Hello crafty friends – I hope you’ve had a good weekend. I’ve got another offering to share with you from the new Hopi Dancers collection, this time using the symbols from two of the sets – Earth Gathering at Dawn and Air Keeper of Birds. I stuck to my favourite CAS style, simply heat embossing… Read More Hopi symbols
Good morning everyone! I’d delighted to be sharing this card with you, as I’ve been invited along as guest designer by the AAA Colourful team for their new challenge! I love this bright colourboard and, unusually for me, decided to pick out the green as the main colour for my card using the Mother Nature… Read More Guest designer for AAA Colourful #27
Hello everyone. I’ve got one of my demos from this morning’s Clarity Social TV to share with you, for our new theme at Alphabet Challenge – we’ve now reached X and Pamela has chosen X-ray, which is a clever way to bring us a black & white theme. I’ve been using the Doodle Rounds stamps,… Read More X is for Xray at Alphabet Challenge
Hello crafty friends and welcome to this week’s Seasonal Saturday post, with our new sketch at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown. I opted not to go down the obvious Christmas tree route, instead turning to the Father Christmas stamps from Linda’s Christmas Compendium. I haven’t used any of the inky mop-up backgrounds from my stash for… Read More Santa’s sketch at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown 26-09
Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s Seasonal Saturday. I dipped back into my stash for a set I haven’t used for some time, the Festive Rounds Poinsettia, ready for our latest challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown. It’s our technique challenge this time round, and Andreja wants to see us using heat emboss resist… Read More Heat emboss resist at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown 26-08
Hello everyone. Here we are nearly at the end of January and already onto our second challenge of the year at As You See It. Heather’s given us this brilliant recipe with shades of red – perfect if you’re planning a Valentine’s card, but it works for so many other occasions too! I went back… Read More Red recipe at As You See It Challenge
Hello crafty friends. Bit of a different style for me today – I decided to get a bit grungy on the birthday card I made for my son, Nick! I was inspired by a post a saw on Pinterest for the basic layout, but then out my own twist on it thanks to Clarity’s Stamps.… Read More Nick’s birthday card
Hello friends and welcome to another look at the new Bijou Leafy Backdrop stamps that launched on Monday. This time I’ve used right hand stamp in the set together with a little heat embossing for a CAS card. I do like kraft card and white as a combination and decided to simulate that by embossing… Read More Bijou leafy monochrome
Hello everyone. I hope you’re having a good weekend. I grabbed some time today to play with the January stencil from Clarity’s Craft Club – the lovely Fern Sprig Tree. We got both parts of the stencil in the club pack (the positive and the negative), but I just went with one part on this… Read More Clarity Craft Club January stencil 140 – fern sprig tree
Hello everyone and welcome to my second Seasonal Saturday of 2026 with our new challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown. Andreja’s given us a great palette to play with, which I thought was perfect for the Triangle Trees masks, together with a fab new set of Art Deco sentiments, which are Clarity’s Product of the… Read More Triangle trees for 52 Christmas Card Throwdown
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