Welcome to my crafty blog and another card with one of my favourite Claritystamps – ‘Tina’s floral spray’. I’ve teamed it up with the ‘mountains & hills’ masks that we used on Clarity’s recent summer retreat thanks to the layout from Freshly Made Sketches, together with the palette from Color Throwdown I started with a… Read More purple mountains
Hello there! Bit of a late post today – I’ve had a brilliant afternoon with friends at a gardening fair (and got myself a few bargains as well!) I grabbed a bit of time this evening to do a bit of crafting, though, using Stampin’ Up!’s ‘happiness abounds’ stamps & dies and the sketch &… Read More happiness abounds
Welcome to my crafty blog. Today sees the start of a new challenge over at Love to Craft and the theme as always is ‘anything goes’. For my design team card I’ve gone with Julie Hickey’s ‘sunflower’ stamp set and a bit of bleaching! I started with a square of grey pearlescent card, stamped the… Read More bleached sunflower
Welcome to my crafty blog and another Christmas card (I’m on a bit of a roll!) I’ve gone with stamps from the new ‘Peace to You’ set from Stampin’ Up! for this one, which was inspired by the sketch at Atlantic Hearts and the theme of ‘babies’ at As You See It – let’s face… Read More Nativity
Hello crafty friends. I’m back today with a CAS card using a couple of the new bijou stamps from Claritystamp, which I picked up at their recent summer retreat. They’re really sweet small stamps, perfect for CAS cards, so I’ve picked up the themes from a couple of CAS challenges on this one. Addicted to… Read More bijou wishes
Hello crafty friends. I’ve got a lot of September birthdays to make cards for so I took a break from the Christmas cards today to make a start. I’ve used the sketch from The Paper Players, and added in the optional twist from Can You Handle The Pressure to put the sentiment as the focus.… Read More birthday leaves
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’m trying to get back into my routine after all my trips away over the last month, so have resumed my Sunday sojourns back through Claritystamp’s Craft Club. Today it’s the turn of the lotus flower stamp from June 2021. I started by creating the background with the large rectangle… Read More Claritystamp Craft Club lookback – lotus flower
Hello there. I’m on a bit of a roll with Christmas cards this weekend – I batch made a load more this afternoon but took time to play with the poinsettia stamp & die from Julie Hickey Designs as well. I’ve used three current challenges to create the design for this card. The layout takes… Read More Christmas poinsettia
Welcome to my crafty blog and a first outing for the new gnome stamps and dies from Claritystamp. I just love these little chaps! I’ve taken the layout from CAS Colours & Sketches‘ current sketch and gone for a less than traditional Christmas colour scheme using the palette from Color Throwdown. The ‘festive’ theme from… Read More festive gnomes
Hello crafty friends. Well I’m back after another short break away and thought I ought to make use of the ‘wheelbarrow’ from last month’s Claritystamp Craft Club, not least because this month’s is due to drop through my letterbox any day now! The first step was to stamp the image in black onto a square… Read More leafy wheelbarrow
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