Welcome to my crafty blog. I’m still working on incorporating stencil effects in the backgrounds on my cards, as you can see from today’s offering. This one features the ‘trellis’ stencil from ClarityCrafts, together with the ‘butterfly wreath’ and ‘bijou ribbon sentiments’ stamp sets. I’ve brought three current challenges together on this card. I took… Read More butterfly birthday
Hello everyone! Exciting news to share with you today – I’ve joined the ClarityCrafts Design Team! I was thrilled (and a bit stunned) to be invited to be part of the team by Barbara Gray – she’s been a key inspiration on my crafting journey and was the person who first taught me how to… Read More I’m celebrating…
Welcome to my crafty blog and a simple sympathy card, using Stampin’ Up!’s ‘forever fern’ set and CASE’d from a design I saw on Pinterest. I was inspired by the ‘gilded leaves’ theme at Inspired by and the green & gold palette at Color Hues was perfect. I started by stamping the sentiment from ‘peaceful… Read More gilded leaves
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with another card using ‘Hazel’s butterfly’ from Julie Hickey Designs, this time teamed with the ‘circles medley’ stamp. I decided to go with the colour palette from Color Throwdown and the layout from Freshly Made Sketches I started by stamping the circles in ‘watering can’ Archival ink across the top… Read More butterfly gold
Hello crafty friends. I’ve got a couple of cards to share with you today, both using the new ‘Hazel’s butterfly’ stamp set from Julie Hickey Designs. I’ve taken inspiration from a couple of challenges for these, Global Design Project and Time Out, both with a theme of CASE (copy and selectively edit) a design team… Read More a kaleidoscope of butterflies
Hello there. Today’s card stars another of the new stamp sets designed by Hazel Eaton for Julie Hickey Designs – the butterfly (in case you hadn’t guessed!) I’ve used the sketch from Global Design Project and the colours from Color Throwdown. I started by repeat stamping the butterfly definition stamp in black down the side… Read More Hazel’s butterfly
Hello everyone and welcome to my weekly dip back into Clarity’s Craft Club. We’re now at December 2020, which brought me the ‘ivy leaves aperture’ die. As you can see, I’ve made two cards today picking up on two separate challenges. The first card takes the new theme of ‘white on white’ over at AAA… Read More Clarity Craft Club lookback – ivy leaves aperture
Welcome to my crafty blog. Today’s card stars the floral envelope from Julie Hickey’s ‘sent with love’ stamp set. I thought of it when I saw the inspo list at Festive Friday challenge – it’s not really a new year card, but I picked up red, gold & envelope from the list. I also took… Read More sending floral love
Welcome to Day 11 of my 12 Days of Clarity challenge – we’re nearly there! November’s Craft Club stamp was actually an autumn wreath, but I’ve turned it into a Christmas card just by using different colours. I started by stamping the wreath with WOW clear ink, then heat embossed it with superfine gold metallic… Read More 12 Days of Clarity 2022 – wreath
Welcome to my crafty blog and day 8 of my 12 Days of Clarity challenge, which brings us to the ‘to have and hold’ stamp set from August’s Craft Club. I love this cake stamp – it would work really well for birthdays but I’ve stuck with a wedding theme for today’s card. I started,… Read More 12 Days of Clarity 2022 – to have and hold
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