Lillybet's Papers

The new in colours are so pretty and the colour challenge at PPA this week is just perfect for a special birthday card I need for today. I have made another magic window card and will post a tutorial with the CASEing the Catty card this Sunday (August 14). I have made lots of these in the past and you can see some more samples here. The card is closed with a belly band and as you open the card the sliding mechanism opens to reveal the message in the window. Detail of the cluster on the belly band. As you open the gate fold The little cluster of flowers is made using swirly bird, and the leaf spray is fussy cut from the DSP sheet from the Fruit Stand collection. The sliding mechanism slowly opening. I coloured the White glimmer paper numbers using a sponge dauber and the Flirty Flamingo ink. The numbers are cut using the now retired Bigz Die and worked well for this card as they are much finer than the big numbers framelits- and 50 years de...

Welcome to the CASEing the Catty Sunday night blogshop where we use a section of the Catalogue to inspire this weeks projects. Designers can take a layout, a colour combination, or any element as the starting point to create something new. We invite you to tour around the hop and to join in -after all the Catalogue has so many beautiful samples to inspire us all. If you get lost you'll find the full crew  here You may have come from Julia's blog, enjoy your tour around the full circle. This week we are using the samples from the Project Life kits from pages 6-9, and pages 158-166.  I have to say that I love the idea of Project Life and one day if I ever get any photos printed I'll give it a good go! but this week I'm a bit pushed for time so I have opted to make 2 simple cards just using the Project Life cards. And that is part of the magic - the cards are simply gorgeous. My signature card at the market stalls I attend is a handmade envelope using a 71...

Hello, I ran out of time to record the instructions for my project at CASEing the Catty#89 (busy week with markets etc)  so as promised here is the original inspiration and my version. I hope you give it a try. So I searched my Pinterest boards and finally found the link again here . It is a  picture tutorial in  German.  No matter which way I fold mine it doesn't look like Annika's - My flat faces are isosceles triangles, whereas hers appear to be right-angle triangles (I had to go back to basic maths to explain this to myself -you gotta love google!) At any rate, once folded and tied it looks quite pretty and I will use it as is.  so here are my instructions- very similar to Annika's: cut a piece of A4 Cardstock  in a 15 cm strip (use the full length of the A4) score parallel to the long edge at 4.5 cm rotate 90* and score at  7cm, 14cm, 21cm, 28 cm these vertical scores will be VALLEY folds make a mark at the t...

Welcome to the CASEing the Catty Sunday night bloghop where we use a section of the Catalogue to inspire this weeks projects. Designers can take a layout, a colour combination, or any element as the starting point to create something new. We invite you to tour around the hop and to join in -after all the Catalogue has so many beautiful samples to inspire us all. If you get lost you'll find the full crew  here . This week   Bec   is preceding me on the blog so welcome if you have come from her page. This week we are using the samples from the CHRISTMAS section from pages 26-37.  I was inspired by the gift box made form Music Paper on page 26. So I made a few boxes.  The first was a little tricky but looks pretty, though now I've tied the ribbon  it will stay empty for a while...The instructions are from an old blog post in Dutch which even when translated are a bit tricky. -  and my box looks slightly different! As it happens I have co...

Welcome to the CASEing the Catty Sunday night bloghop where we use a section of the Catalogue to inspire this weeks projects. Designers can take a layout, a colour combination, or any element as the starting point to create something new. We invite you to tour around the hop and to join in -after all the Catalogue has so many beautiful samples to inspire us all. If you get lost you'll find the full crew  here .   You may have arrived here from Monique , so welcome! This week we are again using the samples from the Everyday Occasions section (which is a huge section) from pages 66-91.  But that's ok because there are so many samples to draw from. I have drawn on the sample on page 78- the large embossed pineapple - not sure why but pineapples are everywhere this year!! Anyway, I liked the look of the full background panel of DSP on coordinating coloured card and the large image over the top. Having just opened some new goodies - new Fruit Stand DSP and ...

Jar of Love bundle - stamps and framelits, it doesn't get much cuter than these! I have been having so much fun with this gorgeous and very versatile stamp set. Here are a few more samples. Decorated the inside and a handmade envelope to match We made these two at my recent class, The left is a direct CASE from the Catalogue   Ok so I do have a thing for Shaker cards at the moment ---fun fun! I have directions on how to make a shaker on this blog - if you search under the label "shaker cards" you'll find some tips and tricks I learned while playing. If you would like any more information on how I made these please get in touch. If you would like to own some of these amazing products you can use the SHOP NOW button on the top right of this page  - and you can use it any time of the day or night when a shopping emergency takes hold!! Thanks for looking, Liz