Happy Easter everyone! I’ve had a lovely day with family, and then caught a few minutes this evening to make this card with the next in my journey back through Claritystamp’s Craft Club. This lovely script stamp is from March 2020 – I’ve used it a few times before now, as it makes great birthday… Read More Claritystamp craft club lookback – someone I love
Welcome to my crafty blog and a plethora of flowers today, thanks to Julie Hickey’s ‘daisy buttons’ and ‘floral buttons’ stamp sets. I’ve used the colours from Color Throwdown and the layout from Freshly Made Sketches for this card, teamed with the theme of ‘watercolouring’ from Inkspirational. I started by brushing ‘stormy sky’ Distress Oxide… Read More special day
Welcome to my crafty blog and the next in my weekly re-visit of Claritystamp’s craft club. Today it’s the ‘with love banner’ from Februay 2020 – I have to confess that I really wasn’t very taken with this at the time, but I think I’ve now found a good way to use it. I started… Read More Claritystamp craft club lookback – with love banner
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’ve had a lovely afternoon, crafting virtually with my sister – we are both in Claritystamp’s Craft Club so got busy with our March goodies. I love how we can both use the same stamp and yet come up with very different cards – read on for the one I… Read More keep growing, keep going
Hello crafty friends. Today’s card uses the ‘sweet daisies’ stamp set from Julie Hickey Designs, together with a little trick with a banner die! I picked up the challenge photo over at Inkspirational, and paired it with the colours from Color Hues I started with a square of white card and stamped the daisies onto… Read More pink daisies
Welcome to my crafty blog and my weekly dip back into Claritystamp’s craft club. Today I’ve used the ‘abstract texture’ stamp from January 2020 for the landscape on this card. I started with a 5×7 card blank and laid the ‘hills’ mask across it, before repeat stamping the ‘abstract texture’ across the bottom of the… Read More Claritystamp craft club lookback – abstract texture
Hello crafty friends. I’ve been playing with my Julie Hickey Designs ‘dinky dies’ again this evening, having been inspired by a great class this afternoon with Marion Emberson of Sugar & Spice Crafts. It was so good to see everyone in group again. Today’s card picks up a couple fo current challenges: the colours from… Read More floral birthday wishes
Hello crafty friends. It’s time for another letter at the Alphabet Challenge – we’re up to Z and Caz has challenged us to use ‘zigzags’ on our creations. I’ve got a few patterned stencils from Claritystamp that I don’t really use very much, and remembered this chevron design that I thought would be perfect. I… Read More Z is for zigzags
Welcome to my crafty blog and another of the new stamps from Julie Hickey Designs – the ‘garden blooms’. I thought of these when I saw the inspiration photo and colours from The Card Concept (especially the pattern on the wellies), and teamed that with the sketch from Fusion (which I rotated) and the theme… Read More spring garden
Welcome to my crafty blog, and another one of the new stamps from Julie Hickey Designs – the ‘daisy blooms’. This is such a pretty image – just what I needed for the new theme at The Paper Players and it worked beautifully with the colours from Just Us Girls I strated with a piece… Read More birthday blooms
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