Hello crafty friends. I’ve decided to repeat a personal challenge I set myself last Christmas, when I worked through the year’s stamps from Clarity’s monthly craft club over the 12 days of Christmas. This year I’m doing it with the monthly dies, so welcome to day 1 of the ’12 Dies of Clarity’. Today it’s… Read More 12 dies of Clarity – room with a view
Happy Christmas everyone! Well, we’ve survived our first 24 hours of a 7 day isolation period & my eldest son & I are still testing negative for Covid. We managed to do socially distanced present opening this morning with my youngest son – we all had masks on, he sat at the other side of… Read More the midnight clear
Hello crafty friends. I decided to play with another of my new purchases today – this is the ginko stamp set that Claritystamp released last month & I finally succumbed to! My friends will also be able to confirm that I’ve gone with my favourite colour palette on this one as well, inspired by the… Read More ginko biloba
Hello crafty friends. I’m back today with a birthday card for my father-in-law, who’ll be turning 96 on Friday. He doesn’t get out of the house anymore, so I thought he might appreciate a landscape on his birthday. This one uses the colours from Inspire.Create – I thought they were ideal for a masculine card.… Read More snowy hills
Hello crafty friends. Well it’s Sunday again so I’m dipping back into Claritystamp’s new design stamp club – today it’s for the ‘vintage phone’ from January 2018. I really wasn’t sure how best to use this stamp (it’s not my usual style), so adapted one of Dee Paramour’s designs from the project sheet that comes… Read More Claritystamp new design club lookback – vintage telephone #135
Hello crafty friends. It’s time for a new theme over at Alphabet Challenge – we’re now up to S and Dawn has challenged us to use silver, which is perfect for this time of year. Our challenge runs until Thursday 30th December, so there’s lots of time to join us. I decided to go with… Read More S is for Silver
Hello crafty friends. It’s Sunday so time for another dip back into Claritystamp’s new design club – this is the ‘Christmas words tree’ from December 2017. It’s a great stamp and I decided it didn’t need a lot of embellishment, so have kept it very clean and simple. I started by making a green A6… Read More Claritystamp new design club lookback – Christmas words tree #134
Hello crafty friends. Unusually today I don’t have a card to share with you, instead I’ve made a gift wallet that one of my sons will be receiving with a nice surprise inside. It’s really easy to make and I was prompted to think of it by the current challenge at Just Add Ink. I… Read More Christmas gift wallet
Hello crafty friends. I know it’s a bit early (as it’s nowhere near spring yet…) but I decided to make a birthday card with the daffodil spray set from Claritystamp. The colour palette on this week’s CAS Colours and Sketches challenge seemed perfect for it I started with Clarity’s ‘ocean swirl’ mixed texture A5 background… Read More an early daffodil!
Hello crafty friends and welcome to my second post of the day – I’m catching up with myself! These little cats are part of the latest November set from Claritystamp’s die Craft Club, and I love them – you can just see the energy and intent in their outlines. They are obviously perfect (should that… Read More Christmas wishes!
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