Hello friends – I’m back with a couple of new events for you today. Our new theme of C for Circles at Alphabet Challenge has coincided with the release of the new Dotted Butterflies stamps – one of Clarity’s Products of the Month for June. I decided to start with one of my favourite embedder… Read More C for Circles at Alphabet Challenge
Hello crafty friends. Well we’re officially in a heatwave here – and the May temperature records could be broken tomorrow! Apparently it’s hotter here than in the Seychelles! It’s the perfect time to stay indoors and craft and I took the opportunity to play with the April Craft Club stencil, featuring just one of the… Read More Stencilled friend
And now for something completely different! Let me introduce the new Hopi Indian stamps to you. Barbara drew these following a trip to the US last year – the Hopi people live in North East Arizona where she was travelling and she’ll no doubt have stories about them and the inspiration for these images on… Read More Hopi Indian lady
Hello craft friends. I’ve got another look at the SHAC Dancing Girls stamps for you today, with my happy dancer pirouetting on one of the Statement Sentiments. My starting point, however, was with the background – I trimmed one of the Painterly Soft Panoramic Landscape cards to a square and then cut a frame into… Read More Dancing girl
Hello there. I’m back with a second card, this time for our new challenge at As You See It where Heather has given us ‘beachcombing’ as the theme. Now, I had to think very hard about this as I had nothing that immediately sprang to mind from my stash (although I think there is a… Read More Beachcombing with As You See It Challenge #372
And I’m back for the final time today, this time with our new theme at Alphabet Challenge – we’re back at the beginning of the alphabet once more and it’s ‘in the air’. I opted to play with the Build a Bloom stamps again – on the launch show for these, Barbara mentioned that they… Read More A for In The Air at Alphabet Challenge
Hello crafty friends. It’s Tuesday and time for our new theme at CAS Colours & Sketches, where I’ve picked a palette that looks perfect for spring themed cards! It gave me the opportunity for an early peek at a new set of stamps that Barbara will be launching on HobbyMaker TV tomorrow (Wednesday) at 1pm… Read More Colourful bouquet for CAS Colours & Sketches #584
Hello everyone! Today sees the start of our new challenge at As You See It and this time round it’s our recipe, which I put together! There are five elements in the recipe and we need you to feature all of them on your card – although how you do that is down to your… Read More Pink recipe at As You See It challenge #371
Hello crafty friends and welcome to Monday! I’m dropping in with one of the new Mini Landscape stamp sets from Clarity that Barbara & Paul launched this afternoon (catch the show here) – this card uses the Waterside set. Now the clue’s in the title of these stamps – they’re designed for small toppers on… Read More mini landscape montage
Hello again! I grabbed the opportunity this afternoon to have another play with the new Build a Bloom stamps – they are pretty irresistible! This time I went with set 2 to create a rose on one of my alcohol ink backgrounds from Barbara’s online workshop (it’s still available to purchase), pulling in a fairy… Read More Smell the roses!
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