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)

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)

Saints Football Shaker Card for a Teenage Boy

Hi there,
Today's card is one I made for my friends football mad son recent birthday! I use this (retired) football (soccer) set just about every year for his card and this year I went with a shaker card...

 I added some stamped footballs and mini sequin stars to the shaker part
TIP: When using stamped images in a shaker card add a dimensional to the back of a couple of footballs (in this case) and two layered dimensionals to the rear of another couple of images so they don't all stick and stack up together in the shaker!

 I used "Work Of Art" to make the "saints" stripes by heat embossing them in white.

Inside the card had a little decoration too.

 And one last look for today :-)

I still love a shaker card, don't you?
Thanks for looking today,
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Stampin' Hugs,

Products Used to create this project:

Work Of Art Clear-Mount Stamp Set

Real Red A4 Cardstock

Wild Wasabi A4 Cardstock

Embossing Buddy

White Stampin' Emboss Powder

Versamark Pad

Heat Tool (Uk)