Hello there. Here’s another of my DT samples from Saturday’s ClarityCrafts – today I’ve got the ‘just for you floral panel’ stamps, which I didn’t have time to demo on either of the TV shows. I started with a piece of the New England Fall designer paper, cut a mat using the ‘dots frame-it’ panel dies,… Read More just writing to say…
Welcome to my crafty blog and the new theme of U for Under Something at Alphabet Challenge, which Melanie has challenged us with. Having spent far too long rummaging through my stash looking for inspiration, I settled on one of the ‘wee folk’ stamps from ClarityCrafts – she’s walking under the trees with her dog. The colours… Read More U for Under Something at Alphabet Challenge
Happy New Year everyone! I’m starting 2024 with a design team card for the new challenge at Love to Craft and, as always, the theme is ‘anything goes’. I’ve been trying to clear out some of my stash box of part finished pieces and found this die cut using ClarityCrafts ‘art nouveau tulips’ aperture die, which I… Read More art nouveau tulips for Love to Craft 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 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. I’m back with a look at another of the mini mandala square dies from ClarityCrafts, this time set 1. I decided to simply use the middle die from the set as a frame for my stamped image – it’s a perfect fit for one of ‘Linda’s Advent Treasures’ stamps. I kept it very simple… Read More mini mandala squares set 1
Welcome to my crafty blog and an early look at one of my design team samples with ClarityCrafts mini mandala dies that will be featuring on Create & Craft TV tomorrow (Thursday) I kept it very simple with this one and let the dies do all the work as they’re so pretty! I started by cutting… Read More mini mandala squares set 3
Hello again! Today’s card showcases the ‘christmas deer’ aperture round die, another goodie that’s currently in ClarityCrafts‘ Gray Friday sale. I thought it would work well with the red & gold scheme from Color Hues, together with the themes from Time Out and The Holly and Ivy, and the top row (family critters, die cut… Read More red deer
Hello crafty friends and welcome to my second post today – this time with our new challenge at As You See It which is a recipe devised for us by Jane and perfect for Christmas or celebration cards. I’ll therefore also be sharing this one with Merry Little Christmas challenge The key thing about our… Read More As You See It challenge – Christmas recipe
Hello crafty friends. We’ve got more new goodies from ClarityCrafts today and this card features the fab ‘bamboo two-way overlay’ stamp set. I wanted to keep it pretty simple (no surprise there!) to reflect the ‘zen’ quality in the stamp I’ve used again today from the small ‘Japanese sentiments’ set. I started with a square… Read More bamboo spotlight
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