Welcome to my crafty blog. Today’s card uses several Clarity stamps, including two for the background. I haven’t used these ones much, but got inspired following Barbara Gray’s live demo last Friday evening. I based this card on two current blog challenges – the layout picks up the new sketch at CAS Colours & Sketches… Read More pink poppies
Welcome to my crafty blog. We’ve got a new theme over at The Alphabet Challenge – we’re now up to the letter N and Veronika has challenged us to make cards with ‘no layers’. I often struggle a bit with one layer cards – although I don’t use lots of embellishments, I do like to… Read More N for ‘no layers’
Welcome my crafty blog. Today’s card uses one of the Claritystamp ‘floral frame’ dies, which I thought was due an outing – as you know, I generally do more stamping and don’t often use die cuts as the main focus on my card. I’ve taken the layout from this week’s CAS Colours & Sketches challenge,… Read More floral frames
Welcome to my crafty blog and the next letter in the Alphabet challenge. We’re now on to M and Melanie has asked us to include a motivational or encouraging sentiment on our cards. I’ve gone with this simple sentiment from Stampin’ Up!’s ‘lovely you’ set ( I thought this would work well as a get… Read More M for motivation/encouragement
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’m back on track with my weekly forays into Claritystamp’s new design club back catalogue, but this week I’ve had a bit of a jump forward – I dropped out of the club for a year and picked it up again at the beginning of 2017. Today’s card uses the… Read More Claritystamp new design club lookback – rose vase #123
Welcome to my crafty blog and a colourful card using Claritystamp’s ‘butterfly wreath’ stamps. I’ve got this set in both sizes (it would have been rude not to!) – this card uses the smaller A6 set. I’m playing along with this week’s CAS Colours & Sketches, which is a double challenge of colours and a… Read More butterfly wreath
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’ve been playing with Julie Hickey’s ‘birthday messages’ and ‘fresh florals’ stamps for this card, which is inspired by the challenges at CAS Colours & Sketches and Color Throwdown I’m back to one of my favourite techniques for this card – blending inks. I used Distress Oxides in ‘mowed lawn’… Read More birthday messages
Welcome to my crafty blog. I decided it was time I had another play with the ‘pansy patch’ set from Stampin’ Up! and thought the ‘plentiful plants’ set would make an ideal base for my flowers, after I’d seen the new inspiration photo from Inspired by challenge. I picked up their sketch as well for… Read More a pot of pansies
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’ve had another play with Stampin’ Up!’s ‘Artistically Inked’ stamp set, this time just using the smaller individual stamps with the sketch from CAS Colours & Sketches and the colour palette from Color Throwdown. I haven’t used any of my WOW embossing powders for a while, so thought it was… Read More birthday roses
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’ve spent the day at a flower show today and treated myself to some lovely metal poppy seed heads for my garden. They really reminded me of Claritystamp’s ‘funky foliage’ aperture die, which I haven’t used in ages so thought it was time for an outing. I started by cutting… Read More framed funky foliage
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