Hello crafty friends. I’m back today with a birthday card for my father-in-law, who’ll be turning 96 on Friday. He doesn’t get out of the house anymore, so I thought he might appreciate a landscape on his birthday. This one uses the colours from Inspire.Create – I thought they were ideal for a masculine card.… Read More snowy hills
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with another one of Julie Hickey’s stamps today – this time the half sunflower from her ‘be happy’ set. It’s such a great image and so easy to use. I’ve taken inspiration from a couple of challenges for this one – the colour palette is from Color Throwdown and the… Read More pink sunflower
Hello crafty friends. It’s time for our next theme at Alphabet Challenge – we’re up to R and Debbie has opted for cards and projects that are red. That’s such a great choice of colour for this time of year! I recently did a very CAS card using Julie Hickey’s ‘poinsettia’ stamp & die, so… Read More R is for red
Hello crafty friends and welcome to another Christmas card! It must be that time of year…! I’ve used another one of Claritystamp’s stained glass windows, but this time the small stamp rather than the larger die. I’ve had this one for quite a long time – it always feels good when I use older stamps… Read More star window
Hello crafty friends – I’m back with another card using the beautiful ‘all about the girls’ set designed by Hazel Eaton for Julie Hickey Designs (I did tell you there would be more of these!) Today’s card uses the layout from Freshly Made Sketches and the colour palette from Color Throwdown. I started by cutting… Read More happy birthday circles
Hello crafty friends and welcome to the next installment in my journey back through Clarity’s new design club. This week it’s the ‘seedlings’ stamp from June 2017 with the layout from Freshly Made Sketches. I’ve also taken inspiration from The Card Concept – I’ve used their colour palette for the CAS (clean and simple) card,… Read More Claritystamp new design club lookback – seedlings #128
Hello crafty friends. I’ve been having a quick play this evening after another day spent online in a work meeting – it’s so nice to step away from it all and just create something. Barbara Gray from Claritystamp was on The Craft Store today – I’ve just been watching her on catch-up and got inspired… Read More What is this life…
Welcome to my crafty blog and our new theme over at Alphabet Challenge. We’re now at the letter O, and Helen has chosen ‘outdoors’. I’ve gone with the stamp from Claritystamp’s craft club in April – love this little treescape. I started by cutting a square into a piece of copy paper with a die… Read More O for outdoors
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’d intended to share this card yesterday evening but life got in the way once again so here it is now! I’ve been playing with the linocut texture background stamps from Claritystamp thanks to the recent online session with Barbara Gray – I’m very taken with the effect they give… Read More good luck cat
Welcome to my crafty blog and the next in my trip back through the Claritystamp new design club stamps. Today it’s the ‘floral tree’ from May 2017 (which also works upside down as a hanging basket). I’ve done some repeat stamping for this card, and used the colours from the current challenge at Inspire.Create I… Read More Claritystamp new design club lookback – floral tree #127
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