Birthday cake

For today's card, I combined watercolouring with 2 different stamp sets and a die by SugarPea Designs from the SOA Young at Heart collection. This is a really versatile collection of stamps, dies and a stencil, and it was hard to decide which supplies to use first...

After creating my watercolour background using distress inks, I stamped the sentiment and the bottom layer of my cake using Versamark ink and heat embossed using WOW gold embossing powder. I added more colour to the bottom layer using Picked raspberry distress ink and then stamped the top cake layer and the candle using Altenew inks, and when the ink was dry, I heat embossed the second candle image from the set in gold ep.
After die cutting my panel using a stitched rectangle die (SSS), I added a little frosting to my cake layers using a stencil I had die cut using one of the SugarPea dies accompanying the cake stamp set, Ranger Texture paste and a little Altenew Buttercream ink (so fitting lol). After my frosting was dry, I added foam tape to the back of my panel and mounted the panel onto my card base.

Edited for Darnell's Boo Boo hop to tell you about my Boo Boo.
My card started life as a perfect one-layer card, but before I added the frosting to the cake, I decided to run my card through my Cuttlebug to flatten it out...folded and with another piece of cardstock as a shim... Not a good idea... The edges of my shim were embossed on my front panel and the heat embossed sentiment left an imprint on the inside of my card. I felt so lucky that I managed to salvage my panel by die cutting it and layering it on top of a new card...

Challenges:
CAS Mix Up - Stamping, watercolouring and your choice (heat embossing, embossing paste)
Right at Home - National craft month celebration blog hop (showcase your favourite crafty things - watercolours, SOA box and my trusted stitched rectangle die)
Stamplorations March CAS challenge - Anything CAS goes (optional colour twist: yellow)

Joy to the World

Today, I had a little play with my Winsor & Newton water colours, after unwrapping the half pans that I bought last summer...

Ingredients:
- A wash of W&N Payne's grey onto W&N water colour cardstock
- A few splatters of the same water colour
- Die cut/inlaid Memory Box snowflake (Twinkling Snowflake Duet, a recent win) from silver glitter paper from my stash
- Sentiment, star and tiny dot stamps from the Snowy Sayings set by CAS-ual Fridays (part of the SOA Christmas collection) stamped in Archival black
- Stitched rectangle die (Bundle of Stitched Shapes by Simon Says Stamp)
- Black cardstock (Crafter's Companion)

Challenges:
Merry Monday - 196 Black, white and grey/silver
Freshly Made Sketches - Sketch 228 (flipped)
CAS Mix Up - Stamping, watercolouring and third element (die cutting, splatter)
Addicted to CAS - 84 Delicate

Christmas flip card

Today's card was quick to make but took a long time to finish, because I found it to be too bland. So I put it aside for several months and then had another look at in and decided that all it needed was some sparkly heat embossed stars and snowflakes and rounded corners.

The cute image and sentiments are from a NBUS stamp set by The Cat's Pajamas.

The flip/easel card die and frame dies are also by TCP (Fancy Flip and Fancy Flip Frames). I used the frames on my cards in this post, but I had never used the flip card frame before.

The cute image was coloured using Promarkers. After fussy cutting the images, I popped them up using foam tape. The PP is from the Signature Christmas paper pad by MME.

Challenges:

NBUS challenge #6 - The sweet Darnell is always encouring us to use our Never-Before-Used-Schtuff and is hosting a special challenge for her followers twice a year.

Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - Cute Christmas

Passion for Promarkers - 336 Cute critters

CHNC -  271Vintage Christmas or Anything Christmas goes.

CHNC Extra - Always Anything Christmas goes