Lillybet's Papers

What to do when you have loads of pretty paper? - Make cards that show it off, of course! This is a selection of Joy Fold cards which I made recently for stamping friends, just to say "Happy New Catalogue". I love how bright and cheerful they look. The floral pieces and some of the patterns are from the new Florals in Bloom DSP which will be available on the 6th of May (Yay!) Some of the other decorative patterns are from sets in my stash. The Unbounded Beauty DSP is carrying over into the new catalogue which is great because it has so many versatile patterns which coordinate with so many other different papers. It's wonderful that several paper packs are continuing on, who doesn't love good value products? I really love this new Sentiment Set too - Mixed Labels , Such a gorgeous font and beautiful sayings. "You're pretty wonderful" is so easy to use. You'll find it in the online exclusives section of the store, along with loads of other amazing thin...

Welcome back for another week at CASEing the Catty- how is it Sunday again already?? No matter, this week we are CASEing the Gingham Gala section of the Occasions Catalogue, and I was inspired by the wee butterfly card in the bottom right of our Inspo picture. I have been busy making Fancy Fold cards since my class last weekend focused on "Simple Stamping with a Fancy Fold" so this post gives me an opportunity to share a Tutorial for the Joy Fold card which was one of 4 we made. You can see some of the other tutorials on posts for recent days here, and here. This style of card has been around for a while and there are many different versions I'm sure, so this is my version (Metric). A Joy Fold card has a base card which opens right to left like a regular card (or book), and a smaller card adhered to the card base which opens left to right. The small card front sits over the top of the larger card base.- it's your basic Reef Knot-"right over left, left o...