Cards - StampinbyHannah

10th January 2017

Men’s Cards | Nailed It!

Men's birthday card using Nailed It from Stampin' Up! UK

My goodness, yesterday was busy here on the blog. I was at work, and my phone would not stop buzzing, took me til after teatime to get to work out what was going on…. turns out that THIS CARD I posted last week had won the Global Design Project Challenge for last week. I am totally stunned! I am hoping to get a card made for the challenge this week, but its not going to be today

I will of course admit that this card is CASE’d from the insanely talented Rochelle Blok from Australia.

I made this card for my father-in-law’s birthday back in December. He is always a challenge to make a card for, not only because he is a man, but he also has quite specific interests – he’s a VW car enthusiast, classic campervan’s in particular, but we don’t have anything like that in the catalogue, so I have to revert to ‘manly’ stamps! Except when I spotted this stamp and die bundle in the catalogue, I immediately thought of David!

The ‘Happy Birthday’ sentiment is taken from the Sale-a-bration stamp set Designer Tee. You can get this for FREE when you spend £45, or you buy the Nailed It bundle in wood-mount!

The card itself is fairly simple. The hammer and saw are stamped in Basic Grey, and coloured using the fabulous new Watercolour Pencils, and the back ground is the new Hexagon Embossing Folder.

Product List

Nailed It Wood-Mount Bundle

[144734]

£45.00

Nailed It Clear-Mount Bundle

[144735]

£38.50

Hexagons Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

[143231]

£8.25

5/8″ (1.6 Cm) Burlap Ribbon

[141487]

£6.50

Designer Tee Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[143359]

£0.00

Basic Gray Archival Stampin’ Pad

[140932]

£6.50

Watercolor Pencils

[141709]

£14.50

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

8th January 2017

Pootlers Birthday Blog Hop | Balloon Adventure!

Balloon Adventures pop up birthday card for the Pootlers Birthday Blog Hop January 2017 using Stampin' Up! UK products

I am so excited to share with you all today, as regular readers of my blog (or visitors to my Facebook page) will know it was my Birthday this week! I get more excited about my birthday than I do about Christmas, probably because I have to work over Christmas but I always make sure to put Annual Leave in for my Birthday! back to work tomorrow, but before then I want to Celebrate my birthday all over again with the other fabulous ladies in the team with January Birthdays!

We have a great blog hop for you all today, you can find more information about how to see everyone else’s birthday projects at the end of this blog post

I have to say it felt very strange making myself a birthday card! However, I took advantage of the fact that I knew I was going to LOVE at least one of my birthday cards this year, as well as being able to guarantee that at least one of them was going to be hand made!

I am just loving using the new Balloon Adventures stamp and die bundle, but I haven’t used it as it was intended yet!

The largest die in the set is actually to create this great balloon pop up for the centre of your card! A great surprise when you open it! The stamp also coordinate with the Balloon Bouquet punch which I have used here for the solid balloons, while the stripy and dotty balloons are taken from the dies in the bundle.

I hope you have enjoyed this blog post, I would love you to check out the other birthday themed projects on this blog hop, just click on the BLUE button to see what everyone has created! Don’t forget to click through to the other ladies blogs and leave some comment love.

see you again soon

Product List

Balloon Adventures Photopolymer Bundle

[144708]

£48.50

Balloon Bouquet Punch

[140609]

£16.00

Rich Razzleberry A4 Card Stock

[119981]

£7.25

Rose Red A4 Card Stock

[108613]

£7.25

Mint Macaron A4 Cardstock

[138344]

£7.25

Basic Gray A4 Card Stock

[121689]

£7.25

Gold Metallic Thread

[138401]

£2.75

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

6th January 2017

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!

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!

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

Beautiful You Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[143637]

£25.00

Watercolor Pencils

[141709]

£14.50

Irresistibly Floral Designer Series Specialty Paper

[141644]

£11.75

Sponge Brayers

[141714]

£7.25

Bermuda Bay Thick Baker’S Twine

[138413]

£3.25

Pacific Point Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126951]

£6.00

Watercolor Paper

[122959]

£4.50

Aqua Painters

[103954]

£15.50

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

5th January 2017

Beautiful You Online Card Class

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

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.

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!

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]

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

3rd January 2017

Global Design Project 068 | Nailed It!

Mans Card using Nailed It by Stampin' Up! UK for the Global Design Project 068

Well Hello there! It has been so long since I took part in the Global Design Project. I LOVE doing this challenge every week, but the back end of last year was so crazy I haven’t had chance to join in for ages! However, that is going to change, one of my many New Years Resolutions this year is to take part in the GDP each week (made much easier by the fact that I don’t often have to work a Monday!)

This weeks challenge is to CASE the designer. I love this card by Jess Williams, and chose to use both the layout and the colour combination for my card.

I chose to use the awesome new stamp set, Nailed It, for this card. Guy cards are always tricky, but there are some really great options for guys in the new Spring Summer catalogue (which launches tomorrow!! So excited!). The hammers are both coloured using the great new Watercolour Pencils, LOVE them! I have been trying them out on a heap of different types of card stock and so far haven’t come across one that they don’t work on!

I have to say too I had such a drama getting this post up today. I got called into work on Sunday night to cover the night shift and so making this card was an interestingly sleepy experience yesterday afternoon, but then to make it even worse when I went to photograph it I discovered that my lighting set up has totally died! I have to use artificial lights to photograph my projects at this time of year, and so once I have finished writing up this post I’m off to find another lamp holder for my photography light bulb! I have to thank my lovely husband who stood holding my lights to allow me to take the photos for today’s post, and I really hope that I don’t have to call on his lamp holding services again too soon!

Thanks so much for checking out my little blog today, and I hope that you check back tomorrow for the launch of the Spring Summer catalogue and the start of Sale-a-bration!

Product List

Nailed It Clear-Mount Bundle

[144735]

£38.50

Night Of Navy A4 Card Stock

[106577]

£7.25

Watercolor Pencils

[141709]

£14.50

Kraft 12″ X 12″ Card Stock

[133674]

£6.50

Night Of Navy Solid Baker’s Twine

[141684]

£2.75

Gold Stampin’ Emboss Powder

[109129]

£4.50

Watermelon Wonder A4 Cardstock

[138341]

£7.25

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

27th December 2016

Birthday Card Club 2017!

StampinByHannah Birthday Card Club using Stampin' Up! UK products

I am so excited for the start of my Birthday Card Club 2017! This themed club lasts for 6 months, and gives you 24 great birthday cards for your family and friends – never be short of a birthday card when you need one!

Month 1 costs £45 and includes the fabulous Balloon Adventure stamp set, an Emerald Envy Ink Pad, a whole pack of Whisper White envelopes and a Fast Fuse PLUS you get to choose a great Sale-a-bration item too! as well as a card kit to make 4 Birthday cards with written instruction sheets.

Months 2-6 cost just £10 a month, each month you will receive a card kit of card stock, Designer Series Paper and embellishments to make 4 great cards.

Sign-up is open now, but I will not be collecting payments until 4th January 2017. You can join the club at any time in January, for club to start on the 1st February. The following 6 months club kits will ship mid-month, and you can add anything to your club order by dropping me a message before the 10th of each month

I will also be opening a Facebook group, to share more Balloon Adventure ideas and inspiration.

I cannot wait to get started!

[contact-form to=’[email protected]’ subject=’Birthday Card Club’][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]

23rd December 2016

12 Days of Christmas | Classes and Events in 2017

Online Card Classes UK using Stampin' Up! UK products

I cannot believe that we are already at the last video of my 12 Days of Christmas series for 2016! I have had so much fun, and I hope you have enjoyed them too. This is my chance for a bit of a catch up with you all before the festivities begin….. This past few months have been more than a little hectic, and I have had to re-evaluate what I can and cannot do with my blog, videos and events. (as I write this I have nothing made for the new year, heaps of things on the to do list, and not a lot of prospect of finding time to do any of it!)

Which leaves me with some sad news, at least for the first half of 2017 I wont be doing any in-person events, I am gutted because I just LOVE to stamp with you all, but I just cannot commit to a regular evening, and I don’t like having to change the day the week before (which has happened more than once in 2016) so, to replace my in-person events, I will be posting 2 classes each month online! Yay! …. oh, and the videos and blog posts are staying too!

Right then, class details……

Class sign up’s start on 4th January, but you can pre-register your interest using the form below!
Class costs £45, which means that you get to pick one of the FABULOUS Sale-a-bration goodies!
Classes will be posted on the 1st and 14th of each month and you will have around 14 days to pre-order before I close the class and place your orders! Classes should ship to you about a week later.
There will be a postage fee of £3.00 per class kit
Each class will make 6 cards (or other projects) and comes with exclusive video tutorials as well as all the card stock, embellishments and other bits of bobs to make the cards!

[contact-form to=’[email protected]’ subject=’CLASS PRE-ORDER – Beautiful You’][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]

Giftaway: Place your order between now and midnight on the 26th December to get a FREE roll of Copper Metallic Thread (my favourite goody from this year!)

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

19th December 2016

12 Days of Christmas | Birthday Card Club 2017

Yes, the day has finally arrived! the day I can tell you all about something that I am so damn excited about, it has almost killed me not giving you all the details!

Welcome to my Birthday Card Club 2017!

I will explain all in the video below, but basically this club is AWESOME! Pre-order during December for our January start.

Month One costs £45 and includes a great birthday themed stamp set; Balloon Adventures, an Emerald Envy Ink Pad, a whole pack of Whisper White envelopes and a Fast Fuse PLUS you get to choose a great Sale-a-bration item too! as well as a card kit to make 4 Birthday cards with written instruction sheets.

Then, each month from February through to June costs £10 and includes a card kit each month. So, for a full 6 months you will have all the goodies and instructions for 4 birthday cards each month, that’s 24 Birthday cards in total! How great is that! Plus, each month you can add anything you like into your order, you just need to email me before the 8th of the month!

For more information and to book your place on the Birthday card club complete the form below:

[contact-form][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]

Giftaway: Place your order between now and midnight on the 21st December to get a FREE roll of Bakers Twine! (I will be ordering a selection of different colours, so its a bit of a lucky dip!)p!)

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

17th December 2016

Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge – December 2016

Hello! Welcome to the Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge for December! One of our brand new members Amanda Charlesworth set us a fabulously swirly challenge this month, and while I have straightened out the swirls to fit in with my style I cannot wait to see what the other girls have made!

Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge December challenge using Birthday Blossoms from Stampin' Up! UK

Amanda’s original sketch had a swirl on the diagonal from top to bottom, but seeing as I don’t own a single swirl stamp I have removed that bit of the sketch. This is one of those things I love doing with sketched, changing them to suit what I own and my style of card making. I do however love the floral cluster idea in the middle of the card, so I took that and ran with it!

The darker flowers are punched using the Blossom Builder punch, and I have used the faux suede technique to create these fabulously textured flowers

Birthday Blossoms Card in Rose Red Blushing Bride and Pear Pizzazz from Stampin' Up! UK

Thank you so much for checking out the Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge this month, we can’t wait to see you again in the new year!

Giftaway: Place your order between now and midnight on the 21st December to get a FREE roll of Bakers Twine! (I will be ordering a selection of different colours, so its a bit of a lucky dip!)p!)

Thick Bakers Twine 12 days of Christmas giftaway

Product List

Birthday Blossoms Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[139471]

£17.00

Blossom Builder Punch

[141469]

£16.00

Pansy Punch

[130698]

£14.50

Blushing Bride Classic Stampin’ Pad

[131172]

£6.00

Rose Red Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126954]

£6.00

Rose Red A4 Card Stock

[108613]

£7.25

Card Stock A4 Pear Pizzazz

[131290]

£7.25

Pearl Basic Jewels Embellishments

[119247]

£4.50

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

8th December 2016

Congratulations Card using Floral Phrases

Floral Phrases congratulations card using stamps from Stampin' Up! UK

As you will know if you have shopped with me, I LOVE to send cards to my customers, team members and other crafty friends, I don’t always need a reason, but I will send a card if someone has reached a milestone, or done something awesome. And so this card was one I made for one of the girls in the team a month or so ago for reaching one of her goals!

I have been trying not to stamp the Floral Phrases stamp set in Night of Navy, but its hard to avoid when using it with the coordinating Floral Boutique Designer Series Paper! The Floral image is stamped directly onto the DSP, and then the spatter stamp from Gorgeous Grunge is heat embossed in Gold over the top.

I have already shared this card with the team too, we had a great night of crafty chat and card making on Facebook a few weeks ago, and I shared this as my Swap! The person I sent it to had already received it, so I knew it was safe! I’m planning on a few online team nights in the coming months on our Team Facebook Group, and I would love you to join us! You can find out more about joining my team HERE!

Question of the day: What crafty project are you working on this week?

I’m still trying to get a stack of Christmas cards finished ready for James to send to his work and University friends, as well as finishing my projects for my blog up until the end of the year, oh and prepping for my classes and events in the new year too! busy busy!

Product List

£16.00

£10.00

£18.00

£4.50

£2.75

£6.00

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

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