Hello crafty friends and welcome to Monday! I was inspired to play with the SHAC floral panel roses stamps today while watching Barbara put them through their paces on Clarity Social TV this afternoon. They come with a great A4 oval aperture stencil, which is ideal for creating focal images – so that’s exactly what… Read More SHAC floral panel roses
Hello crafty friends. Well this week’s Christmas card has posed me a bit of a challenge – as you know it’s Japan month at Clarity Crafts and oriental stamps generally aren’t Christmas themed! But you know I always like to think a bit laterally and I remembered the heron stamp (#125 from Clarity’s Craft Club… Read More Christmas heron!
Hello crafty friends. Well, I hope you’re not bored with the new ‘Japanese flowers & butterflies sampler‘ stamp set from Clarity Crafts yet, as I’ve got another card to share with you today (although I have now put them away for a little while…!) This one just uses the infill stamps from the ‘peace’ group,… Read More more Japanese butterflies
Hello everyone! It’s been a beautiful weekend here on the edge of London – so nice to see the sunshine! I decided that the beautiful palette at Creative Colour challenges and the layout at Atlantic Hearts would combine perfectly for a card with a lovely spring feel and another outing for the new ‘Japanese flowers… Read More Japanese butterfly birthday
Hello there! Lots of new stuff to share with you today – it’s the launch of the new ‘Japanese Flowers & Butterflies sampler’ set from ClarityCrafts, plus our new theme at Alphabet Challenge. We’ve now reached X in the current cycle and Dawn has given us XOXO (as in hugs & kisses). I had to… Read More X for XOXO (hugs & kisses) at Alphabet Challenge
Hello everyone. I’ve had a busy afternoon with my craft group (it’s such fun to get together with others and play), but I’ll share more of those creations on another day. For now, I want to give you a peek of some lovely new goodies coming from Clarity Crafts tomorrow courtesy of Clarity Social TV… Read More butterfly garden love
Hello there! I’ve got a couple of notecards for you today using Clarity Crafts ‘haberdashery‘ stamps from their mini hobbies collection – these little fabric samples stamps are just so sweet and perfect for smaller cards! I ran out of time on today’s 10am Clarity Social TV show to demo these properly (you can catch… Read More fabric samples notecards
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
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