Hello there. I’m back with the latest challenge from As You See It – it’s a theme one this time and I decided it was a good opportunity to share our favourite craft items. We’ve all got those essentials (whether big or small) that we use the most on our creations and for me it’s… Read More my favourite craft item for AYSI (and a pixie poppet!)
Hello crafty friends! ClarityCrafts have got a very timely offer on their ‘Merry Little Christmas Quotes’ stamps this week as we all start to ramp up our seasonal card making, so I thought I’d give mine a run out, paired with the bobble hat from ‘Jim’s Christmas jumper accessories’ set. I went for a rather… Read More Christmas hat
Welcome to October! We’ve got a new colour palette from Laura for you to play with over at CAS Colours & Sketches and it’s got a lovely autumnal feel. I decided to combine one of the new ‘leafy overlay’ stencils from ClarityCrafts, with the little leaves stamp from the ‘birch trees’ set and one of… Read More CAS Colours & Sketches 546 – autumn tones
Hello everyone! I’m delighted to have been invited along as guest designer for the new challenge at Time Out, where we have this fabulous quote from Van Gogh for inspiration. I’ve used the ‘SHAC autumn & winter mandala rings’ stamps from ClarityCrafts to create this little autumnal scene, picking up the moodboard from Hand Stamped… Read More Guest Designer at Time Out – autumn
Hello there! I’ve got another of my favourite stamp sets to share with you today – the ‘SHAC Love Japanese flowers & butterflies’, which I’ve combined with one of my favourite colour schemes, the pink & blue from Color Hues and the theme from Addicted to CAS This is another of Clarity’s two-way overlay sets,… Read More just a butterfly note
Hello friends. I’m back with another of my demos from Saturday’s shows, this time with the ‘lilies’ stamp from ClarityCrafts new Linda’s Florals collection and the colours from Color Dare (picking up the pink, blue & green). I’ve again used one of the vase stencils (Vases 1 this time), but used heat embossing to make… Read More vase of lilies
Hello friends. We’re on to our next letter at Alphabet Challenge and Billie has opted for M for Masculine. Lots of potential here, but I’ve headed back to the new ‘just wheels & wings silhouette framer’ stamps from ClarityCrafts and the scooter image for my brother-in-law’s birthday card, which is why I’m also going to… Read More M for masculine at Alphabet Challenge
Hello crafty friends. I’ve revisited ClarityCrafts ‘birch trees’ stamp set for today’s card, picking up a few of the prompts from Festive Friday (clean & simple, card, stamps & a ‘for you’ sentiment – I think the blessing counts on that one!). As it’s a CAS style, I’m also going to share it with Simply… Read More birch tree blessings
Hello crafty friends. After yesterday’s sunflower, I’ve stepped firmly into cooler days today with this card as my DT offering for our new autumn theme at Sparkles Challenges using ClarityCrafts‘ ‘SHAC leafy framer’ stamps. The colours at Color Throwdown were just perfect for this and I used one of the ‘quote’ stamps to pick up… Read More Autumn at Sparkles Challenge
Hello crafty friends. Well it’s the weekend again and the sun is shining! There are a few sunflower related challenge themes out there so I’ve combined Double D, Triple B and Inspired by into today’s card using the ‘make art not war sunflower’ stamp set from ClarityCrafts. I started with a small square of stencil… Read More Sunflower day
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