Love Hearts Week | Tall Skinny Sending Love Bag!

Love hearts week tall skinny gift bag using Sending Love Designer Series Paper from Stampin' Up! UK

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Welcome to day 2 of a week of Love Hearts products! I think these would make lovely Valentines gifts, and a cute way to say I love you…. or maybe wedding favours to say Thank you…. or even just because!

Love hearts week tall skinny gift bag using Sending Love Designer Series Paper from Stampin' Up! UK

This Designer Series Paper may just be my favourite paper this year! On one side of each sheet is a cute Valentines print, but on the other are a selection of great patterns for all occasions…. a paper stack that takes you way beyond Valentines, actually I think that some of the patterns would be cute Christmas options!

Measurements:

Sending Love Designer Series Paper – 4 1/2 x 6″ (11 x 15 cm)

Scored on the long side at 1, 2, 3, 4″ (2.5, 5, 7.5 and 10 cm)

Score on the short side at 1″ (2.5 cm)


Question of the day: What is you current favourite Designer Series Paper

I am loving Sending Love, and the Carried Away Designer Series Paper (free during Sale-a-bration!)


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Love Hearts Week | Masked Jar of Love Gift Bag

Love Hearts week Valentines papercraft using Jar of Love from Stampin' Up! UK

Love Hearts sweets Video tutorials

Oh I have been so looking forward to this week! A whole week of projects and videos featuring the wonders that are Love Hearts! Yay!

Love Hearts week Valentines papercraft using Jar of Love from Stampin' Up! UK

How cute are is this bag! and it is super easy to make too – all thanks the the Gift Bag Punch Board.

Measurements:

Card stock – 10 x 4 1/8″ (25.4 x 10.5 cm)

Make the gift bag following the instructions for the S sized bag.

Whisper White – 2  1/2 x 2 1/4 (6.3 x 5.4 cm)

Gift Bag Punch Board Gift Bag for Love Hearts using Jar of Love from Stampin' Up! UK

The heart mask is super easy to create too, I used the sweetheart punch to punch out a piece of Grid paper to use as a mask. Then use stamps (I used the small heart from Jar of Love) to stamp around the heart in Blushing Bride, Calypso Coral and Watermelon Wonder. Lovely!


Question of the Day: What is your favourite Valentines sweet treat?

I’m a sucker for anything chocolate-y, My Mr. usually buys me Thorntons for any occasion, although I dread to think what he is buying me this year seeing as we are both on a major diet 🙁


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Pootlers Blog Hop | Celebrating Sale-a-bration!

Sale-a-bration team blog hop Using Carried Away Lift me Up and Designer Tee from Stampin' Up! UK

Pootles Stampin' Up! Team Blog Hop

Welcome to the Second Pootlers Team Blog hope of 2017! This time we are Celebrating Sale-a-bration!

What is Sale-a-bration?

It’s only the greatest Stampin’ Offer and event of the whole year! Sale-a-bration is in 3 parts;

  • Shop – spent £45 and get a free gift (you get one gift for each £45 you spend in an individual order, so if you spend £90 you get 2 items, £135 3 items etc),
  • Host – host a party or spend more than £200 in a single order to earn extra Stampin’ Rewards,
  • or Join – and get the greatest deal – £130 worth of awesome Stampin’ Up! goodies, plus 2 free stamp sets of your choice AND free postage, 20% off all future orders while your remain with the team, and access to awesome events, pre-order periods and our exclusive team group!

Sale-a-bration team blog hop Using Carried Away Lift me Up and Designer Tee from Stampin' Up! UK

I have been playing with the Lift Me Up! bundle for months, (its been in my inky fingers since September last year when I was asked to make samples with it for the On Stage Local event in Telford!) but I have not got tired of it yet! It coordinate perfectly with the Sale-a-bration item; Carried Away Designer Series Paper which I have used in the background. I am currently taking every possible opportunity to use my favourite colour; Mint Macaron, before it sadly retires in June (get your refills now!)

The Sentiment is from another one of the Sale-a-bration items. Designer Tee, is designed to coordinate with the Custom Tee stamp and die bundle in the Spring / Summer catalogue, but I love that the sentiments fit with heaps of other stamp sets and occasions too. Side-note; how true is that sentiment!

I hope that you have enjoyed hopping along with me today, please click on the images below to check out the other ladies blogs!

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Question of the day: Which one of this years out-going In Colours are you going to miss most?

I am totally devastated to loose Mint Macaron, I have just about everything crossed that it might find its way back to us at some point…


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Lucky to have a Special Reason

Special Friend Card using Special Reason from Stampin' Up! UK

I rarely get chance to make a card simply for the enjoyment of making, although I never make anything I don’t want to make just so I can blog it (although there are many projects I have made an not been a massive fan of once completed that have appeared here on my blog!). Anyway, a few weeks ago I decided I would just play, get out all my new stamps and just have fun….. and this card is the result.

Just Because card using Special Reason from Stampin' Up! Uk

This stamp set, Special Reason, was an all attendee give away at Stampin’ Up! OnStage back in November, and I immediately fell in love with it. However, paired with the coordinating framelits it’s even better! Stylish Stems includes a heap of great dies, that can be cut in various ways (and I love that Stampin’ Up! have made a video so I don’t have to!)

I am so looking forward to getting some time over the weekend to CASe some of those samples, quite fancy-ing a combination of the stamps and watercolour…. hmmm

Special Friend Card using Special Reason from Stampin' Up! UK

I’m loving this colour combination too… I am all about the colour, its one of the many reason’s I love Stampin’ Up! the fact that I can grab inks, card stock and embellishments that are all the same colour is a big bonus for me! So the colours on this one are;


Aren’t they pretty? Click on the colour names above to see a whole heap of coordinating products in that colour!


Question of the Day: Tea or Coffee?

I’m a big coffee fan. I LOVE my Tassimo machine, although I’m supposed to be on a diet at the moment so my Tassimo pods have become something of a treat!


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Lift Me Up! | Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday Card and PDF download using Lift Me Up from Stampin' Up! UK

I have already shared today’s card over on my Facebook page, but I love it so much that I couldn’t help but share it here too!

Happy Birthday Card and PDF download using Lift Me Up from Stampin' Up! UK

I have mentioned before about how I was given this stamp and die bundle to make display samples for a Stampin’ Up! event back in November. I had so much fun with it, and after playing with all my other new stamps recently I just keep coming back to this Balloon die.

You can find the full instructions for this card, and two other using the same stamp set in my PDF DOWNLOAD


Question of the Day: What is your favourite thing to do on a rainy day?

Stamping, of course!


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Sale-a-bration Wednesday | Dancing Inside the Lines

Sale-a-bration Inside the Lines from Stampin' Up!

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Sale-a-bration is now in full swing, and I am loving it! There are so many great reasons to be a part of it!

For starters you can be a part of Sale-a-bration by simply shopping, spend £45 and choose one of the awesome Sale-a-bration freebies…. of course you could spend multiples of £45 and get multiple free gifts! Awesome!

This card uses one of my favourite freebies, the Inside the lines Designer Series Paper;

Inside the Lines Designer Series Paper Sale-a-bration from Stampin' Up! UK

This particular piece of paper though, I cannot image colouring in… I just don’t have the patience for that. So instead, I grabbed out my Sponge Brayer instead.

Sale-a-bration Inside the Lines from Stampin' Up!

Of course, there is another even more awesome way to get involved in Sale-a-bration! You could grab the ultimate Stampin’ bundle! The Ultimate Stampin’ bundle is £130 worth of stampin’ goodies of your choice (yes, it is totally customise-able), and then you can choose another 2 stamp sets from the Spring Summer or Annual catalogue for FREE, you get free postage and packing, and then 20% off all your Stampin’ Up! products while you remain with the team too. Awesome! I would love to welcome you to my team of Stampin’ Friends! just ask me how!


Question of the day: What is your favourite Stampin’ Up! stamp set?

I’m not sure I could choose, I’m loving Beautiful You at the moment, but Jar of Love still has a BIG place in my heart too, and Awesomely Artistic, Gorgeous Grunge… Butterfly Basics, Picture Perfect……. the list goes on and on and on!


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Global Design Project 071 – 3D Squishy bag!

Global Design Project 3D challenge Pop of Pink squishy bag

I LOVE taking part in challenges! I am trying to join in with the Global Design Project every single Tuesday (which to be honest is a challenge in itself!) but I am currently also challenging myself in other ways too, I think 2017 might just be the year of the challenge!

Global Design Project 071

I will openly admit that this challenge scared the pants of me (and I almost didn’t bother this week!) 3D is a really struggle for me, I am not blessed with that skill of being able to see a 3D project and then make it! and I had a quick look through my die collection, but there is nothing 3D in there either….. so I turned to Pinterest and remembered THIS fabulous project by my lovely friend Sam, I had been meaning to have a go at this bag, well this was my opportunity!

Global Design Project 3D challenge Pop of Pink squishy bag

The bag itself is really simple;

Measurements:

Designer Series Paper – 12 x 6″ (30.5 x 15 cm)

Score on the long side at 3 3/4, 5 3/4, 9 1/2 and 11 1/2″ (9.5, 14.5, 24, 29 cm)

Score on the short side at 1 1/2″ (4 cm)

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I have used the Pop of Pink Speciality Designer Series Paper (which I have been hoarding, because it is just so damn pretty!) and it sent me onto a bit of a Gold kick! The panel on the front of the bag is 2 x 2 3/4″ and I coated it in Versamark and heat embossed it in Gold embossing powder! The layer on the top is 1 3/4 x 2 1/2″ of Whisper White, and I’ve used the Swirly Bird stamp set to add a touch of Flirty Flamingo (all that Gold was getting a bit too much!)

Thanks so much for checking out my little corner of the internet today, and I hope to see you again soon!


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Make It Monday | Cute card using Sweet Cupcake from Stampin’ Up! UK

Make It Monday video tutorial using Sweet cupcake and watercolour pencils from Stampin' Up! UK

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Welcome to Monday! I do hope this week is totally awesome for you…. I can make it even more awesome of course! Have you checked out my most recent Online Card Class yet? This class uses the fabulous Sweet Cupcake stamp and die bundle…. check the video to see exactly what comes in your class pack

Make It Monday video tutorial using Sweet cupcake and watercolour pencils from Stampin' Up! UK

I love the Sweet Cupcake stamp set. It is designed to work as a triple layer stamp, with both the cupcake base and the icing have 3 stamps to create a totally dimensional cupcake. However, I have only used the base layer to create this card…. and then added extra detail with Watercolour Pencils (obsessed with those!)

The watercolour pencils can be used either on their own – as regular pencils – with an Aqua Painter or a paint brush, or with a blender pen. So far my experiments with a blender pen seem to have better blended results that with an Aqua-Painter or a paint brush, but then I haven’t finished playing with them yet…

Make It Monday video tutorial using Sweet cupcake from Stampin' Up! UK

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Question of the day: What are your crafty plans for this week?

I’m working on upcoming classes and a heap of videos coming in February! very exciting!


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Team Colour Challenge | Sweet Cupcake

Team Colour Challenge Thank You card using Sweet Cupcake from Stampin' Up! UK

Every now and again someone in my team of Stampin’ Up! demonstrators we set a challenge, sometimes its business related, and other times its creative. A few weeks ago we set a challenge to create a card using two colours (plus a neutral) that were selected at random – by random I mean I spun my colour caddy with my eye shut and pulled out two inks – Marina Mist and Smoky Slate!

Team Colour Challenge Thank You card using Sweet Cupcake from Stampin' Up! UK

My current Online Card Class features the Sweet Cupcake stamp set, and I was just gathering ideas for cards for my class when this colour challenge came up. So I took advantage of the free theme to make a card using Sweet Cupcake as practice. You can find out more about my Sweet Cupcake class on my Online Card Class page.

This card was pretty simple to put together; the cupcake is super easy to stamp even though its in 3 layers, they line up really easily, I thought I would share a video using this stamp set again so you can see how easy it is to stamp.

I would love you to join in! Just select two inks totally at random and use those colours to make a project! Share with me in the coordinating post over on my Facebook Page, and I will select a winner next week. Entries close, midnight (UK) on 25th January 2017, and I’ll announce the winner on my blog!

Thanks for checking out StampinByHannah today, and I hope to see you again soon


Question of the day: What is your favourite type of cupcake?

Me? I just love cake! any flavour, any size, although the more chocolate the better!


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Sale-a-bration Wednesday | December Thank You Cards

Sale-a-bration thank you card using So very much from Stampin' up! UK

I am LOVING this Sale-a-bration! There are so many great products to get for FREE when you shop! you can check them out my clicking on the Sale-a-bration picture on the right (or at the bottom if your on a mobile device) of this blog post.

Sale-a-bration thank you card using So very much from Stampin' up! UK

I made a stack of these for my December Customers. They are super simple to put together, and I made all the flowers during an hour long team call with my team leader a few weeks ago. I will quite often craft on calls to team members, or my team leader, also long as they are quiet crafty jobs! (ie: no big shot work!). The flowers on these cards use the Faux Suede technique, where you punch out the shape, and then manipulate the card stock back and forward until the layers of card stock separate. This then shows the fluffy fibres of the card stock and looks like suede! I did a Make It Monday a few weeks ago on this technique, complete with a video for you to enjoy!

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