Hello everyone and welcome to the first of today’s cards (there’s another one coming later). Our new theme at Alphabet Challenge is W for Wings and I didn’t need to think too hard to decide to play again with Clarity’s landscape masks, but this time used a couple of the co-ordinating stamp sets. I’ve also… Read More W for wings at Alphabet Challenge
Hello friends. I’ve got a bright spring-like card for you today, using the ‘KISS Brighten Your Day Flowers’ from Clarity Crafts – I must admit I’m ready for the seasons to change after the recent cold spell (we’re promised warmer weather by the weekend…) I managed to incorporate several challenges into this one starting with… Read More KISS birthday flowers
Hello everyone. I’ve got a bit of a poignant card to share today, that’s gone to my vicar whose father passed away earlier this week. I opted to use Clarity‘s ‘floral delights – thinking of you’ stamp set for this one, inspired by the sketch at TGIF Challenges and the tones from Color Dare, with… Read More floral delights – thinking of you
Hello there! It’s Day 2 of the Clarity Crafts Members’ Half Price sale, which always proves very popular. Barbara & Paul have been showcasing some of the design team samples – yesterday they were looking at the fabulous Poppets designs, which inspired me to get Maeve (one of the Sprites collection) out for a play.… Read More Maeve
Hello friends. I need to make some more new baby cards for boys (I think some of my friends have bought my stock for my new grandson!), so turned to Clarity Crafts‘ ‘adorable baby‘ stamp set inspired by a few current challenges. The layout is from Freshly Made Sketches, the colours from AAA Cards and… Read More It’s a boy
Hello friends and welcome to this week’s Christmas card – six weeks in and still on track! Barbara was showcasing Clarity‘s personalised frame stamps at the weekend, (which are perfect for putting your name on the back of your creations) and I thought I’d make use of one of the co-ordinating frame sets for today’s… Read More woodland frames Christmas card
Hello friends. Bit of a late post today after a busy day of work meetings, but I wanted to just share with you the final one of my demo cards from last Friday’s shows, this time using the ‘hearty crescent moon‘ stamp set. I started by brayering ‘kitsch flamingo’ and ‘broken china’ Distress Oxides onto… Read More hearty crescent moon
Hello crafty friends! I thought I’d share another of Clarity Crafts‘s KISS collection of flowers stamps today, this time going with the ‘celebrate your day‘ A7 set. I thought the fab little floral image would repeat well on a card front for the sketch from Hand Stamped Sentiments together with the fab colours from Color… Read More flowers with love
Hello there! It’s time for this month’s sketch challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches and Rachel’s design gave me a good excuse (like I needed one!) to crack open another of the new ‘build a wreath’ stamp sets from Clarity Crafts. The ‘spring‘ set arrived in my delivery box last week, together with a brilliant… Read More CAS Colours & Sketches 552 – January sketch
Hello everyone – Sunday again and another cold day in the UK. Despite that, though, I saw a couple of bluetits in my garden this week – they may be an early sign of spring! That prompted me to get Clarity Crafts‘ ‘garden birds & cherry blossom‘ stamps out – I haven’t played with these… Read More trio of bluetits
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