Hello crafty friends! I’m back with another card featuring Clarity‘s ‘calligraphy girls’ stamps, this time sitting her on a watercolour background and picking up the palette from Creative Colour Challenges with the layout from Freshly Made Sketches This story starts back last summer at the Clarity annual retreat, when we spent a happy session making… Read More she’s got style
Hello crafty friends. Easter is getting nearer and a friend asked me to make her some cards featuring bunnies and daffodils – well, that was an easy one thanks to the new Wales framer set and ‘bunnies and moon shadow’ stamps from Clarity Crafts I took a 5×5 card blank, cut it in half for… Read More Easter bunnies
Hello crafty friends. I’ve got another Easter card to share with you today, inspired by the challenges at Global Design Project, Creative Colour and Atlantic Hearts and featuring the ‘celebrate your day flowers’ from ClarityCrafts I decided to rotate the sketch from AHSC, so that I could use a cross as the basis for my… Read More blessings at Easter
Welcome back to my little blog! Today’s card uses one of the ‘floral friends three-way overlay’ stamp sets from ClarityCrafts – this is ‘daisy and friends’. I picked up the shades from Creative Colour Challenges together with the layout from Freshly Made Sketches I started with the background, cutting two circles with one of the ‘nested circle… Read More floral friends – daisy
Hello again crafty friends – can you believe it’s the weekend already?! Life is spinning by at speed. Well, you’ve seen from my posts this week that I’m a fan of the new Retro stamps from ClarityCrafts – so much so, in fact, that I invested in the ‘hearts & leaves’ set that I didn’t get in… Read More retro hearts
Hello crafty friends. It’s time for a new theme at Alphabet Challenge and Lynda has chosen T for Texture. I’ve picked up another of the Clarity Craft Club stencils (this one is from April) and the colours from Creative Colour Challenges. I started by attaching the stencil to a small square of card, so that the design… Read More T for Texture at Alphabet Challenge
Hello again – I’m back today with the last of the samples I made for ClarityCrafts TV shows this week using the mini mandala square dies. This time I opted to use set 2 to create an aperture on the front of a card, picking up the tones from Creative Colour Challenges. I’m also going to share… Read More mini mandala squares set 2
Hello there! Just over a week to go – how are your Christmas preparations coming on? I feel a bit like I’m in one of those circus acts spinning lots of plates on poles (and some of them are getting a bit wobbly!!) Never mind, it will all be fine when the day arrives. I’ve started on my family… Read More Merry Christmas gnome
Hello again! I’m still powering through Christmas cards – this one features the ‘twiggy bauble’, a new design from ClarityCrafts that’s been around for a couple of weeks. Barbara Gray drew it and is donating all the proceeds from it’s sales over the next few weeks to Children in Need (it launched on the night… Read More twiggy bauble
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
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