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Happiest of Birthday to you….

Stampin' Up! UK Birthday Blooms Card Class Watercolour

Over the next couple of weeks I will be sharing some of the cards I designed for my March Card Class. Registration is now open for my April Card Class – just drop me an email for more info!

Stampin' Up! UK Birthday Blooms Card Class Watercolour

I loved making this card. You all know how many times I have watercoloured this flower from Birthday Blooms, but this was the first time I coloured it in blue, so soft and pretty. I took inspiration for this colour palette directly from the Designer Series Paper, where the flowers are Pool Party and Mint Macaron. I’m a sucker for colour, one of the many reasons I love Stampin’ Up!®. All the colours are gorgeous and work so well together, even when you might look at them and think ‘hmmm, maybe not’. So, here I’ve used Mint Macaron and Pool Party for the flower, Mint Macaron and Mossy Meadow the the leaves (it doesn’t look so odd in person!), with So Saffron for the centres and Blushing Bride for the halo around the image. I did colour some of the leaves with a light shade of Tip Top Taupe but its hard to see it in this photo

Stampin' Up! UK Birthday Blooms Card Class

The card is finished with a strip of the Desigher Series Paper, a bow of Pool Party Glitter ribbon and one of the cute bow paper clips!

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Product List

Birthday Blooms Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£17.00

Birthday Bouquet Designer Series Paper

£10.00

Aqua Painters

£15.50

Mint Macaron Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00

Pool Party Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00

Blushing Bride Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00

Mossy Meadow Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00

So Saffron Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00

Pool Party 3/8" (1 Cm) Glitter Ribbon

£5.00

Bow Paper Clips Embellishments

£5.00

Watercolor Paper

£4.50

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Just a Picture Perfect Note

Stampin' Up! UK Picture Perfect Just a note card

Not all cards we send are for happy events, birthdays or congratulations. A handmade card can say more than words when sent for a different event; sympathy or just a simple Thinking of You. This past week we got some slightly scary news about my grandfather, who at 94 has already battled cancer once and is now having to undergo tests to see if its come back. My grandfather lives 300 miles from me, but has been a massive part of my life, I spent many many days and weeks at his house when I was very small. I really need to get my backside in the car to go and see him, but trying to get a few days off with James to go is tricky. So, I’m made him a card…. now I just need to work out what I’m going to write in it!

Stampin' Up! UK Picture Perfect Just a note card

I’ve been trying to find a card for this bird for a while. Its a stunning image, but it’s so pretty and detailed I needed to find a card that could really let it sing. All the images in Picture Perfect are designed to be stamped in several different layers, and I’ve used 4 different inks on this bird; Mint Macaron, Watermelon Wonder, Lost Lagoon and Island Indigo. I will admit that the layers aren’t stamped perfectly, but I really don’t think it matters, it’s still gorgeous!

I’m still trying to work my way through my mountain of Designer Series Paper, and I managed to get a goodly sized piece on this card. The Matt behind the layer of Very Vanilla card stock is a piece of Designer Series Paper from Farmers Market, just that fabulous pop of yellow really sets off the simplicity of the card.

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Product List

Picture Perfect Photopolymer Stamp Set

£24.00

Farmers Market Designer Series Paper

£10.00

Mint Macaron Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00

Watermelon Wonder Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00

Lost Lagoon Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00

Lost Lagoon A4 Cardstock

£6.50

Island Indigo Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00

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Going Global Note Cards

Stampin' Up! UK Going Global

I have been loving the Going Global suite of items in this years Spring/Summer catalogue. The suite features a great Stamp set, Going Global, with great masculine, travel themed images and sentiments, while the coordinating Designer Series Paper is a great mix of textures, travel imagery and map prints. There is also a great embossing folder and card stock pack that coordinate too!

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A few weeks ago I shared this card with my email subscribers. I love sending my weekly emails to you all, I missed last week (the first week I’ve missed for months!) and for that I do apologise. I managed to schedule myself 7 shifts in 7 days and just couldn’t squeeze anything else in! But, I’ve sorted out my work schedule now and normal service should resume (but as a nurse I have no idea what is round the corner, thank goodness for scheduled posting!)

Anyway, so this card. I trying to work out a list of products that would equate to Sale-a-bration goodies – and seeing as you now only have 1 month left, I thought I would share this one with my blog subscribers too. Sale-a-bration is awesome this year, spend just £45 and get a free stamp set! (or one of the other Sale-a-bration goodies!) and it gets better because if you spend £90, you get to pick 2 free items!

Going Global Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£17.00

Going Places Designer Series Paper Stack

£7.25

Whisper White Craft Stampin' Pad

£7.25

Delightful Dijon Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00

1" Circle Punch

£11.50

Whisper White Note Cards & Envelopes

£5.50

So, you can get all the things to make this card AND get a free Sale-a-bration item! Awesome!

Stampin' Up! Going Global Sale-a-bration

Which means that you could get Perfect Pairings and replace the sentiment with ‘Happy Birthday’ or ‘Congrats!’. Or you could grab ‘What I Love’ and replace the sentiment with a floral image, or a bird or ice cream if you chose ‘Honeycomb Happiness’. I think I would choose one of the new Sale-a-bration products; ‘Pedal Pusher’ and fussy cut the bicycle to add to the travel theme.

What will you choose?

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

Botanicals For You Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£0.00
Botanical Gardens Designer Vellum Stack

£0.00
What I Love Photopolymer Stamp Set

£0.00
Memories In The Making Project Life Specialty Card Collection

£0.00
Perfect Pairings Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£0.00
Wildflower Fields Designer Series Paper

£0.00
Flowering Fields Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£0.00
Honeycomb Happiness Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£0.00
Metallics Glitter Tape

£0.00
Party Pants Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£0.00
Pedal Pusher Photopolymer Stamp Set

£0.00

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Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge – A Rose Wonder Thank You

Stampin' Up! Sketch Challenge Rose Wonder

Stampin' Up! Sketch Challenge

Welcome to another Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge Blog Hop, I’m so glad you joined us today.

This week it was my turn to design the sketch! I have been so looking forward to this bit, I love seeing how creative people can be so I set the girls a tough one this week –  a totally black sketch! I know, it was mean, but did they create some great projects (if you haven’t seen anyone elses creations yet, please use the buttons at the bottom of this post to see what everyone has created this week)

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Saying that I designed this sketch, you would have thought I would have made my card straight away, and had some marvellous idea! I wish, no this week has been crazy, working 6 days, brand new job, very stressed, and so trying to make a card for today has been a bit of a nightmare to be honest. On Thursday I still hadn’t made anything and so started a quest through Pinterest for some inspiration – nothing, my crafty mojo had up’d and left! Great! But then, I woke on Friday with a card fully formed in my brain, wonderful, mojo returned! and so this was my creation!

Stampin' Up! Rose Wonder Thank you card

I die cut a circle from a piece of copy paper and used it as a mask to ink blend. The colours in the circle are Pear Pizzazz, Rose Red and Pool Party – all added with Stampin’ Sponges, and a very light touch. I stamped the flower before lifting the mask, and added some die cut leaves in Vellum and Whisper White card stock. I adhered these with a glue dots, which you could still see after adding the leaves, so the die cut flower was added to cover my mess!

Please hop on and see what the girls have made this week

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Did you know we also have a group Pinterest Board, where you can see all our projects in one go!

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Product List

Rose Wonder Photopolymer Bundle

£44.00

Circles Collection Framelits Die

£24.00

Card Stock A4 Pear Pizzazz

£6.50

Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00

Pool Party Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00

Rose Red Classic Stampin' Pad

£6.00

White Vellum A4 Card Stock

£6.00

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

£7.25

 

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Men’s Birthday Cards

Stampin' Up! UK Mens birthday card An Open Heart

Before I start waffling about my card for today, I just want to let you know that TODAY is the last day for you to book onto my March Cardmaking Class! AND its the last day of this month’s Code Club – So get your orders in! Lol

So, today I’m sharing another one of the cards I’m mass made for the ladies and gents in the care home. Yes, this one was made just for the fellas

Stampin' Up! UK Mens birthday card An Open Heart

There are two stamp sets on this one; An Open Heart and Tin of Cards! Isn’t that font lovely, I wish my handwriting looked like that but I’m a left handed dyslexic so my handwriting looks NOTHING like that, nothing, really it’s not as bad as you might think, but its not pretty. I wish my handwriting was pretty….. waffling again!

This card features two colours as well as two stamp sets; Garden Green and Early Espresso.

Simple but manly

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I will be closing this order on the 23rd February 2016

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Celebrate you

Last week I shared a whole heap of Birthday cards, and while I haven’t got a birthday card to share with you today, I have got a card to share that I made for a very special lady that’s going through a rough time. I’m hoping that she has received this card by now….. oh well, I’m sharing it anyway!

Celebrate you

I really enjoy sending ‘pick me up’ cards, you know those card sent for no reason other than to say, I’m thinking of you or It’s gonna get better. I thought about using one of those sentiments on this card, but really I wanted a You’re Awesome! card, a card to simply remind the person that they need some ‘my time’ and time to Celebrate you! I’m waffling …. maybe I should stop ….

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The stamps used here are Perpetual birthday and Suite Sayings. I’m sure I took inspiration from a card I spotted on Pinterest for this one, but I have no memory of who or where I found it seeing as this photo has been sat on my PC for weeks and the card is long gone lol. I do remember the colours though; a set of my favourites – Bermuda Bay, Pool party and Mint Macaron. So pretty

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English Garden Birthday

Stampin' Up! UK Crazy About You birthday card

I’m sure many of you know that I make birthday cards for a nursing home, many care home residents don’t have anyone to send them a card except the home itself, and then its the cheapest card they can find. They smiles from the residents when they open a birthday card, a special, hand made birthday card – its wonderful.

So, the activities coordinator of this home approached me last month and asked for a batch of cards, so this is what I made ….

Stampin' Up! UK English Garden Birthday card

I have to say here, this is totally not my card design, and takes some serious inspiration from THIS CARD that I found on Pinterest.

 

Stampin' Up! UK Crazy About You birthday card

I’m loving this Designer Series Paper, English Garden from this years Annual catalogue, its just so damn pretty! and features some gorgeous colours, and I’m STILL trying to use up my stack of Designer Series Paper and these cards a a great way of using up loads of paper, as each card uses 1/6th of a piece of paper.

The Happy is taken from the Crazy About You stamp and die bundle, another favourite pick from this Annual catalogue!

Stampin Up! Uk Crazy About You English Garden

I made 6 of these cards, 2 in each colour and they were super simple and quick to put together, and the ladies absolutely LOVED them!

Are you interested in making some birthday cards for those older people living in our care homes (UK only) drop me a message and see how you can help me out with my latest project!

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I will be closing this order on the 23rd February 2016

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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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New Sale-a-bration goodies!

Stampin' Up! UK Sale-a-bration New Items

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Yesterday we said goodbye to a few of this years wonderful Sale-a-bration goodies…. but today we get to say Hello! to some new ones! Yay!

I haven’t had chance to play with them yet (I know, I’m sad too!) but you can check them out by clicking on that great banner at the top of this post

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How can you get your hands on this great products? It’s so easy, just spend £45 (or more!) in my online shop, and you will be prompted to choose your items before you check out! You get to choose another item each time you spend £45, so if you spend £90 you get to choose 2! Yay!

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Host a party (or place an individual order) with a spend of over £200 and get to a further £20 in Stampin’ Rewards, in addition to the 12% rewards you would normally receive

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The greatest deal though is the Starter Kit! Get to choose £160 worth of great items (anything from our current catalogues) and pay just £99! Message me today for more info!

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Balloon Birthdays

Stampin' Up! UK Balloon birthday card

I’m making heaps of birthday cards at the moment – have you seen the awesome hashtag on social media? #imbringingbirthdaysback – its a great idea started by the lovely Shannon West from Stampin’ Up! home office in Utah, we don’t send enough birthday cards anymore, its just too easy to sent a birthday message when facebook reminds us its someone’s birthday – but I’m determined to get out of that habit! I am aiming to get myself organised and a stack of cards made this week so they are ready to write and send.

Stampin' Up! UK Balloon birthday card

This card really pops! Melon Mambo and Pink Pirouette – BOOM!

I’m loving the Balloon Bouquet punch, and used it lots here to get this fabulous balloons. I sponged one side of all the balloons to create the illusion of dimension and added them to a piece of Pink Pirouette card stock embossed with the decorative dots embossing folder.

Stampin' Up! UK Balloon Celebration Birthday card

I wasn’t sure about the ‘strings’ on these balloons, I’m still not sure if a Basic Grey or Smoky Slate marker might have been a better choice than black – never mind it is what it is. This card was made specially for a nursing home that I donate a lot of birthday cards to, they love a simple card without too much detail and bright coloured cards are loved by their residents with Dementia.

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I will be closing this order on the 23rd February 2016

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