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 and welcome to my blog. This is the last blog post in a series of 5 that feature a selection of Christmas Card Tutorials that I’ve published over the years. To celebrate and wish my blog readers a very happy Christmas, I have a special GIVE AWAY. EVERYONE (yep you read that right … EVERYONE)… Read More
Hi and welcome to my blog. This is the 4th in a series of 5 posts that feature Christmas Tutorials that I’ve published in the past. The year was 2020 and I won’t mention the ‘C’ word; needless to say it was a productive year for on-line businesses. Initially, I was content to spend as much… Read More
Hello and welcome to my blog. This is the third post to highlight some of my Christmas Card Tutorials from the past. The year was 2019 (BC – before COVID). Due to loads of requests, I wrote the tutorial for the Snow Globe Scenes Gift Card Holder about two days before hubby and I headed off on a… Read More
Hi there. Welcome to my blog and the second post that looks at some of my Christmas Card Making Tutorials from the past. 2018 was a crazy, busy year with a trip to Orlando, Florida to celebrate 30 years of Stampin’ Up! ®; I made about 40 detailed cards for Fancy Folds Swap Groups and… Read More
Hello and welcome to my blog. I thought it would be fun to look back at some of the Christmas Card Tutorials that I wrote prior to ‘retiring’ at the end of 2017. I seriously do not know how I managed to write tutorials and blog while I was a School Principal but getting into… Read More
Hi and welcome to my blog; tonight I’m sharing a Double Z-Fold, Box Card for Colour INKspiration Challenge #135. It features the Sweet Gingerbread Stamp Set and Gingerbread House Dies from the July – December 2022, Stampin’ Up! Mini Catalogue. Sadly this Bundle was on the retiring list and due to its popularity, is now sold out along with the Snowflake Specialty Vellum. I’m so… Read More
Hello crafty friends; I recently returned from a much needed holiday break with my lovely Stampin’ Up! ® Team Leader and friend, Lou Kitzelman. Lou wasn’t able to attend the recent On Stage SU Event in Sydney as she hasn’t got ‘the all clear’ to fly as yet, so as an alternative ‘team get together’… Read More
Hi and welcome to my blog. Today I’m sharing a Mini Pocket Envelope that I recently made while on a short holiday break to the Sunshine Coast, QLD. I was keen to crack open the Mini Pocket Envelope Dies and my lovely Team Leader, Lou Kitzelman, provided the resources for me to complete this simple project… Read More
Hi and welcome to my blog; today I’m interrupting the ‘Penguin Parade’ to share a Bridge Fold Card for Colour INKspiration Challenge #133. It features the cute, Christmas Scottie Stamp Set, Scottie Dog Punch and Celebration Tags Dies, along with other products from the July – December 2022, Stampin’ Up! Mini Catalogue. You can find Colour INKspiration Challenges on Facebook and there… Read More
Hi there. Welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Lou and I are back with alternative projects for our current, Bow-Ho Stampers Tutorial Bundle. To highlight the versatility of our card folds we’ve recreated them using different products. My Team Leader, Lou Kitzelman and I, publish Mini Tutorial Bundles whenever there are SPECIAL PRODUCT RELEASES or PROMOTIONS. We both love… Read More
Hello and welcome to AddINKtive Designs … … Just when you thought the penguins couldn’t get any cuter … check out their adorable, woolly knits! It was a happy accident when I smudged a penguin’s belly with my inky, gluey fingers and had this ‘aha moment’ to make a little jumper to cover up my… Read More
Hi there and welcome to my blog; today I’m sharing a Pop-Up Card for Colour INKspiration Challenge #132. It features the cute, Penguin Place Stamp Set, Penguin Builder Punch and Snowflake Specialty Vellum from the July – December 2022, Stampin’ Up! Mini Catalogue. You can find Colour INKspiration Challenges on Facebook and there are two challenges every month (on the second… 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
Welcome to AddINKtive Designs and the November 2021 Blog Hop for The Dimensionals. We’re a group of Stampin’ Up! ® Demonstrators who currently offer 3D Paper Craft Tutorials every second month. Our theme for November and December is THE ‘HOLIDAY’ MINI CATTY PART 2 and we’re excited to launch our latest tutorial bundle that feature FOUR, 3D, paper craft projects. For my… Read More
Hello and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. 2020 has certainly been an interesting year full of challenges – at the height of lockdown in our state of Tasmania, I threw myself into designing and writing quite a few card tutorials. The craft room became my ‘go to place to escape’. Our travel plans were ‘on hold’ and… Read More
Hi there and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Today I’m sharing a short video explaining how I achieved this gorgeous, ombre, shimmery, alcohol ink blended background on my card. I was originally inspired by Michele Jutrisa’s beautiful cards that feature alcohol ink art. However, I did approach this technique in a slightly different way as I wanted… Read More
Welcome to AddINKtive Designs and the December Blog Hop for The Dimensionals. We’re a group of Stampin’ Up! ® Demonstrators who offer 3D Paper Craft Tutorials on the 1st day of every month. The theme for this month is CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS/DECOR. We’re super excited to launch our latest tutorial bundle – four, festive, unique 3D projects for the Holiday… Read More
Welcome to addinktive designs and the latest Colour INKspiration Challenge. You can find Colour INKspiration Challenges on Facebook and there are two challenges every month (on the second and fourth Wednesdays). Today’s fun inspiration pic was sourced from Pinterest by Lou. The challenge for #CI90 is to make a paper craft project using the chosen colour combination, Daffodil Delight,… Read More
Hi there. Welcome to my blog. Today I’m sharing a Box Card full of the cute, stamped, ‘Gnomies’ images from Paper Rose Studio and have coloured them with Stampin’ Blends (SU) in the latest challenge colours for Colour INKspiration #89. Gnome Stamps are kinda all the rage at the moment and I’ve been well and truly ‘bitten by… Read More
Welcome to AddINKtive Designs and the November Blog Hop for The Dimensionals. We’re a group of Stampin’ Up! ® Enthusiasts who offer 3D Paper Craft Tutorials on the 1st day of every month. The theme for this month is CHRISTMAS CARDS and we’re excited to launch our latest tutorial bundle that feature four, fun and festive, 3D projects. The reason… Read More
Hi and welcome to my blog. Today I’m sharing another fun fold card; this time I’ve used the Snow Globe Scenes Dies from Stampin’ Up! ® and the beautiful Snowflake Splendor Designer Series Paper to make a Double Z-Fold, Box Card. It’s made with the Celebration Labels Dies (SU) and is an updated version of the Lots of… Read More
Hi and welcome to my blog. Today I’m sharing my first ‘Nativity’ Christmas Card for the season. I’ve used the Peaceful Nativity Bundle from Stampin’ Up! ® and the beautiful Snowflake Splendor Designer Series Paper to make a very special Bridge Fold Card. It’s made with the Celebration Labels Dies (SU) and is an updated version… Read More
Hi there. Tonight I’m sharing a different version of a cute pop-up card that I designed a couple of months ago using the Gnome for the Holidays Stamp Set (SU) – the main difference with the latest Snowflake Splendor Version, is obviously the colour combo (taken from the Designer Series Paper). I’ve made a couple of… Read More
Hi there. Welcome to my blog; tonight I’m sharing my first card made with products from the newly released Holiday Catalogue. Gnomes are really on trend right now in the paper crafting world so I was excited to see the cute stamp set, Gnome for the Holidays on page 23 of the catty. All I… Read More
Welcome to addinktive designs and another fun Colour INKspiration Challenge and CI Crew Blog Hop. You can find Colour INKspiration Challenges on Facebook and there are two challenges every month. However, due to the busyness of the holiday season, this will be the only challenge for December and the LAST CHALLENGE for 2019. We hope you can take… Read More
Welcome to addINKtive designs. Have you seen some of the cute ornaments that crafty peeps have made using the Snow Globe Shaker Domes? I was super keen to make one after watching the great instructional video on You Tube by Linda Dalke and ventured into my craft room today to make a similar one to her double… Read More
Hi and welcome to addINKtive designs. If you visited yesterday you would have seen one of my Panel Card Designs turned into a Candy Cane Holder. Today I have a fun little Chocolate Holder to share with you. I spotted these packets of Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolates in the Christmas section at Woolworths; they’re about… Read More
Hi there. Welcome to my blog. When I spotted some packets of large candy canes in the local supermarket, I immediately thought of how I could use one of my recent card designs as a Candy Cane Holder. My Pop-Up Panel Card was just the right size to hold one of the candy canes. It… Read More
Hi there. I’ve been wanting to make this interactive card for…ever! I finally got around to finishing it yesterday and writing up the tutorial this morning before I had a stamping session with my team this afternoon. “Shut the front door!” … The push/pull mechanism in the Cuckoo Clock Dies opens and shuts the door… Read More
Hi there. Welcome to my blog. Yesterday I held my last card class for 2019; it was a Fun Folds Class with a Christmas Theme. The first card we made was a Centre Panel Easel Card. It features the Peaceful Boughs Bundle as well as the Wrapped in Plaid Specialty DSP. And another made by… Read More
Hi there. I’m back to share the second fun-fold card we’ll be making in Stamp Class tomorrow. It’s the fifth in a series of Pop-Up Panel Cards that I designed last month and this one shows off the very cute, Let It Snow Specialty Designer Series Paper (contains glittery winter images). Even though I’m an… Read More
Hi there. Welcome to my blog. Today I have a Centre Panel Easel Card to share with you. The postie arrived this morning with some new goodies just in time for me to design a card and make up some kits for Wednesday’s Christmas Fun Folds Class. I wasn’t going to buy the Peaceful Boughs… Read More
Hi there. Welcome to AddINKtive Designs. I’m back after an unintentional, month long, blogging break! In my 10 years of blogging I don’t think I’ve ever gone that long between posts. My goodness, where did the time go? … … Well, we recently went on a holiday in our RV to the Huon Valley in… Read More
I’m back with the fourth card in my latest fancy fold collection. It features the beautiful Feels Like Frost Specialty 6×6 DSP – This card fold is the same as the three Detailed Bands Fancy Fold Cards that I designed but it doesn’t have the scalloped edge and I have used a Frosted Frame on… Read More
Hi there. Welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Last Sunday night I featured a Gift Card Holder made with the Still Scenes Bundle. There has been so much interest through Social Media and requests for me to write a tutorial, that I decided to get cracking and ‘deliver’ before I take a bit of a blogging break. I… Read More
Hi there. Welcome to Addinktive Designs and the latest ESAD Blog Hop where a group of Aussie and Kiwi Stampin’ Up! ® Demonstrators have come together to bring you a sneaky peek at loads of new products from the ‘soon to be released’ Holiday Catalogue. I set about trying to use MOST of the products… Read More
Hello peeps. I’ve been happily playing with my pre-order Holiday Catalogue products over the last few days in preparation for an upcoming Blog Hop and before I take a planned blogging break in September. I’m squeezing in another card tutorial while the inspiration strikes and have made a Box Card using the new Yummy Christmas (Gingerbread… Read More
Hi there. I’m back with another sneak peek at some Stampin’ Up! ® Holiday Catalogue products (release date – 4th September). I made a Z-Fold Card for a Shoe Box Swap with some Tassie SU Demonstrators; we’re having a small get together at my place tomorrow and I’m really looking forward to a day of… Read More
Welcome to my blog; today I’m sharing a card that I designed with some goodies from the upcoming Stampin’ Up! ® Holiday Catalogue (Release date – 4th September). I hope you enjoy this little sneak peek. The Feels Like Frost Suite is my number 1 ❤️ in the new catty followed closely by the Still… Read More
I’m excited to share with you a special Christmas card I made for a lovely family who are expecting a little addition any day now. I’ve given it the title, ‘Baby’s First Christmas’ and it’s a Double Z-Fold Card with Pop-Up Crib (an original design). The card measurements are based on the Sweet Bouncing Baby… Read More
After my time away in the USA, I’m back with a new tutorial for my on-line Christmas Class Extravaganza (CCE). YOU ARE STILL ABLE TO SUBSCRIBE as the Facebook Group has access to all my latest Christmas Tutorials and will stay open until 1st January, 2019. You can read all about CCE and the benefits… Read More
Hi there. Just a quick post to share my latest project that has just been uploaded to my On-Line Christmas Class Extravaganza Facebook Group and to let you know that IT ISN’T TOO LATE TO JOIN IN. We’re about to start Week 4 and class members already have access to six tutorials and three quick… Read More
My on-line Christmas Class Extravaganza (CCE) is in full swing and today I’m popping in to share my latest project that has just been uploaded to the group and to let you know that IT ISN’T TOO LATE TO JOIN IN. It’s only been three weeks since the launch and class members already have access to… Read More
Hi there stamping friends. Did you know that for the very first time I am currently hosting an on-line stamping extravaganza which focuses on lots of different Christmas paper craft projects? After a few requests for my tutorials by subscription, I have decided to give it a trial run. So today I’m popping in to… Read More
Hi there stamping friends. I have something pretty exciting to share with you. For the first time I am offering an on-line stamping extravaganza which will focus on lots of different paper craft projects for the upcoming Christmas Season. After a few requests, I have decided to give this subscription ‘thing’ a trial run and… Read More
Hi there. It’s going to take a few posts to share some of the highlights of our recent Tassie Get Together for Stampin’ Up! ® Demonstrators. This one is all about the Make ‘N’ Takes. The lovely, Clare Langsford (our Aussie Demonstrator Development Manager), offered to do the first Make ‘N’ Take which featured the… Read More
The Holiday Catalogue is almost here and a couple of weeks ago our lovely Australian DDM (Demonstrator Development Manager), Clare Langsford and a local demo, Kim Oliver, spent a Saturday evening in my craft room playing with some pre-order goodies. We were all so tired after a Stampin’ Up! ® Event for Tassie Demonstrators that… Read More
The new Holiday Catalogue is almost here! On the release date (5th September) hubby and I will be flying out to Palm Cove in North Queensland for a short holiday break. My next stamp class won’t be until the end of September so yesterday my attendees got a sneak peek at some of the new… Read More
The Holiday Catalogue is almost here and I’ve already had a sneaky peek at all the new goodies (one of the perks of being a Demonstrator). I was pretty excited to see some Christmas stamps that look like ‘cookies’ and just had to get them in my first pre-order (Stampin’ Up! ® Demonstrators can purchase… Read More