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
Welcome to our eighth Funky Folds Blog Hop. We are a group of like minded paper crafters who love to make projects 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 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
Welcome to our second 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 and welcome to Colour INKspiration Challenge #162. If you love your ‘blues’ as much as I do you’ll have to agree that we have an absolutely gorgeous colour palette this round – Crew Pick – Rose Packer Picture Credit – Nature.WORLD Facebook You can find Colour INKspiration Challenges on Facebook and there are two challenges every… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Today I’m sharing a 3D card that I made which combines some of my favourite, old and new products; the Window Box Thinlits from SU are certainly a blast from the past. I’ve tweaked my version of Jay Soriano’s Hexagonal Base Pop-Up Card once again to create this ‘box… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Tonight I’m sharing a ‘Belt and Buckle’ Card that I made for the Butterfly Challenge; I’ve been following the challenge for a while but it’s the first time I’ve played along. https://butterflyspotchallenge.blogspot.com/2024/01/192-spin-butterfly-wheel-with-b-for.html There are a few different categories that need to be included in your project for the latest… Read More
Hi there and welcome to my blog. As promised I’m back with the finished card tutorials for the Painted Lavender (Stampin’ Up! ®) and Small Peonies (Paper Rose) Pop-Up Vase Cards that I recently designed. The Painted Lavender version features Stampin’ Up! ® products only and the Mini Pocket Envelope Die is required to make… Read More
Hello and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Tonight I’m sharing a card that I made for the December/January Paper Rose Challenge on Facebook. The theme was Anything Goes so I decided to make a Pop-Up Vase Card using a variety of Paper Rose Products that I had in my stash – Small Peonies Stamps and Dies, Happy Birthday Script… Read More
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
Hi and welcome to my blog. Today is the second Sunday in August and that means Thanksgiving Sunday at our local church. The pastor requested a couple of Thank You cards and this is what I came up with – I wasn’t sure at first where I was going with this design but I figured… 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
Hello and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Tonight I’m sharing a card that I made for the October, Paper Rose Monthly Challenge. The theme is Birds & Butterflies so I decided to showcase the Paper Rose, Vanessa Butterfly (Small) Dies on a Double Easel Card. I have a small collection of Paper Rose products (mostly Australiana designs)… Read More
Follow my blog with Bloglovin Welcome to AddINKtive Designs and another G’day Fri’yay’ Card Making Challenge. You can find our Aussie themed challenges in our private group on Facebook and we’d love you to join in. All you have to do is make a NEW paper craft project inspired by the CURRENT theme, take a photo of your project and… 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
Hi and welcome to my blog. I’m sharing a cute card that my friend, Carolyn Hill made for her youngest grandson’s birthday. It’s a Z-Fold Slider Card made with a combination of Paper Rose and Stampin’ Up! ® products. It was inspired by THIS fun card by Kelly Kent. Due to ongoing COVID restrictions, my craft… Read More
Hi and welcome to my blog. Today I’m sharing some cards I made for our Tasmanian Premier, Peter Gutwein and Health Minister, Sarah Courtney. First of all I’ll explain WHAT products I used before I get to the ‘WHY’. Our Floral Emblem is the Tasmanian Blue Gum so I went with that theme to create… Read More
Hi there, welcome to my blog. I’m sharing something a little bit different. Over the last few weeks I’ve been sorting through my craft room and today I decided to crack open some Paper Rose Dies to make an Aussie scene for a Z-Fold, Box Card. I’m guilty of collecting craft stuff for ‘one day’… Read More