Hello crafty friends. I’m busy with TV prep today, as I’ll be on Create & Craft TV tomorrow for ClarityCrafts with their new travel & places stamps, plus a few stencils, dies & masks – so much to play with! I went with the ‘famous places’ stamp set on this early peek, with a bit… Read More to travel is to live
Welcome to my crafty blog and my guest designer offering for the next challenge at Seize the Birthday, where the ‘topping’ is to produce a coordinating tag & card. I thought the new ‘nested circle foliage doodle frame-it panel’ dies that ClarityCrafts launched this week would be ideal, especially for making the tag. I’m also… Read More Seize the Birthday – tag and card combo
Hello crafty friends. I’m still playing with the new nested circle doodle frame-it panel dies from ClarityCrafts, but changing to the ‘foliage’ design today to frame my little Christmas scene (and keep on track with my weekly challenge to myself!). I started by cutting two frames and a mat with three consecutive dies. I cut… Read More snowy tree
Hello there. I’m back with another look at the new ‘nested circles diamond & dots doodle frame-it panels’ dies from ClarityCrafts. I was inspired by various cards I’ve seen on social media using layered circle die cuts – this is a great way to use up offcuts of paper or card. I first cut three… Read More layered circles
Welcome to my crafty blog and a sneak peek at some more new ClarityCrafts products that are launching on Create & Craft TV this evening – the ‘nested circle diamonds & dots doodle frame-it panel’ dies. I thought they’d be ideal for the sketch at AAA Cards, keeping it CAS for Simply Clean & Simple… Read More Half circles
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with the last of my samples for ClarityCrafts Botanicals two-way overlay stamps, this time showcasing the Casablanca Lilies. I started with one of my favourite square embedders to create a frame on a 6×6 card blank. I then brayered ‘broken china’ & ‘lucky clover’ Distress Oxides onto the small square… Read More casablanca lilies
Hello there! We’ve got our new challenge over at CAS Colours & Sketches! It’s time for a set of colours and Joanne has given us this lovely palette, which was perfect for ClarityCrafts‘ fab Botanicals two way overlay stamps – I went with the ‘poppy seed heads & honesty’ set for a triptych on my… Read More CAS Colours & Sketches 532 – colours
Welcome to my crafty blog at the start of another week! Today’s card uses another of the Botanicals 2-way overlay stamp sets from ClarityCrafts – this time the ‘casablanca lilies & wild privet’, using the colours from ColorDare I took a bit of a different approach to this one, sponging ‘wilted violet’, ‘stormy sky’ &… Read More wild privet
Hello crafty friends – Sunday seems to have come round once again very quickly! Today’s card features the Botanicals two-way overlay stamps from ClarityCrafts, specifically the ‘honesty & poppy seed heads’ set, together with the Darjeeling infusions collage paper. I opted to just use the ‘honesty’ stamp 2 (without the outline image) on a square… Read More honesty
Welcome back to another offering with the new ‘funky flowers’ dies and adhesive felt from ClarityCrafts – they were flying out of the door on Barbara’s launch show earlier. Now you all know that I don’t like to waste anything – this card uses some of the leftover pieces from cutting the flowers to decorate… Read More hello blossom!
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