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Celebrate you

Last week I shared a whole heap of Birthday cards, and while I haven’t got a birthday card to share with you today, I have got a card to share that I made for a very special lady that’s going through a rough time. I’m hoping that she has received this card by now….. oh well, I’m sharing it anyway!

Celebrate you

I really enjoy sending ‘pick me up’ cards, you know those card sent for no reason other than to say, I’m thinking of you or It’s gonna get better. I thought about using one of those sentiments on this card, but really I wanted a You’re Awesome! card, a card to simply remind the person that they need some ‘my time’ and time to Celebrate you! I’m waffling …. maybe I should stop ….

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The stamps used here are Perpetual birthday and Suite Sayings. I’m sure I took inspiration from a card I spotted on Pinterest for this one, but I have no memory of who or where I found it seeing as this photo has been sat on my PC for weeks and the card is long gone lol. I do remember the colours though; a set of my favourites – Bermuda Bay, Pool party and Mint Macaron. So pretty

Stampin' Up! UK Birthday Blooms Card Class

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English Garden Birthday

Stampin' Up! UK Crazy About You birthday card

I’m sure many of you know that I make birthday cards for a nursing home, many care home residents don’t have anyone to send them a card except the home itself, and then its the cheapest card they can find. They smiles from the residents when they open a birthday card, a special, hand made birthday card – its wonderful.

So, the activities coordinator of this home approached me last month and asked for a batch of cards, so this is what I made ….

Stampin' Up! UK English Garden Birthday card

I have to say here, this is totally not my card design, and takes some serious inspiration from THIS CARD that I found on Pinterest.

 

Stampin' Up! UK Crazy About You birthday card

I’m loving this Designer Series Paper, English Garden from this years Annual catalogue, its just so damn pretty! and features some gorgeous colours, and I’m STILL trying to use up my stack of Designer Series Paper and these cards a a great way of using up loads of paper, as each card uses 1/6th of a piece of paper.

The Happy is taken from the Crazy About You stamp and die bundle, another favourite pick from this Annual catalogue!

Stampin Up! Uk Crazy About You English Garden

I made 6 of these cards, 2 in each colour and they were super simple and quick to put together, and the ladies absolutely LOVED them!

Are you interested in making some birthday cards for those older people living in our care homes (UK only) drop me a message and see how you can help me out with my latest project!

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Awesomely Artistic Birthday

Stampin' Up! UK Awesomely Artistic Birthday

Ok, so as I type up this weeks blog post, I realise that every single card this week is a birthday card – maybe I have a problem?! – but surely we send more birthday cards than any other type of card, right? I hope so, I hope you are enjoying this week of birthday cards, and um, that you continue to come back and see me here at StampinByHannah

Did that sound like begging, because I didn’t mean it to. I just don’t want you to leave me, I like you….. ok, I’ll stop now.

Do you want to see a card?!

right, here we go

Stampin' Up! UK Awesomely Artistic Birthday

I made this card for my Aunt a few weeks ago (the middle of January!) using Awesomely Artistic and Perfect Pairings. I really enjoy inky techniques, and getting a bit messy – this card was so much fun to make!

There are several colours going on here, layers of Mint Macaron, Pool Party and Lost Lagoon, in both stamped and sponged form on the bottom and right hand side of the card. With splatters of Rich Razzleberry stamped in full and half strength to finish. I do wish I could explain my process here – I probably should make a video, because I can’t actually explain what I did, other than to say that I, the card and my desk were covered in ink by the time the card was complete!

Hope you are having a great day, and I’ll see you for another birthday card tomorrow!

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New Sale-a-bration goodies!

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Yesterday we said goodbye to a few of this years wonderful Sale-a-bration goodies…. but today we get to say Hello! to some new ones! Yay!

I haven’t had chance to play with them yet (I know, I’m sad too!) but you can check them out by clicking on that great banner at the top of this post

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How can you get your hands on this great products? It’s so easy, just spend £45 (or more!) in my online shop, and you will be prompted to choose your items before you check out! You get to choose another item each time you spend £45, so if you spend £90 you get to choose 2! Yay!

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Host a party (or place an individual order) with a spend of over £200 and get to a further £20 in Stampin’ Rewards, in addition to the 12% rewards you would normally receive

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The greatest deal though is the Starter Kit! Get to choose £160 worth of great items (anything from our current catalogues) and pay just £99! Message me today for more info!

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Balloon Birthdays

Stampin' Up! UK Balloon birthday card

I’m making heaps of birthday cards at the moment – have you seen the awesome hashtag on social media? #imbringingbirthdaysback – its a great idea started by the lovely Shannon West from Stampin’ Up! home office in Utah, we don’t send enough birthday cards anymore, its just too easy to sent a birthday message when facebook reminds us its someone’s birthday – but I’m determined to get out of that habit! I am aiming to get myself organised and a stack of cards made this week so they are ready to write and send.

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This card really pops! Melon Mambo and Pink Pirouette – BOOM!

I’m loving the Balloon Bouquet punch, and used it lots here to get this fabulous balloons. I sponged one side of all the balloons to create the illusion of dimension and added them to a piece of Pink Pirouette card stock embossed with the decorative dots embossing folder.

Stampin' Up! UK Balloon Celebration Birthday card

I wasn’t sure about the ‘strings’ on these balloons, I’m still not sure if a Basic Grey or Smoky Slate marker might have been a better choice than black – never mind it is what it is. This card was made specially for a nursing home that I donate a lot of birthday cards to, they love a simple card without too much detail and bright coloured cards are loved by their residents with Dementia.

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I will be closing this order on the 23rd February 2016

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Cottage Greetings

Stampin' Up! UK Cottage greetings Birthday Blooms

Have you checked out the selection of Kits offered by Stampin’ Up! yet? they are awesome!

This months class featured the Tin of Cards kit, we had a great time putting 16 cards together. But there are many other kits available too; a perpetual calender, some great home decor pieces, cards, a paper cake! and some wonderful banners and boxes too.

I thought today I would share one of the kits, the Cottage Greetings Card Kit

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Now, this card kit is great. For just £14.50 you get 15 great cards featuring wooden elements and silver foil accents, PLUS 15 envelopes with silver foil liners. And the cards are cute, I’m loving this one!

There is a coordinating stamp set designed to match this great kit, but I don’t seem to have it! So, I’ve grabbed my Birthday Blooms set instead, I LOVE this sentiment and the font is just stunning.

What a cute card!

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Global Design Project #022 – What I love

Stampin' Up! UK What I Love Global Design Project #22

I am really trying to join in with the Global Design Project Challenges more often, however, I realised when I came to make this card (yesterday!) that I think it was a sketch challenge last time I took part, which means the last time I did one of their challenges was a month ago! oops!

oh well, I am trying! Its a super scary week for me this week as I start (yet another) new job. I’m hoping that this one is going to give me a little more time to devote to you, dearest blog readers and customers. I have got the next couple of weeks already written and scheduled (always a good idea when you know you’re going to be super busy!) but that doesn’t mean I’m not here, because I am, I’m still here plugging away at the keyboard and making heaps and heaps of cards!

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I realise that this sketch is kinda similar to the one I posted yesterday for the Simply Sketch Saturday Challenge, however I’m posting anyway!!!

Stampin' Up! UK What I Love Global Design Project #22

I also realised the other day that I haven’t really created very much with this years Sale-a-bration goodies. Last year I did Sale-a-bration on Sunday, and I haven’t really had time to do that this year, maybe I will start today (seeing as it’s Sunday) and do half of Sale-a-bration on Sunday. What do you think?

So, this is one of the Sale-a-bration goodies that you could earn for FREE when you spend £45 before the end of March! I’m loving this set, although I haven’t really stamped it. I actually think this is only the second time I’ve used it! What I love is a great set, and is one of those wonderful 3-step stamping sets. This time I’ve used Rich Razzleberry for the ‘outline’ stamp, and Rose Red for the solid stamps. Stampin' Up! UK What I love

The leaves are in Mossy Meadow, and were really tricky to fussy cut! I think I need more practice at fiddly fussy cutting because although things like those flowers I can cut without any really issue, those leaves were a pain!

Anyway, I did use a second stamp set on this card, those fabulous lines are from Gorgeous Grunge and are also stamped in Mossy Meadow. I’m still considering whether this card needs some Wink of Stella, I don’t know why I’m even really thinking about this – because every card is better with Wink of Stella!

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What I Love Photopolymer Stamp Set

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Rich Razzlebberry Classic Stampin' Pad

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Rose Red Classic Stampin' Pad

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Mossy Meadow Classic Stampin' Pad

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Gorgeous Grunge Clear Stamp Set

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Rose Red A4 Card Stock

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Paper Snips Scissors

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Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge – Birthday Blooms

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Welcome to the second Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge of 2016! It’s Sam’s birthday today so she’s left me in charge (silly lady!) and I am hoping that her card has arrived in time, otherwise this blog post is a bit of a spoiler! So, Happy Birthday Sam!

It’s a sad sketch today actually, this weeks sketch was designed by the lovely Debbie Bradley but unfortunately she has been unable to take part in the hop 🙁 Thinking of you Debbie xx

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I’ve been dreaming of this sketch; seriously, I woke up one morning this week with my card fully formed in my head! If I had had the energy to get up at 5AM and make the card that would have been awesome, but I didn’t (sleep was much more important at 5AM) and so my card isn’t the one I was dreaming of….. but its similiar

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I’ve been designed projects for my March cardmaking class this week and so this stamp set has been open on the desk. I love colouring and I have lost count of the number of times I have watercoloured this flower, but this time I’ve used Stampin’ Write markers. The flower is coloured in Blushing Bride and Calypso Coral, and the leaves are Pear Pizzazz and Old Olive, with a outline of Basic Black. I thought fussy cutting this would take AGES but actually, once I got going with my craft knife, it didn’t take that long. One of the things I enjoy doing once I’ve fussy cut something is to colour in the edge of the card stock – I just think it makes for a nice finished edge – so after I had cut, I ran my Basic Black Stampin’ Write marker around the edge.Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge - Feb 13 - 2

This card had to have a piece of Designer Series Paper, like on most cards at the moment as I’m challenging myself to have as little Designer Series Paper left when this Annual catalogue ends in May. So this Designer Series Paper is from the Birthday Bouquet pack (LOVE!).

Seeing as this is a birthday card, I had to find a birthday sentiment that would fit – the birthday sentiment in the Birthday Blooms stamp set was just a little big – so I hunted through my stamp shelves and found this beauty from Endless Birthday Wishes. I did try stamping it and punching it out with the Washi Label punch but then it didn’t really fit. So I put on my big girl pants and stamped straight onto a card that I could have called finished! Scary, but it worked! Yay!

I hope you enjoy the rest of the hop, and don’t forget to wish Sam Johnson a very Happy Birthday when you come across her blog!

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January Thank you cards and Code Club gifts!

Stampin' Up! UK A Nice Cuppa Thank you card

I have been trying to get this post up for over a week, but for reasons totally outside of my control I didn’t manage to get gifts posted out to customers until the middle of the week.

Stampin' Up! UK A Nice Cuppa Thank you card

I had great fun making these cards for this past month’s customer thank you cards using the A Nice Cuppa bundle and the Pretty Petals Designer Series Paper.

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How cute is that spoon!

This card was super simple to make, die cutting the cup from Old Olive card stock, and the milk jug from Very Vanilla, and that spoon from Gold Foil Paper. Adding a strip of Designer Series Paper and stamping the ‘Thank  You’ in Watermelon Wonder.

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January Code Club Code Gifts

I have also sent this months Code Club Code gifts. I have to admit an error here on my part, usually the Code Club gift is a clear mount stamp set or some embellishments – but when I was ordering for you guys this month I managed to order wood mount by accident! Silly me, but I hope you love them as much as I do.

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Rose Wonder Watercolour

Stampin' Up! UK Rose Wonder Shimmer wink of stella

Once again I’ve gone mad with the shimmer on this one!

Stampin' Up! UK Rose Wonder Shimmer wink of stella

The Rose Wonder stamp set is one of my favourites from this years Spring Summer catalogue. I’ve stamped the rose in Basic Black on Watercolour paper, and watercoloured it in Rich Razzleberry and Old Olive. I have to admit I did make a mistake on this one, because the outline wasn’t black enough, and so I went over the lines with my Basic Black marker pen – which was fine, until I decided to add a layer of Wink of Stella (rookie error!) and of course because both Wink of Stella and the Stampin’ Write marker are water based, the black ran! Oops!

Stampin' Up! UK Rose Wonder Watercolour

In crafting there are no mistakes, just opportunities. And so I’ve added a button tied with a bow of Whisper White bakers twine. I know that you can still see some of the ‘opportunity’, but it looks better than it did before!

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