Welcome to the final one of my design team sample card for the new Art Nouveau collection stencils from ClarityCrafts. Today it’s the turn of the ‘Christmas Stars’ stencil – I’m going to share this one with the challenges at Happy Little Stampers and The Holly and Ivy (for obvious reasons!) I needed to make… Read More star stencil
Hello crafty friends. I’ll still working through all the samples I made for ClarityCrafts Art Nouveau launch at the weekend (can you tell I liked them…?!) Today picks up one of the smaller ‘bijou art nouveau’ stamp set, which has the whole collection of designs in a smaller form (great value!) I haven’t posted any… Read More art nouveau holly
Hello there. It might seem odd that I’m sharing another Christmas card today, in the middle of July, but ’tis the season when crafters start to produce their cards! Add to that the new theme of ‘Christmas in July’ over at Sparkles Challenge and this is the result, which I’m also going to share with… Read More Sparkles challenge – Christmas in July
The weeks are just going by so fast and it’s already time for our new theme at Alphabet Challenge. Today we’ve reached H and Billie has opted for ‘humour’ on our cards. I do love these cheeky gnomes from ClarityCrafts and took the opportunity to get another Christmas card under my belt, assisted by the… Read More H for humour at Alphabet Challenge
Hello crafty friends. Barbara Gray is back on Create & Craft TV this afternoon with some more Claritystamp Christmas goodies, so I thought I’d share a card made using the Bijou Joy to the World Bauble stamp set. I’m going to share it as a second offering with both Christmas Craft Creations and Inkspirational challenges.… Read More bijou bauble – joy to the world
Hello again, crafty friends! A second card to share with you today, again featuring the new SHAC bauble – Merry Christmas stamp set from ClarityCrafts. I’m loving these versatile sets and this time have used one of the baubles as the star for the new sketch at As You See It challenge (although I did… Read More As You See It challenge sketch
Hello again! As promised, I’m back with another of my design team cards using the new SHAC bauble stamps from ClarityCrafts – this one features the snowflakes from the ‘Merry Christmas’ set. This time I started by blending ink onto a 6×6 card blank, starting from the fold side. I used ‘chipped sapphire’ at the… Read More SHAC bauble – snowflake sky
Welcome to my crafty blog and a bit of an exciting day! It’s the launch of new sets of Christmas stamps from ClarityCrafts on Create & Craft TV and a first airing for my design team samples, so I thought I’d share one with you! I started with a piece of Clarity’s ‘Northern Lights’ designer… Read More SHAC bauble – Merry Christmas
You may well wonder what I’m doing sharing a Christmas card on what’s been the hottest weekend of the year in the UK so far! Well, the ‘noel aperture’ (#34 from October 2021) is the next die in my trip back into Clarity’s craft club, so it just had to be done! Helpfully, the current… Read More Clarity craft club lookback – noel aperture die
Welcome to the new theme at Alphabet Challenge! This time it’s Z for Zodiac, for which the card should be inspired by one of the signs of the Zodiac. I went with Virgo, which had made me think of the ‘madonna window’ die from ClarityCrafts. I don’t know about you, but I always resolve to… Read More Z for Zodiac
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