Hello crafty friends and welcome to day 2 of my 12 Days of Clarity, today with the ‘it’s a wrap heart’ stamp from Clarity‘s Craft Club back in February (#196). It’s a beautiful image so didn’t need too much adding to it and I thought it would work perfectly for a wedding card. I decided to… Read More 12 Days of Clarity 2023 – heart
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
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 crafty friends. I’m feeling very pleased with myself today having used up another piece from my stash box! This image with ClarityCrafts ‘three way treescape’ stamp set has been sat waiting to be used since early July, when I joined the Clarity community for A Moment of Clarity with Barbara Gray. I remember thinking at the time… Read More sparkly trees
Hello there! Just over a week to go – how are your Christmas preparations coming on? I feel a bit like I’m in one of those circus acts spinning lots of plates on poles (and some of them are getting a bit wobbly!!) Never mind, it will all be fine when the day arrives. I’ve started on my family… Read More Merry Christmas gnome
Hello crafty friends and welcome to another installment of what is now becoming an occasional series of dips back into Clarity‘s Craft Club. This time I’ve pulled out the ‘twirls’ stencil (#96) and made a group of thank you cards with the colours from Color Dare, which I’ll also share with Stencil Fun. I started… Read More Clarity Craft Club lookback – twirls stencil
Welcome to my crafty blog and the final one of my DT samples for ClarityCrafts new ‘summer tags and frames’ stamp set. I’ve mixed a few techniques on this one while keeping it CAS and am sharing it with TicTacToe (taking the right hand column of green, patterned paper & die cut) and Simply Clean… Read More lily frame
Welcome to my crafty blog and another Christmas card in non-traditional colours! This time it’s the holly wreath from ClarityCrafts ‘Christmas wreaths’ set, combining the colours from Color Dare, the CAS circle layout from Just Us Girls and the ‘deck the halls’ theme from Less is More. I stamped the holly wreath in ‘peacock feathers’… Read More teal wreath
Hello crafty friends! I’m still not done with Christmas cards, but decided to go with non-traditional colours on today’s ‘winter linocut – log cabin’ stamp set from ClarityCrafts, thanks to the colours at Inspire.Create, and picking up the moodboard from Peace on Earth The linocut stamp is a two-step image so I started with the… Read More peace & goodwill
Hello crafty friends. It’s time for a new challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches and Nancy has a sketch for us. It immediately made me think of three trees, so I went back to the ‘winter wishes’ set from Linda’s Christmas Compendium by Clarity Crafts. I opted for the colours from the left hand column… Read More winter trees for CAS Colours & Sketches
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