Lillybet's Papers

Welcome back to the New Year and New Stamp sets!! And a big Welcome to Mel Pagano - our newest designer. Be sure and visit her blog on the hop and leave her a happy hello comment. How exciting that the New Occasions Catalogue is now available. This week we kick off the Celebrations with Birthdays!!! - You can never have enough birthday cards. After all the fuss of Christmas January always seems a good time to takes things simply. So todays' cards use a simple design - straight from the Catalogue. The beauty of the Birthday Celebrations set is that it coordinates with the Ballon Builder Punch- so if you don't yet own a Bigshot you can still create gorgeous cards with this set. This simply uses the punch and some patterned DSP.  To step it up you can emboss the base card, or add some DSP which is what I did for card#2. I'm using the current In Colours to create a bunch of samples at the moment, they are so bright and fresh. This version uses DSP from the Sale-A Bra...

Well with the launch of the new Catalogue the dilemma always presents itself- where do I start? There are so many amazing products and suites to play with, I want to play with them all, NOW, Today!!  So I have had to just pick a point and start there. So....I am totally in love with the Everyday Hero Set and that seemed like a good place to begin. ...... I have created 3 cards using the Everyday Hero set and I can't decide which is my favourite. I decided to use the Urban Underground Specialty DSP - the black, grey and vanilla pages are a very versatile backdrop, and easy to use with a variety of stamp sets and situations. The smaller of the two balloons from the Balloon Bouquet Punch was the better size to fit with my sugarplum superhero. I sponged each of the cardstock balloons with its corresponding ink to give some more depth and the illusion of roundness- and a bit of Wink of Stella  for highlights- what did we do before Wink of Stella??? I separated a fe...