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Make it Monday | Reactive Watercolour

Make it Monday Reactive Watercolour with Stampin' Up! f

Make It Monday with Stampin' Up!

Hello! Welcome to another week of Make it Monday! I hope you are enjoying this series of posts as much as I am. Last week I made a card an photographed each stage, but this week I thought I would make a video. I haven’t made any video tutorials for a while so I am a little rusty, so please forgive any mistakes or issues. I had so much fun making this card, using some of those great Sale-a-bration products for the last time!

Make it Monday Reactive Watercolour with Stampin' Up! f

Sale-a-bration ends on March 31st (that’s Thursday!), but until then you get to choose from 11 gifts when you spend £45 (and you get to pick extras each time you hit that £45, so you get 2 free things if you order comes to £90!) or you could get the best deal ever and join my team of Stampin’ Friends for just £99 and choose £160 worth of great Stampin’ goodies! Awesome!

Reactive Watercolour is a great technique, and its super simple too! Just stamp your image in Stampin’ Up! ink and spritz with a little water – then sit back and watch the ink move and bleed. The more water you add the more the ink moves.

On this card, once the ink had dried I over stamped the images again as I may have gone a little over board with the water the first time around!

Stampin' Up! UK Sale-a-bration flowering fields Perfect Pairings

Finished with a stripe of the Metallic Glitter Tape in Silver and this card is done!

I hope you enjoyed this weeks Make It Monday, and I’ll see you here again next week for another great project! Don’t forget to place those last Sale-a-bration orders soon, or your favourite items may already have sold out!

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Product List

Flowering Fields Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£0.00
Perfect Pairings Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£0.00
Metallics Glitter Tape

£0.00
Crushed Curry Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
Cherry Cobbler Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
Island Indigo Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
Garden Green Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
Garden Green A4 Card Stock

£6.50
Watercolor Paper

£4.50
Stampin' Spritzer

£2.75
Stampin' Dimensionals

£3.75

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Flowering Fields

Stampin' Up! Uk Congrats Flowering Fields Perfect Pairings

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!

Stampin' Up! Uk Congrats Flowering Fields Perfect Pairings

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!)

Stampin' Up! UK Congrats Sale-a-bration

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! 

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

Product List

Flowering Fields Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£0.00
Perfect Pairings Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£0.00
Shimmery White A4 Card Stock

£7.25
Crushed Curry Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
Melon Mambo Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
Pool Party Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad

£6.50
Stampin' Spritzer

£2.75

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Irresistible Birthday

Stampin' Up! UK Colour me irresistible boys birthday card

Over the next month I’m planning a series of cards purely for the guys in your life. We all struggle with cards for our husbands, sons, dads etc. for me the key is keeping things simple.

Stampin' Up! UK Colour me irresistible boys birthday card

I sent this card to my brother for his birthday last month, it was super quick and simple to make, mostly thanks to Stampin’ Up!®

The main focus of this card is the Colour Me Irresistible Designer Series Paper (LOVE!) which comes in 12 x 12 sheets of white card stock with a resist pattern, as well as some sheets that are pre-coloured. This card uses a white sheet with a woodgrain resist, that I have inked with my Stampin’ Sponges in Chocolate Chip and Early Espresso to create a realistic wood effect.

Stampin' Up! UK boys birthday cardI grabbed for my sponges again for the sentiment strip blending Mint Macaron and Bermuda Bay, adding a Happy Birthday from the Perfect Pairings stamp set (free during Sale-a-bration!).

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 29th March 2016

Product List

Color Me Irresistible Specialty Designer Series Paper

£11.75
Early Espresso A4 Card Stock

£6.50
Chocolate Chip Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
Silver Glimmer Paper

£4.50
Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack

£15.50
Bermuda Bay Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
Mint Macaron Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00
Stamping Sponges

£3.25

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Awesomely Artistic Birthday

Stampin' Up! UK Awesomely Artistic Birthday

Ok, so as I type up this weeks blog post, I realise that every single card this week is a birthday card – maybe I have a problem?! – but surely we send more birthday cards than any other type of card, right? I hope so, I hope you are enjoying this week of birthday cards, and um, that you continue to come back and see me here at StampinByHannah

Did that sound like begging, because I didn’t mean it to. I just don’t want you to leave me, I like you….. ok, I’ll stop now.

Do you want to see a card?!

right, here we go

Stampin' Up! UK Awesomely Artistic Birthday

I made this card for my Aunt a few weeks ago (the middle of January!) using Awesomely Artistic and Perfect Pairings. I really enjoy inky techniques, and getting a bit messy – this card was so much fun to make!

There are several colours going on here, layers of Mint Macaron, Pool Party and Lost Lagoon, in both stamped and sponged form on the bottom and right hand side of the card. With splatters of Rich Razzleberry stamped in full and half strength to finish. I do wish I could explain my process here – I probably should make a video, because I can’t actually explain what I did, other than to say that I, the card and my desk were covered in ink by the time the card was complete!

Hope you are having a great day, and I’ll see you for another birthday card tomorrow!

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Freshly Made Sketches #219

Stampin' Up! UK Freshly Made Sketches 219 Joy Fold Card

So the blog post I had planned for today had to be postponed at the last minute, I promise you will see the next Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge really soon – it just needs a little more cooking! The wonderful Sam Johnson has been working super hard on this challenge, and we cannot wait to show you!

In light of that, I thought I would show you a different sketch challenge today. I’m LOVING using sketches again at the moment, I mean, 3 sketches in a week! And I haven’t taken part in the Freshly Made Sketches challenge in a while.

FMS Final 219-001

This sketch screamed fancy fold to me, a Joy Fold Card to be precise. I really enjoyed making this card, and cutting into some more of the back stock of Designer Series Paper. I struggle to use Designer Series Paper on cards at the best of times, but when its black I find using it almost impossible. However, I don’t think this effort is too shabby! The Designer Series Paper here is called Pretty Petals, and I have a whole pack of it waiting for the next person to join my team of Stampin’ Friends!

Stampin' Up! UK Freshly Made Sketches 219 Joy Fold Card

A Joy Fold card is super simple to make too, as its more about the cutting of the card stock, than the folding.

Measurements:

  • Black card stock – 10.5 x 22.3 cm. Scored at 10.5 cm
  • Black Designer Series Paper – 14.3 x 10.5 cm
  • Mint Macaron card stock – 7.5 x 21 cm. Scored at 10.5 cm
  • Floral Designer Series Paper – 7 x 10 cm
  • Very Vanilla card stock – 6.5 x 9.5 cm

I’ve also used two different stamp sets on this card; Garden in Bloom and Perfect Pairings for the sentiment. Perfect Pairings is a great sentiment set available for FREE during Sale-a-bration.

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