Lillybet's Papers

Hello and welcome back for another round of inspiration from this very large section of the catalogue.  I CASEd a lot of the cards in this section before my Catalogue Launch day and I know I haven't shown you all of them. So this week I have two different samples which I have CASE'd from this section The first is the gorgeous BIRDS on page 139. The blue version using DSP from the Delightful Daisy DSP and the birds framelits, and the branch from the Colourful Seasons thinlits makes an easy card to put together. The second version is more like the catalogue sample and uses the frond image from Ready to Pop. This lovely sentiment is from Dragonfly Dreams The second pair of cards use 2 of the current in colours and are a direct CASE of the butterfly card on page 134 which I knew I would copy as soon as I saw it the first time I flipped through the catalogue!. This lovely sentiment is from Colourful Seasons. There's such a lot of inspiration im...

I always hope to participate in the GDP challenges as I think they are awesome, but I seem to seldom get my ideas translated into a card and then a blog.......it happened again that I got the inspiration and the creation but somehow the photo and blog just didn't happen in time. But I'm posting this anyway. ( and I've already given the card away!) For this weeks challenge (Well ok last week's challenge)  I am inspired to CASE one of my favourite designers from their team - the lovely Jess Williams who was one of our original members at CASEing the Catty. She has a beautiful style and I love her work.  She does some amazing watercolour so I have used her card as inspiration. Thanks Jess. My card is an easel card and is nice and bright. A little watercolour, a little embossing, a little colouring and a little stitching.... thanks for looking and remember, "don't just post online, post something pretty!" Liz

Hard to believe another 2 weeks have flown by and we are back being inspired by a NEW COLOUR PALETTE for CI#16. It's a great combination which would be ideal for Father's Day but since I've already made a ton of Father's Day cards for the markets recently (You can check out some of those masculine ideas here  and here ) I found I was running low on feminine cards - how strange! I have been needing to restock my market supplies of notecard sets and the new Pizza Boxes are perfect - and joy oh joy the 3x3 mini envelopes are BACK in the new catalogue (page44 with the pizza boxes). So this is a matching set I've created this week. The jar is stamped onto vellum and this is layered on a piece of acetate just to give it a bit more rigidity. I've glued these on with the thin foam strips designed for shaker cards. The cute little "with Love" is part of the "Made with Love" sentiment that comes in the new set "Labels to Love" I alway...

Welcome back for another week. It's been a busy week here preparing for markets again here but I managed to create something for this week's look at the love and sympathy pages. I have chosen the sweet watercolour umbrella card on page 93. My watercolouring is the sponge and splash technique (I've done that before and you can read more instructions here ). I used a foam roller to layer on plenty of ink, then spritzed the watercolour paper with water, then splashed a bit more clean water on for good measure! The clean water lifts some of the colour off creating marvellous backgrounds. Crushed Curry Island Indigo Tranquil Tide Lemon Lime Twist The Watts of Occasions stamp set is so much fun to use, I heat embossed the images with silver and applied more Crushed Curry Ink with a sponge dauber. Next this week on the hop is Peta And before me this week is Julia Don't forget we love to see what you create using...