Welcome to my crafty blog. I was delighted to be invited along as guest designer for the new challenge at TicTacToe – one of my favourites to play along with! The new grid is right up my street – I had so many options to choose from, but in the end went with the right… Read More Guest Designer for TicTacToe challenge #195
Hello there. Today’s card stars another of the new stamp sets designed by Hazel Eaton for Julie Hickey Designs – the butterfly (in case you hadn’t guessed!) I’ve used the sketch from Global Design Project and the colours from Color Throwdown. I started by repeat stamping the butterfly definition stamp in black down the side… Read More Hazel’s butterfly
Hello there! We’ve got a new letter over at Alphabet Challenge – it’s now V and Debbie has opted for ‘vellum’ (parchment) as our theme, so my challenge as to decide how to incorporate it into my design. I thought it would work really well for the fabulous new dragonfly stamps designed by Hazel Eaton… Read More V for vellum
I still can’t bring myself to put Stampin’ Up!’s ‘adorable owls’ set away, so here’s another offering with it. I need more new baby cards and the cute owls just seem to fit the bill. This one is inspired by a couple of blog challenges: The Paper Players have a CAS theme of birds (and… Read More another baby owl
Welcome to my crafty blog and another card featuring the ‘beautifully happy’ set that’s currenty avaiable as part of Stampin’ Up!’s Saleabration. I’ve taken the colours from Colour Inkspiration and used them to CASE (copy and selectively edit) Verity’s design team card over at Inspire.Create The first step was to create the floating circle for… Read More floating circle
Welcome to my crafty blog. Today’s card stars the floral envelope from Julie Hickey’s ‘sent with love’ stamp set. I thought of it when I saw the inspo list at Festive Friday challenge – it’s not really a new year card, but I picked up red, gold & envelope from the list. I also took… Read More sending floral love
Welcome to my crafty blog. It felt a bit strange today not to be working back through Clarity Craft Club stamps – instead I’ve leapt forwards to a brand new set from Stampin’ Up! that you can get through the current Saleabration that’s just launched (it’s available free when you spend £45). Lots of blog… Read More adorable owls
Hello crafty friends. Welcome to day 4 of my 12 Days of Clarity and today it’s the ‘lace round’ stamp from April’s Craft Club. It’s such a lovely intricate design that it had to take centre stage on the card. But first the background – I cut one of Clarity’s ‘doodle frame-it aperture’ dies into… Read More 12 Days of Clarity 2022 – lace round
Welcome to my crafty blog and a new challenge over at As You See It. This time it’s ‘vacation activities’ and I’ve gone with the retired ‘half full’ set from Stampin’ Up! (I can’t remember how old this one is!) Now this may not have been what you immediately thought of in terms of a… Read More Vacation activities for As You See It challenge
Heoo there! Well, it’s Sunday again so back into Claritystamp’s Craft Club, this time to May 2021 and the ‘wicker texture’ abstract stamp. This is such a great background and I thought it would work for the current layout at Freshly Made Sketches, together with the colours from Just Add Ink I started by cutting… Read More Claritystamp craft club lookback – wicker texture
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