Welcome to my crafty blog and a first look at some of the new Rectangle Aperture A5 stencils and Word Chain stamps that ClarityCrafts are launching today. For this first card, I masked off the centre of the stencil on a piece of white card that I’d cut to fit a 5×7 card blank. I… Read More floral anniversary
Hello crafty friends. I’m back today with my design team card for the new theme of ‘tropical or beach’ for Sparkles challenge. This card contains something old and something new and is a bit of an arty departure for me – definitely not my usual CAS style! I spent two days last week at ClarityCrafts‘… Read More Sparkles challenge – tropical
Hello there. Well after yesterday’s dip back into Clarity’s Craft Club, I’ve come right up to date with the latest club stamp that arrived at the end of last month. I’ve kept it nice and simple today taking inspiration from a few current challenges, with the layout from Freshly Made Sketches, three of the colours… Read More flowery birthday
Somehow it’s Sunday again, so I’ve dipped back into Clarity’s Craft Club for the next in my Sunday sessions – today it’s the ‘hot air balloon aperture die’ (#139) from June 2022. I decided to go with the colours from Color Throwdown and the sketch from Global Design Project to make a bright child’s card.… Read More Clarity Craft Club lookback – hot air balloon die
Hello there. I’ve just had a couple of inspiration filled days at ClarityCrafts‘ annual retreat, where I also did a little light shopping and treated myself to the ‘feathered friends miniatures’ stamp set. If you’re anything like me, then you’ll want to use new goodies as soon as they’re out of the shopping bag, so… Read More Canada geese
Welcome to my second post today with the new challenge at As You See It. Joanne has given us a great recipe board this time – for these challenges you need to incorporate all the elements in your card. I decided to go with ClarityCrafts‘ ‘treescape’ die (one of my favourite images) and their Antarctica… Read More As You See It thank you recipe challenge
Good morning all and welcome to our new theme of J for Jungle Animals at Alphabet Challenge! This is a fun theme chosen by Lynda, but it challenged me to start with until I remembered the chimps stamp from ClarityCrafts Craft Club back in 2018 (#138). I took further inspiration from the ‘world photography day’… Read More J for Jungle Animals at Alphabet Challenge
Hello crafty friends! Today’s card features one of my older ClarityCrafts stamps – the kingfisher, which I bought way back when the stamps came ready mounted on the mounts! I really thought it ought to see the light of day again – and it’s part of the current Design of the Week offer at 30%… Read More kingfisher
Welcome to the final one of my design team sample card for the new Art Nouveau collection stencils from ClarityCrafts. Today it’s the turn of the ‘Christmas Stars’ stencil – I’m going to share this one with the challenges at Happy Little Stampers and The Holly and Ivy (for obvious reasons!) I needed to make… Read More star stencil
Hello crafty friends. I’ll still working through all the samples I made for ClarityCrafts Art Nouveau launch at the weekend (can you tell I liked them…?!) Today picks up one of the smaller ‘bijou art nouveau’ stamp set, which has the whole collection of designs in a smaller form (great value!) I haven’t posted any… Read More art nouveau holly
