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 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
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
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
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
Hello and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. I’m having a mini break from Zig-Zag Albums ☺️ to enter a couple of challenges. The first one being, As You See It Challenge #334 – My favourite item to craft with is PRETTY PAPER, more specifically, 6×6 Paper Collections as they’re a good size for card making. My… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Today I have a cute box-card to share with you. It’s made from CTMH products which I bought at a recent Craft Alive Event in Hobart. The ‘Little Hedgehogs’ stamps and dies, along with a set of Thin Cuts ‘Buildable Tags’ were a ‘bargain’ purchase amongst the many tubs… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Today I’m sharing a card that I made for the Alphabet Challenge Blog. This round they are featuring the Letter ‘L’ … is for Landscape. https://alphabetchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2024/09/l-is-for-landscape.html I absolutely love the Farmhouse Friends Backgrounds 6×6 Paper Collection from Paper Rose. They remind me of the countryside in the UK from… Read More
Welcome to our seventh Funky Folds Blog Hop. 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’,… Read More
Hi there and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Today I’m sharing a Double Z-Fold Box Card that I made for the latest challenge at the Paper Rose Community Group on Facebook. The theme for August is ‘All Creatures Great and Small’. I wanted to make another card using the absolutely gorgeous, Farmhouse Friends Backgrounds, 6×6 Paper… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Today I have a fun card to share which I CASED (Copied and Selectively Edited) after watching a fantastic tutorial on You Tube by Karen McKibbin for Paper Rose Studio. Thanks to Karen’s enabling, I just had to purchase the gorgeous Farmhouse Friends Background Papers and Poppy Field Border… Read More
Hi there. Welcome to my blog. Today I’m sharing a card that I made especially for the #MintayFloweryCardChallenge. I recently joined the Mintay Papers Inspo Place on Facebook and was excited to discover that they hold Monthly Papercraft Challenges. #𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐲𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞 My love of orchids and roses is what drew me to the Mintay Vacation 6×6… Read More
Welcome to our sixth Funky Folds Blog Hop. 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’,… Read More