Hello crafty friends! Today’s card features an older stamp set from ClarityCrafts that’s a great bargain in their current Gray Friday sale (Barbara Gray doesn’t do black, obviously!) I’ve only used a single stamp on this, the one from the top left corner of the set, picking up the colours from HandStampedSentiments, the leaves from… Read More a clever corner!
Hello crafty friends. A nice and simple one layer card today using the ‘scots pine’ stamp set from ClarityCrafts, inspired by the photo boards at Hand Stamped Sentiments and Inkspirational both of which feature pine cones. I also picked up the ‘thanks’ theme from The Paper Players and Simply Clean & Simple I started by… Read More pine thanks
Hello crafty friends. We’ve got more new goodies from ClarityCrafts today and this card features the fab ‘bamboo two-way overlay’ stamp set. I wanted to keep it pretty simple (no surprise there!) to reflect the ‘zen’ quality in the stamp I’ve used again today from the small ‘Japanese sentiments’ set. I started with a square… Read More bamboo spotlight
Hello crafty friends. Today, I’m having a first play with the latest stamp from ClarityCrafts Craft Club – this month it’s a sunflower panel image. I thought it would work for the layout at Freshly Made Sketches together with the colours from Hand Stamped Sentiments. So my first step was to stamp the sunflower panel… Read More sunflower panel
Hello crafty friends. I thought I’d share another of the new A5 quote postcards with you this evening, that just uses a simple bit of stencilling from ‘Tina’s floral spray’. All I did for this one was to line up the floral spray stencil over the postcard and then sponge ‘mowed lawn’, ‘kitsch flamingo’ &… Read More live this life postcard
Welcome to my crafty blog and a Christmas card using one of my favourite ClarityCrafts die – the ‘shepherds’ window’. I love this traditional stained glass effect and have combined paper piecing, glitter & mica powders on this one. I based the layout on the sketch at The Paper Players with the colours from Hand… Read More shepherds’ window
Hello again! I’m back with a second card featuring one of the new Rectangle Aperture A5 stencils that ClarityCrafts have launched today. These stencils are made from thin plastic, so it’s easy to get very detailed images from them. I decided to combine the stencil with some masking for my layout, and used a die… Read More floral birthday blessings
The latest Craft Club stamps from ClarityCrafts dropped through my letterbox last Friday, so I treated myself to a quick play with it at the weekend! I thought it might work for the layout at Hand Stamped Sentiments, using the colours from Inspire.Create and the top row of flowers, green & embossing from The Paper… Read More craft club flowers
Hello there! I seem to be on a bit a of a roll with stencilling at the moment and picked out ClarityCrafts’ ‘winter tree aperture’ stencil for the main part of today’s card together with a couple of their ‘wee’ stamps, the boy and the dog. I picked up the colours from Hand Stamped Sentiments,… Read More best friends!
I’m back with another CAS card today featuring the ‘by the seaside’ background stamp from ClarityCrafts, inspired by the current challenges at The Paper Players, Hand Stamped Sentiments and Inspired by I started by creating a rectangular embossed frame on the front of a 6×6 card blank with one of Clarity’s embedders. I then lined… Read More beach scene
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