Hello crafty friends! We’ve got another set of new stamps and stencils from ClarityCrafts launching today – the ‘Japanese flowers & butterflies’ and circular decorative stencils, based on a design Barbara & the Clarity community orginally drew in the SHAC shack. If you don’t know about the SHAC (Safe, Happy & Creative), it’s an online… Read More Japanese butterfly round
Greetings crafty friends and welcome to Monday’s blog. I spent a fab couple of hours yesterday afternoon having an online crafting session with my sister – we were both playing with the latest Craft Club goodies from ClarityCrafts. I’d already christened the ‘garden bloom butterfly’ stamp last week, but it was a sunny afternoon so… Read More garden bloom butterfly
Hello there. I’m back with a fun and vibrant card today, using ‘Cherry’s funky happy birthday’ stamp set from ClarityCrafts which has been the WIGIG (When It’s Gone, It’s Gone!) offer at 60% off for the past week, ending at midnight tonight, so you’ve just got time to grab a last minute bargain! I picked… Read More funky birthday
Welcome to my crafty blog and an airing for the ‘About Town’ stamp from ClarityCrafts that Barbara was showing on TV yesterday. It’s perfect for my design team card for our new challenge at Love to Craft – as always the theme is ‘anything goes’. I started by stamping the main image onto a piece… Read More About Town
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’m still working on incorporating stencil effects in the backgrounds on my cards, as you can see from today’s offering. This one features the ‘trellis’ stencil from ClarityCrafts, together with the ‘butterfly wreath’ and ‘bijou ribbon sentiments’ stamp sets. I’ve brought three current challenges together on this card. I took… Read More butterfly birthday
Hello crafty friends. I’m back in my comfort zone today with plenty of stamping on this card (and a couple of masks, though!) A friend wanted a Mothering Sunday card for her mum (we’re celebrating it in the UK this weekend) so I went back to Stampin’ Up!’s ‘daffodil daydream’ set, which has done good… Read More Mothering Sunday daffs
Welcome to my crafty blog. It’s still too cold here in the UK for butterflies to be making an appearance, so I’ve settled for the ones designed by Hazel Eaton for Julie Hickey Designs instead. I’ve sat them on the ‘circle medley’ stamp to reflect the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches and picked up two… Read More butterflies two ways
Hello crafty friends. Something a bit different today, with a card my son requested for his friend who’s a bit of a tech geek! I immediately thaought of Stampin’ Up!’s ‘tech support’ set, which I haven’t used as much as I should have… I took inspiration from Inspired by picking up the sketch and the… Read More a techy birthday
Hello there! I’m a bit late sharing a card this evening – had a fab day out catching up with a friend for lunch, but I’m here now. I’ve given the ‘beautifully happy’ set from the current Stampin’ Up! Saleabration another outing, this time using the colours from Colour INKspiration, the sketch from Atlantic Hearts… Read More beautifully happy birthday
Hello there. It’s time for a new theme over at Sparkles Monthly Challenges and this time it’s men only – we want to see your masculine cards! I’ve gone with some brand new stamps for this card – I picked them up at the IndigoBlu Open Day on Saturday, which I went to with my… Read More Sparkles challenge – men only!
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