Just Add Ink 442 | Beautiful Promenade

Before I get into this week’s Just Add Ink card (yes, I would LOVE to do this challenge every week…. we’ll see how that goes!) I just wanted to say a massive Thanks to the Design Team who picked my card from last week as their winner!

Just Add Ink 442 Sketch Challenge cardmaking rubber stamping

This week’s challenge is a fun sketch, and the Design Team have made some fabulous cards which really do show off how different cards can be, even when they all have the same basic layout.

Pretty handmade Valentines card using Beautiful Promenade from Stampin' Up! for Just Add Ink with StampinByHannah

Last week I had a bit of a tidy up of my craft room. It’s incredible how quickly craft rooms descend into a completely disastrous mess isn’t it?! I’ve been in my new room now for about 6 weeks and it already needed a dig out. Anyway, I pulled out some of my sets of dies that I haven’t used for ages, and put them next to my desk so I wouldn’t forget about them again. I’m, sadly, one of those people who needs to see things to remember to use them. I’d be no good with one of though pretty craft rooms where everything lives in a cupboard!

This card uses the Beautiful Promenade stamp set and coordinate Beautiful Layers thinlits, and the stitched shapes framelit circles, because I can’t make a card without them!

Beautiful Promenade Stamp Set Valentines Card using Stampin' Up! products with StampinByHannah

There is a stitched circle behind the pretty die cut centre piece, although my camera hasn’t picked it up awfully well (I’m still playing with the new photography set up!).

This card also uses the very pretty Grapefruit Grove Foil Sheets, which are FREE with a £45 order during Sale-a-bration. Now, I know that these aren’t available in all markets because they have been SO popular… but at the time of writing you can still get them in the UK!

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February Card Class

We had SO much fun at my January Card Class… and I cannot wait to do it all over again in February too!

This month we are creating with the stunning Flowing Fountain stamp set. This set is so pretty, but so easily lost in the catalogue, we are going to have a go at some fabulous colouring techniques and make a lovely bunch of cards for all occasions.

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The Details…

February Card Class takes place on the 19th February 2019 at the Durham Tees Hotel, Durham Tees Valley Airport.

Class costs vary depending on which class pack you choose (see below), and all options are also available In Person or Online.

New class attendees always receive a gift from me. Bring your own tool kit and adhesives. Tool kits are available to order along with your class kit, and my Adhesive shop is also available on the day

Class Pack Options…

Class Kit (£35)

  • Flowing Fountain Stamp Set
  • 1 Blender Pen
  • 1 pack of Very Vanilla Notecards and Envelopes

Gold Pack (£72.25)

  • Flowing Fountain Kit (plus a Sale-a-bration choice!)
    • Flowing Fountain stamp set, Clear Block (E), Very Vanilla Notecards and Envelopes, 3 Stampin’ Up! ink pads, Very Vanilla Bakers Twine, a pack of Blender Pens

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  • x6 Very Vanilla notecards and envelopes (In person ONLY)
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Sale-a-bration | Butterfly Gala Pinch Top Bag

I shared this project with you on Saturday, and promised a quick video tutorial too, so here is my Pinch Top Bag using Sale-a-bration Designer Series paper!

Botanical Butterfly Designer Series paper Pinch Top Bag Video Tutorial using Butterfly Gala from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

You can find a whole heap of inspiration with Sale-a-bration goodies HERE! I am LOVING Sale-a-bration this year… did you know that the Designer Series Paper I’ve used to create this cute bag was completely FREE! Oh yes, you can find out more on my Sale-a-bration page.

Measurements:

Designer Series Paper; 6 x 12″ (15 x 30 cm)

Score on the long side at; 3-1/2, 5-1/2, 9 and 11″ (9, 14, 22 and 27 cm)

Score on the short side at; 2″ (5 cm)

How to make a cute pinch top bag using Botanical Butterfly Designer Series Paper from Stampin' Up! FREE during Sale-a-bration with StampinByHannah

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Watercolour Birthday Card, Just Add Ink, and an Update!

Usually I’d be going Live on my Facebook Page about now… but I’ve been struck down with a horrible cold, and this morning my voice is not at its best. So, instead I thought I would do a sort of update blog post and share a fun card for this weeks Just Add Ink challenge.

Urgent ordering news…

Stampin' Up! Punches

Stampin’ Up! announced to Demonstrators early this week that these two punches (Butterfly Duet and Cake Builder) have been SO popular that they are struggling to keep up with demand, this combined with Chinese new year which causes issues with shipping, means that they are expecting these two be SOLD OUT within the next 2 weeks! They wont be back in stock til probably the end of March… so if you want them, grab them sooner rather than later.

Also, the Fabulous Organza Ribbon that is (was) free with a £45 order during Sale-a-bration has SOLD OUT and so wont be back! There are, of course, a heap of other goodies still available to spend your Sale-a-bration credits on!

Just Add Ink…

I felt like taking part in a new challenge this week, and Just Add Ink popped up in my Facebook Feed!

Just Add Ink Stamping Challenge

This week’s challenge is to create a project inspired by this stunning photograph of cake. Once I had stopped day dreaming about cake, I took the cake image and the colour combination and created this card…

Subtle Watercolour Birthday Card using Piece of Cake from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah for Just Add Ink

The cakes are stamped in Stazon Ink onto Shimmery White card stock. The cakes are taken from the Piece of Cake stamp set, which coordinates with that Cake Builder Punch from earlier. Each cake was then loosely water-coloured using the following colours:

The centerpiece cake was stamped on a separate piece of Shimmery White card stock, water-coloured and punched out before being layered onto a Stitched Circle and scalloped circle die using Dimensionals.

Simple watercoloured birthday card using Piece of Cake from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

The card is finished with a trio of Self-Adhesive Sequins from the Gingham Gala suite.

Check back tomorrow for a fun Video Tutorial for the cute Butterfly Bag I shared on Saturday

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InspireINK | Hey Love Be My Valentine…

InspirInk Blog Hop Header Stampin' Up! team blog hop

It’s a bit of a busy day here today, with two blog hops in the space of 3 hours! However, I couldn’t miss the InspireINK blog hop this month, with their theme of Romance. The Hey Love stamp set is one of my new catalogue favourites (so much so that I have a whole Facebook Live using it tomorrow!)

Hey Valentine cute hand stamped card using Hey Love from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

There are some really lovely love themed products in this years Spring Summer Catalogue, particularly the Designer Series Papers, but they didn’t inspire me as much as the Hey Love stamp set! One first look through the catalogue back in November I was totally taken by this adorable gorilla and his other loved up chums!

Here I’ve grabbed my Stampin’ Blends in Smoky Slate and Flirty Flamingo to colour him in. I’ve kept my colouring simple with mostly flat colour and a few shadows added with the Dark Smoky Slate pen, but you could totally go to town on this guy!

Colouring Hey Love Stamp Set with Stampin' Blends from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

This card was layered up with the layering Circles dies and a heat embossed sentiment, but it was missing something. I knew I had a simple heart stamp somewhere, turns out it was on my desk the whole time in the Piece of Cake Stamp Set, and so I added a trio of trio’s of hearts in Smoky Slate!

I can’t wait to see what the rest of the team have created for this theme. To find out, use the NEXT button to hop along to the next blog in our hop…

InspirInk Blog Hop team blog hop Stampin' Up! UK

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Pootlers Blog Hop | Fun with Botanical Butterfly Designer Series Paper

Pootlers Team Blog Hop

Oh, yes, today the team are blog hopping again! This time to celebrate the start of Sale-a-bration! I am in LOVE with the free goodies you can earn as part of Sale-a-bration this year, and don’t even get me started on the tote bag that you could add to a Starter Kit!

I’ve been playing with the Butterfly Gala suite a lot this month as it formed the basis for my first Card Class of 2019, and so I thought I would carry on with a theme… and use the coordinating FREE Designer Series Paper for a cute bag.

Cute Squishy Bag for the Pootles Team Blog Hop Sale-a-bration Special January 2019 using Botanical Butterfly from Stampin' Up!

These papers are stunning, with a pretty pastel palette on one side and black and white on the other, PLUS they coordinate with the fabulous Butterfly Gala Stamp and Punch Bundle too…

I’ve got a quick Video Tutorial for this one coming on Monday so do check back

Pretty butterfly paper bag using Butterfly Gala from Stampin' Up!

Do check out the rest of the team’s Sale-a-bration inspiration…

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Inspire.Create.Challenge #035 | Just a note with Gingham Gala

I had a moment last week where I realised I am almost NEVER on time with my submissions for the challenge blog that I founded… until now! So, when I realised, I immediately ran up to my craft room and made today’s card with the items on my desk. I was prepping for my January Card Class (which was last night) and had made a heap of cards using the fabulous Gingham Gala suite and Butterfly Gala stamp set.

Inspire.Create.Challenges Stampin' Up! Challenge blog Cardmaking Sketch Challenge

This week’s challenge is a super simple sketch… share what you do with this over on the Inspire.Create Blog!

Handmade Just a Note card using Butterfly Gala from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

I have been having loads of fun creating butterflies in different colours, coloured in different ways, and layering different stamps together to create different looks. This butterfly is stamped in Gray Granite, and then the solid colour of the wings is stamped with two separate stamps inked up with Highland Heather stamped off once. The sentiment was then stamped in Versamark and heat embossed in Gold over the top.

Fun Just a Note hand stamped butterfly card using Butterfly Gala from Stampin' Up! with StampinByhannah

The butterfly was then die cut using one of the Stitched Shapes dies and layered with a piece of Gingham Gala Designer Series Paper and some of the GORGEOUS Grapefruit Grove Foil Sheets (FREE) from Sale-a-bration.

Sale-a-bration 2019 from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

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Flowing Fountain and Cling Mount Stamps | Facebook Live

Hello! well… I usually post these blog posts slightly earlier in the day, but I’ve been busy prepping for my first Card Class of 2019 on Tuesday, filming a couple of tutorials and taking a bunch of pictures for upcoming blog posts… so things have been a little delayed today.

It’s Sunday, Facebook Live day here at StampinByHannah, and this week I thought I would give you some of my Cling Mount Stamp Top Tips!

Stampin’ Up! changed the formulation of the stickers that go on the backs of your red rubber stamps with the launch of the Spring Summer catalogue. These new Cling stamps are SUPER sticky, so there is NO chance that your going to have that awful moment where your freshly inked stamp falls off the block onto your 99% completed project ever again.

Cling Mount Top Tips

  1. Get those stickers on your Stamps! I NEVER used the clear mount stickers (because they just didn’t work!) but these are ace
  2. Once you’ve got your sticker on the stamp, its not coming back off, so use the outside edges of the stamp to ensure perfect alignment of the sticker and the stamp
  3. New Cling stickers are SUPER sticky; I find that removing some of the inital stickiness by putting the stamp on and off of your trousers / top / cardigan can be useful
  4. Add a little bit of Washi Tape to one end of your new Cling stickers to help you get your stamps back off your blocks. Please do not that the stickers are so sticky that you are at risk of ripping your stamps when taking them off of blocks or out of the case
  5. Use the flat end of your Take Your Pick tool to get your stamps off your block
  6. Have lots of fun using them!

I only made one card on this morning’s Facebook Live, but I do think it was a good one…

Quick and Easy card using Flowing Fountain from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

Flowing Fountain is one of those stamp set in the catalogue that is so easily missed, which is such a shame because it’s so pretty. I’ve actually taken inspiration from the catalogue for this card, as it uses the same technique as used by Stampin’ Up!

Pretty hand made Just Because Card using Flowing Fountain from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

You can find all the card measurements over on my Standard Card Measurements page.

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Sale-a-bration | Facebook Live

Oh yes, it’s Sunday, and that only means on thing here at StampinByHannah…. it’s Facebook Live Day!

Cute Notecard using Hello Cupcake Stamp Set FREE during Sale-a-bration from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

This week I thought I would take the opportunity to recap this year’s Sale-a-bration offers… and make 3 cards using the Hello Cupcake Stamp set.

This first card was my attempt at #simplestamping. I think this card would make a great quick make for that neighbours birthday you’ve forgotten, or change the sentiment for a fun Thank you or Just because card for your milkman or UPS man!

Handmade Birthday Card using Hello Cupcake from Stampin' Up! Sale-a-bration 2019 with StampinByHannah

The second card was a slightly stepped up version of that cute note card. I swapped the card base for Mint Macaron Card Stock and added a layer of Very Vanilla. If you want to know my card measurements, I almost always us the same, you can find the over on my Standard Card Measurements Page.

Facebook Live

I mentioned in the video there are 3 parts to Sale-a-bration:

  1. Shop – Ever time you spend £45 (on anything on the Stampin’ Up! website) between now and the end of March, you earn a Sale-a-bration credits which you can swap in for fun Stamp Sets like the cute Hello Cupcake Set I used today. There are 2 items that require 2 credits, or a £90 spend at the back of the Sale-a-bration booklet
  2. Host – Earn extra Stampin’ Rewards when you spend over £200 or host a party that spends over the same amount
  3. Join – Become a part of Stampin’ Up!, choose £170 worth of goodies and pay just £99 (or spend an extra £26 and get the GORGEOUS Craft and Carry Tote too!) and then get at least 20% discount on all purchases, take part in team events (like yesterday’s Blog Hop) or just be a happy shopper!
How to make a fun birthday card using Hello Cupcake FREE during Sale-a-bration with Stampin' Up! and StampinByHannah

The 3rd card is further stepped up, with a fussy cut cupcake and embossed circle… but it’s not quite as stepped up and my original design which also has Needlepoint Nook Designer Series Paper and a heat embossed sentiment.

Simple to Stepped up card ideas using Hello Cupcake from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

Before I go, I just want to quickly remind you that booking for my January Craft Class closes tomorrow night at 10PM! You can find all the information and book your place HERE!

January Craft Class from StampinByhannah

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Pootlers Blog Hop | Welcome to Spring Summer with Stampin’ Up!

I am so lucky to be part of a fabulous team of Stampin’ Up! demonstrators. This month we have 2 fun blog hops jam packed full of crafty ideas and inspiration for you all. Our first Pootlers blog hop of 2019 celebrates the launch of the Brand New Stampin’ Up! Spring Summer catalogue. I am so lucky to coordinate these lovely ladies, but even I haven’t seen their creations this time, so I am SO excited to see what they have all made!

Amazing Life card using Stampin' Up! products for the Pootlers Team Blog Hop with StampinByHannah

One of the things I’ve been doing in my own crafting recently is trying to keep things simple, and when Stampin’ Up! make Designer Series Paper as pretty as this it becomes super easy! Here I have used the Needlepoint Nook Designer Series Paper, and used the colours in it (Night of Navy and Balmy Blue) and my inspiration for the rest of the card.

Needlepoint Nook Designer Series Paper Just Because Card using Stampin' Up! products with StampinByHannah

The stamp on this card says everything, its taken from the new Amazing Life stamp set, which I was lucky enough to get for FREE at a Stampin’ Up! event back in November. I am So Happy to have Stampin’ Up! in my life, as well as the wonderful team of ladies (and gents) some of whom are taking part in the blog hop today. I can wax lyrical about the team, Stampin’ Up! events, the discount and more… but I’ll save you from that, and let you hop through the list of projects below!

Check out the Blog Hop…

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