Lillybet's Papers

The Sprinkles of Life set is so cute, and you can make cards simply and quickly or you can spend ages playing around with the little bits and pieces. The Tree Builder Punch is amazingly versatile and I'm sure there will be a thousand possibilities with all the shapes. These samples are a bit of both! and they are based on what we made in the class on the weekend. The 2 1/2" Circle Punch never leaves my desktop as I use it so often, it was perfect for this card. This makes a cute gift set. I try hard not to hang on to leftover bits and pieces - the hoarder in me has to be tamed! So using up the scrap strips from the Irresistibly Yours DSP inside ticked that box, and as you know I like little circles as they use up leftover paper too, repeating the circle images on the inside ties the card together.  You can check out another recent design using scraps of circles here . (Hint-  in the inside strip they don't need to be ...

Just a quick post to show you another of the cards we made at the class on the weekend. We played with some shaving cream marbling - a fun technique I haven't really used much. It made some gorgeous background papers for the frosting on the cupcakes. I am surprised at how much I am able to do with this set as I play with it more - in fact I only realised the other day that it has a flower shape incorporated in the punch! The simple fold card is an adaptation of Julie Davison's design which has been around for ages. I modified the measurements for Australia to be 10.5 wide  - so you get 2 cards from one A4 piece of cardstock. (Australian width is only 81/4 not 81/2). I don't trim the length until after I have scored and folded - and then only shave  off enough from the large flap for it to fold flat. I score at 7.4cm and 18.5 cm ( there are some odd measurements on the metric scoring plate but they are useful). The panels for both the front and inside flaps are then ...

As promised here are a few more samples of the Half Circle pop up card from Julie Davison's design. You can see my original sample and a link to the instructions here . My daughter and all her friends are turning 21 so I have had the luxury of making lots of really special cards. These are for a few of the girls. I have used a mixture of papers old and new, and some non SU flowers, numbers and bits and bobs from my stash - "the useful box" as they used to call it on Playschool. The first card  meets the challenge criteria at JAI#272 to just add butterflies - and who can resist the Papillion Potpourri image. I have heat embossed it in black and coloured in with blender pens before punching three out with the Elegant Butterfly Punch and then glamming them up a bit with some shimmer paint. The second sample has no butterflies but a really cute little birthday cake of flowers from Blooming with Happiness.  This gorgeous stamps set is sadly retired, but ...

Sprinkles of Life is such a cute set and I'm a sucker for a tree stamp so this was a no brainer for me, especially with the matching punch . This is another in a series of flip pop-up cards I have been making lately, and this one is for a very special friend of the family who has just moved out of college into her first share home, so a housewarming gift seemed essential. You can find the directions for the card and another sample here . It's such an easy and effective card design, you should try one ! I have also used the super cute retired Sale-A-Brataion set You Brighten my Day. I also used the beaut new Rotary Stamp to personalise the greeting, I love the versatility of this, and the Hello You  thinlets for the Happy greeting. Thanks for looking, I will have more half circle pop up fold cards to show tomorrow. Liz Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog