Hello crafty friends. The sun’s still shining here (although the temperature has thankfully dropped back down to the seasonal norm after the recent heatwaves) and we’re celebrating ‘summer days’ with our new theme at Sparkles Challenges. I pulled out another piece of the fab backdrop prints from Clarity and once again just added a few… Read More summer days at Sparkles 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 time for a new challenge over at CAS Colours & Sketches and I’m hosting for August so got to choose our new palette! I’ve gone with some bright summery shades this time – perfect for this time of year. I decided to use them with ClarityCrafts sycamore leaf mask (part of a… Read More CAS Colours & Sketches 542 – colours
Hello crafty friends! I’m back in my happy place today, with a bit of blending & stamping on this card using one of my all-time favourite stamp sets – ClarityCrafts’ ‘birdhouse garden’. I decided to work with the colours from Color Hues and the layout from Atlantic Hearts (the team there are always very forgiving… Read More birdhouse garden
Hello crafty friends. I’ve been feeling a bit better today, so spent a therapeutic couple of hours at my craft desk (obviously, I’m still not feeling up to doing the housework…!) As it’s Sunday, I picked up the next set of dies from Clarity’s Craft Club, this time the ‘brick wall with cats & dogs’… Read More Clarity craft club lookback – brick wall with cats & dogs dies
Hello crafty friends. Well, here we are at the start of another week and the sun’s still shining here in the UK. I decided to use another of my favourite Claritystamp sets today – the ‘birdhouse garden’. I took the layout from the sketch over at Global Design Project and the colours from TGIF, then… Read More summer garden
Hello crsfty friends. I’m back in my happy place today with this CAS card using one of my favourite sets from Claritystamp – the ‘birdhouse garden’. I immediately thought of the fab little cat when I saw the ‘feline’ theme from Addicted to CAS. He also fits Just Us Girls‘ word week, ‘lucky’, which is… Read More lucky to know you
Welcome to my crafty blog and our new theme at the Alphabet Challenge. This time it’s the letter F, and Lynda has opted for ‘furry friends’ as the subject. This ‘birdhouse garden’ set from Claritystamp is one of my all-time favourites and I thought it was about time I got it out again. I’ve actually… Read More furry friends…?
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’ve decided it’s time I started using up some of the inky backgrounds that I create by mopping up spare ink from my craft mat. Today’s card is the first of several over the next few days. I’ve used one of my all-time favourite stamp sets – the ‘birdhouse garden’… Read More hope
Welcome to my crafty blog. Today’s card uses a background from my stash, that I made by mopping up ink from my blending mat. Like all crafters I can’t bear to waste anything, so always mop up the leftover ink after I’ve done some watercolouring. It’s really useful to have a stash of these to… Read More Kiss of the sun
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