Hi there. Welcome to addINktive designs. Let me introduce you to the Botanical Bridge Fold Card. When I first spotted the Botanical Bliss Stamps and coordinating Botanical Tags Thinlits Dies in the new Stampin’ Up! ® Catalogue, this card design popped into my head and I couldn’t wait to try it as soon as my… Read More
Beautiful Bouquet Welcome to addINKtive designs and the Stamp Review Crew Blog Hop featuring the Beautiful Bouquet Stamp Set. The SRC are a group of International Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators who love to show you lots of creative ways to use your stamps. You may have hopped from Ann’s Blog or started from here; I hope… Read More
Hi there. Festive Friday has another great challenge; the festivity is Father’s Day and/or pair that with the element of Die Cut. Father’s Day isn’t until September here in Australia so I’ve opted to feature die cuts with a bit of a masculine theme for my project. I inked up Sea of Textures for the first… Read More
Today our beautiful daughter turns 25. Happy Birthday Laura! She’s currently saving her ‘pennies’ to buy a decent camera so I thought I’d design a special Camera Card for her birthday. I love making 3D cards so the base is a camera shaped box card (card in a box). It has a front sliding element… Read More
Hi there and welcome to my blog. Today I’m joining in with Kylie Bertucci’s May International Blog Highlights . The Theme this month is Encouragement and Thanks and we’re showering Sara Douglass (CEO of Stampin’ Up! ®) with RAK love. Here’s what Kylie wrote – “May is a special month for Sara – She has got demonstrators… Read More
Welcome to addinktive designs and a brand new Colour INKspiration Challenge and CI Crew Blog Hop. You can find Colour INKspiration Challenges on Facebook and there are two challenges every month. Join us on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of every month for a brand new colour palette. #CI32 will run until 7pm (AEST – Melbourne Time), Monday 7th May, 2018.… Read More
Hi there and welcome to addINKtive designs. It’s been quite a while since I’ve joined in with a challenge at Fusion but I spotted the very cute inspiration photo for their latest challenge and couldn’t resist playing along; I’m on a bit of a roll with baby cards at the moment because I’ve been preparing… Read More
Hi there and welcome to my blog. Today I’m joining in with Kylie Bertucci’s April International Blog Highlights . It’s a Baby Theme this month and I have made a 3D card to share. It’s an original design that has a pop-up baby crib (cot) in a double z-fold and features the cute animals from A… Read More
Welcome to addinktive designs and a brand new Colour INKspiration Challenge and CI Crew Blog Hop. You can find Colour INKspiration Challenges on Facebook and there are two challenges every month. Join us on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of every month for a brand new colour palette. #CI30 will run until 7pm (AEST – Melbourne Time), Monday 9th April, 2018.… Read More
Hi there and welcome to the very first blog hop for Tassie Independent Stampin’ Up! ® Demonstrators. Our theme is Autumn/Easter and we’re showcasing some paper craft projects to highlight our beautiful island state of Tasmania. I live in the beautiful Tamar Valley on the outskirts of Launceston, in a small town called Legana (meaning… Read More
Here’s to an epic last week of Sale-a-bration! How are you Sale-a-brating? I thought I’d have a go at following a tutorial instead of writing one this week. Jackie Aitken, a very talented SU Demonstrator from Western Australia, designed this awesome Guitar Amplifier Box Card and I am privileged to have Jackie and five other… Read More
Hi there and welcome to addINKtive designs. I’m back with the latest tutorial for this type of fancy fold. I’ve called it a Double Pop-Up, Gate Fold, Box Card and it features the gorgeous critters from the stamp set, A Little Wild and the toucan from Bird Banter. This one is slightly different to the Party… Read More
I’m back with the second installment of tutorials featuring a fun, interactive, card fold. So far this month, I’ve highlighted a Sale-a-Bration Set called Party Pandas 
for this fun fold and now it’s time to show off these cute images from a stamp set out of the Occasions Catalogue called Hedgehugs!! Can you guess where… Read More
Hi there! Welcome to addINKtive designs. As many of you are aware, I’m an Australian Stampin’ Up! ® Demonstrator and I absolutely LOVE the fact that this fun obsession of mine has become my ‘day job’. I’m still pinching myself that my craft room is now my office! Stampin’ Up! ® Head Office has put… Read More
Hi and welcome to addINKtive designs. Today I decided to make a card to enter into the latest challenge at What Will You Stamp. Magical Day is the featured stamp set for #WWYS156 and seeing that I needed to make another Castle Bridge Fold Card like the one I made for a Display Board at On Stage… Read More
Welcome to addinktive designs and a brand new Colour INKspiration Challenge and CI Crew Blog Hop. You can find Colour INKspiration Challenges on Facebook and there are two challenges every month. Join us on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of every month for a brand new colour palette. #CI27 will run until 7pm (AEDT – Melbourne Time), Monday 26th February, 2018.… Read More
Welcome to addinktive designs and the first Colour INKspiration Challenge and CI Crew Blog Hop for 2018. Just in case you haven’t heard, Colour INKspiration Challenges are on Facebook and there are two challenges every month. Join us on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of every month for a brand new colour palette. #CI25 will run until… Read More
Welcome to the final Stampin’ Up! On Stage, Occasions + SAB, Display Stamper Blog Hop. I was privileged to display some projects at a recent On Stage Local Event held in Melbourne and was given three stamps sets, some DSP and embellishments to create with. As I had already posted a few of my projects… Read More
Welcome to the fourth Stampin’ Up! On Stage, Occasions + SAB, Display Stamper Blog Hop. I was privileged to display some projects at a recent On Stage Local Event held in Melbourne. One of the sets I was given to create with was Magical Day. You can view the Myths and Magic Suite on pages 36… Read More
Welcome to the second Stampin’ Up! On Stage, Occasions + SAB, Display Stamper Blog Hop. I was privileged to display some projects at a recent On Stage Local Event held in Melbourne. One of the sets I was given to create with was Magical Day. You can view the Myths and Magic Suite on pages 36… Read More