Hello friends and welcome to our new challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches! I’ve put together these lovely soft colours for summer and decided they would work well with the latest stencil from Clarity’s Crafts Club. I’m sharing my DT card with a couple of other challenegs as well – the club stencil makes it… Read More CAS Colours & Sketches 567 – August colours
Hi everyone. I’ve had a fab (but tiring) day at Clarity’s summer crafting retreat, with more fun to come tomorrow. There are no spoilers here, though, as the workshops are being repeated on Wednesday & Thursday so, instead, I’ve got another of the 2024 retreat backgrounds to share with you. This one was made by… Read More backdrop background
Hello crafty friends. I’m off to Kent this evening to be ready for the first day of Clarity’s summer retreat tomorrow, so have another of last year’s background creations to share with you today! We made this one with inks on a gelli plate, then laid a couple of pieces of the fab BOW-WOB paper… Read More a retreat background
Hello everyone. I’m busy getting ready to head off to Kent tomorrow to spend a couple of days at the annual ClarityCrafts retreat on Monday & Tuesday. I decided that I really should sort out my project folder from last year, when we were busy making backgrounds – one year on, it’s definitely time to… Read More bright butterfly
Hello there. We’ve got a new challenge starting today at Sparkles and it’s right in my happy place – clean & simple! I needed to replenish my stash of new baby cards, so went with the ‘baby’ theme over at CAS on Friday and the lovely blue tones at Creative Colour with Clarity’s Adorable Baby… Read More Clean and Simple at Sparkles Challenge
Hello crafty friends. After all the recent new goodies I’ve been sharing, I’m back today with one of my all-time favourite Clarity images – Tina’s floral spray. This worked well for a few current challenges, starting with the beautiful colours from Sunday Stamps. We Love Stamping have got a floral theme and the regular florists… Read More best day floral spray
Hello friends and welcome to Wednesday’s blog. I’m back in my weekly Christmas card routine (for now) with a final look at a sample I made with the new Sketchy stamp set, this time adding in the Winter Build a Wreath stamps (yes, I know I said I’d put all these away…!!) I’ve added in… Read More London Christmas
Hello crafty friends. I’m still working though my samples from Clarity’s new Sketchy stamps launched last Friday – I just love the variety of looks you can get with these landmark images. I’ve kept it very CAS today on a watercoloured notecard, picking up the shades of blue theme from Color Dare My starting point… Read More blue Liberty
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with another take on the new Sketchy stamps from Clarity and. as Paris is the City of Love, it felt only right to do an engagement card for one of my samples, which also fits the ‘anything goes’ option at Simply Clean & Simple. I dug a scrap of an… Read More Love in Paris
Hello crafty friends. Well, I missed sharing this card yesterday – we had such a busy day moving my son’s girlfriend out of her shared accommodation and it wasn’t until I sat down at 10pm that I remembered I hadn’t posted this (and by that time I’d run out of steam!) Anyway here it is… Read More Sketchy London
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