Hello crafty friends – hope you’ve had a good weekend and a gentle start to your week this Monday! It was a busy weekend at Clarity Towers – the team pulled together and got this weekend’s live launch show for the new Sprites and Pixies Poppets online whilst Create & Craft TV are not broadcasting… Read More sprite poppet – Maeve
Hello there! ClarityCrafts TV day today, so I’ve been at the Create & Craft studios just outside Peterborough. I thought I’d share a card that I demo’d across the two shows (we ran out of time to finish it on the first one) that was inspired by a design my team-mate Sonia Goodliff made. I’ve… Read More agapanthus
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 everyone! July is rolling along very fast – we’re halfway through already and back with a new sketch challenge from CAS Colours & Sketches. I’ve taken the opportunity to bag another Christmas card, not least because ClarityCrafts have got their fab little penguin letterboxes collection as the current Alphabet of the Month offer. I… Read More CAS Colours & Sketches 541 – penguin sketch
Hello crafty friends. Well, it’s time for our new challenge at Sparkles and I’m a happy bunny as Caz has chosen ‘clean & simple’ as the theme! I made this one a little while ago when ClarityCrafts released ‘Barbara’s loving heart’ stamp set – just perfect for weddings! I started with a square of stencil… Read More wedding day hearts
Hello again! I hope you’re not getting bored with the new ‘bijou dangles’ stamps from ClarityCrafts as I’ve still got more to show you! Today’s card pairs the wedding dangles with one of the ‘wee folk wedding’ stamps, picking up on the CAS wedding theme from AAA cards. The first step was to heat emboss… Read More a wee wedding
Welcome to my crafty blog and my guest designer offering for the next challenge at Seize the Birthday, where the ‘topping’ is to produce a coordinating tag & card. I thought the new ‘nested circle foliage doodle frame-it panel’ dies that ClarityCrafts launched this week would be ideal, especially for making the tag. I’m also… Read More Seize the Birthday – tag and card combo
Hello there. I’m back with another look at the new ‘nested circles diamond & dots doodle frame-it panels’ dies from ClarityCrafts. I was inspired by various cards I’ve seen on social media using layered circle die cuts – this is a great way to use up offcuts of paper or card. I first cut three… Read More layered circles
Welcome to my crafty blog and a sneak peek at some more new ClarityCrafts products that are launching on Create & Craft TV this evening – the ‘nested circle diamonds & dots doodle frame-it panel’ dies. I thought they’d be ideal for the sketch at AAA Cards, keeping it CAS for Simply Clean & Simple… Read More Half circles
Welcome to my crafty blog at the start of another week! Today’s card uses another of the Botanicals 2-way overlay stamp sets from ClarityCrafts – this time the ‘casablanca lilies & wild privet’, using the colours from ColorDare I took a bit of a different approach to this one, sponging ‘wilted violet’, ‘stormy sky’ &… Read More wild privet
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