Lillybet's Papers

Welcome back to CASEing the Catty for another week. This week we are using pages 36 - 41 as our inspiration. You can take a layout, a colour scheme or an embellishment as inspiration. I started with a gift bag on page 40 and it took me in 2 different directions. I LOVED the filigree stamp and punch but I found the gorgeous copper wire embellishments were just a bit big on this as a card- and you really needed 2 which is perfect for gift wrapping but a bit excessive for posting (for me). So I modified it and used copper punched sprigs instead, and a touch of copper ribbon and some shimmer paint in alcohol as a spritz. A fairly quick card, and nice and shimmery. You might get a better idea of the shimmer from this angle, although it is very difficult to capture. I used 3 drops of shimmer paint and 3 drops of lovely lipstick and spritzed a white panel which became the base for the sentiment panels. Stamp and punch- my kind of project. And here's the inspiration pictur...

Every now and then I have an urge to clean up some of those bits and pieces that are lying around after previous projects. (so I can make room for new things with a clear conscience!!) Also I end up with lots of half finished projects because things don't work the first time,  or I cut more than I need,  or leftovers from classes, or retired pieces that I still love etc...... Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But I had a pyjama day yesterday and everything seemed to flow quite well  and I was able to create quite a stash of simple notecards. I think I can enter this for the Inspire.Create.challenge theme of Celebration. I was certainly celebrating that it was a very good day that I was productive that I cleared a lot of bits and pieces off my desk and that I ended up with 19 notecards to send to friends. ( I could really celebrate because I did actually write, address AND post them Here's a little preview of some of the other things that came toge...

Welcome back for another round of Colour INKspiration. And what a stunning colour palette we have this week for CI#42. It's no secret that Mint Macaron is one of my favourite greens - and green is probably my favourite colour, so I loved this combination. I love the copper bowls and the farmhouse feel in the Inspo pic so it was an easy jump to the Country Home stamp set and the copper jug and milk urn. I often have ginger flowers in my kitchen and they are very tall so I love the idea of a very tall arrangement in a big jug. I heat embossed the images using copper powder on the copper foil and fussy cut them. It was easiest to cut through the bottom join of the jug handle to cut the excess away, and then just glue it back in place. I stamped a row of kitchen tiles and sponged champagne shimmer paint on the black embossed strip. The greenery is just stamped in place - very easy. The distINKtive design on the Wishing You Well set is wonderful. Youmight get a slightly clear...