Online Exclusives Inspiration CTC#520

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 May ONLINE Exclusives collection!

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And I've been inspired by the Blooming Phrases Stamp set - this is my first time to use it so this challenge came in perfectly for me to get it out and start playing!!  I was inspired by the all over image in the background and the label greeting.  

The Inspiration Card is actually stamped all over the background and that looked like way too much work for me!! So I've used the lovely Floral Impressions Designer Paper which is ALSO part of the May ONLINE Exclusives offering.  

The paper I chose gave me the colour pallette for my card - Strawberry Slush with Pretty in Pink.  This amazing stamp set is actually a 2 step stamp where I stamped the words first in Strawberry Slush, then the flower in Pretty in Pink, and then the leaves using Old Olive ink.

The stamping on the inside followed the same pattern - what a happy combination with the sweet designer paper!!  

Up next is the extraordinary Rebecca  

Make sure you keep hopping because you'll see Peta's card which is inspired by the same card!!  

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

Check out our Facebook group for lots more inspiration!

Blooming Phrases with Floral Impressions

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.

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.