Hello there. Today’s card uses some of the latest Word Chain stamps from ClarityCrafts, together with their ‘birch trees’. I’ve pulled a few current challenges together in this design: the new theme of ‘outdoors’ at Global Design Project, the right hand column of square card, masculing & leaves from TicTacToe‘s grid, and the photo of… Read More Grandad’s trees
Welcome to another dip back into Clarity‘s craft club – today it’s the ‘peace aperture’ die (#45) from September 2022. It’s such a lovely design and I decided to use the layout from Freshly Made Sketches to showcase it, together with the colours from CAS Colours & Sketches; I’m also going to share it with… Read More Clarity craft club lookback – peace aperture die
Hello there. Well, on the hottest UK day of the year so far I thought we could all do with some cool vibes from my last DT card featuring the ClarityCrafts Letterbox Penguins that were launched last weekend. After the complete minimalism of yesterday’s card, I think I may have slightly overdone it on this… Read More balancing penguins
Welcome to my second post today as we start our new theme at As You See It challenge. We’re back with a speed challenge again – cards must be completed in less than 10 minutes, this time on the theme of hobbies. I’ve used ClarityCrafts new linocut sampler stamp set to make a masculine birthday… Read More As You See It challenge – hasty hobbies
Twas the night before Christmas stamp set from ClarityCrafts drawn by Barbara and based on the poem by Clement Clark Moore Great Lakes designer paper, mounted on black and onto 6×6 card blank stamped first image with the opening lines onto small square of stencil card and coloured with Pergaliners. Added shadow with grey polychromos… Read More L for literature at Alphabet Challenge
I’ve got a coastal scene to share with you today using the new ‘seascape’ set from ClarityCrafts bijou two-way overlay linocut stamps. It’s been really hot again here in North East London and a trip to the coast would have been very welcome! I’m going to add this as a second contribution to Time Out‘s… Read More ray of sunshine
Welcome to my crafty blog and another look at a couple of the new ClarityCrafts stamp sets launched last weekend – the KISS ‘Christmas wreaths’ stamps & ‘sentiment rounds’, which are a great set of semi-circular words. I started with card cut to fit a slimline (UK DL size) card and stamped the twiggy wreath… Read More swirly wreaths
Hello crafty friends. Today’s card takes another look at the KISS Build a Bauble stamps released by ClarityCrafts over the weekend. For this one, I started by repeat stamping the leafy bauble design around the edge of a 5×7 card blank with ‘villainous potion’ Distress Oxide I then stamped the solid bauble background onto a… Read More season’s greetings bauble
Welcome to my crafty blog and another look at one of the new bijou two-way overlay linocut stamps from ClarityCrafts – this time, the ‘midnight rose’ set. I’ve kept it very clean and simple on this one, first stamping the background image in ‘chipped sapphire’ Distress Oxide onto a 5×5 card blank. I then added… Read More bijou midnight rose
Hello again! What a fantastic weekend for http://www.ClarityCrafts.com celebrating their 30th birthday in business! This fabulous sampler set of bijou block print stamps was made from Barbara’s linocut designs and are just perfect for Clarity’s bijou cards & envelopes. I used several of them to make a set of little notecards. The block print stamps… Read More bijou notecards
