StampinbyHannah . - Independent Stampin' Up!® Demonstrator

22nd January 202013th January 2020

Inspire.Create.Challenges 061 | Birthday Bonanza Colour challenge!

Oh dear! It’s another one of those colour challenges that I wonder what I was thinking when I set it! However, I’m rather pleased with my creation in the end, so maybe it’s not all that bad!

Birthday Bonanza Birthday Card for Inspire.Create.Challenge with Stampin' Up! products and StampinByHannah

This week’s Colour challenge is to use; Early Espresso, Flirty Flamingo and Pretty Peacock.

I just love Pretty Peacock, so much that I’ve recently painted my dining room wall in a very similar colour. Here I’ve used Pretty Peacock as the card base, with tone on tone stamping to add a little something extra!

Cute Birthday Card using a Puffin using Birthday Bonanza from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

The Puffin is stamped in Early Espresso with a Flirty Flamingo beak. This cute dude is from the Bonanza Buddies stamp set, and has coordinating dies too! I bought this stamp set with Niamh in mind, but I do think I’m going to get more use out of it that I first thought!

Do pop over to Inspire.Create and check out the rest of the Design Teams creations and share your makes with us too!

Product List

Bonanza Buddies Bundle

[153815]

£36.00

Pretty Peacock A4 Cardstock

[150886]

£8.25

Pretty Peacock Classic Stampin’ Pad

[150083]

£7.00

Flirty Flamingo A4 Cardstock

[141421]

£8.25

Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad

[147114]

£7.00

Stitched Shapes Dies

[145372]

£28.00

Layering Circles Dies

[141705]

£33.00

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

19th January 202019th January 2020

TGIF Challenges | Happy Birthday with Honey Bee

This week’s TGIF Challenge is one that I think a LOT of people can relate their crafting too… its a theme challenge and they’ve picked ‘Happy Birthday’. I don’t know about you but I make WAY more Happy Birthday cards than anything else!

Happy Birthday card using Honey Bee from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

This is one of those cards that magically appeared in my brain! Don’t you love it when that happens?! I was thinking about this weeks TGIF challenge whilst feeding my daughter, and my first thought was of inking this Designer Series Paper. This is the Golden Honey Specialty Designer Series Paper, which is FREE with a £45 order during Sale-a-bration, but also coordinates with the Honey Bee stamp set (and matching dies!)

Cute Bee Birthday Card using Honey Bee from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

I knew I wanted to use Coastal Cabana rather than a yellow, and I wasn’t sure how it was going to work with the Bee die cut, but I think it works. The flowers are so cute, and work so well formed into a wreath. They are adhered onto a scalloped circle of vellum using Tombow glue, which was a little tricky, but you only need such a tiny amount of glue.

Product List

Honey Bee Bundle

[153792]

£38.50

Golden Honey Specialty Designer Series Paper

[152311]

£0.00

Basic Black A4 Card Stock

[121688]

£8.25

Coastal Cabana Classic Stampin' Pad

[147097]

£7.00

Stamping Sponges

[141337]

£3.75

White Vellum A4 Card Stock

[106584]

£9.25

Layering Circles Dies

[141705]

£33.00

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

[132708]

£5.50

Card Stock A4 Coastal Cabana

[131302]

£8.25

Versamark Pad

[102283]

£8.75

White Stampin' Emboss Powder

[109132]

£5.50

Multipurpose Liquid Glue

[154974]

£3.75

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13th January 202013th January 2020

TGIF Challenges | Peaceful Poppies Friendship card

Hello!

So, in an effort to get myself back into blogging I thought I would do a challenge this weekend, and this sketch from TGIF Challenges! was just too nice to pass up. If you’ve been here before you know I LOVE a good sketch, although I do tend to mess with them a little bit; I turn the around, I change the shapes, and generally use them more as a jumping off point than an actual hard and fast card layout.

Saying that, I haven’t mess around with this one too much, just changed the sizes and order of some of the elements.

Peaceful Poppies Friendship card using Stmapin' Up! products with StampinByHannah for TGIF Challenges

So, this card uses my favourite new products from the new Mini Catalogue; Peaceful Poppies. Firstly, just look at the at Designer Series Paper, it is SO gorgeous!

I chopped a few strips of Designer Series Paper, a few that are 1″ and a few that are 3/4″. Both these patterns are actually the same paper. I just thought I would show both sides!

The sentiment is from the Peaceful Moments stamp set which comes in the Peaceful Poppies Suite Bundle. I love that Stampin’ Up! now give a single order code for a whole bundle, it makes shopping so much easier. I have to admit the WHOLE of this suite went straight into my basket when the catalogue launched to demonstrators last month.

Life is better with a friend like you Peaceful Poppies Card using Stampin' Up! Designer Series paper with StampinByHannah

I’ve switched a couple of the elements around to make this really bold sentiment piece sit on the top of all the layers!

To finish the card I added a layer of Vellum, and 5 of the red sequins from the Peaceful Poppies sequin pack… because every card I make at the moment HAS to have sequins on!

Product List

Peaceful Poppies Suite Bundle (English)

[153938]

£127.25

Painted Poppies Bundle

[153827]

£48.50

Peaceful Poppies Designer Series Paper

[151324]

£10.75

Peaceful Poppies Sequins

[151325]

£6.50

Peaceful Moments Bundle (English)

[153824]

£48.50

Old Olive A4 Card Stock

[106576]

£8.25

Poppy Parade A4 Cardstock

[121694]

£8.25

Basic Black A4 Card Stock

[121688]

£8.25

Versamark Pad

[102283]

£8.75

White Stampin' Emboss Powder

[109132]

£5.50

Stitched Rectangle Dies

[148551]

£33.00

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

11th January 202010th January 2020

Pootlers Team Blog Hop | Happy Birthday with Peaceful Poppies

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Hello!

Welcome to the Poolers Team Blog Hop! I have to admit to being a bit of a last minute larry this time (in fact, I wrote this blog post after the deadline! oops!)

Peaceful Poppies Happy Birthday Card using Stampin' Up! products for the Pootlers Team Blog Hop with StampinByHannah

When I first saw the catalogue last month I knew that the Peaceful Poppies Suite was at the very top of my list. The Designer Series Paper alone for me is an absolute winner! It’s that pretty watercolour, floral that Stampin’ Up! do SO well, with a strong theme of Blackberry Bliss, a colour I just cannot resist!

This card was the very first thing I made with it too! A Blackberry Bliss card base, layered with a piece of that gorgeous paper, and then added to with a couple of die cuts, a sentiment and a scattering of sequins! Just the sort of card that makes my heart happy.

Floral Happy Birthday card using Peaceful Poppies from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

As usual with the Pootlers Blog Hop, we have a mountain of inspiration for you, all using new goodies from the new Mini Catalogue or Sale-a-bration. Check out the 31 fabulous blogs by clicking the images below (Please note there are so many ladies taking part that the links are split over two pages!)

Product List

Peaceful Poppies Suite Bundle (English)

[153938]

£127.25

Painted Poppies Bundle

[153827]

£48.50

Peaceful Moments Bundle (English)

[153824]

£48.50

Peaceful Poppies Designer Series Paper

[151324]

£10.75

Blackberry Bliss A4 Cardstock

[133682]

£8.25

Blackberry Bliss Classic Stampin' Pad

[147092]

£7.00

Stitched Shapes Dies

[152323]

£28.00

Peaceful Poppies Sequins

[151325]

£6.50

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Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

11th December 20199th December 2019

Inspire.Create.Challenge 058 | Colour Challenge with Rooted in Nature!

Oh my goodness, I am rather pleased with this card… particularly because I whipped it up at the last minute on Monday night! You’d think I’d be a bit more organised seeing as I set the challenges, but no, at the moment I’m a last minute Annie. But, last minute is better than not at all isn’t it? I pulled the three colours of today’s colour challenge off my shelf, and the Rooted in Nature stamp set popped into my head, and very quickly this card appeared in my mind’s eye.

Thinking of you card using Rooted in Nature from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

This week’s colour challenge is Blushing Bride, Cherry Cobbler and Old Olive, and each colour is on each one of those fabulous leaves.

I do enjoy a good ink-y technique, and this one is quick and very effective. Ombre Stamping is super easy, and all you need is your stamp, 3 ink pads and a couple of sponges. It does also help if you’ve got well ink-ed pads.

Starting with the lightest colour, load the sponge with ink and the use the sponge to add the ink to the stamp. Then work through the colours, adding each one to the stamp. Breath onto the stamp to reactive the ink before stamping. See, quick and simple, and it gives some very pretty results.

Ombre stamping Thinking of you card using Rooted in Nature from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

The leaves were then die cut using the coordinating Nature’s Roots dies, and popped up on the card using a few Dimensionals. The sentiment is stamped in Cherry Cobbler, and I did use my Stamparatus to make sure I got it straight and solid (I actually stamped it twice, which is why I’ve ended up with a bit of an inky smudge!)

Then, the card is finished with a double bow of Linen Thread and a trio of Noble Peacock Rhinestones.

Do check out the other Design Team creations over on the Inspire.Create blog and add your own makes using this week’s Colour Combination too!

Product List

Rooted In Nature Cling-Mount Stamp Set

[148217]

£39.00

Nature's Roots Dies

[146341]

£36.00

Old Olive A4 Card Stock

[106576]

£8.25

Blushing Bride Classic Stampin' Pad

[147100]

£7.00

Cherry Cobbler Classic Stampin' Pad

[147083]

£7.00

Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad

[147090]

£7.00

Stamping Sponges

[141337]

£3.75

Linen Thread

[104199]

£4.75

Noble Peacock Rhinestones

[149494]

£5.00

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Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

27th November 201924th November 2019

Inspire.Create.Challenge 057 | Christmas Time Fancy Fold

This week’s Inspire.Create.Challenge is Fancy Folds! I LOVE a fancy fold project, and cannot wait to see what everyone creates…. particularly as I’m in a bit of a creative rut at the moment, and could really do with a fast injection of inspiration to make my Christmas Cards!

Oh Christmas Tree Fancy Fold card using Stampin' Up! products with StampinByHannah

I love this Fancy Fold, it’s super simple to create and always impresses people when I gift it! I suppose it’s a sort of Z fold, and its really easy to jazz up to!

Measurements;

Card base; 14.8 x 21 cm, scored at 4.5 and 10.5 cm

Whisper White layers; 14.3 x 4 cm, 14.3 x 5.5 cm, and 14.3 x 10 cm

Designer Series Paper; 13.8 x 3.5 cm and 13.8 x 5 cm, plus a scrap for the inside

Fancy Fold Christmas Card using Most Wonderful Time from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

The Most Wonderful Time Suite is just stunning, and comes all together in one complete kit (you just need to add Card Stock and Ink!), and it makes really cute and quick cards.

I’ve also added a Stitched Oval from the Stitched Shapes Dies as a simple background for that lovely tree stamp.

Oh Christmas Tree Fancy Fold Card using Most Wonderful Time from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

I finished the card with 5 of the self adhesive stars that comes in the Most Wonderful Time suite, and a simple sentiment

Check out the Inspire.Create Blog for more Fancy Fold inspiration and to add your own projects to our link up!

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Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

15th November 201912th November 2019

Come Sail Away Anniversary Card…. and a make from James!

Hey folks!

Well, I’ve had a super busy few weeks settling back into my full time day job. But, as part of that I’m trying hard to get back into some creative me time, and that includes a spot of blogging.

It was our wedding anniversary back in August (yes, this card has been sat around waiting for me to write about it for a while!) and of course I HAD to make James a special card. He always steals some time in my craft room for our anniversary or my birthday, and so a bought card just isn’t an option! Saying this, an anniversary card for a guy is NOT the easiest make…. but it is made easier with a more masculine suite of products and so I pulled out Sailing Home.

Anniversary Card using Sailing Home from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

The Come Sail Away suite is obviously a bit nautical, which I think often works well for a man’s card, but also has a more masculine colour palette; Balmy Blue, Basic Black, Mossy Meadow, Night of Navy, Soft Suede, and Whisper White.

I have also added Pretty Peacock to this, because I just cannot put this colour away at the moment, I just love it! (so much so I’ve just painted a wall in my kitchen a very similar shade!). The sentiment and compass are both stamped in Pretty Peacock, while I also added a watercolour wash to a square of Watercolour Paper too!

Pretty Peacock Come Sail Away card for a man's anniversary card using Stampin' Up! products with StampinByHannah

The Sailing Home stamp set that coordinates with this fab suite also has a set of matching dies. So, I also added some die cut pieces of rope and a ships wheel, along with die cutting some of the stamped images from the stamp set. I adore this layered look, how about you?

James’ Card…

Like I said earlier, James also makes me a card for our anniversary. I think he’s done a pretty good job this time!

Simple Punched Butterfly Card using Stampin' Up! Products with StampinByHannah's husband!

He’s punched the butterflies from card stock using the Butterfly Duet punch and added the sentiment using the Well Said stamp set…. all in shades of purple (my favourite!)

Product List

Come Sail Away Suite Bundle

[152175]

£88.25

Sailing Home Bundle

[151066]

£46.75

Sailing Home Cling Stamp Set

[149457]

£22.00

Smooth Sailing Dies

[149576]

£30.00

Basic Black A4 Card Stock

[121688]

£8.25

Silver Foil Sheets

[132178]

£4.75

Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper

[149612]

£8.25

2019-2021 In Color Faceted Dots

[149607]

£6.00

Pretty Peacock Classic Stampin’ Pad

[150083]

£7.00

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

[132708]

£5.50

Butterfly Duet Punch

[148523]

£17.00

Well Said Cling Stamp Set

[148796]

£42.00

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Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

30th October 201924th October 2019

Inspire.Create.Challenge #055 | Bloom and Grow Thank you card

Hey folks!

So nice to see you this week, I’m trying to get back onto the blogging horse, and am aiming for 3 blog posts a week. I managed to blog twice last week, and I’m already writing this week a bit ahead of time so fingers crossed I can drop back into a routine!

Inspire.Create.Challenge colour challenge Night of Navy Old Olive Lovely Lipstick Blushing Bride Thank you card using Bloom and Grow from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

This week’s Inspire.Create.Challenge is a fun colour combination; Blushing Bride, Lovely Lipstick, Night of Navy and Old Olive. I almost took a Christmas-y twist on this one, but then I spotted Bloom and Grow on my stamp shelves and went floral instead!

The floral spray is heat embossed with Copper Stampin’ Emboss Powder and then watercoloured with Lovely Lipstick, Night of Navy and Old Olive. I’ve add a background wash in Blushing Bride, the sentiment stamped in Night of Navy and a trio of Night of Navy jems from the Noble Peacock suite to finish.

Watercolour thank you card using Bloom and Grow from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

All the watercolouring is done on the new Fluid 100 watercolour paper, available through Stampin’ Up! It’s SO nice, I love a bit of watercolouring and this paper is smoother than the previously stocked Watercolour Paper and so makes for such a nice finish.

Hop over to the Inspire.Create.Challenge blog to see the other Design Team’s creations and add your own using the fun colour combination too!

See you next time!

Product List

Bloom & Grow Bundle

[151069]

£49.50

Old Olive A4 Card Stock

[106576]

£8.25

Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper

[149612]

£8.25

Versamark Pad

[102283]

£8.75

Copper Stampin' Emboss Powder

[141636]

£5.50

Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad

[147090]

£7.00

Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad

[147110]

£7.00

Lovely Lipstick Classic Stampin' Pad

[147140]

£7.00

Blushing Bride Classic Stampin' Pad

[147100]

£7.00

Aqua Painters

[103954]

£16.00

Noble Peacock Rhinestones

[149494]

£5.00

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

26th October 201925th October 2019

InspireINK Blog Hop | Back to Basics with Christmas Gleaming

InspirInk Blog Hop Header Stampin' Up! team blog hop

This months InspireINK Blog Hop has a fun Back to Basics theme. The lovely Dee tasked us all with creating a simple card using just one stamp set, one ink colour, and one punch! I love challenges like this, it really pushes my creativity, and makes me think outside the box a bit

Saying this, I’ve actually used a bundle that includes 2 punches…. but I’ve only used one on this card. So, I think that still counts, right?!

InspireINK Blog Hop Christmas is Gleaming Back to Basics Card using Stampin' Up! products with StampinByHannah

The Christmas Gleaming bundle is one of my favourites in this years Stampin’ Up! Christmas catalogue. It’s unusual in that its one stamp set and two punches, but it also has some GORGEOUS coordinating Designer Series Paper too!

Here I’ve used one of the stamps repeatedly, stamped off once, to create a fun background. Before stamping and punching the bauble, and stamping and fussy cutting the sentiment; all in Pretty Peacock ink.

Merry Christmas Card using Christmas Gleaming from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

This simple card came together in a snap, and would be really easy to mass produce this year (particularly if you loaded up your Stamparatus with the stamps first!) and would look lovely in a whole heap of colours.

What some more inspiration on this rainy Saturday? Why not hop around these lovely blogs? Please leave some comment love as your on your travels too.

Hope you have a fabulously crafty weekend (I’m off to the Spa!) and I hope to see you again soon…

Product List

Christmas Gleaming Bundle (En)

[153006]

£46.75

Pretty Peacock A4 Cardstock

[150886]

£8.25

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

£9.00

Pretty Peacock Classic Stampin’ Pad

[150083]

£7.00

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

25th October 201921st October 2019

Beauty and Joy Team Swap Card

Hey folks!

Yes, I’ve finally managed to get around to blogging an actual creative project! This might well be card you’ve seen before, particularly if you received a copy of the Autumn Winter Catalogue from me in September, or if you took part in a recent team card swap.

Beauty and Joy Christmas Card using Stampin' Up! products with StampinByHannah

Beauty and Joy is one of those stamp sets in the catalogue that you might have accidentally skipped over. There are always a few hidden jems, and this one was so hidden that I didn’t remember ordering it! However, I’m so glad I did because its a really fun set to use. It features a collection of different pots and plants that covers a variety of seasons and occasions, and there are loads of looks you can create by mixing and matching different leaves, pots, stems and accessories too!

Here the tree leaves are stamped in Shaded Spruce (Stamped off once), with an Early Espresso trunk, Real Red berries and a Soft Suede basket pot.

A Joyful Christmas Card using Beauty and Joy from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

I also couldn’t resist pairing this stamp set with some of my current favourite dies; these are the Stitched Nested Labels and they are so versatile they never seem to get put away!

Thanks so much for stopping by StampinByHannah today, and I hope to see you here again soon

Product List

Beauty & Joy Photopolymer Stamp Set

[150518]

£15.00

Stitched Nested Labels Dies

[149638]

£33.00

Shaded Spruce A4 Cardstock

[147006]

£8.25

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

£9.00

Shaded Spruce Classic Stampin' Pad

[147088]

£7.00

Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad

[147114]

£7.00

Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad

[147084]

£7.00

Soft Suede Classic Stampin' Pad

[147115]

£7.00

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