Welcome to my crafty blog. I’m back in my comfortable place with today’s card and some stamping and ink blending, after yesterday’s adventure into vintage. I love this ‘butterfly tree’ from Claritystamp, and have used one of my new words stickers from them as well. The layout for today uses this week’s design at Freshly… Read More surround yourself with colour
Welcome to my crafty blog. Today’s card is a bit of a departure from my usual style, with the ‘chunky vintage car tag’ stamp from Crafty Individuals as the focal point. The starting point for this card was the current challenge of ‘very vintage’ over at TGIF, coupled with the sketch from As You See… Read More vintage
Welcome to my crafty blog. I bought some new stamps in the Claritystamp sale a couple of months ago and thought I really should give them an airing, so today’s card uses a couple of them. The background is done with the ‘harlequin’ stamp and the flower is from the ‘snowdrop doodle round’ set. I… Read More snowdrop thoughts
Welcome to my crafty blog. Today I’ve been playing with the ‘painted poppies’ set from Stampin’ Up! I do love poppies and I think they work well on sympathy cards, which is what I’ve done with this one. I’ve taken inspiration from a couple of this week’s challenges for the card: I’ve used the theme… Read More painted poppies
Welcome to my crafty blog. It’s Sunday, so time for the next in my series looking back through Claritystamp’s new design club – this time with #90, the round tree from April 2014. This is a great stamp and I’ve used it a few times over the years. It works well for creating backgrounds, as… Read More Clarity new design club lookback – round tree #90
Welcome to my crafty blog. Today’s card uses several stamps from Julie Hickey Designs, with the main feature being the daisy and leaves from her ‘fresh florals’ set. I thought it perfectly fitted the theme of ‘flower’ for the current challenge at Addicted to CAS. I started by blending Distress Oxides in ‘dried marigold’ and… Read More birthday daisy
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’ve got some sparkly seashells to share today (and a bit of alliteration too, it seems!) I’ve used the Stampin’ Up! ‘seaside seashells’ die and matching embossing folder, together with a sprinkling of WOW embossing powder, for this card. I took inspiration from a couple of challenges – Global Design… Read More by the sea
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’ve made this card for a friend who’s going through a difficult time at work, and I wanted something to cheer her up. I recently treated myself to some new stamps from Claritystamp, the ‘Holland and buttons’ set, which includes these lovely tulips. They immediately came to mind when I… Read More tulips for you
Welcome to my crafty blog. Today’s card uses the ‘birds and branches’ stamps and dies from Stampin’ Up – this is a really sweet set which works for a variety of occasions. I’ve used it for new baby cards in the past (the eggs and nest are perfect), but today went for a birthday theme,… Read More bluebird
Welcome to my crafty blog. I finally got round to using the March stamps from the Claritystamp craft club – my sister, my craft buddy & I have organised a monthly ‘Clarity crafternoon’ online so we encourage each other to use our stamps, and I love how we can produce such different outcomes from the… Read More reeds & insects
