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
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
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 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
Well I’m back with a second card today, this time for the new challenge at As You See It. It’s my turn to choose the theme and I’d like you to fill in the blank with your favourite thing about spring (which is hopefully only just round the corner here in the UK) You don’t… Read More Spring favourites for As You See It challenge
Welcome to my crafty blog and a bumper selection of cards from my crafting session at the weekend with my sister & my crafting buddy. We’re all members of Clarity’s Craft Club and get together each month to play withe our latest goodies – I love seeing the different desgns we each produce from the… Read More love is all you need…
It’s Friday again and there’s a new letter over at Alphabet Challenge. We’re now on to ‘U’ and Meg has opted for ‘under the weather’ (or get well). My card is on a slight tangent, using the new ‘sweet citrus’ set from Stampin’ Up!, but lots of people recommend hot lemon drinks when you’re feeling… Read More U for under the weather at Alphabet Challenge
Hello crafty friends. Today’s dip back into Clarity’s craft club took me to the ‘bird in hand’ die from September 2020. This is another one that I haven’t used much, but it’s such a great image it really needs sharing a bit more. I decided to go with the sketch from Hand Stamped Sentiments for… Read More Clarity craft club lookback – bird in hand die
Welcome to my second post today and the new challenge at As You See It. It’s a speed challenge this time, so the card needs to be made in less than 10 minutes! My design team card looks a lot more complicated than it actually was… I opted to use one of the ‘bijou joy… Read More Speedy Christmas bauble for As You See It challenge
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