Hello crafty friends. I’m on a real roll now with Christmas cards and today it’s the turn of Clarity’s ‘gnomes and billboards’ to take centre stage. I’ve combined a few challenges into this one: I based the layout on Stesha’s card at Global Design Project, using the colours from Color Hues and obviously included the… Read More Christmas gnomes
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’ve been meaning to get Clarity’s ‘chinese lantern spray’ stamp out for a while now and finally got round to it today, thanks to the inspiration from The Paper Players and The Card Concept. I know they’re not pumpkins, but they are orange! I started by stamping the background using… Read More grateful
Hello crafty friends. I’ve gone for stencilling on today’s card, using sponges and the ‘poppies’ stencil from Clarity Crafts. I picked up the colours from Just Add Ink, and I’ll also share it with Happy Little Stampers for their stencil challenge and Seize the Birthday (although I haven’t used their optional ‘topping’ of halloween colours)… Read More poppy stencil
Welcome to my crafty blog and my next dip back into Clarity’s craft club. I’ve now reached March 2020 and the ‘cup n saucer’ die set. I decided to just use the cup die for this card of friendship, inspired by the quote at Time Out and using the colours from Color Throwdown. I started… Read More Clarity craft club lookback – cup n saucer die
Hello there and welcome to my second post of the day. This time it’s for the new challenge at As You See It and this one is a recipe! There are five elements to include in your card, which makes for a very interesting challenge and I’ve combined them with the layout from Freshly Made… Read More masculine recipe for As You See It challenge
Welcome to my crafty blog. It’s time for a new challenge over at Love to Craft and as always the theme is ‘anything goes’. I decided to go with some simple masking on a piece of Clarity’s glorious ‘Waimea Falls’ designer card. I ran a black Sharpie round the edge of the card to start… Read More morning deer for Love to Craft challenge
Hello crafty friends – here we are with my usual Sunday trip back into Clarity’s craft club. The die from February 2020 was this funky tulip, which I thought would work well with this week’s challenge from Just Add Ink. I’ve gone for silhouette and day from their ‘choose two’ theme. I’ve also picked up… Read More Clarity craft club lookback – funky tulip
Hello crafty friends. After using brand new stamps in my last two posts, I’m back with some old favourites today from Clarity Crafts. I’ve picked up a couple of challenges for this card, using the sketch from Global Design Project and the ‘thankful’ theme from Time Out I started with an A6 card blank and… Read More thankful blackbird
Welcome to my crafty blog and my regular Sunday dip back into Clarity’s craft club. This week it’s the turn of the hearts aperture die from January 2020 (#13). It’s an obvious design for a wedding or engagement card, so that’s what I went with. I started by cuttung the die into the centre of… Read More Clarity craft club lookback – hearts aperture die
Hello there and welcome to my second post today, for the new challenge at As You See It . I do seem to be having a bit of a back & white theme today! I found this theme very difficult as I don’t ‘celebrate’ Halloween – I think there’s enough evil around in the world… Read More moonlight for As You See It challenge
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