Hello friends! It’s the last week of March already, so I’ve been busy this afternoon prepping for my shows this Friday on Clarity Social TV – but more of that later in the week. I had great fun watching Clarity’s Barbara & Paul this afternoon (they’re hilarious together!) putting the ‘floral panel‘ stamps through their… Read More joy in the simple things
Hello friends. In case you thought I hadn’t got a Christmas card to share this week, here it is now! I’m delighted to have been invited along as Guest Designer for the new challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown, although it definitely did give me a bit of a challenge as I don’t usually make… Read More Guest designer at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown
Hello crafty friends. I’ve got another card to share with you today using the new ‘Japanese flowers & butterflies sampler‘ stamp set from Clarity Crafts, with a mixture of the little flower stamps & leaves. I’ve gone for vibrant colours on this one, picking up the layout from Atlantic Hearts and the birthday themes from… Read More oriental flowers
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 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
Hello crafty friends and welcome to this week’s Christmas card! I still had the ‘cats & dogs silhouette miniatures‘ stamps on my desk from last week’s shows, so thought I’d put them to use in partnership with the trees from ‘Linda’s winter wishes‘. I’ve manage to combine a few challenges into this card – the… Read More Christmas cat
Welcome to this week’s Christmas card, this time featuring one of the stamps from Clarity Crafts ‘twas the night sampler‘ A4 set, which has miniatures of the individual stamps Barbara drew to illustrate the Clement Clark Moore poem. I’ve taken the layout for this one from the sketch at The Paper Players, together with the… Read More Twas the night bauble
Welcome to this week’s Christmas card – seven weeks in and I’m still on track of making one each week! You may recall that I completely fell in love with the various Clarity Crafts landscape treescape stamps & masks last year – well, Barbara Gray will be back on Clarity Social TV tomorrow with some… Read More moonlit stag
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