Hello friends. I’m back with another of my demos from yesterday’s Clarity Social TV – I was using this bird tree stencil on the 2pm show.I decided to go for a colourful rainbow of birds bursting out of the grey tree – a simple technique which works for the challenges at Just Us Girls and… Read More Colourful life
Hello friends. I thought I’d share the first demo from this morning’s Clarity Social TV show where I made this fab 3D butterfly – and very unusually for me there is no inking or stamping anywhere on this little project! I simply used the large butterfly dies set, which are part of Clarity’s kaleidoscope of… Read More 3D parchment butterfly
Hello crafty friends. I’m busy gearing up for Clarity Social TV tomorrow (Friday) at 10am & 2pm, so thought I’d share a peek of one of the stamp sets I’ll be showcasing. This lovely little bouquet butterfly is part of the kaleidoscope of butterflies stamp & die collection and is fantastic for summery birthday cards.… Read More Bouquet butterfly
Hello friends and welcome to this week’s Christmas card! This time round I’ve used Pearl from the Christmas mini poppets – she’s just so sweet with her little basket of stars! As ever, I’ve managed to incorporate a few blog challenges into this one, starting with a slightly loose interpretation of the layout at Atlantic… Read More Christmas Pearl
Hello crafty friends. My goodies from the May Clarity Craft Club dropped through the door last week and I realised at that point that April’s stamp still hadn’t seen ink, so now was the time to rectify that! I’ve kept it CAS (clean & simple) on this one (you know it’s my favourite style!), picking… Read More Clarity Craft Club Spring floral round
Hello crafty friends. I’ve got another of my samples from the recent launch of Clarity’s large SHAC people stamps and this time I went with a bit of paper piecing against an inky mop-up background. I’ve picked up the ‘summer vibes’ theme from Inspire.Create and the new ‘garden’ theme at Make My Monday to pull… Read More if I had a flower…
hello crafty friends and welcome to this week’s Christmas card! I know the sun’s been shining outside, but it’s week 20 of 2025 and I’m keeping up with my personal challenge! This week’s offering, using Clarity’s nativity miniatures stamps is inspired by the nativity theme at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown and the K for Kraft… Read More Landscape nativity
Hello everyone. It’s a big weekend of football here in the UK, with the men’s FA Cup final yesterday and the women’s one today. That prompted me to start working on Father’s Day cards ready for next month – this first card uses the wee sports folk stamps from Clarity, plus their BOW-WOB (black-on-white, white-on-black)… Read More Father’s Day football
Hello again! I’m back with a second post today, this time for our new theme of ‘spots or stripes’ at As You See It Challenge thanks to my teamie Jan – there are so many possibilities with this! I’ve used an offcut of a gel press print that I found in my folder from last… Read More spots or stripes at As You See It challenge
Hello friends. I have to say Friday does seem to come round very quickly each week, but that’s OK as it means it’s nearly the weekend! Let’s focus on today’s cards first though – I’m starting the day with our new theme of C for Circle at Alphabet Challenge. I went for three circles on… Read More C for Circle at Alphabet Challenge
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