Kon-nichiwa! Clarity Crafts have declared March to be Japan month, celebrating all their fabulous oriental designs, but for now I’m still playing with their new ‘Japanese flowers & butterflies‘ sampler set that launched yesterday. I’ve pulled a couple of challenges together on this one – the butterflies and blooms pick up two of TripleB‘s elements… Read More bijou butterfly circles
I’m back with a second offering today. thanks to our new ‘use a punch’ theme at As You See It Challenge – and it’s the dreaded speed one, which means your card has to be made in under 10 minutes! This does force me to to be organised and plan my card before starting –… Read More speedy punching at As You See It challenge
Hello there! Lots of new stuff to share with you today – it’s the launch of the new ‘Japanese Flowers & Butterflies sampler’ set from ClarityCrafts, plus our new theme at Alphabet Challenge. We’ve now reached X in the current cycle and Dawn has given us XOXO (as in hugs & kisses). I had to… Read More X for XOXO (hugs & kisses) at Alphabet Challenge
Hello everyone. I’ve had a busy afternoon with my craft group (it’s such fun to get together with others and play), but I’ll share more of those creations on another day. For now, I want to give you a peek of some lovely new goodies coming from Clarity Crafts tomorrow courtesy of Clarity Social TV… Read More butterfly garden love
Hello crafty friends and welcome to this week’s Christmas card! I still had the ‘cats & dogs silhouette miniatures‘ stamps on my desk from last week’s shows, so thought I’d put them to use in partnership with the trees from ‘Linda’s winter wishes‘. I’ve manage to combine a few challenges into this card – the… Read More Christmas cat
Welcome to Tuesday and our new challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches and Nancy has given us a delicious palette to play with! I’ve kept it petite on this one, just using a couple of the stamps from Clarity’s ‘mini hobbies – corners & flourishes‘ set; these are such pretty little floral sprays and my… Read More CAS Colours & Sketches 555 – spring colours
Hello everyone – I’ve got the last of my samples from Friday’s Clarity Social TV shows to share with you today, using the lovely ‘mini hobbies – baking‘ stamp set. I created the border with Clarity’s ‘vertical stripes box‘ stencil, which fits pefectly with the theme at Just Us Girls – read on for the… Read More Mum’s cake
Hello crafty friends. I’ve got another of the demos that I’d planned for Friday’s Clarity Social TV shows, but ran out of time to work through. It was inspired by one of the cards made by my design team buddy Sonia, using the ‘joy framer‘ stamp set – I loved all the blue tones. It… Read More joy framer
Hello crafty friends – I’m back with a second post today thanks to Christmas (or not) BINGO and our new grid that runs until 15th April. This is another of the demos that I showcased on the 2pm Clarity Social TV show yesterday, with the ‘thank you framer‘ A5 stamp set. My design for this… Read More thank you at Christmas (or not) BINGO challenge
Hello everyone. My word, the two shows on Clarity Social TV yesterday just flew past and, as happens to me every time, I didn’t manage to get through all the demos I’d prepped! Here’s the second card from my 10am show, which I ran through quickly and is also here as my design team card… Read More gardening for Love to Craft challenge
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