Welcome to the April 2025 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’,… Read More
Hello paper lovers! Welcome to AddINKtive Designs. I’m back with my second Design Team Project for March for Paper Rose Studio. I don’t think I’ve mentioned on here that my Guest Designer ‘gig’ for PRS was very short lived; I submitted some projects in January and was then asked to be on the Design Team… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. I recently made a Zig-Zag Card for my latest Design Team Project for Paper Rose Studio (you can see that one at the bottom of this post). For a practice run I actually made this one featuring products from the Farmhouse Friends Collection first. This zig-zag piece (12″ in… Read More
Hello paper lovers! Welcome to AddINKtive Designs. I’m excited to share with you a fun-fold card featuring the absolutely gorgeous Easter Village Collection of papers and embossed die-cuts from Paper Rose Studio. The bunnies along with the other embossed die-cuts are super cute, the florals are so pretty and I love how the Lots of… Read More
Hello paper lovers! Welcome to AddINKtive Designs. I’m excited to share a Sweet Valentine card and some cute chocolate holders that I made for one of my Paper Rose Studio Design Team projects this month. If you’ve been following along with my paper craft journey you’ll know that I’ve made quite a few chocolate holders… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. I’m back with another Double Easel Card, this time featuring the Dear Isabella Collection from – Two days ago I shared the Bees & Butterflies version of this type of card; it was one of the projects I made as a Guest Designer for Paper Rose Studio. I designed… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. I’m back with another 6×6 Easel Card this time featuring the Lavender & Fairies Collection from – Yesterday I shared the Bees & Butterflies version of this type of card; it was one of the projects I made as a Guest Designer for Paper Rose Studio. I designed this… Read More
Hi and welcome to the sixth and final instalment of my Design Team Projects featuring the bee…utiful Bees & Butterflies Collection from – Apologies to my subscribers for six blog posts in one day! For my next project I made a Honey Jar Notecard from the Confetti Jar 1 Metal Cutting Die … You can… Read More
Hi and welcome to the fifth instalment of my Design Team Projects featuring the bee…utiful Bees & Butterflies Collection from – For my sixth project I made a Double Easel Card with a Hexagon Window. This one is my personal favourite out of the nine that I made as Guest Designer this month. The larger… Read More
Hi and welcome to the fourth instalment of my Design Team Projects featuring the bee…utiful Bees & Butterflies Collection from – For my fifth project I made a 6×6 Easel Card. I really love the gorgeous background paper on this one and have added a Wonky Picket Fence [22762] to the garden scene. A little… Read More
Hi and welcome to the third instalment of my Design Team Projects featuring the bee…utiful Bees & Butterflies Collection from – For my fourth project I made a Hexagonal Easel Card using the Stitched Hexagon Metal Cutting Dies [17628]. Featured Products Paper Rose Studio – https://paperrose.com.au/?sca_ref=8078156.smN4aKWBPtM You can find the full product list and step… Read More
Hi and welcome to the second instalment of my Design Team Projects featuring the bee…utiful Bees & Butterflies Collection from – For my third project I made a Triple Butterfly Easel Card using the lovely Alora Layered Butterfly [31623] and Alora Layered Butterfly Trio [31626] Metal Cutting Dies. As with the Double Butterfly Easel Card… Read More
Hi there. Welcome to the first instalment of my Design Team Projects featuring the bee…utiful Bees & Butterflies Collection from – I made a (single) Butterfly Easel Card using the gorgeous Vanessa Butterfly Large Metal Cutting Die [16602]. Fun Fact – I came up with this card design 15 years ago and it’s still fluttering… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. I’m so excited to share with you some of the products from the gorgeous Bees & Butterflies Collection from Paper Rose Studio ®. As a Guest Designer I have nine fun-fold card projects to share with you featuring this beautiful collection. I’ve added a pic of each project… Read More
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. 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 my blog; today I’m sharing another Christmas project that features the cute Embossed Die-Cuts and Tags and 6×6 papers from the Woodland Christmas Collection from Paper Rose Studio. I’ve had so much fun with this collection and am looking forward to sharing some more gorgeous papers and die-cuts from other collections… Read More