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. Well, I’ve really gone for it with a couple of ClarityCrafts stencils on this card for the our new masculine theme at Sparkles Challenge! Eileen Godwin on the Clarity design team does amazing things with stencils and I’ve taken a little inspiration from her blending techniques for this one, which I’m also… Read More one for the boys at Sparkles Challenge
Hello crafty friends. We’ve got a new theme over at Alphabet Challenge for you – we’ve reached H and Helen has opted for Holiday. It can be summer or Christmas – I’ve got out of synch with my Christmas cards since being away, so this gave me a good reason to get another one in… Read More H for Holiday at Alphabet Challenge
Hello there. I’m back with another silhouette stamp set from ClarityCrafts, this time it’s ‘meadowdance’. I just love the joy in these dancing children – they’re ready for the school holidays, methinks! I was inspired for this one by the theme over at The Paper Players – the stamps definitely say ‘summer fun’ to me!… Read More summer fun
Welcome to Friday’s blog – nearly time for the weekend! Before we get there, though, we’ve got a new challenge for you over at As You See It and it’s a colour palette that I’ve chosen for you! And I just had to use the ‘town’ three-way overlay stamp set from ClarityCrafts, given the inspiration… Read More colourful houses at As You See It
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
Hello everyone! I’m back at my craft desk after a fabulous month away travelling in Canada & Alaska with friends! I’m busy getting back into the swing of normal life and decided to start back with my inks and the latest Craft Club stamp from ClarityCrafts. There’s lots of blog challenges to catch up with,… Read More back in business!
Hello there! I’m starting today with a card using the new ‘bijou linocut’ stamps from ClarityCrafts that Barbara is launching on Create & Craft TV today at 9am & 1pm. I decided to go with a traditional linocut style on this one, showcasing one of the fab background sets together with the teasels. I started… Read More walk on the wild side
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
Hello friends and welcome to our new challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches! It’s a colour scheme this time round, and perfect for the new ‘dippy toe lady’ stamp from ClarityCrafts. I started by creating a rectangular frame on the front of a 5×5 card blank using an embedder. The one that was the right… Read More CAS Colours & Sketches 536 – colours
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