Scrapbook - StampinbyHannah

15th June 201810th June 2018

Stamparatus 101 | Stamping on 12 x 12 Card Stock…

Fun Stamped Scrapbook page using Flower stamps from Stampin' Up!

StampinByHannah Stamparatus 101 Stamping on 12 x 12 Card Stock…

Ok… so this week’s Stamparatus 101 video was inspired by a question I was asked by a viewer on YouTube; How do you stamp on 12 x 12?

I hope that the video answers the question… but I also have a fun Scrapbook page for you to!

This page came together really quickly, partly because instead of measuring and carefully cutting each layer I chose to rip the card stock and Designer Series Paper…. but also because I wanted to focus on that stamping in the background.

The video tutorial shows exactly how I used the Stamparatus to create this fun stamped effect… but I used the Petal Palette Stamp set, along with two new purple tones; Gorgeous Grape and Highland Heather, to pick up on some of the purple tones in the photograph

Tips:

Test stamp on an old piece of Designer Series Paper, or cut down Grid Paper before you stamp on your good card stocks
Try turning the card stock to create different looks and patterns using stamps
Use a mixture of stamping techniques to create depth and texture

I have a heap of crafty plans for tomorrow… what are you crafting this weekend?

Product List

Stamparatus

[148187]

£46.00

Petal Palette Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[145788]

£33.00

Whisper White 12″ X 12″ Card Stock

[124302]

£7.25

Gorgeous Grape Classic Stampin’ Pad

[147099]

£7.00

Highland Heather Classic Stampin’ Pad

[147103]

£7.00

Crumb Cake Classic Stampin’ Pad

[147116]

£7.00

Gorgeous Grape A4 Cardstock

[147011]

£8.00

Highland Heather A4 Cardstock

[147010]

£8.00

Nature’s Poem Designer Series Paper

[146338]

£10.25

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Hannah McCurley

4th May 201829th April 2018

Scrapbook Page | Share What You Love from Stampin’ Up!

Share What You Love 12 x 12 Scrapbook page using Love What You Do from Stampin' Up!

StampinByHannah Scrapbook Page Share What You Love from Stampin’ Up!

Ok, so I have spoken before about how Scrapbooking was my first papercraft… But I’ve never really shared it here on my blog. Until now! I HOPE to be bringing you some more memory keeping really soon, I have 4 of these posts planned but when the other 3 will go live I’m not sure yet!

I have a video for this one that probably shows this project better than the photos (something else I need to work on!). This page is destined to end up in my Wedding Album, when I am able to get all that goodness back out of storage! All my wedding photos are stored together, hence why there isn’t an actual photograph on this page.

The paper here is all from the Share What You Love Speciality Designer Series Paper pack. I LOVE this paper! It features some lovely pearlised highlights, floral prints and beautiful colours too. This paper is officially released on the 1st June, BUT you can get in now in the Gotta Have It All Bundle as part of the Share What You Love Early Release.

I’ve also stamped the background with the coordinating Love What You Do stamp set. It’s stamped here in Memento Tuxedo Black ink, straight onto the Whisper White 12 x 12 background.

Product List

Love What You Do Photopolymer Stamp Set

[148042]

£20.00

Share What You Love Specialty Designer Series Paper

[146926]

£25.00

Whisper White 12″ X 12″ Card Stock

[124302]

£5.50

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

[132708]

£5.50

Layering Circle Framelits Dies

[141705]

£32.00

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

[145372]

£27.00

Share What You Love A4 Cardstock Pack

[146346]

£8.00

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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

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!

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

25th March 2017

Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge | A Day to Celebrate….

Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge Scrapbook page details using Stampin' Up! products

Welcome back to the Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge! I am so excited to be joining in with the lovely ladies of this group again this month. I actually made my project 3 weeks ago, when Sally released the sketch into our Private Facebook group, but I only managed to get it photographed and this post written last night.

Like I said, the lovely Sally Shaw from SallyStampers set our sketch this month, and I thought it was perfect for a scrapbook page…. so that it what I made!

Each one of the circles are stamped with one of the small stamps from So In Love, in the coordinating colour so the Pink Pirouette circle was stamped with Pink Pirouette ink, the Blushing Bride circle was stamped with Blushing Bride ink, and the Marina Mist circle was stamped with Marina Mist ink.

I am still (very slowly) working my way through my wedding album, and most of the pages are fairly simple, after all I want people to be looking at the photographs!

This page was finished with a trio of banners using Designer Series Paper in the same colours, and then a touch of ink spatter diagonally across the page.

Right, I better go….It’s James’ birthday today and so once I have checked that this post is live I have a whole weekend of Birthday and Mother’s day celebrations. Hope you have a great weekend to

Product List

So In Love Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[143216]

£18.00

Pink Pirouette Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126956]

£6.00

Blushing Bride Classic Stampin’ Pad

[131172]

£6.00

Marina Mist Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126962]

£6.00

White Vellum A4 Card Stock

[106584]

£6.00

Subtles Designer Series Paper Stack

[138437]

£20.00

Subtles Stampin’ Write Markers

[131263]

£27.50

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Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

5th May 2016

Go Wild Scrapbook Page

12x12 Scrapbook page Engagement shoot Designer Series Paper Stampin' Up!

Something that you may not know about me, is that originally I was a 12×12 scrapbooker, and I only started making cards to use up my scraps of patterned paper. I don’t tend to show you guys much memory keeping on the blog, mainly because I don’t get much time to make 12×12 layouts very often anymore. However, I am about to embark on the enormous project that is my Wedding Album! I have everything ready, I just haven’t gotten around to printing the pictures! I am hoping to have at least made a start on the album by the time our first anniversary rolls around in August.

So, this layout will be finding its way into the Wedding Album, as it is part of our Engagement photo shoot.

I was challenged by my wonderful upline to use up a pack of Designer Series Paper a few weeks ago. At a Team Training event she presented us all with a pack of the Go Wild Designer Series Paper, as well as a couple of embellishment type bits and bobs and asked us to see what we could create. I have a whole heap of card using this paper now – which you will see if you are subscribed to my Email Newsletter today.

The layout is actually pretty simple. There are several layers of Designer Series Paper and Card Stock behind the photo. Because I enjoy the layered effect some of the layers have raised corner – popped up with a dimensional, and then I die cut the Rose Garden thinlits out of Blushing Bride Card Stock as embellishments. The title is stamped using the Layered Letters Alphabet, and the layout was completed with a scattering of Blushing Bride sequins.

The Go Wild Designer Series Paper stack is retiring soon (end of May) and is currently available for a reduced price of £5.08! Awesome!

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 30^th May 2016

Product List

Whisper White 12″ X 12″ Card Stock

[124302]

£5.50

Go Wild Designer Series Paper Stack

[138441]

£7.25

Blushing Bride Sequin Trim

[138400]

£4.50

Rose Garden Thinlits Dies

[140619]

£28.00

Layered Letters Alphabet Photopolymer Stamp

[138692]

£24.00

Sahara Sand Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126976]

£6.00

Stampin’ Dimensionals

[104430]

£3.75

Fine-Tip Glue Pen

[138309]

£6.25

Card Stock A4 Blushing Bride

[131287]

£6.50

Basic Black A4 Card Stock

[121688]

£6.50

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31st January 2015

Project Life – Week 3

Welcome to another Project Life Blog Hop!

I know its a short hop this month, but we are hoping that over the coming months this will grow. I love Project Life, its a great way of documenting both important events, as well as the every day occurrences. This year, my wedding year, I am hoping to complete a full Project Life, with a page for each week. I hope that this monthly hop can help keep me on track, as well as giving you some inspiration and ideas.

I decided to use the Sale-a-Bration This Day Project Life Mini Card Collection for this short week of my Project Life.

I work a strange schedule in my day job, doing 5 11 hour shifts one week and 2 the next. This means that I do very little other than work every other week, and guess what, Week 3 was one of those weeks! Still, with trying to loose some weight and slim down ready for this Wedding in August Me and James went for a 7.5 mile walk one day, and as such giving me something for the PL album week 3! Stampin' Up! UK Project Life sale-a-bration

I love the Project Life style of documenting. It allows you not only to document the big things in life; birthdays, weddings, births etc. but also it makes documenting the every day really easy. I wouldn’t have made a 12 x 12 page layout of us going for a walk, but a few pockets of Project Life is super simple.

Some weeks I do a lot of embellishing, some weeks less, and seeing as I don’t have much of a story for this week I haven’t embellished very much either. But this is one of the greatest things about Project Life – it doesn’t matter, you do as much as you like, as much embellishing, as much journalling, or just use photos, and it still looks awesome!

The Big Day Project Life Mini Card Collection is one of the Sale-a-bration offerings this year. It contains 30 cards, both 6 x 4 and 3 x 4, with a range of summery patterns and journalling cards. As I have mentioned before one of the many awesome things about Stampin’ Up! is the coordination between products, and this card collection is no exception, using Stampin’ Up! colours; Coastal Cabana, Daffodil Delight, Island Indigo, Rich Razzleberry, and Tangerine Tango.

I always make a title card for each spread in my Project Life album. I will often use stickers, seeing as I have quite a collection of Thickers from my previous life as a 12 x 12 scrapbooker. But today I have opted to use stamps! In particular a new set of Alphabet stamps from the Spring / Summer catalogue – Sophisticated Serifs, stamped in Rich Razzleberry to tie into the other cards in the layout.

As part of my title card this week I have also explained way there aren’t very many pictures of this week, and what the photographs are of. I love doing this, a kind of weekly round up.

Please support the other blog hoppers today :

Carmelita Wasson – Www.carmenacita.blogspot.com

Katina Martinez – www.lovinglifeslittleblessings.com

Hope to see you again here next month!

Hannah Wilks

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

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5th November 2014

Weekly deals – 5.11.14

Time for some more awesome weekly deals!

This weeks offerings include a lovely 8×8″ scrap-booking kit, and the Grateful Heart Thanksgiving Ensemble (MDS digital download) which makes lovely autumn themed party invitations. But also the Lovely Romance stamp set in wood mount, which coordinates with the Chalk Talk framelits. AND some great This and That goodies, Coaster Board, and the Triangle punch which could be a great addition to your crafty stash!

But wait, thats not all!

Also, I have an offer for you this week! Check out my new Blendabilities club!

Get all the Stampin’ Up! Blendabilities, along with momento ink (and refill), stamps, colour lifter pen, and Whisper White cardstock, for just £42.50 per month for 6 months. Each month you will receive at least 2 sets of Blendabilities, as well as a project and instructional video from me! How exciting, and a great way to get started with our Blendabilities – colour your projects happy!

Chalk Talk Framelits Dies

£20.95

Epic Day This And That Designer Washi Tape

£4.50

Epic Day This And That Designer Stickers

£4.50

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Hannah Wilks

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

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2nd November 2014

StampinByHannah Product of the Month – November 2014

Its that time again! Product of the month reveal time!

This month I am so excited for this! At the time I write this I haven’t made anything with this product yet, however, I really hope to sort that out this afternoon!

It’s the Seasonal Snapshop Project Life by Stampin’ Up! Card Collection AND the coordinating Accessory Pack!

The Project Life by Stampin’ Up! kits are just such good value for money! The card collections contain 100 double sided cards in 3 sizes (6 x 4″, 4 x 4″ and 3 x 4″, which are 10.2 x 15.2 cm, 10.2 x 10.2 cm, ad 7.6 x 10.2 cm) for just £13.50, and then the Accessory packs contain various items for just £8.95! This Accessory pack includes: 3 3×4 printed acetate cards, 7 sheets of stickers (including 4 alphabets!), 60 sequins, 4 epoxy badges, epoxy stickers and a roll of super cute Washi tape!

As usual the Project Life by Stampin’ Up! kits coordinate with other Stampin’ Up! products; the 12 x 12 album, pocket pages, journalling pens, framelits and dies, and of course stamps!

The kit also colour coordinates with other Stampin’ Up! products – the Seasonal Snapshot collection uses: Basic Black, Hello Honey, Old Olive, Real Red, Sahara Sand, and Tangerine Tango!

Although I will make some Project Life spreads with this collection, I am planning on showing some you other uses for our Project Life kits!

Hope you enjoy this November Product of the Month – grab your now to follow along!

Seasonal Snapshot Project Life Card Collection

£13.50

Seasonal Snapshot Project Life Accessory Pack

£8.95

Project Life Holiday Cheer Photopolymer Stamp Set

£13.95

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Hannah Wilks

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25th October 2014

PLxSU blog hop October 2014

So, something totally new for me today! taking part in a blog hop!

I do hope you are enjoying the hop, and if this is your first port of call, please check out the other projects on the hop today

On to my project…..

I haven’t looked at project life for a couple of month 🙁 working nights over the late summer and autumn has kind of put pay to most of my life, and so I havent really done very much other than work and sleep! however, a few weeks ago James and I went to one of our favourite places – Beamish museum (If you are ever in the North East of England you MUST check it out, its awesome!), and had a great day!

Before we get into my album, I just want to apologise for the photos, photographing Project Life is still new to me, I hope to improve over the coming months!

So, I decided to keep things simple this month, concentrating on the photos and a little journalling. As I have already mentioned, I’ve been super busy with the day job recently, working nights is just about killing me, but its due to end soon! Yay! So, more time to craft and create is coming my way :D. I haven’t even included a title! (somewhat of an accident in the fact I forgot!) but we know where we were, and I do mention the place in the journalling.

This spread uses the Everyday Adventure kit (Stampin’ Up! of course!), but I have selected the subtler cards. I love this kit, but it is super bright!, the journalling card on this page originally had a Strawberry Slush coloured heart, which didnt really fit with the rest of the page, but I loved the lined card, so I covered the heart with a sticker from the Everyday Adventure Accessory Pack, and added a punched piece.

I love the look of rounded corners in my albums, I think it probably comes from using Becky Higgins Project Life kits for a while. So the Project Life by Stampin’ Up! corner rounder was a MUST for me!, along with the Design 1 pocket pages pack (its just my favourite layout – I’m using just these for the Wedding album too!)

There are touches of embellishment on some of the photos, but as I have kept all the photos at either 6×4 or 3×4 sizes there wasn’t much room for embellishment; just a couple of stickers or die cuts here and there, washi tape, and staples! (have I ever mentioned my LOVE for staples?!)

I am not an exclusively Project Life based scrapbook-er, I still love 12×12 layouts (I know, I know!), So I have also created a 12×12 to sit opposite this page in my album.

It also uses some cards from the Everyday Adventure Project Life Card Collection! It one of the many things I love about Stampin’ Up! – the fact that I can totally coordinate everything! I’ve added some home-made card candi to this page to add a touch of the ‘Cherry Cobbler’ type colour in the photo, as well as a hint of Old Olive green.

So, I hope you check out some of the other pages on the hop today! (as we are around the world, all the posts go live at midnight where the person is posting from, we will all be there later on!)

Loving Life’s Little Blessings – Katina Martinez

Today Kelsey Is – Kelsey

Scrapping Wonders – Beth

Stampin’ Cita – Carmelita Wasson

TxStampinSharon – Sharon Armstrong

StampinbyHannah – Hannah