Hello and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Today I have a fun, interactive card to share with you. This Bridge Fold Slider Card was designed especially for a school holiday cardmaking session that I held for a friend of mine and her eldest granddaughters. A family friend of Mel’s (ex-student of mine), also came along to… Read More
Hello and welcome to my blog. Today I’m sharing these adorable TRIPLE EASEL CARDS that I made which are ‘stepped up’ versions of Nicole Wilson’s Triple Easel Card that she designed almost three years ago! Here’s a pic of Nicole’s original card that featured the ‘So Many Stars’ Bundle – I’ve been hosting Nicole’s tutorial in my Tutorial… Read More
Hello and welcome to the fourth Blog Hop (and INSTA Hop) to celebrate my 60th Birthday in 2022. There are 6 hops in total, with 6 different themes over 6 months leading up to the big day! I gathered a few Stamping friends to ‘virtually’ celebrate this upcoming milestone ‘event’ and for tonight’s hop we… Read More
Hi there. Welcome to AddINKtive Designs. The Bow-Ho Stampers are back with alternative projects for our current tutorial bundle. My Team Leader, Lou Kitzelman and I, publish Mini Tutorial Bundles whenever there are SPECIAL PRODUCT RELEASES or PROMOTIONS. We’d love to be able to get together and run retreats in real life but due to distance and… Read More
Hi and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. The release of the new Stampin’ Up! ® Annual Catalogue is only a few weeks away (May 3rd). It’s always exciting to see the range of new products for 2022-23 and learn what stamp sets and dies etc. get to carry over into the new catty. It’s also sad… Read More
Hello there. Thank you so much for all the wonderful responses that I received on my Social Media accounts and here on my blog for the Spinning Turntable Pop-Up Card that I made a couple of days ago. Wow! I cannot take credit for the original card fold, however, I did combine a few ideas… Read More
Hi there, I’m back with a stepped up version of the Tri-fold Cards that I made about 10 days ago. I did do a video tutorial but decided it wasn’t really worth the time it would take to edit and upload. The above photos are pretty self explanatory – I added some ribbon, rhinestones, an… Read More
Hi there, as promised I’m back with my first Video Tutorial for 2022. It’s been 10 months since I’ve uploaded to You Tube so please be kind. ☺️ Yesterday I published a post for the Flowerpot Easel Card that I made for Colour INKspiration Challenges #114. The video tutorial features another Flowerpot Easel Card made with… Read More
Hi there. Today I’m sharing an Open Easel Card that I made to highlight some of the punches from the Annual Catalogue. The Daisy and Medium Daisy Punches with the coordinating Daisy Lane Stamp Set have been firm favourites in my stash. Combine them with the new Bough Punch, add a couple of punched labels for the easel… Read More
Hi there and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Today’s post finds me in a bitter sweet position – ‘sweet’ because I have plenty of time to spend in my craft room and my order with brand new products arrived two days ago; ‘bitter’ because we’re not technically in lockdown but since the state border opened up,… Read More
Hello peeps! Who’s excited about the upcoming, January-June 2022 Mini Stampin’ Up! ® Catalogue? I sure am … so much so that I’m offering my first round of stamp classes in 2 years! The theme for my January classes will be ‘Let’s Get Punchy’ (I’ll be focussing on some of the many punches that Stampin’ Up!… Read More
Hi there and welcome to my blog; today I’m sharing a Tri-Fold, Window Card made with the Layering Circles and Basic Borders Dies for Colour INKspiration Challenge #113. 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#113 is to make a paper craft… Read More
Welcome to AddINKtive Designs and the September 2021 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 second month. The theme for September and October is THE ‘HOLIDAY’ MINI CATTY and we’re excited to launch our latest tutorial bundle that feature FOUR, 3D, paper craft… Read More
Hey there. Welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Sale-a-bration is back for a second round this year! That means you can choose a FREE Sale-a-bration product with every $90 AUD or $180 AUD you spend on Stampin’ Up! ® products (before shipping and handling) through August and September. You can check out all the FREE products by… Read More
Welcome to AddINKtive Designs and the August 2021 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 second month. Last month we introduced our Plants and Trees Themed Bundle. This month each designer has re-visited their July Tutorial and created an alternative project to… Read More
Hi and welcome to my blog! I’ve quickly popped in here to share a very special offer that only lasts for another 2 days! It’s a ‘once off’ opportunity to purchase one single tutorial from our past Dimensionals Tutorial Bundles from EACH Designer. Here’s a pictorial summary of the projects that I have made since… Read More
Hi there and welcome to my blog; today I’m sharing a Diorama Booklet for the latest challenge at Colour INKspiration. 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#104 is to make a paper craft project using all the colours from the chosen colour combination, Basic White,… Read More
Hi there and welcome to my blog; today I’m sharing a Flowerpot Card for the latest challenge at Colour INKspiration. 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#103 is to make a paper craft project using all the colours from the chosen colour combination, Bumblebee,… Read More
Hi and welcome to my blog. Today I’m sharing a card that showcases the gorgeous products from the Beauty of the Earth Suite. I was in need of a Thank You Card and this Double Z-Fold Box Card was relatively quick and easy to make because the Beautiful Trees Dies combined with the Beauty of the… Read More
Welcome to AddINKtive Designs and the July 2021 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 second month. The theme for July and August is PLANTS AND TREES and we’re excited to launch our latest tutorial bundle that feature FOUR, 3D, paper craft projects.… Read More