Lillybet's Papers

Welcome back for another week. It's been a busy week here preparing for markets again here but I managed to create something for this week's look at the love and sympathy pages. I have chosen the sweet watercolour umbrella card on page 93. My watercolouring is the sponge and splash technique (I've done that before and you can read more instructions here ). I used a foam roller to layer on plenty of ink, then spritzed the watercolour paper with water, then splashed a bit more clean water on for good measure! The clean water lifts some of the colour off creating marvellous backgrounds. Crushed Curry Island Indigo Tranquil Tide Lemon Lime Twist The Watts of Occasions stamp set is so much fun to use, I heat embossed the images with silver and applied more Crushed Curry Ink with a sponge dauber. Next this week on the hop is Peta And before me this week is Julia Don't forget we love to see what you create using...

I was lucky enough to receive a gorgeous handmade Birthday Card last year from Kelly Kent- one of the Design Team Members at both CASEing the Catty and Colour INKspirtation. You can find the facebook pages for each of these groups by clicking on the icons below. Kelly was a display stamper at Brisbane ONSTAGE this year and had the  Oh So Succulent set to play with before we all saw it. I loved her card and have shamelessy CASE'd it.  This is Kelly's card: and this is mine!  I used one of the panels I made in my Sponge and Splash technique when I was creating for the Colour INKspiration challenge using the pastels. I made a whole stack of background pieces and Kelly's cactus seemed like a good way to use one of them. You can read my technique notes on that post here  - click on the photo. and here they both are, side by side! I hand cut a freeform 'pot' and rubbed it with the stylus from behold for a bit of shape, then...

Welcome! This is a very exciting day as we launch the very first Colour INKspiration bloghop! Thanks so much to Bronwyn for her vision and energy in setting this up.The real beauty of this creative challenge is that anyone who has a facebook page can join in!  You do need to be a member of the group - which is by invitation- so if you aren't a member already just email me to join in. That's right - you don't need to have your own blog to participate. Simply make a creation using the current colour inspiration photo and take a photo of your work and upload it to the Facebook page. It's that easy.  How delicious are the popsicles and the colours- a veritable pastel rainbow. I have made a few cards using the inks and my sponge daubers to create a rainbow background for my Superhero! I just love the Everyday Hero , it's a  super cute stampset. The background paper is also super easy to use - Irresistibly Floral Specialty DSP - the white on white design is made f...