Lillybet's Papers

  There are several great techniques using White Pigment Ink. At a recent event I demonstrated a few of them including: ( well it's a while ago now!)     * Direct stamping with White onto coloured cardstock     *Offset stamping     *Bokeh technique     *Painting with White Ink     *Emboss Resist It has taken me a while to share these samples, I'll post them over a few days. I hope you give some of these techniques a try. So this is a bit of a different approach to Emboss Resist. Often it is done with White, or Metallic , or Black and then coloured ink is blended over the embossing to make the stamped image jump forward. ( usually on a neutral cardbase ) This technique uses a different approach. Step 1. I stamped the leaves (from Changing Leaves) with Versamark and then used Clear Embossing Powder. When heat set the image take on a much deeper tone of the base coloured card. Stamp plenty of images to create a background pattern. Ste...

HELLO  and welcome back for another round of Colour INKspiration, where this week we have a bright sunny yellow palette. I had lots of ideas on what to create with this set but had trouble getting most of them to come together.   In the end I created a floral card with some triangle elements and several layers. I love the Falling Flowers suite for heat embossing and colouring. All the floral elements are heat embossed with white on white then coloured using the markers or a blender pen and markers. I have cut the centre from one of the flowers and raised it up. The accent around the triangle flap is actually silver foil and then Smoky Slate DSP which doesn't show up very well in this photo. I love the dark tone of the DSP (from the retired Urban Underground DSP) which sits on a separate hinged flap under the first layer.  Hopefully the photos will give you a clearer idea. The front - still doesn't show the silver between the white and the Smoky ...

It's Sunday - a week since we arrived home and I'm trying to get back into the swing of things, With all the excitement of holidays, the new catalogue, and the huge Craft Expo which we did just before in went away, it has taken me a while to get back to my craft desk. But Sunday night is blogshop night so that'a good routine to start with. Welcome back  you may have arrived from  Rachel's  flirty page, such a gorgeous colour and project So this week we are very excited in the Stamping' Up community to be using the NEW CATALOGUE  for inspiration. If you've had a chance to drool over the millions of wish list items you'll know it's a pretty amazing read, If you would like a copy of the catalogue I'd be happy to supply one for you. We are starting with the section on Birthdays- pages 12-25. I wasn't sure where to start but I was quite taken with the card on the bottom of page 23. I don't have the thinlits with the swirly piece ...