Lillybet's Papers

Hello again, and Welcome back for another rounf of CASEing the Catty. This week we are taking inspiration from any of the kits available.  I'm not a big user of kits but I do love how everything is beautifully presented and super easy to assemble. I have taken the colour theme  from Perfectly Wrapped  kit on pate 159 this week as the inspiration point for my project. (that's it on the left in the Blog header here) The kits are all shown in pages 158-161,  Black and White, Tangerine Tango and Emerald Envy- super strong combination! I have to admit Tangerine is not one of the ink colours I use much - or even own!, but I did have a little bit of card and paper. I'm really going to miss the Love you Lots set from the Hostess section of this catalogue- it's perfect for kids cards. I didn't have much in Black and White either - but luckily the cards from the Project Life kits are often great backgrounds. Thanks so much for looking, ...

Welcome back for another round of Colour INKspiration this week, and a big welcome to Fi Cobbin who is our guest designer for this week. I just love the inspiration pic this week - so many luscious images in there, and I once I started playing I quickly realised that this is one of my favourite colour combinations so far.  We have a friend's (significant) birthday this weekend so it had to be a birthday card, but I have left the numbers off there! She's not a frills and fussy person so that ruled out flowers - which is itself an instant challenge for me!  But I loved the richness of the pool party backgrounds in all the photos so that was my starting point. I created 2 watercolour wash backgrounds - one on Watercolour paper and the other on Shimmery White. Then I stamped the solid leaf image using pool party but I spritzed the stamp before applying to the wet paper.  In real life the colour is a bit more intense, and I was really happy with it. Pool Party is one of ...