Hello crafty friends. Well it’s the weekend again and the sun is shining! There are a few sunflower related challenge themes out there so I’ve combined Double D, Triple B and Inspired by into today’s card using the ‘make art not war sunflower’ stamp set from ClarityCrafts. I started with a small square of stencil… Read More Sunflower day
Hello crafty friends and welcome to Monday! It’s still quite warm here in London, but I think autumn is definitely heading our way soon… I’m back with another offering using the new ‘panoramic’ three-way overlay stamps and an inky mop-up background from my stash. Just Us Girls have challenged us to CASE (copy and selectvely… Read More fancy a chat?
Hello there! Friday seems to come round very quickly and we’ve got another new theme to challenge you at As You See It – it’s the dreaded speed stamping! We ask you to make a card in under 10 minutes, this time on the theme of fruit. I was struggling with this one, as I… Read More Fast fruit at As You See It challenge
Hi everyone! I’ve just had a fabulous couple of days at the annual ClarityCrafts summer retreat, picking up lots of tips and inspiration. I therefore thought it was only right to have got another of the background pieces from last year’s retreat used up at the weekend before I set off – I’ll have another… Read More all about the background!
Hello there and welcome to Monday! The sun’s still shining here, so I decided to play with some of my favourite honey bees today, inspired by the summer theme at TGIF Challenges using ClarityCrafts ‘Just butterflies & bees’ stamps and the layout from Just Add Ink. I’ve been tidying up some part finished projects and… Read More bee birthday
Hello there. I’m back with another look at one of my demos from Saturday’s shows, using the trio of candles stamp from Clarity Crafts‘ new ‘Tina’s bijou retro’ stamp set. Obviously, it’s perfect for sharing with AAA Birthday, but also picks up the ‘backgrounds’ theme from TGIF Challenges My starting point was a small square… Read More birthday candles
Hello there! I’ve had another day trying to use up bits of my stash and dug this piece of background out of my folder from last year’s ClarityCrafts retreat – we spent a happy hour walking a brayer with acrylic paint across pieces of paper. I do love the A6 ‘star flower’ stamp set as… Read More star flower birthday
Hello crafty friends and welcome to our new challenge over at Christmas (or not) BINGO! All you need to do it choose one column and incorporate at least three of the elements into your card. For this one I picked column N, taking ‘make own background’, ‘clean & simple’ (no surprise there!) and ‘splatters’. I… Read More deerscape for Christmas BINGO challenge
Hello there! I’m still playing with the new ‘just butterflies & bees stamps from ClarityCrafts, with more of a floral twist today, picking up the bright colours from Inkspirational‘s moodboard I decided to make use of one of my inky mop-up pieces (my folder of these is still very full!), which is on a small… Read More just butterflies & bees
Hello everyone and welcome to Sunday! I’ve got another sample to share with you from yesterday’s shows, this time using the new ‘bijou birthday dangles’ stamp set from ClarityCrafts and a little inky play! It won’t be a great surprise to see that I’m going to share this with Seize the Birthday, but it’s also… Read More bijou birthday dangles
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