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 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. 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. A couple of months ago I joined Creative Memories as an Advisor … I wouldn’t call myself a scrapbooker but I’ve recently started exploring the world of mini albums, folios and junk journals. CM certainly caters for the avid scrapbooker … hands down … it’s the best company ever… 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
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 and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Would you like to learn how to make a Butterfly Easel Card using the new Brilliant Wings Dies? I’ve made a short video over on my You Tube Channel showing you how I made this cute butterfly from the Love You Always Foil Sheets and Specialty Designer Series Paper. Main… Read More
Hi crafty friends; welcome to my blog. A few days ago I planned to do my first Facebook Live on my AddINKtive Designs Page. Unfortunately it didn’t end up going ahead so I recorded the session instead and wrote a tutorial for the project that I was going to share – a Pop Out Panel Card.… Read More
Hi and welcome to my blog. A few months ago I made my own version of a Decorative Corner Card by adding a ‘V’ section to the front. I’ve gone a couple of steps further this time around and included a ‘bendy card’ insert and a dangling gold hoop for extra dimension! I started making… Read More
Hi there and welcome to AddINKtive Designs. Today I’m sharing a short video explaining how I achieved this gorgeous, ombre, shimmery, alcohol ink blended background on my card. I was originally inspired by Michele Jutrisa’s beautiful cards that feature alcohol ink art. However, I did approach this technique in a slightly different way as I wanted… Read More
Welcome to addinktive designs and the latest Colour INKspiration Challenge. You can find Colour INKspiration Challenges on Facebook and there are two challenges every month (on the second and fourth Wednesdays). Today’s fun inspiration pic was sourced from Pinterest by Lou. The challenge for #CI90 is to make a paper craft project using the chosen colour combination, Daffodil Delight,… Read More
Hi there. I have some exciting news! I blew the dust off my very neglected You Tube Channel and made my first instructional video in four years. If you know me well enough you will know that this is kind of a big deal as I “don’t do video tutorials”. My ‘thing’ is writing and… Read More
Welcome to addINKtive designs. I’m pretty chuffed about this post as I’m sharing my first promo video for my Social Media Accounts and at the same time, introducing a complementary Tri-Fold Window Card Tutorial to the line up. Here’s the card that features in my little ad – It’s been a quite a while since… Read More