Hello there! I’ve managed to dip back into Clarity‘s Craft Club dies today, this time to the ‘this too shall pass’ aperture die from October 2022 (#46). I’ve pulled together a card to catch a couple of blog challenges closing today – the layout from Atlantic Hearts and the palette from Creative Colour, plus a… Read More Clarity craft club lookback – this too shall pass die
Good morning crafty friends. I’m back with another card using the new ‘away in a manger’ stamps from ClarityCrafts, this time featuring the ones that didn’t appear on yesterday’s card. I’ve picked up the new theme of Clean & Simple (you know it’s my favourite style!) from Inkspirational, together with their optional twist of ‘inspired… Read More Away in a manger
Welcome to my crafty blog and a birthday card for a football fan! I’ve used one of ClarityCrafts tag dies as the topper on this card (I really should use them more often, they make a nice change from a square or circle). I took inspiration for this card from the challenges at The Paper… Read More sporty birthday
Good evening! Bit of a late post today – I’ve been at a village fete with my son this afternoon, running a stall selling my cards and his art work. We made a few sales but also got to talk to people about what we each do, which is so enjoyable. And now on to… Read More four robins
Welcome to another dip back into Clarity‘s craft club – today it’s the ‘peace aperture’ die (#45) from September 2022. It’s such a lovely design and I decided to use the layout from Freshly Made Sketches to showcase it, together with the colours from CAS Colours & Sketches; I’m also going to share it with… Read More Clarity craft club lookback – peace aperture die
Hello crafty friends. Today’s card takes another look at the KISS Build a Bauble stamps released by ClarityCrafts over the weekend. For this one, I started by repeat stamping the leafy bauble design around the edge of a 5×7 card blank with ‘villainous potion’ Distress Oxide I then stamped the solid bauble background onto a… Read More season’s greetings bauble
Hello crafty friends and welcome to the final day of ClarityCrafts 30th birthday weekend celebrations. This afternoon, Barbara is launching a beautiful ‘bijou two-way overlay linocut’ selection of stamps, with some previous and some new designs, all in the smaller ‘bijou’ format. I’ve opted for the ‘daisy’ stamps for this card – it’s such a… Read More bijou daisy linocut
This really is the weekend that keeps on giving! Today sees the launch of another new set of stamps in ClarityCrafts‘ KISS range – ‘Build a Bauble’, and I’ve given the mistletoe patterned bauble the starring role on my card. I started by inking the bauble background stamp around the edge with ‘paradise teal’ Archival… Read More mistletoe bauble
Hello crafty friends and welcome to a card with a bit of a difference today – I’ve stamped the images onto a dried teabag! Barbara Gray of ClarityCrafts has recently resurrected this style, (which I think has been around for years – there are a few books on it) and it was one of the… Read More teabag leaves
Hello there! Today’s card features one of the ‘hats 2 – vintage’ stamp set from ClarityCrafts, which I think is just such an elegant design and is perfect for this card which is going to a friend who’s about to start chemotherapy for breast cancer (hence the pink shades and the turban!) I took the… Read More be yourself
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