Hello everyone. I’m looking forward to Barbara’s Clarity shows on CreateandCraft TV this afternoon, with lots of lovely goodies! I’ve got a couple more here to share with you – the woodland aperture & birds die set and the letterbox alphabet. I started by cutting the leafy aperture die from a piece of white card,… Read More woodland aperture
Well, it’s Ash Wednesday signalling the start of Lent (40 days to Easter…!) and Valentine’s Day, so obviously I’ve made a Christmas card!! 🤣 I am trying now to stick to my ambition of making one Christams card each week and this makes two Wednesdays in a row… I’ve gone with the cute robins from ‘Linda’s… Read More Christmas robins
Welcome to Friday and our new theme at As You See It challenge, where Jan has asked us to share our latest craft purchases on our cards this time. Now I’m in the fortunate position of being on ClarityCrafts design team and get sent a selection of products to use each time there’s a new release,… Read More As You See It Challenge – I need a bigger craft room!
Hello again! I’m still powering through Christmas cards – this one features the ‘twiggy bauble’, a new design from ClarityCrafts that’s been around for a couple of weeks. Barbara Gray drew it and is donating all the proceeds from it’s sales over the next few weeks to Children in Need (it launched on the night… Read More twiggy bauble
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
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