Sunday, February 08, 2026

Cute Little Pouch for CTC#556 Made with Love


Hello and Welcome to Handmade by Julia Quinn.


Tonight you get to enjoy our amazing CASEING the CATTY blog hop.  To CASE is to Copy And Share Everything or to Copy And Selectively Edit and we love to CASE from our amazing Stampin' Up! catalogues (catty!)



This week, we are CASEING from the Made with Love Suite in the Mini Catalogue on page 30.


I've used the great tag detail as inspiration and my starting point for a sweet little pouch card that can be used for gift giving also.


My card features to glorious Pastels Shimmer paper with embellishments from the super super cute Softest Spring Puffy Stickers!!  


The fabulous Endless Love dies work a treat with some gorgeous tags and heart details!  


The Stamping was done using Berry Burst ink and the totally adorable Cutest Crew stamp set!!  This set will be available in March!!  (Or you can add it to your Starter Kit if you join up THIS MONTH!!)


We will be creating this gorgeous fun fold at our class on Monday 23rd February - book in for the class so you can see how it's made with all the measurements!!


Wednesday, February 04, 2026

It's a RED theme - Let's Craft Together


Hello and Welcome to Handmade by Julia Quinn.


Tonight I'm hopping with an awesome bunch of talented Australian crafters who love sharing with you!!


Our challenge this month is RED!!  



We can only use a couple of neutral tones to go with all the shades of red, and I've used white only.  I've created a sweet fun fold with the lovely Delightful Wishes stamp set and dies.


The Basic Measurements for this card are:

Thick White 14.5 x 10.5 for card base; 

Thick White 28 x 10.5 scored at 5, 9.5, 18.5, 23  with mountain, valley, valley, mountain and adhere to the centre of the card base

The Panels of Mixed Up Patterns DSP is 10 x 4.5 (x2) and 10 x 2.5 (x2) and 10 x 8.5 for the centre of the card



I've used the amazing Textured Notes dies for the front panel featuring the greeting and anchoring all the gorgeous flowers from the Delightful Wishes dies.  And I just LOVE those GORGEOUS little LadyBugs as my finishing touch!!  


Make sure you keep hopping to see lots of amazing inspiration just for you!




Red Delightful Wishes












Sunday, February 01, 2026

Let's make a cute Tag! CTC555


Hello and Welcome to Handmade by Julia Quinn.


Tonight you get to enjoy our amazing CASEING the CATTY blog hop.  To CASE is to Copy And Share Everything or to Copy And Selectively Edit and we love to CASE from our amazing Stampin' Up! catalogues (catty!)




This week, we are CASEING one of the fabulous templates from page 17 of our mini catalogue.


The timing for this challenge is PERFECT for me - I had to make a bunch of tags for our retreat day coming up in 2 weeks!!!  And I was VERY excited to use the brilliant design with all the circles for the FANTASTIC GEARS and TEXTURES bundle.


Hopefully you can see EXACTLY the layout I have CASED!!  I've used a bunch of background stamping to show off the gorgeous main designs.


I've used a bunch of the stamps in the GEARS and TEXTURES stamp set as well as a couple from the amazing VIRTUAL CARD RETREAT stamp set.  The Greeting comes from the CAKE DAY stamp set.


Here's some of the fun assembly images as I was making all my tags. I love the fabulous foam strips for ease of use behind greetings.


And the Black Dimensionals worked a treat behind all thos fabulous cogs for the features of the tags. My final touch was some of the Secret Sea Moody Palette Glossy Dots for the cog centres.  I've tied some gorgeous White with Gold ribbon onto the top of the tag using some Crumb Cake Essentials Baker's Twine.  The Tag tops were punched using the Heartfelt Hexagon Punch.


Sunday, January 25, 2026

Scrapbook Inspiration CTC#554


Hello and Welcome to Handmade by Julia Quinn.


Tonight you get to enjoy our amazing CASEING the CATTY blog hop.  To CASE is to Copy And Share Everything or to Copy And Selectively Edit and we love to CASE from our amazing Stampin' Up! catalogues (catty!)



This week, we are CASEING a scrapbook layout which offers such a great lot of potential!!  


I love this scrap layout on the inside of the front cover of the mini catalogue with it's celebration of little squares of pretty paper.  


I've chopped a bunch of 2 inch squares using the Mixed Up Patterns designer paper and laid them out in a diagonal grid all over the front of my Embossed Design Mix and Match card.  I then stamped a couple of the pieces using the sweet flowers in the Woolly Friends stamp set.  I've coloured them using watercolour pencils and a Wink of Stella brush.


I've then very carefully adhered them to the card front using foam dimensionals to create the lovely texture and shadows.  The overlapping edges were trimmed off...........


and then stuck inside the card to continue the theme.  Again, I've made a fun feature of the cute flowers coloured using watercolour pencils and the Wink of Stella brush.  


I love the way this super cute little sheep is so easy to punch and enjoy!!  He's been coloured with pencil and the Wink of Stella too.  Here's some hints for making the most out of this awesome punch and stamp set.  


Up next is the extraordinary Peta

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Woolly Friends Scrap layout card














Cute Little Pouch for CTC#556 Made with Love

Hello and Welcome to Handmade by Julia Quinn. Tonight you get to enjoy our amazing CASEING the CATTY blog hop.  To CASE is to Copy And Share...

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