Hello crafty friends and welcome to another Monday! Can you believe it’s nearly August already? I’m hoping summer returns soon – after the hottest June on record in the UK, we’ve had a fairly grey and miserable July. So here’s a card with a brighter day to end this month, using the SHAC hot air… Read More birthday balloon trip
Well here we are at Sunday again, so I’ve delved back into ClarityCrafts Craft Club and today picked up ‘Jilly’s meadow frame’ aperture die from May 2022. As it happens, Clarity’s Jilly was demonstrating watercolour backgrounds at the Open Day last month, so it seemed appropriate to pick up that technique to complement her die… Read More Clarity Craft Club lookback – meadow frame die
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with the last of my design team samples for this week’s launch of the new SHAC Vases & Foliage stamp set. My Clarity design team-mates have produced some amazingly creative samples, but I’ve stayed firmly in my happy CAS place with my designs, going for a bit of an outdoor… Read More in the garden of life
Hello there! I’m back with a second card today for our new theme at As You See It challenge – it’s one of our ‘fill in the blank’ challenges and Jane has asked us for the things we love most about summer. I’ve gone for warm sunny days (not much sign of those in the… Read More summer favourites for As You See It challenge
Welcome to my crafty blog and a new theme over at Alphabet Challenge – this time it’s the letter I and Dawn is looking for our icecream creations. Now you may be wondering what’s going on with this card? Well, I don’t have any icecream themed stamps or dies, so had to get a bit… Read More I for Icecream at Alphabet Challenge
Hello again – I’m back with more inspiration from ClarityCrafts‘ new SHAC Vases & Foliage stamp set and, as promised, this one is even more CAS than my previous offerings! I love those dark blue glazed pots you often find in garden centres, which gave me the idea for this vase. Once again, I started… Read More single vase
Hello there and welcome to another card using ClarityCrafts new SHAC Vases & Foliage stamps that Barbara is launching at 3pm and 7pm today on Create & Craft TV today. You can see that I’m firmly in my CAS comfort zone with these stamps! I used low tack tape to give me a guideline across… Read More you are unique
Welcome to my crafty blog and an early peek at the brand new SHAC ‘vase and foliage’ stamp & masks set that ClarityCrafts are launching tomorrow on Create & Craft TV (3pm and 7pm UK time). These really lend themselves to my favourite CAS style (more of that in the next couple of days), but… Read More SHAC vase group
Welcome to my crafty blog and a new stamp set that I’ve just treated myself to – the ‘village & harbour’ set from ClarityCrafts. It’s perfect for a few of the current blog challenges: AAA cards, TGIF challenges & Inkspirational I joined Barbara’s Gray’s ‘Moment of Clarity’ session online last Friday – although she was… Read More harbour boats
I’ve been having another play with some of the new henna design stamps from ClarityCrafts, this time using ‘Tina’s happy anniversary henna’ set. I took the layout from the sketch at CAS Colours & Sketches and picked up the middle row of any colour, free option & sentiment from TicTacToe‘s grid I started with a… Read More henna peacock
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