Two Cards Today! A Birthday Card and a Birth-Day Card!

Hello!
I hope you are enjoying the bank holiday weekend? We have been to B&Q already this weekend to get the supplies to start painting the new extension this week :-/ but we are yet to start. Today, we will start today...
But before that, cards! As you probably know the exciting new catalogue is going to be with us soon (4th June) but the downside of that is we will be losing lots of the lovely current stamps and dies. So I figured as I have so much to share still I would do a double card post today ;-)
The first card today is one I made this card for my eldest boys birthday a while ago...

 I started by randomly watercolouring a piece of watercolour card before drying. Die cut with the Celebrate You thinlints and then stack it onto three more die cuts made from thick white card.
TIP: Use a coordinating colour card to layer up your sentiment (see next card) for a different effect.

 Pop up the centre section using the rectangle framelits (a similar technique to THIS card) and finish with stars, a heat embossed sentiment, some enamel shapes and a little twine :-)

 And for the second card today I have a new baby card or a different kind of  Birth-Day card ;-)
I made this for my lovely friend who had a beautiful baby boy recently and I just couldn't resist making an Eclipse card using the Large Letters framelits and the First Steps stamp set to make this...

 The "Welcome Baby" sentiment is layered as before but this time using the Well Written dies - which are not retiring, Yay!
TIP: Use foam strips to pop up the letter die cuts and make this card super speedily!

 I do love an eclipse card, it just makes any card special. Sadly this stamp set and letter dies will be leaving us though, this catalogue change :-( I'm seriously going to miss these both of these items, although I'm definitely keeping both of mine.
If you love these or other items too, then please be sure to order your favourites before the 3rd June...

OK, so that's my two for one deal for today!
I hope you've enjoyed today's makes and I'll be back soon with even more :-D
Thanks so much for stopping by today, I hope you enjoy your bank holiday weekend, whatever you're up to :-)
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Products Used to create this project:

Celebrate You Thinlit Dies (£21.00)	Aqua Painters (£16.00)	Watercolor Paper (£4.75)	Granny Apple Green Stampin' Pad (£7.00)	Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad (£7.00)	Balmy Blue Classic Stampin' Pad (£7.00)	Sahara Sand Classic Stampin' Pad (£7.00)
Rectangle Stitched Framelits Dies (£33.00)	Large Letters Framelits Dies (£92.00)	First Steps Cling Stamp Set (£16.00)	Well Written Framelits Dies (£37.00)	Whisper White A4 Thick Cardstock (£7.25)	Balmy Blue A4 Cardstock (£8.00)	Foam Adhesive Strips (£7.25)

Perfectly Paired (Noah's Ark) Baby Card for Inspire. Create. Challenges.

Hello there and welcome to another challenge with Inspire. Create and this week it's a "Baby" themed challenge. I seem to be surrounded by new babies here, my granddaughter was born in January, one dear friend had a baby a few weeks ago and another is due any day! I LOVE it!! And it also gives me an excuse to make lots of baby cards, whoop!

Todays make uses the Perfectly Paired, Noah's Ark style stamp. If you are a regular reader here you'll know that I do love a bit of colouring, be it watercolour (like here) or using Stampin' Blends (alcohol markers) so I knew I just had to get this stamp set as soon as I saw it! It is leaving us at the beginning of June though so if you love it too, make sure you get yours ;-)

Let's see todays make...

I stamped this image onto watercolour paper using memento and I did add clear embossing powder to the stamped outline to seal the ink in and prevent it running with the watercolouring. Honestly, usually it's perfectly ok but I find if you add a bit too much water (as you do sometimes when coloring on watercolour paper) it can run and I didn't want to get halfway through and have any ink bleeding so I heat embossed it to be sure ;-)

I used a combination of aqua painter and a blender pen with my ink pads (or you could use re-inkers) on smooth watercolour paper.

Stitched rectangle and the Be Mine Stitched Dies make up the pretty scalloped and stitched layers on this card.

So, that's my "Baby" make for this challenge, to see what the rest of the DT have made please do head to the challenge blog HERE and we'd love you to join in with this challenge too. 

And as I have so many babies around I will be back on Friday with another baby card for you!

'Till then, happy stamping!

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Products Used to create this project:

Rectangle Stitched Framelits Dies (£33.00)	Be Mine Stitched Framelits Dies (£33.00)	Perfectly Paired Cling Stamp Set (£18.00)	Blender Pens (£11.25)	Aqua Painters (£16.00)	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad (£5.50)	Neutrals Classic Stampin' Ink Refill Assortment (£31.50)
Brights Classic Stampin' Ink Refill Assortment (£31.50)	Subtles Classic Stampin' Ink Refill Assortment (£31.50)	Regals Classic Stampin' Ink Refill Assortment (£31.50)

A Good Day, Baby Deer Card.

Hello!
And welcome to my Cards and a Cuppa blog at the start of another week! I can hardly believe it's almost February already!! Feb is a busy month for us personally as we have not just one, but three birthdays at the end of the month here *--* I had better get making some cards then, right?! Lol.
OK, back to today's cute little notecard. I used the new narrow notecards and added in some more of that yummy Bubbles and Fizz SaB paper, I love all the patterns but those that are the "reverse" of the main papers are just gorg...

This adorable little deer frm "A Good Day" was stamped in Memento and coloured with blends.
TIP: I find the brush end of these Blends markers better for small images.

I used the new small (1+1/8" and 1+3/8") scalloped circle punches again as these images are just the perfect for the size for them, but you could also use circle framelits if you don't have the punches :-)
I then used a small circle of glimmer paper to give the image a little frame :-)

How adorable is this deer? Well, there's not a bad image in this set IMO! #supercute

OK, that's all from me for today. I hope you've enjoyed today's card? I have a day of wardrobe staining ahead of me :-/ But, at least I'll be able to tidy our clothes once it's done :-)
I hope you get a chance to craft today,
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Products Used to create this project:

A Good Day Clear-Mount Stamp Set	1-1/8" (2.9 Cm) Scallop Circle Punch	1-3/8" (3.5 Cm) Scallop Circle Punch	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad	Whisper White A4 Cardstock	Pink Pirouette Light Stampin' Blends Marker	Stampin' Blends Color Lifter
Smoky Slate Light Stampin' Blends Marker	Crumb Cake Light Stampin' Blends Marker	Bubbles & Fizz Designer Series Paper	Stampin' Trimmer (Metric)	Whisper White Narrow Note Cards & Envelopes