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28th July 201828th July 2018

InspireINK Blog Hop | Stitched All Around Embossed Anniversary Card

StampinByHannah InspireINK Blog Hop Stitched All Around Embossed Anniversary Card

Thanks so much for stopping by here at StampinByHannah today, I LOVE taking part in the InspireINK blog hops with some of my Stampin’ Sisters. Today the very lovely Sally Shaw has picked our theme; Embossed Anniversary!

This is quite timely for me with my 3rd Wedding Anniversary in a couple of weeks time, I will share the card I make for my husband once he has actually seen it so today’s card is a bit of a twist on the theme. It does feature embossing, but the sentiment isn’t quite anniversary, can you forgive me for that? This card would make a really lovely card for an anniversary though, you’d just need to change the sentiment.

This card uses the fabulous Stitched All Around Bundle, which has a lovely mix of cutting and embossing dies, as well as some really pretty stamps, and I am more than a little in love with that label piece!

To create the background I first stamped a piece of Gray Granite card stock with Gray Granite ink. Then I ran it through the Big Shot with the background die from the set. This die isn’t designed to cut at all, instead it embosses and it works really really well with the new Stampin’ Up! Big Shot Embossing Mats and the following Big Shot Sandwich;

Big Shot Platform,
Cutting Mat, Die (with the embossing edge facing upwards),
card stock,
THIN blue embossing mat
white impressions pad.

I do have a video on my YouTube channel showing this sandwich if you want to check it out.

The circle piece is actually 3 dies layered together, with the heart and smaller circle embossed, before the outer circle was die cut. The card is completed with a heat embossed sentiment on a label cut from Merry Merlot card stock, and a trio of Basic Adhesive-Backed Sequins

Do hop along to check out the other Embossed Anniversary card creations, and I hope to see you again!

Product List

Stitched All Around Clear-Mount Bundle

[148374]

£44.00

Stitched All Around Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[146632]

£18.00

Stitched Labels Framelits Dies

[146828]

£31.00

Gray Granite A4 Cardstock

[147008]

£8.00

Gray Granite Classic Stampin’ Pad

[147118]

£7.00

Mint Macaron A4 Cardstock

[138344]

£8.00

Merry Merlot A4 Cardstock

[147005]

£8.00

Big Shot Embossing Mats

[146327]

£14.00

Basic Adhesive-Backed Sequins

[146933]

£6.50

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Hannah McCurley

27th July 201822nd July 2018

Love What You Do Divided Sweetie Box…

How to make a cute divided box for sweeties or stationary using Stampin' Up! Share What You Love Designer Series Paper

StampinByHannah Love What You Do Divided Sweetie Box…

So, today I thought I would re-visit a project I shared on this very blog about 3 years ago! I cannot believe that I have been sharing with you here for over 4 years now, I LOVE reading all your comments but I would also love to see if you have made something inspired by something I have shared too. You can share your work with me over on my Facebook Page or, if you don’t want the world to see it, drop me an email! You never know, I might even pop something in the post to you as a Thank you!

For all I’m calling these Divided Sweetie Boxes they would also look super cute on your desk holding all those paper clips, elastic bands and other random desk junk (do other people have this… or is it just me?!). Both of these boxes actually use the same piece of Designer Series Paper from the Share What You Love Designer Series Paper Pack, don’t you love when you can’t decide which side of the paper you love more and have to make two of something just because?! Or is that just me as well!

Measurements:

Card stock for the box base: 6 x 6″ (15 x 15 cm)

Score on all 4 sides at 1″ (2.5 cm)

Designer Series Paper for the box lid: 5-9/16 x 5-9/16″ (14.3 x 14.3 cm)

Score on all 4 sides at 3/4″ (2 cm)

Card stock for dividers: 1 piece that measures 4 x 5-1/2″ (10 x 13.8 cm) and 2 pieces that measure 2 x 5-1/2″ (5 x 13.8 cm)

Score at 2″ (5 cm) on each end and then flip the card stock over and score again at 2-3/4″ (6.9 cm)

The most special part of these boxes for me is the Square cut out windows. In the original box I cut these by hand because I didn’t have a square die, but for this version I used the Layering Square Dies to cut the window and made the cute Crumb Cake frames too. These frames are really easy to make; first cut the straight edged square from a piece of card stock, then cut a scalloped square out around that one to create a frame. You can see exactly how I did this in the video tutorial above.

I would love to see your creations this weekend, I’ll be back tomorrow with a fun blog hop with the InspireINK team, hope to see you then!

Product List

Share What You Love Specialty Designer Series Paper

[146926]

£25.00

Share What You Love A4 Cardstock Pack

[146346]

£8.00

Layering Squares Framelits Dies

[141708]

£33.00

Crumb Cake A4 Card Stock

[121685]

£8.00

Mint Macaron A4 Cardstock

[138344]

£8.00

Simply Scored

[122334]

£27.00

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Hannah McCurley

26th July 201822nd July 2018

The Project Share Project | Fun Card Ideas…

All the good things Koi card using Stampin' Up! products by Heidi Smith

StampinByHannah The Project Share Project Fun Card Ideas…

I am LOVING sharing the work of some of my favourite Stampin’ Sisters each week. This week I have a trio of fun card ideas. Each member of the Project Share Team has a totally different style, and they always blow me away with the ideas they come up with! One of our team challenges last weekend was to CASE (copy and selectively edit) a project… I’ll be sharing what I made over the weekend, but these girls definitely inspire me week after week!

Sally Shaw

How fun is this card from Sally! It uses the fabulous Animal Expedition Designer Series Paper that is currently by of the Buy 3 Get 1 FREE Sale, but also those fabulous Frames Elements… don’t you just love how the stamping fits inside that frame! So pretty

Heidi Smith

Heidi has used one of the stamp sets that’s on my shopping list, but hasn’t quite fallen into my basket yet! My father-in-law has a Koi pond, and so this is a must have for me before his Birthday in December! Heidi has paired this beautiful fish with some of the In-Colour Designer Series Paper for a totally coordinated look!

Verity Purglove

And then I couldn’t pass sharing this card with you! Verity has used another one of the packs of Designer Series Paper from the sale; Nature’s Poem, to make this quick, but super effective Thinking of You card. Do click on the photos to check out the full details of each project!

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Product List

Animal Expedition Designer Series Paper

[146902]

£10.25

Frames Elements

[146906]

£5.50

All The Good Things Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[146558]

£18.00

In Color 2018–2020 6″ X 6″ (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper

[146963]

£10.25

Nature’s Poem Designer Series Paper

[146338]

£10.25

Rooted In Nature Clear-Mount Bundle

[148353]

£67.50

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Hannah McCurley

25th July 201814th July 2018

Inspire.Create.Challenge #023 | Congratulations Twinkle Twinkle

How to use Designer Series Paper in your card making featuring Twinkle Twinkle from Stampin' Up!

StampinByHannah Inspire.Create.Challenge #023 Congratulations Twinkle Twinkle

Hello! Oh my goodness, I feel like these challenges are coming around awfully quickly at the moment! I’m sure it’s because we’ve changed how we organise them slightly, and so I only made my challenge card for challenge 22 last week… but nothing has changed for you so really that is completely irrelevant! I do hope you enjoy our challenges, do pop over to the Inspire.Create blog and see the other members of the Design Team’s creations!

This sketch totally lends itself to a card that uses big pieces of Designer Series Paper! I love this type of card as they come together really quickly but look fabulous too. My card for today features the Twinkle Twinkle Designer Series Paper that is predominately designed for baby cards, and so that is what I have made today pairing it with the coordinating stamp set; Little Twinkle. However, this paper is full of generic patterns that I can see being put to a heap of uses plus it’s heavy on the Night of Navy too so it’s perfect for guy cards!

The hardest bit of this card was making sure the measurements were right. First I cut the piece of Whisper White as a mat for the Designer Series Paper, then I worked out how big each piece of Designer Series Paper needed to be based on that measurement.

Measurement:

Card base: Night of Navy; 29.7 x 10.5 cm, scored on the long side at 14.85 cm

Whisper White; 9.5 x 13.8 cm

4 pieces of Twinkle Twinkle Designer Series Paper; 4.5 x 6.65 cm

Whisper White; 10.5 x 2.5 cm

Product List

Little Twinkle Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[146452]

£18.00

Twinkle Twinkle Designer Series Paper

[146284]

£10.25

Night Of Navy A4 Card Stock

[106577]

£8.00

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

£9.00

Night Of Navy Classic Stampin’ Pad

[147110]

£7.00

Twinkle Adhesive-Backed Sequins

[146287]

£6.50

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Hannah McCurley

24th July 201814th July 2018

Floral Friend card with Petal Promenade

How to cut the Petal Promenade Designer Series Paper from Stampin' Up!

StampinByHannah Floral Friend card with Petal Promenade

So, one of the pieces of the Petal Promenade Designer Series Paper I have been dreading trying to cut is one that has 9 really beautiful floral frames. There I several reasons why this paper makes me nervous; they are usually sized for a US sized card base which isnt the same size as I use here in the UK, they are really really pretty and I don’t want to mess one up, and then there is the fear of just not having a clue what I am going to do with the frames once they are cut! But, I have started seeing other people make some really pretty cards with these frames. In fact I almost CASE’d THIS card from Patty Bennett to get me started, but I made this card instead.

Usually when I’m making a card using Designer Series Paper, I’ll go into the catalogue and look which Stampin’ Up! Colours are in featured, but not for this card. Instead I chose to look and see what colours my eye saw, and that turned into Grapefruit Grove, Lovely Lipstick and Shaded Spruce, none of which are officially in the paper but does that really matter?!

The frame cut from the Petal Promenade Designer Series Paper is an awkward size for layering. To get around this I simply measured it carefully and then cut a piece of Grapefruit Grove card stock half a centimetre longer and wider before layering it onto a card base with a standard sized mat and actually it looks fine.

These frames are designed to fit the Stampin’ Up! note cards and envelopes, which they do perfectly, I just don’t use them very regularly in my crafting and as a result this particular piece of paper would usually get forgotten about!

Which of the Designer Series Paper packs are you struggling to cut?

Product List

Beautiful Promenade Photopolymer Bundle

[148389]

£42.25

Beautiful Promenade Photopolymer Stamp Set

[146842]

£20.00

Beautiful Layers Thinlits Dies

[147043]

£27.00

Petal Promenade Designer Series Paper

[146913]

£10.25

Shaded Spruce A4 Cardstock

[147006]

£8.00

Grapefruit Grove A4 Cardstock

[146995]

£8.00

Shaded Spruce Classic Stampin’ Pad

[147088]

£7.00

Grapefruit Grove Classic Stampin’ Pad

[147142]

£7.00

Lovely Lipstick Classic Stampin’ Pad

[147140]

£7.00

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

23rd July 201822nd July 2018

Make It Monday | Petal Promenade Tag Card

Make It Monday how to make a tag using Beautiful Promenade from Stampin' Up!

StampinByHannah Make It Monday Petal Promenade Tag Card

Before I get to the card today I just need to remind you of a couple of things:

Booking for this month’s StampinByHannah Suite Share featuring Petal Promenade closes on WEDNESDAY…. get your box HERE!
Both the Stampin’ Pad Family Starter Kit deal and the Designer Series Paper Buy 3 Get 1 Free Sale end NEXT MONDAY

Make It Monday!

With that said, I have a fabulous Petal Promenade card for you today, using the coordinating Beautiful Layers Thinlits

One of the things that this stamp and die bundle encourages you to do is play with die cuts and stamped layers, and that it totally what I have done here. The Beautiful Layers dies combine beautifully with the Stitched Shapes Squares for a really fun look, plus the colours from the Petal Promenade Designer Series Paper just made for really pretty projects. I am little bit in love with this colour combination too…

The Petal Promenade Designer Series Paper pack is part of that fabulous Buy 3 Get 1 Free offer I mentioned at the top of this post. You have 10 fabulous packs of Designer Series Paper to choose from, and you can choose any combination of those 4 so that 4 different packs, or 4 of the same. Totally up to you!

This card is a quick, but complex looking build, with stamping on the Designer Series Paper, and a series of die cuts before a little more stamping and a trio of Basic Adhesive-Backed sequins to finish.

The tag is one of those elements that looks really tricky, but in reality is simple to do. There are two ways of making it; you could measure the width of the die and cut a piece of card stock accordingly before die cutting each end. Or you can follow my method; die cut the tag end from the middle of a sheet of scrap card stock, line up your layers and work out where the other end should be, then die cut the tag end again before snipping out the piece using Paper snips or a Stampin’ Trimmer

Either way you end up with this really lovely element for the front of your card, or what about just cutting one end and using it as a tag on your next gift?!

Product List

Beautiful Promenade Photopolymer Bundle

[148389]

£42.25

Beautiful Promenade Photopolymer Stamp Set

[146842]

£20.00

Beautiful Layers Thinlits Dies

[147043]

£27.00

Petal Promenade Designer Series Paper

[146913]

£10.25

Petal Promenade A4 Cardstock Pack

[146909]

£8.00

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

[145372]

£28.00

Fresh Fig Classic Stampin’ Pad

[147144]

£7.00

Petal Pink Classic Stampin’ Pad

[147108]

£7.00

Basic Adhesive-Backed Sequins

[146933]

£6.50

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!

Please support StampinByHannah, and enter my Code Club Code. For orders of over £150 please do not use this code, as you are entitled to your own Hostess benefits!

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Hannah McCurley

21st July 201821st July 2018

Leadership Blog Hop | Team Events with Stampin’ up!

StampinByHannah Leadership Blog Hop | Team Events with Stampin’ up!

Welcome to the Leadership Blog Hop… we are a group of 5 Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators who are currently working together to support our other Stampin’ Sisters (and brothers) while our Team Leader is away on the Stampin’ Up! Incentive Trip to Alaska!

I had heaps of ideas of what I could share with you today…. and then my day job took over this week, and actually getting something made in time provided a little too much. However, I still wanted to let you know about some of the fun things we do as Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators!

Stampin’ Up! Events…

My favourite part of being a part of Stampin’ Up! is events…. of all kinds! Every 6 months Stampin’ Up! host a fabulous Demonstrator Exclusive event; OnStage! The next one is coming in November, but tickets go on sale next month. OnStage is SO much fun… we get to spend the day with hundreds of like-minded Demonstrators, get to see the next catalogue before anyone else, get to take home an exclusive bag full of products too!

Team Events…

BUT we also have team events! Our next team retreat is in September… and we have a jam packed weekend of crafting planned in a luxury hotel in Manchester! I am SO excited…. and more than a little nervous because I’ve managed to volunteer to present too! We also have heaps of Online events… with a busy Facebook group, videos, challenges and much more!

I’ll share the challenge I’ve set the team over on my Facebook Page next weekend…. Because if I share it with you now, it’ll spoil the surprise for them.

You can join in with our events by joining the team right now, and if you do Stampin’ Up! will thrown £63 worth of ink pads into your kit for FREE! How cool is that!

Thanks for joining me today; now hop on over to Heidi’s blog where I know she has a fun creative project for you!

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

20th July 201814th July 2018

Notebook Cover with Pen Loop using Tea Room Designer Series Paper…

Jotter sized note book cover with pen loop DIY using Stampin' Up! products

StampinByHannah Notebook Cover with Pen Loop using Tea Room Designer Series Paper…

Today’s project was inspired by my fabulous stampin’ buddy Angelina…. I am a bit of a stationary hoarder, and I need a little encouragement to actually use my notebooks, pens, sticky notes etc. sometimes! These notebooks have been hanging around in my office for a while, and I’ve covered a few in the past, but it’s time that they moved on and the best way to do that is to make them pretty and gift them to someone! So, who wants one?! I always sent notebooks and things to my team members… so who’s gonna be the next person to join my team and bag one?

These both use the Tea Room Speciality Designer Series Paper to add a little something to the front of the covers, and while one I have added the stamping directly onto the paper, the other has some extra layers and details. Both are designed to hold these pens, they were gifted to us at a Stampin’ Up! OnStage event… these fabulous events are Demonstrator only entry, but I wanted to let you know that the registration for the next one (held in Birmingham this coming November) will open in August, and while we have the fabulous Stampin’ Pad Family joining offer it would be a great time to come and join my team!

Measurements:

Card stock: 6-1/4 x 8-1/4″ (16 x 21 cm)

Score on the short side at 2-3/4 and 3″ (7 and 7.5 cm)

Designer Series Paper: 8 x 2-1/2″ (6.5 x 20.5 cm)

Card stock for the Pen Loop: 1-1/2 x 2-1/2″ (3.5 x 7 cm)

Score on the long side at 1/2, 1, 1-1/2 and 2″ (1.5, 3, 4.5 and 6 cm)

Thanks so much for stopping by today…. for more information about Joining Stampin’ Up! click HERE, or SIGN UP right now!

Product List

Time For Tea Photopolymer Bundle

[148410]

£36.00

Tea Room Specialty Designer Series Paper

[146894]

£13.00

Card Stock A4 Crushed Curry

[131288]

£8.00

Old Olive A4 Card Stock

[106576]

£8.00

Crushed Curry Classic Stampin’ Pad

[147087]

£7.00

Old Olive Classic Stampin’ Pad

[147090]

£7.00

Rich Razzleberry Classic Stampin’ Pad

[147091]

£7.00

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!

Please support StampinByHannah, and enter my Code Club Code. For orders of over £150 please do not use this code, as you are entitled to your own Hostess benefits!

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Hannah McCurley

19th July 201814th July 2018

The Project Share Project | More fun with Designer Series Paper…

Narrow note card box using Petal Promenade from Stampin' Up! by Heidi Smith

StampinByHannah The Project Share Project More fun with Designer Series Paper…

So, with the Designer Series Paper sale still ongoing, I thought I would share some more of the fabulous things that my Stampin’ Sisters have been making with it!

Heidi Smith

My absolute favourite pack of Designer Series Paper at the moment is Petal Promenade, and I love how Heidi has combined it with some fun dies to create the stunning box for some Narrow Notecards… Click on the picture to see Heidi’s video tutorial too!

Amanda Charlesworth

Amanda always makes lovely things with Designer Series Paper, and this card is no exception. The Natures’ Poem Designer Series Paper is designed to coordinate with the Rooted in Nature stamp set, but I love that Amanda is thinking outside of the box here where she has paired it with the lovely Stitched All Around Bundle instead!

Jill Chapman

Jill has used my second favourite pack of paper to create this fun card! I shared one using the same products on Monday, but man, don’t they look different! Click over to Jill’s blog to see her fabulous video tutorial!

Product List

Petal Promenade Designer Series Paper

[146913]

£10.25

Nature’s Poem Designer Series Paper

[146338]

£10.25

Stitched All Around Clear-Mount Bundle

[148374]

£44.00

Garden Impressions 6″ X 6″ (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper

[146289]

£10.25

Abstract Impressions Photopolymer Bundle

[148348]

£45.75

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

17th July 201817th July 2018

Go For Greece | Hello Floral Frames!

Pretty Hello card using Floral Frames from Stampin' Up!

StampinByHannah Go For Greece Hello Floral Frames!

I have already shared one card using the Floral Frames bundle today but seeing as I made these two one after the other, it just seemed right to share them together too! How pretty is this stamp set! It might just be one of the prettiest in the catalogue!

I don’t very often combine products. But I have today because, I die cut and layered everything up and then thought the card looked a little plain. I almost always assemble the card before I glue everything down, just to check that I haven’t missed something… so glad I did today because I am running really low on Soft Sea Foam card stock, really need to add that to my next order! So, because I decided the card was a little plain, I added some dry embossing to the background using the Lovely Floral Dynamic Embossing Folder, and then covered most of it with this fabulous frame!

The frame, and the leaves are both designed to be used with the new Stampin’ Up! Big Shot Embossing Mats. I’ve done a couple of videos using these, and I LOVE them!

To get this effect…

Die cut the frame and the leaves using a standard sandwich (Magnetic Platform, Cutting Mat, card stock, die, Cutting mat), making sure to washi-tape the die to the card stock so that the card stock doesn’t fall out before the next step.
Then run the dies back through the big shot, using the thin blue embossing mat (Big Shot platform, Cutting mat, Die, Card stock, Blue embossing mat, white Impressions pad). This then gives a subtle embossing onto die cuts for an extra pretty touch!

To finish the card I added a couple of the flowers from the stamp set in Poppy Parade, and stamped the sentiment in Cherry Cobbler, before popping it all up on lots of dimensionals!

Thanks for joining me today, do check out these other talented ladies on the hop… and I hope to see you again soon

Product List

Floral Frames Clear-Mount Bundle

[148406]

£40.50

Floral Frames Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[146508]

£20.00

Foliage Frame Framelits Dies

[146353]

£25.00

Soft Sea Foam A4 Cardstock

[147012]

£8.00

Card Stock A4 Pear Pizzazz

[131290]

£8.00

Poppy Parade Classic Stampin’ Pad

[147050]

£7.00

Cherry Cobbler Classic Stampin’ Pad

[147083]

£7.00

Big Shot Embossing Mats

[146327]

£14.00

Lovely Floral Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

[148048]

£8.25

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!

Please support StampinByHannah, and enter my Code Club Code. For orders of over £150 please do not use this code, as you are entitled to your own Hostess benefits!

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Hannah McCurley

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