Welcome to my crafty blog and some slightly unseasonal primroses! I love these three way overlay stamps from Claritystamp (they’ve got quite a few in their range now), although I do have to use my stamping platform to make sure I get each one lined up fully before I ink it. I can’t manage to… Read More primroses
Welcome to my crafty blog. I treated myself to another new set of stamps, ‘Pretty Perennials’, that were reduced to half price by Stampin’ Up! as they are about to be retired. It’s such a pretty set I gave into temptation having recently done a class using them with Joanne James (aka The Crafty Owl).… Read More floral birthday
Welcome to my crafty blog and a second post for today. It’s Sunday, so time for the next one of my lookbacks through Clarity’s new design club, this time to February 2015 and the ‘time for something new’ sentiment stamp. This is a really useful sentiment – I’ve used it quite a few times over… Read More Claritystamp new design club lookback – time for something new #100
Welcome to my crafty blog. Today’s card resurrects a few things that have been in my stash for some time – it’s always good to get more use out of sets I’ve had for a while. I started with the large ‘happy birthday’ die from Memory Box – this is such a useful one. I… Read More birthday boat
Welcome to my crafty blog, and another quick post after a busy day – clearly I’m not very good at this retirement lark! I’ve used Julie Hickey’s ‘florals for you’ stamp set today – I love the contemporary look of these flowers and they worked really well with some paper piecing. I started by just… Read More dotty florals
Welcome to my crafty blog – and a specially warm welcome to the new folk who are now following my ramblings. I’ve now got just over 100 followers on my crafty musings, which is incredible considering this is just a little hobby blog on my crafty journey – thank you all for coming along with… Read More congratulations!
Welcome to my crafty blog. Another quick post today, as it’s very close to the deadline for one of this week’s challenges and I don’t want to miss it. I’m really pleased with how this card to congratulate a colleague who’s got a new role has turned out – and it just uses scraps/card offcuts… Read More well done
Welcome to my crafty blog. It’s time for a new sketch challenge over at CAS Colours & Sketches, and I’m sharing my final contribution as a guest designer for the challenge. This month has gone so fast and it’s been such a great opportunity to be part of the CCAS team – huge thanks to… Read More fruit salad!
Welcome to my crafty blog. Just a quick share today as I’ve got a busy diary – I’ve gone back to one of my all-time favourite stamps from Clarity, ‘Tina’s floral spray’. I decided to go for a different look, keeping the flowers in relief and making the background the key focus for this one… Read More sunset flowers
Welcome to my crafty blog. This week’s foray into my Clarity new design club back catalogue took me to the daisies from January 2015 and my third year of club membership. I think these were probably the first set of outline and infill stamps I had encountered – but certainly not the last!! I was… Read More Claritystamp new design club lookback – daisies #99
