Lillybet's Papers

It's easy to be inspired by the fabulous projects in the catalogue, it's sometimes just hard to find the time to create all those things you want to try. I'm really glad this week's Challenge covers these pages because I was asked to make a Farewell Card for a large office and the lined alphabet stamps and thinlits helped me decide where to start! Then I just picked a DSP paper pack  - "Share What You Love" - and chose the colours from there.  Welcome this week. I hope you find something here that sparks you to get creative too. It's a little hard to capture in photos but this "card" needed room for about 30 - 40 people to sign.  I left it fairly plain and there are no embellishments so that it sits flat and is easy to write in. I was inspired by the great photos on page 174. and also by a recent post by Rochelle Blok on Kelly's Paper Adventures Team blog hop. I used her link to the tutorial  video and but altered the measurem...

My preorder from the upcoming holiday catalogue arrived last week and I am loving the new embossing folders. There's 3 new ones in my collection but without a doubt the most stunning is the "Tin Tile" Dynamic Embossing Folder .  It reminds me of a pressed metal ceiling.  You'll just love it even more in real life, it's gorgeous. I had the unfinished vases on my desk so they helped me quickly put a few cards together. The second folder is called "Corrugated". It is also a dynamic folder so the impressions are really deep. It's best to spritz your cardstock lightly with water before running it through the bigshot so that the fibres don't crack. But the effect is really worth it. You will also notice the Tranquil Tide Glimmer paper - it's new too and stunning. The new catalogue is available from September 5.  If you would like a copy please let me know and  I'll pop one in the post to you.  I hope you have a creat...

Welcome back for Colour INKspiration round #40. This round will be up for 3 weeks so you have quite a while to create a project using this week's inspiration photo and post it to our Facebook page. The photo this week is very regal with strong colours.  I love the woodgrain, the lines, the ornate ceiling rose, the candelabra, the table and chairs. But I don't love Old Olive ( and I can never get it to look the right shade in my photos), and I don't own Gorgeous Grape ink (so I substituted Highland Heather, though I did have the right cardstock). In the end I made a little set of gift notecards using the Hostess set "Seasoned with Kindness" which has been patiently waiting to get inked up.  The Olive paper used to decorate the front of the pizza box is from the new Frosted Floral DSP which will be in the Holiday Catalogue. It's such beautiful paper it could almost make me love Old Olive......  Some of the pots I stamped directly onto woodgra...

Looking back is part of going forward right? So I have put together a few of my favourite projects from this year. Card making is my favourite crafting and being on the design teams at Colour INKspiration and CASEing the Catty means that I am constantly challenged to look at new ways of doing things, but also an incredible opportunity to learn from others. I also have to challenges myself to participate in challenges which are not my usual colour schemes/ style etc so it is a good opportunity to grow. Here are the links to a few of my favourites. This one has a surprise acetate front, See more here This one was a great way to Demonstrate the Stamparatus at the Rockhampton River Festival recently.  I just love the Bokeh Dots stampset. I may even modify this for my Christmas cards this year. You can see more details here I have also had lots of fun playing with the Floral Frames Bundle- it's beautiful. But as well as the obvious images I was thrilled to find Gumleav...

Last week for CASEing the Catty we used the section for Natures' Poem and I was inspried by a few things in the Catalogue. One of them was the mosaic style of card using stamped images on page 152. I used to make a lot of Patchwork style cards and since my crafting mojo has been a little low lately I find it helpful to go back to styles I used to like. So patchwork styles reappeared in my vision and I had always wanted to try a cathedral windows style. This is what I ended up with - eventually! I punched out 2" circles of patterned paper and cut squares of woodgrain or plain card to 1 1/4", and folded the edges of the circle over the squares. Getting them all lined up in the grid took a little time but I like the spacing which also allowed me to decorate the edges using some of the fabulous copper vinyl stickers from the Tea Room Copper stickers. I also used these to create a butterfly and a bee which sit up on some wire, as well as adhering one to some So Saffro...