Hello friends. It’s the final day of ClarityCrafts‘ Fresh Cut Dies Bonanza weekend (ends at midnight tonight) and I couldn’t resist having a play with one of my all-time favourite dies – the ‘treescape’! I’ve got a ‘twofer’ to share, having used my die cut as a stencil as well! So, the first thing was… Read More 3D or not 3D…
Hello everyone! I’m still playing with the new ‘panoramic’ three-way overlay stamps from ClarityCrafts, this time making a card for a friend over in New Zealand. I know it’s spring over there now, but I thought the colours from Just Us Girls were beautiful, even though they look a little autumnal (it’s the thought that… Read More birthday tree
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?
Welcome to Friday and a new letter over at Alphabet Challenge! It’s my turn to choose this week and, as it’s now K, I went with kittens and cats (sneaky, eh?) It gave me another excuse to use one of my all-time favourite ClarityCrafts stamp sets – the ‘birdhouse garden’. I just love this hopeful… Read More K for kittens & cats at Alphabet Challenge
Hello friends. Well, here we are at Friday again and we’ve got a new theme at Alphabet Challenge – it’s J this time and Caz has chosen Juvenile (children or babies). I thought it was about time I broke out one of ClarityCrafts ‘poppets’ images – I’ve had the printed sheets (they come in a… Read More J for Juvenile at Alphabet Challenge
Hello there and welcome to our new theme at Alphabet Challenge! Caz is in charge this time and she’s offered us a moodboard of colour to inspire us for the letter I. Well it struck me as just perfect for one of my favourite ClarityCrafts images – the SHAC ‘peace – Japanese flowers & butterflies’… Read More I for Inspired by Colour at Alphabet Challenge
Welcome to Sunday’s blog and a first run out for a new-to-me set of stamps (‘summer shades’) from ClarityCrafts, paired with their latest Craft Club stamps. I’ve pulled three current challenges together on this one, taking a lightly loose interpretation of the layout at Sketch Saturday (I hope the team can still see their sketch… Read More Follow the water…
Hello there! I decided it was time ClarityCrafts ‘butterfly tree’ stamp came out to play again, having watched Barbara put it through it’s paces on TV yesterday. For my card, I picked up the colours from Just Us Girls with the right-hand diagonal of butterfly, yellow & border from TicTacToe‘s grid. Sketch Saturday is a… Read More butterfly tree
Hello crafty friends and welcome to our new challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches. It’s time for sketch this time round – I rotated it, as one of the new ‘Tina’s bijou retro stamps’ from Clarity Crafts was the perfect shape! I decided to also pick up the tones from the moodboard at Just Us… Read More Craft Colours & Sketches 537 – sketch
Well it’s a beautiful sunny weekend, so I wanted to share a card that captures the summery vibe using the re-released ‘daffodilly’ stamp set from ClarityCrafts. My watercolour background has the middle row of colours from Color Dare‘s tictactoe grid, and the card picks up the themes from Just Us Girls and Inkspirational. So, here… Read More happiness
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