Lillybet's Papers

Reaching out to friends seems so much more appropriate now that we are all at home so it was an easy pick with which word to use for this challenge.  It is the 500th challenge for Just Add Ink which is one of my favourite challenge blogs so I am really happy I have had a chance to join in this week. I was keen to have a single word sitting over a block of simple stamping- a much more pared back style than my usual cards, and I also used a lot of yellow, so this was truly a challenge for me. I have die cut the word Friend from both white and black and offset one over the other so that there is an outline affect to highlight the word. I also added a small layer of vellum behind the word to soften the vibrancy of the flowers behind it.  And you have to have a little colour story on the inside to match! Thanks JAI for all the inspiration over the years.   I hope you have a creative week and remember,  "don't just post online, ...

Hello and welcome back for another round of inspiration from this very large section of the catalogue.  I CASEd a lot of the cards in this section before my Catalogue Launch day and I know I haven't shown you all of them. So this week I have two different samples which I have CASE'd from this section The first is the gorgeous BIRDS on page 139. The blue version using DSP from the Delightful Daisy DSP and the birds framelits, and the branch from the Colourful Seasons thinlits makes an easy card to put together. The second version is more like the catalogue sample and uses the frond image from Ready to Pop. This lovely sentiment is from Dragonfly Dreams The second pair of cards use 2 of the current in colours and are a direct CASE of the butterfly card on page 134 which I knew I would copy as soon as I saw it the first time I flipped through the catalogue!. This lovely sentiment is from Colourful Seasons. There's such a lot of inspiration im...

I've had a bit of fun this morning playing with a fe new products. I LOVE the new embossing paste- and I've been waiting for ages for SU to bring out some materials for mixed media.  This paste is light and very easy to spread it dries quickly and gives a beautiful finish It can be easily coloured with our refill inks to create a perfect match. This weeks colours are just lovely together.  In my card I have used marina mist ink to colour the paste and used the brick wall mask. This is spread over a watercolour wash using Marina Mist- I just love the layers of colour. To create the leaves I used the 3 ink colours from the challenge and the baby wipe technique to get the variegated leaves using the Colorful Seasons stamp set and framelits. I don't currently have any Early Espresso cardstock but I do have some very old (retired) Early Espresso heat emboss powder, and I have used this for the sentiment on vellum. Of course I ended up with ...