Blue Blue Hydrangers for CI#183

Hello and Welcome to Handmade by Julia Quinn.

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

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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.

Online Exclusives Hydrangers for CTC#510

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 our new Online Exclusives collection.

And I have just received the lovely Thankful Garden bundle and I'm really loving playing with these gorgeous hydrangers from this set!!  

I coloured the flowers in two different ways.  Which one is your favourite?

This card above was the first one I coloured by doing the whole bloom as one big flower.  I used Boho Blue, Fresh Freesia and some shadows with Misty Moonlight Stampin' Blends.

And I coloured this full bloom by colouring each little flower individually. I do like how this one turned out!  I've also paired the gorgeous flowers with the Elements of Text stamp set which is just brilliant for background details.

The text was stamped using Gray Granite and Fresh Freesia for the splodges - along with the super soft velvet ribbon and the rainbow dots!  

So, do you have a favourite colour way for this flower?

Inside the card is some more awesome Elements of Text stamping.

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!

Thankful Hydrangers Caseing the Catty

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.

Welcome to 2025 Funky Folds blog hops!!

Hello and Welcome to Handmade by Julia Quinn.

Tonight I'm hopping with an awesome bunch of talented crafters who love dabbling with folds!!  

We are a group of like-minded paper crafters who love to make cards with funky folds. Funky actually means "modern and stylish in an unconventional or striking way"... so we are featuring cards that are not your usual rectangle/square portrait or landscape style. Think 'easel', 'pop-up', 'gatefold', 'z-fold', 'shaped' or 3D cards etc. The list is endless. 

All Blog Hops have an 'anything goes' theme using any type of 'funky' card fold.

My card for our hop is an exploding box card!!  I think this is a fun card and works so well with flowers and butterflies and then had the brainwave that the mushrooms would work perfectly!! 

Having the coordinating punch works so well for these stamps - so much easier to create the cute pop up elements!

ON the back of the card is the writing panel so the card can be kept open to display!!  

And the fun elements is that this card folds flat for easy postage!  

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

Card in a Box Mushrooms

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.