A Shabby Chic Card with Free as a Bird…

Hey Folks! I’ve got a slightly different style of card for me today (and another video… Yes! That’s 2 in less than a week!). I do love playing around with ink, whether that’s stamping, watercolouring, ink blending… etc.

Free as a Bird Card video tutorial using Bird Ballard from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

I’ve been having an absolute blast crafting with my June Crafty Selections kit. This fun monthly kit contains a wonderful mix of Designer Series Paper, embellishments and more, and comes with a jam packed sheet of inspiration too!

You can get all the details about this month’s Crafty Selection Box HERE. Booking for this month’s box closes on Wednesday at midnight, and I would hate for you to miss out.

I’ve added a couple of bits to this months kit to create this card, in particular the Free and a Bird stamp and die bundle. I just can’t get enough of these birds, the are stunning simply stamped on their own, but really start to sing when they are coloured. This time I’ve used Blends, but I have a plan to watercolour them soon too!

Shabby Chic friend card using Free as a Bird from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

The Stitched Nested Labels Dies are definitely a new favourite in my craft room. They’ve started to appear on a whole lot of projects, and I can see them being a staple for a long time to come!

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In Colour Card Ideas… and a video!

Hey folks! Not only do I have a couple of fun card ideas, I am super excited to be sharing a video with you today. I asked on my Facebook page earlier in the week about whether you would like to see some random Facebook Lives, or regular video uploads, and the opinion was pretty mixed! So, I’ve decided that I’ll film when I can, and if I get in the odd Facebook Live too then that great! Anyway, yesterday James was home and so was able to look after Niamh for a little bit while I made today’s cards and video.

Simple Designer Series Paper card using Bloom and Grow from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

I have seen this type of card a couple of times recently, and I thought it was such a great way to share the new In Colour Designer Series Paper with you! I love the patterns in this years colour family Designer Series Paper stacks. They are just so easy to use. Each colour family, plus both sets of In Colours have a pack, all with the same patterns, and I might just have to have them all!

Quick and simple In Colour Designer Series Paper card and video tutorial with Stampin' Up! and StampinByHannah

The sentiment on this first card (yes, I have 2 for you today!) is from Bloom and Grow. I am in LOVE with this stamp set, I can’t decide if its the pretty florals or the sentiments that’s getting my vote, but I can’t put it away none the less!

This card comes together really quickly, after you’ve done a bit of die cutting with the Rectangle Stitched Dies. I’ve matted it all on a card base of Terracotta Tile, and then matched the stamping and the Faceted Dot Embellishment.

Card Ideas Video

The second card uses the same idea as the first, but I’ve stepped it up a bit and paired it with the Well Said stamp set and Well Written dies. These have only recently found their way into my craft room, but I have to say I am loving using them!

In Colour Happy Birthday Card using Well Said from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

The 5 new In Colours work so well as a colour combination, they really are a great addition to your crafty stash. I have a fun In Colour Club about to start and there are a couple of places left! You can find out all the details and sign up HERE. Booking closes tomorrow night (15th June) and midnight.

Stampin' Up! In Colour Club 2019-2021 with StampinByHannah

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Not a Daisy Lane in sight…

Hey folks! So, today’s card uses the stamp set from this month’s FREE Code Club Class; Daisy Lane. But, you wouldn’t know it, because there isn’t a Daisy in sight!

Encouragement card for a guy with Daisy Lane from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

I just love this leaf stamp and have a couple of cards coming up that use just the leave, and no Daisy’s! Here it’s stamped in an Ombre effect across the card. Now, I did debate what colours to use, and almost went with blues, but in the end I stuck with traditional greens; Mossy Meadow, Shaded Spruce, Old Olive and Pear Pizzazz.

Leaf Ombre encouragement card using Daisy Lane from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

This card would be perfect for a male encouragement card, or change the sentiment for a lovely birthday or even a with sympathy.

Before I go today, I do just want to mention about my In Colour Club; booking closes on Saturday! There are still a couple of places available, so grab yours today!

Stampin' Up! In Colour Club 2019-2021 with StampinByHannah

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Inspire.Create.Challenge 045 | Embossing with Sailing Home

Hey Folks, its time for another fun Inspire.Create.Challenge and this time its a fun Embossing Challenge! I adore a good technique, and I think that embossing is one of those that is easy for a new crafter… once you’ve decided what time of embossing you’re going to do of course; Heat embossing or dry embossing with an embossing folder!

Card making challenge Embossing

I made this card weeks and weeks ago, actually before baby Niamh arrived (when I was trying to be organised!) and so had almost completely forgotten about it! Cue me having a bit of a panic last week when I realised that it was my turn to write the blog post for the Inspire.Create blog, and that I had NO idea what the challenge was!

Male thanks card using Sailing Home from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

Sailing Home is one of my new masculine card favourites. It just makes really nice, simple cards. I’m sure I’ll be doing all sorts of techniques and fun things with it over the coming year, but today I thought I would stick to a bit of heat embossing and that lovely anchor image.

Heat Embossed Thank you card using Sailing Home from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

Both the anchor and the sentiment are heat embossed in gold, while the rest of the stamping is in Balmy Blue. Keeping things simple with just a hint of background stamping and a bow in the new Night of Navy and Sahara Sand Bakers Twine to finish.

Loving the embossing? Why not pop over to the Inspire.Create blog and check out the other Design Team members creations, and add your own embossed project too!

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FINAL CALL | 2019-2021 In Colour Club

Hey Folks. I have a proper blog post for you a little later for Inspire.Create.Challenge but I just wanted to let you know that booking for this years In Colour Club closes on Saturday night!

Stampin' Up! In Colour Club 2019-2021 with StampinByHannah

This fun club is a great way to collect all 5 of this years new In Colours, with all the inks, markers, card stock, embellishments, Designer Series Papers and more

Each month for 5 month’s you’ll receive a fun pack of goodies in a featured colour, as well as a fun gift and the PDF download of my Code Club Class too!

Each month you will receive:

  • Stampin’ Up! Classic Ink Pad
  • Stampin Up! Classic Ink Refill
  • A roll of 1/2″ Scalloped Linen Ribbon
  • 4 sheets of Coloured Card stock
  • 8 pieces of 6 x 6″ Designer Series Paper
  • A Stampin’ Write Marker
  • Faceted Dots

Club costs £29.50 per month for 5 months. Each month payment will be collected via PayPal invoice. This does not require a PayPal account, just a Credit or Debit Card.

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Watercolouring with Butterfly Gala

Hey folks! I am completely in LOVE with today’s card. I’ve had this one sat on my desk for weeks, but I’ve been waiting for the Butterfly Gala stamp set and coordinating punch to come back into stock before sharing it with you.

Watercolour Punch art thinking of you card using Butterfly Gala from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

There are a couple of steps to this card, but it’s still simple to create… it just takes a bit of time.

I had a bunch of scraps of watercolour paper out on my desk, and I used Stampin’ Up! classic inks to watercolour them. I was really messy with this, because the butterflies are little and I still wanted you to see that they are watercoloured. There are 4 colours here; Calypso Coral, Coastal Cabana, Gorgeous Grape and Granny Apple Green.

Create a fun floating Butterfly card using Butterfly Gala from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

This is why this card takes a little bit of time, because once those scraps have been watercoloured they need to be left a little while to dry. I but them to one side and carried on making a few more cards before then using the Butterfly Duet punch to punch out those cute butterflies.

You guys know that I’m not a fan of flat cards, I love a bit of dimension, and so some of the butterflies are adhered directly to the card base, and some are popped up on Mini Dimensionals.

You've Been on my mind Butterfly Card watercoloured with Butterfly Gala from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

The sentiment is also from Butterfly Gala, and it’s heat embossed in White onto a scrap of Basic Black card stock.

For all this card could have been called finished at this point, I felt it just needed a little something, so I through a bunch of Rhinestones on there, because, well, you can’t go wrong with a bit of sparkle can you?!

Stampin' Up! In Colour Club 2019-2021 with StampinByHannah

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Thank you Bloom and Grow!

Hey folks. Blog post is a little late this morning, basically because I’d forgotten to write it! However, baby is napping so I’ve got 10 minutes to get a bit of a catch up. Today’s card features one of my favourite new Stamp sets; Bloom and Grow

Heat Embossed Thank you card using Bloom and Grow from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

This pretty floral stamp set comes bundled with a set of dies too, and they don’t just cut out the flower images, but also have a couple of very cool boarder dies that I cannot wait to have a play with!

I’ve been a bit addicted to heat embossing recently, and this card is no exception with both the flowers and the sentiment being heat embossed. I have to say though, how pretty are those flowers heat embossed in gold?! sometimes simple is best, right?

Pretty floral heat embossed thank you card using Bloom and Grow from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

Bloom and Grow is one of those stamp sets that I can see me getting a lot of use out of, partly because of the pretty fonts, but also because there are so many things you could do with those flowers; imagine them coloured with Blends, or watercoloured, or simply stamped in black and white, or used to create a wreath…. so many ideas, so little time!

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Introducing StampinByHannah’s Crafty Selection Box!

Hey Folks! It’s a properly exciting day here at StampinByHannah as I introduce to you a brand new crafty kit to you, my Crafty Selection Box! I’ve been toying with the idea of a monthly craft kit for ages, and well, I’ve decided that its been an idea long enough and it’s time to release it to the world!

StampinByHannah Crafty Selection Box June 2019

So, each month I’ll release a brand new Crafty Selection Box! Each kit will include a fun selection of card stocks, Designer Series Papers, Embellishments and more, and will of course use Stampin’ Up! products.

This month’s kit uses the gorgeous Bird Ballard Suite. I am totally in love with this one, the Designer Series Papers are just stunning, and there are some fun embellishments in there too!

Stampin' Up! Bird Ballard Suite Crafty Selection Box with StampinByHannah

The June Crafty Selection Box includes:

  • 1/2 pack of the Bird Ballard Designer Series Paper
  • 6 sheets of coloured card stock
  • 3 sheets of Whisper White card stock
  • 3/8″ Scalloped Lace Trim
  • Bird Ballard Trinkets
  • Pearlised Doilies
  • Copper Dotted Treatbags
  • Selection of Die Cut Stitched Labels
  • 6 Envelopes
  • An exclusive project inspiration sheet; set by email
  • A fun treat from me!
  • Access to the PDF download of this month’s Code Club Class that uses the Daisy Lane stamp set
  • Postage and packing

Each month’s Crafty Selection box will cost £25 and you can choose from a monthly rolling subscription, or a one off kit.

There are a few items that you might want to think about adding onto your kit:


Payments are collected by PayPal. However, this doesn’t mean you need a PayPal account, just a Credit or Debit card.

This month’s kit is available today, and ordering will close on the 19th June at 10PM. Once this date has passed I will then order the required items from Stampin’ Up! and should have the kits out to you before the 28th June.

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Pootlers Team Blog Hop | Free as a Bird Thank You Card

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Hey folks! It’s a special day here today, the first Pootlers Team Blog Hop of the new Stampin’ Up! Annual catalogue! I absolutely LOVE taking part in these blog hops, the girls always work so hard to create some fabulous projects to inspire you with some of the new stamps and goodies in the catalogue. I also coordinate these hops, and with the recent birth of my daughter I did consider not running the hop this time, but, they are so much fun I couldn’t miss one!

Thank you card using flower stamps from Free as a Bird from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

This time I thought I would share a fun way of using the Free as a Bird stamp set. This stamp set is one of my absolute favourites in the new catalogue, and it forms part of just the most gorgeous suite of products. Bird Ballard includes a bright and fun pack of Designer Series Paper, pretty lace trim, some lovely embellishments and just the most beautiful tin and notecards. I’ll list all the goodies in this suite at the bottom of this blog post.

Pretty watercolour Thank You card using Free as a bird and Bird Ballard from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

This card was inspired by my friend Stacey Marsh and a card she made using another new stamp set, Sailing Home. I just really liked the diagonal stamping, here I’ve used the pretty flower stamps from Free As A Bird and stamped in Stazon ink onto Shimmer White card stock

Then each flower was (very) loosely watercoloured in either Rococo Rose for the large flowers, or Mint Macaron for the smaller ones.

Rococo Rose Thank You card using Free as a bird from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

I did actually originally stamp the sentiment straight onto the card, but it just didn’t quite have the right impact. So, I stamped it again onto a scrap of card stock the same width as the stamped panel and popped it up on some dimensionals.

Now, I love this stamp set, but I do have one issue… it doesn’t have coordinating dies! So, that flower was fussy cut. But, it does actually cut out quite easily, or it does when you only cut one anyway!

Thank so much for checking out my blog today, I would be so grateful if you would check out the projects the other ladies have created for the Pootlers Team Blog Hop. Just click on the images below to be taken to each of their blogs, and I hope to see you again very soon!

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Daisy Lane Code Club Class for June 2019

Hey Folks, its that time again, time to let you know about my Free Code Club Class for June. This month I have a fun class for you, using the brand new Daisy Lane stamp set and the Daisy Punch.

Free Cardmaking class using Stampin' Up! Daisy lane for StampinByHannah's Code Club!

Each month I release a brand new free class, and to join in all you need to do is shop using the Code Club Code. Spend £25 using the code and you’ll receive the PDF download tutorials for all 4 cards, while if you spend £45 you will also receive a card kit including all the card stock, Designer Series Paper and a full pack of embellishments to complete the projects. Just add the stamps and ink!

To join in all you need to do is add the following code to the ‘Hostess Code’ box during checkout in my Online Store.

June Code Club Hostess Code from StampinByHannah

June’s class makes 4 fun cards using Daisy Lane. I LOVE this new stamp set, not only does it coordinate with the existing Daisy Punch, but also you could choose to get it bundled with the brand new Medium Daisy Punch!

There are a couple of items I would suggest if you wish to make the cards as per the tutorials…

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