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)

Making Tags for Gift Bags

Happy bank holiday Monday to you!
Honestly, we went out yesterday and it was just lovely, so hot and more like the height of summer than May, but I reminded hubby and the smallest child we had gone out the Sunday before and all wished we'd taken coats! It's a funny old thing the British weather, no wonder we have such a national obsession with talking about it ;-)

 Anyhoo, I was browsing through to decide what to post this morning and I realised I didn't share these gift tags with you yet. I made two designs when we went to On Stage in Telford in April, one style to give to my downline and also one for Julie who organises our food each time we go away :-)

I'll start with my DL gift bags, they were decorated using both A Good Day and Tabs For Everything stamp sets...

 Tags made with some of that lovely SaB paper, layered with a matching copper foil and thread topper with sentiments and image from "A Good Day"

 I added in pens and post it note tabs for remembering where all those essential pages of the new catalogue with your new favourites on ;-) But, how cute are these little characters?

And of course, I also added chocolate!

So, for Julie's gift bag (containing choccy too ;-)) I used a Rose Red colour combo to match the bag, teamed with the Wood Words stamp set - Love Wood Words <3 nbsp="" p="">

 Isn't Rose Red with gold just so classy and elegant? I will be sad when this colour retires at the end of May but happily the Wood Words stamp set is staying *so happy*

Well, this started out as a quick post but then as I added the second set of tags it took me much longer than I hoped, so sorry it's a bit later than planned before I published ;-)

I hope you have a lovely day in the sun on this long weekend,
Happy Stampin'
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Products Used to create this project:

Tabs For Everything Photopolymer Stamp Set (£15.00)	Wood Words Wood-Mount Stamp Set (£27.00)	Rose Red A4 Cardstock (£7.25)	Rose Red Classic Stampin' Pad (£6.00)	A Good Day Clear-Mount Stamp Set (£17.00)	Layering Circle Framelits Dies (£32.00)	Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies (£27.00)
Gold Mini Sequin Trim (£5.50)	Scalloped Tag Topper Punch (£21.00)	Gold Foil Sheets (£3.75)	Copper Foil Sheets (£3.75)

Tabs For Everything and Large Numbers Framelits for a Teen

Hey! Look at all this blogging. Two days in a row! Get me ;-) Lol!
Today I have a cute ahem, cool card for a new teenager. I've used the Tabs for Everything for the background and as all teens/kids want to see they've hit the next big number so '13' has pride of place...

A little tale about numbers from my home... Once upon a time, when he was much younger, I spent many an hour making Josh a birthday card (our biggest boy.) Unfortunately I neglected to add his special, new number (no space or it didn't fit in my design or something.) So, of course, it was the first thing he said when he opened said card. Lesson learned, lol!

So having told you that, I must also tell you that these number dies are retiring (eek) and I think they are an essential for any significant birthday/anniversary and not just for those pesky kids, ha ha ha...

 Add to a background made with Tabs for Everything in Lemon-Lime Twist and Navy - a classic combo! And you're good to go!

So, do your friends and family love a number too?
Thanks so much for looking today, I'll be back soon with another make :-)
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Stampin' Hugs,

Products Used to create this project:

Tabs For Everything Photopolymer Bundle (£27.75)

Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad (£6.00)

Night Of Navy A4 Cardstock (£7.25)

Lemon Lime Twist Classic Stampin' Pad (£6.00)

Lemon Lime Twist A4 Cardstock (£7.25)

Large Numbers Framelits Dies (£28.00)

Oh So Eclectic and Totally Tabs makes a Happy Wife Card!

Happy Saturday to you!
I have had a busy week here again and tomorrow I'm off to Yorkshire for a couple of days to make cards with friends :-) I can't wait! Next week is going to be fun too as I have been chosen to be on a design team for a brand new challenge blog Inspire.Create.Challenges. This is fortnightly challenge blog with lots of fun themes (I can promise you, I've seen the first four!) with lots of talented ladies on the DT sure to inspire you! I do hope you will join us starting Wednesday, however you can go and meet the DT this week HERE.
But, even before all of that I have lots to share with you here! I wanted to make this card as soon as I got my hands on the Totally Tabs! For this card I teamed it with Oh So Eclectic. Such fun, see.....

 The sentiment in the set says "Happy Life" so I inked it with a marker and missed off the 'L 'the first time, then inked it all the second time to make it say this - a sentiment all partners should know ;-)

 So, it's a tad tricky to tell from the photos but I made the front of the card narrower than the back to allow for the tab and so it would still fit in a regular envelope.

 I do love the embossed diamond shape in the thinlits pack for the Oh So Eclectic set.
All product links at the end of this post.

Well, I was going to take the dog out for a run in the forest but the heavens have opened (again), looks like he'll have to wait and I'll go colour!
Hope you have a great Saturday!
Thanks for looking today :-)
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Stampin' Hugs,

Products Used to create this project:

Tabs For Everything Photopolymer Bundle	Oh So Eclectic Clear-Mount Bundle	Gold Glimmer Paper	Fresh Fig A4 Cardstock	Sahara Sand A4 Cardstock	Multipurpose Liquid Glue	Very Vanilla A4 Cardstock
2017-2019 In Color Stampin' Write Markers