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23rd January 2017

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

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

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…

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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!

Product List

Sweet Cupcake Photopolymer Bundle

[142232]

£38.50

Watercolor Pencils

[141709]

£14.50

Melon Mambo Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126948]

£6.00

Melon Mambo A4 Card Stock

[119980]

£7.25

Early Espresso Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126974]

£6.00

Early Espresso A4 Card Stock

[121686]

£7.25

Layering Circle Framelits Dies

[141705]

£32.00

Seaside Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

[141481]

£7.75

Blender Pens

[102845]

£9.00

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

19th January 2017

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!

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!

Product List

Sweet Cupcake Photopolymer Bundle

[142232]

£38.50

Petal Burst Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

[141493]

£7.00

Marina Mist Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126962]

£6.00

Marina Mist A4 Card Stock

[121682]

£7.25

Smoky Slate Classic Stampin’ Pad

[131179]

£6.00

Card Stock A4 Smoky Slate

[131291]

£7.25

Layering Circle Framelits Dies

[141705]

£32.00

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

18th January 2017

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.

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!

Product List

So Very Much Wood-Mount Stamp Set

[143340]

£0.00

Blooms & Bliss Designer Series Paper

[141654]

£10.00

Blossom Builder Punch

[141469]

£16.00

Gold Stampin’ Emboss Powder

[109129]

£4.50

Versamark Pad

[102283]

£7.75

Mint Macaron A4 Cardstock

[138344]

£7.25

Island Indigo A4 Card Stock

[124390]

£7.25

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

17th January 2017

Global Design Project #070 | Falling for you…. and a ladybird!

Global Design Project Celebration card using Falling in Love with Lots of Love from Stampin' Up! UK

Oh yes, I’m back working with a Global Design Project sketch again this week. I am planning for this to be my weekly Tuesday blog post, however last week was crazy from the second I opened my eyes on Monday morning, and the crazy didn’t end until Sunday night…. I’m hoping for calm this week (but something tells me everything is about to go pear shaped again!)

I love the simplicity of this sketch, and I did have a plan to keep things really simple…. but then I spotted the couple of ladybirds on my stamp shelves and things went a little differently!

But aren’t they just so cute! I knew I wanted to use Designer Series Paper for the banner across the card, and I haven’t been able to put this pack of DSP away recently – its the brand new Sending Love Designer Series Paper stack that features loads of lovely patterns, one side of the paper is love / Valentines themed while the other is great polka dots and other more neutral patterns, but all in Real Red and Whisper White.

Those cute Ladybirds are from the Love You Lots, this fabulous stamp set is available with Stampin’ Rewards… and seeing as you have even more Stampin’ Rewards during Sale-a-bration this would be the perfect time to get your hands on it!

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

Question of the Day: What are you doing today?

I’m off to the day job today, a lovely 9-5 day…. although I’m then off to the gym for the first time in, well lets just call it slightly too long! Wish me luck!

Product List

Love You Lots Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[141801]

£8.00

Falling For You Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[143109]

£19.00

Sending Love Designer Series Paper Stack

[142733]

£9.00

Real Red A4 Card Stock

[106578]

£7.25

Basic Black A4 Card Stock

[121688]

£7.25

Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad

[140931]

£6.50

Aqua Painters

[103954]

£15.50

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

15th January 2017

Online Card Class | Sweet Cupcake

Online Card Class using Sweet Cupcake from Stampin' Up! UK

Hello! Wow, this post is going up a little later than I was hoping (basically because I had forgotten that I didn’t write and schedule it yesterday….. can someone say ‘head in the shed!’) but it is here, my Online Card Class for Sweet Cupcake.

I LOVE this stamp and coordinating die set, it is great for fabulously sweet birthday cards, thank yous and general you are awesome cards!

This class includes exclusive video tutorials for 3 cards, and enough card make supplies to make 6 great all occasion cupcake themed cards!

Class Materials included:

Sweet Cupcake Stamp and Die Bundle
Mint Macaron Sheer Linen Ribbon
A Sale-a-bration item of your choice (but please don’t choose the Card Tin, it is far too big for my class packets!)

To sign up to class please complete the form below:

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

11th January 2017

Sale-a-bration Wednesday | So Very Much

Thank you card usng So Very Much from Sale-a-bration 2017 Stampin' Up! UK

Oh Yes, I’m blogging on a Wednesday for the next 3 months during Sale-a-bration! Have you checked out the awesome Sale-a-bration deals yet? You totally should…. after looking at my card for today though!

I had a nightmare with this card! Last week I hosted a Sale-a-bration launch party over on my Facebook page, now normally I’m super organised, with projects made and photographed weeks in advance, but I just haven’t quite got back into the swing of things after Christmas yet, and I was running a little behind my usual ‘ahead-of-time’ schedule. Which left me needing to photograph my party projects the morning of the event…. and this was of course the morning my lights decided to die! Anyway, one of my lovely Stampin’ Sisters came to my rescue and totally saved the day….. and I learned a valuable lesson about being more organised!

This card uses the totally stunning So Very Much stamp set – Free with a £45 purchase during Sale-a-bration! – and it is stamped in Early Espresso ink onto a piece of Designer Series Paper taken from the Serene Scenery Designer Series Paper Stack. So pretty.

Sale-a-bration has 3 parts; shop, host and join, and while you can shop as normal and earn free products (shop) or do a super spend of £200 and earn extra Stampin’ Rewards (Host), its the joining offer that has me most excited! Now, the Stampin’ Up! Starter Kit is always a best deal; choose £130 worth of Stampin’ treats, pay just £99, and then get 20% discount! But during Sale-a-bration it gets even better because you can add TWO stamp sets to your kit for FREE! now, that’s not stamps from the Sale-a-bration brochure, that’s stamps that you would normally have to pay for from the Annual or Spring Summer catalogues… for FREE! Loving that!

Some of the stamps you could get for free…

Crazy About You Wood Stamp Set

[138856]

£47.00

Flourishing Phrases Wood-Mount Stamp Set

[141531]

£44.00

Guy Greetings Wood Stamp Set

[138825]

£46.00

Touches Of Texture Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[143251]

£30.00

Letters For You Photopolymer Stamp Set

[141968]

£44.00

Butterfly Basics Clear Stamp Set

[138816]

£33.00

I would love to talk to you some more about joining my team of Stampers, you can find more information on my Join My Team page, or drop me an email!

Product List

So Very Much Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[143343]

£0.00

Serene Scenery Designer Series Paper Stack

[141642]

£9.00

Very Vanilla 1/4″ (6.4 Mm) Satin Ribbon

[142794]

£5.50

Delightful Dijon Classic Stampin’ Pad

[138327]

£6.00

Early Espresso Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126974]

£6.00

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

10th January 2017

Men’s Cards | Nailed It!

Men's birthday card using Nailed It from Stampin' Up! UK

My goodness, yesterday was busy here on the blog. I was at work, and my phone would not stop buzzing, took me til after teatime to get to work out what was going on…. turns out that THIS CARD I posted last week had won the Global Design Project Challenge for last week. I am totally stunned! I am hoping to get a card made for the challenge this week, but its not going to be today

I will of course admit that this card is CASE’d from the insanely talented Rochelle Blok from Australia.

I made this card for my father-in-law’s birthday back in December. He is always a challenge to make a card for, not only because he is a man, but he also has quite specific interests – he’s a VW car enthusiast, classic campervan’s in particular, but we don’t have anything like that in the catalogue, so I have to revert to ‘manly’ stamps! Except when I spotted this stamp and die bundle in the catalogue, I immediately thought of David!

The ‘Happy Birthday’ sentiment is taken from the Sale-a-bration stamp set Designer Tee. You can get this for FREE when you spend £45, or you buy the Nailed It bundle in wood-mount!

The card itself is fairly simple. The hammer and saw are stamped in Basic Grey, and coloured using the fabulous new Watercolour Pencils, and the back ground is the new Hexagon Embossing Folder.

Product List

Nailed It Wood-Mount Bundle

[144734]

£45.00

Nailed It Clear-Mount Bundle

[144735]

£38.50

Hexagons Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

[143231]

£8.25

5/8″ (1.6 Cm) Burlap Ribbon

[141487]

£6.50

Designer Tee Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[143359]

£0.00

Basic Gray Archival Stampin’ Pad

[140932]

£6.50

Watercolor Pencils

[141709]

£14.50

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

8th January 2017

Pootlers Birthday Blog Hop | Balloon Adventure!

Balloon Adventures pop up birthday card for the Pootlers Birthday Blog Hop January 2017 using Stampin' Up! UK products

I am so excited to share with you all today, as regular readers of my blog (or visitors to my Facebook page) will know it was my Birthday this week! I get more excited about my birthday than I do about Christmas, probably because I have to work over Christmas but I always make sure to put Annual Leave in for my Birthday! back to work tomorrow, but before then I want to Celebrate my birthday all over again with the other fabulous ladies in the team with January Birthdays!

We have a great blog hop for you all today, you can find more information about how to see everyone else’s birthday projects at the end of this blog post

I have to say it felt very strange making myself a birthday card! However, I took advantage of the fact that I knew I was going to LOVE at least one of my birthday cards this year, as well as being able to guarantee that at least one of them was going to be hand made!

I am just loving using the new Balloon Adventures stamp and die bundle, but I haven’t used it as it was intended yet!

The largest die in the set is actually to create this great balloon pop up for the centre of your card! A great surprise when you open it! The stamp also coordinate with the Balloon Bouquet punch which I have used here for the solid balloons, while the stripy and dotty balloons are taken from the dies in the bundle.

I hope you have enjoyed this blog post, I would love you to check out the other birthday themed projects on this blog hop, just click on the BLUE button to see what everyone has created! Don’t forget to click through to the other ladies blogs and leave some comment love.

see you again soon

Product List

Balloon Adventures Photopolymer Bundle

[144708]

£48.50

Balloon Bouquet Punch

[140609]

£16.00

Rich Razzleberry A4 Card Stock

[119981]

£7.25

Rose Red A4 Card Stock

[108613]

£7.25

Mint Macaron A4 Cardstock

[138344]

£7.25

Basic Gray A4 Card Stock

[121689]

£7.25

Gold Metallic Thread

[138401]

£2.75

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

6th January 2017

Beautiful You | Wishing You Brighter Days to Come

Watercolour Sympathy Card Thinking of you using Beautiful You from Stampin' Up! UK

One of the things that made me shriek with excitement in the new Spring Summer catalogue is the fabulous Watercolour Pencils! I’m sure you all know by now how much I LOVE to watercolour, actually colouring in in general in my jam, but watercolour is my absolute favourite! The first thing that went into my shopping basket when I put my order in last month was for these great pencils, and I was not disappointed, they are awesome!

The pencils come in a pack of 13 great Stampin’ Up! colours, allowing for full coordination with all the other great products; inks, card stock and embellishments already available. I have everything crossed for some more colours to be added in June for the next Annual catalogue too! They are super easy to colour with, the pretty lady image on this card (from Beautiful You) is coloured with the watercolour pencils, Stampin’ Up! have made a great video to show us how they work…

Once I had coloured the image with my new set of Watercolour Pencils, I needed to find a suitably pretty background, and so grabbed for the Irresistibly Floral Speciality Designer Series Paper and a sponge roller. This paper comes as white sheets, but it has patterns already heat embossed onto it, all you have to do is add an ink colour of your choice and reveal the pattern. This paper works with a heap of colouring techniques, and I am sure I could have Watercoloured it, but the Sponge Rollers had just arrived in my crafty office, and I had to have a go. They are super easy actually, I think they will turn up in a video sooner rather than later!

I finished this card with some matts of Basic Grey and a bow in Bermuda Bay Thick Bakers Twine.

Do you love this card as much as I do? Yes, you should totally check out my Beautiful You Online Card Class! you can find out more about it all HERE!

Product List

Beautiful You Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[143637]

£25.00

Watercolor Pencils

[141709]

£14.50

Irresistibly Floral Designer Series Specialty Paper

[141644]

£11.75

Sponge Brayers

[141714]

£7.25

Bermuda Bay Thick Baker’S Twine

[138413]

£3.25

Pacific Point Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126951]

£6.00

Watercolor Paper

[122959]

£4.50

Aqua Painters

[103954]

£15.50

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Hannah McCurley

Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

5th January 2017

Beautiful You Online Card Class

Online Card Class using Beautiful You from Stampin' Up! UK

Yay! They are finally here! Online card classes from StampinByHannah!

I am so super excited to launch these classes today, and I have an awesome first class of 2017 too. I will be launching a 2 brand new class every month throughout 2017, with one launching on the 1st of the month, and the other on the 15th. Classes will be pre-order only and will ship to you about a week after class order closes, this gives me time to get your orders placed with Stampin’ Up! and all your materials cut and prepped. Each class will come with exclusive videos, as well as all the card stock, embellishments and any other bits and bobs you might need to make the 6 cards (2 of each of 3 designs) in each class.

This first class uses the GORGEOUS Beautiful You stamp set from the new Spring Summer Catalogue. I’m loving this stamp set for pretty girly cards, home decor pieces and much much more!

Class includes:

Beautiful You stamp set
Set of Watercolour Pencils
Archival Basic Black Ink Pad
One Sale-a-bration item of your choice!

For more information and to sign up for class please complete the form below:

[contact-form subject=’BEAUTIFUL YOU CLASS’][contact-field label=’Name’ type=’name’ required=’1’/][contact-field label=’Email’ type=’email’ required=’1’/][contact-field label=’Address’ type=’textarea’ required=’1’/][/contact-form]

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