Hello friends and welcome to Friday! I’ve got a couple of cards to share with you today – this first one is for our new theme at Alphabet Challenge. We’re completing another round of the alphabet having reached Z and Melanie has given us ‘zoom’ – we want to see anything that goes fast on… Read More Z for Zoom at Alphabet Challenge
Hello crafty friends. Well this week’s Christmas card has posed me a bit of a challenge – as you know it’s Japan month at Clarity Crafts and oriental stamps generally aren’t Christmas themed! But you know I always like to think a bit laterally and I remembered the heron stamp (#125 from Clarity’s Craft Club… Read More Christmas heron!
Hello everyone. We’re getting towards the end of the month, so it’s time I shared the February Craft Club stamp from Clarity Crafts with you – it’s a fun little caravan drawn by the very talented Linda Williams. I decided that the colours on Inkspirational‘s moodboard would be ideal, and based my layout on the… Read More Clarity Craft Club – caravan stamp
Hello there and welcome to Monday’s post. I’ve still been working with ‘Ani’s folk art sampler’ stamps from Clarity Crafts – this one reminds me of the ‘strawberry thief’ design by William Morris and I decided the colours from Color Hues and Inkspirational would really work (they’re running a joint challenge this time round.) The… Read More Ani’s folk art sampler
Hello everyone. I did say yesterday that I wasn’t quite done with Christmas cards yet, so here’s one I made a while ago using the star window die from ClarityCrafts with their brick wall stencil. I do love the rich effect you get from gilding flakes – perfect for Christmas cards. The stencilled surround picks… Read More star window die
Hello crafty friends. I’ve got another sample using the new ‘woodland treescape overlay‘ stencils from ClarityCrafts today – and this time I actually did overlay them! This card is about as grungy as I get (it’s still essentially CAS, just lots of inky colour), picking up the tones from AAA Colourful‘s board, the layering theme… Read More trio of trees
Hello again. I’m back to showcase some more bargains in this weekend’s Celebration of Crafting sale over at ClarityCrafts! You’ll have noticed over the last few weeks that I do love the Poppets stamps, so now meet Pearl, one of the mini Christmas Poppets, who’s happily sitting in a snowglobe. I thought the tones from… Read More poppet snowglobe
Hello crafty friends! ClarityCrafts have got a very timely offer on their ‘Merry Little Christmas Quotes’ stamps this week as we all start to ramp up our seasonal card making, so I thought I’d give mine a run out, paired with the bobble hat from ‘Jim’s Christmas jumper accessories’ set. I went for a rather… Read More Christmas hat
Hello friends. I’ve got a bit of a look back to the ‘bijou linocut’ stamps from ClarityCrafts that were launched earlier this year. I love this poppies set – in fact all the stamps in the collection are produced from original linocuts by Barbara Gray (she’s so talented!) I’ve picked up a few challenge themes… Read More poppy remember
Hello there. It’s a beautiful sunny Sunday here and I’ve been catching a bit of the Olympics coverage, but this card is in homage to another major news item from this week – the devastating wildfire in Jasper, Alberta, in the Canadian Rockies. We were there only last month, and it’s dreadful to think that… Read More woodland sympathy
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