Hello crafty friends and welcome to Monday! I was inspired to play with the SHAC floral panel roses stamps today while watching Barbara put them through their paces on Clarity Social TV this afternoon. They come with a great A4 oval aperture stencil, which is ideal for creating focal images – so that’s exactly what… Read More SHAC floral panel roses
Hello friends. I hope your weekend is going well! I’m back with another look at the new ‘potted plants‘ collection from Clarity Crafts – this time combining the plants with their co-ordinating Alphabet set. I decided to go with a new home theme on this one, using all the plants in the set – a… Read More New home plants
Hello there. We’ve reached the middle of March and it’s time for our new theme at Sparkles Challenges and it’s all about Easter! The daffodils are now out in my garden so I reached for the stamp that’s in the ‘Wales Framer’ set, with the new ‘potted plants alphabet’ stamps working perfectly for an acrostic… Read More Easter at Sparkles Challenge
Hello crafty friends. I’m sitting firmly in my happy CAS space with today’s card using the fab little Swiss Cheese plant (otherwise known as a monstera) from set 1 of Clarity‘s brand new ‘potted plants‘ stamps. Now, as you know, it’s Japan month over at Clarity and I was trying to think how I could… Read More ‘Japanese tricolor’ monstera plant
Hello friends and welcome to Thursday’s peek at new stamps landing tomorrow from Clarity Crafts! Barbara will be on Clarity Social TV with a fab new little set of ‘plant pots’ stamps – just perfect for all sorts of occasions! I haven’t used a watercolour background for a while, but got inspired by the theme… Read More watercolour plant pots
Hello crafty friends. Well this week’s Christmas card has posed me a bit of a challenge – as you know it’s Japan month at Clarity Crafts and oriental stamps generally aren’t Christmas themed! But you know I always like to think a bit laterally and I remembered the heron stamp (#125 from Clarity’s Craft Club… Read More Christmas heron!
Hello there. I thought I’d do something different today having put the new Japanese sampler stamps away – Clarity Crafts have made March their Japanese month, so I fished out the ‘peace square‘ aperture framer die with it’s beautiful waterlilies pattern. It’s unusual for me not to have any stamping on my cards, but I… Read More waterlilies birthday card
Hello crafty friends. Well, I hope you’re not bored with the new ‘Japanese flowers & butterflies sampler‘ stamp set from Clarity Crafts yet, as I’ve got another card to share with you today (although I have now put them away for a little while…!) This one just uses the infill stamps from the ‘peace’ group,… Read More more Japanese butterflies
Hello everyone! It’s been a beautiful weekend here on the edge of London – so nice to see the sunshine! I decided that the beautiful palette at Creative Colour challenges and the layout at Atlantic Hearts would combine perfectly for a card with a lovely spring feel and another outing for the new ‘Japanese flowers… Read More Japanese butterfly birthday
Kon-nichiwa! Clarity Crafts have declared March to be Japan month, celebrating all their fabulous oriental designs, but for now I’m still playing with their new ‘Japanese flowers & butterflies‘ sampler set that launched yesterday. I’ve pulled a couple of challenges together on this one – the butterflies and blooms pick up two of TripleB‘s elements… Read More bijou butterfly circles
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