Hello crafty friends. I’m trying to make some time over Christmas to play with some of the new goodies I’ve had over the last couple of months and not had time to try out. I’ve gone with one of the new ‘build a scene’ masks from Clarity as the basis of this card, taking the… Read More build-a-scene masks
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’m still trying to get Christmas cards finished – I never seem to have enough despite trying to make them throughout the year! Today’s uses the retired ‘arrange a wreath’ set from Stampin’ Up!, inspired by the sketch at Inspire.Create and the photo at The Card Concept I started with… Read More Christmas wreaths
Hello crafty friends. Today’s Christmas card uses Stampin’ Up!’s ‘merriest moments’ set again – a friend asked me to make this one for her daughter. I took the layout from Freshly Made Sketches (I rotated it to landscape format), and am also going to share it with Can You Handle The Pressure, Inspire.Create (anything goes)… Read More magic of Christmas
Hello crafty friends. Well, I’m continuing the poinsettia theme today, but without using a poinsettia stamp or die on this card! My Sunday dip back into Clarity’s craft club reached May 2020, which was a mandala die. When I looked at it, I thought I could turn it into a poinsettia style design and get… Read More Clarity Craft Club lookback – mandala die
Welcome to my crafty blog and another Christmas card in non-traditional colours. I’ve used one of the papers from Stampin’ Up!’s new ‘fitting florets’ pack, picking up the layout from CAS Colours & Sketches, the ‘festive’ theme from Inspire.Create and the middle row of christmas tree/sparkle/star from TicTacToe‘s grid. I thought the blue & pink… Read More starry tree
Welcome to my crafty blog. Today’s card uses up scraps of paper – always handy! I’ve CASE’d a card I saw by Heidi Collins on Instagram – the inspiration photo at Inspire.Create immediately made me think of it, so I decided to give it a go. I started with a square of white card and… Read More paper strips birthday
Hello crafty friends. Today’s card uses up a few scraps and offcuts of card, thanks to the theme at Just Us Girls. I do know that some of these pieces might be a bit too big to officially be a scrap, but I didn’t cut into a single full size piece of card or paper… Read More birthday scraps?
Hello there. Today’s card has taken inspiration from a photo a friend of mine shared this morning with the most beautiful sunrise. I thought the colours over at Inspire.Create would be perfect for a landscape scene using Stampin’ Up!’s ‘on the horizon’ stamps. It also works for the ‘masculine’ theme from Just Add Ink –… Read More sunrise or sunset?
Hello crafty friends. I decieded to have another play with the fab ‘farming fun’ set from Newton’s Nook, thanks to the challenge theme of ‘kards for kids’ over at The Paper Players (Congrats on the 600th edition to the team!). These tractor & digger images are just fab! I’ve also used the layout from Atlantic… Read More digging your birthday!
Well it’s Sunday again so here I am with the next in my series working back through Claritystamp’s Craft Club stamps. Today it’s the ‘with love mandala’ set from January 2021 and I’ve also included the bonus set that was included at the beginning of the year – they work so well together. I started… Read More Claritystamp craft club lookback – mandala
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