Hello crafty friends. It’s Tuesday and time for our new theme at CAS Colours & Sketches, where I’ve picked a palette that looks perfect for spring themed cards! It gave me the opportunity for an early peek at a new set of stamps that Barbara will be launching on HobbyMaker TV tomorrow (Wednesday) at 1pm… Read More Colourful bouquet for CAS Colours & Sketches #584
Hello everyone! I hope you’ve had a good start to your week – mine’s been busy with Granny duties this morning and a work meeting this afternoon, but I’ve now grabbed a few minutes to share this card with you and highlight the last few hours of Clarity’s Big Spring Sale, which ends at midnight… Read More Evelyn
Hello friends. I’m still busy playing with goodies from my stash, inspired by the bargains in this weekend’s Big Spring Sale over on the Clarity Crafts website. I love the little characters drawn by Linda Williams as part of her ‘children’ collection – this is the Spring one, unsurprisingly called Playing in the Rain! Starting… Read More Playing in the rain
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
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