Make It Monday | Quick and Easy Men’s Card using Truly Tailored from Stampin’ Up!

How to Make a quick and easy mens card video tutorial using Truly Tailored from Stampin' Up!

StampinByHannah Make It Monday Quick and Easy Men’s Card using Truly Tailored from Stampin’ Up!

Make It Monday

I have a quick and easy card for you today. One of the ways that I maintain my crafty mojo is by CASing (Copy and Selectively Edit!) and today I have CASE’d the Stampin’ Up! catalogue. The catalogue actually used to be called an idea book… and that is exactly how I use it. My catalogue is constantly in use, its always open on either my crafty desk or my office one, looking for ideas.

How to Make a quick and easy mens card video tutorial using Truly Tailored from Stampin' Up!

Ok, so this card uses Stampin’ Up! Stampin’ Write Markers to selectively colour the sentiment stamp. I LOVE doing this, and have done it quite a bit recently. There are a couple of things to remember when you’re stamping with Stampin’ Write Markers

  • Use the side of the brush tip to colour your stamp
  • Use the lightest colour of marker first, and work to the darkest (particularly if your colouring a stamp where the ink colours will touch) to avoid your dark inks contaminating your lighter markers
  • Get plenty of ink onto your stamp; colour each part of the image several times, and colour in different directions to prevent a streaky looking stamped image
  • Stampin’ Write Markers use the same ink as your Stampin’ Up! Classic Ink Pads and are water-based, so the ink WILL dry on your stamp. Re-activate your ink before you stamp by breathing on it.

I love my Stampin’ Write Markers SO much that I have a fabulous Stampin’ Write Marker Club… this club gets your all 38 markers over 4 months and comes complete with a handy case to store them in too! You can find all the information about club HERE!

Make It Monday Men's Card Stampin' Up! Catalogue Case using Truly Tailored

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Techniques | Rock and Roll Stamping with Heart Happiness from Stampin’ Up!

Cardmaking Techniques Video Tutorial Rock and Roll Stamping with Heart Happiness from Stampin' Up!

StampinByHannah Techniques Rock and Roll Stamping with Heart Happiness from Stampin’ Up!

Stamping Techniques Series

For our final Valentines card inspiration, I have a really quick and easy, technique for you… one you might well have done before, but may not have played with for a while! I certainly haven’t pulled this one out of my techniques stash for ages. Actually I think the last time I did Rock and Roll stamping was for THIS video!

Cardmaking Techniques Video Tutorial Rock and Roll Stamping with Heart Happiness from Stampin' Up!

I also particularly love the colour combination on this card…


What colours are you planning for your Valentines this year?

I have been trying to add Top Tips to these blog posts recently, but I think I probably covered everything in the video this week! It’s such a simple idea… I would suggest inking your stamp with the lighter ink colour first, and then adding the darker colour around the outside… although I do have a way of doing it the other way around (that isn’t going to get dark ink into your light coloured ink pad) that I might film soon!

Cardmaking Techniques Video Tutorial Rock and Roll Stamping with Heart Happiness from Stampin' Up!

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Make It Monday | Fun Heart Happiness Card

How to Make a cute card using Heart Happiness from Stampin' Up! with Video Tutorial

StampinByHannah Make It Monday Fun Heart Happiness Card

Make It Monday

This week I have a whole week of Love themed projects and a whole heap of Valentines inspiration. Today’s card is one you might recognise from Saturday, but I loved it so much that I just HAD to make a video!

How to Make a cute card using Heart Happiness from Stampin' Up! with Video Tutorial

I can’t decide which is my favourite version of this card; the Night of Navy and Gold, or this Fresh Fig and Silver (I am a purple and silver girl at heart!). My favourite part of this card is the Glimmer paper Amazing! I am in LOVE with this die so much… It’s taken from the Celebrate You Thinlits dies, which you can find as part of Sale-a-bration. Have you checked out the Sale-a-bration goodies yet? They are totally awesome! There are two tiers of products this year; Level 1 items can be chosen as your Free gift when you place a £45 order, while Level 2 items (which is what this die is) can be picked as your Free gift when you place a £90 order.

There is a fair bit of Heat Embossing on this card. I will admit I have a bit of a heat embossing addiction at the moment (Did you see my January Facebook Live… ALL the cards had Heat Embossing!). This is one of those WOW techniques for me, I just can’t help be totally memorised by watching a dull looking powder turn into shine-y loveliness! I do have a couple of Heat Embossing top tips:

  • Use your Embossing Buddy! – This is one of those items that you never buy because pretty stamps take priority right?! but seriously, this thing is amazing… rub it across your card stock before you start, and it stops the powder sticking where it shouldn’t
  • Take your Embossing Powders out of the tiny pots! – I store my Embossing Powders in larger tubs, it stops me making such a mess!
  • Get your Heat Tool good and hot before you start trying to melt your powders … it stops your card stock warping quite so much

Make It Monday How to create a quick and easy Heart Happiness card using Sale-a-bration goodies from Stampin' Up!

Ok, so that is my card for today. I have a super cute card for you tomorrow, so please do check back! Oh, and have you signed up for my emails yet…. I have a fabulous card for my subscribers today too!

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Sale-a-bration Spotlight | Heartfelt Blooms

Sale-a-bration spotlight Heartfelt Blooms Card using Stampin' Up! products

StampinByHannah Sale-a-bration Spotlight Heartfelt Blooms

Stampin' Up! Saleabration

I am loving Sale-a-bration this year! Sale-a-bration is the biggest event in the Sale-a-bration calendar… it has 3 fabulous parts; Shop, Host and Join.

Each week on a Wednesday I am focusing one a Sale-a-bration goody, and this week it’s Heartfelt Blooms!

Island Indigo Thank You card using Heartfelt Blooms from Stampin' Up!

This stamp set is special stamp set, not only can you choose it as your free item when you spend £45 before the end of March, but also it is part of a brand new line of stamps from Stampin’ Up! Disinktive stamps are a brand new style of stamp that layers ink down at different opacities, giving you a fabulous dimensional image.

Sale-a-bration spotlight thinking of you card using Heartfelt blooms from Stampin' Up! and the spolight stamping technique

This card uses a fun technique I hadn’t tried for a while; Spotlight Stamping (see what I did there?!). I stamped the Heartfelt Bloom twice, once in Smoky Slate and one in Rose Red. Then, I took the 1″ circle punch to the Rose Red one. These punch outs are then lined up with the Smoky Slate image, to create spotlights! Fun yes?!

This gorgeous stamp is is available for FREE during Sale-a-bration. All you need to do it spend £45 in the Online Store (that’s the Spring Summer or Annual catalogues, or even the Clearance rack!). There are 12 other free items if this one does float your boat, 2 of which are extra special and require a spend of £90 before you can choose them for free. When you shop using the Online Store, Stampin’ Up! will prompt you to add your Sale-a-bration items, and tell you how many you can have. They call the items you can choose for a £45 Level 1, and those requiring a £90 spend Level 2. You will earn a Sale-a-bration item every time you hit £45 in an individual order, meaning that if you spend £90 you can either have TWO Level 1 items or ONE Level 2. If you spend £135 you can choose THREE Level 1 items or ONE Level 1 item PLUS ONE Level 2!

This gets even better when you spend £150 as you will get to choose your Sale-a-bration items AND then spend at least £15 worth of Stampin’ Up! Rewards on anything in either the Spring Summer or Annual catalogues including the Hostess Exclusive stamp sets. But, when you place an order of £200 you get 4 Level 1 items, PLUS 10% of your order in Stampin’ Up! Rewards AND an extra £20 to spend on anything in the Spring Summer or Annual catalogues!

Don’t forget to shop using the Code Club Code to receive some great FREE goodies! 

6ZZZCPHX

I will be closing this order on the 30th January 2018

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Make It Monday | Body Shop Self Closing Bag Tutorial

Make It Monday Video Tutorial How to Make a Self Closing Bag using Stampin' Up! Products

StampinByHannah Make It Monday Body Shop Self Closing Bag Tutorial

Make It Monday

It was my Birthday a few weeks ago, and one of my Sister-in-Laws (I am not giving my brother any credit for any presents ever again!) gave me a whole bunch of Body Shop goodies. One of the things she gave me was some gorgeous hand cream, and I just HAD to make a cute bag for it!

Make It Monday Cut Self Closing Bag Tutorial using Just Add Colour Designer Series Paper from Stampin' Up!

This Self Closing bag is really simple to make. However, I did manage to get in wrong the first time… using the wrong blade on my trimmer to trim rather than score my Designer Series Paper! #fail!

Measurements:

Designer Series Paper: 6 x 4 1/2″ (15 x 12 cm)

Score on the SHORT side at 2 and 4″ (5 and 10 cm)

Score on the LONG side at 1″ (2.5 cm) on the side that you want to be at the bottom of your bag

Put your Designer Series Paper into your Simple Scored with the SHORT side at the top, and the skinny strip before the score line, at the top… and score at  1 1/2 and 3 1/2 inches (or 4.5 and 9.5 cm)

Make It Monday Video Tutorial How to Make a Self Closing Bag using Stampin' Up! Products

Aren’t they cute?!

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Techniques | Coordinated Die Cutting with Petal Palette from Stampin’ Up!

Techniques Video Tutorial How to make a fun Congratulations card using Petal Palette from Stampin' Up!

StampinByHannah Techniques Coordinated Die Cutting with Petal Palette from Stampin’ Up!Stamping Techniques Series

This weeks technique is something I have been wanting to do for a month or so, following a video shared by Jennifer McGuire. The technique is Coordinated Die Cutting, and is a fun way to look at your stamps and matchin dies

Coordinating Die Cut Windows using Petal Palette from Stampin' Up!

The cards I am sharing today are fairly simple, keeping the technique front and centre. Creating coordinating die cut windows really called to me when I first picked up this stamp and die set, but I know that you can do this with lots and lots of die sets.

The trick to this technique is a simple sheet of vellum, and ensuring that your two layers of card stock and your Vellum are the exact same size. However, once you have all card stock cut, the actual creation of the card is a quick process (as you can see, this video isn’t massively long for once!)

Using Coordinating Dies and Die Cutting in cardmaking using Petal Palette from Stampin' Up!

The ribbons used on this card are both from the same pack. The Sale-a-bration Shimmer Ribbon Pack contains 3 colours of shimmery ribbons in Bermuda Bay, Calypso Coral and Basic Gray. Each ribbon is a different width as well as a different colour, but they are all shimmery and very pretty. This pack of ribbon is completely FREE with a £45 order during Sale-a-bration.

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Sale-a-bration Spotlight | Lots of Lavender

How to make a quick and easy card using Lots of Lavender from Stampin' Up! Sale-a-bration #stampinup #saleabration

StampinByHannah Sale-a-bration Spotlight Lots of Lavender

Stampin' Up! Saleabration

Welcome to Wednesday’s here at StampinByHannah… now, Wednesday is not a usual posting day, but during Sale-a-bration I have an extra blog post (and sometimes a video) for you on a Wednesday! Yay!

This year’s Sale-a-bration event is bigger and better than ever before, with 13 fabulous gifts you can earn for FREE when you spend £45 between now and the end of March! One of those fabulous gifts is Lots of Lavender. I LOVE this stamp set, it features Two-Step Stampin’ (my favourite!) and some beautiful images too.

How to make a fun thank you card using Lots of Lavender from Stampin' Up!

You can choose Lots of Lavender as your FREE gift when you spend £45 in either the Annual OR Spring Summer catalogues, or anywhere on my Stampin’ Up! Webstore.

Today’s video was inspired by THIS card by Teneale Williams. I loved the use of Designer Series Paper, and the slightly distressed look, it’s not something I do often, but I do enjoy taking a nail file to a piece of paper and ‘roughing’ it up a bit!

Lots of Lavender CASe card using Stampin' Up! products

For all I LOVE this stamp set, it did take me a couple of goes before I found a look I LOVED with it… check the video for my top tips!

I also made a card for one of my team mates this past week with Lots of Lavender. I have mentioned before how it is one of my New Year’s resolutions, to send more cards… and I needed to pop something in the post to her, and so a card was needed too.

Quick and Easy Just Because card using Lots of Lavender and Petal Palette from Stampin' Up!

The BEST deal during Sale-a-bration has to be the Join offer…. did you know that to become a part of Stampin’ Up! all you need to do is buy the Starter Kit?

The Starter Kit costs just £99, and is fully customisible with £130 worth of Stampin’ Up! goodies of your choice! PLUS during Sale-a-bration you get to add a further TWO stamp sets from the Annual or Spring Summer catalogue into your kit too. Your Starter Kit ships for FREE, and also includes some handy business bits too (think catalogues and order forms).

Once you have your Starter Kit the crafty world is your oyster… (sorry, that was really cheesy!)… You can start your own business, shop at a 20% discount for yourself, host parties, or just craft! Stampin’ Up! offer some fabulous gifts and incentives if you do decide to make Stampin’ Up! your business, but are MORE than happy for you to be a happy shopper (and so am I!). I have a heap of things planned for my team this year, starting with a trip to OnStage in April (registration opens on the 16th January, and I am sure tickets will sell out quickly, so join today if you want to come with me!) .

Please check out my Joining FAQ’s, or drop me a message if there is something else you want to know!

I cannot wait to welcome you to the team!

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Make It Monday | Birthday Card Week!

Make It Monday How to make a quick and simple birthday card using Picture Perfect Party Designer Series paper from Stampin' Up!

StampinByHannah Make It Monday Birthday Card Week!

StampinByHannah Independent Stampin' Up! UK Demonstrator Birthday Card week

Ok, so last Friday was my birthday… but one day isn’t long enough to celebrate is it?! So, this week I have a WHOLE WEEK of fabulous birthday inspiration for you! Today’s card is super simple, but the Designer Series Paper is just so stunning that it’s such a shame to cover it up!

Make It Monday How to make a quick and simple birthday card using Picture Perfect Party Designer Series paper from Stampin' Up!This Designer Series Paper is special, it features actual photographs of fabulous birthday images; confetti, cookies, donuts, party hats and more! The Picture Perfect Party Designer Series Paper features in this year’s StampinByHannah Birthday Card Club. Club sign up’s close on Sunday 14th January. You can find all the details over on the Birthday Card Club Page.

So, I have kept this card super simple with a piece of that fabulous Designer Series Paper, and a simple Heat Embossed Sentiment. Quick and Easy for those times you need a card in a hurry!

Make It Monday How to make a quick and simple birthday card using Picture Perfect Party Designer Series paper from Stampin' Up!

Have you checked out the Sale-a-bration Freebies yet?

Sale-a-bration is the biggest event of the Stampin’ Up! year… so far we have 13 fabulous FREE items to earn when you spend £45, and I know that there will be some more coming in February too. Which one is your favourite?

Stampin' Up! Sale-a-bration 2018

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12 Days of Giftaways (Day 11) | Brusho!

Techniques Video Tutorial How to get started with Brusho from Stampin' Up!

StampinByHannah 12 Days of Giftaways (Day 11) Brusho!

Stamping Techniques Series

It’s FRIDAY! actually… it’s more than just Friday today, today is my 30th Birthday. I am super excited to be sharing my 30th Birthday year with Stampin’ Up! and have some celebratory plans coming later in the year. Today I’m planning on taking the day as a ‘Me Day’ although I am sure that James has some other plans!

Techniques series Fun Birthday Card using Brusho and Beautiful Day from Stampin' Up!

Today’s video is a little different, in that I don’t have an actual project to make with you, but I wanted you to see how easy it is to get started with Brusho!

I do have a couple of top tips:

  • Clear your work area … Brusho can get a little messy, particularly if you are using it with a Stampin’ Spritzer, so tidy up anything precious before you start
  • If you don’t like messy fingers I would suggest grabbing some disposable gloves!
  • Time… it’s likely to run away with you once you get started, so make sure you’ve got an afternoon free to play!

Every month I share an Online Card class Live on Facebook. My next class is at 2PM (GMT) on the 9th January, and we are going to play with the Beautiful Day stamp set as well as Brusho a little more! Do pop over and Like my Facebook Page for reminders of when I am going Live as well as a heap of extra inspiration and Stampin’ News too…

Techniques with StampinByHannah how to use Brusho from Stampin' Up!

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12 days of Giftaways

We have reached Day 11 of my 12 Days of Giftaways today…I LOVE being able to give you something special when you shop… and I have some special things coming in the new year! So, as my Christmas gift to you I have a special gift for each person who shops over £45 for the next 12 days. Each day has a different gift, and you don’t need to worry about adding the Code Club Code (although please do to receive your January Card Kit!).

StampinByHannah 12 Days of Giftaways featuring Stampin' Up! goodies!

Fine Print; This is not a competition and there is NO single winner, all customers WILL receive a gift. Please do not add it to your order, (unless of course you want duplicates!) as I will be sending this separately with your usual Customer Thank You pack….

All Thank You Gift Packs will be posted after the 12 Deals of Christmas have finished.

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12 Days of Giftaways (Day 4) | Stampin’ Up! Pre-Order Sneak Peak!

Request a Stampin' Up! Catalogue

StampinByHannah 12 Days of Giftaways (Day 4) Stampin’ Up! Pre-Order Sneak Peak!

Ok, so on a Friday I would usually have a Techniques video for you…. but we have a fabulous new catalogue coming next week, and I know you like to know what I got so you can start to plan your wish lists!

I have posted catalogues to customers who have shopped with me in the last 12 months, plus anyone who has asked for a copy. If you haven’t ordered yours yet, don’t worry! I do still have a few left, and would LOVE to pop one into the post for you. You can order yours using my Request a Catalogue form!

Ok… so that really all from me today! Except of course to let you know about my Giftaway gift for today…

I LOVE being able to give you something special when you shop… and I have some special things coming in the new year! So, as my Christmas gift to you I have a special gift for each person who shops over £45 for the next 12 days. Each day has a different gift, and you don’t need to worry about adding the Code Club Code (although please do to receive your December Card Kit!).

StampinByHannah Stampin' Up! 12 days of giftaways

Fine Print; This is not a competition and there is NO single winner, all customers WILL receive a gift. Please do not add it to your order, (unless of course you want duplicates!) as I will be sending this separately with your usual Customer Thank You pack….

All Thank You Gift Packs will be posted after the 12 Deals of Christmas have finished.

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