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How to…. Make a Shabby Chic card using Stampin’ Up! supplies

How To video tutorial making a shabby chic card using Awesomely Artistic from Stampin' Up!

Good morning! I hope you don’t mind that I haven’t titled this weeks video tutorial ‘Make It Monday’ …. but it just didn’t really fit this week… what do you think?

How to make a shabby chic congratulations card using Awesomely Artistic from Stampin' Up!

A few weeks ago my wonderful Stampin’ Sister Amanda earned herself a place on the Stampin’ Up! incentive trip – something I would LOVE to achieve – she has worked so hard in her 12 months as a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator, and I thought that she deserved a special Congratulations card…. and seeing as she is the Queen of YouTube, a video was also fitting!

There are a couple of stamp sets at work here…. mainly Awesomely Artistic, but the sentiment is taken from Bunch of Blossoms… and I couldn’t pass up using that fab new label punch either!

How To video tutorial making a shabby chic card using Awesomely Artistic from Stampin' Up!

I love how the smallest Stitched circle die fits this punch perfectly…. Stampin’ Up! coordination at its very best!

I hope you have enjoyed today’s card and video… Don’t forget to leave a comment and I will see you again tomorrow!

Product List

Awesomely Artistic Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£18.00

Bunch Of Blossoms Photopolymer Stamp Set

£19.00

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

£27.00

Pretty Label Punch

£16.00

Stamping Sponges

£3.25

Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00

Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00

Rich Razzlebberry Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00

Berry Burst Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00

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Fun Floral Thank you card!

Fun Floral Thank you card using Thankful Thoughts, Oh So Eclectic, Lots of Love and Awesomely Artistic from Stampin' Up!

Every now and again I get requests from family and friends for a special card for a special occasion. Recently some of my work colleagues requested a Thank You card, and this is what I made….

Fun Floral Thank you card using Thankful Thoughts, Oh So Eclectic, Lots of Love and Awesomely Artistic from Stampin' Up!

Now, I have a confession to make with this card….. it uses 4 different stamp sets! Yes, I know, but my excuse is that it is a big 8 x 8″ card, and I needed to fill the space! So, step by step…

  • I stamped the sentiment from Thankful Thoughts in the centre of the card using Sweet Sugarplum ink
  • The Fresh Fig Flowers came next, taken from Lots of Love – I love this stamp set! and I added leaves in Old Olive, Pear Pizzazz, and Sweet Sugarplum too
  • Then the Blushing Bride leaves filled in the gaps (the stamp is also from Lots of Love)
  • The card was still missing something, so I grabbed one of the stamps from Oh So Eclectic. This fun stamp is either tiny bird foot prints, or little flowers…. I can’t decide… but it is stamped in Sweet Sugarplum
  • But there was still something missing…. yes, some gold embossed splatter from Awesomely Artistic! Perfect

Fun Floral Thank you card using Thankful Thoughts, Oh So Eclectic, Lots of Love and Awesomely Artistic from Stampin' Up!

So such a big card, it needed some stamping on the inside too. I took each element from the front and stamped it inside.

I do hope the lovely lady that received it enjoyed it!

Product List

Thankful Thoughts Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£17.00

Lots Of Love Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£17.00

Oh So Eclectic Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£21.00

Awesomely Artistic Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£18.00

Sweet Sugarplum Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00

Blushing Bride Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00

Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00

Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00

Fresh Fig Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00

Versamark Pad

£7.75

Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder

£4.50

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Happy Birthday Blooms

Birthday Blooms watercoloured birthday card using stampin' Up! uk products

A couple of weeks ago my mum had a very special birthday. Now, I always make my mum a card, but normally it’s just one, but not this year… the day before Mum’s birthday I got a mercy call from Dad asking if I was going into town at any point that day, I said “No, on a Saturday on the retail lead up to Christmas, no thanks!” but I did enquire as to what it was he wanted… a birthday card for Mum because he’d forgotten all about it! Typical man!

Now, I had already made one card, and so turned to Pinterest for some more Birthday inspiration (yes, I know that this was a danagerous thing to do with limited time!) and found this stunning card from Chantel De Kaste from the Netherlands, and took it as a jumping off point.

Watercolour birthday card using Awesomely artistic and birthday blooms from Stampin' Up!

The stamp set that Chantel used has now retired, but I substituted it for Birthday Blooms, which is one of my all time favourites! The flower is stamped in Archival Basic Black onto Thick Whisper White to allow me to watercolour it with Rich Razzleberry ink, so pretty.

Birthday Blooms watercoloured birthday card using stampin' Up! uk products

The background stamping, also in Basic Black, is taken from Awesomely Artistic. I love this stamp set for layering pieces and little details. Once it was stamped I ran it through the Large Polka Dot embossing folder and although you cant really see it on the photos, it just added an extra layer of detail. I have said before how my mum is never very impressed by my creations, and I have to say, this card didn’t get much of a response either. What do you think?

Question of the Day: What’s your favourite stamp set at the moment? I’m loving using Merriest Wishes…. more of that on Friday!

Product List

Birthday Blooms Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£17.00

Awesomely Artistic Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£18.00

Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad

£6.50

Whisper White A4 Thick Cardstock

£6.50

Polka Dot Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

£7.00

Rich Razzlebberry Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00

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Pop of Gold

Swirly Scribbles Awesomely Artistic Thank You Card using Stampin' Up! UK products

I have mentioned many times before about why I love being a part of Stampin’ Up! One of the many things that make it awesome is being able to connect with other demonstrators from around the world. I am a member of a demonstrator group on Facebook, and every week or so the admins set us a challenge – and you all know how much I love a good challenge!

A few weeks ago the challenge was ‘Pop of Colour’ – we were challenged to make a card in Basic Black or Night of Navy and White, adding a single pop of colour.

Now, I was talking about this challenge with my husband James, and he suggested Gold. I rarely get James talking about anything crafty, and his involvement in my stamping hobby is doing my accounts (no hiding any purchases around here!), so for him to actually get involved in crafty conversation meant that I HAD to take his suggestion!

Swirly Scribbles Awesomely Artistic Thank You Card using Stampin' Up! UK products

Now, I usually aim to make simple projects that you can Copy and Share (CASE) without having to spend a fortune on Stamps! However, every now and again I like to go to town and make something really special – and I think this card fits into that category.

Thank you card using Swirly Scribbles Awesomely Artistic Thankful Thoughts from Stampin' Up! UK

The floral stamp in the background is taken from Awesomely Artistic, stamped in Basic Black Archival ink onto a piece of Whisper White card stock. The Black diagonal stripes are taken from the Neutrals Designer Series Paper Stack – I’m really getting into using stripes of Designer Series Paper on my cards at the moment, loving the extra detail it adds.

The swirl (from the Swirly Scribbles dies) is die cut from Vellum, and attached with a hint of multipurpose glue.

Thankful Thoughts Thank You Card using Awesomely Artistic From Stampin' Up! UK

The card was finished with a Thanks sentiment – from the Thankful Thoughts stamp set – heat embossed in Gold, as well as a hint of Gold with the Gold Metallic Thread wrapped around the card at the edge of the Designer Series Paper.

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Product List

Awesomely Artistic Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£18.00
Swirly Scribbles Thinlits Dies

£24.00
Thankful Thoughts Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£17.00
Neutrals Designer Series Paper Stack

£20.00
Basic Black A4 Card Stock

£7.25
Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad

£6.50
Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder

£4.50
Gold Metallic Thread

£2.75
White Vellum A4 Card Stock

£6.00

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Fancy Fold Friday | Simple Easel Card

Fancy Fold Friday Easel Card Video Tutorial using Stampin' Up! UK products

Fancy Fold Friday

Welcome to Fancy Fold Friday! Today I thought I would share my most commonly made Fancy Fold Card! A Simply Easel – I love doing a twist on the Easel card but today I’m heading back to basics and keeping it simple!

Fancy Fold Friday Easel Card Video Tutorial using Stampin' Up! UK products

I am still totally in love with this stamp set too! Awesomely Artistic is a great layering stamp set, and you can see me layer these stamps in the video tutorial below!

Easel cards are super simple, but require one very key component – the stopper! This is the part of the card that makes the card front stand up. Here I have used the Decorative Label punch to create my stopper, popping my punched out sentiment on a dimensional.

Easel card using Awesomely Artistic from Stampin' Up! Uk

Measurements:

Card Base: Mint Macaron – 21 x 14.8 cm, Scored on the long side at 10.5 cm and 5.2 cm

Card Layers: Tip Top Taupe – 10 x 14.2 cm and Whisper White – 9.5 x 13.8 cm

Don’t forget that you will also need a scrap of Mint Macaron card stock for the stopper.

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Product List

Awesomely Artistic Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£18.00
2015-2017 In Color A4 Cardstock

£6.50
Mint Macaron Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
Tip Top Taupe Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
Island Indigo Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
Decorative Label Punch

£16.00
B.Y.O.P. Photopolymer Stamp Set

£23.00
Stampin' Dimensionals

£3.75

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Awesomely Artistic Birthday

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Ok, so as I type up this weeks blog post, I realise that every single card this week is a birthday card – maybe I have a problem?! – but surely we send more birthday cards than any other type of card, right? I hope so, I hope you are enjoying this week of birthday cards, and um, that you continue to come back and see me here at StampinByHannah

Did that sound like begging, because I didn’t mean it to. I just don’t want you to leave me, I like you….. ok, I’ll stop now.

Do you want to see a card?!

right, here we go

Stampin' Up! UK Awesomely Artistic Birthday

I made this card for my Aunt a few weeks ago (the middle of January!) using Awesomely Artistic and Perfect Pairings. I really enjoy inky techniques, and getting a bit messy – this card was so much fun to make!

There are several colours going on here, layers of Mint Macaron, Pool Party and Lost Lagoon, in both stamped and sponged form on the bottom and right hand side of the card. With splatters of Rich Razzleberry stamped in full and half strength to finish. I do wish I could explain my process here – I probably should make a video, because I can’t actually explain what I did, other than to say that I, the card and my desk were covered in ink by the time the card was complete!

Hope you are having a great day, and I’ll see you for another birthday card tomorrow!

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Awesome friends – Inspired by Pootles

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Hello! Welcome to Monday, yes I know, I wish it was still Sunday too, oh well, shall I cheer you up with a card?

Recently my wonderful upline Sam (Pootles) challenged her team to make a card without using their favourite products! This is a tough challenge because I love so much of our products, and to be honest I don’t buy anything I don’t like, but I do have things I don’t use very often

Stampin' Up! UK Pootles Awesomely Artistic Friend

I decided to CASe (copy and share) a card Sam made a few weeks ago, using colours I don’t use very often. So this is a Cajun Craze card base with an Always Artichoke matt. The Stamping is in Chocolate Chip, using the Awesomely Artistic stamp set, which is a favourite, as is the Washi Label punch.

The card is finished using the Elegant Butterfly punch and a trio of Pearls

 

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Technique Tuesday | Spotlight Stamping

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Are you enjoying Technique Tuesday? you know if you make one of my projects I would LOVE to see it, why not share it with me on my Facebook page.

I spotted a card using this technique on a Facebook group a few weeks ago, and I’m really super sorry that I can’t remember who it was, so if it was you – please comment below so I can give you credit!

Stampin' Up! UK Technique Tuesday Awesomely Artisitic
Oh yes, I’ve been using Awesomely Artistic again! this time I’ve paired it with Me = Grateful to make some lovely Thank You cards.

How to:

Using Awesomely Artistic, stamp the background of the card using a pale ink. I’ve used Sahara Sand on Very Vanilla, and Smoky Slate on Whisper White here, stamped off once

Add you sentiment using Me = Grateful

On a scrap piece of card stock, the same colour as your background piece stamp the background image again, this time in full strength ink. I have stamped the floral arrangement in Sahara Sand or Smokey Slate, and the added the Dragonfly in a bold colour.

The trick here is to carefully stamp the dragonfly so the images line up with the background piece when you’ve punched them out.

Stampin' Up! Awesomely Artistic Spotlight Stamping

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Awesomely Melon Mambo…

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Don’t you love it when you find a stamp set that you can use over and over again, and get a different look every time? Well, I do, and I have found on in Awesomely Artistic! You may remember my Telford Make and Take from May? that was more of a layered stamped look, I wanted to try and get a more of a clean modern look using the same stamp set.

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I love this stamp set though, it has the potential to create a mountain of different looks, and all so pretty.

This time I’ve used a card base of Melon Mambo, with a strip of Night of Navy. The Stamping uses Night of Navy, Melon Mambo and Pear Pizzazz (my all time favourite green!) for some variation.

Oh, and that Friend label, well that coordinates with the Project Life Cards and Labels Framelits if you don’t want to fussy cut it (like I have here!)

Awesome!

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Stamp Layering…A Great CASE!

Stampin' Up! UK Awesomely Artistic

I’m slowly working my way through a massive list of techniques to try (anyone else write a heap of lists?) including the techniques listed in the latest Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalogue (Have you got yours yet?)

I am loving the Artistic Expression section of the catalogue, and the techniques listed there. I know I’ve done this one before, but I just love the sample in the book, and really wanted to CASE it. It’s been a whiles since I did a CASE card – Copy and Share Everything! I love doing this, particularly around a new catalogue launch, giving the samples my own twist.

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So, that’s the Stampin’ Up! version, and I have changed it up slightly, check out the video below to see how I did!

Stampin' Up! UK Stamp Layering Awesomely Artistic Video Tutorial

I got the chance to play with this stamp set for the first time at Regional Training back in May, before it’s release! and we made a great Make and Take which I shared recently. Awesomely Artistic is one of the stamp sets designed for Stamp Layering; where you layer stamped images on top of each other to create a collage effect.

I have also used a few pieces of Designer Series Paper on this card; I’m trying really hard to use more DSP on my cards at the moment and have another using it later in the week. This card uses little pieces of the Neutral Designer Series Paper Stack (I’m sorry, I made this card before it was unavailable, but it WILL be back really soon!) and that lovely Typeset Speciality paper that I am completely in love with!

This stamp set also coordinates with a set of framelits, the Project Life Cards and Labels Framelits, but I have to say I don’t own them. However, this label is so easy to fussy cut even I did it!

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