Welcome to my crafty blog and another card for a friend who’s going through a difficult time with their health at the moment. I’ve gone with Claritystamp’s ‘funky foliage’ die for the centrepiece on this one, picking up on the themes from a couple of challenges. Festive Friday are marking International Dance Day – there… Read More funky foliage wishes
Hello crafty friends. Today’s card is a birthday card for my niece, who’s off to Paris with her sister this week to celebrate. I thought the colours from Just Add Ink were perfect for a French themed card, and the sketch from Fusion Card Challenge (which I rotated) worked well with Claritystamp’s Paris aperture die.… Read More Paris or die!
Hello there and welcome to another crafty blog. I’ve gone back to Claritystamp’s ‘riverside landscape’ masks for this card, which picks up the themes at Time Out and Festive Friday. You may not immediately think of an outdoor scene for ‘happiness is… a warm puppy’, but I’ve decided this is a beautiful warm summer’s evening… Read More puppy happiness
Welcome to my crafty blog and another card made from die cuts, this time with added paper piecing. These little felines on Claritystamp’s ‘cats on a comfy chair’ die just have such attitude – I love the one in the corner peeping in! They are so like our two cats, Tom & Benji, who are… Read More comfy cats
Welcome to my crafty blog and a birthday card using the new stencil and star dies from Julie` Hickey Designs. I did an online class with Julie recently, which gave me lots of inspiration with these. For this card, I’ve taken the colour palette from Color Throwdown and the theme from Time Out, who are… Read More happy birthday star
Welcome to my crafty blog, and another card ready for Mother’s Day next month. This time I’ve used Claritystamp’s ‘leafy swirl’ aperture die, with the colours from this week’s Color Throwdown. I took the layout from the current sketch at Freshly Made Sketches, plus one of my favourite techniques (blending brushes) thanks to TGIF challenges… Read More leafy swirl
Hello crafty friends. Well it’s Sunday again so here’s the next in my trip back through Claritystamp’s Craft Club. This ‘buddleia’ stamp was from March 2018 – these are such great plants for the garden as they attract the butterflies (although it’s a bit early in the year just now for them to be flowering,… Read More Claritystamp craft club lookback – buddleia #137
Hello crafty friends. Just a very quick post tonight after a long day of meetings and another one in a while! Here’s a card using Claritystamp’s ‘primrose’ three way overlay stamp set, that I thought worked well for the new challenges at Color Throwdown and Freshly Made Sketches I started with a piece of card… Read More spring primroses
Hello crafty friends. Here we are on day 10 of my ’12 Dies of Clarity’ challenge and I’m making some 2022 Christmas cards already! This lovely ‘noel aperture’ die is from the October Craft Club, and I did use it to make some of my 2021 cards. It’s very easy to produce quick cards by… Read More 12 Dies of Clarity day 10 – noel aperture
Happy Christmas everyone! Well, we’ve survived our first 24 hours of a 7 day isolation period & my eldest son & I are still testing negative for Covid. We managed to do socially distanced present opening this morning with my youngest son – we all had masks on, he sat at the other side of… Read More the midnight clear
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