Hello crafty friends. It’s time for our next theme at Sparkles challenges and Helen has opted for ‘no stamping’ on our creations! Now you know this is always a stretch for me (I am most definitely a stamper at heart), but fortunately one of ClarityCrafts‘ Fresh Cut Dies came to the rescue. I love the… Read More no stamping for Sparkles challenge
Hello crafty friends. Today’s card features one of the poetry frame stamp sets from ClarityCrafts – these sets are their design of the week so currently have a very tempting 30% off. I’ve gone with a one layer card today, inspired by the theme at Addicted to CAS and picking up the colours from Global… Read More to see a world…
Hello everyone! Exciting news to share with you today – I’ve joined the ClarityCrafts Design Team! I was thrilled (and a bit stunned) to be invited to be part of the team by Barbara Gray – she’s been a key inspiration on my crafting journey and was the person who first taught me how to… Read More I’m celebrating…
Welcome to my crafty blog. Today’s card is a one layer offering, inspired by the Facebook live Julie Hickey did yesterday (you can link through to it here). I don’t have the stamp set Julie used, so instead pulled out some of the small accent stamps from a few of her older sets – more… Read More masked circle
Hello there. My new ‘floral delights’ stamps from ClarityCrafts arrived this week, so I made a start on playing with them – well, it would be rude not to! I thought the ‘thinking of you’ set would work well with this week’s colours at Global Design Project and picked up the top row of foliage,… Read More birthday foliage
Hello there. I’m back with a second card today, this time for the new challenge at As You See It. Heather’s come up with a brilliant theme this time – spring cleaning! The challenge is to use up your scrap stash – every crafter I know has got a box of bits & bobs, die… Read More As You See It spring cleaning challenge
Hello crafty friends. I’m back today with one of my favourite Stampin’ Up! sets – ‘daffodil daydream’. It’s perfect for spring cards and so perfect for the new theme at Global Design Project. I based this card on the sketch at The Paper Players and picked up the CAS challenge of ‘colouring’ from Just Us… Read More daffodil birthday
Welcome to my crafty blog and a very CAS card using the ‘buttercup doodles’ stamp set from Clarity Crafts’ KISS range. I stripped the design right back on this one (no ink blending or enamel dots in sight!) using the sketch from Global Design Project. I lifted the ‘circles’ theme from AAA cards and the… Read More doodle circles
Hello everyone! I’m thrilled to have been invited along as guest designer for the new challenge at Global Design Project, with these gorgeous colours. I decided to keep it fairly simple and just let the colours do the work with the large flowers from Stampin’ Up!’s ‘artistic’ die set. I’d seen a beautiful card over… Read More Guest designer for the new colour challenge at Global Design Project
Hello crafty friends. I’ve got a couple of cards to share with you today, both using the new ‘Hazel’s butterfly’ stamp set from Julie Hickey Designs. I’ve taken inspiration from a couple of challenges for these, Global Design Project and Time Out, both with a theme of CASE (copy and selectively edit) a design team… Read More a kaleidoscope of butterflies
Deborah's Crafty Blog 