Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Colour INKspiration challenge #214 - so many pinks!


Hello and Welcome to Handmade by Julia Quinn.


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



Our Inspiration photo was taken by the amazing Lou on her recent trip to Japan- this is a lake FULL of floating peonies!!  Simply stunning!!



As you possibly know, I find using bring pinks a big challenge - but I put on my 'big girl pants' and dived all in with this one!!  


I've used the lovely Boutique Blossoms bundle for the gorgeous flowers, and the leaves come from the fun new Botanical Glow Hot Foil Die.


Everything has been stamped and coloured onto Fluid 100 watercolour paper.


I hot foiled the leaves, spritzed the watercolour paper, and the coloured using Old Olive and Garden Green inks and a water painter.


I used the same technique to stamp all of the flowers onto watercolour paper, and then die cut all the flowers using the coordinating dies.


My final touch was to add some fun white gel pen highlights when all of the flowers were dry.  And added some lovely Antique Pearls to the little freesia flowers.


Splattering the card with the left over green inks helped to hide some extra unintentional splodges!  


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.




Watercoloured Boutique Blossoms


Sunday, July 19, 2026

Bundle Inspiration CTC#579


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 bundle, and I have actually chosen the bundle above - Scalloped Blooms!


My card cases the Peaceful PIne card at the head of the page 38 in the catalogue.


My card is full of fun texture.  I've used the gorgeous Velveteen Assortment paper which has Bubble Bath, Peaceful Pine and White Velvet and I've used each of them for various part of the card.  The White and Bubble Bath velvet were also given texture with the Stone and Vine Embossing Folder.


The little flowers are die cut from the Sunset Shimmer Vellum with the Barely Blush piece.  I've also used Barely Blush cardstock for the die cut tag, and then stamped with Crisp Cantaloupe.


And inside the card has been stamped as well - this Scalloped Blooms stamp set has some great greetings!


Up next is the extraordinary Peta

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

Check out our Facebook group for lots more inspiration!



Scalloped Blooms Floral Bunch













Thursday, July 16, 2026

Christmas In July with Creativity Abounds Blog Hop


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.
Here is my card from our tutorial this month!


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 an alternative version of my Tutorial Card.

My alternative card features different colours and the stamps rather than the dies from the bundle!


And my colours are Poppy Parade and Peaceful Pine - with some lovely Gold Hot Foiling in the background.


Inside I've stamped another greeting and flower!


This is such a great stamp set for Christmas in July!!


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






Christmas in July Poinsettia


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


Colour INKspiration challenge #214 - so many pinks!

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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