Welcome to the weekend! My new ‘just woodland and birds’ stamps arrived from ClarityCrafts during the week, so I got them out to play with! I decided to create a sunset using the palette from Color Throwdown and the layout from Sketch Saturday (which I flipped to the mirror image) I started with a 5×5… Read More woodland thoughts
Hello friends and welcome to a new challenge at As You See It! Heather has given us a great recipe to work with and I opted to feature one of my favourite ClarityCrafts stencils – the ‘treescape’. I went with the sketch from Atlantic Hearts and will also share it with Can You Handle The… Read More forest recipe for As You See It challenge 329
Hello everyone! Welcome to August, so what better to start the month with than a Christmas card!! In my defence, Barbara is hosting a Clarity craftalong this evening over on the Clarity Worldwide Facebook page, so ‘Jayne’s winter scenes Christmas sampler’ A4 set was already sitting on my desk in anticipation and I thought I’d… Read More winter scenes sampler
Hello there! I’m back today with another of my all-time favourite ClarityCraftsstamps – ‘Tina’s floral spray’, which I’ve paired with one of the new ‘celebrations’ sentiments. I decided to put an alternative take on the sketch at Hand Stamped Sentiments, turning it into a one layer card with the colours from Inspire.Create and the birthday… Read More one layer floral spray
Hello there and welcome to Monday! The sun’s still shining here, so I decided to play with some of my favourite honey bees today, inspired by the summer theme at TGIF Challenges using ClarityCrafts ‘Just butterflies & bees’ stamps and the layout from Just Add Ink. I’ve been tidying up some part finished projects and… Read More bee birthday
Well here we are at the last Monday in July – maybe I’m getting old, but this year just seems to be flying by! I’ve got a birthday card to share with you today using the ‘three blooms’ stencil from ClarityCrafts, and picking up the bright summer tones from Color Throwdown, the sketch from The… Read More three blooms
Hello there. It’s a beautiful sunny Sunday here and I’ve been catching a bit of the Olympics coverage, but this card is in homage to another major news item from this week – the devastating wildfire in Jasper, Alberta, in the Canadian Rockies. We were there only last month, and it’s dreadful to think that… Read More woodland sympathy
Hello crafty friends. Sadly, I need to replenish my stocks of sympathy cards, so have started with one featuring the ‘SHAC japonica’ stamps from ClarityCrafts using the sketch from Atlantic Hearts. I decided to rotate the sketch to a vertical orientation and stamped the large border and japonica onto a piece of kraft card. I… Read More japonica sympathy
Hello friends. Barbara’s busy on TV today launching the next in ClarityCrafts abstract layout dies and partner stamps series, so I’ve taken a lookback to the die and ‘Just butterflies & bees’ stamps from April. I’ve pulled a couple of challenges together for this one, with the palette from Creative Colour and the butterflies &… Read More butterfly layout
Hello there and welcome to our new theme at Alphabet Challenge! Caz is in charge this time and she’s offered us a moodboard of colour to inspire us for the letter I. Well it struck me as just perfect for one of my favourite ClarityCrafts images – the SHAC ‘peace – Japanese flowers & butterflies’… Read More I for Inspired by Colour at Alphabet Challenge
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