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 AddINKtive Designs. I’m back with another fun Christmas Card featuring the cute critters from the Woodland Christmas Collection by Paper Rose Studio. I’ve really enjoyed making projects from the Woodland Christmas Collection and have one more to share with you very soon – an Envelope Mini Tag Album. Until then …… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. It’s starting to look a lot like Christmas around here … in this case, a tropical one! Included in one of my recent purchases from Paper Rose Studio were a few sheets of different embossed die-cuts which they had thrown in for FREE; one of the sheets was from… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. I recently purchased the very cute, Autumn Book from Mintay Papers and thought it would be fun to enter the latest challenge at the Card Concept. The theme is ‘Pumpkin Season’ and the pumpkins from the challenge graphic were the inspiration for my CLEAN and LAYERED card. It’s spring… Read More
Hello and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. This post is a little bit different than usual. Please indulge me a few minutes of your time as I share a little bit about my paper crafting journey over the last 12 months. This is not one of those ‘click bait’ posts about “Why I left an MLM… 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
Hi there … welcome back to my blog. It’s been a while since I’ve shared any of my projects here as hubby and I recently spent two wonderful months travelling around the UK. I took a complete break from my website and didn’t even schedule any projects to go ‘live’ while we were away. To… Read More
Welcome to our third 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 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. I’ve got something rather unique to share with you. I’ve designed a Pinwheel Box Card (a pinwheel and box card combined). Another interesting feature is that the ‘wings’ are die-cut from the rounded, rectangular dies from Nested Essentials (SU). I’ve made Pinwheel Cards with dies before and there are a… Read More
Hi there and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. I’m back with another CARD MAKING TUTORIAL BUNDLE! Gatefold Double Box Cards – Tutorial Bundle This bundle includes instructions for eight Gatefold Double Box Cards. Some contain a slider element and others show the reverse orientation of the general card design. No dies are required in the construction… Read More
Hi and welcome to my blog; I’m very excited to share with you my latest tutorial for a ‘Belt and Buckle’ style card. It features the beautiful Perennial Lavender Designer Series Paper and Painted Lavender Bundle from Stampin’ Up! ® (You can check out the complete supplies list further down in this post). Because I… Read More
Hello and welcome to Colour INKspiration Challenge #159. We have a really lovely colour palette for Valentine’s Day – Crew Pick – Nicole Wilson Picture Credit – https://en.idei.club/57270-pink-sofa-in-living-room.html You can find Colour INKspiration Challenges on Facebook and there are two challenges every month (on the second and fourth Wednesdays). The challenge for CI#159 is to make a… Read More
Hi there. Welcome to my blog. It’s literally taken me all day to compile all of my Baby Crib Card Tutorials into one big Mega Bundle!! Baby Crib Cards – Mega Tutorial Bundle I knew it was going to be a mammoth task to complete but I’ve wanted to provide this resource for a very… 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
Hi there. Welcome to AddINKtive Designs and the launch of another MEGA CARD MAKING TUTORIAL BUNDLE! This time I’m offering my ten favourite card making tutorials which didn’t make it into the top ten most popular category (see previous post). Once again … ten tutorials for only $10 (AUD)!! Some require specific dies that may… Read More
Hi there. Welcome to AddINKtive Designs and the launch of my first ever MEGA CARD MAKING TUTORIAL BUNDLE! I’ve gone all out to bring you my ten most popular card making tutorials of all time (excluding bundles and tutorials that were originally offered for free during a promotion). Ten tutorials for only $10 (AUD) …… Read More
Hello and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Today I’m sharing a special birthday card that I made for a dear friend. It features the gorgeous stamps and dies from the Dainty Delight Bundle and the beautiful papers from the Meandering Meadows 6×6 DSP (Stampin’ Up! ®). Shop Stampin’ Up! ® Products in Australia with Lou Kitzelman… Read More