Paper crafting monthly blog hop - Easter Inspiration

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Today I'm joining the fabulous paper crafting monthly blog hop of fabulous international crafters.  Join us for a world tour of inspiration!

Our blog hop this month is all about sharing from our January to April Mini Catalogue!  I'm starting to get ready for Easter, and of course, the lovely Storybook Friends bundle has a fabulous Easter greeting that I've been using non stop!!  

I'm highlighting one of the panels of the Storybook Moments papers that you can cut up, as well as one of the die cut pieces also included in this paper.  I've used one of the gorgeous dies to create the little frame, and also used my favourite embossing folder - Distressed Tile.

Inside the card folds out to show a bit more of the lovely embossing, and then you open again for the greeting!

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

Boho Blue Easter Greetings

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Pretty pretty Wildflower Birthday papers CTC#511

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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 the colours of the Wildflower Birthday paper which is soooo pretty!

And I've just played and had a bunch of fun with this paper.  We wer housebound with Cyclone Alfred which gave me time to play in my craft room.  

This paper has a sheet of die cut images and also a sheet of printed card fronts which made putting these cards together super easy and really fun.  

My inspiration came straight from the catalogue on page 42 of our Mini Catalogue.

I made a bunch of cards swapping up the card base colour to see which I like the best!  

The greetings have been stamped onto some of the DSP labels as well using Blueberry Bushel ink.

Isn't it interesting how different the cards look with the darker card base?  

And these cards differ in the way I've created the greeting feature.  The words come from the Cake Celebrations stamp set.  

And these cards feature the Birthday Celebration stamp set for the greeting - and I tried to make a card that I could use for lots of different occasions and celebrations.

Here they are all together - don't they look cool!!  

Up next is the extraordinary Kathryn

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

Check out our Facebook group for lots more inspiration!

Easy card using Wildflower Birthday paper

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.

Blue Blue Hydrangers for CI#183

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

I just love this image and it acted as a great starting point.  I've flipped the colours though with the gorgeous blues for the hydrangers, and then the crushed curry golden butterfly.

I've been practicing colouring these lovely flowers and this combination of Balmy Blue and Blueberry Bushell really looks lovely!!  

I added some gold detail with the Gold Open Weave ribbon and the Low Profile dots.  

I love the little dotty image in this stamp set, and had a bunch of fun stamping it repeatedly on the front and inside of my card on the edges for a fun bokeh effect.

I've also added colour with blending brushes and a little flicking for the fine splatter.

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.

Blue Blue Hydrangers

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.

Scrapbooking using Memories and More cards

Hello and Welcome to Handmade by Julia Quinn.

Today, I'm keen to share some Scrapbooking Inspiration with you!!  

Our Blog Hop is anything goes in our scrapbooking.  I love being part of this blog hop because it gets me scrapping every month!!  I love the deadline of actually getting my pages done!

This page has a LOT of photos - I love all our family time with my siblings and parents and cousins and everyone, so I really wanted to show lots of photos!!  So, due to the quantity of photos, I kept the rest of it really simple (I think?)

I've only used Memories and More cards and 1 sheet of white 12 x 12 cardstock!!  I fussy cut a few of the cards and use some of the cool stickers which makes it so easy.  There are 5 of the Memories and More cards used on this page - which means I have HEAPS left over for more cardmaking and scrapbooking!  The only extra thing I did was to hand draw a line around the edge - because I missed doing stamping and felt guilty about how easy this page was!!  

Make sure you keep hopping for LOTS more great Scrapbooking Inspiration!!

Memories and More 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.