Hello crafty friends. It’s day 5 of my 12 Dies of Clarity challenge so today I have the ‘patterned circles’ die from May’s Clarity Craft Club. I really liked this when it arrived, but have to confess I hadn’t used it so far (how many crafters say that…?!). I was only going to make one… Read More 12 dies of Clarity day 5 – patterned circles
Hello crafty friends. Welcome to day 4 of my 12 Dies of Clarity personal challenge, and today it’s the turn of the ‘frilly embellishments’ dies designed by Linda Williams. These would obviously work well with parchment, but I’ve used them with cardstock to make sentiment toppers for my cards. For the first card, I attached… Read More 12 Dies of Clarity day 4 – frilly embellishments
Hello crafty friends and welcome to day 3 of my 12 Dies of Clarity personal challenge. Today, I’m using the ‘special friend floral frame’ from March’s Craft Club to make a couple of cards. I started by cutting the die in white card and snipped the sentiment out of the centre. I’d put ‘Stick It’… Read More 12 Dies of Clarity day 3 – floral frame
Hello crafty friends. Welcome to day 2 of my 12 Dies of Clarity and the ‘floral forest aperture’ from February. I decided I would use up a few of my small inky mop-up backgrounds that have built up during the year (although these three barely make a dent in the large pile I’ve accumulated!) I… Read More 12 Dies of Clarity – day 2 floral forest aperture
Hello crafty friends. I’ve decided to repeat a personal challenge I set myself last Christmas, when I worked through the year’s stamps from Clarity’s monthly craft club over the 12 days of Christmas. This year I’m doing it with the monthly dies, so welcome to day 1 of the ’12 Dies of Clarity’. Today it’s… Read More 12 dies of Clarity – room with a view
Happy Christmas everyone! Well, we’ve survived our first 24 hours of a 7 day isolation period & my eldest son & I are still testing negative for Covid. We managed to do socially distanced present opening this morning with my youngest son – we all had masks on, he sat at the other side of… Read More the midnight clear
Well it’s Christmas Eve and only one sleep to go to the big day! Our plans have taken bit of a unexpected turn today, however. We should have been heading to celebrate my father-in-law’s 96th birthday this evening (you can see the card I made him here), so in line with best practice we did… Read More A merry Christmas tree
Hello crafty friends. I decided to play with another of my new purchases today – this is the ginko stamp set that Claritystamp released last month & I finally succumbed to! My friends will also be able to confirm that I’ve gone with my favourite colour palette on this one as well, inspired by the… Read More ginko biloba
Hello crafty friends. I’m sharing a card today using Stampin’ Up!’s ‘delicate dahlias’ set that was a freebie as part of the last Sale-a-bration. I have to confess that I haven’t used this set very much, but I do like two-step stamps with outlines and infills. I’ve picked up the theme of ‘inspiration’ (for inspiration!)… Read More you inspire me
Hello crafty friends. I’m back today with a birthday card for my father-in-law, who’ll be turning 96 on Friday. He doesn’t get out of the house anymore, so I thought he might appreciate a landscape on his birthday. This one uses the colours from Inspire.Create – I thought they were ideal for a masculine card.… Read More snowy hills
