Hello crafty friends. I’m back with another of Clarity’s Art Nouveau collection – this time the brand-new tulip stencil that will be launching on tomorrow’s TV shows (it comes in a double set with the snowdrops stencil). I’ve picked up the sketch from Inspired by to showcase it on this card and I have to… Read More tulip stencil
Welcome to my crafty blog featuring another of the ClarityCrafts Art Nouveau stamps – this time the other one from the ‘congratuations & thinking of you’ set that I used yesterday. As I said then, Barbara Gray will be showcasing these stamps on Create & Craft TV on Sunday afternoon at 3pm. I took quite… Read More art nouveau lilies
Hello crafty friends and welcome to a very optimistic card today! I’m currently away at a Christian festival in Kent and it’s barely stopped raining since we got here (very grateful that we decided to stay in a hotel and not camp on site!!) I do love the art nouveau series from ClarityCrafts – Barbara… Read More art nouveau sunrise
The latest Craft Club stamps from ClarityCrafts dropped through my letterbox last Friday, so I treated myself to a quick play with it at the weekend! I thought it might work for the layout at Hand Stamped Sentiments, using the colours from Inspire.Create and the top row of flowers, green & embossing from The Paper… Read More craft club flowers
I’m delighted to have been invited along as guest designer for the new shades of teal and orange at Color Hues! For once, this card came together quite easily – definitely helped by the fact that I had a mop-up piece of card in my stash in exactly the colours I needed and that ClarityCrafts‘… Read More Guest Designer for Color Hues – teal & orange
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
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