Lillybet's Papers

Last week for CASEing the Catty we used the section for Natures' Poem and I was inspried by a few things in the Catalogue. One of them was the mosaic style of card using stamped images on page 152. I used to make a lot of Patchwork style cards and since my crafting mojo has been a little low lately I find it helpful to go back to styles I used to like. So patchwork styles reappeared in my vision and I had always wanted to try a cathedral windows style. This is what I ended up with - eventually! I punched out 2" circles of patterned paper and cut squares of woodgrain or plain card to 1 1/4", and folded the edges of the circle over the squares. Getting them all lined up in the grid took a little time but I like the spacing which also allowed me to decorate the edges using some of the fabulous copper vinyl stickers from the Tea Room Copper stickers. I also used these to create a butterfly and a bee which sit up on some wire, as well as adhering one to some So Saffro...

Welcome back for another week of catalogue inspiration. My inspiration has been fairly low recently so it's good to use the catalogue as a resource. It's also helpful to go back to projects you enjoyed and recreate them with different products ......or of course you could try some NEW PRODUCTS!!! So that's exactly what I did when my box of new products from the coming Holiday Catalogue arrived. There's a lot of beautiful things to choose from but I tried to be realistic with this order. Today I'm giving you a SNEAK PEAK of a few items: some gorgeous new Designer Series Paper."Frosted Floral" It's absolutely lovely and suitable for so many different projects.Shimmery on both sides and suitable for male/female/Wedding/ Christmas ....all sorts of occasions. It uses 13 different colours so it's amazingly versatile some beautiful new Glimmer Paper- a pack of 24 sheets 3 different colours, Tranquil Tide, Merry Merlot and Copper I also...