Welcome to my crafty blog and a Christmas card with no ink or stamping on it (not my usual style!) I thought of Clarity’s Santa round aperture die when I saw the theme at The Paper Players and it works really well for the sketch at Atlantic Hearts. Inkspirational‘s theme of paper piecing was also… Read More paper pieced Santa
Hello crafty friends. Well this week’s dip back into Clarity’s craft club took me to the leafy aperture die from July 2020. I decided to do a bit of trimming on the die cut to create a frame – I first cut it into a square of SU’s ‘evening evergreen’ card and then used my… Read More Clarity craft club lookback – leafy aperture die
Welcome to my crafty blog and the next letter from Alphabet Challenge. We’ve now reached R and Veronika has chosen ‘reduce’ as the theme, i.e. make a CAS (clean and simple) card. You all know that’s completely in my happy place, so here’s another Christmas card using the ‘merriest moments’ set from Stampin’ Up! I’ve… Read More R for reduce (CAS) at Alphabet Challenge
Hello crafty friends. Today’s card pulls a few blog challenges together, using an old nativity scene stamp from Clarity Crafts, together with one of their ‘frame-it’ dies. I took the layout from Freshly Made Sketches and added in the new colours from Color Hues, together with a dash of inspiration from Hand Stamped Sentiments photo.… Read More nativity joy to the world
Hello there. Well it’s Sunday again so I’ve dipped back into Clarity’s craft club, this time for the ‘just a little note’ die from June 2020. I thought I’d take a break from Christmas cards and make a start on a few thank you notes (yes, I am hoping for lots of lovely presents!) I… Read More Clarity craft club lookback – just a little note
Hello crafty friends. Today’s Christmas card uses Stampin’ Up!’s ‘merriest moments’ set again – a friend asked me to make this one for her daughter. I took the layout from Freshly Made Sketches (I rotated it to landscape format), and am also going to share it with Can You Handle The Pressure, Inspire.Create (anything goes)… Read More magic of Christmas
Welcome to my crafty blog and another Christmas card, this time using Julie Hickey Designs ‘Christmas foilables’ die cuts as the focus. I took the layout from the sketch at Atlantic Hearts, the colours from Color Hues and the right hand column of embellishment/no sentiment/shiny from TicTacToe I started with two of the die cuts,… Read More Christmas foilables
Hello crafty friends. I’m still busy with Christmas cards – today’s uses the ‘spruced up’ set from Stampin’ Up! I’ve taken the layout from CAS Colours & Sketches, the colours from Hand Stamped Sentiments and the Christmas tree theme from The Card Concept I started with the abstract background stamp from ‘artistically inked’, which I… Read More spruced up trees
Welcome to my crafty blog. Clarity’s ‘letterbox gnomes’ have come out to play again today, inspired by a couple of challenges. I’ve taken the sketch from Fusion (which I flipped) and picked up the gnome sitting on the shelf in their photo. TGIF challenges have also got a gnome theme this week, and I reflected… Read More joyful gnomes
Hello crafty friends. Well, I’m continuing the poinsettia theme today, but without using a poinsettia stamp or die on this card! My Sunday dip back into Clarity’s craft club reached May 2020, which was a mandala die. When I looked at it, I thought I could turn it into a poinsettia style design and get… Read More Clarity Craft Club lookback – mandala die
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