Lillybet's Papers

In preparing for #onstage2022 and my presentation using the Fancy Flora Suite I had lots of fun playing with the beautiful DSP.  ( called Fancy Flora) One of the great effects I discovered was the magic of cutting patterned paper with the large detailed die.  My first card here is simply layered over some Night Of Navy cardstock for a dramatic effect. I was so thrilled when I pulled it out of the die - it was such a surprise to see how different it looked from the random painted pattern of the paper.  It was easy then to simply layer a tag sentiment over the top. The perfect sentiment for the time challenged ( ie me! ) These are all the papers and I had fun experimenting with other detailed dies and the patterns. What other detailed dies do you have that you can think would work this way? I did use the Brilliant Wings dies and create some butterflies with this piece of DSP.  The background is another of the pages run through the Painted Textures 3D EF and some solid ...

  Bron's 60th Birthday Blog and INSTA Hop #6 - Tropical Holiday The theme FOR #6 is "Tropical" to celebrate Bron's actual birthday. - She's enjoying the beautiful Tropical North Qld. Aren't the colours gorgeous in a tropical ocean - that's what I've used for this project. Bermuda Bay, Sahara Sand, Tahitian Tide and Starry Sky. Picture credit  Sahara Sand Starry Sky Tahitian Tide Bermuda Bay Crumb Cake I have decided to use the tropical colours, but wanted to replicate the very first project of Bronwyn's that I fell in love with. It's from Just Add Ink   Challenge #4 - one from the archives, since now they are up to #616!!! I have always been attracted to a grid layout and I still find lots of visual interest in this project, so I have recreated snippets of it for my shadowbox frame. Pocket Silhouettes was one of my first Stampin' Up! purchases and I still have it and love it, but I u...