Hello friends. It’s Friday again and this week we have a new challenge for you at As You See It. Joanne’s given us a fab sketch to play with that’s got lots of possibilities. I decided not to go with geometric shapes, but instead pulled out the ‘riverside mountains’ masks and ‘just woodland & birds’… Read More a new sketch at As You See It challenge
Welcome to Friday and a new letter over at Alphabet Challenge! It’s my turn to choose this week and, as it’s now K, I went with kittens and cats (sneaky, eh?) It gave me another excuse to use one of my all-time favourite ClarityCrafts stamp sets – the ‘birdhouse garden’. I just love this hopeful… Read More K for kittens & cats at Alphabet Challenge
Hello friends! It’s just been declared the hottest day of the year so far in the UK, which makes the beach seem really tempting! I’m about to get into the car instead and head off to Kent for the next two days for ClarityCrafts annual summer crafting retreat, but I’ll most definitely have my shades… Read More beach vibes
Hello friends. I’m back again with a sneaky peek at some new products that ClarityCrafts are launching tomorrow (Sunday) – these fab 8×8 stripe stencils (there’s a set of plaid ones as well). I’ve kept it simple with this one (my favourite approach!), just using the stencil in the background of a masked panel, inspired… Read More fly away boy
Hello friends. Well I’m firmly back in my favourite CAS place with today’s card using ClarityCrafts ‘SHAC Peace – Japanese flowers & butterflies’ stamp set, which ash become one of my favourite sets too! Lots of inspiration for this one, with the colours from Color Hues and the summer themes from Addicted to CAS and… Read More butterfly kisses
Hello crafty friends and welcome to what will be my last post for a while – this little blog and I are taking a bit of a break for a few weeks. I thought I’d go out in style with another card using the new ‘bijou linocut’ stamps from ClarityCrafts, this time with the ‘teasels’… Read More bijou linocut teasels
Hello craft friends. I’ve got another wedding card to share with you today, using the ‘bijou dangles’ stamps and the lovely ‘doves heart’ stencil from ClarityCrafts. I’m sharing it with Just Us Girls for their stencil challenge and AAA Cards as I picked up their sketch (and I hope the team don’t think my image… Read More wedding doves
Hello again! I hope you’re not getting bored with the new ‘bijou dangles’ stamps from ClarityCrafts as I’ve still got more to show you! Today’s card pairs the wedding dangles with one of the ‘wee folk wedding’ stamps, picking up on the CAS wedding theme from AAA cards. The first step was to heat emboss… Read More a wee wedding
Hello crafty friends. Easter is getting nearer and a friend asked me to make her some cards featuring bunnies and daffodils – well, that was an easy one thanks to the new Wales framer set and ‘bunnies and moon shadow’ stamps from Clarity Crafts I took a 5×5 card blank, cut it in half for… Read More Easter bunnies
Welcome to my crafty blog and a sneak peek at some more new ClarityCrafts products that are launching on Create & Craft TV this evening – the ‘nested circle diamonds & dots doodle frame-it panel’ dies. I thought they’d be ideal for the sketch at AAA Cards, keeping it CAS for Simply Clean & Simple… Read More Half circles
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