Hello crafty friends. I’ve been tidying up my folder from this week’s Clarity summer retreat. We spent the time making lots of different backgrounds with acrylic paints, so I have a fab pile of different techniques to add to my stash. I needed a quick birthday card for a friend, so decided to make use… Read More painted background
Hello cratfy friends. It’s only just over a month to go to this year’s ClarityCrafts summer retreats, so I thought I’d better use up some more of the backgrounds we made last year – I’ve got half a folder of them still! I do love ‘Barbara’s star flower spray’ stamp set too (this one is… Read More star flower spray
Hello there and welcome to my second post today, for the new challenge at As You See It . I do seem to be having a bit of a back & white theme today! I found this theme very difficult as I don’t ‘celebrate’ Halloween – I think there’s enough evil around in the world… Read More moonlight for As You See It challenge
Hello crafty friends. It’s Friday and we’ve got the next letter in our Alphabet Challenge – we’re now up to ‘P’ and Caz has challenged us to include patterned paper on out cards. I’ve gone for more of an abstract look on mine, rather than a regular pattern, with a piece of the ‘Amazonia’ paper… Read More P for patterned paper
Welcome to my crafty blog. I had a lovely afternoon playing with alcohol inks, stencils and a Gelli Press, making a load of background prints today inspired by the recent blog tutorial from Barbara Gray over at Claritystamp. You can check out the tutorial, which has step by step instructions here – http://www.barbaragrayblog.com/ I got… Read More Seeing the Positives and Negatives
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’m sharing a birthday card I made suing the Claritystamp ‘country animals’ stencil. It’s so nice to be able to get out and about again on my days off. We’re hearing that wildlife has been doing well during lockdown – I had a lovely walk in part of Epping Forest… Read More Woodland animals
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