Inspire.Create.Challenge 016 | Farewell Dapper Denim…

Fine Tip Glue Techniques with Beautiful You from Stampin' Up!

StampinByHannah Inspire.Create.Challenge 016 Farewell Dapper Denim…

Inspire.Create.Challenges Colour Challenge April 2018

This week’s Inspire.Create.Challenge is a fun farewell to the 2016-2018 In-Colours… I cannot quite believe that we’ve had these for 2 years already! I thought as we bid these colours goodbye, I would update one of the projects I made to introduce them! You can find that blog post HERE!

How to use Fine Tip Glue on your cards... as something other than an adhesive with Beautiful You from Stampin' Up!

These cards use one of my favourite techniques; Masking with Fine-Tip Glue. It’s super easy to do, but it does take a little time as the glue has to dry (and it’s better if you leave it overnight). Here I have stamped two of the images from the Beautiful You stamp set onto Very Vanilla Notecards, using Archival Basic Black ink (but staz-on would work just as well). Then use Fine-Tip glue to ‘colour in’ the stamped images, making sure to cover the area fully.

Once the glue is dried, you can then stamp over it. I’ve used Sweet Sugarplum, Peekaboo Peach, Dapper Denim, and Emerald Envy, and one of the stamps from Touches of Texture. Where the glue is the ink won’t stick. Then, take a Stampin’ Sponge and sponge on more ink, making sure to wipe away the ink from the glue.

Quick and fun card collection using Beautiful You from Stampin' Up!

I can hear you asking why I haven’t used Flirty Flamingo… well, it’s one of the colours coming back as part of the Stampin’ Up! Colour Revamp! I am super excited about this, and will be sharing all of the details about that with you really soon!

Don’t forget to pop over to Inspire.Create.Challenges and see what the other members of the Design Team have created with these fabulous colours! And, if we have inspired you… why not share your makes with us over there too…

Product List

Shop Stampin' Up! UK Teesside North East Stockton on Tees

Joining Stampin' Up! UK Starter Kit

To purchase any of the items featured in my projects please use the links above. To join my team of Stampin’ Friends select ‘Join My Team’ or send me a message!

Please support StampinByHannah, and enter my Code Club Code. For orders of over £150 please do not use this code, as you are entitled to your own Hostess benefits!

Sign up to my newsletter for weekly updates from me!

Hannah McCurley

How to make a card using Faux Watercolour with Watercolour Wings from Stampin’ Up!

How to make a card using Faux Watercolour with Watercolour Wings from Stampin' Up!

StampinByHannah How to make a card using Faux Watercolour with Watercolour Wings from Stampin’ Up!

Stamping Techniques Series

Today’s video features one of the those techniques that I use so often that I forget to mention it! I know… I’m so bad! But, it’s super pretty and really easy. I actually used this one on my husbands Valentines card this year.

How to make a card using Faux Watercolour with Watercolour Wings from Stampin' Up!

Faux watercolour is super easy to do… all you need is a fairly solid stamp, Stampin’ Up! ink and an Aqua-Painter. It creates a really pretty, soft effect, and is a great way to add that extra something to a card. I do of course have a couple of Top Tips:

  • Use Thick Whisper White card stock, Shimmery White card stock, or Watercolour paper
  • Ensure your ink pads are well inked and nice and juice-y
  • Use an Aqua-Painter that has plenty of water in it, but don’t squeeze… the water will naturally come out of the Aqua-painter as you use it, but if you squeeze you might flood your card stock and spread the ink too far
  • Have fun!

How to make a card using Faux Watercolour with Watercolour Wings from Stampin' Up!

The sentiment on this card is taken from the Beautiful You stamp set, and is punched out with the 1-3/4″ circle punch and matted onto the Pretty Label punched from Island Indigo.

Product List

Shop Stampin' Up! UK Teesside North East Stockton on Tees

Joining Stampin' Up! UK Starter Kit

To purchase any of the items featured in my projects please use the links above. To join my team of Stampin’ Friends select ‘Join My Team’ or send me a message!

Please support StampinByHannah, and enter my Code Club Code. For orders of over £150 please do not use this code, as you are entitled to your own Hostess benefits!

Sign up to my newsletter for weekly updates from me!

Hannah McCurley

Stinkin’ Inkers | Girls just want to have fun

Stinkin Inkers Card Making Challenge Just Because Card using Garden Girl and Beautiful You from Stampin' Up!

Hello! This card was such a challenge….and totally pushed me out of my usual style. I have to admit to taking some inspiration from the other fabulous ladies in the Design Team at Stinkin’ Inkers on this one.

Stinkin Inkers Card Making Challenge Just Because Card using Garden Girl and Beautiful You from Stampin' Up!

This card uses the Garden Girl stamp set from the new Stampin’ Up! Annual catalogue. I have a few projects with this stamp set coming up, but I think this one is my favourite. The girl is stamped in Archival Basic Black ink onto a piece of Very Vanilla card stock, she is then coloured with Watercolour Pencils. Now, I could have fully watercoloured this (particularly as I used Thick Very Vanilla – LOVE!) but instead of using water I blended the pencil with a Blender Pen.

I used the Stitched Shapes framelits to die cut out the stamped image. No, we don’t have a stitched rectangle die (I know, its disappointing) but its super easy to make a rectangle out of the square framelit…. I have tried to type out instructions, but I cant make it make sense…. probably should do a video!

Stampin' Up! Just Because card using Beautiful You and Garden Girl

The card is finished with an embossed background using the seaside textured embossing folder, and adding a sentiment from Beautiful You, and a bow in Pool Party Shimmer Ribbon.


Product List


Shop Stampin' Up! UK Teesside North East Stockton on Tees

Joining Stampin' Up! UK Starter Kit

To purchase any of the items featured in my projects please use the links above. To join my team of Stampin’ Friends select ‘Join My Team’ or send me a message!

Please support StampinByHannah, and enter my Code Club Code. For orders of over £150 please do not use this code, as you are entitled to your own Hostess benefits!

Sign up to my newsletter here – http://eepurl.com/2if59

Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

Make It Monday | Sale-a-bration special!

Make It Monday Sale-a-bration special 4 cards using Inside the Lines from Stampin' Up!

Make It Monday

Hello! Well, I suppose I should apologise for the lack of blog posts at the end of last week (and also a lack of a Make It Monday video this week!), I mentioned last week that I had to travel about 300 miles for a family funeral… well that went well, and I managed to get a bit of work done in the car on the way there and back, which was great seeing as the second I go home last Tuesday afternoon I was struck with a horrible cold. Now, I get colds quite regularly, but this saw me actually in bed for two days, I had to phone in sick to work, and if I’m not well enough to go to work, I am not well enough to film either! As I write this on Sunday afternoon, I find myself slowly recovering, but I still can’t film… well not if you want to understand what I am saying! So, I have the video that was meant to go up on Friday last week that I will schedule for this weeks 3D Friday and hopefully catch up with some more filming this coming week!

To make it up to you though I thought I would share 4 cards I made this morning with the Sale-a-bration Freebie Inside the Lines!

Make It Monday using Beautiful You and Inside the Lines from Stampin' Up! to made a simple birthday card

Ok, so this blog post is heading for the top of the ‘image heavy’ list! This first card was inspired by a sample I came across on Pinterest that had 3 panels of Designer Series Paper laid out like this. All 4 of the cards I have to share with you today use the fabulous Inside the Lines Designer Series Paper. I realised a few weeks ago when I posted another project using this paper into a Facebook sharing group, that I have used this paper a fair bit, but I tend to use it raw, no colouring, or colour added at all. So I though that really needed to change…. The paper here has a gentle layer of Flirty Flamingo added with a Sponge Brayer, and the card is finished with the sentiment from Beautiful You heat embossed onto a strip of Vellum and a trio of Enamel shapes (coloured with my black sharpie!)

Make It Monday Sale-a-bration special using Stampin' Up! watercolour pencils and Inside the Lines Designer Series Paper

This second card was actually the first card I made… or at least the first panel of paper I coloured. I pulled out my Watercolour Pencils for this one, I purposely kept things really soft… mainly because I also planned to colour a sample with my Stampin’ Write makers – which I did, it just hasn’t made it onto a card yet! The watercolour pencils are great! here I coloured the whole panel with Old Olive, Daffodil Delight, Calypso Coral, Pumpkin Pie and Island Indigo, and then blended them with a blender pen to remove the pencil lines and blend the colours together.

Make It Monday Colouring Inside the Lines Designer Series Paper with Stampin' Up! Watercolour PencilsThis third card is actually one of the Make and Take projects from OnStage Local back in November! I am a naughty stamper at these things and find myself chatting more than making, but I try to make the projects when I get home. Anyway, I have changed the stamp set that the sample was designed to use, and grabbed for Floral Phrases for that Congratulations stamp. The single coloured panel here is coloured using Watercolour Pencils and a blender pen…. although I did almost leave it black and white!!

Make It Monday Sale-a-bration Special using Inside the Lines from Stampin' Up! to make 4 cards for all occasions

This final card is totally CASE’d from Rochelle Blok … and I couldn’t make a pile of cards with the Inside the Lines Designer Series Paper without leaving one un-coloured!! There are actually 3 Sale-a-bration freebies on this card; Inside the Lines Designer Series Paper, the sentiment is from Designer Tee, and the layer underneath the sentiment is a tiny piece of Bermuda Bay Glimmer Paper from the Glimmer Paper Assortment.

There are only 11 days of Sale-a-bration left!!! you can find out all about Sale-a-bration on my latest Sale-a-bration on Wednesday post which you can find HERE!

Make It Monday Sale-a-bration special 4 cards using Inside the Lines from Stampin' Up!

Right, that is all from me today, I have a busy couple of weeks with my day job before my holiday to Amsterdam with my Stampin’ Up! girls at the beginning of April (can you tell I’m super excited!), so I probably should stop typing now and get organised for the week!

See you again tomorrow!


Sale-a-bration Random Acts of Kindness


Product List


Shop Stampin' Up! UK Teesside North East Stockton on Tees

Joining Stampin' Up! UK Starter Kit

To purchase any of the items featured in my projects please use the links above. To join my team of Stampin’ Friends select ‘Join My Team’ or send me a message!

Please support StampinByHannah, and enter G2CDA7EA. For orders of over £150 please do not use this code, as you are entitled to your own Hostess benefits!

Sign up to my newsletter here – http://eepurl.com/2if59

Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

Make It Monday…. on a Tuesday | Thank You Cards!

January Customer Thank You Cards using Beautiful You from Stampin' Up! UK

Yes, I am sorry, it is definitely Tuesday today, but I am sharing the second part of my January Thank You gifts today

Video Tutorial featuring Beautiful You from Stampin' Up! UK

Each month I send the lovely people who shop with me a gift pack to say a special Thank You. These packs always include a hand stamped card, and a sweet treat (you can see January’s Sweet Treats on yesterday’s blog post!) and you can bump up your gift packs by joining my Code Club and using the Code when you order to get some free Stampin’ goodies – this month I sent Enamel Shapes.

Beautiful You is the most gorgeous Stamp Set, I am still having heaps of fun with watercolouring these images. However I chose to keep things simple for my Thank You cards (watercolouring piles of cards can be a little tricky!) and so I stamped my watercolour instead! I think I am on a bit of a Sweet Sugarplum kick at the moment, I have just made a stack of cards using this fabulous colour to kick of the next part of Sale-a-bration! (more of that next week!)

January Customer Thank You Cards using Beautiful You from Stampin' Up! UK

I don’t write inside the cards I send to customers… and I have no issue with you sending them on and taking credit for them either (anything to make your lives easier!) Do let me know if there is a stamp set you would like me to feature on my Customer cards… or if there is a sweet treat you fancy trying!

Measurements:

Card base: Sweet Sugarplum – half A4, folded in half

Matt: Embossed with the Petal Burst Textured Impressions Embossing Folder – 14.3 x 10 cm

Basic Gray: 7.5 x 7.5 cm and 4.5 x 4.5 cm

Whisper White: 7 x 7 cm and 4 x 4 cm


Question of the day: What is your current favourite sweet treat?

What, other than the fabulous Sweet Treats bundle?! lol, I’m a sucker for anything chocolate-y, actually I hit my local supermarket yesterday looking for bits for some upcoming projects (Easter is coming!) and found some egg shaped chocolates with a melt-y filling… yum!


Product List


Shop Stampin' Up! UK Teesside North East Stockton on Tees

Joining Stampin' Up! UK Starter Kit

To purchase any of the items featured in my projects please use the links above. To join my team of Stampin’ Friends select ‘Join My Team’ or send me a message!

Please support StampinByHannah, and enter MK42UXHG. For orders of over £150 please do not use this code, as you are entitled to your own Hostess benefits!

Sign up to my newsletter here – http://eepurl.com/2if59

Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

Sale-a-bration Wednesday | Dancing Inside the Lines

Sale-a-bration Inside the Lines from Stampin' Up!

Sale-a-bration from Stampin' Up! UK

Sale-a-bration is now in full swing, and I am loving it! There are so many great reasons to be a part of it!

For starters you can be a part of Sale-a-bration by simply shopping, spend £45 and choose one of the awesome Sale-a-bration freebies…. of course you could spend multiples of £45 and get multiple free gifts! Awesome!

This card uses one of my favourite freebies, the Inside the lines Designer Series Paper;

Inside the Lines Designer Series Paper Sale-a-bration from Stampin' Up! UK

This particular piece of paper though, I cannot image colouring in… I just don’t have the patience for that. So instead, I grabbed out my Sponge Brayer instead.

Sale-a-bration Inside the Lines from Stampin' Up!

Of course, there is another even more awesome way to get involved in Sale-a-bration! You could grab the ultimate Stampin’ bundle! The Ultimate Stampin’ bundle is £130 worth of stampin’ goodies of your choice (yes, it is totally customise-able), and then you can choose another 2 stamp sets from the Spring Summer or Annual catalogue for FREE, you get free postage and packing, and then 20% off all your Stampin’ Up! products while you remain with the team too. Awesome! I would love to welcome you to my team of Stampin’ Friends! just ask me how!


Question of the day: What is your favourite Stampin’ Up! stamp set?

I’m not sure I could choose, I’m loving Beautiful You at the moment, but Jar of Love still has a BIG place in my heart too, and Awesomely Artistic, Gorgeous Grunge… Butterfly Basics, Picture Perfect……. the list goes on and on and on!


Stampin' Up! UK Sale-a-bration 2017


Product List


Shop Now button-001join Stampin' Up! Uk

To purchase any of the items featured in my projects please use the links above. To join my team of Stampin’ Friends select ‘Join My Team’ or send me a message!

Please support StampinByHannah, and join my Code Club, by using the Hostess code featured in the top right hand of my blog. For orders of over £150 please do not use this code, as you are entitled to your own Hostess benefits!

Sign up to my newsletter here – http://eepurl.com/2if59

Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

Make It Monday | Beautiful You Card Video Tutorial

Make It Monday Watercolour Card using Beautiful You from Stampin' Up! UK

make-it-monday-banner

Just a quick post from me today… as all the instructions and explanations for this card are in the video!

Make It Monday Watercolour Card using Beautiful You from Stampin' Up! UK

Oh, how I love the new Stampin’ Up! watercolour pencils! they are just awesome, and so easy to use too

Have you checked out my Beautiful You Online Card Class, pre-order closes on the 14th, and I wouldn’t want you to miss out

make-it-monday-watercoloured-beautiful-you-2

Hope you have a fabulous Monday, and I will see you again tomorrow…


Online Card Classes using Stampin' Up! UK Products


Product List


Shop Now button-001

join Stampin' Up! Uk

To purchase any of the items featured in my projects please use the links above. To join my team of Stampin’ Friends select ‘Join My Team’ or send me a message!

Please support StampinByHannah, and join my Code Club, by using the Hostess code featured in the top right hand of my blog. For orders of over £150 please do not use this code, as you are entitled to your own Hostess benefits!

Sign up to my newsletter here – http://eepurl.com/2if59

Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

Beautiful You | Wishing You Brighter Days to Come

Watercolour Sympathy Card Thinking of you using Beautiful You from Stampin' Up! UK

One of the things that made me shriek with excitement in the new Spring Summer catalogue is the fabulous Watercolour Pencils! I’m sure you all know by now how much I LOVE to watercolour, actually colouring in in general in my jam, but watercolour is my absolute favourite! The first thing that went into my shopping basket when I put my order in last month was for these great pencils, and I was not disappointed, they are awesome!

Watercolour Pencils and Beautiful you from Stampin' Up! UK

The pencils come in a pack of 13 great Stampin’ Up! colours, allowing for full coordination with all the other great products; inks, card stock and embellishments already available. I have everything crossed for some more colours to be added in June for the next Annual catalogue too! They are super easy to colour with, the pretty lady image on this card (from Beautiful You) is coloured with the watercolour pencils, Stampin’ Up! have made a great video to show us how they work…

Once I had coloured the image with my new set of Watercolour Pencils, I needed to find a suitably pretty background, and so grabbed for the Irresistibly Floral Speciality Designer Series Paper and a sponge roller. This paper comes as white sheets, but it has patterns already heat embossed onto it, all you have to do is add an ink colour of your choice and reveal the pattern. This paper works with a heap of colouring techniques, and I am sure I could have Watercoloured it, but the Sponge Rollers had just arrived in my crafty office, and I had to have a go. They are super easy actually, I think they will turn up in a video sooner rather than later!

Watercolour Sympathy Card Thinking of you using Beautiful You from Stampin' Up! UK

I finished this card with some matts of Basic Grey and a bow in Bermuda Bay Thick Bakers Twine.

Do you love this card as much as I do? Yes, you should totally check out my Beautiful You Online Card Class! you can find out more about it all HERE!


Product List


Shop Now button-001join Stampin' Up! Uk

To purchase any of the items featured in my projects please use the links above. To join my team of Stampin’ Friends select ‘Join My Team’ or send me a message!

Please support StampinByHannah, and join my Code Club, by using the Hostess code featured in the top right hand of my blog. For orders of over £150 please do not use this code, as you are entitled to your own Hostess benefits!

Sign up to my newsletter here – http://eepurl.com/2if59

Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

Beautiful You Online Card Class

Online Card Class using Beautiful You from Stampin' Up! UK

Online Card Classes using Stampin' Up! UK Products

Yay! They are finally here! Online card classes from StampinByHannah!

I am so super excited to launch these classes today, and I have an awesome first class of 2017 too. I will be launching a  2 brand new class every month throughout 2017, with one launching on the 1st of the month, and the other on the 15th. Classes will be pre-order only and will ship to you about a week after class order closes, this gives me time to get your orders placed with Stampin’ Up! and all your materials cut and prepped. Each class will come with exclusive videos, as well as all the card stock, embellishments and any other bits and bobs you might need to make the 6 cards (2 of each of 3 designs) in each class.

Online Card Class using Beautiful You from Stampin' Up! UK

This first class uses the GORGEOUS Beautiful You stamp set from the new Spring Summer Catalogue. I’m loving this stamp set for pretty girly cards, home decor pieces and much much more!

Class includes:

  • Beautiful You stamp set
  • Set of Watercolour Pencils
  • Archival Basic Black Ink Pad
  • One Sale-a-bration item of your choice!

Online Card Class using Beautiful You from Stampin' Up! UK

For more information and to sign up for class please complete the form below:

[contact-form subject=’BEAUTIFUL YOU CLASS’][contact-field label=’Name’ type=’name’ required=’1’/][contact-field label=’Email’ type=’email’ required=’1’/][contact-field label=’Address’ type=’textarea’ required=’1’/][/contact-form]


Shop Now button-001join Stampin' Up! Uk

To purchase any of the items featured in my projects please use the links above. To join my team of Stampin’ Friends select ‘Join My Team’ or send me a message!

Please support StampinByHannah, and join my Code Club, by using the Hostess code featured in the top right hand of my blog. For orders of over £150 please do not use this code, as you are entitled to your own Hostess benefits!

Sign up to my newsletter here – http://eepurl.com/2if59

Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator