Lillybet's Papers

Welcome back to another round of Colour INKspiration, and what a stunning colour palette we have this week. I hope you feel inspired to get your inks out and play along after you've been around and seen all the gorgeous projects from the design team. If you've followed me for even a short time you'll know that one of my mantras is that " a girl can never have too many flowers"!- something I'v tried hard to teach both of my sons...so this beautiful bouquet could only be interpreted one way for me. I don't ever consider myself a lover of purple but sometimes when you use it it's amazing how it just lifts a project. These are sunset colours for me. I had fun getting inky with some old tissue paper. I played with water and ink and mixed the colours on my silicone mat before laying the paper on top- a sort of reverse watercolour technique. Once dry I adhered it to some whisper white and then layered up the laser paper on the tissue, holding it...

Welcome back for another week at CASEing the Catty- how is it Sunday again already?? No matter, this week we are CASEing the Gingham Gala section of the Occasions Catalogue, and I was inspired by the wee butterfly card in the bottom right of our Inspo picture. I have been busy making Fancy Fold cards since my class last weekend focused on "Simple Stamping with a Fancy Fold" so this post gives me an opportunity to share a Tutorial for the Joy Fold card which was one of 4 we made. You can see some of the other tutorials on posts for recent days here, and here. This style of card has been around for a while and there are many different versions I'm sure, so this is my version (Metric). A Joy Fold card has a base card which opens right to left like a regular card (or book), and a smaller card adhered to the card base which opens left to right. The small card front sits over the top of the larger card base.- it's your basic Reef Knot-"right over left, left o...