Hello crafty friends – lots going on today! ClarityCrafts‘ Barbara Gray was back on screen today to launch the fabulous ‘butterflies & bees’ stamp set (together with a new die and collage papers), plus we’ve got a new challenge at As You See It! Now the bees are right in my happy place (‘Deborah’ means… Read More my least favourite colour for As You See It
Hello crafty friends! I’ve got an early peek for you at some more new stamps from ClarityCrafts being released tomorrow (Friday) – the ‘Just butterflies and bees’ set. This card focuses on the butterflies in the set and picks up on a couple of challenges – the butterfly background echos the inspiration pic at TGIF… Read More spread your wings and fly
Hello friends and welcome to another look at the new ‘bijou dangles’ stamps from ClarityCrafts, taking a slightly different approach thanks to some inspiration from Tina Morris, one of my Clarity teamies. This is such a great design, just using several of the dangles stamps, without the larger words. I started with half a 6×6… Read More flower dangles
Hello everyone and welcome to Sunday! I’ve got another sample to share with you from yesterday’s shows, this time using the new ‘bijou birthday dangles’ stamp set from ClarityCrafts and a little inky play! It won’t be a great surprise to see that I’m going to share this with Seize the Birthday, but it’s also… Read More bijou birthday dangles
Hello there! I’m back again with a second post ahead of tonight’s Moment of Clarity with Barbara Gray over on the Clarity Worldwide Facebook page. These ‘loving heart’ stamps are just so pretty and once again I’ve let them speak for themselves in my favourite CAS style. So for this one I started with an… Read More heart of love
Welcome to my crafty blog and another of the floral sprays stamps from ClarityCrafts, this time the ‘ginkgo leaves’. It’s another beautifully detailed image with infill stamps, although this time I went with watercolouring the image. But first, I took half a 5×5 card blank (my new favourite way to make my toppers) and created… Read More ginkgo leaves
Welcome to my crafty blog! I’ve gone for another take on the new geisha stamps from ClarityCrafts, this time pairing it with one of the ‘enso’ stamps. Enso is a sacred symbol from Zen Buddhism; it means ‘circle’ and is traditionally drawn with a single brushstroke as a meditative practice in letting go of the… Read More sunset geisha
Hello there! It’s time for our new challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches and Rachel’s given us a palette of lovely soft tones. I haven’t played with Clarity‘s ‘butterfly wreath’ A6 set for some time so thought it was due an outing, not least thanks to the inspo list at Festive Friday (I went with… Read More CAS Colours & Sketches 534 – colours
It’s Good Friday today, a day of sombre reflection for Christians as we remember Jesus’ crucifixion, so it seemed appropriate to go with a thoughtful card using our new sketch at As You See It. I’ve gone back to one of the floral panel stamps from ClarityCrafts, pairing it with the palette from Color Hues… Read More always in my thoughts for As You See It
Hello there! Welcome to my crafty blog and a new challenge over at Seize the Birthday – sadly, it’s my last with them as guest designer. I’ve had a blast and I’ll be back playing along from next month. Our ‘topping’ this time (you can opt for ‘anything goes’) is spring florals and I decided… Read More Seize the Birthday – spring floral
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