Welcome to my crafty blog. Today’s card uses several Clarity stamps, including two for the background. I haven’t used these ones much, but got inspired following Barbara Gray’s live demo last Friday evening. I based this card on two current blog challenges – the layout picks up the new sketch at CAS Colours & Sketches… Read More pink poppies
Welcome to my crafty blog. I had a great morning doing an online class with Joanne James using the ‘merriest moments’ set from Stampin’ Up! It’s a very versatile set and I have fallen in love with the hybrid embossing folder that combines with an outline die to cut out and embossed image! I’d been… Read More joyful Christmas
Welcome to my crafty blog and another Sunday delve back into Claritystamp’s new design club back catalogue. It’s a bit of a contrast from yesterday’s cards, when I was using the most recent Craft Club stamps – the butterfly on today’s card is from April 2017. I’ve taken inspiration from a couple of current blog… Read More Claritystamp new design club lookback – butterfly #126
Welcome to my second post of the day and another card using the ‘paisley’ stamp from September’s Claritystamp Craft Club. I’ve gone with another all-over background pattern, but this time have mixed it up with stamps from the ‘Holland buttons’ set. I started with a piece of Clarity’s ‘Rainbow River’ designer paper (turned to the… Read More paisley pattern
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’ve had a lovely afternoon crafting online with my sister and friend – we’re all members of Claritystamp’s Craft Club, so get together once a month to play with the latest club stamp. What I really love is that we all make very different cards despite using the same stamp.… Read More girl power
Welcome to my crafty blog. We’ve got a new theme over at The Alphabet Challenge – we’re now up to the letter N and Veronika has challenged us to make cards with ‘no layers’. I often struggle a bit with one layer cards – although I don’t use lots of embellishments, I do like to… Read More N for ‘no layers’
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’m a bit late posting today, so this will just be a quick one. I’ve used Stampin’ Up!’s ‘forever ferns’ set with the colour scheme from Color Throwdown and the layout from Freshly Made Sketches I stamped the leaves and berries from the set across the bottom corner of a… Read More you always have a way
Welcome to my crafty blog and a Christmas card today. I haven’t shared any Christmas ones for a little while, so thought I’d better crack on with a few more. This card uses Julie Hickey’s ‘oh Christmas tree’ stamp, inspired by the current challenge over at Inspired by (!) I’ve taken a bit of a… Read More oh Christmas tree!
Welcome to my crafty blog and another rare occasion when there is no stamping at all on my card! I was inspired by the theme over at Just Add Ink to use one of Claritystamp’s ‘skyscape’ dies – I went with New York which is so iconic. I started with a black 5×5 card blank… Read More new york sunrise
Welcome to my crafty blog. Today’s card uses the ‘friendship flower’ stamp set by Julie Hickey and the layout sketch from Fusion card challenge. I also took inspiration from Fusion’s photo with the red flowers (although these are clearly not poppies) and added in the elements from the diagonal on TicTacToe‘s grid – scoring, stripes… Read More red and stripes
