Welcome to my crafty blog and another attempts at a grungy style card which has stayed clean and simple! The latest stamps from Clarity‘s craft club are a collection of splats – I thought they would work well with the colours from Color Throwdown and the sketch from Inspired by, plus another offering for Simply… Read More birthday splats!
Hello there! Today’s card features a stamp that’s been in my stash for a while and not previously seen any ink – the ‘holly leaf’ outline. I remembered it when I was looking through a few blog challenges that end over the next couple of days. Inspired by have got a helpful sketch and leaf… Read More leaf outline stamp
Hello crafty friends and welcome to a card with a bit of a difference today – I’ve stamped the images onto a dried teabag! Barbara Gray of ClarityCrafts has recently resurrected this style, (which I think has been around for years – there are a few books on it) and it was one of the… Read More teabag leaves
Welcome to my crafty blog and something a little different today! My friends who know me will will be very surprised by this card, as they know I can’t bear fish (whether swimming around or lying on a plate!) This trio from ‘Sam’s bobbing around’ set by ClarityCrafts are rather fun though, and perfectly fitted… Read More looking fintastic!
Welcome to my crafty blog and a first look at some of the new Rectangle Aperture A5 stencils and Word Chain stamps that ClarityCrafts are launching today. For this first card, I masked off the centre of the stencil on a piece of white card that I’d cut to fit a 5×7 card blank. I… Read More floral anniversary
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with another of Clarity’s Art Nouveau collection – this time the brand-new tulip stencil that will be launching on tomorrow’s TV shows (it comes in a double set with the snowdrops stencil). I’ve picked up the sketch from Inspired by to showcase it on this card and I have to… Read More tulip stencil
Hello crafty friends. I’ve been having another play with my June Craft Club goodies from ClarityCrafts – this time it’s the ‘simple rose’ stencil. I took Just Us Girls‘ ‘pastels’ theme for the colours, which worked beautifully with the floral inspiration photo at Inspired by and the central row of pink, encouragement & squares on… Read More take time to smell the roses
Welcome to my crafty blog and a nice and simple stencilled background today. I needed a card for a colleague who’s just got a new job so decided to use ClarityCraft’s bubbles burst stencil and the colours from their new place’s logo for a quick card. I picked up the colourful circles theme from Inspired… Read More a burst of bubbles!
Hello crafty friends. I was inspired by Barbara’s ‘Moment of Clarity’ event last night demonstrating the doodle circles & tiles stamps that are ClarityCrafts Design of the Week – they were still on my desk this morning so I decided to have another play with them. I picked up the colours and sketch from Inspired… Read More doodle tile framers
Welcome to my crafty blog and a pretty spring pansy on today’s card. I’ve used Stampin’ Up!’s ‘pansy patch’ set (which has carried over into the new catalogue), inspired by the challenges at Inspired by, Festive Friday (I picked up yellow, black & enamel dots from their list) and Less is More I started with… Read More spring pansy
Deborah's Crafty Blog 