Hello friends! It’s the last week of March already, so I’ve been busy this afternoon prepping for my shows this Friday on Clarity Social TV – but more of that later in the week. I had great fun watching Clarity’s Barbara & Paul this afternoon (they’re hilarious together!) putting the ‘floral panel‘ stamps through their… Read More joy in the simple things
Hello friends and welcome to Thursday’s peek at new stamps landing tomorrow from Clarity Crafts! Barbara will be on Clarity Social TV with a fab new little set of ‘plant pots’ stamps – just perfect for all sorts of occasions! I haven’t used a watercolour background for a while, but got inspired by the theme… Read More watercolour plant pots
I’m back with a second offering today. thanks to our new ‘use a punch’ theme at As You See It Challenge – and it’s the dreaded speed one, which means your card has to be made in under 10 minutes! This does force me to to be organised and plan my card before starting –… Read More speedy punching at As You See It challenge
Hello again! I’m back with a second card, this time for our new theme at As You See It challenge, and Jane has given us ‘birds’. Lots of scope for this one and another excuse to play Clarity Crafts‘ landscape masks, although this time I’ve paired the ‘meadow’ ones with the ‘feathered friends miniatures‘ stamp… Read More For the birds at As You See It Challenge
Hello crafty friends and welcome to Monday! The fantastic Half Price Members’ Sale at Clarity Crafts is into it’s final day, finishing at midnight tonight, so there’s still time to grab a bargain if you’re a member of one of their Craft Clubs – and still time to sign up today to one and join… Read More quarterette views
Hello there! It’s time for this month’s sketch challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches and Rachel’s design gave me a good excuse (like I needed one!) to crack open another of the new ‘build a wreath’ stamp sets from Clarity Crafts. The ‘spring‘ set arrived in my delivery box last week, together with a brilliant… Read More CAS Colours & Sketches 552 – January sketch
Hello friends. I expect I’ll soon stop making Christmas cards to share, but not just yet, so here’s another one to tempt you! I went with ‘Jayne’s bijou winter scene’ stamp set, picking up the sketch from Just Add Ink (which I rotated), the colour challenge from 52 Christmas Card Throwdown (I went back to… Read More Jayne’s church
Hello friends and welcome to Sunday with an early look at some new stamps that ClarityCrafts will be launching tomorrow. It’s another beautiful A4 sampler set of stamps, this time featuring flowers drawn by Jayne Nestorenko and I’ve mounted the fuschia on a piece of BOW-WOB (black-on-white/white-on-black) paper that I’ve added colour to. This little… Read More fuschia sampler stamp
Hello there! I’m getting ready to settle down for a couple of hours inspiration from Barbara Gray and ClarityCrafts this afternoon, live from 3-5pm on the Clarity Facebook page and YouTube channel. As well as the masks & stamps I teased you with yesterday, Barb will have some fabulous ‘treescape overlay’ stencils to share, and… Read More double trees
Hello friends. I decided to play today with one of my favourite stencils, which I haven’t used for quite a while – welcome to ClarityCrafts‘ ‘woodland birds‘. I fired it into action inspired by a couple of this week’s challenges – Just Add Ink and Just Us Girls – both of which have stencils as… Read More woodland birds
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