Good morning friends and welcome to May! A sympathy card probably isn’t the best way to start the month, but I thought this layout worked well for one after I’d pulled together the elements from column I on our new challenge board at Christmas (or not) BINGO. It gave me another excuse to play with… Read More sympathy at Christmas (or not) BINGO challenge
Hello there! It’s time for this month’s sketch challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches and Rachel’s design gave me a good excuse (like I needed one!) to crack open another of the new ‘build a wreath’ stamp sets from Clarity Crafts. The ‘spring‘ set arrived in my delivery box last week, together with a brilliant… Read More CAS Colours & Sketches 552 – January sketch
Hello again! I’m back with a second card as the celebrations have started for ClarityCrafts 31st birthday weekend! Barbara & Paul are on Create & Craft TV with several shows through until Sunday afternoon, bringing us fab new products and a few older favourites! I’ve used the flowers from the ‘special day sentiments’ set (it… Read More happy birthday Clarity!
Hello there. It’s a beautiful sunny Sunday here and I’ve been catching a bit of the Olympics coverage, but this card is in homage to another major news item from this week – the devastating wildfire in Jasper, Alberta, in the Canadian Rockies. We were there only last month, and it’s dreadful to think that… Read More woodland sympathy
Hello again! Following on from yesterday’s card, today’s features the April stencil from ClarityCrafts – it’s a lovely meadow frame. I’m very late posting today as I’ve been busy with design team samples for Clarity’s TV shows next week, not helped by a viral infection which is making me feel rather rough! I’ve used the… Read More meadow frame stencil
Hello there. It’s Mother’s Day here in the UK, so I’m sharing one of my favourite stamp images for all the mums out there who do such an amazing job for their families! I love ‘Tina’s floral spray’ from ClarityCrafts, and I kept this one with a soft feel using the palette from Color Throwdown… Read More with love
Hello there! I finally got round to playing with the stencil from Clarity‘s September Craft Club, inspired by the photo and colours at AAA Cards and a final offering for the gratitude theme of the quote at Time Out Nothing too complicated on this one today! I simply laid the stencil across the corner of… Read More swirl round stencil
Hello crafty friends. Today, I’m having a first play with the latest stamp from ClarityCrafts Craft Club – this month it’s a sunflower panel image. I thought it would work for the layout at Freshly Made Sketches together with the colours from Hand Stamped Sentiments. So my first step was to stamp the sunflower panel… Read More sunflower panel
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with one of my favourite ClarityCrafts stamps today – ‘Tina’s floral spray’. I’ve wound up with an autumnal feel on this card as I picked up the palette from Color Throwdown and the layout from Freshly Made Sketches I started with a piece of the Amazonia designer paper, which had… Read More autumn floral spray
Deborah's Crafty Blog 