Hello and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Tonight I’m sharing a card that I made for the December/January Paper Rose Challenge on Facebook. The theme was Anything Goes so I decided to make a Pop-Up Vase Card using a variety of Paper Rose Products that I had in my stash – Small Peonies Stamps and Dies, Happy Birthday Script… Read More
Hi there and welcome to my blog. Tonight I’m sharing a fun pop-up card that I made for our son’s birthday. I’ve been having way too much fun playing with the AI apps at gagdonkey.net lately and decided to save some photos of my son as a hippie, Ken (from the Barbie Movie), a viking,… Read More
Hi there and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. It’s been a while … life has been busy with holidays and spending time with family, preparing for an upcoming trip to the UK, sorting through cupboards at home in an effort to declutter and walking to help shed those unwanted kilos! I hadn’t felt like making cards,… Read More
Hello and welcome to the Summer Edition of Colour INKspiration Challenges! Crew Pick – Lou Kitzelman Picture Credit – Trigg Beach, Perth, Western Australia You can find Colour INKspiration Challenges on Facebook and there are usually two challenges every month (on the second and fourth Wednesdays) but this summer edition will run for almost five weeks! The… Read More
Hi there; welcome to my annual post 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 pic – JANUARY Dainty Flowers Extended Z-Fold Double Planter Box Card FEBRUARY Adorable… Read More
Hi there. Welcome to AddINKtive Designs and the launch of another MEGA CARD MAKING TUTORIAL BUNDLE! This time I’m offering my ten favourite card making tutorials which didn’t make it into the top ten most popular category (see previous post). Once again … ten tutorials for only $10 (AUD)!! Some require specific dies that may… Read More
Hi there. Welcome to AddINKtive Designs and the launch of my first ever MEGA CARD MAKING TUTORIAL BUNDLE! I’ve gone all out to bring you my ten most popular card making tutorials of all time (excluding bundles and tutorials that were originally offered for free during a promotion). Ten tutorials for only $10 (AUD) …… Read More
Hello and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Today I’m sharing a special birthday card that I made for a dear friend. It features the gorgeous stamps and dies from the Dainty Delight Bundle and the beautiful papers from the Meandering Meadows 6×6 DSP (Stampin’ Up! ®). Shop Stampin’ Up! ® Products in Australia with Lou Kitzelman… Read More
Hi there; welcome to my blog and the month of December. As Christmas is fast approaching, I’m operating on a much more relaxed pace than I normally would be at this time of the year … it’s my first Christmas Card share for the season! I was asked if I would provide a craft activity… Read More
Hi peeps, welcome to AddINKtive Designs. I’m back with another easel card constructed from the Delightful Doily Dies from Stampin’ Up! ®. This time I have chosen to use the Garden Meadow Bundle and Meandering Meadows DSP to create a mini garden scene on an easel/note card base. If you haven’t worked it out, I’m… Read More
Hello and welcome to another fun Colour INKspiration Challenge! You can find Colour INKspiration Challenges on Facebook and there are two challenges every month (on the second and fourth Wednesdays) and what a ‘purple lovers’ combo we have this round. Please note that I’m almost a week past the commencement date for posting my crew card for… Read More
Welcome to AddINKtive Designs. I’m back with another fun fold card featuring the gorgeous Meandering Meadows DSP from Stampin’ Up! ®. Today I’ve used the coordinating, Garden Meadow Bundle (stamps and dies) to create an Extended Double Z-Fold Box Card (original design). I absolutely love the beautiful scenes in this 6×6 pack of Designer Series… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Tonight I’m sharing a Planter Box Card that I made for the latest Paper Rose Monthly Challenge – This month’s challenge is all about Die Cutting and I’ve used the Stitched Rectangle Frames and Sunflower Garden 6×6 Paper Collection to create this unique box card. It’s filled with sprigs… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Today’s post ‘heralds in’ a new season for me … I’m back writing card tutorials but I’m no longer a Stampin’ Up! ® Demonstrator. I resigned (pretty sure it’s for good this time) to enable me to diversify my craft business. More on that topic later. On my ‘way… Read More
Hi and welcome to my blog … I’m back after being MIA for most of the last two months; Among a lot of other things going on in this journey called life, I had to have my gall bladder removed a couple of weeks ago. Thankfully, everything went well and I’m making a good recovery.… Read More
Hi Peeps, It’s been a while … I took a break from card making and blogging this month and have been creating with yarn and knitting needles instead (more on that topic at a later date). To ‘break the paper crafting drought’ I travelled to Bev’s Cross Crafts in Spreyton yesterday and participated in a… Read More
Hi there. Welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Lou and I are back with a Boho Blue and White take on our favourite tutorials. We thought we’d have a bit of fun and choose our all time favourite card fold from one of our tutorial bundles and recreate it using ‘our’ special colour of Boho Blue teamed… Read More
Hi there and welcome to my blog. Today I’m sharing a card that I made for our Pastor’s 60th birthday. I revisited a card fold that I designed for a Bow-Ho Stampers Tutorial Bundle in April last year; it’s a Multi-Block Platform Easel Card. I tweaked the original design a ‘smidge’ choosing to have only… Read More
Hi and welcome to my blog. Today is the second Sunday in August and that means Thanksgiving Sunday at our local church. The pastor requested a couple of Thank You cards and this is what I came up with – I wasn’t sure at first where I was going with this design but I figured… Read More
Hello and welcome to another fun Colour INKspiration Challenge! You can find Colour INKspiration Challenges on Facebook and there are two challenges every month (on the second and fourth Wednesdays) and what a lovely colour combo we have this round. Crew Pick – Lou Kitzelman Picture Credit – https://500px.com/photo/251449445/night-cherry-blossom-by-kenjieda0910 The challenge for CI#149 is to make a… Read More
Hello and welcome to my blog. Today, after cleaning, sorting and decluttering some of the kitchen cupboards (for the second day in a row), I decided to take some time out to make a card and went looking for a challenge for inspiration. I loved the bright and cheery colour combo for Challenge #691 at… Read More
Hi there. Welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Lou and I are back with alternative projects for our current, Bow-Ho Stampers’ 2023-24 Annual Catalogue Tutorial Collection. To highlight the versatility of our card folds we’ve recreated them using different products. Please note that we are NOT introducing a new tutorial bundle, we’re just CASEing (Copying and Selectively Editing)… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. I have some exciting news to share with you … The Dimensionals Papercraft Community on Facebook has been brought ‘back to life’ with the launch of a ‘new’ Monthly 3D Challenge! As Spring (for us in the Southern Hemisphere) isn’t too far away and the blossoms are already starting… Read More
Hello and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Today I have a really fun card to share with you which I’m entering in two different challenges – Just Add Ink #663 (Just Choose Two … Flowers and Gingham) and Creative Creases Challenge #62 (Anything Goes with a Fun Fold). I was working on other projects today but… Read More
Hello and welcome to another fun Colour INKspiration Challenge! You can find Colour INKspiration Challenges on Facebook and there are two challenges every month (on the second and fourth Wednesdays) and what a striking colour combo we have this round. Crew Pick – Brenton Golley Picture Credit – https://www.henrycowls.net/blog-en/the-bullfinch.html The challenge for CI#148 is to make a paper… Read More
Hi there and welcome to my blog. Today I’m playing along with Challenge #303 at ‘As You See It’ which is a Bright ‘n’ Basic Colour Challenge. There’s a mix of brights and neutrals and I decided to take inspiration from the accompanying picture and go with a beach themed card. I created a Pop-Up… Read More
Hello and welcome to another Colour INKspiration Challenge! You can find Colour INKspiration Challenges on Facebook and there are two challenges every month (on the second and fourth Wednesdays) and what a gorgeous colour combo we have this round. I was staying with my mum last week and didn’t have time to create something for CI147 before… Read More
Welcome to the launch of the latest Tutorial Collection from The Bow-Ho Stampers. My Bow-Ho Stampers team mate, Lou Kitzelman and I are back sharing our love of 3D card folds and Stampin’ Up!® products. Our Tutorial Collection includes four card tutorials full of step by step instructions and pictures. We have each designed a… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Tonight I’m sharing the second version of a Pop-Up Vase Card made with the Mini Pocket Envelope Die. This square version features the gorgeous stamps, dies and paper from the Earthen Elegance Suite. Oh … I do love how this card turned out … the earthy colours, the elegant… Read More
Hello and welcome to another fun Colour INKspiration Challenge! You can find Colour INKspiration Challenges on Facebook and there are two challenges every month (on the second and fourth Wednesdays) and what a beautiful colour combo we have this round. Crew Pick – Nicole Wilson Picture Credit – https://www.thespruce.com/decorating-with-green-blue-and-purple-350535 The challenge for CI#146 is to make a paper… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Today I’m participating in the Monthly Challenge in the Paper Rose Community Group on Facebook. For June they are challenging us to create a project using the topic of “Winter” … “this is a rather wide ranging challenge so dig through your Paper Rose papers, dies, stencils and stamps… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Today I’m sharing the card I made for my husband’s birthday. He loves his coffee so I decided to use the cute, Coffee Cup Pop-Up Dies from Karen Burniston to make his card. For the card front and inside panels, I used a striped piece of Countryside Inn DSP… Read More
Hello and welcome to another fun Colour INKspiration Challenge! You can find Colour INKspiration Challenges on Facebook and there are two challenges every month (on the second and fourth Wednesdays) and what a striking colour combo we have this round. Crew Pick – Cheryll Miller Picture Credit – https://shopperboard.com/Ocean/product/22186917 The challenge for CI#145 is to make a paper… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. I enjoyed participating in challenge #299 over at the ‘As You See It Challenge’ Blog so much that I decided to join in this week with their special ‘milestone’ challenge. The theme is ADVENTURE which includes ‘elements’ such as travel, exploration, extreme sports or daring! I chose to focus… Read More
Hello and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Today I’m participating in another card challenge, this time at Seize the Birthday. My card was made for challenge #262 with an optional ‘topping’ to Make it Pop. It’s been a while since I’ve played along at Seize the Birthday (which always has a birthday theme) and decided that… Read More
Hello and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Today I made a Floating Window Card using the ‘Recipe for Framed Flowers in Blue’, challenge #299 at the ‘As You See It Challenge’ Blog. It uses all the elements in the ‘recipe’: a frame (Countryside Corners Bundle), flowers (Cheerful Daisies Dies), a bow (Night of Navy Bordered Ribbon), die-cut… Read More
Hello and welcome to another fun Colour INKspiration Challenge! You can find Colour INKspiration Challenges on Facebook and there are two challenges every month (on the second and fourth Wednesdays) and what a ‘delicious’ colour combo we have this round. Crew Pick – Monica Formosa – Picture Credit The challenge for CI#144 is to make a paper craft project… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Today it’s my daughter’s 30th Birthday and I made her a Hexagonal Pop-Up Card with the main die from the Mini Pocket Envelope Dies. It’s filled it with a few of Laura’s ‘favourite’ things and also features the beautiful, Hello Irresistible Designer Series Paper (an on-line exclusive product). Today’s post is… Read More
Hi there and welcome to my blog. I’m back to share the card that I made for a ‘Fun Card Fold’ Presentation at the recent Stampin’ Up! ® event in Northern Tasmania (You can read more about that in the previous post). It features the Cheerful Daisies Bundle and Fresh as a Daisy Designer Series… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. On Saturday I had the pleasure of attending a SU Demonstrator Event in Northern Tassie. The last event was 5 years ago so it was lovely to finally be able to catch up with other like-minded crafters in our region. Thanks to our Demonstrator Development Manager, Clare for organising… Read More
Hello and welcome to my blog. Hubby and I have just returned from a ten week road trip through Victoria and South Australia. I took a complete break from card making to be ‘present in every moment’, to enjoy the scenery, the RV lifestyle and reassess my priorities. I did take my knitting and some… Read More
Hello and welcome to another Colour INKspiration Challenge! You can find Colour INKspiration Challenges on Facebook and there are two challenges every month (on the second and fourth Wednesdays). Crew Pick – Bronwyn Eastley (that’s me) Picture Credit – https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/29343835064550151/ The challenge for CI#142 is to make a paper craft project using all the colours from the chosen colour… Read More
Hello and welcome to my blog. Today I’m sharing a sympathy card that I made simply to ‘have on hand’ when needed. 😒 It’s a Double Z-Fold Box Card (my original design) made with products from the absolutely gorgeous, ‘By the Bay’ Suite Collection (from the current, Jan-April , Stampin’ Up! ® Mini Catalogue). I cannot resist… Read More
Hello and welcome to another Colour INKspiration Challenge! You can find Colour INKspiration Challenges on Facebook and there are two challenges every month (on the second and fourth Wednesdays). Crew Pick – Lou Kitzelman Picture Credit – https://www.gingerray.com.au/easter-stems-egg-decoration The challenge for CI#140 is to make a paper craft project using all the colours from the chosen colour combination, So Saffron,… Read More
Hi and welcome to my blog. Today I’m sharing an Easel Card that I made featuring the A Fish and a Wish Bundle (stamps and punch) combined with a couple of sheets of paper from the 6×6 pack, By the Bay Specialty Designer Series Paper. This card design was especially ‘chosen’ for the recipient who is definitely… Read More
Hello and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Today’s card has me humming the tune of Loch Lomond – O ye’ll tak’ the high road, and I’ll tak’ the low road, And I’ll be in Scotland afore ye, But me and my true love will never meet again, On the bonnie, bonnie banks o’ Loch Lomond. Hubby… Read More
Hello and welcome to another fabulous Colour INKspiration Challenge! You can find Colour INKspiration Challenges on Facebook and there are two challenges every month (on the second and fourth Wednesdays). Crew Pick – Monica Formosa Picture Credit – https://www.instagram.com/p/ClaV404PDCA/ The challenge for CI#138 is to make a paper craft project using all the colours from the chosen colour combination, Daffodil… Read More
Hello and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Today I’m blog hopping with my fellow Australasian Demonstrators (ESAD) to celebrate all things, SALE-A-BRATION! There’s only a few days left to choose a FREE Sale-a-bration product with every $90/$180 (AUD) you spend (before shipping and handling). Over the last couple of months I’ve had so much fun playing… Read More
Hi and welcome to my blog. I have a very cute pop-up card to share with you made from the Dainty Delight Bundle and soon to be retiring, Sale-a-bration products, Sending Support Stamp Set and Dainty Flowers Designer Series Paper. The DSP is my current favourite and coordinates beautifully with the Dainty Delight Bundle and if… Read More
Move over penguins and make way for the Adorable Owls! In the lead up to Christmas in 2022 I was pretty obsessed with the cute little penguins from Penguin Place. I made a bunch of cards with them but it seems like the Adorable Owls have taken over this year! Just after Christmas, I coloured… Read More