Lillybet's Papers

My Father in Law is celebrating his 90th birthday this July and wanted a few cards to use as invitations for the get together. He came to Australia from England in the Merchant Navy  in the 1950's and still has a love of the Ocean so this challenge from Just Add Ink was perfect. I felt the High Tide was an appropriate stampset to use. I've also snuck in the compass image from Wherever You Go - I will miss this when it retires, I have loved the sunray image in this set too, but it just wasn't right for this card. The Celebrate looks embossed in the photos but it is actually debossed using the Retiring Celebrations Duo TIEF. To highlight the word I lightly sponged with Soft Sky to give the effect of clouds. I will miss both Soft Sky and Dapper Denim so it was good to use them for this set. I hope you have a creative week and remember, "don't just post online,  post something pretty!" cheers, Liz

Welcome back for the Colour INKspiration colour challenge #03. This week's colours are based on this cute tile seaside pic that Bronwyn chose I have to say I struggled with these colours for a while, and I tried several different approaches. In the end I was inspired by the tiles and the pattern made in putting them together. I also loved the Raised accents in Solid White . So I revisited an old scrapbook of mine with some old layouts which I have admired along the way, and found several of them I liked using tiled layouts of inchies etc. In the end I watercolored two pieces of watercolour paper using Marina Mist, Peekaboo Peach and Soft Sky, drying the paper between each colour so they didn't just bleed together in a brown mess!   I cut them randomly into several squares using the stitched framelits(not the tiny one-the next one up) Then I decorated each one with some subtle stamping using either Soft Suede or using tone on tone stamping using Timeless T...