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Creative Colour Challenge #CCC83 | Hello Love For You…

Hello! Welcome to StampinByHannah for another challenge! I have been observing this challenge for months and months (over a year!) but I’ve never managed to get myself organised enough to join in… until now!

The Creative Colour Challenge is organised by the lovely Vickie, who just happens to be one of my Stampin’ Sisters, and she sets the most fabulous colour trio’s every single week. This week it’s Highland Heather, Soft Succulent and Evening Evergreen. Soft Succulent and Evening Evergreen are retiring at the end of this month, so you need to move quickly if you love these colours (in fact, both the ink pad and card stock of Soft Succulent have already sold out!)

The background of this card uses Love For You, and the three colours both in full strength and stamped off once.

The ‘Hello’ is die cut 3 times from Alphabet a la Mode (twice in white and once in Soft Succulent) and then layered to give a dimensional effect.

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Global Design Project #388 | Farewell Hues of Happiness…

Hello! Welcome to StampinByHannah this evening for a quick card using one of my favourite suites of the Stampin’ Up! 2022 catalogue; Hues of Happiness. I just had to get this one out one last time before it retires at the end of the month. As this post goes live, the Designer Series Paper, Stamps and dies are still in stock, but they are now while stocks last!

This week’s Global Design Project challenge is a CASE the Designer; hop over to their blog to check out the inspiration card.

Instead of using the Designer Series Paper in the background, I’ve ink blended Smokey Slate and Basic Grey. But, I have used the Designer Series Paper for the flower elements… don’t you just love it when the dies cut out the paper! So fun!

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Technique Tuesday Blog Hop | Watercolour with Irresistible Blooms from Stampin’ Up!

Hello! Welcome to StampinByHannah for another Technique Tuesday Blog Hop! I know, I sort of dropped the ball on blog hops in February… but April I am back, and raring to go! Things have been a little busy, and I’ve had a massive change in my day job (as in I’m currently waiting to start a new one, going back to shifts. I am SO excited!). Anyway, so that’s sort of meant that I haven’t had much brain space for crafting or blogging… but I know that I’m about to have more time again, and that feels amazing!

So, this month’s technique is Watercolour! This might be my most favourite technique… I just love getting inky and messy (in a controlled sort of way!), and making something totally unique every time. I’ve used the Irresistible Blooms stamp set and dies from the Online Exclusives, these are sort of limited edition and so if you LOVE them, I’d move fairly quickly to make sure you’re not disappointed.

Each of the flower was stamped and heat embossed in White before being watercoloured using a Stampin’ Up! reinker and a bit of water to keep the colours really vibrant. I’ve used Poppy Parade, Crushed Curry, Granny Apple Green, Balmy Blue and Gorgeous Grape.

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Last Chance…

Hello! Welcome to StampinByHannah…. for a very quick blog post (because it is a bit late isn’t it!). Just to let you know that the Stampin’ Up! Last Chance Sale has started!

This is your last opportunity to grab your favourite stamps, dies , Designer Series Papers, Embellishments and more from the 2022 Annual Catalogue AND from the 2023 January-April Catalogue too!

Hop over to my Online Store to check out what is leaving and what is on discount (Some are 60% off!!!)

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Inspire.Create.Challenge #139 | Sketch Challenge…

Hello! Welcome to StampinByHannah for this week’s Inspire.Create.Challenge. This week the lovely Jo has set us a sketch… and what a sketch it is! This one had me stumped for a little bit, but I really love the card I created. Hop over to the Inspire.Create blog to see the sketch and find out what the rest of the Design Team have been up to!

I pulled the colour combination out first; Sahara Sand, Parakeet Party and Orchid Oasis, and then created those diagonal lines but masking and then ink blending.

Both the hexagon die cut and the ‘Hello’ are stamped using Hand-Penned Petals for a little detail. I finished this one with some loops of Linen Thread, but you could definately take this idea further.

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Global Design Project 386 | Quick card with Framed Florets from Stampin’ Up!

Hello! Welcome to StampinByHannah for another card inspired by a Global Design Project challenge. I am really enjoying taking part in a few challenges again at the moment… and am back on a bit of a roll with blogging and videos (just in case you hadn’t noticed!). This week’s Global Design Project is a sketch, and it had me thinking for a few days if I’m honest about how I was going to tackle one of the elements.

The background trio of stamps in Soft Succulent are from the Watercolour Shapes stamp set. I really love this set for an interesting background, its really handy! Here I’ve stamped 2 of the squares in Soft Succulent stamped off once for a slightly softer look.

While I’m taking about Soft Succulent, its worth noting that the 2021-2023 In Colours (Polished Pink, Pale Papaya, Evening Evergreen, Soft Succulent and Fresh Freesia) are due to retire at the end of April. So if you love any of these, it’s worth grabbing the re-inkers and card stock sooner rather than later

The other stamp set at play here is Framed Florets for both the floral stamp and the sentiment. The scallop is from the Penned Flowers dies, how cute is that!

No card is complete with a touch of bling, and this one has a trio of the 2021-2021 In Colour Opal Rounds

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Petal Park Card Class….

Hello! Welcome to StampinByHannah… I am SUPER excited to release my first card class of 2023! This has been a little while coming, but I think it’s been super worth it!

I have been having so much fun with the Petal Park bundle recently, that it just made sense to share a class using it with you.

My classes are great fun, and totally virtual. All options come with PDF instructions and an exclusive video. However there are a couple of options here.

1) PDF and video instructions ONLY – £15
2) Card Kit, PDF and Video instructions – £25
3) Complete Card Kit, with the stamp and punch bundle, PDF and Video instructions – £60

Options 2 and 3 include a card kit. This kit includes all the pieces needed to make the cards, including card stock, envelopes and embellishments… and option 3 also includes the stamp and punch bundle too! My classes also always include a little special something for you… and a copy of the next Annual Catalogue in April.

You can sign up for this card class by dropping me an email at StampinByHannah{at}outlook.com and I will forward you the payment link.

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Quick and Easy Fun Rainbow Card Idea…

Hello! Welcome to StampinByHannah! Yesterday was Mother’s Day here in the UK and so I made 2 fun cards for my mum and mother-in-law (yes, they always get the same card!). I loved the card so much, and thought it would make a great birthday card idea… so here it is!

The rainbow background was super easy to put together, with simple 1.5cm strips of card stock, adhered to a piece of Basic White, and then die cut using the largest circle from Stylish Shapes. I would recommend using a wet glue (like Tombow) to attach these, you want to make sure the full back of the piece of covered.

‘MUM’ is die cut from the fabulous Alphabet a la Mode dies. I LOVE this die set SO much! I did add some Adhesive Sheet to the back of the card stock before I die cut the letters to make attaching them to the card easier.


There are a fair few products on this card, so I thought I would list them to make it a little easier;

  • Sentiment from Best Family Ever! (heat embossed in white onto Basic Black)
  • Floral stamp from Hand Penned Petals (stamped in Memento)
  • Background embossed using the dots embossing folder from the Basics 3D Embossing Folders
  • Bling added using Iridescent Rhinestone Basic Jewels

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Petal Park Thank you card…

Hello! Welcome to StampinByHannah this morning… for a card I was supposed to share as part of a blog hop yesterday! Honestly, I have no excuse, other than that I haven’t looked at my diary all week. I even made the card in plenty of time, and just completely forgot to write the blog post! Anyway, better late than never, and I’ve linked to the rest of the projects in the hop later in the post too.

This months InspireINK challenge was a fabulous colour combination of; Petal Pink, Sweet Sorbet, Shaded Spruce, Balmy Blue, Mango Melody and Night of Navy. Now, I know this feels like a LOT of colours, but there are actually on this card… can you spot them all?

I have been really enjoying using the Petal Park stamp set recently. Here I have paired it with Sentimental Park for the sentiment, and Hand-Drawn Dots for that dotty banner piece. This card is a CASE of a card in the Stampin’ Up! catalogue, and that banner was Designer Series Paper, but I don’t have the right piece, and so I changed it and made my own! The dots are stamped in Balmy Blue onto Basic White card stock, and then I using a Blending Brush to add more Balmy Blue over the top too!

Check out the girls who were actually organised and managed to make the actual blog hop below;

Heather Fogan

Gez Carpenter

Janice Thomson

Vickie Littlewood

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Fun card idea using Irresistible Blooms from Stampin’ Up!

Hello! Welcome to StampinByHannah for another fun card and a video tutorial… I know, twice in a week!

This card uses the Irresistible Blooms suite, which is a While Stocks Last set of products that form part of the Stampin’ Up! Online Exclusives collection. If you haven’t checked them out yet, I would highly recommend popping over to the Online Store for a look… these products are gorgeous!

This card uses Flirty Flamingo, Daffodil Delight, Soft Seafoam, Blackberry Bliss and Bermuda Bay… slightly inspired by the colours in the papers, but then I added some colours too!

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