Techniques | How to assemble a custom sentiment with Amazing You

Bright and fun Congratulations card using Amazing You from Stampin' Up! Free during Sale-a-bration

StampinByHannah Techniques How to assemble a custom sentiment with Amazing You

Stamping Techniques Series

This week’s techniques video is probably less about the technique and more about the card…. actually there are two techniques in this card, but I wound rabbit on too long about the other one!

Bright and fun Congratulations card using Amazing You from Stampin' Up! Free during Sale-a-brationThis card was inspired by the lovely Holly Stene and THIS card which I spotted on Instagram. I have recently started to ‘save’ my favourite ideas on Instagram ready for inspiration at a later date, but this time I think this card was so imprinted on my brain that I only went into my ‘saved’ feed to work out who made the original!


So, two techniques for the price of one?! Yep, first lets just quickly mention those flowers…. and stamping with Stampin’ Write markers! I LOVE using my markers to colour my stamps and get multi-coloured stamped images. Check the video for my top tips!

The second (and main) technique is about that sentiment. The Amazing You Stamp set and Celebrate You thinlits dies (both available for FREE during Sale-a-bration by the way!) are a great way to customise you cards. The combination of the stamps and dies allow you to create your own sentiments… and there are heaps of possibilities! I’ve used ‘Lets Celebrate You’ today, but would love to see your sentiment ideas in the comments below!

StampinByHannah Cardmaking Techniques Video Tutorial how to create a DIY sentiment with Amazing You from Stampin' Up!

I have a fabulous class planned with this stamp and die set, for FREE, in February. You can find all the information about my upcoming classes and events HERE, and you can find out more about my Facebook Live Online Card Classes over on my Facebook Page.

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Thoughtful Thursday | Sharing Sweet Thoughts

Sharing Sweet thoughts card for Thoughtful Thursday using Stampin' Up! products

StampinByHannah Thoughtful Thursday Sharing Sweet Thoughts

Stampin' Up! UK Independent Demonstrator StampinByHannah Thoughtful Thursday

I have something a little different for this weeks Thoughtful Thursday… Did you know that Stampin’ Up! raise hundreds of thousands of pounds for charities every year? They have partnered with Ronald MacDonald House Charities both here in the UK and around the world, and release a fabulous stamp set each year with £2 from each sale going to the charity. Here in the UK that has been taken a step further and over recent months Stampin’ Up! UK have hosted two wonderful sponsored card making event weekends to make cards for families. Ronald MacDonald House Charities UK run 15 houses for families with children in hospital up and down the country, allowing families to stay close to there children.

How to make a cute thinking of you card using Sharing Sweet Thoughts from Stampin' Up! UK

This year’s stamp set is called Sharing Sweet Thoughts, and is available until June. This fun set coordinates with another set in the Annual catalogue; Jar of Love, as well as the Everyday Jars thinlits dies. Saying that, I haven’t actually used any dies on this card… but that ladybird was too cute not to fussy cut!

Cute thinking of you card using Sharing Sweet Thoughts from Stampin' Up!

If you would like to support the work of Ronald MacDonald House Charities, all you need to do is purchase a copy of this pretty stamp set! While you in my Webstore, I would LOVE you to check out the Sale-a-bration goodies too!

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Sale-a-bration Spotlight | Heartfelt Blooms

Sale-a-bration spotlight Heartfelt Blooms Card using Stampin' Up! products

StampinByHannah Sale-a-bration Spotlight Heartfelt Blooms

Stampin' Up! Saleabration

I am loving Sale-a-bration this year! Sale-a-bration is the biggest event in the Sale-a-bration calendar… it has 3 fabulous parts; Shop, Host and Join.

Each week on a Wednesday I am focusing one a Sale-a-bration goody, and this week it’s Heartfelt Blooms!

Island Indigo Thank You card using Heartfelt Blooms from Stampin' Up!

This stamp set is special stamp set, not only can you choose it as your free item when you spend £45 before the end of March, but also it is part of a brand new line of stamps from Stampin’ Up! Disinktive stamps are a brand new style of stamp that layers ink down at different opacities, giving you a fabulous dimensional image.

Sale-a-bration spotlight thinking of you card using Heartfelt blooms from Stampin' Up! and the spolight stamping technique

This card uses a fun technique I hadn’t tried for a while; Spotlight Stamping (see what I did there?!). I stamped the Heartfelt Bloom twice, once in Smoky Slate and one in Rose Red. Then, I took the 1″ circle punch to the Rose Red one. These punch outs are then lined up with the Smoky Slate image, to create spotlights! Fun yes?!

This gorgeous stamp is is available for FREE during Sale-a-bration. All you need to do it spend £45 in the Online Store (that’s the Spring Summer or Annual catalogues, or even the Clearance rack!). There are 12 other free items if this one does float your boat, 2 of which are extra special and require a spend of £90 before you can choose them for free. When you shop using the Online Store, Stampin’ Up! will prompt you to add your Sale-a-bration items, and tell you how many you can have. They call the items you can choose for a £45 Level 1, and those requiring a £90 spend Level 2. You will earn a Sale-a-bration item every time you hit £45 in an individual order, meaning that if you spend £90 you can either have TWO Level 1 items or ONE Level 2. If you spend £135 you can choose THREE Level 1 items or ONE Level 1 item PLUS ONE Level 2!

This gets even better when you spend £150 as you will get to choose your Sale-a-bration items AND then spend at least £15 worth of Stampin’ Up! Rewards on anything in either the Spring Summer or Annual catalogues including the Hostess Exclusive stamp sets. But, when you place an order of £200 you get 4 Level 1 items, PLUS 10% of your order in Stampin’ Up! Rewards AND an extra £20 to spend on anything in the Spring Summer or Annual catalogues!

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

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I will be closing this order on the 30th January 2018

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International Blog Highlights | Truly Tailored

Fun card for guys using Truly Tailored from Stampin' Up!

StampinByHannah International Blog Highlights Truly Tailored

Kylies International Blog Highlight banner

It’s that special day of the month again… Kylie’s International Blog Highlight. I LOVE taking part in these events, partly because I get to see heaps of creative ideas from loads of other Demonstrators around the world, but also because Kylie always comes up with a cool theme! This month is no exception, and I am sure that everyone has made some fabulous projects. This month we are sharing our favourite products from the Spring Summer (Occasions if your outside of Europe) catalogue and Sale-a-bration!

International Blog Highlights with Kylie Bertucci Mans Card using Truly Tailored from Stampin' Up!

I LOVE the Truly Tailored Suite in the Spring Summer Catalogue. Initially I was drawn to the colour combination, although I did spend far longer than I would care to admit trying to see the Crushed Curry on the papers printed in the catalogue!

It is definitely there though, and using a bit of Crushed Curry Bakers Twine on this card has really helped to pull it out of the papers.

Using Designer Series Paper on a manly card using True Gentleman from Stampin' Up!

I hadn’t really thought about it until I came to right this blog post, but I think my choice of papers is my subconscious speaking to me…. because I really need to hurry up and pick my new glasses! I promise I’ll share a picture of them on my social media when they arrive!

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Inspire.Create.Challenge 009 | Heart Happiness

How to make a fun watercoloured Valentines card using Heart Happiness from Stampin' Up!

StampinByHannah Inspire.Create.Challenge 009 | Heart Happiness

Inspire.Create.Challenges Love Themed Challenge

Oh yes… the next big card making event (other than Birthdays!) is Valentines day and this week’s Inspire.Create.Challenges Love Themed challenge should give you plenty of ideas and inspiration! We would LOVE to see your Love themed creations too… don’t forget to enter the challenge over on the Inspire.Create.Challenges blog!

Heat embossed Valentines Card using Heart Happiness from Stampin' Up!

The Heart Happiness Stamp Set from the new Stampin’ Up! Spring Summer catalogue is full of fun hearts (not a sentiment in sight!) and it coordinates with TWO sets of dies too; Lots to Love Box Framelits and the Sweet and Sassy Framelits. However, I did hand cut the tall skinny heart without much issue.

I actually filmed watercolouring the floral heart, which I will share on my Instagram later on today. I used a combination of Powder Pink, Rose Red and Rich Razzleberry to colour the heart, and lots of layers of colour.

Watercoloured Valentines card using Heart Happiness from Stampin' Up!

The other heart is stamped in Rich Razzleberry onto Vellum, and I hand cut it as I mentioned.

The sentiment is taken from the Petal Palette stamp set, stamped in Rose Red onto Shimmery White card stock. Before the ink was totally dry I rubbed over it with a dry-ish Aqua-Painter to create this watercolour wash effect. I have been loving using the Everyday Label punch, and I punched out the sentiment but it was a little big. So I trimmed it! I love the look actually.

Thanks for stopping by StampinByHannah today, and I cannot wait to see you Love themed creations over on Inspire.Create.Challenges!

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Sale-a-bration Spotlight | Lots of Lavender

How to make a quick and easy card using Lots of Lavender from Stampin' Up! Sale-a-bration #stampinup #saleabration

StampinByHannah Sale-a-bration Spotlight Lots of Lavender

Stampin' Up! Saleabration

Welcome to Wednesday’s here at StampinByHannah… now, Wednesday is not a usual posting day, but during Sale-a-bration I have an extra blog post (and sometimes a video) for you on a Wednesday! Yay!

This year’s Sale-a-bration event is bigger and better than ever before, with 13 fabulous gifts you can earn for FREE when you spend £45 between now and the end of March! One of those fabulous gifts is Lots of Lavender. I LOVE this stamp set, it features Two-Step Stampin’ (my favourite!) and some beautiful images too.

How to make a fun thank you card using Lots of Lavender from Stampin' Up!

You can choose Lots of Lavender as your FREE gift when you spend £45 in either the Annual OR Spring Summer catalogues, or anywhere on my Stampin’ Up! Webstore.

Today’s video was inspired by THIS card by Teneale Williams. I loved the use of Designer Series Paper, and the slightly distressed look, it’s not something I do often, but I do enjoy taking a nail file to a piece of paper and ‘roughing’ it up a bit!

Lots of Lavender CASe card using Stampin' Up! products

For all I LOVE this stamp set, it did take me a couple of goes before I found a look I LOVED with it… check the video for my top tips!

I also made a card for one of my team mates this past week with Lots of Lavender. I have mentioned before how it is one of my New Year’s resolutions, to send more cards… and I needed to pop something in the post to her, and so a card was needed too.

Quick and Easy Just Because card using Lots of Lavender and Petal Palette from Stampin' Up!

The BEST deal during Sale-a-bration has to be the Join offer…. did you know that to become a part of Stampin’ Up! all you need to do is buy the Starter Kit?

The Starter Kit costs just £99, and is fully customisible with £130 worth of Stampin’ Up! goodies of your choice! PLUS during Sale-a-bration you get to add a further TWO stamp sets from the Annual or Spring Summer catalogue into your kit too. Your Starter Kit ships for FREE, and also includes some handy business bits too (think catalogues and order forms).

Once you have your Starter Kit the crafty world is your oyster… (sorry, that was really cheesy!)… You can start your own business, shop at a 20% discount for yourself, host parties, or just craft! Stampin’ Up! offer some fabulous gifts and incentives if you do decide to make Stampin’ Up! your business, but are MORE than happy for you to be a happy shopper (and so am I!). I have a heap of things planned for my team this year, starting with a trip to OnStage in April (registration opens on the 16th January, and I am sure tickets will sell out quickly, so join today if you want to come with me!) .

Please check out my Joining FAQ’s, or drop me a message if there is something else you want to know!

I cannot wait to welcome you to the team!

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Birthday Card Week | True Gentleman

Birthday Card Week Quick and Easy Guys Birthday Card using True Gentleman from Stampin' Up!

StampinByHannah Birthday Card Week True Gentleman

StampinByHannah Independent Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Birthday Card week

Before I get into the blog post for today… I just want to let you know that today is my January Facebook Live Online Card Class! Check out my Facebook page at 2PM!

Last Friday was my birthday… but one day isn’t long enough to celebrate is it?! So, this week I have a WHOLE WEEK of fabulous birthday inspiration for you!

Today’s card is one I made for one of my Father-in-law’s birthday’s before Christmas. As a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator I get to pre-order new products the month before catalogue launches, and I took full advantage of that to make this card!

Birthday Card Week Quick and Easy Guys Birthday Card using True Gentleman from Stampin' Up!

One of the many things that drew me to this particular suite in the new Spring Summer catalogue is the colour combination in this Designer Series Paper; Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Crushed Curry, Night of Navy, Tranquil Tide and Very Vanilla. You guys know how much I love a good colour combination, and I LOVE this one! I have to say though that when I first read ‘Crushed Curry’ in the catalogue, it did think that someone had made a mistake, but no, there is a hint of Yellow in these papers and it really makes thinks Pop!

Birthday Card Week Quick and Easy Guys Birthday Card using True Gentleman from Stampin' Up!

Carrying on with the hint of Yellow theme, I added my own to this card. I mentioned a few weeks ago that sometimes I want a hint of colour behind a die cut, and that layering another die cut is sometimes too much… well, I pulled out this technique again here. Once I had the circle stamped and die cut, I ran the circle through my Crushed Curry ink pad to add a hint of colour.

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Make It Monday | Birthday Card Week!

Make It Monday How to make a quick and simple birthday card using Picture Perfect Party Designer Series paper from Stampin' Up!

StampinByHannah Make It Monday Birthday Card Week!

StampinByHannah Independent Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Birthday Card week

Ok, so last Friday was my birthday… but one day isn’t long enough to celebrate is it?! So, this week I have a WHOLE WEEK of fabulous birthday inspiration for you! Today’s card is super simple, but the Designer Series Paper is just so stunning that it’s such a shame to cover it up!

Make It Monday How to make a quick and simple birthday card using Picture Perfect Party Designer Series paper from Stampin' Up!This Designer Series Paper is special, it features actual photographs of fabulous birthday images; confetti, cookies, donuts, party hats and more! The Picture Perfect Party Designer Series Paper features in this year’s StampinByHannah Birthday Card Club. Club sign up’s close on Sunday 14th January. You can find all the details over on the Birthday Card Club Page.

So, I have kept this card super simple with a piece of that fabulous Designer Series Paper, and a simple Heat Embossed Sentiment. Quick and Easy for those times you need a card in a hurry!

Make It Monday How to make a quick and simple birthday card using Picture Perfect Party Designer Series paper from Stampin' Up!

Have you checked out the Sale-a-bration Freebies yet?

Sale-a-bration is the biggest event of the Stampin’ Up! year… so far we have 13 fabulous FREE items to earn when you spend £45, and I know that there will be some more coming in February too. Which one is your favourite?

Stampin' Up! Sale-a-bration 2018

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Pootlers Team Blog Hop | Petal Passion Best Wishes…

Fun and Floral Best Wishes card using Petal Palette from Stampin' Up!

StampinByHannah Pootlers Team Blog Hop Petal Passion Best Wishes…

Pootles Stampin' Up! Team Blog Hop

Welcome to StampinByHannah… today’s blog post is a super special one! I am privileged to organise our team blog hops, I LOVE doing them! Partly because I just love to share, but I get a sneaky peak of everyone’s projects and I know that this time the girls have made some totally awesome projects! I have been running the hop for 3 wonderful years, and I am so pleased to see so many members of the team taking part this time… we have 30 fabulous blogs for you today! Please take some time to check them all out and leave some comment love on your travels too.

How to make a fabulous Best Wishes card using Petal Palette from Stampin' Up!

The Petal Palette suite is my absolute favourite from the new Spring Summer catalogue! I am such a sucker for a stamp set with a good font, and this one has fabulous fonts, lovely sentiments and some gorgeous florals too. The stamp set coordinates with a fabulous set of dies, the Petals and More thinlits do more than just cut out some of the stamps, there are some lovely layering pieces in there too.

Pootlers Team Blog Hop with PootlesPapercraft using Petal Palette from Stampin' Up!

I coloured in the floral stamp with Stampin’ Up! Watercolour Pencils and blended the colours with a Blender pen, before using the coordinating die to cut it out. This floral stamp is then layered with two of the die cuts, and some stamping and Gold Heat Embossing to create the final effect.

Here is the list of the lovely ladies taking part in our Pootlers Team Blog Hop today, please check them out and leave some comment love too. Thanks for checking out StampinByHannah today, and I hope to see you again soon!

12 Days of Giftaways

We have reached Day 12 of my 12 Days of Giftaways today…I LOVE being able to give you something special when you shop… and I have some special things coming in the new year! So, as my Christmas gift to you I have a special gift for each person who shops over £45 for the next 12 days. Each day has a different gift, and you don’t need to worry about adding the Code Club Code (although please do to receive your January Card Kit!).

StampinByHannah 12 Days of Giftaways featuring Stampin' Up! goodies!

Fine Print; This is not a competition and there is NO single winner, all customers WILL receive a gift. Please do not add it to your order, (unless of course you want duplicates!) as I will be sending this separately with your usual Customer Thank You pack….

All Thank You Gift Packs will be posted after the 12 Deals of Christmas have finished.

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12 Days of Giftaways (Day 11) | Brusho!

Techniques Video Tutorial How to get started with Brusho from Stampin' Up!

StampinByHannah 12 Days of Giftaways (Day 11) Brusho!

Stamping Techniques Series

It’s FRIDAY! actually… it’s more than just Friday today, today is my 30th Birthday. I am super excited to be sharing my 30th Birthday year with Stampin’ Up! and have some celebratory plans coming later in the year. Today I’m planning on taking the day as a ‘Me Day’ although I am sure that James has some other plans!

Techniques series Fun Birthday Card using Brusho and Beautiful Day from Stampin' Up!

Today’s video is a little different, in that I don’t have an actual project to make with you, but I wanted you to see how easy it is to get started with Brusho!

I do have a couple of top tips:

  • Clear your work area … Brusho can get a little messy, particularly if you are using it with a Stampin’ Spritzer, so tidy up anything precious before you start
  • If you don’t like messy fingers I would suggest grabbing some disposable gloves!
  • Time… it’s likely to run away with you once you get started, so make sure you’ve got an afternoon free to play!

Every month I share an Online Card class Live on Facebook. My next class is at 2PM (GMT) on the 9th January, and we are going to play with the Beautiful Day stamp set as well as Brusho a little more! Do pop over and Like my Facebook Page for reminders of when I am going Live as well as a heap of extra inspiration and Stampin’ News too…

Techniques with StampinByHannah how to use Brusho from Stampin' Up!

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12 days of Giftaways

We have reached Day 11 of my 12 Days of Giftaways today…I LOVE being able to give you something special when you shop… and I have some special things coming in the new year! So, as my Christmas gift to you I have a special gift for each person who shops over £45 for the next 12 days. Each day has a different gift, and you don’t need to worry about adding the Code Club Code (although please do to receive your January Card Kit!).

StampinByHannah 12 Days of Giftaways featuring Stampin' Up! goodies!

Fine Print; This is not a competition and there is NO single winner, all customers WILL receive a gift. Please do not add it to your order, (unless of course you want duplicates!) as I will be sending this separately with your usual Customer Thank You pack….

All Thank You Gift Packs will be posted after the 12 Deals of Christmas have finished.

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