Welcome to day 5 of my 12 Days of Clarity, today using the ‘grunge texture block’ stamp from the May Craft Club. I took inspiration from Barbara Gray’s design on the project sheet and used it to create the background for a little scene. I strated by stamping the texture block twice onto a square… Read More 12 Days of Clarity 2022 – grunge texture block
Welcome to my crafty blog and an extra post today as we’ve got a new theme over at Alphabet Challenge. It’s now T and Caz has chosen ‘thank you’, which is very appropriate for this time of year. I’ve taken the opportunity to preview another new set from Stampin’ Up!, ‘sweet citrus’ which will be… Read More T for Thank You at Alphabet Challenge
Hello crafty friends. Welcome to day 4 of my 12 Days of Clarity and today it’s the ‘lace round’ stamp from April’s Craft Club. It’s such a lovely intricate design that it had to take centre stage on the card. But first the background – I cut one of Clarity’s ‘doodle frame-it aperture’ dies into… Read More 12 Days of Clarity 2022 – lace round
Hello there and welcome to day 3 of my 12 Days of Clarity, working back through their 2022 Craft Club stamps. March brought us the floral panel stamp, but I’ve only used part of it on today’s card. I don’t often think of partial stamping, but I did a recent online class with Phillipa Lewis… Read More 12 Days of Clarity 2022 – floral panel
Hello there and welcome to the second of my personal 12 Days of Clarity challenge, with the ‘duo of flowers’ stamp from February’s Craft Club. I based the design on the current layout at Freshly Made Sketches and started by stamping one of the flowers onto a piece of card cut to fit an A6… Read More 12 Days of Clarity 2022 – duo of flowers
Hello crafty friends – I hope you’ve all had a lovely Christmas! For the last couple of years I’ve spent the 12 Days of Christmas working back through the latest stamps from Clarity’s Craft Club, so welcome to the 2022 installment of my 12 Days of Clarity. I’ve started back in January 2022 with the… Read More 12 Days of Clarity 2022 – snowdrop
Well here we are at Christmas Eve, so I thought we should have some stars shining brightly in the sky with the retired Stampin’ Up! ‘stars are shining’ set. I took the layout from Global Design Project and combined it with TGIF challenges‘ theme of ‘punches’. I mounted a square of the retired SU ‘gold… Read More Twinkle twinkle Christmas star
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’m a bit late posting today as I’ve been getting all the last few things finished for Christmas, but then remembered that I still hadn’t made a card for my father-in-law’s birthday – which is tomorrow! He’ll be 97 and I thought he might like a new jumper courtesy of… Read More birthday jumper
Hello crafty friends. Some more new goodies to share today, with a sneak peek at the ‘marigold moments’ set from Stampin’ Up! that will be available in the new mini catalogue next month. The flwoers are a two step stamp and it’s the most gorgeous image. I’ve taken a fairly loose interpretation of the current… Read More marigold thanks
Hello crafty friends. I’m trying to make some time over Christmas to play with some of the new goodies I’ve had over the last couple of months and not had time to try out. I’ve gone with one of the new ‘build a scene’ masks from Clarity as the basis of this card, taking the… Read More build-a-scene masks
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