AddINKtive Designs August Projects - Pocket Cards

Good Day Crafty Friends,

Welcome to this months AddINKtive Design Team Projects. As a Design Team member, I have the privilege of using any of the wonderful tutorials that are available to purchase from the AddINKtive Designs Store - including my own lol. I am still totally addicted to Pocket Cards and decided I would create two for August. The tutorial for this style of card can be found here.

The first card is an adaption of the Pocket Card Tutorial available in the AddINKtive Designs Shop. It uses the same base template with the Envelope Punch Board but instead of a pull tab insert, I have included a tri-fold card and adhered to the base. There were even more panels to decorate with this version of the Pocket Card plus the exterior envelope.

I kept the envelope exterior fairly simply, decorating the top flap with some Tropical Chic DSP and a Gold Foil die cut created with the Colour Your Season Framelits. Some ribbon, a bow and gold sequin trim were used to close the card, finished off with a gold heat embossed sentiment attached with gold metallic thread. 

The inside panels have a subtle colour palette inspired by the pastel tones in the Tropical Chic DSP. Blushing Bride, Daffodil Delight and Soft Sea Foam were used to colour and stamp the images with hints of gold foil strips on the top two panels. The bottom panel has a layer of Blushing Bride card embossed with the "Tufted" Embossing Folder along with the panel that holds the heat embossed sentiment. I love this greeting from the Postcard Pals stamp set, and really wanted it to be the focal point when the recipient opened the card, so I cut it up and adhered the four lines with spaces in between each line of the birthday sentiment.

The second Pocket Card marks the first of my Christmas Card stash. We celebrate the festive season in the Summer months here in Australia so I am instantly drawn to the Christmas stamp sets that have fun, summery themed images. The So Santa stamp set is one of the sets I had to have from the new Holiday Catalogue. 

The Surfin' Santa is my favourite image of the three, and so fitting for friends and family back in NZ. I grew up in a small sea side town where almost everyone spends time at the beach during the Christmas - New Years holidays. We had Surfing Santa's! They would hand out tubes of Sun Block and create havoc up and down the beach with swarming kids attracted to the Lollie Scrambles.

How cool is his Pineapple Cocktail! Love his Poinsettia/Holly print boardshorts - too cute! The Tropical Chic DSP was perfect for the card I wanted to create - something not too floral or girly, more on the masculine side of tropical and with a hint of Christmas. 

The Pocket has been created using Granny Apple Green card teamed with Black, Whisper White and a little Coastal Cabana. The Tropical Chic bundle was used to create the Black card foliage.

There are so many awesome sentiments in the So Santa stamp set, I used one of my favourites for the Pocket Insert "Wishing you a season of warm memories and sunny smiles". 

Thanks for stopping by today. Don't forget to check out the AddINKtive Designs Blog Post for this months highlights. We have such a talented team of Designers sharing projects regularly, with most creations collated into one blog post at the end of the month.

Until next time, stay awesome, stay organised and stay crafty!