Hello crafty friends. Today’s card is a bit of an alternative take to all the pink hearts for Valentine’s Day. I love the little tandem bike from ClarityCrafts new ‘wee transport’ sets and thought it was ideal to go with the couple on the bench from the ‘wee folk 1’ set. I’m going to share this with… Read More a bicycle built for two
Welcome to my crafty blog and another look at one of the new ‘Just Wings & Wheels’ stamps from ClarityCrafts. My father-in-law used to be a police motorcyclist, so I just had to use the motorbike on the card for his recent 98th birthday! The first step was to brush ‘walnut stain’ and ‘pumice stone’ Distress… Read More a biker birthday
Hello there! Today’s card is a first play with the new ‘infusions’ collage papers from ClarityCrafts. They’re a lighter weight (80gsm) than their designer papers and designed specifically for use on collages, although I’ve gone with paper piecing my stamped image, combining two of the new sets – ‘hibiscus’ and ‘chamomile’. I started with a piece of… Read More infusions papers
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with another offering using ClarityCrafts‘ new’Just wings and wheels’ stamps. I wanted a vintage feel for this classic car, so used a dried teabag as the background. I’m going to share it with Seize the Birthday, hoping the team there will accept my teabag as the ‘kraft’ part of their challenge! So, I… Read More open-topped car
Hello crafty friends. Today’s card features another of the images from ClarityCrafts‘ ‘Just wings and wheels’ stamp set – a fab little biplane. I used the ‘pine trees’ mask to create the tree tops, so I’ll be sharing with with the challenges at Just Us Girls and Addicted to Stamps, both of whom are looking for stencils… Read More soaring high!
I’ve got more new stamps to share with you today, as ClarityCrafts release their new A5 Gents stamp set. Now our new theme at Alphabet Challenge is V for Vogue (or fashion) chosen by Veronika and I just couldn’t resist this masculine combination for a bit of a different take on it! And it’s my favourite CAS… Read More V for Vogue at Alphabet Challenge
I’m changing it up today from the florals of the last week, with an early look at the new ‘Just wings and wheels’ stamp set coming from ClarityCrafts tomorrow. As soon as I saw this scooter in the set I was reminded of the groups of Mods we used to see in the Sixties, heading off… Read More A Vespa for a Mod
Hello there! I’m back with the last of my design team samples with the new ‘floral panels’ stamps designed by Jazz for ClarityCrafts – this is the ‘me to you’ set. I’ve picked up three of the colours (blue, green & ivory) from Color Dare and a loose interpretation of the sketch at Inspired by (I flipped… Read More anniversary floral panel
Welcome to my crafty blog and our new sketch at CAS Colours & Sketches, which I thought was perfect for the new ‘just because – floral panel’ stamp set from ClarityCrafts and picks up the floral theme from Just Add Ink and the CAS/Love from AAA Cards. I started with the diagonal box stripe stencil… Read More CAS Colours & Sketches 529 – floral heart
Hello there. Here’s another of my DT samples from Saturday’s ClarityCrafts – today I’ve got the ‘just for you floral panel’ stamps, which I didn’t have time to demo on either of the TV shows. I started with a piece of the New England Fall designer paper, cut a mat using the ‘dots frame-it’ panel dies,… Read More just writing to say…
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