Hello friends and welcome to Seasonal Saturday! It’s technique week at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown and, I have to be honest, the masking tape background was a new one on me! Having looked it up, I discovered that it’s really very simple and just involves picking up ink on low tack tape and then applying… Read More Masking tape background for 52 Christmas Card Throwdown 26-16
Hello everyone! Today sees the start of our new challenge at As You See It and this time round it’s our recipe, which I put together! There are five elements in the recipe and we need you to feature all of them on your card – although how you do that is down to your… Read More Pink recipe at As You See It challenge #371
Hello crafty friends. I’ve got some exciting news, as Clarity’s Big Spring Sale started today and runs until midnight on Monday 27th April (UK time)! There’s lots of products in the sale at great reductions, including the Art Deco Special Day Sentiments stamps at 50% off, so I decided to play with them today! I… Read More Lovely day wishes
Hello everyone and welcome to another look at the new Waterside Mini Landscapes stamps. I’ve kept it simple, but not quite as minimalist as yesterday’s offering! This time I opted to just use one of the images, the lighthouse, as the central focus on my card with a die cut border and inking the landscape… Read More mini lighthouse landscape
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with another look at the new Mini Landscapes stamps, today using the Countryside set for a very stripped back design. I saw a similar style to this card over on Pinterest and thought it would be a great way to use up an offcut strip of companion paper (I have… Read More Companion paper landscape
Hello crafty friends and welcome to Monday! I’m dropping in with one of the new Mini Landscape stamp sets from Clarity that Barbara & Paul launched this afternoon (catch the show here) – this card uses the Waterside set. Now the clue’s in the title of these stamps – they’re designed for small toppers on… Read More mini landscape montage
Hello everyone. I hope you’ve had a good weekend. We had friends over for lunch, so I’m a bit late with today’s post, once again using the new Build a Bloom stamps. This card uses set 3 from the collection to create some vibrant spring tulips, with simple two-step first and second generation stamping. I… Read More Look on the bright side
Hello again! I grabbed the opportunity this afternoon to have another play with the new Build a Bloom stamps – they are pretty irresistible! This time I went with set 2 to create a rose on one of my alcohol ink backgrounds from Barbara’s online workshop (it’s still available to purchase), pulling in a fairy… Read More Smell the roses!
Hello crafty friends and welcome to another Seasonal Saturday card! Our theme this week at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown is ‘mug’ – and who doesn’t love a warming mug of hot coffee or chocolate in the chill of winter? I remembered that there was a floral mug stamp in Linda’s Visit, Sit, Stay, Drink and… Read More Christmas mugs at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown 26-15
Hello crafty friends. It’s Friday and so time for another new challenge theme – this week’s it’s the turn of Alphabet and I got to set the theme of Z for Zoology! It gave me another excuse (like I needed one!) to play with the Little SHAC Birds – this time I’ve added in the… Read More Z for Zoology
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