Welcome to Sunday’s blog and a first run out for a new-to-me set of stamps (‘summer shades’) from ClarityCrafts, paired with their latest Craft Club stamps. I’ve pulled three current challenges together on this one, taking a lightly loose interpretation of the layout at Sketch Saturday (I hope the team can still see their sketch… Read More Follow the water…
Hello everyone! I’m back at my craft desk after a fabulous month away travelling in Canada & Alaska with friends! I’m busy getting back into the swing of normal life and decided to start back with my inks and the latest Craft Club stamp from ClarityCrafts. There’s lots of blog challenges to catch up with,… Read More back in business!
Hello everyone! Well the sun is shining away here so I thought we should crack out some more flowers on today’s card, with another of the stamps from ClarityCrafts‘ new A4 sampler set, which fits nicely with the new ‘garden’ theme from Just Us Girls and ‘anything goes’ for Seize the Birthday I started with… Read More floral square
Hello crafty friends and welcome to this week’s Christmas card – I’ve got a nice little pile of them building up! I like to get the most value out of my stamps, so it’s always fun to look at how to repurpose them for other occasions! This time, I’ve taken one of the recent ‘floral… Read More Christmas floral crescent wreath
Hello again! I hope you’re not getting bored with the new ‘bijou dangles’ stamps from ClarityCrafts as I’ve still got more to show you! Today’s card pairs the wedding dangles with one of the ‘wee folk wedding’ stamps, picking up on the CAS wedding theme from AAA cards. The first step was to heat emboss… Read More a wee wedding
I’m back with a second card today, as ClarityCrafts‘ Barbara Gray is hosting A Moment of Clarity on the Clarity Worldwide Facebook page tomorrow evening (7pm Friday 19th April) with the fab new ‘loving heart’ stamp set, so this little offering is to tempt you in! These are beautifully delicate designs drawn by Barbara –… Read More wedding heart
Welcome to my crafty blog and another of the floral sprays stamps from ClarityCrafts, this time the ‘ginkgo leaves’. It’s another beautifully detailed image with infill stamps, although this time I went with watercolouring the image. But first, I took half a 5×5 card blank (my new favourite way to make my toppers) and created… Read More ginkgo leaves
Hello crafty friends! Well, it’s TV day today, so I thought I’d share one of the demos from my first show, using the ‘Scotland framer’ stamp set I started with a piece of Antarctica paper cut to fit on a 6×6 card blank, stamped the words frame with Versafine Clair ‘nocturne’ ink and heat embossed… Read More Edinburgh castle
Hello crafty friends and welcome to our new challenge at Alphabet Challenge – Meg has chosen ‘yesteryears’ as we’ve reached Y, so anything retro or vintage. I’ve gone with retro back to the 60s & 70s thanks to ClarityCrafts ‘Doodleology rectangle – elements’ stamp set, which I recently invested in. The palette from Color Dare… Read More Y for Yesteryears at Alphabet Challenge
Hello crafty friends – Sunday seems to have come round once again very quickly! Today’s card features the Botanicals two-way overlay stamps from ClarityCrafts, specifically the ‘honesty & poppy seed heads’ set, together with the Darjeeling infusions collage paper. I opted to just use the ‘honesty’ stamp 2 (without the outline image) on a square… Read More honesty
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