Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Lovely Celebration Happy Birthday Colour INKspiration #216


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Tonight I'm joining in with the Colour INKspiration crew and our awesome colour combination!!


What a delicious looking cake!!!!


The cake was my starting point so I am using a New stamp set from our September Catalogue starting next week called Lovely Celebration.  It was perfect for this image with the lovely cake stand and all the yummy cake extras.


I've added some Shimmery Embossing Paste to the top of the cake - my icing of the cake is not very flash (the same as when I bake a REAL cake too!!) but it does give the card some fun texture!!  


I also love love love the gorgeous stripey glimmery paper for the background - it takes the ink blending like a dream!!  It's called Shimmering Stripes specialty paper.


I've stamped and coloured the stand onto Soft Seafoam cardstock, and the cake I stamped onto Fresh Freesia cardstock - it's a great way to get awesome colour!!  


INKspired to join the challenge? It's so easy. Firstly, get some INKspiration by checking out all of the creations of the Colour INKspiration Crew in the challenge album on our Facebook page. Then you have 12 days from today to make and upload your creation to the Facebook Colour INKspiration Group. You don't have to have a blog to participate but if you do you can link back to your post. Make sure you use all of the challenge colours. You can also use neutrals such as Basic White, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Basic Beige and Basic Black as well as Metallics.

Not a member of the Colour INKspiration Facebook group yet? Just click here and ask to join Colour INKspiration, add the group to your favourites and share it with your crafty friends so they can join in the fun too. We can't wait to see what you create with these gorgeous colours.




Lovely Celebration Colour Challenge


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Sunday, August 23, 2026

Moonlit Flora inspiration CTC#584


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 Moonlit Flora Suite, and I have been inspired by the cluster of leaves with a greeting acting as an anchor for them.


My card features some lovely NEW goodies - the Hot Foil Butterly Flight bundle combined with the gorgeous Whispering Woods designer paper coming in our September catalogue.


The gorgeous colours of Azure Afternoon, Pool Party and Shaded Spruce were my starting colours for the butterflies - totally inspired by the wonderful paper.  Behind all the flowers, I have also used the lovely Silver Hot Foil with the Botanical Glow Hot Foil die.


I love love love the masks that come with these butterflies!!  The possibilities are absolutley endless!!  


And the lovely greeting comes from the Phrases & Frames stamp set!!  


Up next is the extraordinary Rebecca

Make sure you keep hopping to see lots of great ideas!

Check out our Facebook group for lots more inspiration!



Butterfly Flight & Whispering Woods





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Thursday, August 20, 2026

It's Fun Fold Time!! With Creativity Abounds - we all love Fun Folds!!


Hello and Welcome to Handmade by Julia Quinn.


Welcome to our Creativity Abounds Blog Hop. We are a group of very keen Stampin’ Up!® Demonstrators from all around the world that are coming together to share our creative ideas with you. We are happy that you can join us and hope that we can Inspire your creativity.

If you live in Australia and shop with me you will receive this tutorial bundle FREE! The tutorial has full instructions and metric and imperial measurements for 13 different cards. The tutorial bundle can be purchased for $25. Please email me if you would like to purchase the bundle.
Our blog hop each month is a project along the theme of the tutorial, but is a different design from the tutorial project. This is my Tutorial Card.

I love the way this fun fold makes the most of this gorgeous paper - whichever paper you use!!  


This time I've used the gorgeous Moonlit Flora designer paper and the coordinating Fern and Flora stampset.  

The greeting on my belly band comes from the Rolling Waves stamp set.


My card also features the Butterfly Flight hot foils with gold foil.  I've coloured the butterflies using Golden Glow and Cloud Cover Stampin' Blends.

Make sure you keep hopping for LOTS more great Inspiration!!






Moonlit Flora Fun Fold


Here's a sneak peek of the Free Tutorial this month from Creativity Abounds when you place an order through me!  




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Lovely Celebration Happy Birthday Colour INKspiration #216

Hello and Welcome to Handmade by Julia Quinn. Tonight I'm joining in with the Colour INKspiration crew and our awesome colour combinatio...

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