Cardmaking - StampinbyHannah

28th January 2017

Pootlers Blog Hop | Celebrating Sale-a-bration!

Sale-a-bration team blog hop Using Carried Away Lift me Up and Designer Tee from Stampin' Up! UK

Welcome to the Second Pootlers Team Blog hope of 2017! This time we are Celebrating Sale-a-bration!

What is Sale-a-bration?

It’s only the greatest Stampin’ Offer and event of the whole year! Sale-a-bration is in 3 parts;

Shop – spent £45 and get a free gift (you get one gift for each £45 you spend in an individual order, so if you spend £90 you get 2 items, £135 3 items etc),
Host – host a party or spend more than £200 in a single order to earn extra Stampin’ Rewards,
or Join – and get the greatest deal – £130 worth of awesome Stampin’ Up! goodies, plus 2 free stamp sets of your choice AND free postage, 20% off all future orders while your remain with the team, and access to awesome events, pre-order periods and our exclusive team group!

I have been playing with the Lift Me Up! bundle for months, (its been in my inky fingers since September last year when I was asked to make samples with it for the On Stage Local event in Telford!) but I have not got tired of it yet! It coordinate perfectly with the Sale-a-bration item; Carried Away Designer Series Paper which I have used in the background. I am currently taking every possible opportunity to use my favourite colour; Mint Macaron, before it sadly retires in June (get your refills now!)

The Sentiment is from another one of the Sale-a-bration items. Designer Tee, is designed to coordinate with the Custom Tee stamp and die bundle in the Spring / Summer catalogue, but I love that the sentiments fit with heaps of other stamp sets and occasions too. Side-note; how true is that sentiment!

I hope that you have enjoyed hopping along with me today, please click on the images below to check out the other ladies blogs!

1. Hannah McCurley	2. Jillian Selwood, Purple Jelly Designs	3. Karen Taylor	4. Sam Hammond Donald – Pootles
5. Anna – Anna\’s Paperbox	6. Start – Tinas Kreativbox	7. Lynn Ellis – Stamp with Peg	8. Fiona Whitehead
9. Heidi Smith	10. Lisa Emslie Little Owl\’s Crafts	11. Laurie Jennings Paperjay Crafts	12. Dee Copus-Read, Lady Dee Crafts
13. Helen Griffin UK	14. Jill Chapman Paper Daisy Crafting	15. Celebrating Sale-A-Bration Blog Hop	16. Anna Krol at Anna\’ Stampin\’ Cave
17. Pootlers Blog Hop – Sale-a-Bration 2017

Keila Calver

Question of the day: Which one of this years out-going In Colours are you going to miss most?

I am totally devastated to loose Mint Macaron, I have just about everything crossed that it might find its way back to us at some point…

Product List

Lift Me Up Clear-Mount Bundle

[144712]

£41.25

Carried Away Designer Series Paper

[143608]

£0.00

Designer Tee Wood-Mount Stamp Set

[143356]

£0.00

Mint Macaron Classic Stampin’ Pad

[138326]

£6.00

Mint Macaron A4 Cardstock

[138344]

£7.25

Tip Top Taupe Classic Stampin’ Pad

[138325]

£6.00

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

27th January 2017

Lucky to have a Special Reason

Special Friend Card using Special Reason from Stampin' Up! UK

I rarely get chance to make a card simply for the enjoyment of making, although I never make anything I don’t want to make just so I can blog it (although there are many projects I have made an not been a massive fan of once completed that have appeared here on my blog!). Anyway, a few weeks ago I decided I would just play, get out all my new stamps and just have fun….. and this card is the result.

This stamp set, Special Reason, was an all attendee give away at Stampin’ Up! OnStage back in November, and I immediately fell in love with it. However, paired with the coordinating framelits it’s even better! Stylish Stems includes a heap of great dies, that can be cut in various ways (and I love that Stampin’ Up! have made a video so I don’t have to!)

I am so looking forward to getting some time over the weekend to CASe some of those samples, quite fancy-ing a combination of the stamps and watercolour…. hmmm

I’m loving this colour combination too… I am all about the colour, its one of the many reason’s I love Stampin’ Up! the fact that I can grab inks, card stock and embellishments that are all the same colour is a big bonus for me! So the colours on this one are;

Aren’t they pretty? Click on the colour names above to see a whole heap of coordinating products in that colour!

Question of the Day: Tea or Coffee?

I’m a big coffee fan. I LOVE my Tassimo machine, although I’m supposed to be on a diet at the moment so my Tassimo pods have become something of a treat!

Product List

Special Reason Clear-Mount Bundle

[144720]

£41.25

Serene Scenery Designer Series Paper Stack

[141642]

£9.00

Gold Foil Sheets

[132622]

£3.75

Crumb Cake A4 Card Stock

[121685]

£7.25

Sweet Sugarplum Classic Stampin’ Pad

[141395]

£6.00

Mint Macaron Classic Stampin’ Pad

[138326]

£6.00

White Vellum A4 Card Stock

[106584]

£6.00

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Hannah McCurley

26th January 2017

Lift Me Up! | Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday Card and PDF download using Lift Me Up from Stampin' Up! UK

I have already shared today’s card over on my Facebook page, but I love it so much that I couldn’t help but share it here too!

I have mentioned before about how I was given this stamp and die bundle to make display samples for a Stampin’ Up! event back in November. I had so much fun with it, and after playing with all my other new stamps recently I just keep coming back to this Balloon die.

You can find the full instructions for this card, and two other using the same stamp set in my PDF DOWNLOAD

Question of the Day: What is your favourite thing to do on a rainy day?

Stamping, of course!

Don’t forget to shop using the Code Club Code to receive some great FREE product!

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I will be closing this order on the 30^th January 2017

Product List

Lift Me Up Clear-Mount Bundle

[144712]

£41.25

Hexagons Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

[143231]

£8.25

Card Stock A4 Bermuda Bay

[131286]

£7.25

Smoky Slate Classic Stampin’ Pad

[131179]

£6.00

Card Stock A4 Smoky Slate

[131291]

£7.25

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Hannah McCurley

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

17th January 2017

Global Design Project #070 | Falling for you…. and a ladybird!

Global Design Project Celebration card using Falling in Love with Lots of Love from Stampin' Up! UK

Oh yes, I’m back working with a Global Design Project sketch again this week. I am planning for this to be my weekly Tuesday blog post, however last week was crazy from the second I opened my eyes on Monday morning, and the crazy didn’t end until Sunday night…. I’m hoping for calm this week (but something tells me everything is about to go pear shaped again!)

I love the simplicity of this sketch, and I did have a plan to keep things really simple…. but then I spotted the couple of ladybirds on my stamp shelves and things went a little differently!

But aren’t they just so cute! I knew I wanted to use Designer Series Paper for the banner across the card, and I haven’t been able to put this pack of DSP away recently – its the brand new Sending Love Designer Series Paper stack that features loads of lovely patterns, one side of the paper is love / Valentines themed while the other is great polka dots and other more neutral patterns, but all in Real Red and Whisper White.

Those cute Ladybirds are from the Love You Lots, this fabulous stamp set is available with Stampin’ Rewards… and seeing as you have even more Stampin’ Rewards during Sale-a-bration this would be the perfect time to get your hands on it!

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

Question of the Day: What are you doing today?

I’m off to the day job today, a lovely 9-5 day…. although I’m then off to the gym for the first time in, well lets just call it slightly too long! Wish me luck!

Product List

Love You Lots Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[141801]

£8.00

Falling For You Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[143109]

£19.00

Sending Love Designer Series Paper Stack

[142733]

£9.00

Real Red A4 Card Stock

[106578]

£7.25

Basic Black A4 Card Stock

[121688]

£7.25

Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad

[140931]

£6.50

Aqua Painters

[103954]

£15.50

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

14th January 2017

Pootlers Blog Hop | Special Reason

Pootles Papercraft Team Blog Hop project using Special Reason from Stampin' Up! UK

Hello everyone! Wow I am so proud of all the girls this month. As you may know I organise and run this blog hop, and we hop as a team to celebrate the launch of a new Stampin’ Up! catalogue. We haven’t hopped since September last year, and with the start of the year being so busy I wasn’t expecting to have such a big hop…. well these girls are awesome, we have 20 lovely ladies sharing their projects with you today. Check out the end of this blog post to find a list of all the ladies and links to their blogs, please check them out and leave them some comment love!

I thought I would challenge myself to use a stamp and die set that I haven’t spent much time with, but also to use a new (to me) colour combination. So I grabbed the Special Reason stamp and die bundle, and the colours Night of Navy, Emerald Envy and Crushed Curry for this card.

I have added an extra stamp set in here, I recently found a home in my craft room for Touches of Texture, but I hadn’t had chance to use it either. So I’ve added a splatter of Crushed Curry, behind the die cuts and sentiment.

Before I go, I would also love to remind you that we are in the middle of Sale-a-bration! and so can get a FREE Sale-a-bration item everytime you spend £45 in a single order, and if you grabbed everything I used to make this card you would get to pick TWO freebies! Yay!

I hope you have enjoyed this project, now please do click on to the see the other projects in our blog hop!

Hannah McCurley —- YOU ARE HERE

Product List

Special Reason Clear-Mount Bundle

[144720]

£41.25

Touches Of Texture Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[143251]

£30.00

Night Of Navy A4 Card Stock

[106577]

£7.25

Emerald Envy A4 Cardstock

[141420]

£7.25

Emerald Envy Classic Stampin’ Pad

[141396]

£6.00

Crushed Curry Classic Stampin’ Pad

[131173]

£6.00

Gold Metallic Thread

[138401]

£2.75

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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

5th January 2017

Beautiful You Online Card Class

Online Card Class using Beautiful You from Stampin' Up! UK

Yay! They are finally here! Online card classes from StampinByHannah!

I am so super excited to launch these classes today, and I have an awesome first class of 2017 too. I will be launching a 2 brand new class every month throughout 2017, with one launching on the 1st of the month, and the other on the 15th. Classes will be pre-order only and will ship to you about a week after class order closes, this gives me time to get your orders placed with Stampin’ Up! and all your materials cut and prepped. Each class will come with exclusive videos, as well as all the card stock, embellishments and any other bits and bobs you might need to make the 6 cards (2 of each of 3 designs) in each class.

This first class uses the GORGEOUS Beautiful You stamp set from the new Spring Summer Catalogue. I’m loving this stamp set for pretty girly cards, home decor pieces and much much more!

Class includes:

Beautiful You stamp set
Set of Watercolour Pencils
Archival Basic Black Ink Pad
One Sale-a-bration item of your choice!

For more information and to sign up for class please complete the form below:

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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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