Blown away by Blues Colour INKspiration challenge #203

Hello and Welcome to Handmade by Julia Quinn.

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

I'm loving the blues and softness in this colour palette.

I'm using a NEW bundle coming in March - Rolling Waves and I've also added some gorgeous Natural Hues paper from the Nature Walk Suite in the Mini Catalogue.  There are 3 colours and I've used the cream.  

The layering of the Rolling Waves dies is just brilliant!!  They all work together, although I have offset my layers to see the colours underneath each layer.  And I LOOOOOVE the gorgeous sea shells that all cut out at the same time - super easy and quick!!  

And I love the ways the stamped image and die waves work so beautifully together.

Make sure you join in this amazing colour challenge this fortnight!!

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.

Rolling Waves Colour Challenge

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.

Cute Little Pouch for CTC#556 Made with Love

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 the Made with Love Suite in the Mini Catalogue on page 30.

I've used the great tag detail as inspiration and my starting point for a sweet little pouch card that can be used for gift giving also.

My card features to glorious Pastels Shimmer paper with embellishments from the super super cute Softest Spring Puffy Stickers!!  

The fabulous Endless Love dies work a treat with some gorgeous tags and heart details!  

The Stamping was done using Berry Burst ink and the totally adorable Cutest Crew stamp set!!  This set will be available in March!!  (Or you can add it to your Starter Kit if you join up THIS MONTH!!)

We will be creating this gorgeous fun fold at our class on Monday 23rd February - book in for the class so you can see how it's made with all the measurements!!

Up next is the extraordinary  Peta and her totally GORGEOUS card!

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

Check out our Facebook group for lots more inspiration!

Made With Love cute gift pouch

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.

It's a RED theme - Let's Craft Together

Hello and Welcome to Handmade by Julia Quinn.

Tonight I'm hopping with an awesome bunch of talented Australian crafters who love sharing with you!!

Our challenge this month is RED!!  

We can only use a couple of neutral tones to go with all the shades of red, and I've used white only.  I've created a sweet fun fold with the lovely Delightful Wishes stamp set and dies.

The Basic Measurements for this card are:

Thick White 14.5 x 10.5 for card base; 

Thick White 28 x 10.5 scored at 5, 9.5, 18.5, 23  with mountain, valley, valley, mountain and adhere to the centre of the card base

The Panels of Mixed Up Patterns DSP is 10 x 4.5 (x2) and 10 x 2.5 (x2) and 10 x 8.5 for the centre of the card

I've used the amazing Textured Notes dies for the front panel featuring the greeting and anchoring all the gorgeous flowers from the Delightful Wishes dies.  And I just LOVE those GORGEOUS little LadyBugs as my finishing touch!!  

Make sure you keep hopping to see lots of amazing inspiration just for you!

Red Delightful Wishes

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.

Let's make a cute Tag! CTC555

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 one of the fabulous templates from page 17 of our mini catalogue.

The timing for this challenge is PERFECT for me - I had to make a bunch of tags for our retreat day coming up in 2 weeks!!!  And I was VERY excited to use the brilliant design with all the circles for the FANTASTIC GEARS and TEXTURES bundle.

Hopefully you can see EXACTLY the layout I have CASED!!  I've used a bunch of background stamping to show off the gorgeous main designs.

I've used a bunch of the stamps in the GEARS and TEXTURES stamp set as well as a couple from the amazing VIRTUAL CARD RETREAT stamp set.  The Greeting comes from the CAKE DAY stamp set.

Here's some of the fun assembly images as I was making all my tags. I love the fabulous foam strips for ease of use behind greetings.

And the Black Dimensionals worked a treat behind all thos fabulous cogs for the features of the tags. My final touch was some of the Secret Sea Moody Palette Glossy Dots for the cog centres.  I've tied some gorgeous White with Gold ribbon onto the top of the tag using some Crumb Cake Essentials Baker's Twine.  The Tag tops were punched using the Heartfelt Hexagon Punch.

Up next is the extraordinary Peta

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

Check out our Facebook group for lots more inspiration!

Gears & Textures Tag

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.