Memories and More - StampinbyHannah

10th August 20185th August 2018

Memories and More Desk Storage Box with Pen Holder

How to make a storage box for your Memories and More cards using Stampin' Up! card stock and Designer Series Paper

StampinByHannah Memories and More Desk Storage Box with Pen Holder

I’m on a bit of a storage making kick at the moment… I think it’s because I keep looking at furniture I can’t buy (yet!), and so making my own crafty storage is a reasonable alternative! I have told the story before about how I was led to card making from scrapbooking, but I don’t think I’ve ever said anything about how much I LOVE pocket scrapbooking! It’s just so quick, and you can whip up and album in just a few hours. My Wedding Album (still under development… and currently at the bottom of a large storage box, because you know; moving!) is mostly made up of Pockets, with some 12 x 12 pages thrown in!

These are some of the new Memories and More cards too… so pretty! I am planning on using these to catch up with my One Little Word Album for 2018, which I am slightly (read: 4 months!) behind with.

Measurements:

Box 1: 10 x 3-1/2″ (25 x 9 cm)

Score on the long side at 4-1/4, 4-3/4, 9, and 9-1/2″ (10.5, 12, 22.5 and 24 cm)

Score on the short side at 1/2″ (1.5 cm)

Box 2: 9 x 3″ (22 x 7.5 cm)

Score on the long side at 3-1/4, 4-1/4, 7-1/2 and 8-1/2″ (8, 10.5, 18.5 and 21 cm)

Score on the short side at 1″ (2.5 cm)

Box 3: 4-1/2 x 3″ (11 x 7.5 cm)

Score on the long side at 1, 2, 3, and 4″ (2.5, 5, 7.5 and 10 cm)

Score on the short side at 1″ (2.5 cm)

Designer Series Paper: 12 x 1-1/2″ (30.5 x 4 cm)

Product List

Delightfully Detailed Memories & More Card Pack

[147038]

£9.25

Mint Macaron A4 Cardstock

[138344]

£8.00

Share What You Love Specialty Designer Series Paper

[146926]

£25.00

Simply Scored

[122334]

£27.00

Journaling Pens

[145480]

£4.75

Tear & Tape Adhesive

[138995]

£6.25

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Hannah McCurley

26th April 201825th April 2018

The Project Share Project | Memories and more….

StampinByHannah The Project Share Project Memories and more….

Even though I’m on a bloggy break this week I couldn’t miss digging through my Stampin’ Buddies blog archive… and I have some fabulous projects to share with you this week!

Helen Slimm

I am such a sucker for a scrapbooking project, and when I spotted this gorgeous photo of Helen’s Nan I couldn’t not share it with you! This week Helen has made this fabulous Memories and More album for her Nan… what a fabulous gift!

Sally Shaw

I’m actually sharing one of Sally’s videos this week… can you tell Helen sent me off looking for Memories and More projects?!

I just LOVE this fabulous scrapbooking system! The card packs are just such great value with heaps of cards, along with sticks and more! PLUS the line is expanding in the upcoming Annual catalogue to make these packs truly Memories and MORE!

Angelina Clark

So, I did search Angelina’s blog for some Memories and More…. but sadly I couldn’t come up with anything current. However, I did find this awesome project that uses the Birthday Memories suite! This project is just fantastic… don’t forget to click the image to see all the details… and the video tutorial too!

I’ve been using the Memories and More packs to complete my own scrapbooking project in 2018! Normally the last Thursday in the month would be my monthly One Little Word update…. but I’m going to delay April’s for a week or so. But it will be back soon!

Product List

Perfect Days Card Pack

[144209]

£9.00

Petal Passion Memories & More Card Pack

[145592]

£9.00

Petal Garden Card Pack

[144208]

£9.00

Kraft 6″ X 8″ Album

[144764]

£9.00

Variety Pack 6″ X 8″ Photo Pocket Pages

[144205]

£5.50

Birthday Memories Designer Series Paper

[144118]

£10.00

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 my Code Club Code. 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

29th March 2018

Thoughtful Thursday | One Little Word March 2018

One Little Word using Memories and More from Stampin' Up!

StampinByHannah Thoughtful Thursday One Little Word March 2018

In January I started a year long mindfulness project. One Little Word is a fabulous self-paced class from Ali Edwards that encourages you to pick a focus word for the year. My word is Grow… and I am encouraging myself to grow as a person, develop coping strategies for my anxiety, loose weight, and really focus on some me time. And that is what my One Little Word album gives me, Me Time.

Each month Ali gives a prompt to help you focus on your word, and March was the ‘Practice’ month. This was our opportunity to challenge ourselves to complete something each day of the month (As you can see… I didn’t quite manage mine). My personal goal this month was to do 9000 steps a day. Now, this is super easy when I’m working my day job, but MUCH harder when I’m crafting and blogging and running my business. The fact that I haven’t managed 9000 steps every day isn’t a failure, its another opportunity for growth (get it!)… and my goal will continue into April.

March was my ‘New Me’ month… I know most people do this sort of re-set in January, but March works SO much better for me! By now we have got past both mine and James’ birthdays, all the festive chocolate has long gone, plus James has just finished his degree and actually started his job this week (can you tell I’m excited about that!)… so my March step goal was my lead into my new health and fitness plan. I started Slimming World on Monday, so that combined with my steps, and a goal to exercise more… the new, slimmer me, should be coming soon!

Seeing as March is the end of a quarter I thought I would share a video of my album so far. I hope you enjoy, but do let me know if you want to see these more regularly, as I can do them monthly or maybe even as a process video if that is what you would like to see!

Each month Ali gives us some fabulous print-ables, and this month we got a monthly tracker, as well as a fun practice card. However, seeing as this month’s spread was a little sparse on the crafting I decided to create my own! Most of my album so far has used the Perfect Days Memories and More card pack, and so I grabbed one of the 6 x 4″ cards. Unfortunately Stampin’ Up! doesn’t currently have an alphabet stickers, and I don’t have any alphabet stamps that were the right size. So I dug into my stash (I have a draw of contraband goodies that I use for scrap-booking… and my wedding album!) and found these fun Chipboard letters. They were actually a funky red colour, but a Sharpie Marker quickly took care of that!

Product List

Perfect Days Card Pack

[144209]

£9.00

Basic Black 6″ X 8″ Album

[144203]

£9.00

Variety Pack 6″ X 8″ Photo Pocket Pages

[144205]

£5.50

Journaling Pens

[145480]

£4.50

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

14th March 201812th March 2018

Sale-a-bration Spotlight | Memories and more…

Sweet Soiree Memories and More Stampin' Up! Sale-a-bration

StampinByHannah Sale-a-bration Spotlight Memories and more…

I have been loving doing some memory keeping projects recently. I’ve been working on my One Little Word album, and I have some 12 x 12 traditional scrapbook layouts to share with you soon too. Stampin’ Up!’s memory keeping products are just awesome… the main memory keeping line is Memories and More. It’s a pocket scrapbooking system, and each pack of Memories and More cards comes with a selection of 72 cards in a mixture of 6 x 4″ and 3 x 4″, PLUS stickers and overlays too.

However, Memories and More is about more than just memory keeping… and the Sale-a-bration Memories and More pack (Sweet Soiree) is the perfect way to demonstrate that!

These cards were created for my February customer thank you cards. Each and every person that shops with me puts an enormous smile on my face… I love you all and enjoy sending you all cards and presents (particularly when you use the Code Club Code!)

Shopping during Sale-a-bration gets you even more too… as each time you spend £45 you get to choose a fabulous free item (like these Memories and More cards!)

Sale-a-bration also gives you more Stampin’ Rewards when you spend over £200! Normally a £200 order would give you 10% extra in Stampin’ Rewards, but during Sale-a-bration you get an extra £20 to spend…. that’s at least £40 in free £££ to spend on anything in the Stampin’ Up! catalogue! Awesome!

My favourite Sale-a-bration deal is the joining offer though…. your £99 fully customisable Starter Kit gets you £130 worth of Stampin’ Up! goodies, plus 2 extra Stamp Sets from the Spring Summer or Annual catalogues, PLUS a heap of other great benefits too… you can find all the joining deal information HERE!

Click on the image above to download the FREE Tutorial download!

Product List

Sweet Soirée Memories & More Card Pack

[147353]

£0.00

Thankful Thoughts Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[141522]

£17.00

Basic Gray A4 Card Stock

[121689]

£7.25

Rich Razzleberry Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126950]

£6.00

Stampin’ Dimensionals

[104430]

£3.75

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

[145372]

£27.00

Old Olive A4 Card Stock

[106576]

£7.25

Calypso Coral Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126983]

£6.00

Picture Perfect Birthday Photopolymer Stamp Set

[145519]

£15.00

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

22nd February 201819th February 2018

One Little Word | February 2018

How to use Stampin' Up! Memories and More in One Little Word from Ali Edwards

StampinByHannah One Little Word February 2018

I really enjoyed completing my January spread for One Little Word. I am trying this year long project / class from Ali Edwards this year to see if I can be a little more intentional with my Mindfulness practice. I’ve been doing Mindfulness for a while to help with anxiety and panic… and I have to say over the past month or so I have been feeling much calmer, lets hope this continues well into 2018!

This month’s One Little Word prompt was “Vision Board”. This scared the pants off me, and I’m (ironically) not a particularly visual person… I like notes, and words, but pictures don’t really do much for me. So, after watching Ali’s videos and a couple of Vision Board YouTube videos (and a few weeks of thinking) I managed to put together this double page spread in my album.

This spread is a mixture of Memories and more cards and stamping. You can see all the products I’ve used at the end of this blog post.

I’m loving quotes and things at the minute (did you see my wall art piece last week?) and so rather than chopping images out of magazines as suggested I grabbed for the Sweet Soiree Memories and More card pack and some stamps and set about creating something to make me happy. As you can see I do still have a blank space… not quite sure what to put there yet, but I am sure it’ll come to me before the end of the month.

Someone came to visit me while I was creating this project…

Freda-puss doesn’t usually bother with me much (she much prefers James!) but this one day she didn’t leave me all day!

The Sweet Soiree Memories and More Card Pack is available for FREE with a £45 order during Sale-a-bration. You can find all the latest Sale-a-bration news HERE!

Product List

Sweet Soirée Memories & More Card Pack

[147353]

£0.00

Labeler Alphabet Photopolymer Stamp Set

[141936]

£15.00

All Things Thanks Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[143097]

£17.00

Blossoming Basket Clear-Mount Bundle

[147505]

£0.00

Basic Gray Archival Stampin’ Pad

[140932]

£6.50

Old Olive Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126953]

£6.00

Marina Mist Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126962]

£6.00

Calypso Coral Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126983]

£6.00

Versamark Pad

[102283]

£7.75

Silver Stampin’ Emboss Powder

[109131]

£4.50

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

[145372]

£27.00

Perfect Days Card Pack

[144209]

£9.00

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 my Code Club Code. 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

25th January 201825th January 2018

Thoughtful Thursday | One Little Word

StampinByHannah Thoughtful Thursday One Little Word

These Thoughtful Thursday blog posts were designed to allow me to reach out and share more of my personal crafting with you. I started to craft as a bit of an escape, and it has become a way of helping me control my anxiety and improve my Mental Health. One of the crafty ways I am tackling my anxiety this year is by taking Ali Edwards‘ One Little Word class. I have been watching this class from a distance for a few years, but this year I decided to spend my birthday money on me and buy the class! I am SO glad that I did!

So, the last Thursday of each month I am planning on sharing my One Little Word project for the month.

The idea of the class is pretty simple. You pick a ‘focus’ word for the year, and then each month Ali provided videos and prompts for you to creatively explore that word, giving your inspiration and much much more.

My word for 2018 is ‘Growth’. I’m not going to go into massive amounts of detail about my word, other than what it is. However, I will share my spreads for the month. I am choosing to use Stampin’ Up! supplies for my One Little Word album, in conjunction with some of the print-ables that come as part of the class.

My starting point for this album is the Perfect Days Memories and More Card Pack. You guys know I’m all about the colours… and the colours in this pack are awesome!

I’m really feeling cooler tones at the moment, and I don’t know whether that’s because my Anxiety has been playing up, or the fact that its been REALLY cold outside!

Like I mentioned Ali provides a heap of print-able elements as part of this class. So the first thing I did was download and print the journalling cards for the month. I managed to completely screw this up (hence why they are backed on Memories and More cards!)… I expect its to do with printing out cards designed for 8-1/2 x 11″ paper on A4, and my complete lack of technical ability, but I don’t mind. I’m not sure whether I might try and work it out for next month, or stick with things how they are… we shall see!

As you can see I have totally finished this month, I need to work on my Intentions a little more and add a photograph of myself in that 3×4 pocket but I wanted to share this with you before the end of the month. Looking at that picture, I might move some of those cards around a little too… a work in progress as always!

What big crafty project are you taking on in 2018? I’ll love to know, let me know in the comments below!

Product List

Perfect Days Card Pack

[144209]

£9.00

Basic Black 6″ X 8″ Album

[144203]

£9.00

Variety Pack 6″ X 8″ Photo Pocket Pages

[144205]

£5.50

Journaling Pens

[145480]

£4.50

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 my Code Club Code. 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

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