Lillybet's Papers

Sprinkles of Life is such a cute set and I'm a sucker for a tree stamp so this was a no brainer for me, especially with the matching punch . This is another in a series of flip pop-up cards I have been making lately, and this one is for a very special friend of the family who has just moved out of college into her first share home, so a housewarming gift seemed essential. You can find the directions for the card and another sample here . It's such an easy and effective card design, you should try one ! I have also used the super cute retired Sale-A-Brataion set You Brighten my Day. I also used the beaut new Rotary Stamp to personalise the greeting, I love the versatility of this, and the Hello You  thinlets for the Happy greeting. Thanks for looking, I will have more half circle pop up fold cards to show tomorrow. Liz Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

Welcome to this weeks blog hop. I hope you are enjoying your trip around the crew of designers are CTC. You have probably come from the fabulous Helen's post, she always makes something inspirational. This week's challenge is to create something taking inspiration from the Project Life section of the catalogue. The idea is to take inspiration from anything- a colour combination, a layout, an element.... I haven't ventured into the world of project life scrapbooking (or any scrapbooking really!), so it was a challenge to find somewhere to start, but I do have a love for squares at the moment, and for geometry, so I was struck by the page layout  on the bottom right of the photo on page 54- the one with 3 squares down the middle. It's perhaps easier to see it from the image of the Variety Pack on page 145. I have used the layout on the bottom right - I think this would work well with "inchies" but I have made a very large card -6x6 for a f...

Continuing on my week of thankyou cards for all the wonderful people who helped me with #creativerelief this is a quick post using the great sketch at tgifc#07 I just love the little wooden Expressions Natural Accents  from the new catalogue, and I'm so loving the Brick Wall embossing Folder and that great leaf image from Crazy About You And since it's just as fast to make 2 at a time here is a simpler version using black and the Hello You   Thinlits. Thanks for looking,  Liz Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

It's time to make Easter cards and that fits really well with the JAI challenge to use eggs or ovals. The challenge at CASE-ing the Catty is to combine stamps and accessories from both the Occasions Catalogue and the Sale-a-Bration Catalogue which ends this month. from the Occasions Catalogue: Love is Kindness and the Hello You Thinlits Dies, Crazy About You stamp set. from the Sale-a Bration Catalogue Best Ever Accessory Pack wishing you a Happy Easter too, Thanks for looking, Liz Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

The sketch from Fresly Made Sketches made me think straight away of a card I saw recently which was made by Bronwyn Eastley which I have been wanting to try. So I did!  It should have been a lot faster but I just couldn't get anything to work properly the first time. Anyway, I wanted to make a shaker card and finally got all the right pieces in the right places. I used the Sale-A-bration Set You Brighten My Day , Lost Lagoon and Pistachio Pudding cardstock and ink, Spring Flowers Embossing Folder , the Shaker frames adhesive rims and window sheets cut with the circles framelits , and the wonderful HelloYou thinlits dies. The shaker contains some small beads and sequins from the In Colour Sequins Assortment. I would have liked to add glitter but that seemed a dangerous option given how everything else went wrong initially. Maybe next time… Some Lost lagoon bakers twine was separated to give thinner threads and used to stitch on a little button a...