Snowflakes with added interest!! CASED from our CATTY CTC#546

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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 punch or die project - and I've stretched the criteria a bit!!  

I HAVE cased this lovely snowflake on page 52 of the Mini Catalogue with it's lovely layering detail and the twine detail in the centre.  I love the tiny greeting in the centre too, but didn't have any appropriate stamps to do this, so just stayed with more layering for my own element on my card. 

In the Delicate pines dies, there is this great die that cuts out the centres of the leafy snowflakes which really gives them a lovely stand out quality!!  

I've layered up the smallest snowflake with the biggest, and using the great inspiration from the catalogue, I added the twine - which comes from the Gathering Together Suite - it's Old Olive and Early Espresso linen thread pack - super useful and a lovely weight and texture for cardmaking.

This is a fun fold card - which gave me LOTS of space to enjoy those gorgeous leafy snowflakes so I added another layered thread bundle inside the card too!!  This card is also a fabulous way to show off the gorgeous coordinating Elegant Pines designer paper.  

Isn't this an interesting combination of colours?  Shaded Spruce and Secret Sea - looks amazing together!

The card folds out so there's plenty of room inside for lovely writing.

And the layering of these gorgeous stamped snowflake images works soo beautifully!  The photopolymer really helps line up the snowflakes perfectly! 

My final touch was some awesome faceted snowflakes - these things SPARKLE!!!!  I love them!

Up next is the extraordinary Rebecca

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Layered Snowflake

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Traditional Christmas inspiration CI#199

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

I love these rustic tradtional colours - and I really love that gorgeous wreath on the dresser.

Soooooo, I started with the wreath idea and then I wanted to make a Christmas Swag, and then I wanted to add sparkle and texture!!!  

I've used All the Velvet - white for the background, and the bow and leaves are also die cut using the gorgeous Velvet Specialty paper.  

The process:

I added some Shimmery White Embossing Paste to the top of my Pressed Flowers embossing folder and then embossed the front panel of White Velvet specialty paper.

THEN, I die cut the gorgeous Velvet bow using the Christmas Greenery dies;

the two Pecan Pie pinecones using the Delicate Pines dies;

and all the leafery using the Delicate Pines dies and the Velvet specialty paper.  I created the leaves going in both directions by die cutting 2 on the velvet side, and then 2 onto the back of the paper so then they went in both directions to create the swag. 

The greeting is stamped from the Jolly Holly stamp set and punched using the NEW Three Banner Punch.

And my final touch was some totally gorgeous Faceted Snowflake gems.

Inside the card is a similar layout stamped using the Delicate Pines set for the swag, and the words comes from the Jolly Holly stamp set.  

I tried really hard to photograph all the shimmer with the embossing paste on the embossed background - hopefully you can see how gorgeous it all looks!!  

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.

Christmas Swag Tutorial

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Sharni's Chain Card Swap C

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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.

Start the Hop here with Sharni!

Today we are sharing a wonderful card designed by Sharni  in Chain Swap C. Follow the blog hop ALL the way around to see the evolution of her gorgeous card.

I received a gorgeous and bright card in the chain, but then I really went monochromatic using the black and white Botanical Textures paper (which is currently on SPECIAL so if you want to grab it, be quick!).  The great diagonal design worked just marvellously with this paper!

The coordinating Textured Notes bundle has some totally gorgeous edged labels and I always seem to need more thankyou cards, so this worked really well.  

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

Thankyou Botanical Textures

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Delicate Pines and Elegant PInes inspiration CTC#545

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 ONline Exclusives collection.

And I have had a wonderful time creating with the Delicate Pines collection.

My insppiration comes from the white card on the right hand side above ..... I love the focus on the greens and the white on white effect.  I think it looks so elegant.

I did get carries away somewhat though..... I really love using the papers and celebrating all those greens (of course!!) and I had a wonderful time creating a fun fold card featuring this suite.

The writing panel on the inside of the card looks more like the inspiration project from Stampin' Up!.  I love the way the leafy snowflakes can be stamped interlocked with different colours!!

The finished effect is just glorious!!  

This is a fun gatefold which is a brilliant way to show of glorious papers!!

My finishing touch was some super cute stamped and die cut snowflakes onto White Velvet - swoon!!  

Up next is the extraordinary Monique

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

Check out our Facebook group for lots more inspiration!

Delicate Pines Fun Fold

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.