Hello crafty friends. I’ve swapped back to a current Stampin’ Up! set that I haven’t had out so far this year, the ‘framed florets’. I thought of it as soon as I saw the inspiration picture at TGIF challenges – I decided to use the layout in the picture but added in the shades from… Read More framed florets birthday
Welcome to my crafty blog and day 8 of my 12 Days of Clarity challenge, which brings us to the ‘to have and hold’ stamp set from August’s Craft Club. I love this cake stamp – it would work really well for birthdays but I’ve stuck with a wedding theme for today’s card. I started,… Read More 12 Days of Clarity 2022 – to have and hold
Hello crafty friends. Today’s card pulls a few blog challenges together, using an old nativity scene stamp from Clarity Crafts, together with one of their ‘frame-it’ dies. I took the layout from Freshly Made Sketches and added in the new colours from Color Hues, together with a dash of inspiration from Hand Stamped Sentiments photo.… Read More nativity joy to the world
Welcome to my crafty blog and another Christmas card, this time using Julie Hickey Designs ‘Christmas foilables’ die cuts as the focus. I took the layout from the sketch at Atlantic Hearts, the colours from Color Hues and the right hand column of embellishment/no sentiment/shiny from TicTacToe I started with two of the die cuts,… Read More Christmas foilables
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
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’m delighted to have been invited to guest design with TicTacToe challenge again! As it happens, this week’s grid had the perfect ingredients for a card I was asked at make for a friend, so I was very happy to see the top row which I’ve incorprated into this offering.… Read More floral birthday wreath
Hello crafty friends. Today’s card mainly uses the ‘hues of happiness’ paper from Stampin’ Up picking up on the colours from Color Hues and the layout from CAS Colours & Sketches. I’m also sharing it over at Happy Little Stampers for their ‘anything goes’ dies challenge. This was fairly quick to make, once I’d figured… Read More curvy birthday
Hello crafty friends. It’s Sunday again, so here’s the next in my journey back through Claritystamp’s Craft Club, with the ‘birthday wreath’ from July 2021. I need to make a couple of anniversary cards for friends, so thought this would give me a good start – there are lots of little hearts tucked into the… Read More Claritystamp craft club lookback – birthday wreath
Welcome to my crafty blog and the new theme over at the Alphabet Challenge. We’re now on to J and Caz has gone with ‘juvenile’, which means relating to young people. I need some more new baby cards, so thought that would fit the bill. I do love this Noah’s Ark image from the retired… Read More J for Juvenile
Hello crafty friends. I’ve had a lovely afternoon crafting online with my sister – we were both playing with our latest goodies from Claritystamp’s craft club last month. These two cards were made with the ‘thinking of you panels’ stamps – a great set to make borders & frames with. I’ve used the new colours… Read More read & dream
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