Welcome to my crafty blog and a bit of an exciting day! It’s the launch of new sets of Christmas stamps from ClarityCrafts on Create & Craft TV and a first airing for my design team samples, so I thought I’d share one with you! I started with a piece of Clarity’s ‘Northern Lights’ designer… Read More SHAC bauble – Merry Christmas
A wintery card in June? Well, this is the time of year when all the crafters get seriously busy with their Christmas cards and there are lots of new release stamps coming through – the ClarityCrafts team with be on Create & Craft TV tomorrow with some brand new designs. Before then, I’ve picked up… Read More a winter scene
Hello crafty friends. I’m a bit late posting a card today – lots on at the moment! I’ve used ClarityCrafts’ ‘birthday dangles’ stamp – it’s no longer available as a stamp, but is still in a Groovi plate for parchment craft (although currently this week’s WIGIG – When It’s Gone, It’s Gone!), so it won’t… Read More a dangly birthday!
Welcome to my crafty blog. Today I’m showcasing ClarityCraft’s design of the week, the ‘make a wish’ collection. I’ve used the three-way overlay stamp set on this card, picking up the current palette at CAS Colours & Sketches and incorporating pink, stars, silver & toadstool from the inspo list at Festive Friday These stamp sets… Read More three way stamp – make a wish
Hello everyone! Exciting news to share with you today – I’ve joined the ClarityCrafts Design Team! I was thrilled (and a bit stunned) to be invited to be part of the team by Barbara Gray – she’s been a key inspiration on my crafting journey and was the person who first taught me how to… Read More I’m celebrating…
Welcome to my crafty blog and a simple sympathy card, using Stampin’ Up!’s ‘forever fern’ set and CASE’d from a design I saw on Pinterest. I was inspired by the ‘gilded leaves’ theme at Inspired by and the green & gold palette at Color Hues was perfect. I started by stamping the sentiment from ‘peaceful… Read More gilded leaves
Welcome to my crafty blog and a spring card featuring a host of daffodils. I’ve had this paper from the retired Stampin’ Up! ‘daffodil afternoon’ set for some time and struggled to think how to use it. The solution is just to let the paper speak for itself, which I thought I could do with… Read More a host of daffodils
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with another card using ‘Hazel’s butterfly’ from Julie Hickey Designs, this time teamed with the ‘circles medley’ stamp. I decided to go with the colour palette from Color Throwdown and the layout from Freshly Made Sketches I started by stamping the circles in ‘watering can’ Archival ink across the top… Read More butterfly gold
Hello crafty friends. I’ve got a couple of cards to share with you today, both using the new ‘Hazel’s butterfly’ stamp set from Julie Hickey Designs. I’ve taken inspiration from a couple of challenges for these, Global Design Project and Time Out, both with a theme of CASE (copy and selectively edit) a design team… Read More a kaleidoscope of butterflies
Hello there. Today’s card stars another of the new stamp sets designed by Hazel Eaton for Julie Hickey Designs – the butterfly (in case you hadn’t guessed!) I’ve used the sketch from Global Design Project and the colours from Color Throwdown. I started by repeat stamping the butterfly definition stamp in black down the side… Read More Hazel’s butterfly
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