Birthday - StampinbyHannah

20th January 2017

Balloon Adventures | It’s Your Birthday!

Birthday Card Club Birthday Card using Balloon Adventures from Stampin' Up! UK

I have mentioned before about how much I am loving playing with the Balloon Adventures stamp set, so much that is has its own Birthday Card Club! This great club gives you 4 birthday cards a month for 6 months, and includes all the stamps, card stock and embellishments you need to make them, along with a list of instructions too! Today is the last day to sign up to Club, and I will be sending out your stamps and your first pack of card kits at the end of next week!

I think my favourite bit of this card (other than that great die cut!) is the ribbon! You all know that bow’s are totally not my greatest skill, but this ribbon makes bow tying so much easier. It’s the brand new 1/8″ Taffeta ribbon in Emerald Envy, that coordinates with the Party Animal suite. I will put the full suite in the product list at the end of this post.

Don’t forget to grab your place on the Birthday Card Club, remember today is the last day to sign up. I will be closing the books at midnight, so sign up now so you don’t miss out!

Question of the day:

I haven’t done one of these for a while, but I am bringing them back! So, today’s question…… What is your favourite page in the new Stampin’ Up! Spring Summer catalogue?

I don’t think I could pick one page, can I choose it all?! lol

Product List

Balloon Adventures Photopolymer Bundle

[144708]

£48.50

Party Animal Designer Series Paper

[142738]

£10.00

Party Animal A4 Cardstock Pack

[142740]

£7.25

Party Animal Designer Washi Tape

[142743]

£7.25

Party Animal Embellishments

[142775]

£6.25

Ribbon Taffeta 1/8″ (3.2 Mm) Emerald Envy

[142742]

£5.50

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

19th January 2017

Team Colour Challenge | Sweet Cupcake

Team Colour Challenge Thank You card using Sweet Cupcake from Stampin' Up! UK

Every now and again someone in my team of Stampin’ Up! demonstrators we set a challenge, sometimes its business related, and other times its creative. A few weeks ago we set a challenge to create a card using two colours (plus a neutral) that were selected at random – by random I mean I spun my colour caddy with my eye shut and pulled out two inks – Marina Mist and Smoky Slate!

My current Online Card Class features the Sweet Cupcake stamp set, and I was just gathering ideas for cards for my class when this colour challenge came up. So I took advantage of the free theme to make a card using Sweet Cupcake as practice. You can find out more about my Sweet Cupcake class on my Online Card Class page.

This card was pretty simple to put together; the cupcake is super easy to stamp even though its in 3 layers, they line up really easily, I thought I would share a video using this stamp set again so you can see how easy it is to stamp.

I would love you to join in! Just select two inks totally at random and use those colours to make a project! Share with me in the coordinating post over on my Facebook Page, and I will select a winner next week. Entries close, midnight (UK) on 25th January 2017, and I’ll announce the winner on my blog!

Thanks for checking out StampinByHannah today, and I hope to see you again soon

Question of the day: What is your favourite type of cupcake?

Me? I just love cake! any flavour, any size, although the more chocolate the better!

Product List

Sweet Cupcake Photopolymer Bundle

[142232]

£38.50

Petal Burst Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

[141493]

£7.00

Marina Mist Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126962]

£6.00

Marina Mist A4 Card Stock

[121682]

£7.25

Smoky Slate Classic Stampin’ Pad

[131179]

£6.00

Card Stock A4 Smoky Slate

[131291]

£7.25

Layering Circle Framelits Dies

[141705]

£32.00

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

16th January 2017

Make It Monday | Balloon Adventures Birthday Tags

Make It Monday video tutorial to make birthday tags using Balloon Adventures from Stampin' Up! UK

Welcome to Make It Monday!

I have a quick and simple project for you today, although I am planning on doing a more techniques based video next week. I’m loving playing with the Balloon Adventures stamp and die bundle and just had to show you these cute birthday tags!

The Balloon Adventures stamp set is the stamp set we are using in my Birthday Card Club! Sign up’s are still available and but I will be closing the list on the 20th (that’s Friday!). The club is a great way to guarntee that you’ll have a stash of handmade birthday card on hand during 2017! We are making 4 cards a month for 6 months using the Balloon Adventures stamp set, you can find all the sign up information HERE!

Measurements:

Card stock: 2 x 9 1/2″ (5 x 24 cm) Scored at 4 3/4″ (12 cm)

Designer Series Paper: 1 3/4 x 4 1/8″ (4.5 x 10.5 cm)

Product List

Balloon Adventures Photopolymer Bundle

[144708]

£48.50

Pacific Point A4 Card Stock

[116202]

£7.25

Card Stock A4 Crushed Curry

[131288]

£7.25

Emerald Envy A4 Cardstock

[141420]

£7.25

Emerald Envy Classic Stampin’ Pad

[141396]

£6.00

Ribbon Taffeta 1/8″ (3.2 Mm) Emerald Envy

[142742]

£5.50

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

10th January 2017

Men’s Cards | Nailed It!

Men's birthday card using Nailed It from Stampin' Up! UK

My goodness, yesterday was busy here on the blog. I was at work, and my phone would not stop buzzing, took me til after teatime to get to work out what was going on…. turns out that THIS CARD I posted last week had won the Global Design Project Challenge for last week. I am totally stunned! I am hoping to get a card made for the challenge this week, but its not going to be today

I will of course admit that this card is CASE’d from the insanely talented Rochelle Blok from Australia.

I made this card for my father-in-law’s birthday back in December. He is always a challenge to make a card for, not only because he is a man, but he also has quite specific interests – he’s a VW car enthusiast, classic campervan’s in particular, but we don’t have anything like that in the catalogue, so I have to revert to ‘manly’ stamps! Except when I spotted this stamp and die bundle in the catalogue, I immediately thought of David!

The ‘Happy Birthday’ sentiment is taken from the Sale-a-bration stamp set Designer Tee. You can get this for FREE when you spend £45, or you buy the Nailed It bundle in wood-mount!

The card itself is fairly simple. The hammer and saw are stamped in Basic Grey, and coloured using the fabulous new Watercolour Pencils, and the back ground is the new Hexagon Embossing Folder.

Product List

Nailed It Wood-Mount Bundle

[144734]

£45.00

Nailed It Clear-Mount Bundle

[144735]

£38.50

Hexagons Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

[143231]

£8.25

5/8″ (1.6 Cm) Burlap Ribbon

[141487]

£6.50

Designer Tee Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[143359]

£0.00

Basic Gray Archival Stampin’ Pad

[140932]

£6.50

Watercolor Pencils

[141709]

£14.50

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

8th January 2017

Pootlers Birthday Blog Hop | Balloon Adventure!

Balloon Adventures pop up birthday card for the Pootlers Birthday Blog Hop January 2017 using Stampin' Up! UK products

I am so excited to share with you all today, as regular readers of my blog (or visitors to my Facebook page) will know it was my Birthday this week! I get more excited about my birthday than I do about Christmas, probably because I have to work over Christmas but I always make sure to put Annual Leave in for my Birthday! back to work tomorrow, but before then I want to Celebrate my birthday all over again with the other fabulous ladies in the team with January Birthdays!

We have a great blog hop for you all today, you can find more information about how to see everyone else’s birthday projects at the end of this blog post

I have to say it felt very strange making myself a birthday card! However, I took advantage of the fact that I knew I was going to LOVE at least one of my birthday cards this year, as well as being able to guarantee that at least one of them was going to be hand made!

I am just loving using the new Balloon Adventures stamp and die bundle, but I haven’t used it as it was intended yet!

The largest die in the set is actually to create this great balloon pop up for the centre of your card! A great surprise when you open it! The stamp also coordinate with the Balloon Bouquet punch which I have used here for the solid balloons, while the stripy and dotty balloons are taken from the dies in the bundle.

I hope you have enjoyed this blog post, I would love you to check out the other birthday themed projects on this blog hop, just click on the BLUE button to see what everyone has created! Don’t forget to click through to the other ladies blogs and leave some comment love.

see you again soon

Product List

Balloon Adventures Photopolymer Bundle

[144708]

£48.50

Balloon Bouquet Punch

[140609]

£16.00

Rich Razzleberry A4 Card Stock

[119981]

£7.25

Rose Red A4 Card Stock

[108613]

£7.25

Mint Macaron A4 Cardstock

[138344]

£7.25

Basic Gray A4 Card Stock

[121689]

£7.25

Gold Metallic Thread

[138401]

£2.75

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

2nd January 2017

Make It Monday | Post It Note Sneak Peak

Make It Monday Sticky Note Holder Video Tutorial using Lift Me Up from Stampin' Up! UK

Welcome back! I am so glad to be back, have you missed me, I haven’t written a blog post or filmed a video for about 3 weeks, and I cannot wait to get back into the swing of things. I hope you had a great Christmas and a lovely New Year.

I haven’t had the past few weeks off completely though, I have been super busy packing catalogues, planning and crafting ready for the start of the Spring Summer catalogue and the start of Sale-a-bration on Wednesday! I cannot wait, this year is going to be AWESOME!

I always send goodies with catalogues, and this time around is no different, everyone got a super cute sticky note holder ready to mark up their shopping lists! These use the brand new Lift Me Up! bundle, and some Sale-a-bration Designer Series Paper. Check out the video for all the instructions…

Measurements: (sorry I only have metric measurements for this one)

Card stock – 9 x 5.1 cm

Score on the long side at 4 and 5 cm

Designer Series Paper – 3.5 x 4.5 cm

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

27th December 2016

Birthday Card Club 2017!

StampinByHannah Birthday Card Club using Stampin' Up! UK products

I am so excited for the start of my Birthday Card Club 2017! This themed club lasts for 6 months, and gives you 24 great birthday cards for your family and friends – never be short of a birthday card when you need one!

Month 1 costs £45 and includes the fabulous Balloon Adventure stamp set, an Emerald Envy Ink Pad, a whole pack of Whisper White envelopes and a Fast Fuse PLUS you get to choose a great Sale-a-bration item too! as well as a card kit to make 4 Birthday cards with written instruction sheets.

Months 2-6 cost just £10 a month, each month you will receive a card kit of card stock, Designer Series Paper and embellishments to make 4 great cards.

Sign-up is open now, but I will not be collecting payments until 4th January 2017. You can join the club at any time in January, for club to start on the 1st February. The following 6 months club kits will ship mid-month, and you can add anything to your club order by dropping me a message before the 10th of each month

I will also be opening a Facebook group, to share more Balloon Adventure ideas and inspiration.

I cannot wait to get started!

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19th December 2016

12 Days of Christmas | Birthday Card Club 2017

Yes, the day has finally arrived! the day I can tell you all about something that I am so damn excited about, it has almost killed me not giving you all the details!

Welcome to my Birthday Card Club 2017!

I will explain all in the video below, but basically this club is AWESOME! Pre-order during December for our January start.

Month One costs £45 and includes a great birthday themed stamp set; Balloon Adventures, an Emerald Envy Ink Pad, a whole pack of Whisper White envelopes and a Fast Fuse PLUS you get to choose a great Sale-a-bration item too! as well as a card kit to make 4 Birthday cards with written instruction sheets.

Then, each month from February through to June costs £10 and includes a card kit each month. So, for a full 6 months you will have all the goodies and instructions for 4 birthday cards each month, that’s 24 Birthday cards in total! How great is that! Plus, each month you can add anything you like into your order, you just need to email me before the 8th of the month!

For more information and to book your place on the Birthday card club complete the form below:

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Giftaway: Place your order between now and midnight on the 21st December to get a FREE roll of Bakers Twine! (I will be ordering a selection of different colours, so its a bit of a lucky dip!)p!)

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

17th December 2016

Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge – December 2016

Hello! Welcome to the Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge for December! One of our brand new members Amanda Charlesworth set us a fabulously swirly challenge this month, and while I have straightened out the swirls to fit in with my style I cannot wait to see what the other girls have made!

Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge December challenge using Birthday Blossoms from Stampin' Up! UK

Amanda’s original sketch had a swirl on the diagonal from top to bottom, but seeing as I don’t own a single swirl stamp I have removed that bit of the sketch. This is one of those things I love doing with sketched, changing them to suit what I own and my style of card making. I do however love the floral cluster idea in the middle of the card, so I took that and ran with it!

The darker flowers are punched using the Blossom Builder punch, and I have used the faux suede technique to create these fabulously textured flowers

Birthday Blossoms Card in Rose Red Blushing Bride and Pear Pizzazz from Stampin' Up! UK

Thank you so much for checking out the Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge this month, we can’t wait to see you again in the new year!

Giftaway: Place your order between now and midnight on the 21st December to get a FREE roll of Bakers Twine! (I will be ordering a selection of different colours, so its a bit of a lucky dip!)p!)

Thick Bakers Twine 12 days of Christmas giftaway

Product List

Birthday Blossoms Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[139471]

£17.00

Blossom Builder Punch

[141469]

£16.00

Pansy Punch

[130698]

£14.50

Blushing Bride Classic Stampin’ Pad

[131172]

£6.00

Rose Red Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126954]

£6.00

Rose Red A4 Card Stock

[108613]

£7.25

Card Stock A4 Pear Pizzazz

[131290]

£7.25

Pearl Basic Jewels Embellishments

[119247]

£4.50

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

6th December 2016

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.

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.

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

[140658]

£17.00

Awesomely Artistic Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[139950]

£18.00

Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad

[140931]

£6.50

Whisper White A4 Thick Cardstock

[140490]

£6.50

Polka Dot Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

[133739]

£7.00

Rich Razzlebberry Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126950]

£6.00

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

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