Hello crafty friends. Following on from yesterday’s card with the stamps from July’s Clarity Craft Club, I’m back today with the July stencil to complete the package! This abstract ribbons design makes such a useful background for lots of images – I’ve gone with the Branches, Twigs & Sprigs stamps to build some leafy trees… Read More Clarity Craft Club stencil #146 abstract ribbons
Hello crafty friends and welcome to this week’s Seasonal Saturday offering! It’s the last of this month’s challenges at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown and I’ve opted for ‘stencilling’ as our technique, which gave me the perfect excuse to put the Snowflakes Aperture Round stencil into action – it’s such a pretty design. The Christmas Elements… Read More Stencilling at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown 26-28
Hello crafty friends. Gosh, life is rather busy at the moment – I thought the summer holiday period was supposed to be quieter, but things have sped up in my world with Design Team samples to make and a small grandson to help look after (plus a few work meeting too!) Anyway, it’s so much… Read More Summer mandala ring
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with our new challenge at Sparkles today, where we want to see cards for kids. I reached again for the Wee Pattern stencils (they are so useful!), adding in one of the Friends & Family Silhouettes stamps (this is the Dream & Wonder set). This little lad blowing bubbles made… Read More A kid’s card for Sparkles Challenge #202
Hello crafty friends. Just dropping in with a quick card that I made for a colleague who’s got a promotion and, seeing that Barbara is showcasing a new set of Bijou Drop Shadow sentiments this afternoon (check the show out here), I decided it was time I opened the packet on the larger A5 set… Read More Drop Shadow Congrats!
Hello everyone. I’ve got a look at another of the new wee stencils collections today, this time using several of the Patterns set to emboss a few small squares of card. So, having cut nine 3cm square piece of premium card, I attached them to a few of the patterned stencils, trying to get a… Read More Wee patterns
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with another card using the new Tree Canopy Scene stamps, this time on a stencilled background for our new Make Your Mark theme at Addicted to Stamps & More. In case you’re not sure, this theme focuses on anything that can make a mark like alcohol markers, coloured pencils, paint,… Read More Make your mark at Addicted to Stamps & More #521
Hello friends. It’s been another warm and sunny day here today – and the forecast is on for another potential heatwave starting over the weekend, but I wanted to share with you a serene evening sky for today’s card. This is the last of my demos from last week’s Clarity TV using the Riverside Landscape… Read More Winter sky trees
Hello everyone. I’ve got another look at one of the new Wee Tree stencils today – I’d still got the Riverside Landscape Reflection masks out on my desk from prepping for last week’s shows when I made this one, so I incorporated the mountain mask into my design. This time I used the little half… Read More Reflective thoughts
Hello crafty friends. Here we are at Monday again and it’s nearly the end of June – we’re more than halfway through the year! Time sure flies when you’re having fun and Clarity are adding to the crafting excitement with another new product launching today – the wee tree stencils! The fab little set of… Read More Wee tree stencils
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