StampinbyHannah - Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator

17th July 2017

Make It Monday | Yankee Candle Gift Bag

Make It Monday Pootles Papercraft Yankee Candle Gift Bag using Petal Garden Designer Series Paper from Stampin' Up!

This week I have another project from a Crafty Retreat I went on a few weekends ago. I LOVE to craft with my Stampin’ Sisters (or anyone for that matter!) and I don’t get to do it very often. However, I do have a plan for some Crafty Retreats for you lovely people coming really really soon! To keep up to date with any news regarding any upcoming events, please sign up for my Email newsletter HERE!

I have two different versions of this cute gift bag, perfect for Yankee Candle Tealights (or chocolate, or sweeties, lipstick, etc). The first is a fun coffee themed version using the Coffee Break Designer Series Paper and Coffee Cafe stamp set. While the version I made on video uses the Petal Garden Designer Series Paper and Rose Garden stamp set and coordinating dies.

Measurements:

Designer Series Paper – 6 x 6 ” (15 x 15 cm)

Score on the first side at 1 3/4, 2 3/4, 4 1/2 and 5 1/2″ (4.5, 7, 11.5 and 14 cm)

Score on the second side at 1″ (2.5 cm)

I adore that ribbon, it is so pretty and super easy to tie into bows! Although I’m not sure you can tell by looking at that picture! As always the links to all the products in this project can be found in my Webstore, and direct links are below…

Product List

Petal Garden Designer Series Paper Stack

[144168]

£9.00

Rose Garden Thinlits Dies

[140619]

£28.00

Rose Wonder Photopolymer Stamp Set

[140697]

£24.00

Calypso Coral 1/8″ Sheer Ribbon

[144173]

£5.50

Soft Sky Classic Stampin’ Pad

[131181]

£6.00

Coffee Break Designer Series Paper

[144155]

£10.00

Coffee Café Photopolymer Stamp Set

[143677]

£19.00

Corrugated Elements

[144158]

£3.25

Whisper White 1/8″ Sheer Ribbon

[144172]

£5.50

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

14th July 2017

Techniques Series: Masking

Oh, I am so excited! I have been trying to launch this series for a few weeks…. and I have finally managed to get a couple of tutorials filmed AND the blog post written!

Each week on a Friday I will be coming to you with a fun Technique… and the first few weeks are going to focus on Masking. I LOVE masking, but there are heaps of different ways to go about it, and so I thought I would share a few of those with you.

This first week I thought I would share the easiest Masking technique I know… using the Pattern Party Masks and ink!

Top Tips for masking:

Tape your card stock AND your mask down to your work surface; I will often use Sticky Notes or Sticky Note Tape, or Washi Tape to do this
Ensure that your Ink Pads are well inked
Dab your sponge into the ink and then onto the project, using a dabbing motion rather than a swirling motion ensures that all that lovely ink gets into the tight areas of the mask and onto the project rather than wasted

These fun cards use the Eastern Medallions Thinlits dies, and the Eastern Beauty Stamp set to create these fun and simple cards.

I love the look of the blue version, with some of the small pieces left in the die cut…. Which one is your favourite?

Product List

Eastern Beauty Photopolymer Bundle

[145308]

£44.00

Pattern Party Decorative Masks

[144103]

£5.50

Stamping Sponges

[141337]

£3.25

Rich Razzlebberry Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126950]

£6.00

Rich Razzleberry A4 Card Stock

[119981]

£7.25

Berry Burst Classic Stampin’ Pad

[144083]

£6.00

Berry Burst A4 Cardstock

[144249]

£7.25

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

13th July 2017

One Sheet Wonder!

I love crafting with my crafting friends…. we don’t get chance to get together very often, but I just LOVE it when we do. A few weekends ago we got together at a fabulously crafty retreat, and my lovely friend Heidi shared a great One Sheet Wonder project.

I had so much fun putting this project together, although the cutting was stressful!

We had a choice of colour, and I picked the beautiful Fresh Fig and the Thankful Thoughts Stamp set to make these fun cards

This fabulous project uses just one sheet of Designer Series Paper and gives you 14 fabulous cards! but can you spot my mistake…. hadn’t noticed until I came to take the photographs! Oops!

I have a video on a very similar project from earlier in the year…. that you can find HERE where you can also find a full cutting guide PDF download too.

Short and sweet today… but don’t forget that you can find all the card stock and Designer Series Paper that I used here over on my webstore, and the links to the products are below!

Product List

Fresh Florals Designer Series Paper Stack

[144131]

£20.00

Fresh Fig Classic Stampin’ Pad

[144082]

£6.00

Fresh Fig A4 Cardstock

[144248]

£7.25

Thankful Thoughts Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[141522]

£17.00

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

12th July 2017

Christmas in July!

Christmas in July Join Stampin' Up! UK

I LOVE Christmas…. Don’t you? and to have a hint of Christmas in the middle of the year is just so much fun!

We all LOVE presents, and this month Stampin’ Up! has some fantastic gifts for you. If you join Stampin’ Up! during July Stampin’ Up! will give you a fabulous Essentials Gift Pack into your Starter Kit for FREE, along with a great new Christmas stamp set too. I am loving sneak peak of the new Christmas catalogue, and this stamp set and coordinating die set is great! Oh, and yes, you can go ahead and add the dies to your Starter Kit too.

So, what comes in the gift pack?

Essentials Gift Pack

Clear Block D

[118485]

£7.75

Paper Snips Scissors

[103579]

£9.00

Grid Paper

[130148]

£10.00

Bone Folder

[102300]

£6.25

SNAIL Permanent Adhesive

[104332]

£6.25

How do I get it?

Just grab your fully customisible Starter Kit! I LOVE our Starter Kit, it contains £130 worth of Stampin’ Up! goodies of your choice, along a pack of catalogues and other business type goodies, as well as your Gift Pack and Carols of Christmas Stamp set. But the Starter Kit gives your more than just products…. you get at least 20% off all your future purchases with Stampin’ Up!, an exclusive quarterly Magazine packed with information and inspiration, access to Pre-Order periods (get your hands on the rest of the new Christmas Catalogue in August rather than September!), as well as exclusive Facebook groups, team stamping events and more!

You can get your kit HERE!

Hold on… what does this new stamp set look like?

Well… it looks like this…..

Stampin' Up! Carols of Christmas

and the fabulous coordinating dies cut out most of the little images, as well as some really cool extra details to make your Christmas cards really pop!

Are you ready to be part of something Amazing?!

You are! That’s great, just follow THIS link to choose your Starter Kit items and become part of my fabulous team!

You want some more information? Not a problem, you can find out even more about becoming a part of Stampin’ Up! on my Join My Team page, or in my Joining FAQ’s, or you can always drop me a message via Contact Me!

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

11th July 2017

Guy Greetings Birthday Card using Embossing Paste

As soon as I spotted the Embossing Paste in the new annual Catalogue I knew I HAD to try it! I have never used embossing paste before, but I love the look of it. However, once it arrived, I froze, I took the lid off, but I couldn’t use it!

So, when James reminded me that he needed a Birthday Card for his older brother at the end of last month, I decided to put on my big girl pants and give this stuff a go! Although, I did make him pick the stamps!

So, I stamped the sentiments first in Archival Basic Black ink onto Whisper White card stock, and then stamped the Guy onto a separate piece of card stock. He was the coloured in using Watercolour Pencils and a blender pen, and fussy cut.

The embossing paste was really easy to use… I have a glass top on my desk and I dumped a large pea sized amount of paste onto the desk and added a drop of Bermuda Bay reinker. The paste is really easy to move and mix with the Palette Knives that you can find with the paste in the catalogue. I used one of the new Pattern Party Decorative Masks to create this fun pattern, and added a sprinkling of Dazzling Diamonds Stampin’ Glitter before it was dry. The embossing paste does take a few minutes to dry, but its not long, but long enough that it gives you time to make sure you mask, desk and palette knife is clean! I would advise that you make sure that your equipment is cleaned after each use, embossing paste is hard once it is dry and REALLY difficult to get off!

Once the embossing paste was dry I added the Guy onto the front of the card with some dimensionals, and stamped the inside of the card to match!

Product List

Guy Greetings Clear Stamp Set

[138828]

£32.00

Embossing Paste

[141979]

£7.25

Palette Knives

[142808]

£4.50

Pattern Party Decorative Masks

[144103]

£5.50

Silicone Craft Sheet

[127853]

£5.50

Bermuda Bay Classic Stampin’ Ink Refill

[131156]

£3.00

Card Stock A4 Bermuda Bay

[131286]

£7.25

Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad

[140931]

£6.50

Basic Black A4 Card Stock

[121688]

£7.25

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

10th July 2017

Make It Monday | Square Bottomed Gift Bag

Hello! Welcome to this weeks Make It Monday!
A few weeks ago I attended a Crafty Retreat with 40 of my Stampin’ Sisters, and the next few Make It Mondays are things that have been inspired by project from that weekend. This particular project was inspired by a Swap I received from the lovely Jane Carroll.

This fun mini gift bag starts off as a pretty standard bag, the trick is in the closing….. Instead of pinching the top, or punching a hole and threading some ribbon, the box is flattened. I have kept it closed with a staple, but you could us a clip or ribbon.

Measurements:

Designer Series Paper – 5 1/2 x 6″ (14 x 15.5 cm)

Score on the short side at: 1 1/4, 2 1/2, 3 3/4 and 5″ (3, 6, 9 and 12 cm)

Score on the long side at: 1 1/4″ (3 cm)

The Designer Series Paper for the black bag is from A Whole Lot of Lovely, while the white one is Naturally Eclectic. The sentiment is taken from Lovely Inside and Out.

My favourite part of this bag though has to be those cute paper bows. They are super easy to create using the Bow Builder Punch; check the video for how I put them together. I do have a couple of tips though, I would use TomBow glue to stick them together (rather than the glue dots I used for speed in the video), and give the pieces time to dry before assembling the bow. Use a bone folder to create a natural bend in card stock, and use card stock rather than Designer Series Paper.

Product List

Whole Lot Of Lovely Designer Series Paper

[144110]

£10.00

Lovely Inside & Out Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[144011]

£18.00

Classic Label Punch

[141491]

£16.00

Tangerine Tango Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126946]

£6.00

Bow Builder Punch

[137414]

£16.00

Liquid Multipurpose Glue

[110755]

£3.75

Card Stock A4 Pear Pizzazz

[131290]

£7.25

Naturally Eclectic Designer Series Paper

[144185]

£10.00

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

5th July 2017

July Code Club!

Did you know that I offer a Code Club every single month? Giving you even more every single time you shop and choose me as your Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator?

What is Code Club?

I release a brand new Code Club Code each and every month. When you enter this special code when you check out of my Online Store, you join the Code Club for that month. Each person who joins the club gets a special FREE gift from me at the start of the following month!

How do I join?

It’s really simple, just use the code for the month at checkout!

What is this months Code?

The Code Club Code for July 2017 is YK6JNXBV

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

4th July 2017

Another venture into Shabby Chic….

Shabby chic congratulations card using Sheet Music stamp from Stampin' Up!

Ok, so a few weeks ago I attempted to make a shabby chic style card for my lovely friend Amanda…. just after I made that I discovered that I needed a congratulations card pretty quickly! My darling little brother popped the question to his lovely girlfriend…. and as a card maker, I HAD to send a hand made congratulations!

This card was super super simple to put together… although it does use a couple of stamp sets and a die set! But when your brother gets engaged I think that’s allowed. The background is the new Sheet Music background stamped in Crumb Cake onto Very Vanilla. I added some inking around the edges too, to add to the vintage / shabby effect. I actually added the same to a corner of the inside of the card too….

The sentiment is from Floral Phrases, stamped in Rich Razzleberry and heat embossed in clear onto Vellum.

That fabulously sparkly, gold glitter diamond was the whole inspiration for this card. I die cut the diamond using the Eclectic Layers dies in Gold Glimmer paper… but then, how to you attach something that detailed onto a card?! Well, Stampin’ Up! have that covered…. the new Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets. I LOVE these! They are super easy to use (and VERY sticky!) Just add the sheet to the back of your card stock before you die cut it…. and you have adhesive already on your die cuts! Awesome…. don’t worry, I have a video coming really soon!

Product List

Floral Phrases Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[141767]

£16.00

Sheet Music Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[143970]

£13.00

Eclectic Layers Thinlits Dies

[143774]

£27.00

Rich Razzleberry A4 Card Stock

[119981]

£7.25

Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock

[106550]

£8.25

Rich Razzlebberry Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126950]

£6.00

Clear Stampin’ Emboss Powder

[109130]

£4.50

White Vellum A4 Card Stock

[106584]

£6.00

Gold Glimmer Paper

[133719]

£4.50

Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets

[144106]

£9.00

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

3rd July 2017

Make It Monday | Mini Chocolate Pouches

Pootles Papercraft Team Craft Retreat Swaps using Happy Birthday Gorgeous from Stampin' Up!

Hello! I am super excited for this week at StampinByHannah…. I have BIG plans for the upcoming month, and we have a couple of totally AWESOME offers from Stampin’ Up! too

How cute are these?! I made 45 of these for my Stampin’ Sisters that attended our team Craft Retreat last weekend… I hope that they liked them. Actually I know that one of the recipients loved them – I made a few extra for some of the Pootles children, and one of them did a lovely video to say thanks (yes, it made me cry… a lot! but that’s me at the moment, very emotional, I’m putting it down to extreme stress….. hoping that is going to be over really soon…but that’s a completely different story!)

The actual swaps used the Fresh Florals Designer Series Paper, but I think I have seen a little TOO MUCH of that paper recently and just couldn’t face making them again! So I have changed things up a bit for the tutorial and have used the Delightful Daisy Designer Series Paper instead…. Enjoy!

Just a quick video from me on this Monday…. but I have another 2 videos coming to you this week, so I hope that that makes up for it!

Measurements:

Designer Series Paper – 3 1/2 x 4 ” (9 x 10.5 cm)

Product List

Delightful Daisy Designer Series Paper

[144137]

£10.00

Pretty Label Punch

[143715]

£16.00

Happy Birthday Gorgeous Photopolymer Stamp Set

[143662]

£19.00

Fast Fuse Adhesive

[129026]

£9.00

Tranquil Tide Classic Stampin’ Pad

[144085]

£6.00

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

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

2nd July 2017

Bonus Days…..

I am so excited for July!!!

We have 2 totally AWESOME offers this month….. The first is Bonus Days. This great offer ran last year, and you all loved it so much that Stampin’ Up! have brought it back again!

How awesome is that!!!

You can order either via Email or directly on my Webshop! but don’t forget to use this month’s Code Club Code to get even more Stampin’ goodies!

The second, and my personal favourite is Christmas in July……

Every day is like Christmas with Stampin’ Up! but…. in July it really is! Join my team of StampinFriends during July and Stampin’ Up! will add a heap of extra goodies into your Starter kit! Including a BRAND NEW stamp set…. I cannot wait to show you it, but it hasn’t arrived with me yet! (yes, it is THAT new!)

Essentials Gift Pack

Clear Block D

[118485]

£7.75

Paper Snips Scissors

[103579]

£9.00

Grid Paper

[130148]

£10.00

Bone Folder

[102300]

£6.25

SNAIL Permanent Adhesive

[104332]

£6.25

There are so many great reasons to join Stampin’ Up! and my team of StampinFriends… 20% discount of your Stampin’ Up! goodies, exclusive magazine, pre-order (that new Christmas catalogue is coming really really soon!) and access to a great Facebook group full of Stampin’ inspiration, fun and friendship!

You can find out even more about being a part of something amazing HERE or my Joining FAQ’s!

Have a questions I haven’t answered? Ask them below….. and I cannot wait to welcome you to the team!

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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

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

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