Hi there. Welcome to addINktive designs. Let me introduce you to the Botanical Bridge Fold Card. When I first spotted the Botanical Bliss Stamps and coordinating Botanical Tags Thinlits Dies in the new Stampin’ Up! ® Catalogue, this card design popped into my head and I couldn’t wait to try it as soon as my… Read More
Hi there. Welcome to the May instalment of projects from the AddINKtive Designs Team. This talented group of paper crafters have been selected to create, share and review my tutorials. At the end of every month I provide a link up to the team posts that feature projects inspired by addINKtive designs. Today I’m sharing the team’s… Read More
Hi there! With the launch of the new Annual Stampin’ Up! ® Catalogue only a few days away, I’m on a mission to use up a good chunk of my retiring DSP. I’d hardly used any of my stash of the Painted with Love Specialty Designer Series Paper which I absolutely LOVE, so I chopped… Read More
Hi there. Welcome to addINKtive designs. Today I have something exciting to share with you – it’s the card that my stamp class ladies will be making next week! This design is adapted from Jackie Aitken’s Petal Palette Pocket Card Tutorial and uses lots of gorgeous products from the Share What You Love Suite. During… Read More
Today our beautiful daughter turns 25. Happy Birthday Laura! She’s currently saving her ‘pennies’ to buy a decent camera so I thought I’d design a special Camera Card for her birthday. I love making 3D cards so the base is a camera shaped box card (card in a box). It has a front sliding element… Read More
Hi there. Welcome to the April instalment of projects from the AddINKtive Designs Team. This talented group of paper crafters have been selected to create, share and review my tutorials. At the end of every month I provide a link up to the team posts that feature projects inspired by addINKtive designs. Today I’m sharing the team’s… Read More
Welcome to addINKtive designs and the Stamp Review Crew Blog Hop featuring the Magical Day Stamp Set. The SRC are a group of International Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators who love to show you lots of creative ways to use your stamps. Today I have two 3D baby crib cards that I have designed to share with… Read More
Hi there and welcome to my blog. Today I’m joining in with Kylie Bertucci’s April International Blog Highlights . It’s a Baby Theme this month and I have made a 3D card to share. It’s an original design that has a pop-up baby crib (cot) in a double z-fold and features the cute animals from A… Read More
So what does a gal do to keep herself amused and distracted by the fact that she’s not in Sydney for On Stage? … Create of course!! I am sad that I won’t be catching up with my Stampin’ buddies this weekend but I’m saving my pennies for the big 30th Celebrations in Orlando, Florida… Read More
Hi there. Welcome to the March instalment of projects from the AddINKtive Designs Team. This talented group of paper crafters have been selected to create, share and review my tutorials. At the end of every month I provide a link up to the team posts that feature projects inspired by addINKtive designs. Today I’m sharing the team’s… Read More
Here’s to an epic last week of Sale-a-bration! How are you Sale-a-brating? I thought I’d have a go at following a tutorial instead of writing one this week. Jackie Aitken, a very talented SU Demonstrator from Western Australia, designed this awesome Guitar Amplifier Box Card and I am privileged to have Jackie and five other… Read More
Hi there and welcome to addINKtive designs. I’m back with the latest tutorial for this type of fancy fold. I’ve called it a Double Pop-Up, Gate Fold, Box Card and it features the gorgeous critters from the stamp set, A Little Wild and the toucan from Bird Banter. This one is slightly different to the Party… Read More
I’m back with the second installment of tutorials featuring a fun, interactive, card fold. So far this month, I’ve highlighted a Sale-a-Bration Set called Party Pandas 
for this fun fold and now it’s time to show off these cute images from a stamp set out of the Occasions Catalogue called Hedgehugs!! Can you guess where… Read More
Welcome to addinktive designs and a brand new Colour INKspiration Challenge and CI Crew Blog Hop. You can find Colour INKspiration Challenges on Facebook and there are two challenges every month. Join us on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of every month for a brand new colour palette. #CI29 will run until 7pm (AEDT – Melbourne Time), Monday 26th March, 2018.… Read More
Hi there! Welcome to addINKtive designs. As many of you are aware, I’m an Australian Stampin’ Up! ® Demonstrator and I absolutely LOVE the fact that this fun obsession of mine has become my ‘day job’. I’m still pinching myself that my craft room is now my office! Stampin’ Up! ® Head Office has put… Read More
Hi there. Welcome to addinktive designs. Today I’m sharing a project that I made for the latest challenge at Festive Friday. This is a new challenge that I was excited to discover through the Stampin’ Schach’s blog. For #FF0003, the festivity is National Panda Day, which is on March 16. Pair that with a design element… Read More
Hi and welcome to addINKtive designs. Today I decided to make a card to enter into the latest challenge at What Will You Stamp. Magical Day is the featured stamp set for #WWYS156 and seeing that I needed to make another Castle Bridge Fold Card like the one I made for a Display Board at On Stage… Read More
Welcome to addINKtive designs and the Stamp Review Crew Blog Hop featuring the gorgeous Petal Palette Stamp Set. The SRC are a group of International Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators who love to show you lots of creative ways to use your stamps. To highlight the stamps and matching thinlits from the Petal Palette Bundle, I decided to make… Read More
Welcome to addinktive designs and the second Colour INKspiration Challenge and CI Crew Blog Hop for 2018. Just in case you haven’t heard, Colour INKspiration Challenges are on Facebook and there are two challenges every month. Join us on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of every month for a brand new colour palette. #CI26 will run… Read More
Welcome to addinktive designs and the first Colour INKspiration Challenge and CI Crew Blog Hop for 2018. Just in case you haven’t heard, Colour INKspiration Challenges are on Facebook and there are two challenges every month. Join us on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of every month for a brand new colour palette. #CI25 will run until… Read More