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Christmas Crafting with Let's Craft Together blog hop

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 all about colour!!  

And I've been guided by the inspiration picture too with my Christmas card.

The stunning Golden Greenery dies work really well for the 'tree' detail, and I've added some shimmery white embossing paste to give them shine detail!  

The baubles come from the Unbounded Love dies using the Moody Mauve cardstock. I've added extra colour using a blending brush and ink, as well as a little shimmery white embossing paste and a touch of white ink in the centre to highlight the rounded shape.

The absolutely gorgeous Cherry Cobbler ribbon ties bows so beautifully!!  And my greeting comes from the Joyful Sayings Mix and Match pack.  I actually layered 2 of the same greeting.

My card base is the Pretty Peacock, but I've chopped up a Brushed Gold card for the front and inside panels - easy way of creating a backgound!!

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

Christmas Baubles

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.

Autumn to Christmas CTC#494

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 a sketch from our Mini Catalogue.

I love the simple design and colours in this card!

Because I'm in my Christmas Cardmaking Season, I had to create a Christmas card and used this sketch along with the Falling Snow and Peaceful Evergreen stamp sets.

It's a bit tricky to tell in this photo, but I was really going for LOTS of sparkle on my card.  There are actually 4 different ways to add shine and sparkle - silver foil, glimmer paper, rhinestones and shimmery white embossing paste!  

I swooshed some Shimmery White embossing paste all over my card after I had stamped the Falling Snow and the large tree from Peaceful Everygreens.

I love the way that the embossing paste blurs the colour on the tree a bit and gives it extra colour! 

Inside the card is the simple stamping without the embossing paste.

What do you think?  Would you like to smear shimmery embossing paste all over your card?

Up next is the extraordinary Rochelle

Make sure you keep hopping!

Check out our Facebook group for lots more inspiration!

Find the tutorial here

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.

Five in Five week 6

Five In Five - week 5 - sparkle

Sentimental Season's Greetings CTC#493

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 Sentimental Christmas suite, and my inspiration is the card on the bottom right.  

Hopefully you can really see where the inspiration comes from!!  I've used different colours and used a punch for the central image, but it's pretty similar!  

I've focused on the paper and fussy cut all the candle images rather than stamping and colouring, so my card is much simpler!

I've also added the Dotty embossing folder too because the card did look a bit too simple.

And I just love this greeting from the Greetings of the Season stamp set!!  

Up next is the extraordinary Rochelle

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

Check out our Facebook group for lots more inspiration!

Sentimental Season's Greetings tutorial

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.

Christmas Bird inspiration Colour INKspiration #176

Hello and Welcome to Handmade by Julia Quinn.

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

This is actually an Australian bird - the pink robin and the colours are just amazing!

I'm in my Christmas Cardmaking season, so every card I create at the moment is ultimately going to be a Christmas Card - and when I saw the colours and inspiration picture this week, initially I was very stumped!!  I have some Christmas trees cut out on my desk that did NOT make it to my project!!

Ultimately I went with the inspiration pic (again! - I find it really helps my mojo go!!) and pulled out the lovely Winterly Tree Tops and the colours of the project which got me started!!  I HAVE chopped off the top of the birds heads though so that they look more like robins!  

I love the addition of the Festive glimmer paper cut out with the Golden Greenery dies.  And after I added this lovely foliage, then I really HAD to make a slimline card to fit in all the imagery!!  

The greeting comes from the Trucking Along stamp set - something simple and quiet so those gorgeous birds and fronds are totally centre stage!!

And then I remembered the lovely In Colour glimmer paper which features the Petunia Pop, so that made it's way to my project too!  Check out some more inspiration with these colours on our page!

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.

Petunia Pop Christmas Birds

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.