop and to join in -after all the Catalogue has so many beautiful samples to inspire us all. If you get lost you'll find the full crew here .   If you are hoping along you may have come from Judy , so welcome. If you are starting here be sure and hop all the way around. Well if you have been following my blog lately you'll know that I'm quite taken with the Here's to Cheers bundle!! the wine bottle tags Cheerful Tags Frameleits and matching stampset are super cute and easy to use.  there's some great images on page 38 and I used them as a starting point. This cute set is for a birthday present, and I cut the silver swirl panel in half and simply spread it a little wider und...

Just a few more snaps of some bottle tags I have ready for the markets. so easy and fun! thanks for looking, Liz

This is an old technique but lots of fun and can be a great gift, especially if you personalise it with photos. So Next Wednesday September 28 I will have two classes - 10 am or 6pm. Limited placed book early. This is is folded and ready for giving on the bottom left. Here it is fully opened and ready for photos and messages.   Hope you can join me - if you would like to make one on a CHRISTMAS THEME please let me know and I will have yours in Appropriate colours available. Hope you can join me, Liz

Welcome to the CASEing the Catty Sunday night bloghop where we use a section of the Catalogue to inspire this weeks projects. Designers can take a layout, a colour combination, or any element as the starting point to create something new. We invite you to tour around the hop and to join in -after all the Catalogue has so many beautiful samples to inspire us all. If you get lost you'll find the full crew here Welcome if you are hopping along from Monique There are so many fabulous things you can make with the bigshot, it's hard to choose which fabulous set to play with. I don't have many of the new Christmas sets but that didn't stop me from taking inspiration and using what I already have!  In the end I chose to CASE the lovely gift bag on the left in this shot, and the card on page  9 I have always loved Vellum run through the embossing folder - Textured embossing was one of the reasons I first fell in love with the Bigshot! It gives such a rich textu...

I am having so much fun making the wine bottle tags, so I thought I'd share one in the gorgeous colour combo for GDP #053 this week. You can see my other samples here at CASEing the Catty#95. I have to confess I couldn't find any large enough sheets of DSP with Watermelon Wonder so  I've improvised with Calypso Coral for the Fan wrap, but the tag is Watermelon Wonder. Don't you just love how all the Stamping' Up! colours tone together so beautifully? I did also discover that I've used all my Watermelon Wonder ribbon but the Chevron Calypso Coral came to the rescue. Navy ribbon would have been stunning too, and I did try the gold satin but it was a bit lost against the foil neck of the bottle. The Here's to Cheers wine bottle tag thinlits are so fantastic I love them. I like to add the extra tag as there's nowhere to write on the bottle tag itself. (There is a small circle of vanilla inside my folded hanging tag for a brief mes...

My friend is leaving Australia and asked me to make her some Thankyou cards. If you follow my blog you will know that my signature card is 41/2 square with a matching handmade envelope. I found some 12 x12 DSP which is a perfect floral for the Swirly Bird set so I had fun putting this together. The sentiment is from Thoughtful Branches and is heat embossed in copper on a strip of vellum,  and the cute little swirls on the envelope label are from the new set Here's to Cheers from the new Holiday Catalogue. I have been using it quite a bit, it's so sweet. thanks for looking,   Liz

Welcome to the CASEing the Catty Sunday night bloghop where we use a section of the Catalogue to inspire this weeks projects. Designers can take a layout, a colour combination, or any element as the starting point to create something new. We invite you to tour around the hop and to join in -after all the Catalogue has so many beautiful samples to inspire us all. If you get lost you'll find the full crew  here .   The topic this week is favourite 3D item. Well that's such a big choice too. There are loads of 3D options in the new catalogue.  I had a few things I wanted to try but time  (or the lack of it) got in the way. So I focused on the things I like to do for Christmas and spent some time playing with gift wrapping. I fell in love with the Here's to Cheers bundle as soon as I saw it as we often give wine at Christmas -and I usually sell wine bottle tags at the Christmas Markets. I was also inspired by the folded paper fans in the photo on page 36 beca...

In an effort to use up bits and pieces (of which I always seem to have a ton) I put together this card using some remnants from a shaving cream marbling class that I held a while ago. The stamped leaves are from Thoughtful Branches and were lying on my desk, and the cork remnant is from a very old Sale a Bration bundle. The card base is Dapper Denim and it is one of the few new products used here!!!  the other is the copper foil for the sihouette leaf (also thoughtful branches), and the enamel dots. My trademark handmade matching envelope is Wild Wasabi froma retired pack of DSP, and he corrugated White card is also retired. so I think I have done quite well using up quite a collection of old bits. the sketch from  FMS worked well for this. thanks for looking,  Liz

I was asked to create a card for twins- a boy and a girl! How lovely. I used my sponge daubers to create the background and a very old stamp to create the romper suits - the current framelits were just a bit too large to have both sitting comfortably on the card together.I decided to use a mix of bright and soft colours Dapper Denim Mint Macaron So Saffron Flirty Flamingo I'm not sure if this quite qualifies for the Stampin' Up! Only challenge to use Primary Colours#156 (of any tone,) since Green is not strictly a primary but I'm going to include it as my entry this week anyway. It just needs the green to soften it- and to me green is a basic colour which I use all the time! Lets call it artistic license! It's easy to create the background using the Irresistibly Floral  DSP. Just add colour in patches  and blend gently together, Keep gradually increasing the depth until you are happy with the overall look.  Wipe over with a tissue or s...