Crafting Live – Team Weekend Round-Up!

Hello all! Last weekend I attended a whole weekend of crafting with my Stampin’ sisters for a fun team retreat. We had the BEST time! I did a round up on my YouTube on Wednesday night, but I thought I would link to a few of the swaps I received here, so that you can check them out in more details….

Helzie made these fabulous cards, and YouTube video to share;

Gez made these fun chocolate boxes;

Sally made these fun boxes (I still have mine sat on my desk… although the chocolates have gone!)

Jayne’s notebook is also still on my desk, and filled with things for the Card Club!

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Inspire.Create.Challenge #115 | Colour with Sentimental Swirls from Stampin’ Up!

Hello! Welcome to StampinByHannah today. Today I have a fun card for you for Inspire.Create.Challenges. This challenge is a fabulous colour one; Black, White, and then a colour of your choice…. so I’ve gone for Coastal Cabana.

Thank you card using Sentimental Swirls from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

This fabulous stamp set was designed in collaboration with my wonderful friend Sam Hammond Donald (Pootles) who I am actually on a retreat with as this blog post goes live. So, she will actually be getting this card this weekend too!

To Create This Card You Will Need:


Thank you card using Sentimental Swirls from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

Don’t forget to head over to the Inspire.Create.Challenges blog post and check out what the Design Team have been creating, and add your own creations too. I cannot wait to see what colour you add to Black and White!

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InspireINK | Rainbow of Purple

InspirInk Blog Hop Header Stampin' Up! team blog hop

Hello! Welcome to StampinByHannah today, I am SO excited to be back hopping with the ladies from InspireINK today. This month the challenge was set by the lovely Gez aka Nigezza… and she set a very purple theme! I am SUCH a purple girl… so this was totally up my street, and this card came together very quickly!

Rainbow of Happiness Card using Purples from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

To Create this Card you will Need:


Rainbow of Happiness Card using Purples from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

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Masking with Rainbows of Happiness….

Hello! Did you catch my YouTube Live this week? If not, don’t panic the reply is linked later in this blog post. We had heaps of fun this week making a couple of cards using Masking techniques, and the Rainbows of Happiness stamp and die bundle. I absolutely LOVE this stamp and die set, it’s just got very happy vibes!

This card is so bright and happy. I couldn’t not make a rainbow card in rainbow colours; Poppy Parade, Mango melody, Granny Apple Green and Pacific Point. But the part of this card I really love is the background, those dimensional, sparkly, Embossing Paste Rainbows! To create those rainbows, I made a mask by die cutting the rainbow from a piece of Window Sheet, and then added the embossing paste over the top.

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The second card in this week’s video, uses masks again, but this time with ink to create a really soft background.

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Card ideas using Artfully Layered from Stampin’ Up!

This weeks YouTube Live used the fabulous Artfully Layered suite from the January-June Mini Catalogue. I have been having great fun with these products, and this month’s Card Club uses the same Designer Series Paper.

The first card we made was inspired by this week’s Global Design Project Sketch Challenge. I don’t make many slim line cards, but I thought it was an interesting idea.

Hey There SlimLine card using Artfully Layered from Stampin' Up! by StampinByHannah

This card is 21 x 15.8 cm, scored at 7.4 cm on the short side…. and it fits in the Stampin’ Up! Slimline Envelopes too! The card base is Mint Macaron, and the circle die cut from the Artfully Composed Designer Series Paper.

I tried something with this card I hadn’t done before, and added Adhesive sheet to the back of some Vellum before using the coordinating dies to cut these fun leaves. It works really well… and you cannot tell there is any adhesive there at all. I finished this one with a stamped sentiment a trio of the Faux Sea glass Shapes.

This week’s second card was inspired by a card from one of the Stampin’ Up! Artisans. While she used a slightly different technique, I really liked the general feel of this card, and had to have a go! The leaves were both stamped in Soft Seafoam onto Fluid 100 Watercolour Paper, and then watercoloured with a combination of Pear Pizzazz, Old Olive and Mossy Meadow. I LOVE the final look!

No line watercolouring with Artfully Layered from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

If you have enjoyed today’s project, I have a Card Club for April that uses the Artfully Composed Designer Series Paper (and you can always add the Artfully Layered stamp set too!). Club is just £12.50 per month, for 5 months. Sign up by dropping me an email HERE.

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Inspire.Create.Challenge #114 | Inspiration with Blessings of Home from Stampin’ Up!

Welcome to StampinByHannah today for a fabulous inspiration challenge with Inspire.Create.Challenges. This week’s challenge is inspired by the lovely Kate Bolt, hop over to the Inspire.Create.Challenges blog to see the original inspiration card.

I’ve used Kate’s card as a sketch, but also as inspiration to use the Heart and Home suite. I LOVE this suite, particularly the Designer Series Paper… although I haven’t used it on this card.

Pretty birthday card using Blessing of Home from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

To cretae this card you will need:


Usually you would use Memento to stamp when you’re colouring with Stampin’ Blends, however as Stampin’ Up! inks are water based they also work with the markers. So, here I’ve stamped the floral image 4 times in Basic Gray ink, and then coloured with Stampin’ Blends

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In Colour Club 2022!

I am SUPER excited today… because not only am I sharing the BRAND NEW Stampin’ Up! 2022-2024 In Colours with you, but also that I am releasing slots for my In Colour Club! I have offered this club for the past few years, and I absolutely LOVE it!

Each month, for 5 months, you receive all the goodies for each of the new In Colours! I’ll break this down in a second. However, I thought that you might want to meet the new colours first….

  • Sweet Sorbet
  • Parakeet Party
  • Tahitian Tide
  • Starry Sky
  • Orchid Oasis

Each month you will receive;

  • 1 Ink Pad, and the matching Ink Refill
  • 4 A4 sheets of cardstock
  • 1 pair of Stampin’ Blends
  • 4 sheets of 6 x 6″ Designer Series Paper
  • 4 sheets of 6 x 6″ Glimmer Paper
  • 30 Decorative Dots (various sizes)
  • Bakers Twine

All in the same colour. This club is SO much fun, and as always I include various extras and surprises each month too!

Club costs £40 each month for the 5 months, and you can sign up by emailing me.

I use PayPal to process payments, so you can pay using your PayPal account or a credit or debit card. At this time I can only accept UK residents into In Colour Club.

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International Blog Highlights | Thanks Simply Succulants

Hello! Welcome to StampinByHannah today, for Kylies International Blog Highlight. While you’re here I would be honored if you would pop over to Kylie’s page and vote for my little card this month. Thank You <3

So, the theme of the Blog Highlight is always the same, it’s a Thank You…. and I LOVE a thank you card! I haven’t used this stamp set for AGES, but picked it up to make a Mother’s Day card last week, and remembered how much I love it, and seeing as its with us for another year, I decided to get it inky again for this blog post. I was inspired by a card I saw on Pinterest last week, by a lady called Andrea, and so I changed it up a bit and created this!

How to create a stunning Thank you card using Simply Succulents from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

I will admit, this card took me about an hour and a half to create (mostly because I coloured those Succulents with Blends), but I LOVE the way it’s turned out. The background uses the coordinating Potted Succulents dies, and I would STRONGLY advise using some Adhesive Sheet on this one!

The die cut in the centre is sadly retiring soon, but it was available when I checked over the weekend although I wouldn’t hang about it you want it. The centre piece is actually a piece of Basic White card stock, that I’ve coloured using Crumb Cake ink and a Blending Brush!

Thank you Simply Succulents with Stampin' Up! and StampinByHannah

The sentiment is from the same stamp set and I’ve used one of the labels dies from Potted Succulents to die cut it. Finished with some loops of Linen thread and a trio of the Rhinestone Waves Basic Jewels.

Thanks SO much for stopping by today, and don’t forget to vote over on Kylie’s blog post.
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Inspire.Create.Challenge #113 | Sketch Challenge

Hello! Welcome to StampinByHannah this week. I am so sorry that I’ve been a bit quiet this month, things have been a little busy at home and I’ve been a bit distracted. Anyway, today sees the start of a new Inspire.Create.Challenge. Hop over to the blog to see the sketch, and check out what the rest of the Design Team have created before you make your own project.

Seeing as today is Mother’s day today, I thought it only right that I share the cards I made for my mum and mother-in-law this year. I clearly had the sketch in my head when I made these, although I wouldn’t usually share these cards here. I’ve had a bit of creative block recently, and despite making several cards this week, these were the first I actually liked! Don’t you hate it when you cant seem to make anything nice?!

These cards use the Simply Succulents stamp set and Potted Succulents dies, which I am so excited to see carrying over into the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalogue.


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Inspire.Create.Challenge #112 | Farewell 2020-2022 In Colours!

Hello! Welcome to StampinByHannah today. This week Inspire.Create.Challenge are celebrating our out-going In Colours; Bumblebee, Cinnamon Cider, Just Jade, Magenta Madness and Misty Moonlight. I really will miss these colours when they leave us at the end of April. They are so bright and fun. I haven’t used all 5 of them together on a card in ages, but I actually have 2 cards with this colour combination to share with you this week. Check my Instagram later in the week for my second card!

I love to layer colour, actually I just LOVE colour (and layering!) and so the natural choice was for me to reach for the Hello Beautiful Stamp Set to create a fun layered stamped card today. This stamp set is so cool, with lots of little pieces to add texture and interest, as well as those big smudge style stamps.

To create this card you will need:



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