Lillybet's Papers

Welcome back. What gorgeous colours we have for this challenge. I love how fresh this colour combo is and this week I have used it for a batch of thankyou cards I needed to make. I also have some more tips for you using the STAMPARATUS. What a bonus for making multiples like this.  I have used 2 of the amazing Sale A Bration sets. The Heartfelt Blooms was not on my initial "Must Have" list but once you see it in real life and stamp with it you are hooked. It has amazing detail. The second set used is the Beautiful Peacock which appealed to me not for the bird but for the gorgeous swirl and those teeny tiny accent pieces.  Just a warning - this is a picture heavy post. lol..... I don't do videos but I learn by lots of pictures so I hope you will pick up a few tips this way too.   Handy Tip#1 - you can colour the silver Rhinestones using the alcoholic Stampin Blends. I used the dark Bermuda Bay and it tones so well. That may not be a new tip but did yo...

Welcome back for another week CASEing the amazing pages of the Sale A Bration Brochure. I'm away on holidays next week so wanted to make sure I wouldn't miss too many episodes- and besides it's a great reason to excuse myself form the dishes and get crafting!  The Celebrate YOu Thinlits are beautiful- and best of all they WILL be continuing in the next catalogue. The stampset which matches will not be continuing however so make sure to order yours if you love it as much as I do. For this card I wanted to use all 3 thinlits and I CASEd the card on the bottom of page 17, I didn't have enough time to cut out 3 or 4 of the celebrate and cut them into blocks of letters for the ombre effect they describe in the brochure. Instead I cut one word from Sahara Sand and using paper as a mask I sponged it lightly with a dauber using increasing intensity of Berry Burst Ink. To make the word stand out a little I cut a second word from Copper and adhered the 2 slight...

Hi again, The challenge for What Will You Stamp this week uses the Party Pandas which is perfect because I had a few little guys cut out and Waiting Patiently for some attention on my desk top ( which is slowly getting clearer) I also used up-  piece of leftover watercolour paper which I cut into a label and a square, another strip of watercolour shimmer paper, some silver leaves and 2 other silver shapes, an envelope liner and some mint striped ribbon , and a few more odd enamel shapes -  not bad for an odd set of bits and bobs. One of the things I have been really happy with doing this #useitup process is that I make sure I finish each card as I go - including decorating the inside, stamping the Stampin Up logo "Better than Email" on the back, attaching my embossed Logo and decorating the envelope as I go. I always stamp the inside seniment onto a scrap piece of paper which is sealed in the cello bag with the card ready for sale. I never really comprehended how lon...

Just Add Ink this week have the challenge of Just adding Romance. I have been trying to use up some of the many half packs of product I have accumulated and  the bits and bobs on my desktop. - my personal challenge to #useitup. This includes a few packs of Memories and More cards Today I have used up one of the cards, some sequins, some gold foil washi and a gold glimmer strip of hearts. The card is in the gorgeous Mint Macaron (my favourite green - so sad that it's retired) in an ombre style and I just loved the sentiment  - Fall in Love with Moments.  I was not going to be able to easily cover the width of the opening with the card so I opted instead to cut out the circle and adhere that to the card base inside the shaker. I created this shaker card and used the Amazing You stamp set in the Sale a Bration Catalogue.  The flower was heat embossed in gold on crumb cake and painted with Berry Burst using my blender pen. Since I've already cut my stamp...

Welcome back for the Sunday night treat - CASEing the kits section from the catalogue. There are several just gorgeous kits in this catalogue - and so stunning when completed. The best thing about the Lots of Happy Card Kit is that you can purchase the refill kits. Recently for our Stamping Retreat we included one full 1/4 of a refill kit in everyone's goodie bag. They received everything they needed to make one of each of the beautiful card you see in this week's inspiration pic. However, I decided instead this week to CASE the layout of one of the cards on the bottom of page 17. I love the  background stamping using some text,  a little feature element  a coloured card base some matching sponging behind the element to tie the colours together and a sentiment stamped over the background I did get a bit carried away in the end..... not unusual.....and ended up with lots of backgrounds.  So I made them all up. My goal this weekend is to use up all the ...

Hello Beautiful Friend- using the beautiful colour combination from Inspire, Create, Share (and the layout which I've used from Caseing the Catty for #164 from page 17 of the catalogue). What a lovely colour combination. Playing with colour sometimes takes me back to childhood. I still remember being so excited the first time I learnt that mixing primary colours gave you a whole new world of variations. The colour wheel had me fascinated. I still love the surprise of what will happen when you mix different amounts of colour. In this case yellow and blue = green...... and it turns out to be very similar to Cucumber Crush using Bermuda Bay. A few handy tips using this set: I cut the leaves from the flower (a bit tricky but worth it). So now I can stamp the leaves and flower in different colours I inked the leaf section in Daffodil and then added Bermuda Bay using a sponge dauber to only the main leaf stem I inked the sunray in Daffodil and added Bermuda Bay using...