Author: Hannah McCurley

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Petal Potpourri!

Have you seen the latest Stampin’ Up! catalogue yet? NO! well, its HERE! take a look!

There are some amazing stamp sets, Designer Series Papers, Dies, and even some new Inks!

This card uses just one of the New Stamp sets – Petal Potpourri – four wonderful floral images that coordinate with a new punch (I’ll get to that in a moment), along with 2 flower centres! Clean and simple, but oh so handy.

Stampin' Up! UK Petal Potpourri happy birthday

This card uses a Night of Navy card base, with a Whisper White matt.

I stamped the flower twice, first a solid image in Pool Party, and then this lovely hand-painted looking flower in Night of Navy. Now, I have to say this would have been easier if I had used the Stamp-a-ma-jig Stamp positioning tool, but I didn’t! and So the images are a little off, but I don’t mind that.

The flower was then punched out using the new Flower Medallion Punch. This punch coordinates with two stamp sets in the new catalogue! I love a good versatile punch! And even comes bundled with this stamp set to save you 15%.

The Happy Birthday sentiment is taken from another new set – Crazy About You! Quite possibly the most versatile set of sentiment stamps I have seen in ages! and although it is designed to coordinate with some lovely word thinlit dies – the sentiments can totally be used on their own!

Hannah Wilks

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

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Sale-a-bration on Sunday – lotus Blossom

Welcome to my first Sale-a-bration on Sunday for 2015! Each Sunday between now and the end of March I will be sharing with you some great projects using the Sale-a-bration stamps and papers from this years brochure!

Stampin' Up! UK Sale-a-bration SAB lotus blossom

I love this card! actually, I love this stamp! Back in November I attended a Stampin’ Up! event about this years Sale-a-bration, and this was the stamp they allowed us to play with. I love the 2-step stamping technique, and this stamp makes it so easy to get a really pretty effect.

This card uses a Lost Lagoon card base with a Whisper White mat. I stamped the flower with Lost Lagoon and Soft Sky. The flower image comes in three pieces, each piece adding more detail, from a larger backing piece to the detailed petals. So I stamped the first stamp in Soft Sky, before layering the other two stamps over with Lost Lagoon. The best way of using these two-step stamping is to stamp off some layers; where you ink up your stamp and stamp it once on a piece of scrap paper, before stamping finally onto your project.

This stamp set is part of Stampin’ Up! Sale-a-bration period, lasting from 6th January to 31st March 2015. For each £45 you spend with me and Stampin’ Up! you can choose a FREE product from the Sale-a-bration brochure, which could be this stamp set, or some of the great Blendabilities markers!

Hannah Wilks

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

If you like the project, or any of the products used, would like a catalogue, or to join my team, please contact me, or click on the ‘Shop NOW’ button at the top of the page. You can also find me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google+, About.me, and Tumblr (Links in the sidebar)

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Its’s Challenge time again! – AW32

I do love a good challenge! And this challenge over at Around the World Stampin Challenges is particularly good!

AW32

I love using sketches when I’m scrapbooking, but using a sketch when I’m card-making isnt something I do much of! So, this really was a challenge for me.

Stampin' Up! UK AW32 Sketch Challenge entry

I decided to use new products from the Spring/Summer catalogue (and a little something from Sale-a-bration!) for this card. I just love using my new stuff! Don’t you?

The card base is Pear Pizzazz, with a matt of that fabulous Irresistibly Yours Designer Series Paper from the Sale-a-bration brochure. This paper is fabulous! When it arrives it just looks like 12 sheets of white 12×12 cardstock, but when you ink or mist it, it comes alive! The white paper has a glossy white pattern hidden on it, 6 different designs – dots, flowers, stripes, vines, stars and a sort of scaly pattern! So I grabbed for the dots here and sponged it in Pear Pizzazz Ink – I love that inky / blotchy look. It says “this card was handmade! with love and effort!”

The hearts punched using the Sweetheart punch, and the heart from Itty Bitty Accents. I stamped the new background stamp, Something Lacy, in Pink Pirouette, onto Very Vanilla cardstock before punching out the hearts and creating the sentiment banner. That sentiment by the way is another Sale-a-bration item!

I love the Sale-a-bration offerings this year. There is a great selection of stamps, papers, embellishments, Project Life cards, AND some blendabilities! all for FREE when you spend £45 with me and Stampin’ Up! between now and the 31st of March! Awesome!

Anyway, thanks for reading all my waffle today, and I hope you enjoyed the card!

Hannah Wilks

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

If you like the project, or any of the products used, would like a catalogue, or to join my team, please contact me, or click on the ‘Shop NOW’ button at the top of the page. You can also find me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google+, About.me, and Tumblr (Links in the sidebar)

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Fancy Fold Friday – Twist Turn Card Video Tutorial!

Welcome to another Fancy Fold Friday! This week I am re-visiting a previous project as a reader had asked for a video tutorial, and so here it is. This is originally a CASE from My Chic and Scratch, but I have altered the measurements to fit A4 cardstock.

Stampin' Up! UK Twist Turn card Butterfly BasicsThis card uses the new Butterfly Basics stamp set, from the Spring/Summer catalogue from Stampin’ Up! This stamp set comes bundled with a set of thinlits, Butterflies Thinlit Dies. This set of dies is a little different that our usual Stampin’ Up! thinlits as not all the dies match a stamp, instead the sets compliment each other. Saying that the butterfly featured on this card is the only stamp/die combination in the set!

Measurements:

Cardstock – 8 1/4 x 5 1/4″ (20.9 x 13.3 cm)

Score on the long side at 2 5/8 and 3 1/2″ (6.6 and 8.9 cm)

Score on the short side at 2 5/8″ (6.6 cm)

Between the two score lines draw two further score lines on a diagonal. Lay your card with the long side at the top and the square created by the previous score lines on the left. Draw a score line from the top of the left hand score line to the point with the right hand score and horizontal score line meet. Then draw a further score line from the point with the right hand score line and the horizontal score line meet to the bottom of the left hand score line.

With the card still laid in the same orientation fold along the horizontal score line, before folding all the score lines both forwards and backwards. Fold the left hand score line backwards, and fold the card along the horizontal score. Holding the card under the square that you have just formed, take hold of the top two corners of that square and tilt. Make sure you burnish all the score lines well at this point.

Then attach your decorative cardstock or DSP.

Measurements:

2 1/4 x 2 1/4″ ( 5.7 x 5.7 cm)
2 1/4 x 4 1/4″ (5.7 x 10.8 cm)

Hannah Wilks

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

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Happy Birthday…. thinlits edition!

Well, its still my Birthday week, so I’m still celebrating! My birthday and a catalogue launch in one week, busy times for me! but I love it!

Stampin' Up! UK Birthday card Crazy about you Hello you

This card uses a brand new stamp set from the Spring/Summer catalogue, Crazy about you. Before I get into the card I just want to mention this set, not only is a great set for sentiments and phrases, as well as three lovely floral images, but it comes bundledwith 3 thinlits dies – Hello You! I love it when Stampin’ Up! bundle stamps and dies (or stamps and DSP!) as it you save 15%! AND there is something even better about this stamp set! It comes in Wood Mount, Clear Mount AND Photopolymer! Awesome!

Onto the card….

I used a Melon Mambo card base today, with a Whisper White matt.

The leaves are from that lovely Crazy About You stamp set and are stamped in Pear Pizzazz (I think this is my favourite green!). I stamped the Birthday stamp in Pear Pizzazz on a scrap of Whisper White and cut it into a banner shape. Before layering it with a similarly cut scrap of Pink Pirouette and a piece of the Subtles Collection DSP stack in Wild Wasabi!

Then comes the greatest thing about this stamp/die bundle – the word thinlit dies! You get 4 in the pack: Happy, You, Thanks, and Hello! and the font its just so pretty! I used my Big Shot to die cut the word Happy from some more Melon Mambo, and used the Transfer Adhesive Sheets to adhere it to the card. Have I mentioned about Transfer Adhesive Sheets yet? they are perhaps the coolest adhesive I have ever used! You peel off the backing and apply your diecut to the glue, put the backing back over and rub to ensure the glue transfers, before peeling your die cut back off (carefully its now super sticky!) and putting it on your card! No longer do you have to spread wet glue as thinly as humanly possible over the back of a diecut, or attempt to stick them on with tape runner! Awesome!

Right, I think that is probably enough waffle for today!

have a great day and see you again tomorrow for Fancy Fold Friday!!!

Hannah Wilks

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

If you like the project, or any of the products used, would like a catalogue, or to join my team, please contact me, or click on the ‘Shop NOW’ button at the top of the page. You can also find me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google+, About.me, and Tumblr (Links in the sidebar)

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Latest Joining Offer!

Stampin' Up! UK Sale-a-bration joining offer 2015

With Sale-a-bration now on! I wanted to share the awesome Sale-a-bration joining offer with you.

When you join me and Stampin’ Up! you already get a whole heap of great benefits; 20% off all demonstrator orders, access to new products before anyone else, a great team of stampers both in my direct team AND within my larger team of Pootlers (of which I am one!), as well as all the great opportunities to meet new people, get crafty, and even some travel (so looking forward to both regional training and convention this year!).

But when you join during Sale-a-bration the benefits get even better!

Join now for just £99, receive your starter kit worth £130 (of crafty items of your choice!), AND choose between 2 great FREE product options!

1. Choose a FREE project kit from the new Spring/Summer Catalogue – there are 5 to choose from, including; Hello Life (a great home decor project), Hooray It’s your Day card kit, the Perpetual Birthday Calender, Build a Bouquet, OR So You (a great 4×4 photo album).

Stampin' Up! UK join NOW

OR

2. Choose any two Sale-a-bration items! thats anything from THIS brochure! Awesome huh! Stampin' Up! UK Sale-a-bration join

For more information on joining Me and Stampin’ Up! click HERE!

or to Join Now!

Hannah Wilks

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

If you like the project, or any of the products used, would like a catalogue, or to join my team, please contact me, or click on the ‘Shop NOW’ button at the top of the page. You can also find me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google+, About.me, and Tumblr (Links in the sidebar)

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Spring/Summer Catalogue and Sale-a-bration!

It’s New Catalogue Launch day! Yay!

I am sorry to see the Autumn/Winter Catalogue go, but it means that it must be time for the Spring/Summer Catalogue, AND the start of Sale-a-bration! even better!

I have written a page about Sale-a-bration and what it means for you – you can find it in the top menu bar or HERE.

This post really is just to hold all THREE videos together!

Here is a look through the Spring/Summer Catalogue

Here is a look through the Sale-a-bration leaflet, and an explanation of what its all about

And to finish the day, I had to show you what I got!

Get a FREE copy of the Spring/Summer Catalogue by sending me a message using the Contact Me button at the top of the page.

Hannah Wilks

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

If you like the project, or any of the products used, would like a catalogue, or to join my team, please contact me, or click on the ‘Shop NOW’ button at the top of the page. You can also find me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google+, About.me, and Tumblr (Links in the sidebar)

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Happy Birthday!

to me!

 

Before I get into the full post about my birthday card to myself (yes, today really is my birthday!), I just want to quickly remind you that today is the LAST DAY of the Autumn/Winter Catalogue AND the End of Year Clearance! But, tomorrow is the day the NEW catalogue launches! Yay!

So, today, is a little sneak peak of what is coming tomorrow!

Stampin' Up! UK Sale-a-bration 2015 Big Day Birthday Card

I love this card! I actually originally made it in Soft Sky and Night of Navy, but due to timing I had to give it away before I had photographed it 🙁 so, I made it again, this time in Pool Party and Marina Mist!

The Stamp set is Big Day, which you can choose as a FREE gift when you spend more than £45 from tomorrow (January 6th!) as part of Sale-a-bration. I stamped the sentiment from the set on Marina Mist in White Craft Ink. I love the look you get from this ink but its worth remembering that it takes an age to dry! But its just so pretty that I really don’t mind (but its no good for a card in a hurry!)

The polka dot background was created by stamping the large dot stamp from Work of Art in Pool Party onto a Pool Party cardbase.

Isn’t it lovely!

Right, that’s me done for the day, actually I’m writing this slightly ahead of time, I am probably currently in the middle of Ikea eating a 99p breakfast and shopping for my new office! Exciting!

See you all again tomorrow for the grand reveal of the new Stampin’ Up! UK Spring / Summer Catalogue 2015, AND the Start of Sale-A-Bration!

Hannah Wilks

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

If you like the project, or any of the products used, would like a catalogue, or to join my team, please contact me, or click on the ‘Shop NOW’ button at the top of the page. You can also find me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google+, About.me, and Tumblr (Links in the sidebar)

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Fancy Fold Friday – Pop-up Gift Card Card Tutorial!

Ok, so before I start, I give Michelle Last full credit for this project, I just think its awesome and HAD to share! (HERE is her version)

Stampin' Up! UK Pop up gift card card

This gift card holder (or gift card card if you will) is super cool! I used this design to hold all the gift cards we gave as Christmas gifts.

Measurements:

Cardstock – 5 3/4″ x 11 3/4″ (14.8 x 29.7cm)

Fold the card in half, and score both ends at 4 1/8″ (10.5cm)

Designer Series Paper – 5 5/8 x 4″ (14.3 x 10 cm)

Whisper White – 5 3/8 x 3 3/4″ (13.8 x 9.5 cm)

 

I have finished my version with stamping from Work of Art and Something to Say Stamp sets, in the 2014-2016 In-Colours.

Hannah Wilks

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

If you like the project, or any of the products used, would like a catalogue, or to join my team, please contact me, or click on the ‘Shop NOW’ button at the top of the page. You can also find me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google+, About.me, and Tumblr (Links in the sidebar)

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Happy New Year!

This is likely to be a long post! be warned!

Firstly, Happy New Year! I hope its a good one!

Before we get into the project today, I am going to waffle about some important changes here at StampinByHannah!

– StampinByHannah Rewards programme – I have decided to offer shopping gifts (in addition to any rewards from Stampin’ Up!) please check out the StampinByHannah Rewards page in the menu bar at the top (its under Shop NOW!). In a nutshell, I will be offering free gifts depending on your total amount spent with me, this means that you can order several orders and they will ALL count towards your rewards. I will be offering a sort of points system (think of a large supermarket chain!), and I will automatically send you your gifts when you reach each amount – some do require you to make a choice, but I will email you with all the information when you reach each marker.

– Sale-a-bration – Sale-a-bration starts next week on the 6th of January! keep watching for more information about FREE products and extra shopping offers!

– Facebook – Go over to StampinByHannah on facebook to make sure you stay up to date with all my personal offer and events!

– Events! – I am now holding monthly classes – please check out the Events page for my complete calender! all classes are also available in a virtual format if you are unable to attend.

 

Right, I think that’s all the notices for now, lets get to the card for today!

Any guesses on my inspiration here!

Stampin' Up! UK Petite Petals Pootles Gorgeous Grunge

I love petite petals! LOVE LOVE LOVE! and this stamp set combined with the matching punch and Rich Razzleberry just called out to me this week!

There is a stamped layer of Gorgeous Grunge on the Whisper White cardstock, and the flowers are added on top.

There are actually three different flowers here, one stamped on Whisper white, one on Rich Razzleberry and one plan with sponge edges – all using Rich Razzleberry ink! All the flowers are added with glue dots, and the sponged ones are finished with Candy Dot centres!

A super effective, super quick make!

Hannah Wilks

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

If you like the project, or any of the products used, would like a catalogue, or to join my team, please contact me, or click on the ‘Shop NOW’ button at the top of the page. You can also find me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google+, About.me, and Tumblr (Links in the sidebar)

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