Hello crafty friends. Here’s another look at one of the new Japanese floral two-way overlay stamps from ClarityCrafts – this time I’ve paired the ‘joy crescent’ with the butterflies from the Japanese ‘peace’ flowers set. I started by stamping the outline floral circle from onto half a 6×6 card blank using black Archival ink. I… Read More Floral sky
Well I’m back with a second card today as it’s time for our new challenge at As You See It. The fearsome speed challenge has come round again and it was my turn to choose the theme, so I went with ‘spring flowers’ to give everyone plenty of scope! My mum’s favourite flowers were daffodils,… Read More speedy spring flowers for As You See It
Hello again. I’m delighted to be back with my second card as the ‘surprise party guest’ for Seize the Birthday – this time the task is to use red as the main colour on our cards. I took the opportunity of an early peek at the new ‘Just Flowers’ that ClarityCrafts are launching tomorrow (Barbara… Read More Seize the Birthday challenge – red
Hello there! Today’s card is a first play with the new ‘infusions’ collage papers from ClarityCrafts. They’re a lighter weight (80gsm) than their designer papers and designed specifically for use on collages, although I’ve gone with paper piecing my stamped image, combining two of the new sets – ‘hibiscus’ and ‘chamomile’. I started with a piece of… Read More infusions papers
I’m changing it up today from the florals of the last week, with an early look at the new ‘Just wings and wheels’ stamp set coming from ClarityCrafts tomorrow. As soon as I saw this scooter in the set I was reminded of the groups of Mods we used to see in the Sixties, heading off… Read More A Vespa for a Mod
Hello crafty friends. I’m here with an early peek at ClarityCrafts first release of 2024 – Tina’s Retro stars, which are launching tomorrow (Sunday) on Create & Craft TV. I’m loving these new bold designs and will be sharing more of my design team samples over the next few days! This card picks up the sketch from Inspired By… Read More Retro stars
Welcome to my crafty blog and our first challenge of 2024 at As You See It! Heather C has given us this great sketch to work with – I swapped the hearts for butterflies from ClarityCrafts‘ ‘SHAC peace – Japanese flowers & butterflies’ stamp set, and picking up the colours from Colorful Options (a new-to-me challenge)… Read More As You See It challenge – butterfly sketch
Hello crafty friends. This may not seem like an obvious card for New Year’s Eve, but it’s day 6 of my 12 Days of Clarity and I’ve reached the ‘garden bloom butterfly’ stamp from their June Craft Club. I decided to take the layout from Atlantic Hearts, rotating it so it sat along the bottom of the… Read More 12 Days of Clarity 2023 – June
Hello crafty friends – how are your Christmas preparations getting on? Not long to go now – I’m onto present wrapping this evening. Before then, I’ve got another set of ClarityCrafts‘ square mini mandala dies to share with you and this one picks up several of the tones from Color Dare‘s ‘bold and bright’ challenge. I cut… Read More mini mandala squares set 4
Hello crafty friends. I’m back after a short break yesterday – life has got seriously busy as we start to run up to Christmas! I spent the day out yesterday meeting various friends so no time for crafting let alone blogging! Today’s card features the November stamp from Clarity‘s Craft Club – ‘wrapped in lace’… Read More golden gift
