Ephemera makes life easy!! Check it out!

Hello and Welcome to Handmade by Julia Quinn.

Today is Scrapbooking Global day!! Each month we share some great inspiration for you1!  

This month, I got to choose the theme, and I've chosen one of my favourites - using ephemera - because we have LOTS of great elements in our Mixed Ephemera packs AND in all of our Scrapbooking Kits which makes putting together your project really much quicker and easier!!

My project is a gift for a baby shower.  I used ALL of the elements of the Storybook Life Scrapbooking Kit as well as ephemera from the Storybook Moments Designer Paper AND some words from our Greetings for All Mix and Match Ephemera Pack.

To keep the Mini Album safe, I packaged it into one of our kit boxes and used all the remaining ephemera pieces to embellish. 

I have also used Flip Flaps to create extra pages and places for photos in the album.  This frame comes from the Scrapbooking Kit, and I layered it onto extra cardstock for more stability, and cut out the centre so a photo could be placed inside the flip flap.

I decorated both sides of the flip flap so photos would be showcased on both sides. 

I have lots of photos now of each of the pages showing the fabulous ephemera from both the scrapbooking kit and the specialty designer papers.  It made it so easy to add little bits and pieces to the album to embellish pages and photo mats.

Each of the pages has a bit of a theme to make it easier for me to create - this one is the blue pages (the baby is a boy).

This is the bunny pages.

Had to have a strawberry page using this lovely kit!

I used the instructions in the Scrapbooking Kit to help me with the layouts - even though each of my pages is only 6 x 6 inches (and I usually scrap 12 x 12 inch pages) I adapted the embellishment for the smaller page.  

Here's a carrot page!!  (This amused me!)

This tartan gardening page has 2 flip flaps - one for the frame and one on the right hand side.

The 2 ovals on this spread come from inside of both of the frames - waste not, want not!

And my last double page spread is another Strawberry page - using up all those elements in the kit!

Here's a video showing you page by pages.

I really hope YOU are inspired to try this!!  Up next is lovely Cheryl.

Make sure you keep hopping to see lots of AMAZING projects!!

Storybook Life Scrapbook Album for a baby.

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.

New Colours for our challenge this week!! CI#187

Hello and Welcome to Handmade by Julia Quinn.

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

This month we are celebrating the new colours!!  

After much deliberation I pulled out the lovely Layers of Beauty bundle which includes this gorgeous stamp set and coordinating dies AND a set of masks which makes it super easy to add colour!!  

The stamped image is in the Secret Sea which is a very dark colour - perfect for outlines!    The roses are Darling Duckling and Timid Tiger with the smaller flowers being Strawberry Slush, and the leaves are all Cloud Cover.  

I've add Strawberry Slush bling!!  

The inside colouring was done using the In Colour Stampin' Write Markers - quick and easy.

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.

Layers of Beauty In Colours

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.

Would you like to see something new? Introducing Gallery Blooms

NEW Catalogue Inspiration CTC#519

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 our new Annual Catalogue - so the choice is limitless!!  

This is my newest bundle in my collection from the new catalogue - and what a perfect excuse to try it out!  Soo, caseing the catalogue was the perfect way for me to get started - I cased this cute card at the top of page 46 - there are so many great ideas in the catalogue!  

My card is much simpler and cleaner colours than in the catalogue - but I think it works PERFECTLY for today being Mother's Day!!  

I've used Bubble Bath to cut the triple flower twice, and then added a little hint of extra colour using a blending brush and Bubble Bath ink.  The stems are cut from Lemon Lime Twist.  The label under the greeting was created by punching each end using the To the Point Label punch.  And I've stamped the greeting using Petunia Pop. 

I angled all the flowers in different directions so it doesn't look like I've used the same die twice - do you think it worked?

Up next is the extraordinary Andrea

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

Check out our Facebook group for lots more inspiration!

Sweet Blooms Bubble Bath Tutorial

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.

Funky Fold inspired by Vicki

Hello and Welcome to Handmade by Julia Quinn.

Tonight I'm hopping with an awesome bunch of talented crafters who love dabbling with folds!!  

We are a group of like-minded paper crafters who love to make cards with funky folds. Funky actually means "modern and stylish in an unconventional or striking way"... so we are featuring cards that are not your usual rectangle/square portrait or landscape style. Think 'easel', 'pop-up', 'gatefold', 'z-fold', 'shaped' or 3D cards etc. The list is endless. 

All Blog Hops have an 'anything goes' theme using any type of 'funky' card fold.

My card tonight was inspired by the amazing Vicki Hodgeman and a wonderful card she shared last week!!  I love a surprise in the middle of a card and this is one!!

Vicki's card had a belly band, but I'm a little inept making them, so my card has a little side flap with a butterfly on the end that tucks under the little butterfly on the left to keep it closed.  

And when you open the card there is a beautiful butterfly popping up in the middle!!  

The butterfly folds totally in on itself when you close the card which creates a wonderful fold in the middle - perfect for a butterfly!

The mechanism to create the flying butterfly is 2 little boxes adhered together on either side of the middle fold line.  

I've used the same colour cardstock for my card base and the little boxes and the first layer of the multilayered butterflies so they really blend in to make it look like the butterfly is not attached!  

My card also features some lovely new colours - Secret Sea dn Cloud Cover.  My stamping was all done using Misty Moonlight.   

And I've used the Beautiful Butterflies bundle which has wonderful images and the fabulous dies that work so well.  

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

Pop Up Beautiful Butterflies

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.