Lillybet's Papers

The new in colours are so pretty and the colour challenge at PPA this week is just perfect for a special birthday card I need for today. I have made another magic window card and will post a tutorial with the CASEing the Catty card this Sunday (August 14). I have made lots of these in the past and you can see some more samples here. The card is closed with a belly band and as you open the card the sliding mechanism opens to reveal the message in the window. Detail of the cluster on the belly band. As you open the gate fold The little cluster of flowers is made using swirly bird, and the leaf spray is fussy cut from the DSP sheet from the Fruit Stand collection. The sliding mechanism slowly opening. I coloured the White glimmer paper numbers using a sponge dauber and the Flirty Flamingo ink. The numbers are cut using the now retired Bigz Die and worked well for this card as they are much finer than the big numbers framelits- and 50 years de...

Welcome to the CASEing the Catty Sunday night bloghop where we use a section of the Catalogue to inspire this weeks projects. Designers can take a layout, a colour combination, or any element as the starting point to create something new. We invite you to tour around the hop and to join in -after all the Catalogue has so many beautiful samples to inspire us all. If you get lost you'll find the full crew  here .   You may have arrived here from Monique , so welcome! This week we are again using the samples from the Everyday Occasions section (which is a huge section) from pages 66-91.  But that's ok because there are so many samples to draw from. I have drawn on the sample on page 78- the large embossed pineapple - not sure why but pineapples are everywhere this year!! Anyway, I liked the look of the full background panel of DSP on coordinating coloured card and the large image over the top. Having just opened some new goodies - new Fruit Stand DSP and ...