Hello crafty friends – I’m back after being missing for a couple of days. Today’s card uses the summer set from ClarityCrafts‘ ‘Linda’s bijou children through the seasons’. It does seem odd to be sharing this in the freezing UK temperatures, and I’m not sure I’d want to be up in a hot air balloon just at… Read More go with the flow
Hello there, and welcome to another of my cards using the fab new ‘retro bubbles’ stamps from ClarityCrafts (can you tell that I rather like these?!) I’m sharing this creation with AAA Cards, having taken a slightly loose interpretation of their sketch! So, I started by stamping the large panel of circles along the edge of… Read More retro birthday bubbles
Hello crafty friends. I’m still working through my design team samples from Sunday’s launch of ‘Tina’s retro stamps’ from ClarityCrafts, this time combining two of the sets, ‘retro candles’ & ‘retro stars’. I thought it would work well as a second offering for the ‘cheers to the years’ theme at The Paper Players The first step was… Read More celebrate with retro candles
Hello again. Today’s card features another of the new ‘Tina’s retro stamps’ collection from ClarityCrafts – this time it’s the turn of the ‘retro bubbles’ set. The Waimea Falls designer paper I used also picks up three of the shades from Color Dare‘s ‘four square’ challenge (the dark pink and the two blues). So, having chosen the… Read More retro bubbles square
Hello crafty friends. Today’s the day when ClarityCrafts release their first new stamps of 2024 -this card (one of my design team samples) uses one of the ‘retro candles’ set designed by Tina Cox. These are perfect for all ages and styles, as well as the challenges at The Paper Players and AAA Birthday It won’t… Read More block of candles
Hello crafty friends. I’m here with an early peek at ClarityCrafts first release of 2024 – Tina’s Retro stars, which are launching tomorrow (Sunday) on Create & Craft TV. I’m loving these new bold designs and will be sharing more of my design team samples over the next few days! This card picks up the sketch from Inspired By… Read More Retro stars
Hello again – I’m back today with the last of the samples I made for ClarityCrafts TV shows this week using the mini mandala square dies. This time I opted to use set 2 to create an aperture on the front of a card, picking up the tones from Creative Colour Challenges. I’m also going to share… Read More mini mandala squares set 2
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
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