Cards - StampinbyHannah

24th July 201814th July 2018

Floral Friend card with Petal Promenade

How to cut the Petal Promenade Designer Series Paper from Stampin' Up!

StampinByHannah Floral Friend card with Petal Promenade

So, one of the pieces of the Petal Promenade Designer Series Paper I have been dreading trying to cut is one that has 9 really beautiful floral frames. There I several reasons why this paper makes me nervous; they are usually sized for a US sized card base which isnt the same size as I use here in the UK, they are really really pretty and I don’t want to mess one up, and then there is the fear of just not having a clue what I am going to do with the frames once they are cut! But, I have started seeing other people make some really pretty cards with these frames. In fact I almost CASE’d THIS card from Patty Bennett to get me started, but I made this card instead.

Usually when I’m making a card using Designer Series Paper, I’ll go into the catalogue and look which Stampin’ Up! Colours are in featured, but not for this card. Instead I chose to look and see what colours my eye saw, and that turned into Grapefruit Grove, Lovely Lipstick and Shaded Spruce, none of which are officially in the paper but does that really matter?!

The frame cut from the Petal Promenade Designer Series Paper is an awkward size for layering. To get around this I simply measured it carefully and then cut a piece of Grapefruit Grove card stock half a centimetre longer and wider before layering it onto a card base with a standard sized mat and actually it looks fine.

These frames are designed to fit the Stampin’ Up! note cards and envelopes, which they do perfectly, I just don’t use them very regularly in my crafting and as a result this particular piece of paper would usually get forgotten about!

Which of the Designer Series Paper packs are you struggling to cut?

Product List

Beautiful Promenade Photopolymer Bundle

[148389]

£42.25

Beautiful Promenade Photopolymer Stamp Set

[146842]

£20.00

Beautiful Layers Thinlits Dies

[147043]

£27.00

Petal Promenade Designer Series Paper

[146913]

£10.25

Shaded Spruce A4 Cardstock

[147006]

£8.00

Grapefruit Grove A4 Cardstock

[146995]

£8.00

Shaded Spruce Classic Stampin’ Pad

[147088]

£7.00

Grapefruit Grove Classic Stampin’ Pad

[147142]

£7.00

Lovely Lipstick Classic Stampin’ Pad

[147140]

£7.00

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!

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Hannah McCurley

23rd July 201822nd July 2018

Make It Monday | Petal Promenade Tag Card

Make It Monday how to make a tag using Beautiful Promenade from Stampin' Up!

StampinByHannah Make It Monday Petal Promenade Tag Card

Before I get to the card today I just need to remind you of a couple of things:

Booking for this month’s StampinByHannah Suite Share featuring Petal Promenade closes on WEDNESDAY…. get your box HERE!
Both the Stampin’ Pad Family Starter Kit deal and the Designer Series Paper Buy 3 Get 1 Free Sale end NEXT MONDAY

Make It Monday!

With that said, I have a fabulous Petal Promenade card for you today, using the coordinating Beautiful Layers Thinlits

One of the things that this stamp and die bundle encourages you to do is play with die cuts and stamped layers, and that it totally what I have done here. The Beautiful Layers dies combine beautifully with the Stitched Shapes Squares for a really fun look, plus the colours from the Petal Promenade Designer Series Paper just made for really pretty projects. I am little bit in love with this colour combination too…

The Petal Promenade Designer Series Paper pack is part of that fabulous Buy 3 Get 1 Free offer I mentioned at the top of this post. You have 10 fabulous packs of Designer Series Paper to choose from, and you can choose any combination of those 4 so that 4 different packs, or 4 of the same. Totally up to you!

This card is a quick, but complex looking build, with stamping on the Designer Series Paper, and a series of die cuts before a little more stamping and a trio of Basic Adhesive-Backed sequins to finish.

The tag is one of those elements that looks really tricky, but in reality is simple to do. There are two ways of making it; you could measure the width of the die and cut a piece of card stock accordingly before die cutting each end. Or you can follow my method; die cut the tag end from the middle of a sheet of scrap card stock, line up your layers and work out where the other end should be, then die cut the tag end again before snipping out the piece using Paper snips or a Stampin’ Trimmer

Either way you end up with this really lovely element for the front of your card, or what about just cutting one end and using it as a tag on your next gift?!

Product List

Beautiful Promenade Photopolymer Bundle

[148389]

£42.25

Beautiful Promenade Photopolymer Stamp Set

[146842]

£20.00

Beautiful Layers Thinlits Dies

[147043]

£27.00

Petal Promenade Designer Series Paper

[146913]

£10.25

Petal Promenade A4 Cardstock Pack

[146909]

£8.00

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

[145372]

£28.00

Fresh Fig Classic Stampin’ Pad

[147144]

£7.00

Petal Pink Classic Stampin’ Pad

[147108]

£7.00

Basic Adhesive-Backed Sequins

[146933]

£6.50

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!

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Hannah McCurley

19th July 201814th July 2018

The Project Share Project | More fun with Designer Series Paper…

Narrow note card box using Petal Promenade from Stampin' Up! by Heidi Smith

StampinByHannah The Project Share Project More fun with Designer Series Paper…

So, with the Designer Series Paper sale still ongoing, I thought I would share some more of the fabulous things that my Stampin’ Sisters have been making with it!

Heidi Smith

My absolute favourite pack of Designer Series Paper at the moment is Petal Promenade, and I love how Heidi has combined it with some fun dies to create the stunning box for some Narrow Notecards… Click on the picture to see Heidi’s video tutorial too!

Amanda Charlesworth

Amanda always makes lovely things with Designer Series Paper, and this card is no exception. The Natures’ Poem Designer Series Paper is designed to coordinate with the Rooted in Nature stamp set, but I love that Amanda is thinking outside of the box here where she has paired it with the lovely Stitched All Around Bundle instead!

Jill Chapman

Jill has used my second favourite pack of paper to create this fun card! I shared one using the same products on Monday, but man, don’t they look different! Click over to Jill’s blog to see her fabulous video tutorial!

Product List

Petal Promenade Designer Series Paper

[146913]

£10.25

Nature’s Poem Designer Series Paper

[146338]

£10.25

Stitched All Around Clear-Mount Bundle

[148374]

£44.00

Garden Impressions 6″ X 6″ (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper

[146289]

£10.25

Abstract Impressions Photopolymer Bundle

[148348]

£45.75

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!

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Hannah McCurley

17th July 201817th July 2018

Go For Greece | Hello Floral Frames!

Pretty Hello card using Floral Frames from Stampin' Up!

StampinByHannah Go For Greece Hello Floral Frames!

I have already shared one card using the Floral Frames bundle today but seeing as I made these two one after the other, it just seemed right to share them together too! How pretty is this stamp set! It might just be one of the prettiest in the catalogue!

I don’t very often combine products. But I have today because, I die cut and layered everything up and then thought the card looked a little plain. I almost always assemble the card before I glue everything down, just to check that I haven’t missed something… so glad I did today because I am running really low on Soft Sea Foam card stock, really need to add that to my next order! So, because I decided the card was a little plain, I added some dry embossing to the background using the Lovely Floral Dynamic Embossing Folder, and then covered most of it with this fabulous frame!

The frame, and the leaves are both designed to be used with the new Stampin’ Up! Big Shot Embossing Mats. I’ve done a couple of videos using these, and I LOVE them!

To get this effect…

Die cut the frame and the leaves using a standard sandwich (Magnetic Platform, Cutting Mat, card stock, die, Cutting mat), making sure to washi-tape the die to the card stock so that the card stock doesn’t fall out before the next step.
Then run the dies back through the big shot, using the thin blue embossing mat (Big Shot platform, Cutting mat, Die, Card stock, Blue embossing mat, white Impressions pad). This then gives a subtle embossing onto die cuts for an extra pretty touch!

To finish the card I added a couple of the flowers from the stamp set in Poppy Parade, and stamped the sentiment in Cherry Cobbler, before popping it all up on lots of dimensionals!

Thanks for joining me today, do check out these other talented ladies on the hop… and I hope to see you again soon

Product List

Floral Frames Clear-Mount Bundle

[148406]

£40.50

Floral Frames Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[146508]

£20.00

Foliage Frame Framelits Dies

[146353]

£25.00

Soft Sea Foam A4 Cardstock

[147012]

£8.00

Card Stock A4 Pear Pizzazz

[131290]

£8.00

Poppy Parade Classic Stampin’ Pad

[147050]

£7.00

Cherry Cobbler Classic Stampin’ Pad

[147083]

£7.00

Big Shot Embossing Mats

[146327]

£14.00

Lovely Floral Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

[148048]

£8.25

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!

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Hannah McCurley

17th July 201814th July 2018

Fun with Floral Frames from Stampin’ Up!

Fun with the Floral Frames stamp set from Stampin' Up!

StampinByHannah Fun with Floral Frames from Stampin’ Up!

I have two cards for you today… one now and one a little later for a fun blog hop with the ladies from the Go for Greece group. Both cards however, use the same stamp set! Floral Frames. I was super lucky to receive this stamp and die bundle as a team gift a few weeks ago, and I’ve only just got around to getting it inky! But, it’s so pretty, I know that these wont be the only cards that get made with it!

The Floral Frames stamp set comes as part of a fabulous bundle with the Foliage Frames Framelits (say that 3 times fast!)… bundles are great! Not only can you be completely sure that your stamps and dies work together for coordinated projects and reduce the need for fussy cutting, but also, they save you 10% rather than buying the stamps and dies separately. The stamps also pair beautifully with several of the new packs of Designer Series Paper. Here, I’ve used the Garden Impressions Designer Series Paper…. but I think that this would look lovely using the Petal Promenade paper too. Both packs are, of course, currently in the Stampin’ Up! Buy 3 Get 1 Free Designer Series Paper sale too!

The colours here are Melon Mambo, Pear Pizzazz and Soft Sea Foam. The leaf stamp behind the label is so cute, and I have a fun tip for you…

Top Tip…

To ensure I stamped them in the right place, I placed the label where I wanted it and drew around it with a pencil. Then, stamped the leaves, waited for the ink to dry (which really doesn’t take very long) and used a white eraser to remove the pencil marks.

I reached into my Embellishment storage to finish this card, and grabbed a trio of these Melon Mambo Glitter Enamel Dots.

Product List

Floral Frames Clear-Mount Bundle

[148406]

£40.50

Floral Frames Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[146508]

£20.00

Foliage Frame Framelits Dies

[146353]

£25.00

Garden Impressions 6″ X 6″ (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper

[146289]

£10.25

Melon Mambo A4 Card Stock

[119980]

£8.00

Melon Mambo Classic Stampin’ Pad

[147051]

£7.00

Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin’ Pad

[147104]

£7.00

Soft Sea Foam Classic Stampin’ Pad

[147102]

£7.00

Glitter Enamel Dots

[146934]

£6.50

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!

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Hannah McCurley

16th July 201814th July 2018

Make It Monday | Making a card using the Garden Impressions Designer Series Paper

Pretty butterfly thank you card with lots of lovely sequins using the Abstract Impressions Bundle from Stampin' Up!

StampinByHannah Make It Monday Making a card using the Garden Impressions Designer Series Paper

Hello! This week’s Make It Monday is a super sparkly Thank You card… that I would LOVE to send out to someone! I have a mountain of cards in my craft room and I am starting to sort them into donation piles for charities, as well as family and friends (back to sorting and organising… one day with might sell this flat and I don’t want to have to move them all to be honest!). One of the ways I am looking at thinning out my made projects pile is to gift them to my wonderful customers! So, if you place an order with me this week, you might well just find this card in your customer thank you pack at the end of the month!

I am totally loving the Garden Impressions Designer Series Paper. It’s a pretty mix of painterly flowers and brush strokes with a fantastic colour palette! I can certainly see a full class coming with this suite, just so many cards I just HAVE to make! The Garden Impressions Designer Series Paper is currently available as part of the Stampin’ Up! Buy 3 Get 1 FREE Designer Series Paper sale too… Awesome!

Video Tutorial…

I use pretty standard measurements on most of my cards, and you can find those HERE!

There are lots of sparkles on this card… not only is that fabulous butterfly from the Springtime Impressions dies cut from a piece of Silver Glimmer Paper, but I have also added a handful of sequins too! There are several different packs of sequins in the Annual catalogue this year… 2 sequin assortments; iridescent (which I have used here) and metallics, and then there are the Basic Adhesive-Backed sequins too which are great if your a little heavy handed with the liquid glue (which might just be me!)

I have a bit of a thing at the moment for a hand cut sentiment, it just adds a hint of the hand-made. Here the sentiment is heat embossed in White Stampin’ Emboss Powder onto a piece of Basic Black card stock, just for a little extra POP! Then, to finish there is a spritz of Night of Navy (because I have spritzed a card for ages!) and a few loops of Silver Metallic Thread too!

Which is your favourite Designer Series Paper at the moment?

Product List

Abstract Impressions Photopolymer Bundle

[148348]

£45.75

Abstract Impressions Photopolymer Stamp Set

[147513]

£24.00

Springtime Impressions Thinlits Dies

[146326]

£27.00

Garden Impressions 6″ X 6″ (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper

[146289]

£10.25

Crumb Cake A4 Card Stock

[121685]

£8.00

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

£9.00

Silver Glimmer Paper

[146960]

£4.75

Silver Metallic Thread

[138402]

£3.25

Iridescent Sequin Assortment

[144212]

£4.75

Fine-Tip Glue Pen

[138309]

£6.50

Neutrals Stampin’ Write Markers

[147158]

£27.50

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!

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Hannah McCurley

14th July 201811th July 2018

July Happy Mail!

StampinByHannah July Happy Mail!

Stampin' Up! Happy Mail

I have been super lucky to get some great pieces of Happy Mail over the past month or so… and I couldn’t resist sharing with you!

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!

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Hannah McCurley

12th July 201811th July 2018

The Project Share Project | Fun with Designer Series Paper!

fabulously Floral congratulations card using Petal Promenade from Stampin' Up! by Verity Pursglove

StampinByHannah The Project Share Project Fun with Designer Series Paper!

I am loving July…we have 3 fabulous offers this month! There is the fun Starter Kit Joining Offer, a Demonstrator Exclusive and the fabulous Buy 3 Get 1 FREE Designer Series Paper sale! The wonderful members of The Project Share Project have some fabulous creations with Designer Series Paper this week…. shall we take a look?

Click on each picture for more details of each project…. and maybe a video or two to!

Verity Pursglove

I couldn’t pass sharing this beautiful card of Verity’s… for a start it uses my absolute favourite Designer Series Paper; Petal Promenade… but also a fabulous stamp and punch bundle that I know is going to be a firm favourite this year too; Pop of Petals!

Sally Shaw

Sally has created these fun chocolate boxes using the Garden Impressions Designer Series Paper…. they are so bright and cheerful, and make all your projects really POP! I made a fun card with this paper during my Facebook Live last sundae too… and I can see many more coming very soon!

Angelina Clark

Angelina made this pretty box for the Pootlers Video Hop last weekend, you should totally check it out if you haven’t already seen it! So many ideas with Designer Series paper in there… but this box uses the Twinkle Twinkle papers, I love how Angelina has shared this paper… designed with baby projects in mind but perfect for SO much more!

Are you ready to have some fun with Designer Series Paper?

Product List

Animal Expedition Designer Series Paper

[146902]

£10.25

Best Route Designer Series Paper

[146897]

£10.25

Garden Impressions 6″ X 6″ (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper

[146289]

£10.25

Nature’s Poem Designer Series Paper

[146338]

£10.25

Petal Promenade Designer Series Paper

[146913]

£10.25

Tranquil Textures Designer Series Paper

[146331]

£10.25

Tropical Escape 6″ X 6″ (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper

[146916]

£10.25

Twinkle Twinkle Designer Series Paper

[146284]

£10.25

Under The Mistletoe Designer Series Paper

[146921]

£10.25

Wood Textures Designer Series Paper Stack

[144177]

£10.25

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!

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Hannah McCurley

11th July 20187th July 2018

Inspire.Create.Challenge 022 | Stitched All Around Thank You

How to make a pretty Thank You card using Stitched All Around from Stampin' Up!

StampinByHannah Inspire.Create.Challenge 022 Stitched All Around Thank You

This week’s Inspire.Create.Challenge is a fabulous colour challenge… I cannot wait to see what the Design Team and you all make with this palette. You can see the Design Team creations, and add your own, over on the Inspire.Create.Challenge blog

This week’s Inspire.Create card is also the card I made for all the lovely people who chose to shop with me in June. Every month I send cards to my customers, along with an extra something if they have chosen to use the Code Club Code too!

I have been playing with the Stitched All Around Bundle a fair bit recently… I just love the mixture of Stitched dies and pretty sentiments. This die set also features dies that emboss rather than cut… and you guys know that I’m a bit of a sucker for a technique! These dies work best with the new Big Shot Embossing Mats… I have a video for this card, it’s also this week’s Email exclusive. Subscribe today to see it!

Thanks so much for joining me today… and I hope to see you again soon

Product List

Stitched All Around Clear-Mount Bundle

[148374]

£44.00

Card Stock A4 Coastal Cabana

[131302]

£8.00

Big Shot Embossing Mats

[146327]

£14.00

Powder Pink A4 Cardstock

[144251]

£8.00

Powder Pink Classic Stampin’ Pad

[147147]

£7.00

Stamping Sponges

[141337]

£3.25

Shaded Spruce Classic Stampin’ Pad

[147088]

£7.00

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!

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Hannah McCurley

10th July 20188th July 2018

International Blog Highlight | Travel with Bike Ride from Stampin’ Up!

International Blog Highlight Travel themed Congratulations Card using Bike Ride from Stampin' Up!

StampinByHannah International Blog Highlight Travel with Bike Ride from Stampin’ Up!

Kylie’s challenge for this month was to create a Travel theme’d project… now, while this makes sense as many Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators gather for a trip to Alaska, it proved tricky for me. I really don’t have many stamp sets with a travel theme! There is a whole suite of goodies aimed at Travel Theme’d projects in this years Annual catalogue… but it hasn’t found it way into my craft room just yet. So, I stood, and stared at my stamp shelves for a while… before I realised I have the perfect travel theme’d set… Bike Ride!

Bike Ride is one of those really cool stamp sets that layers together to make something really great… and works perfectly with the Stamparatus! Here the bike has been stamped in a combination of Bermuda Bay, Coastal Cabana and Memento Black.

Because bicycles don’t usually float, I needed to find a why of grounding it on the card… and instead of placing it at the bottom, or adding a shadow with a Blends Marker… I decided to use the Petal Pair’s Embossing Folder. I LOVE the look of this, but it is a little tricky, and has creased the card stock… but I don’t think you can tell too badly!

The sentiment is taken from the Hostess Exclusive Stamp Set Hand-Delivered… I LOVE this font SO much! and the card is completed with a trio of Self-Adhesive Sequins (which I am a little addicted to!)

What’s you favourite finishing touch?

Product List

Bike Ride Photopolymer Stamp Set

[143716]

£20.00

Build A Bike Framelits Dies

[143729]

£25.00

Card Stock A4 Bermuda Bay

[131286]

£8.00

Whisper White A4 Thick Cardstock

[140490]

£7.25

Bermuda Bay Classic Stampin’ Pad

[147096]

£7.00

Coastal Cabana Classic Stampin’ Pad

[147097]

£7.00

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

[132708]

£5.50

Petal Pair Textured Impressions Embossing Folders

[145656]

£8.25

Basic Adhesive-Backed Sequins

[146933]

£6.50

Hand Delivered Photopolymer Stamp Set

[146808]

£12.00

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!

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Hannah McCurley

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