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