Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. I’m so excited to share with you some of the products from the gorgeous Bees & Butterflies Collection from Paper Rose Studio ®. As a Guest Designer I have nine fun-fold card projects to share with you featuring this beautiful collection. I’ve added a pic of each project… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. I’m back to show you a card idea that turned out to be a ‘dud’ in my book! When I started playing around with the idea of making the Butterfly Carousel Cards, “this was the initial idea that didn’t quite pan out”. I thought I’d end up making another… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. I’m back with another Butterfly Carousel Box Card (an original design) made with the gorgeous, large Vanessa Butterfly Dies. It features the cute papers and embossed die-cuts from the Lavender & Fairies Collection (all from Paper Rose Studio). I’m working on some ideas for a local class that involves… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. I’m excited to share another Butterfly Carousel Box Card – a new ‘fancy-fold’ that I recently designed. I was keen to try out this new card fold with a different butterfly die and paper collection and chose to use the beautiful, large Vanessa Butterfly Die, Butterfly Garden 6×6 paper and… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs; Happy New Year to all my lovely blog subscribers and visitors; may 2025 be a ‘crafty’ one for you! I’m starting off the year by sharing an idea that was swirling around in my head for a few days; yesterday I took a break from re-organising my craft room… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. It’s that time of the year again where I take a look back at my favourite paper craft projects over the last twelve months. If you’d like to check out each project in more detail, just click on the link below each photo – JANUARY Flowerpot Easel Card FEBRUARY… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. If you haven’t already worked it out … I’m totally smitten with Paper Rose Studio’s pretty paper collections and their metal cutting dies … they’re such good quality and so reasonably priced!! It’s been super hard to resist some of the gorgeous papers of late and when the Lavender… Read More
Hi and welcome to my blog; today I’m sharing another Christmas project that features the cute Embossed Die-Cuts and Tags and 6×6 papers from the Woodland Christmas Collection from Paper Rose Studio. I’ve had so much fun with this collection and am looking forward to sharing some more gorgeous papers and die-cuts from other collections… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. I’m back with another fun Christmas Card featuring the cute critters from the Woodland Christmas Collection by Paper Rose Studio. I’ve really enjoyed making projects from the Woodland Christmas Collection and have one more to share with you very soon – an Envelope Mini Tag Album. Until then …… Read More
Welcome to the Christmas Funky Folds Blog Hop for 2024. 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 peeps … I’m back with another Christmas Card; a complete contrast to the last one I shared. I’ve gone from ‘tropical’ to ‘North Pole’ vibes. Included in one of my recent purchases from Paper Rose Studio were a few sheets of different embossed die-cuts which they had thrown in for FREE; one of the… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. It’s starting to look a lot like Christmas around here … in this case, a tropical one! Included in one of my recent purchases from Paper Rose Studio were a few sheets of different embossed die-cuts which they had thrown in for FREE; one of the sheets was from… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. A couple of months ago I joined Creative Memories as an Advisor … I wouldn’t call myself a scrapbooker but I’ve recently started exploring the world of mini albums, folios and junk journals. CM certainly caters for the avid scrapbooker … hands down … it’s the best company ever… Read More
Today I had the wonderful privilege of being a Guest Designer for Paper Rose Studio! The Woodland Christmas Card that I recently made was shared on their Social Media Channels today. You may have noticed that I’ve made quite a few projects in 2024 featuring products from Paper Rose Studio. It’s my #1 ‘go to’… Read More
Hi there and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. I’m super excited to finally share my latest project with you – a Zig-Zag Album featuring the gorgeous, ‘Lavender & Roses’ Collection from Paper Rose Studio. I’m thankful that my lovely friend, Lynne (LJ’s Crafty Corner on Facebook) was the one that sparked my interest in album, folio… Read More
Welcome to another 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’, ‘pop-up’, ‘gatefold’,… Read More
Hi there and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Today is a day of ‘FIRSTS’ for me; first time I’ve entered a Coffee Lovers Blog Hop, first time I’ve made a Folio and first time I’ve cracked open the gorgeous Coffee and Chocolate Collection from Stamperia. It was a happy ‘accident’ that I came across the Coffee… Read More
Here’s the Christmas version of a Double Gatefold Box Card that I mentioned in my previous blog post. It features the Woodland Christmas Embossed Die Cuts, Tags Embossed Die Cuts and 6×6 Paper Collection from Paper Rose Studio. This unique card fold allowed me to display a few of those adorable embossed die cuts and a… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. I recently purchased the very cute, Autumn Book from Mintay Papers and thought it would be fun to enter the latest challenge at the Card Concept. The theme is ‘Pumpkin Season’ and the pumpkins from the challenge graphic were the inspiration for my CLEAN and LAYERED card. It’s spring… Read More
Hi there and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. I’m so excited about sharing this very cute Baby Shower Album with you. It features the ‘Hello Little Boy’ 6×8″ Die Cuts & Sentiments from Paper Rose Studio. I love using pop-out, die-cut sheets or ephemera packs; it sure beats stamping, colouring and die-cutting all the images you… Read More