Hello again! Time for our new challenge at As You See It and it’s the speed theme – bound to get your creative pulse racing! For this, the challenge is to make a card in less than 10 minutes on the given theme – you can get everything gathered ready before you start, but your… Read More Turbo trees at As You See It challenge
Hello crafty friends. I’ve got another sample using the new ‘woodland treescape overlay‘ stencils from ClarityCrafts today – and this time I actually did overlay them! This card is about as grungy as I get (it’s still essentially CAS, just lots of inky colour), picking up the tones from AAA Colourful‘s board, the layering theme… Read More trio of trees
Hello there. Well, I’m still playing with autumnal colours, this time from AAA Colourful, but today’s card heads out to the African savannah for a tropical sunset using the elephants stamp from last month’s Clarity Craft Club, thanks to the theme at The Paper Players. Although it’s not got as much white space as I’d… Read More elephants!
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! Well, here we are at Friday and the sun has finally returned to South East England – if only for a couple of days! Coincidentally, our new theme at As You See It challenge is to fill in the blank and share your favourite beach activity – to be honest, I’m not a… Read More Fill in the blank at the beach for AYSI
Hello crafty friends. I’ve gone all American a day early today, with a card for one of my US friends who lives over here. This is another quick and easy card, just using a ClarityCrafts stencil, brushes and inks and I’ve used several challenges to inspire the final design! Festive Friday are celebrating 4th July… Read More happy 4th July
Welcome to my crafty blog and a sneaky peek at some more goodies from Clarity Crafts that have been resized – Barbara will be launching them on Create & Craft TV tomorrow (Friday) at 9am & 1pm. These are some of Barb’s linocut designs and I thought we’d start with the poppies set. I’ve managed… Read More bijou linocut poppies
Welcome to my crafty blog and another card using the new Japanese floral two-way overlay stamps from ClarityCrafts, this time just using the small frame from one of the panel sets. The tones pick up on the new challenge at AAA Colourful and the ‘weather’ theme at Simply Clean & Simple (you know I love… Read More simple things
Hello crafty friends. Today’s card is another of my samples from Barbara’s TV shows yesterday, this time using one of my all-time favourite stamps, the A6 ‘Tina’s floral spray’ set. I went with the spotlight technique, taking inspiration from the photo at AAA Colourful; I’m also going to share it with Just Add Ink as… Read More floral spotlight
Welcome to my crafty blog and a look at the new ‘Abstract Layout 5’ die from ClarityCrafts that was released yesterday. It works in so many ways, but I’ve kept it very simple on this one, just using a rainbow of scrap paper pieces in the apertures. It nicely fits the challenges at AAA Colourful… Read More rainbow apertures
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