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
Hello crafty friends. We’re back with a new challenge at Sparkles Challenges and Francesca has given us ‘January blues’ – rather appropriate, although to be honest we’ve had more grey than blue weather round here recently! Now, you know I love an inky background and I found the perfect one in my stash, which I’ve… Read More January blues at Sparkles Challenge
Hello there. Clarity Crafts have launched a great new initiative to help folk who’ve lost a bit of their crafting mojo, focusing on mini makes – keeping it small and beautiful. They’ve set up a new Facebook page for everyone to share their creations too – Clarity Crafts Mini Makes & ATCs. I bought the… Read More woodland art blocks
Hello friends. I really hope you’re not fed up with the new ‘build a wreath’ stamps from ClarityCrafts as I’ve still got more creations to share with you! This one is for the first Alphabet Challenge of 2025, which is T for Thank You courtesy of Caz and it once again features the ‘autumn‘ set… Read More T for thank you at Alphabet Challenge
Hello there. I’ve got a rather joyful card to share with you today, which I made for my new grandson who arrived last Saturday! I couldn’t resist using the fab little teddy from Clarity‘s Craft Club a few years ago (he’s #141) together with a few of my favourite Clarity products – the latest ‘autumn… Read More Xander’s bear
Hello there and welcome to our first CAS Colours & Sketches challenge of 2025! Rachel is at the helm and she’s given us this lovely palette, which I thought would be just perfect for the new autumn ‘build-a-wreath’ stamps from ClarityCrafts. This time round, though, I’ve created a little scene rather than a wreath and… Read More CAS Colours & Sketches 551 – colours
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