Hello everyone. I’ve got an early peek for you of the new Build a Bloom stamps that Barbara is unveiling tomorrow on Clarity Social TV. It’s a fab little collection of three stamp sets that does exactly what it says on the tin – allows you to create your own flower designs by building the… Read More Let yourself bloom
Hello crafty friends. It’s a busy couple of days in my little bloggy world and I’ve got a second card to share again today, this time for the new theme at Sparkles Challenge. Maria has given us ‘pastels and/or rabbits’, which is a great springtime theme and I’ve managed to combine both elements into my… Read More Pastels & rabbits at Sparkles Challenge #199
Good morning everyone! I’d delighted to be sharing this card with you, as I’ve been invited along as guest designer by the AAA Colourful team for their new challenge! I love this bright colourboard and, unusually for me, decided to pick out the green as the main colour for my card using the Mother Nature… Read More Guest designer for AAA Colourful #27
Hello again everyone and welcome to today’s second post, this time for our new theme at Addicted to Stamps & More. We’ve cycled back round to diecuts and/or stencils, which gave me the perfect excuse to play with the Butterfly Swirls, another of the new panel stencils that form April’s Product of the Month bundle… Read More Butterfly swirls stencil for Addicted to Stamps & More #515
Hello crafty friends! It’s time for our new challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches – I’m still hosting and put together this simple sketch for you to play with. Although I designed this at the beginning of the year, it very helpfully works well with the Little SHAC Birds, one of Clarity’s recent releases –… Read More Little SHAC birds for CAS Colours & Sketches #583
Hello everyone. I’m back with another look at one of the new Floral Spray greeting cards and this time opted for a little hot foiling and simple watercolouring on the ginkgo leaves design. This time round I chose one of the cards that already has a greeting printed on it and started by running it… Read More Ginkgo love
Hello crafty friends – I hope you’ve all had a good weekend! I’ve spent today catching up with some of my new DT samples for Clarity Crafts – there are more new products coming over the next few weeks, but first I want to share a sample for a new collection of blank printed greetings… Read More Take time to smell the poppies!
Good morning everyone and welcome to this week’s Seasonal Saturday post, featuring our new challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown. Branka has challenged us to use only white on this week’s cards, so it was the perfect excuse to break out one of my old Craft Club dies, which last saw action over three years… Read More All white at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown 26-14
Hello crafty friends and welcome to our new theme at As You See It challenge, where we want to know what cards you send most of during the year (other than Christmas!) Unsurprisingly, it’s birthday cards for me, added to by the fact that I make and manage the birthday cards for one of the… Read More More cards than Christmas at As You See It Challenge 370
Hello friends. I’m back with another design using the Mini Japanese Scene Builder stamps on a CAS card of encouragement, this time sitting my little scene on one of the Landscape Backdrop Prints toppers. I selected one of the tags (or small toppers) that had the sort of colours I wanted and simply stamped the… Read More Peace & love tree
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