Lillybet's Papers

Welcome back for another round of Colour INKspiration. The groovy photo #12 for inspiration this week has so many elements- texture, stitching, loads of colour, geometric patterns,stripes sheep, trees, waves, balls, timber....it was too much for me initially.  I love all the elements but having to choose a few was hard for me. .. or even a starting point! So I have been avoiding trying to create from this picture until tonight when I went for a long walk and the gorgeous sunset colours spoke to me.  Deep blue and purple at the horizon, golden peach at the lower end of the sky, reflecting off the buildings with a beautiful glow, stretching up to gentle pink and a soft blue at the "top" of the sky. I knew then what colours I would use. Night of Navy Elegant Eggplant Peekaboo Peach Flirty Flamingo I took a panel of shimmery white card and wet it with my aquapainter then painted stripes of the navy and eggplant and let the water m...

I discovered this technique quite by accident and I have used it exclusively since for colouring the embossing paste I use. There is no waste and no mess, and I don't have lots of little pots of coloured paste which might dry out and be useless. it's a simple technique - those are often the best. use any ask and a sponge and apply one colour of ink over the mask- this can be on your project or on a scrap piece of paper position the section of mask with the ink on it in the position you wish to have the coloured paste on your project take a small amount of paste with a clean palette knife and spread it over the ink coloured mask the paste will become coloured as you spread it - you can move the colour around, and sometimes your finished area will be variegated colours and that's it! Here's a few samples of cards using that technique - I applied the sponging on a scrap piece of paper For this Crushed Curry card the mask had two colours sponged o...

 A super quick post to get my card entry in on time. Opened up a set I have been longing to use. Thanks JAI for the inspiration picture. I've picked up the copper from the vase in the copper embossing, the brick motif on the embossing paste, the timber in the embossed vellum and the white and yellow flowers in the painted flowers. After heat embossing with white powder on white Craft Ink stamped image, I coloured the leaves and flowers with white Craft ink using the blender pen, then coloured over the dry white images with Wild Wasabi and Daffodil Delight using the blender pen.  It's a lovely soft image coloured this way. The colour palette from the picture also included Smoky Slate cardstock layered behind the Crumb Cake panel. The word "lovely comes from the new Lovely word thinlits- so beautiful, and I then embossed the whole piece with the Copper Powder. The little friendis from Teeny Tiny sentiments - I looked through all my sets for "my" but cou...

Welcome back for another week at CTC where we are casing the projects from pages 86-101. There were a few projects in here which inspired me but I want to take you on a little creative journey to where I ended up this week and a happy accidental new technique I discovered along the way. The aim of CTC is to take a project which inspires you from the catalogue and use it as a springboard for your creations. This week I used the card on the top left of this half of page 97.  I am a fan of layers and little clusters of elements and of stitching so all 3 of these things appealed in the love you more card here. My first card used the same background stamping tone on tone in the beautiful new Powder Pink, the word and heart from Sunshine Wishes Thinlits , the little roses from Swirly Bird and one of the gorgeous new Touches of Nature Elements - these wooden elements are natural timber on one side and white on the other - scrumptious! I poked a little bit of ribbon and...