Welcome to my crafty blog. Today’s card uses another one of the stamps from Julie Hickey’s gorgeous ‘floral foliage’ set. I love the double outline on these leaves, which makes them great for embossing. I took inspiration for the design from this week’s layout over at Freshly Made Sketches – I tried to push my… Read More you are amazing
Welcome to my crafty blog. Today;s card features one of the new ‘florals for you’ stamps by Julie Hickey. I love the clean lines of Julie’s stamps, and her recent online class gave me lots of ideas for using them. I’ve based this card on two current blog challenges – the layout from Freshly Made… Read More tulips – a favourite spring flower
Welcome to my crafty blog. Here’s the card I had planned to share yesterday – I missed blogging for the first time since Christmas as I had a day out meeting friends, which was so lovely. You don’t realise how much you have missed things until you can go back and do them again. Today’s… Read More butterfly floral frame
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’ve been playing with Stampin’ Up!’s ‘art gallery’ set again – I do really like these flowers, especially this little spray. I think this set will definitely be a keeper! I’ve taken inspiration for today’s card from three of this week’s challenges: the layout reflects the sketch over at Freshly… Read More I can do all things…
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’m back in my comfortable place with today’s card and some stamping and ink blending, after yesterday’s adventure into vintage. I love this ‘butterfly tree’ from Claritystamp, and have used one of my new words stickers from them as well. The layout for today uses this week’s design at Freshly… Read More surround yourself with colour
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’ve made this card for a friend who’s going through a difficult time at work, and I wanted something to cheer her up. I recently treated myself to some new stamps from Claritystamp, the ‘Holland and buttons’ set, which includes these lovely tulips. They immediately came to mind when I… Read More tulips for you
Welcome to my crafty blog. It felt appropriate to share a sympathy card today, on a sombre day in the UK following the death of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. He was renowned for not liking ‘fuss’, so here’s a very clean and simple card using stamps and dies from Julie Hickey Designs. I took… Read More fresh floral sympathy
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’m back with my second post today, and it’s my second die cut card this week as well! These are such great little dies from Claritystamp – they’re called ‘quarterettes’ as they come in a set of 4 and are each 1/4 of the size of Clarity’s regular dies. I… Read More comfort!
Welcome to my crafty blog. Well I’m now up to January 2014 in my journey back through Claritystamp’s new design club, with this forest of pine trees. I’ve actually used it on two cards , as I decided it would work really well with the new ‘riverside landscape & reflection’ masks, as well as on… Read More Clarity new design club lookback – pine trees #87
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’m back with some favourite florals again today, this time using ‘Tina’s wildflower spray’ from Claritystamp. There are several different floral sprays in this range, and they’re all lovely. I’ll be sharing this card over at a couple of this week’s blog challenges – the layout is from the design… Read More wildflower spray
Deborah's Crafty Blog 