Hi peeps; welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Today I’m sharing my first Paper Rose Studio Design Team Project for April. It features the absolutely gorgeous products from the Flower Shoppe Basics Collection. I’ve wanted to design a 3D Flower Cart Card for a very long time and these products provided me with a good reason to… Read More
Welcome to the April 2025 Funky Folds Blog Hop! We are a group of like minded paper crafters who love to make projects 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’,… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. I’ve just popped in to share a very cute kit that I picked up at Spotlight; it’s a Money Plant Paper Art Kit by Inkadinkado. It’s tiny, it’s adorable and was so easy to put together. I might have to replicate this idea with some dies I have in… Read More
Hi and welcome to my blog. Yesterday I attended another fun class at Bev’s Cross Crafts taken by my lovely friend, Lynne. In this class we made a diorama lightbox using the ‘Lavender’ 8×8 paper pad by Stamperia and some cardstock. The box was lit with a string of micro fairy lights. Every time I… Read More
Hello paper lovers! Welcome to AddINKtive Designs. I’m back with my second Design Team Project for March for Paper Rose Studio. I don’t think I’ve mentioned on here that my Guest Designer ‘gig’ for PRS was very short lived; I submitted some projects in January and was then asked to be on the Design Team… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Last Friday I attended a Mintay Folio Class with LJ’s Crafty Corner at Bev’s Cross Crafts in Spreyton. We made a folio using 12×12 papers from the Grandma’s Attic range by Mintay. The folio featured various pockets, belly bands, a notepad and notebook. The folio and notebook were bound… Read More
Hello paper lovers; welcome to AddINKtive Designs. I’m back with my first Design Team Project for Paper Rose Studio for the month of March and have some cute Chocolate Easter Egg Holders featuring products from the Easter Village Collection to share with you. This type of packaging has been around for a while (otherwise known as… Read More
Hello paper craft lovers; welcome to AddINKtive Designs. I’m excited to share a cute Baby Crib Card that I made to welcome my great nephew, Alistair to the world! The card measures 6×6″ and I chose to pop a 3D crib on the inside. I’ve made a few different versions of these pop-out cribs over… Read More
Welcome to our first Funky Folds Blog Hop for 2025! We are a group of like minded paper crafters who love to make projects 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… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. I recently made a Zig-Zag Card for my latest Design Team Project for Paper Rose Studio (you can see that one at the bottom of this post). For a practice run I actually made this one featuring products from the Farmhouse Friends Collection first. This zig-zag piece (12″ in… Read More
Hello paper lovers; welcome to AddINKtive Designs! It’s been a while since I’ve made a project with Stampin’ Up! ® products … I couldn’t resist the beautiful Bokeh Suite Collection and finally ‘caved’ … after all it has gorgeous paper and beautiful butterfly dies; two of my favourite things. Having recently designed a Butterfly Carousel… Read More
Hello paper lovers! Welcome to AddINKtive Designs. I’m excited to share with you a fun-fold card featuring the absolutely gorgeous Easter Village Collection of papers and embossed die-cuts from Paper Rose Studio. The bunnies along with the other embossed die-cuts are super cute, the florals are so pretty and I love how the Lots of… Read More
Hello paper lovers! I’m back with one of my favourite fun folds – a Z-Fold (Pop-Out) Baby Crib Card. I spotted the very cute, ‘Hello Darling’ Collection from Uniquely Creative at my local paper crafting store, Ashcraft and Gifts when I was on a ‘girls craft shopping day out’ last week; of course a few… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Today I have something a little different to share … I’m totally out of my comfort zone when it comes to making ‘flat’ cards and my colouring in skills are a little rusty. Making dimensional, interactive cards is more ‘my thing’ … But … hey! I was inspired by… Read More
Hello paper lovers! Welcome to AddINKtive Designs. I’m excited to share a Sweet Valentine card and some cute chocolate holders that I made for one of my Paper Rose Studio Design Team projects this month. If you’ve been following along with my paper craft journey you’ll know that I’ve made quite a few chocolate holders… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. I’m back with another Double Easel Card, this time featuring the Dear Isabella Collection from – Two days ago I shared the Bees & Butterflies version of this type of card; it was one of the projects I made as a Guest Designer for Paper Rose Studio. I designed… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. I’m back with another 6×6 Easel Card this time featuring the Lavender & Fairies Collection from – Yesterday I shared the Bees & Butterflies version of this type of card; it was one of the projects I made as a Guest Designer for Paper Rose Studio. I designed this… Read More
Hi and welcome to the sixth and final instalment of my Design Team Projects featuring the bee…utiful Bees & Butterflies Collection from – Apologies to my subscribers for six blog posts in one day! For my next project I made a Honey Jar Notecard from the Confetti Jar 1 Metal Cutting Die … You can… Read More
Hi and welcome to the fifth instalment of my Design Team Projects featuring the bee…utiful Bees & Butterflies Collection from – For my sixth project I made a Double Easel Card with a Hexagon Window. This one is my personal favourite out of the nine that I made as Guest Designer this month. The larger… Read More
Hi and welcome to the fourth instalment of my Design Team Projects featuring the bee…utiful Bees & Butterflies Collection from – For my fifth project I made a 6×6 Easel Card. I really love the gorgeous background paper on this one and have added a Wonky Picket Fence [22762] to the garden scene. A little… Read More