Welcome to my crafty blog. I’m trying to get back into my routine after all my trips away over the last month, so have resumed my Sunday sojourns back through Claritystamp’s Craft Club. Today it’s the turn of the lotus flower stamp from June 2021. I started by creating the background with the large rectangle… Read More Claritystamp Craft Club lookback – lotus flower
Hello there. I’m on a bit of a roll with Christmas cards this weekend – I batch made a load more this afternoon but took time to play with the poinsettia stamp & die from Julie Hickey Designs as well. I’ve used three current challenges to create the design for this card. The layout takes… Read More Christmas poinsettia
Welcome to my crafty blog and a first outing for the new gnome stamps and dies from Claritystamp. I just love these little chaps! I’ve taken the layout from CAS Colours & Sketches‘ current sketch and gone for a less than traditional Christmas colour scheme using the palette from Color Throwdown. The ‘festive’ theme from… Read More festive gnomes
Hello crafty friends. Well I’m back after another short break away and thought I ought to make use of the ‘wheelbarrow’ from last month’s Claritystamp Craft Club, not least because this month’s is due to drop through my letterbox any day now! The first step was to stamp the image in black onto a square… Read More leafy wheelbarrow
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with another floral card today, and I’ve realised it’s a bit similar to yesterday’s offering, even though I’ve used completely different techniques! Regular readers of this little blog won’t be surprised to see ‘TIna’s floral spray’ from Claritystamp featuring given the theme of ‘favourite flower’ from Less is More. I’ve… Read More favourite flower
Welcome to my crafty blog and another throwback with a retired Stampin’ Up! set – ‘flourishing phrases’. I’ve always liked this floral spray from it, which I thought would sit well on one of my inky backgrounds (haven’t used one of those for a while). I had to get one out after I saw the… Read More an inky background
Hello there. I’ve been a very sporadic blogger over the last few weeks thanks to several trips away (including a fabulous couple of days at Claritystamp’s crafting retreat – more of that another time) but I managed to find a bit of time this afternoon to make a few cards. I picked up the palette… Read More ladybirds
Hello crafty friends. It’s time for a new challenge over at Sparkles blog, where Caz has gone with ‘at the beach’ as this month’s theme. I’ve CASE’d a card I spotted on Pinterest, using Stampin’ Up!’s ‘friends are like seashells’ set. I started by masking off a border around a piece of white card, then… Read More at the beach
Welcome to my crafty blog. Another quick post today – I’m about to head off to Kent for the two day Claritystamp retreat. So excited, as it’s been cancelled for the last two years thanks to Covid. It will be brilliant to catch up with crafting friends again. I thought it only appropriate to use… Read More floral diecut for you
Welcome to my crafty blog and the new theme over at the Alphabet Challenge. We’re now on to J and Caz has gone with ‘juvenile’, which means relating to young people. I need some more new baby cards, so thought that would fit the bill. I do love this Noah’s Ark image from the retired… Read More J for Juvenile
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