Lillybet's Papers

The challenge this week at GDP is to Case the Designer Kayla McCreadie. She has a beautiful clean style and this card has a lovely cluster of elements and plenty of texture.  I have been busy creating with a new set coming in January called "Blessings of Home"- the stampset, and "Flowers of Home" - the coordinating dies .You can see more samples loaded in recent days. Included in the dies is a garland of flowers, some small sprays of blossoms and leaves, and some tiny flowers. I watercoloured a few pieces of the Fluid 100 paper  - one in variegated greens and one in pinks and then cut out a whole bunch of pieces which will make card assembly a little faster. I tend to create a little mood board when I do this so that I can be easily inspired. I will have a few more samples coming using other pieces from this little stash. For this card the floral sprays are secured over half a square doily, and the bow and sentiment are positioned over the staple which holds everyth...

  It was recently the Onstage Stampin' Up! 2 day virtual event- how I miss the energy of gathering together - but it is always good to connect and share ideas and learn. It is 15 years since Stampin Up started in the South Pacific so we all had a little candle to light. I got to do some stamping with a friend and we celebrated together. As part of the event we were able to pre purchase a new set which will be coming in January. It is called  "Blessings of Home"  and has coordinating dies and DSP and ribbon and bling! The dies cut out not only the outline of the 2 floral images but there are several detailed dies which cut smaller floral sprays - so cute. We used the suite during the event to create 3 cards along with everyone else, but I had such a great time colouring the images that I made a few extra cards. In this version I have used the large floral spray stamped onto crumb cake and coloured with watercolour pencils and the Chalk Marker. I have used the same stamped ...

It's another Colour INKspiration challenge and this week's colours are gorgeous together. I love the Inspiration pic and I was hoping to create a gum leaf scene but time has run away from me so instead I am sharing a card I made using a new set coming in the January Mini Catalogue. It's called Blessings of Home and is a set we used at a recent virtual "Onstage" Stampin Up! event for demonstrators. The stamp set comes with coordinating dies, some  beautiful papers which make it so easy to use. Here I have stamped the large floral spray onto Crumb Cake cardstock ( I know- should have been Gray Granite!) and coloured with Watercolour Pencils. It's a subtle and delicate look. I teamed it with the bright striped DSP and softened that with a strip of dry embossed vellum. I did use a stronger green than Mint Macaron, so while not strictly the colours it still follows " "the vibe" of the inspiration pic. We'd love you to do the same and share your c...

It was recently the Onstage Stampin' Up! 2 day virtual event- how I miss the energy of gathering together - but it is always good to connect and share ideas and learn. It is 15 years since Stampin Up started in the South Pacific so we all had a little candle to light. I got to do some stamping with a friend and we celebrated together. As part of the event we were able to pre purchase a new set which will be coming in January. It is called  "Blessings of Home"  and has coordinating dies and DSP and ribbon and bling! The dies cut out not only the outline of the 2 floral images but there are several detailed dies which cut smaller floral sprays - so cute. We used the suite during the event to create 3 cards along with everyone else, but I had such a great time colouring the images that I made (quite) a few extra cards. In this version I have used one pattern of the DSP which is from the suite. I stamped in Cinnamon Cider onto Shimmery white Cardstock and coloured the leaves ...

  It was recently the Onstage Stampin' Up! 2 day virtual event- how I miss the energy of gathering together - but it is always good to connect and share ideas and learn. It is 15 years since Stampin Up started in the South Pacific so we all had a little candle to light. I got to do some stamping with a friend and we celebrated together. As part of the event we were able to pre purchase a new set which will be coming in January. It is called "Blessings of Home" and has coordinating dies and DSP and ribbon and bling! The dies cut out not only the outline of the 2 floral images but there are several detailed dies which cut smaller floral sprays - so cute. We used the suite during the event to create 3 cards along with everyone else, but I had such a great time colouring the images that I made a few extra cards. In this version I have used one pattern of the DSP which is from the suite  and I have inked only part of one of the sentiments. The image is stamped onto Shimmery W...

Such gorgeous colours- and while the inspiration picture is quite rustic I have given it a slightly more modern feel- thanks to one of my new favourite bundles- the Varied Vases designed by Mary Fish. Super cute. I have to say at the outset that the inspiration for this card came from an image on a blog hop somewhere. You can see the video by Aude Barbara  here - it's in French but you can easily follow along.  I generally create from a blank start but sometime the business of life takes over and we all need a little CASeing every now and then to achieve our deadlines ( and keep our sanity!). Life seems to have been busier than usual lately here, so hope you'll forgive me for caseing the technique but the layout is definitely "me". Auda uses only a blender pen and Watercolour Paper. My pen must be a bit dry because I was unable to get the same coverage using just the ink from the stamped image. I used the blender pen but also used some additiona...

Last CASEing the Catty hop for the year- boy that's been a busy year. I'm finishing with a quick and easy layout. I've been actively looking for cards in the catalogues that use up DSP, so this week's layout fits that criteria for me. I am also using one of the new sets which will be available from January 3 - unless you are a demonstrator - or become one before Jan 3 - in which case you can order it now. I think this set is going to be hugely popular- it's fun, whimsical, punchy and it doesn't require too much colouring! And it has a brilliant sentiment for a belated card - which I seem to need quite often. I've used it today.  And here's the layout that inspried me on page 47. A large circle with some simple stamping set to the right of the card a large piece of DSP set to the right edge of the card some coloured ribbon wrapped around under the circle featurand tied as a bow a sentiment stamped in the same colour and layered up...

I am loving the new Daisy Delights stamp set which will be available June 1. As well as the large daisy image there are some sweet smaller images which make a nice posy. The challenge at Stampin' Up! Only this week is to use watercolouring, and the inspiration picture from Just Add Ink is a striking flower so I have used both as my inspiration for this card. I stamped the daisies onto scrap paper and cut them out, for the top daisy in each stem I have cut between the petals and curled them a little to make the flower fuller. Bermuda Bay Pool Party Daffodil Delight Melon Mambo Pear Pizzazz I also fussy cut a few little leaves ! There are a couple of other new products on these cards- the gorgeous mini chevron ribbon and the glitter enamel dots Of course you don;t have to do any fussy cutting- simple stamping is perfect with this 2 step image- and being photopolymer it is very easy to line up the two images. I'll have a fe...