Tuesday, August 04, 2026

Fun Fold Fun - 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!!



This month our theme is the Fun Fold Birthday!!  


I love this Triple Flap Fold!!  It's so lovely to adapt for so many different occasions!!  


And the stunningly gorgeous Moonlit Flora paper works perfectly with it!!  


I think this is a card that is reasonably gender neutral.  If you're interested in a tutorial for this card, it will be the free gift for all my customers in September!!  


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




Birthday Fun Fold



Sunday, August 02, 2026

Fun designer paper inspiration CTC#581


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 Velvet Meadow Suite, and my project is totally inspired by the lovely floral card on the left.  


I like the full coverage of designer paper, but I've taken it a step further and created a fun fold.  


I'm using the Waterside Retreat paper and the coordinating Relaxing Waterside bundle.



I folded the paper into a concertina so you can see all those amazing birds!  I've also used the paper to create the posts at each end of the fun fold for the birds to sit on!  


My background cardstock is Azure Afternoon - and I kept the chair blue too which I thought was very adventurous!  


I die cut the reeds from white cardstock and then coloured them using Old Olive and Pecan Pie Stampin' Blends.  


This card is actually one of the three cards in our classes this month celebrating a few different designer papers.  Contact me if you're keen to come to the class!  


Up next is the extraordinary Kathryn

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Waterside Retreat Fun Fold with Azure Afternoon













Sunday, July 26, 2026

Quick and Easy caseing!!! CTC#580


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 pages 12 & 13 of our catalogue which is the Quick and Easy section!


I've case a card at the top of page 13 to help me create a name tag for an event I've been to this week for demonstrators!!  


I've used:  Velveteen specialty paper and Pearlized paper and Hot Foils!  


My name was cut from some Peaceful Pine pearlized paper which had some foam adhesive sheet attached to it before die cutting the Mini Alphabet letters. I've stamped onto Velveteen paper using Peaceful Pine ink which gives it a lovely soft finish.  The stamp set is Exciting Times.  I loved the little detail on the bakers twine wrapped around the frame after the Rounded Rectangle punch was used, so I've used some gold ribbon and continued the gold theme with a scrap of hot foil with the Flourish & Frames Hot Foil dies.  


Up next is the extraordinary Peta

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Velvet name tag



Fun Fold Fun - 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...

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