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Stampin' Up! UK Butterfly Basics Birthday Card

Hello there! Firstly, I have to apologise for the lateness of this post, I really don’t know what is happening to me at the moment but my energy is at an all time low. After hosting my monthly Card Class last night, I just could not get motivated to move this morning!

The card I’m sharing today has been working its way out of my brain since I checked the Global Design Project Blog on Monday, I’m just glad I got to make it before the challenge closed!Global Design Project Sketch Challenge 30I always enjoy a sketch challenge, but this card formed in my head (after I’d checked the Global Design Project Blog) but I didn’t put the 2 together until yesterday.

Stampin' Up! UK Global Design Project Butterfly Basics

Now, trying to photograph a mainly white card is tricky, I hope you can forgive my slightly shaky skills.

At class last night the ladies were working through the current Annual catalogue working out their orders and someone mentioned that they loved this stamp set. I have to admit that my copy has been gathering dust slightly over the past few months, but it is definitely one of my all time favourites, I’m not sure if its the font, or the fern, or those flowers, or the fact that it coordinates with two die sets, but I love it!

Stampin' Up! UK Butterfly Basics Birthday Card

Ok, So the sentiment is from Butterfly Basics, and is stamped in Blackberry Bliss (retiring soon!). After the ink was dry, I used a 1″ strip of sticky note tape as a mask and covered that sentiment, before ink blending over the sentiment with Sahara sand ink and my sponge. I love this technique at the moment, I get to get all inky but I still get to see sharp white on my card!

The butterfly is die cut from Pear Pizzazz card stock, and the card is finished with 3 dots of Gold Glimmer paper punched with the 1/4″ and 1/8″ handheld punches (the same as I did on this card earlier in the week!)

Thanks for checking out my blog today, and I will be back soon with another card featuring this awesome stamp set!


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Weekly Deals are leaving….

Weekly Deals Stampin' Up! Leaving 19 April

Its so sad, but Weekly Deals are leaving us in 2 weeks time. Weekly Deals have been an awesome addition over recent months, but it is now time to say farewell – before the launch of some exciting Special Offers!

So, for the last 2 weeks of Deals, Stampin’ Up!® have made them super special!


These deals are awesome, the Endless Thanks stamp sets is one of my current favs, actually I used it recently on this card

Stampin' Up! UK Suite Sayings Endless Thanks Card

Sorry for the super short blog post today (and for not having a card for you!) I’m holding my last Card Class of the 2015 Annual catalogue tonight and I have a little bit more prep to do before I start on a massive to do list for work! I’m so busy today I’ve had to cancel my hair appointment! I know, I’m gutted! but never mind, my hair can wait another couple of weeks

Hope you have a great day, and don’t forget to grab those weekly deals using my current Code Club Code to get some free product from me!


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Rose Garden Congratulations

Stampin' Up! UK Rose Garden Congratulations Card

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!

Stampin' Up! UK Rose Garden Congratulations Card

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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Make It Monday | Layering Stamps

Stampin' Up! UK Stamp Layering Birthday Card

Make It Monday with Stampin' Up!

Hello! Welcome to another edition of Make It Monday! I was hoping to have another video for you this week but alas I completely ran out of time. Thinking of making a 3D project for next week though, so I will certainly film that.

This past few weeks have been hella stressful (nothing new there then!) with my hectic new job, unwell relatives, James starting back at university, and the end of Sale-a-bration I haven’t had a whole heap of time to craft. So I was overjoyed when James said he was working on Saturday morning – time to get my backside back in that craft room! You will see what I made in my Saturday morning craft session later on in the week, I had heaps of ideas for cards that I have been sat on for weeks, but trying to come up with an idea for Make It Monday was a struggle. I did however have a glamorous assistant!

Freda

I did what I always do when I’m struggling for inspiration – I grabbed a random stamp set off the shelf and pull out a pile of inks. I knew I wanted to use Watercolour Paper, but that was about as fair as I got in planning! Stampin' Up! UK Awesomely Artistic Stamp Layering

So, this was my jumping off point. As I have discussed on the blog before I love getting really inky, and adding heaps of ink and water to this piece of Watercolour paper seemed like a good idea, at the end of the day most of my crafting is a bit of an experiment anyway!

I set about creating a background on my piece of Watercolour paper, adding a boarder of that gorgeous foliage stamp from Awesomely Artistic in Mint Macaron, Bermuda Bay and Lost lagoon, adding several spritzs’ of water after each stamping and using my Heat Tool to dry everything off. Once the boarder was stamped I grabbed for my Aquapainter and hit the centre of the Watercolour Paper with more ink and water, and finally splattering ink all over the place!
Stampin' Up! UK Make it monday Stamp Layering

Stamp Layering is a super quick and easy technique, we have stamp sets designed just for this technique (ones with lots of smaller images are great, as are floral and foliage type stamps). So once I had my background dry I then added another layer of stamping in Lost Lagoon and Bermuda Bay using the fern stamps and that fabulous little splatter stamp!

At this point I have to admit, I had no idea what the hell this card was going to be used for! But Birthday seemed like a good idea, I am loving the Number of Years stamp set at the moment with those great number dies. These stamps are designed to look watercoloured, but if you add the ink to them with a Sponge Dauber (rather than the normal method of sticking the stamp in the inkpad) you can add multiple colours of ink and create a great blended effect. These numbers are inked in Mint Macaron and Bermuda Bay and spritzed with water before stamping.

Stampin' Up! UK Awesomely Artistic Number of Years Birthday Card

It still needed a little something, a little something sparkly – Wink Of Stella in Gold! Lovely

Stampin' Up! UK Stamp Layering Birthday Card

Ok, So, time for a challenge –  I would love to see what you create with either the technique or these colours! Leave a link in the comments below and I will select one winner to receive this card and a Gold Wink of Stella Brush!

Stampin' Up! UK Colour Inspiration Color Combination Stampinbyhannah

Entries will close at 06:30AM BST on 11th April 2016 (Thanks when the next Make It Monday will go live!) and I will select a winner and contact them in due course

Good Luck!


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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.Stampin' Up! Balloon Celebration

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.

Stampin' Up! Uk Balloon Celebration Congratulations Card

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…..


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Happy Birthday Husband

Stampin' Up! UK Mans birthday card Guy Greetings

It was James’ birthday on Good Friday, but what with the end of Sale-a-bration rearing its head I didn’t get around to posting the card until now.

James is always very supportive of my card making, but I think he gets a little nervous when it comes time for me to make a card for him. James is a manly sort of bloky sort of fellow, he doesn’t do flowers or pink or ribbon or anything remotely feminine at all (I am solely responsible for anything remotely ‘homely’ in our house, he would have a sofa and a fridge and a TV and call it home!) so cards aren’t really something he would spend time or effort in choosing, let along making for anyone!

Stampin' Up! UK Mans birthday card Guy Greetings

I love creating super simple cards for James. He has started to make cards for me (just because he knows I like a handmade card) and always goes to town on ink blending and punches, he actually bought his own card blanks because he was too scared to touch my card stock (rightly so!). So, when it comes to make a card for James I like to keep things simple, in the hope that one day he might calm down on the ink and punches!

Anyway, this card features the stamp set Guy Greetings and Going Places Designer Series Paper. I love the travel theme of this paper, its a full stack of 6 x 6 papers printed with maps and street plans, along with some great marble type prints – all of which are great for guys.

Stampin' Up! UK Guy Greetings Going Places Designer Series paper

‘Husband’ fits perfectly into the Washi Label punch, while I grabbed my Circle collection framelits and my big shot for the anchor. Both stamps are from Guy Greetings and are stamped in Lost Lagoon. I remember a few years ago watching Shimelle Lane on YouTube create these great Scrapbook layouts using masses of Patterned Paper and she ALWAYS inked the edges to get the to ‘go together’ and I thought I would use the same technique here, so once I had all my pieces I grabbed out my Sahara Sand ink and a sponge and inked all the papers – I love the effect

Even James said it loved it!

Success at last


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What I Love

Stampin' Up! UK What I Love Blackberry Bliss

Yesterday I featured 3 Sale-a-bration products for Make It Monday, today I thought I would make 3 cards all featuring another one of our Sale-a-bration stamp sets – What I love

Sale-a-bration is the greatest sale of the year and it ends on Thursday! During Sale-a-bration you get to choose a free gift each time you spend £45, you get an extra £20 in Stampin’ Rewards when you order over £200, or you get an extra £30 worth of goodies if you choose to join my team of Stampin’ Friends!

Stampin' Up! UK What I Love Blackberry Bliss

So, This is the What I Love stamp set, and it is completely FREE if you spend £45 in my store before Thursday!
All 3 of these cards feature the masking technique, all using my beloved sticky notes! For this card I stamped the sentiment first in Blackberry Bliss before covering with a piece of sticky note tape.

Stampin' Up! UK Sale-a-bration What I Love Blackberry Bliss]The flowers are stamped in Perfect Plum and Blackberry Bliss. I love a great layering stamp set, and this one is awesome! The flower is made up of 3 stamps, two more solid stamps and one ‘outline’ stamp, and it makes you look like an artist just with stamps and ink! Love that!

Stampin' Up! UK Thank you card What I Love

The second card features the smallest stamp in the set. This cute flower stamp fits on the smallest Stampin’ Up! clear block and is so pretty. Here I stamped the ‘Thank you’ first in Mint Macaron, before covering it was a mask punched out of sticky note (I used the type that has sticky all over it here) and then stamping the flowers around the circle. The colours used here are Mint Macaron, Pool Party and Bermuda Bay.

Stampin' Up! UK What I Love Sale-a-bration

The final card used the negative of the mask used on the previous! After stamping the flowers and leaves I added Blackberry Bliss ink with a sponge, and coloured the leaves and flowers with Blackberry Bliss and Mossy Meadow ink and a blender pen

Stampin' Up! UK Sale-a-bration 2016

I hope you have loved Sale-a-bration as much as I have. Along with the end of Sale-a-bration I’m re-evaluating my business, I’ve had a heap of stuff going on over the past 6 months and have not been able to dedicate as much time to you guys as I would like. So, until things settle down my live events are on hold. I love holding classes and events, but I’m just not able to guarantee time to prepare properly and I don’t want to short change anyone on my events. However, my blog will continue as is, posting 4 -5 times a week and my (almost) weekly newsletters are also here to stay. Hope you guys are all well, and I’ll see you again on Thursday!


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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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Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge – Forever Begins Today

Stampin' Up! UK Birthday Blooms Suite Sayings Wedding Card

Stampin' Up! Sketch ChallengeHello Everyone! So glad you could join us for another week of the Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge! This weeks sketch comes from the lovely Justyna.

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I love this sketch, it totally pushed me outside of my norm, and allowed me to create something very different for me. I have to admit that I also took inspiration from the ever so talented Teneale Williams for this one, particularly stamping on coloured card stock – definitely something I shall be doing more of!

Stampin' Up! UK Birthday Blooms Suite Sayings Wedding Card

I of course had to turn the sketch this time. I haven’t rotated a sketch for a while – I love taking a sketch and editing it to suit me. So this time I turn it sideways.

I really don’t use a lot of coloured card stock, I buy heaps of Whisper White but a pack of a colour can last me years! This particular colour I didn’t think was one of my favourites, but now I’ve used it in such a big way it is starting to grow on me. Actually I use so little of this colour (Soft Suede) that when I came to stamp I realised I don’t even have the coordinating Ink! Shocking! So to get the tone on tone effect I jumped to another brown, Crumb Cake instead.

I’ve also used Crumb Cake to stamp and watercolour the Bloom in the circle. Can you believe that that is one ink colour?! its super pretty in real life, my camera work just has not done this one justice. The flowers from the Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack are also sponged in Crumb Cake.

Stampin' Up! UK Sketch Challenge Wedding Card Birthday Blooms Suite Sayings

The only other ink colour I have used here is Early Espresso for the sentiment, taken from Suite Sayings, and perfect to send as a wedding congratulations.

Have you spotted the gold glitter? Its actually a tape! and its currently FREE during Sale-a-bration! Awesome. Remember Sale-a-bration ends on the 31st of March, so don’t wait too long or this beautiful tape may have just already left us. To get this lovely tape for free you just have to spend £45, and the choose the tape as your free gift!

Thanks for stopping by today, and don’t forget to hop along to see what the girls have made with this sketch

Til next time

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Almost time to say goodbye ….

Stampin' Up! UK Best Thoughts Card

As we approach the end of Sale-a-bration it is time to start looking to the year ahead, almost time to prepare swaps for On Stage in April, almost time to start saying goodbye to retiring products before saying HELLO! to the new things coming our way in May/June! I know that March is early to start talking about things retiring and going from our lives forever, but I really don’t want you to miss out, so over the next few weeks and months I’ll be guiding you through things that you just can’t live without…

Stampin' Up! UK In colours 2014-2016

These five colours will certainly be retiring in May, These are one of our current sets of In-Colours; Blackberry Bliss, Hello Honey, Lost Lagoon, Tangelo Twist and Mossy Meadow. In-Colours last for 2 years, but we get a new set each year. These gorgeous colours though are the now ‘outgoing’ set, I know that the second the retiring list is released these colours will disappear which means that you secure yours you need to get them now! That includes the inks, card stock, ribbons and other embellishments….

Stampin' Up! UK Best Thoughts Card

This stamp set is ready to leave us too. Best Thoughts is one of this years Hostess Exclusive stamp sets, available only to party hostesses or those who spend more than £150 in a single order and therefore collect Stampin’ Rewards.

I have added a touch of Gorgeous Grunge to this card(s) too, just because why not! every card is better with a touch of Gorgeous Grunge (I am praying it doesn’t leave us this year, I love it too much, I think I might need therapy if Gorgeous Grunge retires!)


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