Hello crafty friends – how are your Christmas preparations getting on? Not long to go now – I’m onto present wrapping this evening. Before then, I’ve got another set of ClarityCrafts‘ square mini mandala dies to share with you and this one picks up several of the tones from Color Dare‘s ‘bold and bright’ challenge. I cut… Read More mini mandala squares set 4
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with a look at another of the mini mandala square dies from ClarityCrafts, this time set 1. I decided to simply use the middle die from the set as a frame for my stamped image – it’s a perfect fit for one of ‘Linda’s Advent Treasures’ stamps. I kept it very simple… Read More mini mandala squares set 1
Welcome to my crafty blog and an early look at one of my design team samples with ClarityCrafts mini mandala dies that will be featuring on Create & Craft TV tomorrow (Thursday) I kept it very simple with this one and let the dies do all the work as they’re so pretty! I started by cutting… Read More mini mandala squares set 3
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with a first outing this year for one of ‘Jayne’s winter scenes’ stamp sets from ClarityCrafts, the ‘church’. I just think this is a gorgeous scene and opted for the neutrals palette from Color Dare, together with the ‘anything goes’ theme at The Holly and Ivy challenge I stated with a square… Read More winter church
Hello crafty friends. I’m feeling very pleased with myself today having used up another piece from my stash box! This image with ClarityCrafts ‘three way treescape’ stamp set has been sat waiting to be used since early July, when I joined the Clarity community for A Moment of Clarity with Barbara Gray. I remember thinking at the time… Read More sparkly trees
Hello and welcome into another dip back into Clarity‘s Craft Club archives, today featuring #97 ‘abstract pattern’ stencil which I’ve teamed up with one of the ‘Merry Little Christmas’ quote stamps and the ‘nativity miniatures’. I strated by gently brushing ‘chipped sapphire’ and ‘specked egg’ Distress Oxides through the stencil onto the centre of a… Read More Clarity Craft Club lookback – abstract stencil
Hello there! Just over a week to go – how are your Christmas preparations coming on? I feel a bit like I’m in one of those circus acts spinning lots of plates on poles (and some of them are getting a bit wobbly!!) Never mind, it will all be fine when the day arrives. I’ve started on my family… Read More Merry Christmas gnome
Hello crafty friends. It’s time for our next letter at Alphabet Challenge and Dawn has opted for S for Stars – I haven’t gone with the expected seasonal card for my DT offering, instead picking up the ‘star flowers’ from Clarity Crafts and giving them a suitable sky with the ‘starry burst’ stencil, adding in the… Read More starry star flowers at Alphabet Challenge
Hello crafty friends. I’ve got another quick card to share with you today, using up a piece I found in my stash box from when I’d been playing with one of the older Clarity club stencils! Unsurprisingly, I’m sharing it with Happy Little Stampers and Stencil Fun, and a second offering for Sparkles Christmas challenge of animals… Read More Christmas deer
Hello again! Just a quick card today sharing some more of ClarityCrafts‘ adorable penguins – did you know they’ve got an Advent penguin hunt going on over at their website? There’s a new penguin hidden somewhere each day and a clue to help us find them. However you don’t have top look very hard for… Read More penguin trio
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