Catalogue Favourite for 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, the amazing Sharon Dalton has chosen our theme which makes it super easy to join in!

I've chosen one of our amazing Scrabooking Workshop Kits for my project.  These are one of my absolute favourite products for scrapbooking - they make it sooooo easy and still gorgeous.

And this page follows the instructions almost to the letter!!  I've changed the title and one of the photo orientations but it's basically the same!!

And I'm so lucky to have had a wonderful family wedding this year that works perfectly with this celebration kit!!

I really hope YOU are inspired to try this!!  

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

Scrapbooking Workshop Kit Celebration

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.

Paper Crafting MOnthly Blog Hop - Bloom Where You're Planted

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!

Our theme this month is Spring (for us in the Southern Hemisphere!!) and what better way to celebrate Spring than with the amazing Sunflower Embossing Folder. 

I've coloured the image on the DEbossed side which gives it a lovely effect I think.

And the lovely Sweet Blooms bundle works perfectly for a Spring Theme!!

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

Spring Sunflowers!

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.

Happy Anniversary for Bundle CASE CTC#541

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 the bundles chapter of the mini catalogue, and my inspiration comes from this card on the left on page 51 of the mini catalogue.

My first step was the square very vanilla card base.  I had to make a very special Anniversary card so, my next step was to search my stamp sets for one that said Happy Anniversary.  So Layers of Beauty to the rescue!

I closely followed all the layering of the original card in the catalgoue, but kept the lines standard rather than skewed (respecting the recipient who would prefer straight lines!!).

My first layer is VELLUM - coming in our Online Exclusives in November - woohoo!  I've embossed it using the Damask Designs embossing folder.  My second layer is ANOTHER Sneak Peek - gorgeous doilies that are Bubble Bath and Real Red and come in 2 sizes!!  I wanted the white side so flipped over the doily which made a wonderful landing pad for my flowers!!

The flowers were stamped using Crumb Cake and then coloured using Stampin' Blends in Petal Pink, Peach Pie, Daffodil Delight and Soft Sea Foam.  And then I added some Wink of Stella to make them sparkle.  (The flowers on the coordinating envelope were done using the Layers of Beauty Masks and the same inks with blending brushes)

I fussy cut the title (as per my CASE project in the catalogue) and added the number for the wedding anniversary using the Month by Month stamp set that came with the Scrapbooking Retreat Kit - so useful!!  

Inside I have repeated the embossed velllum, gorgeous mesh ribbon and a couple of coloured flowers.

Up next is the extraordinary Peta and her snowflake card!

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

Check out our Facebook group for lots more inspiration!

Happy 60th Anniversary

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.

Scenic Ornamental Christmas with Colour INKspiration challenges #197

Hello and Welcome to Handmade by Julia Quinn.

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

These colours are sooo lovely - and the image above the bed helped inspire my card!!  

I've used the Ornamental Christmas Stamp set which has these fantastic lovely large swirly greetings!!  I can see me using this 'Merry Christmas' stamp so much!!  

The stamp set also includes this fuzzy pine tree which worked spectacularly well for this fun stamped technique card.   The first thing I stamped was the large greeting so I knew where I could place my trees.  And then,  I stamped first with Night of Navy stamping a couple of times before reinking the stamp, and then did the same with the Misty Moonlight and finally a couple of Crumb Cake trees.  

I then used a blending brush and added lots of sponged Misty Moonlight all around the edges of the card and especially along the bottom to give the trees a lot more depth.  AND then comes the fun bit!!  I flicked water all over the card to create little splodges, and then flicked very watered down Craft White ink all over the card too for a 'snowy' look.  Anything goes with this technique and it always looks great!

Inside the card are more stamped trees and sponging, but no flicking!!

My final touch for this very simple card was to add some Hues of Blues flowers over the front.

Give this technique a go!!  I'm sure you'll have a messy fun time!!

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.

Ornamental Christmas flicking technique

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.