Hello again. I’m back with a second post today, this time for our new challenge at Love to Craft which, as always, is ‘anything goes’. I’ve got the next page in my 2026 calendar to share with you, celebrating March with one of the fabulous new bird stamps and co-ordinating stencils that Barbara will be… Read More March calendar love bird for Love to Craft challenge
Good morning everyone and welcome to March! I’m kicking off the day with another of Clarity’s new Products of the Month – a pair of Floral Heart stencils and I’ve used the rose one on today’s card. It’s also time for our new challenge at Christmas (or not) BINGO, so we’ve got a fun new… Read More Heart of roses for Christmas (or not) BINGO challenge #18
Hello crafty friends. We’ve got a new theme to inspire you over at As You See It Challenge and Heather has tempted our sweet tooth with ‘candy’ (or sweets if you’re in the UK!) I spotted Clarity’s ‘sweets’ stencil, which is appropriate for this time of year as the design looks like Love Hearts –… Read More Candy at As You See It Challenge 366
Hello friends. I’ve got another of my demos from yesterday afternoon’s Clarity Social TV to share today, this time using Linda’s Floral Steps stamp set. These images really made me think of a little rustic French cottage and I decided to make a fancy fold card to make the most of the steps! I started… Read More floral steps
Good morning everyone! I’ve got a busy day on this little blog, with two more cards to come after this one – and I’ve not made a good start by forgetting to schedule this first one on time for the start of Alphabet Challenge‘s new theme! What’s even worse is that I’m hosting the challenge… Read More E for Embossing at Alphabet Challenge
Hello friends. I’m back with another of my demos from yesterday’s Clarity Social TV – I was using this bird tree stencil on the 2pm show.I decided to go for a colourful rainbow of birds bursting out of the grey tree – a simple technique which works for the challenges at Just Us Girls and… Read More Colourful life
Hello crafty friends. I spent a happy couple of hours this morning catching up with Barbara’s Gray’s show on Clarity Social TV from yesterday, using these brilliant new collage dies. Now, my question on this card is – when is a die not used for cutting? Well, when you use it with a shim to… Read More landscape in black and white
Hello crafty friends. We’re back with a new challenge at Sparkles Challenges and Francesca has given us ‘January blues’ – rather appropriate, although to be honest we’ve had more grey than blue weather round here recently! Now, you know I love an inky background and I found the perfect one in my stash, which I’ve… Read More January blues at Sparkles Challenge
Hello friends. I decided to play today with one of my favourite stencils, which I haven’t used for quite a while – welcome to ClarityCrafts‘ ‘woodland birds‘. I fired it into action inspired by a couple of this week’s challenges – Just Add Ink and Just Us Girls – both of which have stencils as… Read More woodland birds
Hello crafty friends! I’ve got a double delight for you today – the new challenge at As You See It (which is a recipe) and some more fab new stamps from ClarityCrafts in the form of an A4 sampler set featuring smaller versions of all their recent silhouette stamps. Obviously I couldn’t resist combining the… Read More a tag recipe at As You See It challenge
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