Hello crafty friends. After yesterday’s sunflower, I’ve stepped firmly into cooler days today with this card as my DT offering for our new autumn theme at Sparkles Challenges using ClarityCrafts‘ ‘SHAC leafy framer’ stamps. The colours at Color Throwdown were just perfect for this and I used one of the ‘quote’ stamps to pick up… Read More Autumn at Sparkles Challenge
Good morning crafty friends! I’m a bit late posting this card for the new Sparkles challenge, which went live at 9am (having been away on Clarity’s two day crafting retreat and busy prepping for TV this weekend before I left, I’ve got behind with my scheduling!) You can no doubt tell that this month’s theme… Read More Butterflies at Sparkles Challenge
Hello crafty friends. Well, I’ve really gone for it with a couple of ClarityCrafts stencils on this card for the our new masculine theme at Sparkles Challenge! Eileen Godwin on the Clarity design team does amazing things with stencils and I’ve taken a little inspiration from her blending techniques for this one, which I’m also… Read More one for the boys at Sparkles Challenge
Welcome to our new theme at Sparkles challenges and an appropriate choice for spring of the old saying ‘April showers bring May flowers’. Well it’s been pretty wet this month so far, so let’s hope it rings true! I went with one of ClarityCrafts brand-new ‘Japanese florals 2-way overlay’ stamp sets for this one, to… Read More Sparkles challenge – April showers bring May flowers
It’s time for our next theme at Sparkles Challenges and this time we’ve got ‘hearts and flowers’ to entice you! I didn’t have to think too hard about going with ‘Jazz’s just because – floral panels’ stamp set with this lovely heart of flowers. It also picks up the ‘all about love’ theme from Inspire.Create and the… Read More Sparkles challenge – hearts & flowers
Hello there. We’re back with our first challenge of 2024 at Sparkles and it’s my turn to host! As we’re still in early(ish) January, I thought it would be fun to start off with ‘new beginnings’ – it works for so many occasions: New Year, new baby, weddings, new craft stash, etc. I’ve gone with the new plant… Read More Sparkles Challenge – new beginnings
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