Lillybet's Papers

Hello and welcome back for another week of inspiration from the Catalogue. This week we are using pages 102-111. Have you ever seen a set in the catalogue that was a "Must Have" item which you find hard to use once you have it in your hands?? The Bookcase Builder set was one of those for me. But I am happy that thanks to CTC now that I have had it out I am much more comfortable with it. I challenged myself to CASE the card on page 105 and see what I could come up with. I even managed to get some Father's Day cards done as well. It is quite a versatile set once you get going with it. I love that you can stamp the images individually or put them all on a block to stamp backgrounds in a hurry. I sold all my baby girl cards at last week's markets so need a few to replenish my stash. But I couldn't make a girl card and not mirror it with a boy card. This image from page 105 shows you both the inspiration card and the fabulous images in the stamp ...

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...