Hello everyone – I hope you’re enjoying the weekend. I’ve had a great day filled with crafting inspiration, as I was doing Clarity’s online workshop using a gel plate and alcohol inks. It’s such fun taking part in these live events with Barbara, but the great thing is that the workshop is still available if… Read More a walk in the woods
Hello crafty friends and welcome to my second card of the day. This time, it’s for our new challenge at As You See It – we’ve got a recipe for you this time round, which I devised. For these challenges, we want you to incorporate all the recipe elements in your card, but how you… Read More my new recipe at As You See It Challenge 359
Welcome to Friday and the first of two cards I’ve got to share with you today. This one is for our new theme at Alphabet Challenge, where Pamela has given us N for Night. Now, I said yesterday that you may be seeing a few more Christmas cards from me and I’m keeping my word… Read More N for Night at Alphabet Challenge
Hello crafty friends. You may recall that, up until I took a break to go travelling in Australia, I was keeping up with my personal challenge to make one Christmas card each week through 2025. Well, with the celebratory season approaching fast (there’s just 10 weeks to go…!) I’m upping my game so you may… Read More cool yule!
Hello crafty friends. I’ve got another new challenge to share with you today – this time it’s our next theme of ‘autumn leaves & pumpkins’ at Sparkles Challenges. Well, I knew exactly where I was going with my DT card for this one, and that was straight back to Clarity’s Autumn Build a Wreath stamp… Read More autumn leaves & pumpkins at Sparkles Challenge
Hello friends. It’s time for our next challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches and we’re back to colours this time round. Suzy’s given us a fab palette of autumn shades (although they’d work with floral and lots of other designs too). I decided to make an autumnal birthday card for my friend, Shirley using the… Read More CAS Colours & Sketches 571 – autumn colours
Hello crafty friends! It’s Monday again already, but I’ve just spent a happy hour watching Barbara Gray on Clarity’s YouTube channel – she was putting the Elementree stamps through their paces. You may have noticed that they are some of my favourite stamps – the sets come individually, but also in a bundle with the… Read More Leafy BOW-WOB birthday
Good morning everyone! I’m very excited to have been invited along as Guest Designer for the new challenge at AAA Cards, where they have a CAS (clean and simple) theme with an optional twist of grey monochrome – right up my street! As it’s autumn, I reached again for Clarity’s Elementree stamp set, pairing it… Read More monochrome Christmas
Hello crafty friends! I had a very happy parcel arrive from Clarity yesterday, containing lots of the new goodies that were released while I was away travelling, so I grabbed the opportunity to put one of the sets into action to day – meet Mr Painter! This is such a fun set of characters, perfect… Read More Mr Painter
Hello crafty friends. I’ve got more flowers to share with you today, this time using one of the little sprays that come as part of the Seasonal Garlands Personalised stamp set. While these are perfect for personalising your creations, the garlands can be used on their own as well – more bang for your buck!… Read More purple & green
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