Happy Wife, Happy Life! Handmade Anniversary Card

Hello on this lovely sunny bank holiday! Well, it is here in the South of the UK but I hear it's not like that everywhere in the UK? Stay dry, friends :-(
So, onto the card... I have another Bird Banter card to share today ;-)
I made this for the hubster for our wedding anniversary and I thought I'd throw a little humour, as well as some truth, into this card, ha ha ha...

 I coloured the bird in with blends (coming back soon) and added him atop a cluster of branches.

 The background was created using the same blends pens (colour coordination at it's finest) and I topped each one with a drop of glue from the fine tip glue pen to make this enamel dot effect! I love it!
I first saw this idea by another demo, Lavinia Gruizinga (The Stampin' Magpie on fb) but she doesn't seem to have a blog I can link to :-( Thanks Lavinia!
Anyway it's a brilliant idea, don't you think?

And of course I doctored the sentiment from Tabs for Everything using a Stampin' Write Marker ;-)

Well, that's all from me today, here at Cardsandacuppa HQ. I have quite a few bits to do in my craft room but I think that will be later this evening as we are going to make the most of the nice weather in the garden this afternoon :-D
Have a lovely day everyone!
Stampin' hugs,
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Products Used to create this project:

Tabs For Everything Photopolymer Stamp Set (£15.00)	2016-2018 In Color Stampin' Write Markers (£13.50)	Bird Banter Photopolymer Stamp Set (£15.00)	Whisper White A4 Cardstock (£8.25)	Stampin' Dimensionals (£3.75)	Multipurpose Liquid Glue (£3.75)	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad (£5.50)
Fine-Tip Glue Pen (£6.25)	Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies (£27.00)

Bird Banter on a Football!

Hello there,
Today I want to share just one of the (many) Bird Banter cards I have made recently. I'm really sad this set is leaving us in just over a week :-(
Speaking of which, I am placing one more order this month in the next few days, so if you need anything - but especially anything that's going from the retiring Annual or Spring/Summer catalogue - then please do email me on sarah-janerae@sky.com to add your favourites. You can see what's going by looking HERE. Also some of the stamps and dies are staying but the bundles are finishing so you won't get the extra 10% off in the new catalogue as there'll be new bundles instead. You can of course, continue to order from my shop 'till the end of the month :-)
Anyway, let's see this card, shall we? I made this card for a football crazy boys birthday recently...

 I used the Bird Banter stamps with a long retired football stamp set I keep especially for this boy :-)

 Did you know the Stamp-a-ma-Jig is also retiring? Now, maybe you don't use it very often anymore but I do think it's such a handy tool to have and at just £11 it's a little bargain of a tool! Especially when using wood mount stamps as they won't go in the Stamparatus (which is coming 1st June.)

 Love this little "sorry I'm late" sentiment, also in Bird Banter.
Although this card was only a day late ;-)

 I die cut this image using the stitched edge framelits and popped it back in with dimensionals to give the card a little lift!

And I finished it all off with a little bling in the shape of some gold metallic shapes.
Well, that's all from me for today but I do have a stack of cards to share plus loads to photograph too so I'll be back tomorrow with another make... I hope you love Bird Banter too... ;-)
Thanks for looking today,
Stampin' Hugs,
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Products Used to create this project:

Bird Banter Photopolymer Stamp Set (£15.00)	Stamp-A-Ma-Jig (£11.00)	Night Of Navy A4 Cardstock (£7.25)	Smoky Slate A4 Cardstock (£7.25)	Whisper White A4 Cardstock (£8.25)	Stampin' Dimensionals (£3.75)	Multipurpose Liquid Glue (£3.75)
Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies (£27.00)	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad (£5.50)	Metallic Enamel Shapes (£6.50)

Bird Banter and Stampin' Blends

Hello there,
Today's card is another Bird Banter make (and I have more!) I seem to be using this set all the time at the moment, I just want to use it as much as possible before it retires at the end of the month. Sad times.
We coloured this lovely "Just Add Ink" DSP at the first blends class and I made this card just after the last blends class so it has come full circle :-) Let's take a peek...

 I coloured the bird with my blends too (hopefully they'll be available to order again soon) but they are also great to colour with your aqua painter and ink pads. Just stamp onto thick white card or shimmer card, instead of regular white which is best for blends.

 I added this cute little sentiment from the Totally Tabs stamp set

 Here is that DSP a little closer. We all loved using this to practice our colouring at class. I gave the ladies who came a different pattern (or two) at each class, either to use in class or take home and practice. They all seemed to enjoy colouring  it too :-)

 Bling up with some fun glimmer card and that's it!
Plus, I still have more of this lovely coloured paper left, winner!

So, I do hope you are having a lovely bank holiday weekend? We are off out in the sunshine for a bit today but I will be back tomorrow with another make.
'Till then, Happy Stampin'
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Products Used to create this project:

Just Add Color Specialty Designer Series Paper (£11.50)	Bird Banter Photopolymer Stamp Set (£15.00)	Whisper White A4 Cardstock (£8.25)	Whisper White A4 Thick Cardstock (£6.50)	Shimmery White A4 Cardstock (£7.25)	Pink Pirouette A4 Cardstock (£7.25)	Multipurpose Liquid Glue (£3.75)
Stampin' Dimensionals (£3.75)	Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies (£27.00)

Bird Banter Birthday

Hi!
It's the weekend, unfortunately it's my weekend to work but I am planning to enjoy the day times! I managed a couple of hours tidying in my craft room today (how does it get sooo messy all the time?) and I also finished making a couple of cards from the 'box of shame' too, so all round a good day!
So, today I have the card I made for the hubsters birthday recently, I used the Bird Banter stamps for this one and even though it's not very masculine he didn't complain ;-) That's the sign of a husband married to a crafter! #goodhusband

 I used Blends (sadly now not orderable until May) to colour these cute budgies, you could of course use an aqua painter and ink pads instead.

 Then I added the die cut Happy Birthday over some of the FREE Sale-a-Bration papers "Bubbles and Fizz" which are only available 'till the end of the month!

 I used the stitched edge framelis and layered them with a scalloped layering oval to cut out this image.
If you have a super long wish list remember now is also a fab-u-lous time to join SU! as a demo to.
 If you wish you can message me to chat through your options :-)

Well, that's today card for you, what did you think?
I really hope you get a chance to be crafty today :-)
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Stampin' Hugs,

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