Hello everyone and welcome to the weekend! I’m off out with the family for a celebratory meal today, as it was my son’s partner’s birthday this week. She’s a cat lover (they have one black and a second white one), so Clarity’s Entwined Cats stamps were just perfect for her card, especially with one of… Read More entwined cats
Hello friends. I’m back with another of the sets in Clarity’s Barbara’s Big Blooms collection – this time I’ve gone with the A5 square Holly Leaves set. It’s a perfect Christmas set, drawn by Barbara, but I’ve put a contemporary twist on the images with a teal and silver colour combo. I cut a piece… Read More teal & silver holly
Hello crafty friends! I’m here with a peek at some more new goodies that Barbara is launching on Clarity Social TV tomorrow (Friday) at 10am – meet Barbara’s Big Blooms! I’ve gone with the A5 square stripey flowers set for this card, keeping it CAS. Those who came to the Open Days last weekend got… Read More Eileen’s bouquet
Hello craft friends. I’m still ploughing through my demo pieces from the weekend (I told you I’d been busy!) and wanted to share this one, which was a happy discovery when I was prepping with the Woodland Scene stamp set. I didn’t get step-by-step photos of this one as I was just testing out the… Read More peaceful woodland
Hello crafty friends. I’m still working my way through all the demo pieces from the Open Days at the weekend, so here’s another one using the Winter Wonderland stamp set. This time I’ve paired up the single tree with the matching silhouette piece for another Christmas card. I started with one of the small squares… Read More merry & bright tree
Hello everyone. I’ve spent part of today finishing of some of the pile of toppers I’ve got following my two days of demonstrating at Clarity Crafts Open Days and I think this little scene is definitely one of my favourites! It’s another use of the Woodland Scene stamps and Autumn/Winter Skies toppers, but this time… Read More Christmas church
Hello everyone. Just popping in with another quick card having got home this evening after after a brilliant weekend demonstrating at Clarity’s Open Days, followed by a workshop with Barbara Gray today. This design with the Winter Wonderland set proved very popular with people, so I’ve now got quite a few samples of it (which… Read More wintery wonderland
Hello crafty friends. It’s been another busy day demonstrating at Clarity Crafts’ Open Days – lots of interest in this Winter Wonderland stamp set which I combined with one of Barb’s Landscape backdrop prints to make a card of thanks for our new theme of ‘thank you’ at Sparkles Challenge. I’ve made several copies of… Read More thank you card at Sparkles Challenge
I’m back again, this time with our new challenge at As You See It, which is a speed one! Heather’s challenged us to make a card in 10 minutes or less on the theme of apples – and it really was a challenge for me, not least because these ones get my pulse racing but… Read More accelerated apples for As You See It Challenge #361
Hello everyone. It’s a busy craft day today, with the first of the Clarity Crafts Open Days in Kent, where I’m demonstrating with a couple of fab new stamp sets, but also because there are a couple of new blog challenges today, starting with Alphabet Challenge. We’ve reached the letter P and it was my… Read More P for Pumpkin at Alphabet Challenge
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