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27th March 2017

Make It Monday | Quick and Easy Congratulations Card

I have a super quick and easy card project for you today… but before we jump into that I want to let you know that there are just 5 days left of Sale-a-bration! Our awesome event ends on Friday at 11PM so don’t miss out on your freebies or the great joining offer!

Right, card….

I would LOVE to send this card to the next person to join my group of Stampin’ Friends during Sale-a-bration (you can find out how to do that HERE!)

This card uses 3 Sale-a-bration freebies…. Inside the Lines Designer Series Paper, Delicate Details and Designer Tee…. You can choose any of these items for FREE when you spend £45 before Friday.

Measurements:

Card base – Half a sheet of A4, folded in half

Designer Series Paper – 10.5 x 14.8 cm

Embossed Whisper White – 8 x 12.8 cm

Before I go, I have a couple of other things to let you know:

All Sale-a-bration items are While Stocks Last
My 1000 YouTube Subscriber Gift-away ends on Friday ….. you can enter by commenting on my 1000 Subscriber video!
I will be closing my Sale-a-bration RAK list on Friday night, to get yourself some special things from my crafty office in April let me know your address HERE!

Product List

Inside The Lines Designer Series Paper

[143830]

£0.00

Designer Tee Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[143359]

£0.00

Delicate Details Photopolymer Stamp Set

[143314]

£0.00

Polka Dot Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

[133739]

£7.00

Melon Mambo Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126948]

£6.00

Melon Mambo A4 Card Stock

[119980]

£7.25

Metallic Foil Doilies

[138392]

£3.75

Metallic Enamel Shapes

[141678]

£6.50

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

28th February 2017

Avant Garden Congratulations Card

Pretty Floral Congratulations card using Avant Garden and Blooms and Bliss Designer Series Paper from Stampin' Up! UK

I send a lot of cards (it is my job after all!) but my absolute favourite type of card to send is Congratulations! I love sending these out to team members and my Stampin’ sisters, and I am trying to be better at sending them to friends and family too. I made this card for one of my lovely Stampin’ buddies who managed something totally amazing a few weeks ago…

One of the many many reasons I love Stampin’ Up! is coordination, the Designer Series Paper here is in the exact same colours as the stamping on the die cut circle, and as the ribbon, and the card base and the sentiment…. it all matches, there is no guess work, it just works! The Designer Series Paper is from Blooms and Bliss, and is in Mint Macaron, Island Indigo and Sahara Sand…. and I used it as my colour inspiration for the rest of the card.

Can you tell that there is a difference between the backing paper and that circle…. the circle is hand stamped using the Avant Garden stamp set in the same colour … see what I was saying about perfect coordination! Now, I know that there is not a Congratulations stamp in Avant Garden – I selected another Sale-a-bration freebie for this one, Designer Tee (more than just for T-shirts!). I am loving this fabulous stamp set that is FREE during Sale-a-bration, all you need to do to claim your copy is spend £45 in my Online Store before 31st March

Oh, and then I finished this one with the first square knot that I have ever tied successfully! So proud, I have no idea why on earth I struggled so much with it, maybe I’m not bow challenge but ribbon challenged instead!

Product List

Avant Garden Photopolymer Stamp Set

[143272]

£0.00

Designer Tee Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[143359]

£0.00

Blooms & Bliss Designer Series Paper

[141654]

£10.00

Mint Macaron Classic Stampin’ Pad

[138326]

£6.00

Island Indigo Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126986]

£6.00

Sahara Sand Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126976]

£6.00

Mint Macaron 3/8″ (1 Cm) Sheer Linen Ribbon

[141656]

£6.50

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

25th October 2016

Bunch of Blossoms Faux Watercolour Card

Watercolour Celebration card using Faux Watercolour and Bunch of Blossoms from Stampin' Up! UK

I have had this style of card in my head for weeks, but somehow getting the card out of my head and into the card stock was a bit of a struggle! I love following other Stampin’ Up! demonstrators, and find them so inspiring. This card was inspired by a couple of different demo’s, but mostly the lovely Dena from The Creativity Cave and the fabulous Faux Watercolour technique!For all this card looks totally different from my usual card bases, it actually comes from the same size of card stock – just scored on the short edge rather than the long one.

The key to this card really is Watercolour Paper. The Pink Pirouette layer of watercolour is put down first using an aqua-painter. I added several layers of colour, building up the intensity of the colour to the point where I was happy, and to create those pretty ‘hard edges’ I love when watercolouring.

The leaves from the Bunch of Blossoms stamp set includes a couple of different sizes of leaves, this card uses the smaller leaf. Each leave is stamped into the Watercolour paper in Old Olive (making sure the Pink Pirouette layer is completely dry!). Before the Old Olive dries I ran an Aqua-Painter over the stamped image, this creates a Faux Watercolour, and a softer look than the original hard stamping.

I tried a couple of different ways of adding the sentiment, but settled on stamping and heat embossing with White Stampin’ Emboss Powder.

The card is finished with one of my favourite go-to finishing technique, droplets of Fine-Tip glue, so pretty!

Measurements:

Card base: 21 x 14.8 cm, scored on the short edge at 7.4 cm

Old Olive layer: 19.5 x 6 cm

Watercolour Paper: 19 x 5.5 cm

Product List

Bunch Of Blossoms Photopolymer Stamp Set

[141573]

£19.00

Crumb Cake A4 Card Stock

[121685]

£7.25

Old Olive A4 Card Stock

[106576]

£7.25

Watercolor Paper

[122959]

£4.50

Pink Pirouette Classic Stampin’ Ink Refill

[111843]

£3.00

Old Olive Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126953]

£6.00

Aqua Painters

[103954]

£15.50

White Stampin’ Emboss Powder

[109132]

£4.50

Fine-Tip Glue Pen

[138309]

£6.25

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

30th August 2016

Scribble-y Tin of Cards

Congratulations card using Tin of Cards and Swirly Bird from Stampin' Up! UK

I’m sure I’m not the only one who had an urgent scrabbling around at the end of last week to make a card for the lucky Students in the family who received their GCSE results! My Sister-in-law got her results last Thursday, and the whole family is so super proud of her and the results that the rest of us could only dream off (read: swot!) But, still, I needed a card…. in a hurry!

Cards for teenagers are always tricky (I have another teenage birthday card at the end of the week!) but I’m quite happy with this one. The combination is awesome, bright and fun! Watermelon Wonder, Mint Macaron and Basic Black.

You know how I’m a sucker for a good font, and I picked this sentiment totally based on the fact that I LOVE the font. It’s taken from Tin of Cards, and is stamped in Memento Black ink. I did actually die cut the sentiment out, using a circle framelit, before mounting it behind the scribble die cut.

I hadn’t played with the Swirl Bird stamp set or coordinating dies in a while, but they just seemed perfect for this card. The splatter is from the Swirly Bird set, in my early card making details like that were totally missing, but I’m loving adding extra details and elements onto my cards, I did almost add some loops of Metallic Thread to this one, but I decided that might be too much! (I know, I’m not sure that is a thing either!)

This one is finished with a touch of Wink of Stella on each one of the flowers for a bit of added sparkle!

Product List

Tin Of Cards Photopolymer Stamp Set

[138946]

£15.00

Swirly Bird Photopolymer Bundle

[142353]

£42.25

2015-2017 In Color A4 Cardstock

[138346]

£7.25

Basic Black A4 Card Stock

[121688]

£7.25

Big Shot

[143263]

£99.00

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

[132708]

£5.50

Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush

[141897]

£7.25

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

29th August 2016

Make It Monday | Floral Phrases Wedding Card

Make It Monday Video Tutorial Congratulations card using Floral Phrases from Stampin' Up! UK

Yay! Make It Monday has returned, sorry for the break, but what with work and my holidays filming sort of went out of the window! But, I am back now, and I cannot wait to get into more videos too.

Do you remember last week I shared THIS card? and said that I would do you all a video tutorial, well I’ve done it, and you can check it out below.

I really loved the Pool Party version of this card that I sent for the Wedding I attended a couple of Weekends ago, but I actually think this Night of Navy version is even better, bold and striking.

Measurements:

Half a sheet of A4 (10.5 x 29.7 cm)

Position the edge die at the very end of one side of the card stock, and then position the detailed die next to it. Run this through the Big Shot, repeat at the other end of the card stock with the larger detailed die.

Add a matt of Whisper White between the two die cut pieces, and score between the die cut and the Whisper White card stock

I’m loving these dies, they are just so pretty. I do have one more top tip though; the Precision Base Plate for your Big Shot is a MUST for this one, the die is so detailed. The Big Shot Die Brush is also something that I would consider if you were cutting a lot of these, it makes getting all those bits of card stock out of the die SOOOO much easier!

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E23UG3WK

I will be closing this order on the 30^th August 2016

Product List

Floral Phrases Clear-Mount Bundle

[142355]

£37.75

Floral Phrases Wood-Mount Stamp Set

[141764]

£23.00

Detailed Floral Thinlits Dies

[141482]

£26.00

Night Of Navy A4 Card Stock

[106577]

£7.25

1-1/4″ Circle Punch

[119861]

£14.50

1-3/8″ Circle Punch

[119860]

£14.50

Big Shot

[143263]

£99.00

Precision Base Plate

[139684]

£22.00

Big Shot Die Brush

[140603]

£10.00

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

11th August 2016

Floral Congratulations

Rose Red Congratulations Card using Floral Phrases from Stampin' Up!

I have been making quite a few Congratulations card recently, friends getting married or moving house, I was a little disappointed when I noticed that I don’t have a New Home type stamp in my collection, but I felt that Congratulations worked well enough for a couple of friends who recently moved into their first House.

I’m just loving the floral image in the Floral Phrases stamp set, I have seen it coloured in with Stampin’ Write markers, but I love using it simply in a single colour. Here it has been stamped twice in Rose Red. The stamp does all the work for you here, no need to do anything other than stamp to get this fabulous multi-tone image. So pretty

The sentiment is stamped, again in Rose Red, on a strip of Very Vanilla card stock and layered with Rose Red Card stock. I had to add a few loops of Gold Metallic Thread to this one, I just couldn’t help myself! before adding the senitment with a piece of Adhesive Foam Strip.

Product List

Floral Phrases Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[141767]

£16.00

Rose Red Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126954]

£6.00

Rose Red A4 Card Stock

[108613]

£7.25

Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock

[106550]

£8.25

Gold Metallic Thread

[138401]

£2.75

Foam Adhesive Strips

[141825]

£7.25

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

5th July 2016

Today is a Perfect Day …

Perfect Day Wedding Congratulations card using Bunch of Blossoms from Stampin' Up! UK

Ok, so, it may be raining (or not, I’m writing this in advance as usual!) but I have the Perfect congratulations card for you today!

I am just loving the new Bunch of Blossoms stamp set and coordinating punch. I have mentioned this many many times but one of the things that made me fall in LOVE with Stampin’ Up! is the coordinating products; the stamps with matching dies and punches, the sentiments that fit perfectly into the punches, the ribbon / embellishments / card stock / Designer Series Paper that match the ink colours. Fabulous! And this card is one of those that uses a Stamp / Punch bundle

This great stamp set not only has a coordinating punch, but uses 2-step stamping to create this pretty faux-watercolour look. I’m a sucker for a good technique, and as you know I LOVE watercolour, but having stamps to do all the hard work for you is simply awesome!

Here I have stamped the flowers in Blushing Bride and Flirty Flamingo, while the leaves are Pear Pizzazz and Old Olive.

I think that my favourite part of this card though is the heat embossed sentiment on Vellum. This soft look is created by stamping with Smoky Slate onto the Vellum, and because the ink dries very slowly on the Vellum you have time to add clear embossing powder and heat setting it! So pretty

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9ADF6XSX

I will be closing this order on the 30^th July 2016

Product List

Bunch Of Blossoms Photopolymer Bundle

[142345]

£31.50

Sahara Sand A4 Card Stock

[121695]

£7.25

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

£8.25

White Vellum A4 Card Stock

[106584]

£6.00

Blushing Bride Classic Stampin' Pad

[131172]

£6.00

Flirty Flamingo Classic Stampin' Pad

[141397]

£6.00

Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin' Pad

[131180]

£6.00

Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad

[126953]

£6.00

Smoky Slate Classic Stampin' Pad

[131179]

£6.00

Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder

[109130]

£4.50

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

5th April 2016

Rose Garden Congratulations

I’m loving playing with my big shot, framelits and thinlits at the moment. I have a set of cards coming later in the week that features a heap of different sets of dies, and really I probably should be sharing those first as this card uses one of the off cuts from those!

The leaf is taken from the Rose Garden thinlits dies, and is sponged with Mossy Meadow, Old Olive and Pear Pizzazz inks to create a gradient effect. The Congratulations is taken from Big News – I love this stamp set, perfect for a whole heap of occasions – and is actually stamped in Old Olive and heat embossed but some how looks gold on here!

This card just needed an extra something, I had some Gold Glimmer paper left out on my desk from another project, so I grabbed some handheld punches (1/4″ and 1/8″ I think) and created a trio of sparkle. You could use traditional glitter, but this way was much less messy!

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7AXEMZNA

I will be closing this order on the 30^th April 2016

Product List

Rose Garden Thinlits Dies

[140619]

£28.00

Rose Wonder Photopolymer Bundle

[140804]

£44.00

Big News Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[134018]

£29.00

White Vellum A4 Card Stock

[106584]

£6.00

Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin’ Pad

[131180]

£6.00

Old Olive Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126953]

£6.00

Mossy Meadow Classic Stampin’ Pad

[133645]

£6.00

Clear Stampin’ Emboss Powder

[109130]

£4.50

Gold Glimmer Paper

[133719]

£4.50

1/8″ Circle Handheld Punch

[134365]

£8.25

1/4″ Circle Handheld Punch

[134364]

£8.25

Stamping Sponges

[141337]

£3.25

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

1st April 2016

Congratulations Balloon Celebration

Stampin' Up! Uk Balloon Celebration Congratulations Card

There are so many great stamp sets in our catalogues that often I buy one because I love it, but then never get around to using all the stamps in the set! I really didn’t want that to happen to Balloon Celebration, a stamp set that I love so much I used it for my catalogue launch party back in January, but then never actually got around to using it again properly, until now.

This stamp set has a heap of great little images, and is great for far more than just birthday card with balloons on! Kylie Burtucci made an awesome card using this set a few weeks ago, and I just knew I wanted to CASE it for a friends wedding anniversary card last week.

Their wedding colours were white and a sort of soft champagne colour (something we don’t really have in our palette) so I opted for So Saffron instead.

The wedding card featured on my blog last year, I can’t believe its a year already since we were partying into the night at a Castle in County Durham, I also can’t believe that it is now almost 8 months since our wedding, crazy!

I had intended to get this card up a little sooner, as it does now feature some retired product, that gorgeous glitter tape – please Stampin’ Up! bring it back…..

Product List

Balloon Celebration Photopolymer Stamp Set

[140675]

£23.00

So Saffron Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126957]

£6.00

So Saffron A4 Card Stock

[108611]

£6.50

Stampin’ Dimensionals

[104430]

£3.75

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

17th March 2016

Flowering Fields

I will be honest with you, I wasn’t going to share this card. I had a plan and it didn’t really work, and so once I had photographed it, this card has sat on my desk quite lonely as card after card has passed by. However, I have sort of ran out of cards …. my crafty mojo has up’d and left, and I have been left with crafters block! and so I’m sharing this card today, in the hope that my mojo returns soon and that you aren’t left hanging without some inspiration, if this card inspires you at all please do let me know, I would love to see your creations!

This was the final attempt of many, I initially intended to stamp each flower in versamark and heat emboss in clear before adding a wash of colour over the top (which I may still do) but something went wrong (not that I can remember what) and I then tried to stamp in colours adding water to see what happened!

Well, it turns out, not much. I think this is more because most of my ink pads are a little dry and in need of re-inking, or maybe that I picked the wrong colours. The colour bleeding worked well with the Crushed Curry and Melon Mambo, but not so much with paler colours like Pear Pizzazz or Pool Party (which is so faint that you can barely see it!)

So, maybe I’ll try this card again and see if my mojo returns ….

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

43TCF4SH

I will be closing this order on the 29^th March 2016

Product List

Flowering Fields Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[141303]

£0.00

Perfect Pairings Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[141261]

£0.00

Shimmery White A4 Card Stock

[121717]

£7.25

Crushed Curry Classic Stampin’ Pad

[131173]

£6.00

Melon Mambo Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126948]

£6.00

Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin’ Pad

[131180]

£6.00

Pool Party Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126982]

£6.00

Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad

[140931]

£6.50

Stampin’ Spritzer

[126185]

£2.75

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

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