Lillybet's Papers

I had such fun playing with the colours from The Colour Tree Challenge #11 and had some watercolour panels left so I decided to make a thankyou card for this weeks challenge at The Global Design Project #027. Feel free to Ink Up and Link Up at the Colour Tree.  The sentiment for this one is the gorgeous script from the Rose Wonder set. I love to say thankyou with a card and I have someone in mind for this one. Thank YOU for looking, Liz

I love the simplicity of the Vintage Leaves images and wanted to create some cards for my sons to have on hand. I am trying to convince them that sending a thankyou card is a good habit to get into.  Well any card really is a pleasure to recieve. So they had to be simple and unfussy.  I used the Crumb cake notecards and envelopes which are brilliant value and are also good because they are smaller than regular cards - don't want the boys to be put off by the thought of having to write too many words! I am submitting these cards for the Just Add Ink Challenge #296 to Just Add Nature. I did use the beautiful Shimmer Paper and some alcohol mixed with Artichoke ink and Gold Wink of Stella ink to get the water colour look for the background. And while I know Always Artichoke is not everyone's favourite colour I love it. They are all slightly different and have no sentiments so they are versatile. I did also make a box for them to be stored in but I ...

The Challenge this week is to Just Add Music at Just Add Ink, so this is my entry for the Challenge. I only recently bought the Vintage Leaves stampset and I love it. I already had the framelits which I purchased with the Lighthearted Leaves set - also gorgeous - and I have made quite a selection of cards with that set which you can see on another post ( here ). This is a set of thankyou cards which i made for a friend and they are all watercolour wash backgrounds using Cherry Cobbler, Rich Rzzleberry, Old Olive, Night of Navy and Wild Wasabi. She loved them! The leaf is embossed with clear embossing powder on Night On Navy. I always stamp the inside of the card and the envelope to match with a collage of images. These are from Vintage Leaves, Painted Petals and French Foliage. For this one I inked up the embossing folder. This one has versamark and clear embossing powder lightly applied to the raised embossed ridges. Thanks for lo...