Hello everyone. I’ve had a busy afternoon with my craft group (it’s such fun to get together with others and play), but I’ll share more of those creations on another day. For now, I want to give you a peek of some lovely new goodies coming from Clarity Crafts tomorrow courtesy of Clarity Social TV – they’re a smaller ‘sampler’ set of the Japanese flowers & butterflies rounds stamps, and you get all the little individual infill stamps plus Japanese sentiments included too!

I focused on using a few of the little individual stamps for this card, picking up the layout from Sketch Saturday and the spring flowers theme from The Paper Players (I’m looking forward to them appearing in my garden!)

I had a rectangular piece of card sitting in my scraps box (one of many!) – I popped a mini moon mask onto it, then brushed ‘tumbled glass’ and ‘bundled sage’ Distress Oxides across the whole piece. I repeat stamped the larger leaves across the bottom in the ‘bundled sage’, then the little infill ones with ‘iced spruce’. The flowers followed using ‘carved pumpkin’ and finally the butterfly in ‘peacock feathers’.

I wanted to use an embedder to frame my topper (no surprise there!) but none of them were exactly the right size, so I had to do a bit of adaptation. I found a nested rectangle embedder that was the right width, so started by positioning it on a 5×5 card blank and using a ball tool to emboss across the top and part way down each side. I’d mounted my topper onto a piece of Waimea Falls companion paper, so attached that to the card front to sit within the partly embossed frame. I could then move the embedder upwards so the base was in the right place (keeping it between sides I’d already done), reattach it with low tack tape and emboss the bottom edge to finish the frame.

Before I attached the topper, I’d stamped the flower onto the lower edge of the companion paper using black Archival ink. I wanted to add the sentiment, but couldn’t stamp it directly as it sat across the edge of the topper – instead I stamped it on a bit of scrap card and fussy cut it before gluing it into position.

So you can catch Barbara & Paul over on YouTube or on the ClarityCrafts Facebook page live at 10am & 2pm tomorrow – they’ll be showing you all the fabulous detail from this set and lots of inspiration to get you crafting with them.