Hello crafty friends. I’ve got another new challenge to share with you today – this time it’s our next theme of ‘autumn leaves & pumpkins’ at Sparkles Challenges. Well, I knew exactly where I was going with my DT card for this one, and that was straight back to Clarity’s Autumn Build a Wreath stamp… Read More autumn leaves & pumpkins at Sparkles Challenge
Hello everyone. I did say yesterday that I wasn’t quite done with Christmas cards yet, so here’s one I made a while ago using the star window die from ClarityCrafts with their brick wall stencil. I do love the rich effect you get from gilding flakes – perfect for Christmas cards. The stencilled surround picks… Read More star window die
Hello friends. I got struck down by a migraine yesterday, hence the lack of a post, but I’m going to make up for it with two today! This first offering uses one of the fantastic ‘Twas the night‘ stamps from ClarityCrafts that Barbara Gray is showcasing over on their YouTube channel today. I’ve used the… Read More hang the stockings
Hello again. I’m back with a card that I didn’t manage to demo on today’s shows using the ‘star window’ stencil from ClarityCrafts 7×7 Christmas Windows set. (You can catch up on the 10am & 2pm shows on Clarity’s YouTube channel here) Now the theme of this card is probabaky about as far away from… Read More star window stencil
Hello there! I’ve got an early peek at some new friends arriving tomorrow from ClarityCrafts – more of their poppets characters, this time sprites and pixies. So let me introduce Mandy, one of the sprites! Barbara will be showcasing Mandy and her friends tomorrow from 3pm to 5pm, but this time it will be online… Read More Poppet sprite – Mandy
Hello friends. TIme for a new challenge at Love to Craft – as always the theme is ‘anything goes’. The summer days are now here (Wimbledon starts today), so I’ve gone for a garden window view on my card, using one of ClarityCrafts ‘floral walls’ with their decorative panel window dies. I cut the arched… Read More garden window for Love to Craft challenge
Hello again! It’s day 9 of my 12 Days of Clarity, so here’s a card using the ‘sunflower panel’ stamps from ClarityCrafts‘ September Craft Club. I’ve combined the sketch from Global Design Project with the new colours from Color Throwdown on this one. The first step was to cut a piece of stencil card to fit a… Read More 12 Days of Clarity 2023 – September
Hello there! I’m back with some more strips of scrap paper on today’s card, which will be heading off to an friend of mine from New York who always throws a 4th of July party for her American friends in London. I thought I’d have a second punt at Just Add Ink‘s ‘choose two’ challenge,… Read More stripes & stars
Hello there. I needed a card for a friend who’s about to have surgery, and remembered ClarityCrafts’ poppies stencil, which hasn’t seen any ink for some time! The Paper Players have got a clean & simple one-layer challenge this week (right up my street!), which I teamed with the lovely palette from Creative Colour Challenges.… Read More stencilled poppies
Hello crafty friends. I’m on a real roll now with Christmas cards and today it’s the turn of Clarity’s ‘gnomes and billboards’ to take centre stage. I’ve combined a few challenges into this one: I based the layout on Stesha’s card at Global Design Project, using the colours from Color Hues and obviously included the… Read More Christmas gnomes
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