Lillybet's Papers

I discovered this technique quite by accident and I have used it exclusively since for colouring the embossing paste I use. There is no waste and no mess, and I don't have lots of little pots of coloured paste which might dry out and be useless. it's a simple technique - those are often the best. use any ask and a sponge and apply one colour of ink over the mask- this can be on your project or on a scrap piece of paper position the section of mask with the ink on it in the position you wish to have the coloured paste on your project take a small amount of paste with a clean palette knife and spread it over the ink coloured mask the paste will become coloured as you spread it - you can move the colour around, and sometimes your finished area will be variegated colours and that's it! Here's a few samples of cards using that technique - I applied the sponging on a scrap piece of paper For this Crushed Curry card the mask had two colours sponged o...

Welcome back for another week at CTC where we are casing the projects from pages 86-101. There were a few projects in here which inspired me but I want to take you on a little creative journey to where I ended up this week and a happy accidental new technique I discovered along the way. The aim of CTC is to take a project which inspires you from the catalogue and use it as a springboard for your creations. This week I used the card on the top left of this half of page 97.  I am a fan of layers and little clusters of elements and of stitching so all 3 of these things appealed in the love you more card here. My first card used the same background stamping tone on tone in the beautiful new Powder Pink, the word and heart from Sunshine Wishes Thinlits , the little roses from Swirly Bird and one of the gorgeous new Touches of Nature Elements - these wooden elements are natural timber on one side and white on the other - scrumptious! I poked a little bit of ribbon and...

Can you believe we are 100 posts young???? Welcome to the 100th post for CASEing the Catty. You may have arrived form Katherine's post or you maybe starting here- Welcome! Be sure to hop around all the participants this week as we take inspiration from the Presents and Pinecones. I've been short of time with lots of commitments- aren't we all too busy?? So I needed a quick card for this week's post - which is perfect as I am planning a stamp-a-stack for Christmas class. It's a very big section of the catalogue but I settled on the gorgeous card on page xxx I have a few different versions using the same layout but different colours and embellishments. Not everyone loves tying bows so I tried to make them very simple. Heat embossing is such a simple way to add instant pizazz. The sparkling emerald Envy embossing powder is fantastic but I would advise definitely using your embossing buddy to minimise the amount of stray glitter, and I would also advise ...