Hello crafty friends. I had some time to play this afternoon and was inspired by Jilly from Clarity’s post on Barbara Gray’s blog (Barb’s taking a break at the moment) showcasing their watercolour pads. It reminded me that I made some watercolour backgrounds a couple of years ago that have been languishing in my stash… Read More it’s your birthday today
Hello crafty friends. I’ve been busy this week catching up on crafting goodies from while I was away and found time to play with the September stamps from Clarity’s Craft Club – this is another of the fun triangle people drawn by Barbara, with her birthday balloon. I’ve based my card on the layout from… Read More Clarity Craft Club – birthday balloons
Hello crafty friends. Well, it’s time for our next theme at Alphabet Challenge and we’re not on to J for Jump – lots of fun to be had with this one! I dug back into my Clarity stash for a fab little set from Linda’s Children through the Seasons collection, although I don’t think the… Read More J for Jump at Alphabet Challenge
Hello everyone. I’m busy getting ready to head off to Kent tomorrow to spend a couple of days at the annual ClarityCrafts retreat on Monday & Tuesday. I decided that I really should sort out my project folder from last year, when we were busy making backgrounds – one year on, it’s definitely time to… Read More bright butterfly
Hello crafty friends. After all the recent new goodies I’ve been sharing, I’m back today with one of my all-time favourite Clarity images – Tina’s floral spray. This worked well for a few current challenges, starting with the beautiful colours from Sunday Stamps. We Love Stamping have got a floral theme and the regular florists… Read More best day floral spray
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with another take on the new Sketchy stamps from Clarity and. as Paris is the City of Love, it felt only right to do an engagement card for one of my samples, which also fits the ‘anything goes’ option at Simply Clean & Simple. I dug a scrap of an… Read More Love in Paris
hello crafty friends and welcome to this week’s Christmas card! I know the sun’s been shining outside, but it’s week 20 of 2025 and I’m keeping up with my personal challenge! This week’s offering, using Clarity’s nativity miniatures stamps is inspired by the nativity theme at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown and the K for Kraft… Read More Landscape nativity
Hello everyone. It’s a big weekend of football here in the UK, with the men’s FA Cup final yesterday and the women’s one today. That prompted me to start working on Father’s Day cards ready for next month – this first card uses the wee sports folk stamps from Clarity, plus their BOW-WOB (black-on-white, white-on-black)… Read More Father’s Day football
Hello crafty friends and welcome to a beautiful sunny Monday! I’ve got a lovely spring scene to share with you today, using one of the new bijou layout montage stamps from Clarity – did you catch Barbara on YouTube yesterday demonstrating with these? They’re perfect for creating little landscapes, so I went with a few… Read More bijou montage landscape
Hello crafty friends. I’ve got another of the demos that I’d planned for Friday’s Clarity Social TV shows, but ran out of time to work through. It was inspired by one of the cards made by my design team buddy Sonia, using the ‘joy framer‘ stamp set – I loved all the blue tones. It… Read More joy framer
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