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
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
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
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
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. 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
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
Hello and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Today I was inspired to join in with the latest challenge at the Global Design Project; the colour palette for #GDP365 is gorgeous and I decided to ink up the Celebrate with Tags and Knit Together Stamp Sets for the first time (Thanks to Charlet Mallett for her inspiration to… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Today I made a Double Easel Card featuring the Aspen Tree Dies for the latest Color Throwdown Challenge, #714. Color Throwdown have a very autumnal palette of colours and even though we’re in the middle of Spring, it sure feels like Autumn after all the rain and cooler temperatures… Read More
Welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Today I had fun playing with some cute Sale-a-bration products. I was inspired by a couple of Card Challenges and also wanted to make another Bridge Fold Slider Card. Caseing the Catty Sunday Challenge, CTC379, is to CASE the SALE-A-BRATION Catalogue! I chose the cute, Hippest Hippos Card shown in the picture… Read More
Hello and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Today I’m sharing a fun card that I made for the latest Tic Tac Toe Challenge – #tttc166 #tictactoechallenge I’ve used elements from the top, horizontal row – Masculine, Die-Cut, Brads Metallic. You’ll have to look closely at the Viking’s shield to see the tiny brad in the centre.… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Today I had a chance to play with some new products from the upcoming 2022-2023 Stampin’ Up! ® Annual Catalogue. It was so good to see the Nature’s Prints Bundle on the pre-order list and I was keen to ink it up. I chose to use the Pretty Prints… Read More
Hi and welcome to my blog. Today I have a really fun card to share with you for the latest challenge at Just Add Ink. I absolutely love the new Cling Stamp Set, For the Record from the current Stampin’ Up! ® Mini Catalogue and thought it would be fun to pair it with the… Read More
Hi there; welcome to my blog. Today I’m sharing a card that I made for TGIF Challenges. It’s a Tri-Fold Window Card and the little Bumblebee Trinket acts as a closure for the card. Surprisingly just one Mini Glue Dot holds the trinket and consequently, the card front, firmly in place. The latest challenge at… Read More
Hello and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Today I made a card for two challenges: Just Add Ink and TGIF. The inspiration photo for Challenge #572 at Just Add Ink is gorgeous and I chose to use some Sale-a-bration products especially for the TGIF #334, Sale-a-bration Inspiration Challenge – It was nice to spend some time in my… Read More
Follow my blog with Bloglovin Hello there and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Today I’m sharing the second in a series of four, Double Easel Cards. I’ve been patiently waiting for my new Stampin’ Up! ® order to arrive. It’s been sitting in the Tassie mail Depot for almost a week!! Inside the big brown box… Read More
Welcome to another G’day Fri’yay’ Card Making Challenge. Within our Facebook group we focus on challenges with an Australian theme but strongly encourage all our global card making friends to participate. All you have to do is make a NEW paper craft project inspired by the CURRENT theme, take a photo of your project and upload it… Read More
Hi crafty peeps. I have something exciting to share with you; tonight I launched an AUSSIE THEMED fortnightly Card Making Challenge Group on Facebook. It’s called G’day Fri’yay’ – https://www.facebook.com/groups/gdayfriyay We focus on Australian themes but encourage all our global card making friends to participate. You can use any brand of paper craft products. There’s no… Read More