Challenge - StampinbyHannah

26th February 2017

Sunday Colour Splash | Congratulations for Special Reason!

Sunday Colour Splash Colour Challenge Floral Congratulations Card using Special Reason from Stampin' Up! UK

Oh Yes, here we go again! I’m sure you get the drill by now… use the colours below to make a card, enter your details to win the card… and some other goodies too!

I almost took inspiration from the colour combination in my Sunday Colour Splash logo this week, but switched the bright yellow for Basic Gray instead! This card came together really quickly, although I do have to confess a little mistake…. You see the stunning intricate die cut flower? Well, that takes 2 dies, one for the outline and another for the detail in the middle, I managed to cut the outline first and then the details – which is why it is a touch wonky! but seeing as wonky is a theme around here at the minute (really feeling like I should be called the Wonky Crafty rather than Hannah! lol) I though I would leave it… but learn from my mistake!

I’ve been playing with the Special Reason stamp and die bundle again on this one! This bundle is the focus of my current Online Card Class. Booking closes on the 28th at midnight, so you don’t have long to book your place… We are making 6 fabulous cards, and playing around with some gold foil, watercolour and a couple of other techniques too!

Right, are you ready? This is your colour combo this week….

Basic Gray

Emerald Envy

Watermelon Wonder

Feel free to add White (like I did!) or even a different neutral.

To enter, complete the form below, I will pick a winner and show-case it on my Facebook Page next Saturday

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Product List

Special Reason Clear-Mount Bundle

[144720]

£41.25

Petal Burst Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

[141493]

£7.00

Basic Gray A4 Card Stock

[121689]

£7.25

Emerald Envy Classic Stampin’ Pad

[141396]

£6.00

Watermelon Wonder Classic Stampin’ Pad

[138323]

£6.00

Watermelon Wonder A4 Cardstock

[138341]

£7.25

Big Shot

[143263]

£99.00

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

19th February 2017

Sunday Colour Splash | Delicate Details

Sunday Colour Splash using Delicate Details Sale-a-bration SAB from Stampin' Up! UK Free stamps

Hello! I am so excited to be doing another Sunday Colour Splash this week! This is my weekly challenge to you… each week I post a card on a Sunday, along with the colours I have used and I would LOVE to see what you create! Click the link at the bottom of this post to share your creations with me, and I will pick one lucky person to win some hand-stamped goodies from me!

This week I am using one of the fabulous Sale-a-bration gifts -Delicate Details, a collection of pretty boarders, I think this set would be perfect for a wedding card, or even the invitations – and its FREE! when you spend £45! Awesome!

The sentiment is taken from the Birthday Bright stamp set, and I am using this set in my current email card series. You can subscribe to my weekly emails HERE or by using the link at the bottom of this post

Ok, so what colours have I used this week?

This is a really soft colour combination, but I know you will create some gorgeous projects with it!

Product List

Delicate Details Photopolymer Stamp Set

[143314]

£0.00

Birthday Bright Photopolymer Stamp Set

[142835]

£19.00

Pink Pirouette A4 Card Stock

[116203]

£7.25

Pink Pirouette Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126956]

£6.00

Mint Macaron Classic Stampin’ Pad

[138326]

£6.00

Smoky Slate Classic Stampin’ Pad

[131179]

£6.00

Sweet Sugarplum 3/8″ (1 Cm) Ruched Ribbon

[141428]

£7.25

Blushing Bride Sequin Trim

[138400]

£4.50

Gold 1/4″ (6.4 Mm) Natural Trim

[141484]

£6.50

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

18th February 2017

Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge | February 2017

Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge Birthday Card using Cupcakes and Carousels from Stampin' Up! UK

Oh I am so excited to be back hopping with my girls again this week! We took January off, things were just crazy busy for all of us, but we are BACK this week with a fabulous sketch from the lovely Sam Charlton!

I knew exactly were I wanted to go with this sketch as soon as I saw it! Unusual for me, usually the girls set us a challenge…but this sketch is just lovely, although I have left off a couple of the elements. That’s one of the things I love about creating with a sketch, selecting the bits you love and changing the ones you’re not such a fan of!

I haven’t played with the Cupcakes and Carousels paper for a few months. This was one of the items I got to play with early as a Display Stamper for OnStage Local back in November, and I think I sort of over-dosed myself with it… and bit of time and separation later and I am back in love with it again, and paired with this sentiment from Carousel Birthday this card was almost finished!

but there was something missing, and I couldn’t stick anything down, until I had reached for the Lucky Stars embossing folder…and my card as done.

Question of the day: What do you do reach for when you card needs an extra something?

I will often grab an embossing folder, Enamel shapes, or sometimes the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set!

Product List

Carousel Birthday Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[142832]

£17.00

Cupcakes & Carousels Designer Series Paper Stack

[142744]

£9.00

Lucky Stars Textured Impressions Embossing Folders

[135817]

£7.00

White Stampin’ Emboss Powder

[109132]

£4.50

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

[145372]

£27.00

Card Stock A4 Bermuda Bay

[131286]

£7.25

Early Espresso A4 Card Stock

[121686]

£7.25

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 MK42UXHG. 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

16th February 2017

Global Design Project #074 | Special Reason for a Sketch

Global Design Project 074 Sketch challenge Special Reason Love Card using Stampin' Up! products

Hello!

Yes, once again I am playing along with the Global Design Project. I like to get these onto my blog during the first half of the week normally, but this week my scheduling went a bit peculiar and so here we are on a Thursday! This weeks Global Design Project Challenge is a sketch, and a lovely sketch it is too…

I am having great fun at the moment playing with the Special Reason bundle … so much so that it is my current Online Card Class! Yay! I have altered the sketch a little, in that I needed to change the shape of the bottom of the banner, but otherwise I have kept fairly true to sketch (unusual for me!)

Once I had cut and shaped the banner, using the Triple Banner Punch, I used one of the dies from the Stylish Stems die set (bundled with Special Reason) to cut this pretty flower. This set of dies is special… it cuts the inside shape of the flower, leaving it inside the cardstock. So, I then cut it again in Pool Party and used the out-line die to cut out the flower. To adhere the two together I sponged the middle of the back of the Pool Party flower with Tombow to give me a bit of wiggle room and allowing me to get both flowers perfectly lined up!

The stripy background is a regular feature of a GDP sketch, and I almost re-created it with ink… but I had a lovely delivery of Designer Series Paper this week, and so went with polka dots instead. The Pool Party Designer Series Paper is taken from the Subtles Designer Series Paper stack, a mountain of paper in four generic prints; dots, stripes, script and floral – very pretty. The only other colour here is Tip Top Taupe for the heart and the sentiment.

Thanks so much for checking out my blog today. If you live in the UK and don’t have a Demonstrator I would LOVE you to order from me, let me know if you want a catalogue and sign up for my latest Online Card Class using the link below

Product List

Special Reason Clear-Mount Bundle

[144720]

£41.25

Subtles Designer Series Paper Stack

[138437]

£20.00

Sweetheart Punch

[133786]

£14.50

Banner Triple Punch

[138292]

£21.00

Pool Party A4 Card Stock

[124391]

£7.25

Tip Top Taupe A4 Cardstock

[138343]

£7.25

Tip Top Taupe Classic Stampin’ Pad

[138325]

£6.00

Linen Thread

[104199]

£4.25

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 MK42UXHG. 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

7th February 2017

Global Design Project #073 | Crazy About that Watercolour…..

Watercolour Smooshing Hello Card using Crazy About You from Stampin' Up! UK #GDP073

Oh I am so sorry this post is a little late today! I got called into work for night shifts on Sunday and Monday night, and just did not get chance to make my Global Design Project Card yesterday… but its OK, I’ve caught up…. while I wait for the UPS man to deliver my latest goodies from Stampin’ Up! (I LOVE delivery day, don’t you?! It’s like Christmas, and I have some new goodies coming that I cannot wait to share with you!)

How fabulous are those colours?! I day dreamed about these colours at work last night, and made this card about 100 times in my head…. I was so pleased when it came out onto paper almost exactly how I dreamed it!

I have taken the three colours; Daffodil Delight, Emerald Envy and Watermelon Wonder and used the watercolour smooshing technique to colour the flower from Birthday Blooms. This technique is so fun! Take your ink pad (or a reinker) and add ink onto a large clear block, add water and then pick up the water / ink mix with a piece of Window Sheet. I think I use a piece of packaging that came with my stamps! and then use this to apply the colour onto the card stock.

To make sure I got the colours in the right place I stamped the flower in a very pale ink (Sahara Sand stamped off once) as a guide, once I had smooshed on the other colours I stamped the flower again in black ink over the top. Now, I would normally use my Stamp-a-ma-jig to ensure that you couldn’t see the original flower, but I can’t find the clear sheet of my stamp-a-ma-jig at the moment…. read; craft office is a disaster zone and I really need to spend this evening cleaning it!

The sentiment is from Crazy About You and the Hello You thinlits (Love these!) and I die cut the Hello 4 times and stacked them together to make this cool dimensional sentiment. The finishing touches to this card were a bit of ink splattering and a trio of black Enamel shapes (that were once Garden Green in colour, but I have coloured them with a permenant marker to make them black… I LOVE them in black!). I have no idea what I was trying to say here, I am aware that the sentiment makes no sense what so ever, I am blaming a lack of sleep for my bad stamping, I mean really…. what was I going for?! lol

So, this is my corrected version!

Thank you for checking out my blog today, and I hope you have a great day

Product List

Birthday Blooms Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[140658]

£17.00

Crazy About You Clear Stamp Set

[138859]

£35.00

Hello You Thinlits Dies

[137363]

£22.00

Regals Enamel Shapes

[141681]

£8.25

Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad

[140931]

£6.50

Watermelon Wonder Classic Stampin’ Pad

[138323]

£6.00

Emerald Envy Classic Stampin’ Pad

[141396]

£6.00

Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126944]

£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 MK42UXHG. 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

4th February 2017

Global Design Project #72 | Crazy About You

Global Design Project Case the Designer Challenge using Crazy About You from Stampin' Up! UK

Did you think I’d missed the Global Design Project this week? As if I would….. ok, so I almost did! but this CASE the designer challenge has been on my mind all week. I think I have made about 10 cards in my head, but only one out of actually paper (not that it is anything like what I had planned!)

How fabulous is this card from Krista Frattin, very pretty. The dotty background has been a feature of every single card I have imagined for this challenge this week, but how to execute this has changed a few times. Krista used one of the now retired dotty glassine bags, and I almost followed suit because I have a few of this left in my stash. But change my mind, opting to stamp with Whisper White Craft Ink into Vellum instead.

I had ideas of die cutting, and squares… and then I found my punch drawer instead! Although the circle is die cut using the Layering Circles dies. I intitially wasn’t aiming to use Krista’s colour combination, opting to use her card as a sketch, but I am pushing myself to make this a challenge at the moment, and her colours weren’t a combination I have used… So I did it! Calypso Coral, Cucumber Crush, Sahara Sand and Basic Black

I had also considered heat embossing and all kinds of things for this sentiment. But you know, sometimes simple is better, and so stamped in Basic Black onto Whisper White and cut out by hand won out this time.

Thanks for checking out my blog today. I hope to see you here again soon

Question of the day: How would YOU take on this card, I would love to see you versions. Make a card today and take a picture and share it with me on Facebook, go on, I dare you!

Product List

Crazy About You Clear Stamp Set

[138859]

£35.00

Flower Medallion Punch

[137417]

£16.00

White Vellum A4 Card Stock

[106584]

£6.00

Sponge Daubers

[133773]

£4.50

Whisper White Craft Stampin’ Pad

[101731]

£7.25

Calypso Coral Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126983]

£6.00

Cucumber Crush Classic Stampin’ Pad

[138324]

£6.00

Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad

[140931]

£6.50

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 MK42UXHG. 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

24th January 2017

Global Design Project 071 – 3D Squishy bag!

Global Design Project 3D challenge Pop of Pink squishy bag

I LOVE taking part in challenges! I am trying to join in with the Global Design Project every single Tuesday (which to be honest is a challenge in itself!) but I am currently also challenging myself in other ways too, I think 2017 might just be the year of the challenge!

I will openly admit that this challenge scared the pants of me (and I almost didn’t bother this week!) 3D is a really struggle for me, I am not blessed with that skill of being able to see a 3D project and then make it! and I had a quick look through my die collection, but there is nothing 3D in there either….. so I turned to Pinterest and remembered THIS fabulous project by my lovely friend Sam, I had been meaning to have a go at this bag, well this was my opportunity!

The bag itself is really simple;

Measurements:

Designer Series Paper – 12 x 6″ (30.5 x 15 cm)

Score on the long side at 3 3/4, 5 3/4, 9 1/2 and 11 1/2″ (9.5, 14.5, 24, 29 cm)

Score on the short side at 1 1/2″ (4 cm)

I have used the Pop of Pink Speciality Designer Series Paper (which I have been hoarding, because it is just so damn pretty!) and it sent me onto a bit of a Gold kick! The panel on the front of the bag is 2 x 2 3/4″ and I coated it in Versamark and heat embossed it in Gold embossing powder! The layer on the top is 1 3/4 x 2 1/2″ of Whisper White, and I’ve used the Swirly Bird stamp set to add a touch of Flirty Flamingo (all that Gold was getting a bit too much!)

Thanks so much for checking out my little corner of the internet today, and I hope to see you again soon!

Product List

Pop Of Pink Specialty Designer Series Paper

[141648]

£11.75

Swirly Bird Photopolymer Bundle

[142353]

£42.25

Gold Foil Sheets

[132622]

£3.75

Gold Stampin’ Emboss Powder

[109129]

£4.50

Gold 5/8″ Satin Ribbon

[134547]

£6.50

Flirty Flamingo Classic Stampin’ Pad

[141397]

£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!

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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

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

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!

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

3rd January 2017

Global Design Project 068 | Nailed It!

Mans Card using Nailed It by Stampin' Up! UK for the Global Design Project 068

Well Hello there! It has been so long since I took part in the Global Design Project. I LOVE doing this challenge every week, but the back end of last year was so crazy I haven’t had chance to join in for ages! However, that is going to change, one of my many New Years Resolutions this year is to take part in the GDP each week (made much easier by the fact that I don’t often have to work a Monday!)

This weeks challenge is to CASE the designer. I love this card by Jess Williams, and chose to use both the layout and the colour combination for my card.

I chose to use the awesome new stamp set, Nailed It, for this card. Guy cards are always tricky, but there are some really great options for guys in the new Spring Summer catalogue (which launches tomorrow!! So excited!). The hammers are both coloured using the great new Watercolour Pencils, LOVE them! I have been trying them out on a heap of different types of card stock and so far haven’t come across one that they don’t work on!

I have to say too I had such a drama getting this post up today. I got called into work on Sunday night to cover the night shift and so making this card was an interestingly sleepy experience yesterday afternoon, but then to make it even worse when I went to photograph it I discovered that my lighting set up has totally died! I have to use artificial lights to photograph my projects at this time of year, and so once I have finished writing up this post I’m off to find another lamp holder for my photography light bulb! I have to thank my lovely husband who stood holding my lights to allow me to take the photos for today’s post, and I really hope that I don’t have to call on his lamp holding services again too soon!

Thanks so much for checking out my little blog today, and I hope that you check back tomorrow for the launch of the Spring Summer catalogue and the start of Sale-a-bration!

Product List

Nailed It Clear-Mount Bundle

[144735]

£38.50

Night Of Navy A4 Card Stock

[106577]

£7.25

Watercolor Pencils

[141709]

£14.50

Kraft 12″ X 12″ Card Stock

[133674]

£6.50

Night Of Navy Solid Baker’s Twine

[141684]

£2.75

Gold Stampin’ Emboss Powder

[109129]

£4.50

Watermelon Wonder A4 Cardstock

[138341]

£7.25

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!

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

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