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Inspire.Create.Challenge #137 | On the Farm

Hello! Welcome to StampinByHannah for this week’s Inspire.Create.Challenge! Goodness me it feels like forever since I wrote a blog post… and I’m feeling a little rusty if I’m totally honest. February has been an absolute disaster of a month for me; I caught COVID for the first time at the start of the month, and it’s taken me a good few weeks to get my head back together.

This week Inspire.Create.Challenge is a theme challenge, and we are playing with ‘Spring Time’… and what is more Spring than field full of sheep (at least around here anyway!). So I reached for the On the Farm bundle from the January-April mini-catalogue

Because I haven’t crafted all that much this month, I did turn to Pinterest for a bit of inspiration for this card, and spotted a card with the animals stacked. I thought it was such a fun idea, and so took this as inspiration to create this card.

The background is a brand new Embossing Folder coming on the 1st March as part of a fun new promotion called Online Exclusives! I’ll be sharing more about it very soon.

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Inspire.Create.Challenge #135 | Love for You

Hello! Welcome to StampinByHannah today for this week’s Inspire.Create.Challenge sketch. Do hop over to the Inspire.Create blog and see the sketch and the rest of the Design Team’s creations (and add your own projects too!).

I have been loving creating with the Love for You bundle. The flower stamps in this one are really lovely and the words dies are just perfect.

The Designer Series Paper in the background is from Sun Prints, and uses Night of Navy. I do love a Night of Navy moment, here I’ve paired it with Balmy Blue, Soft Succulent and Blushing Bride… oh, and a hint of Gold too!

This card is finished with a trio of the Adhesive-backed Milky Dots.

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Inspire.Create.Challenge #133 | New To You

Hello! Welcome to StampinByHannah… and to 2023! Happy New Year! I have heaps to share with you this year… big big plans. BUT, for today, it’s Inspire.Create.Challenge… and we have a fabulous New Year theme!

New To You… create something with something new into your Craft room, or you could celebrate a new house / baby / friend… interpret how ever you like. But, don’t forget to share it with us over on the Inspire.Create blog!

Today’s card uses a Stamp Set that is Brand New in the Stampin’ Up! January-April Mini Catalogue (which is released on Thursday!)… The set is called “Share a Milkshake” but as you can see, there is not a milkshake in sight with this card!

You're the Cherry on Top using Share a Milkshake from Stampin' Up! for Inspire.Create.Challenges with StampinByHannah

The Cherry’s are die cut from Cherry Cobbler card stock, and I added a bit of ink to each one to create some dimension. The sentiment is also in Cherry Cobbler.

That die cut piece in the background was the reason I knew I needed this stamp and die set… its just the perfect accent piece!

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Inspire.Create.Challenge #132 | Forever Fern

Hello! Welcome to StampinByHannah for this weeks Inspire.Create.Challenge. This week Jo has set a colour challenge using Early Espresso, Petal Pink, Rich Razzleberry and Granny Apple Green.

This week is one of those times that I was super pleased I was a little bit organised; my delightful toddler shared an awful cold with me this week… but I made this card last weekend and so managed to hit the deadline!

This card uses Forever Fern. I love this stamp set for a simple stamp layered card like this. I’ve added a base layer here, but this would look just as good stamped straight onto a Basic White Card Base.

Before stamping the leaves, I stamped the ‘Hello’ and then masked it with a bit of ripped Sticky note. Then each stamp is simply layered over the top

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Inspire.Create.Challenge #130 | Full of Love

Hello! Welcome to StampinByHannah today, for what, for me, is a bitter sweet blog post. Today is the 130th Challenge with Inspire.Create.Challenge, but also my very last challenge as the challenge coordinator. I have absolutely LOVED running the challenge for the past 5 years, but life is super busy and I just don’t have the time and energy to dedicate to it anymore. So, today I hand over to the delightfully wonderful Jo Blackman.

So, today’s card is for the wonderful Inspire.Create Design Team, both past and present, who have supported both the challenge and me over the years.

This card uses the Full of Love stamp set. I stamped a bunch of these envelopes last week, and fussy cut them ready for me to create something. Honestly, I just fancied doing some fussy cutting that evening. So today, when I sat down to make my card, I just had to colour it in! Of course, I have used a bunch of Stampin’ Blends to do that; Mint Macaron, Flirty Flamingo, So Saffron, Orchid Oasis and Crumb Cake.

The card base is Sahara Sand, and I added a Basic White layer with some Orchid Oasis ink blending underneath the Full of Love envelope.

Please pop over to the Inspire.Create blog and check out the rest of the Design Team’s creations this week.

You can find the Supply List for this card HERE

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Inspire.Create.Challenge #129 | Christmas Season

Hello! Welcome to StampinByHannah this week… this week’s Inspire.Create.Challenge is a theme… and we are going Festive! I LOVE making Christmas cards, but am not great at cards that you can mass produce. So, I thought I would make something simple that you could easily make heaps of!

This card uses the Christmas Season and Christmas to Remember stamp sets, and the following colours; Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Mossy Meadow, Pear Pizzazz, Real Red and Shaded Spruce.

The card base is Early Espresso with a layer of Crumb Cake before I added that stamped piece of Basic White.

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Inspire.Create.Challenge #128 | A Spooky Colour Combination…

Hello! Welcome to StampinByHannah today for another Inspire.Create.Challenge. This week is a fun colour combination, perfect for October crafting; Basic Black, Basic Gray, Gorgeous Grape and Pumpkin Pie.

I’m not into Halloween, its not something that has ever been a part of my autumn (This is changing now I have two small children, and my husband is a BIG fan!)… and so I haven’t gone down the Halloween route with this colour combination, rather sticking to something a bit more floral.

This card uses the Artistically Inked stamp set (which I LOVE, but haven’t had off the shelf for ages!), for all of the stamped elements.

The card is finished with a trio of Classic Matte Dots.

Don’t forget to add your own creations to the link up over on Inspire.Create.

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Inspire.Create.Challenge #126 | Fond of Autumn

Hello! Welcome to StampinByHannah for this week’s Inspire.Create.Challenge. This time its a fabulous sketch, hop over to the Inspire.Create blog to see the sketch and to add your own creations to our link up too.

The Fond of Autumn stamp set landed in my craft room this week, and this is the first thing I’ve made with it. The background uses one of the coordinating dies, and its so pretty!

The main panel is stamped in Memento Black ink, and then coloured with Watercolour Pencils, but I haven’t actually added any water too it so it’s maintained it hand-coloured, soft effect.

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Inspire.Create.Challenge #125 | Spooky Beauty of Friendship

Hello! Welcome to StampinByHannah for this week’s Inspire.Create.Challenge! This time we have a Spooky theme… time to prep for Halloween maybe?

I don’t really “Do” Halloween (I have no idea why I set this challenge… because I really had to think a very long way out of the box!)… I’ve made a sort of Spooky Thank you card using Beauty of Friendship and the Watercolour Shapes stamp sets from Stampin’ Up!

The tree and the sentiment are from Beauty of Friendship, while that big beautiful Pumpkin Pie circle is from Watercolour Shapes.

In order to add to the ‘spooky’ effect I’ve wrapped a piece of Vellum over one side (a great way to hide the adhesive)… and I really love the effect!

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Inspire.Create.Challenge #124 | Colour with Natures Prints from Stampin’ Up!

Hello! Welcome to StampinByHannah for this weeks Inspire.Create.Challenge. This week we have a fabulous Colour Combination for you. Pop over to the Inspire.Create blog to check out the colours, see the rest of the Design Teams projects and add your own makes too!

I thought I would use the Nature’s Prints bundle for this card… I absolutely adore that wreath die, its so pretty and delicate. Here I added swatches of colour onto Fluid 100 Watercolour Paper and then die cut the wreath after.

The green’s in the colour combination are added at the bottom, with the fern stamps… and a bit of Garden Green ink splatter using a Stampin’ Write Marker.

Completed with a heat embossed sentiment on a Stitched rectangle die cut from Crumb Cake card stock, and a bow of Linen Thread.

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