Hello crafty friends. The sun’s still shining here (although the temperature has thankfully dropped back down to the seasonal norm after the recent heatwaves) and we’re celebrating ‘summer days’ with our new theme at Sparkles Challenges. I pulled out another piece of the fab backdrop prints from Clarity and once again just added a few… Read More summer days at Sparkles Challenge
Hello crafty friends. I’ve got a busy DT day today, starting with our new theme at Alphabet Challenge, where Tee has given us G for Girlfriend. It was a great opportunity to get the Hippie Chicks back for another outing, this time with a little paper piecing and added inspiration from TicTacToe (CAS, summer colours… Read More G for Girlfriend at Alphabet Challenge
Hello there. I’m back with card 2 for today, and am delighted that CAS on Friday invited me along as Guest Designer for their new Summer theme challenge. It’s a prime time of year for weddings, so that sorted the reason behind my card – and the sharp-eyed amongst you will have spotted that it’s… Read More Summer at CAS on Friday challenge
Hello crafty friends. It’s less than two weeks now until Father’s Day, so I thought I’d better crack on with sharing another of my creations using Clarity’s sport frame stamp set – this time with a cricketer ready for the English summer season. Helpfully, Festive Friday have got Father’s Day as their theme this time… Read More Fathers day cricket
Hello crafty friends. The iconic Barbara Gray has been doing new product shows on the first Sunday of the month for over 18 years and tomorrow is no exception! After the success of her online collage workshops last year (which I absolutely loved!), she’s back on Clarity Social TV from 3-5pm tomorrow with a fantastic… Read More landscape collage die
Hello crafty friends and welcome to a beautiful sunny Monday! I’ve got a lovely spring scene to share with you today, using one of the new bijou layout montage stamps from Clarity – did you catch Barbara on YouTube yesterday demonstrating with these? They’re perfect for creating little landscapes, so I went with a few… Read More bijou montage landscape
Hello there. We’ve reached the middle of March and it’s time for our new theme at Sparkles Challenges and it’s all about Easter! The daffodils are now out in my garden so I reached for the stamp that’s in the ‘Wales Framer’ set, with the new ‘potted plants alphabet’ stamps working perfectly for an acrostic… Read More Easter at Sparkles Challenge
Hello friends and welcome to this week’s Christmas card – six weeks in and still on track! Barbara was showcasing Clarity‘s personalised frame stamps at the weekend, (which are perfect for putting your name on the back of your creations) and I thought I’d make use of one of the co-ordinating frame sets for today’s… Read More woodland frames Christmas card
Hello crafty friends. I’ve gone for an old favourite image today that I haven’t used in ages – Clarity Crafts‘ ‘treescape‘ stamps. Although they’re a three-way overlay set, I’ve just used one of the stamps on this set, picking up the winter themes from AAA Birthday and Four Seasons, – the background works as well… Read More winter treescape
Hello everyone! I’m back with the first peek of the year at some brand new stamps being launched on ClarityCrafts social TV tomorrow – you can watch on YouTube or via the Facebook link on their website. So, Barbara & Paul will be live from 3pm to 5pm bringing us a fantastic quartet of ‘build-a-wreath’… Read More Build-a-wreath for Christmas
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