Paper Crafting Monthly Blog Hop in celebration of DSP

Hello and Welcome to Handmade by Julia Quinn.

Today I'm joining the fabulous paper crafting monthly blog hop of fabulous international crafters.  Join us for a world tour of inspiration!

This month we are celebrating Designer Series Paper.  And my card is LITERALLY created by a bunch of SCRAPS.

I've used the STUNNING Delicate Dreams paper and added a bunch of strips left over from other projects and flipped them so both designs of every piece was used!   The featured flowers on the front are ALSO cut from the designer paper!  Love it when you can use the paper in so many different ways.  I've also used some lovely Copper Foil for the extra leafy die cuts.

The stamped greeting on the front and inside of the card come from the Phrases & Frames stamp set coming in the new catalogue from the 5th May.  I've used Secret Sea ink which works well with all this paper and also the card base is Secret Sea also.

Make sure you keep hopping to see lots of AWESOME inspiration!!

Using scrap Paper Strips

Please head over to my online store if you wish to see these products in more detail - and you can place your order anytime (if you're in Australia) while you're there (even if you're in your pyjamas!!) 

 And, if you can see yourself creating cards and sharing your love of papercrafts while inspiring others, perhaps you might be interested in joining my Stampin' Up! family - contact me to find out how.

Cutest Crew is perfect for cards for kids!! 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.

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.

Our theme this month was all about cards for Kids!!  And I HAD to use the totally gorgeous Cutest Crew for this theme - it's sooo perfect!!

For this card I've coordinated it with the lovely Help Me Grow bundle - rather appropriate for a card for kids!!  Both the Cutest Crew and the Help Me Grow bundles are available in the online store.  

The cutest crew has puppies, kitties and birds - it's hard to make a choice about which one for the card!!  My tutorial card featured the cute little kittens!  

I love the way this fabulous Mixed Patterns designer paper looks for the garden pot!!  

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

Cutest Crew with Help Me Grow

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

Please head over to my online store if you wish to see these products in more detail - and you can place your order anytime (if you're in Australia) while you're there (even if you're in your pyjamas!!) 

 And, if you can see yourself creating cards and sharing your love of papercrafts while inspiring others, perhaps you might be interested in joining my Stampin' Up! family - contact me to find out how.

Save the Date!

Chain Card Swap A - Cheryl

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Today I'm joining the amazing Card Swap Chain Blog Hop with 10 amazing Australian cardmakers.  Our blog hop today is a celebration of the amazing cards we sent and received when we embarked on a fun journey sending cards to each other over a period of months.  It's a card version of "Chinese Whispers".  Each of us designed a card and sent if off to one of the other participants. That person then CASED the card and sent their own version to the next person.  To CASE is to Copy and Share Everything or to Copy And Selectively Edit.  Each person's card made it's way around all 10 of us until finally a verson came home to the designer.  And Now, we are sharing these gorgeous card designs with YOU.  Enjoy the amazingness of everyone's cards and designs.

Today we are sharing a wonderful card designed by Cheryl in Chain Swap  A.

 Follow the blog hop ALL the way around to see the evolution of her gorgeous card.

This was a really fun card to create!!  The detail is pretty amazing!!  I loved the card I received in the chain by Nancy using the Delicate Whispers bundel - it was stunning, so make sure you keep hopping to see her awesomeness!!  

The back of the card has the writing panel which works really well with all the amazing fun fold detail on the front.

I actually used this card as a project for a colour challenge - hence the VERY uncharacteristic use of bright pink for me!!  

The colours are Granny Apple Green, Berry Burst and Gray Granite for the stamping.

The amazing Branching Out dies works an absolute treat for the fabulous frame at the front.

When you fold the card flat it actually fits into a standard envelope - here it is folded wide out.  And here is Cheryl's lovely card that started us all off on this hop!!  

Make sure you keep hopping to see this amazing evolution!!

Lovely Arrangements

Please head over to my online store if you wish to see these products in more detail - and you can place your order anytime (if you're in Australia) while you're there (even if you're in your pyjamas!!) 

 And, if you can see yourself creating cards and sharing your love of papercrafts while inspiring others, perhaps you might be interested in joining my Stampin' Up! family - contact me to find out how.

DSP lovin' CTC#565

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 our amazing Designer Paper Collection!!  

I have some NEW paper - Scenic Scenes and I'm so excited to use it!!  I have CASED the fabulous card idea on page 56 of the Annual Catalogue.  This page is called Put a Frame on it!!  And that is the great starting point for my project - as this paper is just STUNNING!!

I've CASED the same way of creating a title for the card too - using a 2" circle punch for the greeting and adding it into the frame!!  

I have ALSO stamped some of the birds from the Relaxing Waterside stamp set ALSO NEW!!  

(I do love a flying bird stamp - soooo useful for so many projects!!)

To create the frame I cut 4 pieces of two tone cardstock for the sides and top and bottom at 1/2" wide.  The side pieces are stuck onto the card.  The top and bottom pieces have a fun mitred corner.  I created this by folding over the end of the strip creating an exact diagonal fold that fits perfectly to create the frame!  

Inside the card is the remaining side pieces from the beautiful paper (it is 6 inches square so I need to chop off the sides to fit onto a standard card).

Up next is the extraordinary Peta and her great fussy cut card

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

Check out our Facebook group for lots more inspiration!

Scenic Coast and Relaxing Waterside

Please head over to my online store if you wish to see these products in more detail - and you can place your order anytime (if you're in Australia) while you're there (even if you're in your pyjamas!!) 

 And, if you can see yourself creating cards and sharing your love of papercrafts while inspiring others, perhaps you might be interested in joining my Stampin' Up! family - contact me to find out how.