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
Hello there! Today’s card is the last of my DT samples for the new ‘Linda’s Country Scenes’ stamps from ClarityCrafts, this time using the ‘Romany Caravan’. I do love white on kraft card (you may have noticed!), so kept it simple with heat embossing and a little pencil shading. So here’s my quick step-by-step. I… Read More Romany caravan scene
Welcome to my crafty blog and this week’s Christmas card – so far I’m keeping up with my aim of one each week…! I’ve picked up another of the small robins from ‘Linda’s Winter Wishes’ and paired him with one of KISS ‘Christmas wreaths’, all from ClarityCrafts I started with one of the nested circle… Read More robin in a wreath
Hello crafty friends. I’m still working through my design team samples from Sunday’s launch of ‘Tina’s retro stamps’ from ClarityCrafts, this time combining two of the sets, ‘retro candles’ & ‘retro stars’. I thought it would work well as a second offering for the ‘cheers to the years’ theme at The Paper Players The first step was… Read More celebrate with retro candles
Hello everyone! Exciting news to share today, as I’ve joined the design team over at CAS Colours & Sketches, one of my favourite blog challenges – I’m so delighted! Here I am then to share my first DT card for their first challenge of 2024 with a gorgeous colour palette from Jeanne, which works so well with… Read More Colour challenge #528 at CAS Colours & Sketches
Well, that’s Christmas finished for another year and here’s my final card from Clarity‘s 2023 Craft Club – the ‘New Year Round’ set. I felt it warranted some lovely heat embossing, so picked up the colours from TGIF challenges together with the ‘new’ theme from Time Out. I started by heat embossing the large stamp with… Read More 12 Days of Clarity 2023 – December
Hello crafty friends and welcome to day 2 of my 12 Days of Clarity, today with the ‘it’s a wrap heart’ stamp from Clarity‘s Craft Club back in February (#196). It’s a beautiful image so didn’t need too much adding to it and I thought it would work perfectly for a wedding card. I decided to… Read More 12 Days of Clarity 2023 – heart
Hello everyone! I hope you had a lovely Christmas Day, however you celebrate it. Once again, I’ve decided to work through this year’s Clarity Craft Club stamps over the 12 days of Christmas, starting here with #195 the ‘love is all you need border’ set from January. I’m still feeling festive, so decided to use one of the… Read More 12 Days of Clarity 2023 – love is all you need border
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with a first outing this year for one of ‘Jayne’s winter scenes’ stamp sets from ClarityCrafts, the ‘church’. I just think this is a gorgeous scene and opted for the neutrals palette from Color Dare, together with the ‘anything goes’ theme at The Holly and Ivy challenge I stated with a square… Read More winter church
Well here I am with another Christmas card (just for a change!) – a second offering with the new ‘twiggy bauble’ stamp set from Clarity Crafts. I’ve taken the colours from Color Throwdown and the layout from Freshly Made Sketches – it’s a loose interpretation, so I hope the FMS team are feeling generous! I’ve… Read More hanging bauble
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