Sunday, November 15, 2026

Colouring with WInk of Stella - a GREAT technique CTC#596


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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 technique from the catalogue - and it's worth looking closely at all the images to see some great ideas!


I'm inspired by the image on page 50 of the catalogue where the artist has used the Wink of Stella brush as a colouring tool - giving a really lovely soft coloured image.


I've coloured my tree using my Wink of Stella brush onto the stamped image and dragged some of the Shaded Spruce ink around for a lovely soft colour for the tree.


This is also a really cool fun fold where the card folds down flat to go into an envelope, but you can stand it up and the tree becomes 3 dimensional!!  


The writing panel is on the back of the card giving lots of room to write a lovely greeting!



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Fun Fold pop up Tree



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Wednesday, November 11, 2026

Pretty Poinsettia and Festive Flecks Colour INKspiration #221


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


We have some gorgeous traditional Christmas Colours this week.


My card features the lovely Pretty Poinsettia bundle combined with the great Festive Flecks cards and envelopes.


The feature panel was created using the largest Stylish Shapes circle die and the second largest Scalloped Bloom die.


My background DSP is from the Wood Grain Wonders DSP.


I've repeated the front layout for the inside of my card.



I do love how this card has turned out!!


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.




Pretty Poinsettias with Festive Flecks cards


Sunday, November 08, 2026

Mulberry Paper revival!! CTC 595


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 November ONline Exclusives, and I have been inspired by this lovely project featuring the Collage Notes bundle.  


AND I added in some of the new Mulberry paper!!  Do you remember when Mulberry paper was really popular way back in the nineties??  I was so excited to see it back again!!


Instead of DSP for my first layer, I've added some of the super gorgeous Mulberry Paper available this month - in comes in Old Olive, Secret Sea and White - and looks and feels soooo lovely!!  


I made a bunch of these cards for my wonderful team - and some have a wreath on the front painted in the same colours....


while others use the cute Collage Notes stamp set and dies also available this month in our November Online Exclusives.  


There are some great sayings in the Collage Notes stamp set!



Up next is the extraordinary Andrea

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Mulberry Paper and Collage Notes





Colouring with WInk of Stella - a GREAT technique CTC#596

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...

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