Hello crafty friends! Well, the new Japanese crane stamps from Clarity were very popular yesterday and busily flying out of the door! After yesterday’s dramatic red & black scene, I’ve gone for something softer today using our new colour palette at CAS Colours & Sketches. Joanne has given us a really interesting mix of colours… Read More CAS Colours & Sketches 557 – new colour palette
Hello crafty friends. Well, after digging back into the Clarity catalogue for the products on my shows on Friday, I’m back with a early peek at some fab new stamps that are flying in tomorrow from Clarity Crafts – a beautiful set of cranes stamps (I’ll add the link & picture once they’re live on… Read More Japanese crane
Hello again – I’m back with a second card, this time one of my demos from the 2pm show on Clarity Social TV using the lovely ‘flower word framer‘ stamp set. I dug back in the archives and found a post on Barbara Gray’s blog from 2014 using this set, which inspired my design and… Read More flower word framer
Hello crafty friends. I’ve got another of my design team samples with the new Clarity Crafts ‘Japanese floral tiles’ stamps to share with you today, this time just using the smaller stamps from the bottom of the set. These little stamps are the same three-way overlay process as the larger tiles, but I opted not… Read More just to say…
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
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