Hello there and welcome to day 3 of my 2023 12 Days of Clarity lookback through my Clarity Craft Club stamps – at least that was the plan until I discovered that I couldn’t find 4 of them, which had arrived while I was away travelling this year, or shortly after! I’ve searched high & low,… Read More 12 Days of Clarity 2023 – March
Hello crafty friends – how are your Christmas preparations getting on? Not long to go now – I’m onto present wrapping this evening. Before then, I’ve got another set of ClarityCrafts‘ square mini mandala dies to share with you and this one picks up several of the tones from Color Dare‘s ‘bold and bright’ challenge. I cut… Read More mini mandala squares set 4
Hello crafty friends. Here I am with today’s card, which uses the same stamps (ClarityCrafts ‘winter tags & frames’) as yesterday’s but this time stepped up a bit further! This one fits the challenges at Inspire.Create and Peace on Earth, plus a second offering for The Paper Players I’m back to traditional colours today with… Read More pentagon frame wreath
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with the last challenge of the year from CAS Colours & Sketches and my final one as their guest designer. This time, the challenge is to choose any previous one from 2023 (they are all over on their blog) and make is a seasonal card. I decided to go with… Read More hanging frame for CAS Colours & Sketches
Hello crafty friends and welcome to another look at the new ‘summer tags & frames’ stamps from ClarityCrafts, this time with the hexagon sunflowers frame. I’ve picked up the watercolour challenge from Happy Little Stampers – you’ll see where in a minute if you haven’t spotted it already! The first step was to stamp the… Read More sunflower wishes
Hello there! Well it’s launch day for the new ‘seasonal tags & frames’ stamps from ClarityCrafts and I’ve used one of the ‘summer’ set for a birthday card, picking up the layout from Atlantic Hearts and the ‘anything goes’ theme from Seize the Birthday. I started by stamping the sentiment first in the centre of… Read More birthday rose frame
Welcome to Sunday and an overdue dip back into Clarity’s Craft Club stencils – today it’s the ‘heart of hearts’ stencil (#95). I decided to go with the lovely colours from Global Design Project and the layout from Freshly Made Sketches to make a bright birthday card for Seize the Birthday I attached the stencil… Read More Clarity Craft Club lookback – heart of hearts stencil
Welcome to my crafty blog and a birthday card for a change! I’ve made good use of the ‘build-a-scene’ collection from ClarityCrafts with the ‘meadow flowers’ stamps and the masks, taking the palette from Creative Colour Challenges and the layout from Atlantic Hearts challenge. I’m also sharing it with Seize the Birthday – they’ve listed… Read More birthday scenes
Welcome to my crafty blog and a first outing for the second stamp in ClarityCrafts‘ ‘Twas the night before Christmas’ set (all originally drawn by Barbara Gray herself!). I thought of this when I saw the themes at Sparkles Christmas challenge, Global Design Project and Peace on Earth I started by stamping the image onto… Read More The stockings were hung…
Welcome to my crafty blog and another look at the new ‘bamboo’ stamp set from ClarityCrafts, this time for our latest challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches. It’s the fifth Tuesday of the month, so this time we have a double challenge using colours and a sketch. This is a really interesting sketch, not the… Read More bamboo life for CAS Colours & Sketches
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