Farewell retiring In Colours CI#186

Hello and Welcome to Handmade by Julia Quinn.

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

Tonight we are farewelling our InColours which are about to retire on 5th May when our NEW catalogue begins on the 6th May.  

I've used them all on a scrapbook page - along with my 2 favourite stamp sets for scrapbooking which are:  Elements of Text and Everyday you and Me.

I've used the Pebbled Path as my backing page, the journalling and also the hand drawn lines around the edge.  I've used the Moody Mauve for the splotches scattered around the page.  

I've used the Wild Wheat and Copper Clay for all of the leaves, and Boho Blue (my favourite I think) is the colours of all the flowers as well as the stamped text in the background and Title.  

Little additions are some of the gorgeous Golden Leaves and some Gold Linen Thread.  My final touch is some of the Earth Tones Shimmer Gems.

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.

Retiring In Colour Scrapbooking

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.

Sharing Annual Catalogue love CTC#516

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 Annual Catalogue.  

Because today is Easter Sunday, I've used this challenge to create something for our table today.  And I was inspired by page 130 in the catalogue and the gorgeous card featuring the Cheerful Daisies bundle with a great description and illustrations about using our fabulous Stampin' Blends which are alcohol markers making colouring easy.

This is a very basic basket that I've enlarged to use on a 12 x 12 inch piece of Designer paper.  I scored at 4 and 8 inches on both sides to put it together.

Here's a video showing you how to make this basket - in the video I've made a smaller version with 6 x 6 inch papers.

The paper is the glorious Floral Delight designer paper available in the Mini Catalogue.  The stamp set is Cheerful Daisies which is currently on the LAST CHANCE LIST!  If you like it, make sure you get in quick before it sells out.  You can find it HERE and the coordinating dies are HERE . Both have been discounted too which is a bonus!

The super luxurios Open Gold Weave ribbon is also available from the Mini Catalogue.  And the handles were embossed using the Cane Weave embossing folder which is ALSO discounted Here

Up next is the extraordinary Rochelle

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

Check out our Facebook group for lots more inspiration!

Large Easter Basket

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.

One for the gardeners -or anyone who loves gardens really.

Create your own DSP with Scrapbooking~

Hello and Welcome to Handmade by Julia Quinn.

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

This month Tina has challenged us to creat our own DSP! 

Here's my DSP in a floral frame and stamped in the style of the amazing Ruth Trice

I've used the awesome scrapbooking stamp sets Everyday You & Me along with Elements of Text.

My stamping colours were inspired by my photos - Blushing Bride, Moody Mauve, Boho Blue, Pool Pary, Soft Sea Foam, and Basic Beige with touches of Lost Lagoon for the dotty elements.

After all the stamping, I added more colour using a blening brush.  There was some ink left on it after I stamped the largest roses.  I inked them up first using Blushing Bride and then added Moody Mauve around the edges with a blending brush. 

I love the way you can tear and twist the Gold Trim to create great textural interest!

When I finished  the stamping, the rest of the page is actually REALLY simple - just the photos with gorgeous open weave gold trim scrunched underneath, and the title and journalling!

I really hope YOU are inspired to try this!!  

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

Stamp your own DSP scrapbooking

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.

Papercrafting Monthly Blog Hop - Mothers Day

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 items that are on the LAST CHANCE list which means they will sell out soon - and THIS stamp set - Stippled Roses bundle is absolutely gorgeous and one of my favourites!  

We are also celebrating Mother's Day which is perfect for this set.  I've used a Paper Piecing technique with this set.  I stamped onto the gorgeous multicoloured Bright & Beautiful DSP (which is also on the Last Chance list) using Berry Burst and Pretty Peacock inks and then fussy cut the flowers to piece them back into the image which makes it looks like its been coloured! 

This is certainly a project for those who love fussy cutting, but I've also used the Stippled Roses dies for the background leaves and the large outline of the flowers.  

My background stamping was using Bubble Bath ink and one of the fabulous Online Exclusive stamp sets - Elements of Text - what a fabulous stamp set! 

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

Paper Piecing Stippled Roses 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.