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24th February 2015

How to get 6 (metric) cards from one sheet of 12 x 12 Designer Series Paper!

I love 12 x 12 paper! I admit, I am a little addicted, and I don’t actually use it as often as I should!

When I received the Painted Blooms Designer Series Paper I knew I was going to struggle to cut into it, its a gorgeous collection of floral themed papers all hand painted – it is stunning! But I knew I had to use this one particular piece in as large pieces as I could, and making 6 cards from one sheet of DSP was the way to do this.

I know a few US demo’s have made similar videos, but they use slightly different measurements to fit 8 1.2 x 11″ cardstock, rather than our A4

I just love the look of these cards, all different but definitely a set together!

And I couldn’t bear to split them up so, I’m going to give them away to you – to win these 6 cards all you have to do is place an order with me before midnight on the 28th of February 2015 – and I will select one random winner! awesome!

But, how do you make them! well, I have a video for that!

Measurements:

For these cards you will need 3 sheets for A4 cardstock cut in half and folded to make 6 cards, and a sheet of 12 x 12 Designer Series Paper

Cut 1.8 cm (3/4″) from the bottom of the 12 x 12 DSP

Cut your DSP in half at 14.3 cm (5 13/16″)

Then cut each piece into 10 cm (3 7/8″) pieces, you will have two little slivers of DSP left over

Hannah Wilks

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

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23rd February 2015

Is There no Limit to you Awesomeness?

Hello! Happy Monday!

Sorry for the late post this morning, as you may know I work as a Nurse, and yesterday I was called into work at very very short notice. I usually work ahead of myself but this last few weeks have been crazy, and I ran out of posts!

Its OK; normal service will resume tomorrow!

So, today I thought I would share the card I made for my very first downline and member of my Stampin’ Team! Kathryn, when she joined me back in January

I recently earned some free stamp sets (one of the many many perks of being a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator) and I choose Big News, a great sentiment stamp set featuring Thank you’s and Birthdays, but also this great stamp – Is there no limit to your awesomeness? – well, if you’ve joined Stampin’ Up! then no, there isn’t! I heat embossed the sentiment in gold – so pretty.

The flowers are from Petal Potpourri, a great stamp set from the new Spring/Summer catalogue, which comes bundled with the Flower Medallion Punch. The background stamps are in Crumb Cake, stamped off once, and then the main image is stamped in Pool Party, and coloured with Blendabilities! Do you know you can use your Blendabilities with your Stampin’ Up! Classic Ink! Isn’t it awesome!

Do you know what else is awesome! that you can get Blendabilities for FREE at the moment if you choose them as your Sale-a-bration item for spending £45! Here I have used Calypso Coral and Coastal Cabana to colour the flower – and I didn’t pay for either set!

For more information about Sale-a-bration or Joining Stampin’ Up! click on the links at the top of the page

Hannah Wilks

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22nd February 2015

Sale-a-bration on Sunday – Watercolouring with Irresistibly Yours

Hey! Welcome to another Sale-a-bration on Sunday!

I am loving Sale-a-bration this year, there are so many lovely products for you to choose from when you spend £45 in either the Annual or Spring/Summer catalogues. Although I love all the stamp sets that are available, I think the Irresistibly Yours Designer Series Paper is my absolute favourite item!

This paper is patterned, but with glossy white patterns, making it perfect for emboss resist techniques – just like this one!

I have made a video tutorial for this, however it is super simple – I smoosh (technical term!) my ink pad face down onto my glass worktop, a large acrylic block would work just as well, and add some water to make a Stampin’ Up! coloured watercolour! and use a large flat brush to apply this ink/water combo into the paper. The glossy areas resist the ink and so stay white, rub over the piece with a cloth or piece of paper towel to clean the ink off though. The piece needs to be left to dry (or dried with a heat tool) for about 10 minutes before attaching to the card.

The card I make in the video uses Rose Red ink, and a Mossy Meadow Card base, while the other just uses Night of Navy. I would suggest that a deeper colour works best for this technique so that the white areas really pop.

The stamp is also a Sale-a-bration item – the Simply Wonderful stamp set, which coordinates with the Extra-Large oval punch!

Thanks for joining me for Sale-a-bration on Sunday, see you again next week for some more great techniques and crafty projects.

Hannah Wilks

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20th February 2015

Fancy Fold Friday – Joy Fold Card

Hello and welcome to another Fancy Fold Friday!

Today I have Joy fold card for you, using In-colours from both 2013-2015 AND 2014-2016

I will be so sad when Coastal Cabana leaves us in June, its so pretty, and I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to use it in this card. The other version uses the New In-Colours – Lost Lagoon and Hello Honey.

The card also features the Crazy About You stamp set and Hello You Thinlits, I love using thinlits like these, but getting all those bits and pieces out of the dies can be a bit of a pain. I know there are loads of tips on how to make this easier on YouTube (particularly after the release of those beautiful Butterfly Thinlits!) but I use the old fashioned method of poking through the holes of the die with my poky tool and allowing the bits of cardstock fall into a sandwich bag (rather than letting them loose all over my desk!)

Measurements:

Outer Card – 4 1/8 x 8 3/4″ (10.5 x 22.3 cm) Scored at 3″ (or 14.8 cm)

Inner Card – 3 x 8 1/4 (7.5 x 21 cm) Scored at 4 1/8 (10.5 cm)

Two pieces of Whisper White cardstock measuring 2 3/4 x 3 7/8″ (7 x 10 cm)

Hannah Wilks

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19th February 2015

March Technique Class!

Right, so there are only a few days left before booking for my March Technique Class closes!

This month we are using the Flower Patch stamp set and die bundle, to make 2 lovely cards and a gift box!

As always all materials are provided, including adhesives. All classes take place within my home (unless you choose the virtual option!) and private classes are also available.

Each month we make a series of cards, and I always include a 3D project; either a fancy fold card, or a box of some form. This month the boxes we are using are from Stampin’ Up! but we are going to make them look fabulous!

Check out my Facebook events for all my classes, or my Stampin’ Up! page for full details of all StampinByHannah events!
My classes are available either in person or virtually, and are available with or without the Stamp set.

Class only – £10

Class with Stamp set – £28

Class with Stamp and die bundle – £45

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Hannah Wilks

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17th February 2015

Ambassador’s Chocolate box! using Stampin’ Up! UK products – video Tutorial

I love taking packaging as inspiration for handmade projects, a few weeks ago I was shopping with a friend and spotted a long thin box of chocolates, and just knew I had to buy it and re-create it. Now, that box wasn’t all that exciting, but using an existing box makes it much easier to re-engineer a box to fit the same items! So, the original box held 5 chocolates, my version holds 3, but I think 3 of these indulgent chocolates is enough!

I have made this box a few times now, with punched out sections, and designer series paper, but may favourite has to be this Brushed Gold version. The photo doesn’t do the colour of this cardstock justice, but I think I managed to capture the shine in the video.

I also grabbed one of the new wedding themed stamp sets from the Spring/Summer catalogue for the stamped sentiment – Your Perfect Day, punched out perfectly (pun intended) with the 1 1/4″ circle punch. I just love the look of these two punched layered on top of each other, the bottom layer is a 1 3/8″ circle punched from Blackberry Bliss cardstock (love that colour!)

Measurements:

Cardstock = 8 1/4 x 6 1/2″ (21 x 17 cm)

Score on the long side first at – 1/2, 2, 6 1/4 and 7 3/4″ (1 , 5, 16, and 20 cm)

Score on the short side at 1/2, 2, 3 1/2 and 5″ (1, 5, 9, 13 cm)

Measurements for Designer Series Paper:

4 pieces cut to 1 1/4 x 4″ (3 x 10 cm)

2 pieces cut to 1 1/4 x 1 1/4″ (3 x 3 cm)

Hannah Wilks

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16th February 2015

Butterfly Basics

Hello and Welcome to a new week at StampinbyHannah!

This card uses the Butterfly Thinlits dies, from the Spring/Summer Stampin’ Up! catalogue. Isn’t it pretty.
When I first received these dies I had a good old play with them, trying to find the best way to get them to cut, which colours did I prefer, that kind of thing, and this is the card that resulted.

I adore the subtles collection cardstocks for spring, the colours are all just so pretty. Here I have used Soft Sky, Blushing Bride and Pear Pizzazz.

There are now loads of videos on YouTube showing you some of the best ways to get these dies to cut. I am absolutely no expert on this one! I run them through my slightly tired Big Shot several times, rotating them and moving them across the cutting plates. Once they are cut I stand and poke all the pieces through with my pokey tool (or Stampin’ Up! Paper Piercing Tool), into a Sandwich bag to catch all the little bits. But these Butterflies are worth the effort, they are stunning on a card!

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15th February 2015

Sale-a-bration on Sunday – An opportunity too good to miss?!

So, we are now about halfway through Sale-a-bration – the biggest sale in the Stampin’ Up! calender, and I have to say, I’m loving it! There are a great selection of FREE products available this year, just for spending £45! (or €60) with me.

Have I also mentioned that as well as choosing stamps or designer series paper, this year you can also choose one of the packs of Blendabilities from the annual catalogue – that means that there are 22 different items that you can get for FREE right up until the 31st of March! And there are great offers for hosting parties or becoming a demonstrator too.

So, I wanted to mention the great joining offer available during Sale-a-bration. For just £99 you can choose £130 worth of Stampin’ Up! products, from either the Annual or Spring/Summer catalogues, AND you can choose either a FREE project kit from the Spring/Summer catalogue OR two items from Sale-a-bration! AWESOME!

but, there is more! There are many amazing things about being a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator, not least the great Stampin’ Friends you meet, the chance to attend some awesome Stampin’ Up! events (this year’s events are going to be amazing, trust me!), and some great demonstrator incentives and offers. PLUS, the normal 20% discount on all purchases, pre-order periods and free products just for being a demo!

Then there are the great things I can offer too! I have a growing number of demonstrators in my team, with our own downline blog, private facebook group, Pinterest board, and events, one to one sessions, and help with parties and events that you hold too! Oh, and there’s the small matter of joining a team that includes the world famous Pootles! (She’s my upline if you really want to know!)

Now, I know the idea of being a demonstrator is scary, and I’m not totally sure demonstrator is the right word for what we do either, but…. there are many different reasons to join Stampin’ Up!, maybe you just love the products and that 20% discount is really handy, or you love to get your hands on all that lovely new product before you friends, or maybe you need a bit of extra income for a family holiday, birthdays or Christmas, Stampin’ Up! could be for you!

For further information about Stampin’ Up! drop me a message.

I couldn’t leave you without a card on Sale-a-bration Sunday could I! This uses a Coastal Cabana Card blank, stamped using the Best Day Ever stamp set, complete with a piece of the Best Year Ever designer series paper, and some fussy cut flowers from the same stamp set!

Hannah Wilks

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12th February 2015

Happy Zoo Babies!

I have had this card sat on my hard drive for a little while, neglected, and lonely. The last few weeks have been insanely busy around here, working 65 hour weeks, hen parties, classes, and running the blog, but I’m hoping I’m back on an even keel again now. I have come to see how much I can do, and I have a habit of saying yes to anything and everything, and I just can’t do it all. So, after having to pull out of a craft fayre last weekend, I took a step back and realised what I can fit into my life! and currently, craft fayres are not it!

So, after that ramble, I have a lovely card for you today.

I made this card before Christmas! for my cousin’s babies first birthday. I had just received my pre-order from the Spring/summer catalogue, so there are a few products used here.

For babies cards there is no stamp set better than Zoo Babies! I adore the cute animals and patterns, stamped in fun colours of course!

One of the first things to come out of my pre-order box was the lovely Hello You thinlits dies – four word dies; Happy, You, Thanks, and Hello, that work perfectly with the Crazy About You stamp set. So, well in fact that they come as a bundle! Crazy About You also comes in all 3 stamp types, Wood Mount, Clear Mount and Photopolymer! Awesome! These thinlit dies are fantastic, and so easy to cut and get back out of those dies! but I think my favourite thing about them is using the Transfer Adhesive Sheets to put them onto a card! If you haven’t experienced TAS yet, grab them now!

My favourite colour of the moment is still Lost Lagoon, and for a baby boy card it is perfect! paired with a piece of the Sweet Dreams DSP – lovely!

Hannah Wilks

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9th February 2015

Butterfly Basics – January Thanks!

I love sending thank you notes to customers, and I try to make a different card each month.

For those lovely ladies who shopped with me in January, these are the cards that should be sat on your shelves!

I have to give credit to Brandy Cox who I have CASE’d this idea from. She did a fab 10 cards in 20 minutes video based around this set. Lovely!

I send cards out at the end of each month, and theses went out last week.

I used a Pool Party card base (have an A4 sheet cut in half, folded in half), with a piece of Whisper White for stamping.

The stamp set used here is Butterfly Basics, it is so pretty! saying that I haven’t included a butterfly! The ferns are triple stamped in Pear Pizzazz, with the other elements stamped in Crumb Cake.

The ‘Thank You’ sentiment is taken from Crazy About You.

Hannah Wilks

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