Welcome to my crafty blog and a simple sympathy card, using Stampin’ Up!’s ‘forever fern’ set and CASE’d from a design I saw on Pinterest. I was inspired by the ‘gilded leaves’ theme at Inspired by and the green & gold palette at Color Hues was perfect. I started by stamping the sentiment from ‘peaceful… Read More gilded leaves
Hello crafty friends. Something a bit different today, with a card my son requested for his friend who’s a bit of a tech geek! I immediately thaought of Stampin’ Up!’s ‘tech support’ set, which I haven’t used as much as I should have… I took inspiration from Inspired by picking up the sketch and the… Read More a techy birthday
Welcome to my crafty blog and our weekly trip back into Clarity’s Craft Club. This week it’s the bonus die from January 2021 – great for quick and easy thank you cards. I took my inspiration from the sketch and colours at Inspired by together with the theme of no stamps from TGIF challenges You’ll… Read More Clarity craft club lookback – thank you aperture die
Hello there! I’m sharing another card today using one of the dandelions stamps from Clarity – they’ve just released a new three-way set of their abstract dandelions, but these are from the original set with individual dandelion stamps & a couple of patterned squares. I’ve taken a very loose interpretation of the sketch over at… Read More abstract dandelions
Welcome to my crafty blog! I do love mixing old and new stamps & dies, and today’s card does that perfectly. It’s the perfect time of year for a cup of hot chocolate, and I couldn’t resist the photo at Inspired by, deciding to give it a bit of a contemporary twist with the colours… Read More whipped cream
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’m a bit late posting today as I’ve been getting all the last few things finished for Christmas, but then remembered that I still hadn’t made a card for my father-in-law’s birthday – which is tomorrow! He’ll be 97 and I thought he might like a new jumper courtesy of… Read More birthday jumper
Hello there. Well it’s Sunday again so I’ve dipped back into Clarity’s craft club, this time for the ‘just a little note’ die from June 2020. I thought I’d take a break from Christmas cards and make a start on a few thank you notes (yes, I am hoping for lots of lovely presents!) I… Read More Clarity craft club lookback – just a little note
Hello crafty friends. I’m on a real roll now with Christmas cards and today it’s the turn of Clarity’s ‘gnomes and billboards’ to take centre stage. I’ve combined a few challenges into this one: I based the layout on Stesha’s card at Global Design Project, using the colours from Color Hues and obviously included the… Read More Christmas gnomes
Hello crafty friends. So here we are on day 7 of my ’12 Dies of Clarity’ with the ‘butterfly tangle’ die from July’s Craft Club. I have actually used this one before, so thought I’d re-share the link to that post as well as creating a new card. Here’s the one I made earlier, back… Read More 12 Dies of Clarity day 7 – butterfly tangle
Hello crafty friends. Who doesn’t love a cup of hot chocolate? I decided to christen my ‘nothing’s better than’ stamp set from Stampin’ Up!, picking up the themes from the challenges at Inspired by and Inkspirational I attached a piece of brown polka dot paper form my stash to the front of an A6 card… Read More hot chocolate!
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