Hello crafty friends. Well today hasn’t exactly gone as planned… I was due to be launching these fab new ‘bijou dangles’ stamps for ClarityCrafts on TV today, but have had to admit defeat thanks to a persistent cough following a recent chest infection! It’s not a great look on screen if the presenter is coughing… Read More friends dangles
Happy Easter everyone! I thought we should celebrate with a cross of flowers using the ‘blooming corner’ stamp set from ClarityCrafts. I’ve pulled a couple of challenges together for this one, taking the sketch from Global Design Project, and the centre row of spring colours, free & stencil from TicTacToe‘s grid One thing I’ve learned… Read More floral cross
Welcome to my crafty blog and another spring-time birthday card for a friend. Today I’ve gone with the ‘three blooms’ stencil from ClarityCrafts, taking inspiration from the sketch and colours at Inspired by plus the stencil theme at Just Us Girls I’ve used all three of the flowers on the stencil on this card, starting… Read More a birthday bloom
Welcome back to another offering with the new ‘funky flowers’ dies and adhesive felt from ClarityCrafts – they were flying out of the door on Barbara’s launch show earlier. Now you all know that I don’t like to waste anything – this card uses some of the leftover pieces from cutting the flowers to decorate… Read More hello blossom!
Welcome to my crafty blog and another look at one of the new ‘Just Wings & Wheels’ stamps from ClarityCrafts. My father-in-law used to be a police motorcyclist, so I just had to use the motorbike on the card for his recent 98th birthday! The first step was to brush ‘walnut stain’ and ‘pumice stone’ Distress… Read More a biker birthday
Hello crafty friends. Today’s card features another of the images from ClarityCrafts‘ ‘Just wings and wheels’ stamp set – a fab little biplane. I used the ‘pine trees’ mask to create the tree tops, so I’ll be sharing with with the challenges at Just Us Girls and Addicted to Stamps, both of whom are looking for stencils… Read More soaring high!
So here we are on day 10 of my 12 Days of Clarity series, with the ‘O Christmas Tree’ stamp from last October’s Craft Club. I was inspired by the layout at Freshly Made Sketches and the colours at Just Us Girls for another early 2024 Christmas card, which I’ll also share with Merry Little Christmas… Read More 12 Days of Clarity 2023 – October
Welcome to my crafty blog and another Christmas card in non-traditional colours! This time it’s the holly wreath from ClarityCrafts ‘Christmas wreaths’ set, combining the colours from Color Dare, the CAS circle layout from Just Us Girls and the ‘deck the halls’ theme from Less is More. I stamped the holly wreath in ‘peacock feathers’… Read More teal wreath
Hello again and welcome to another Monday! I’m back with another card using the same ‘winter’ set of ‘Linda’s bijou children’ stamps from ClarityCrafts as featured on yesterday’s creation. This time, though I’ve focused on the corner & border stamps from the bottom part of the set. I started by stamping the large poinsettia corner… Read More Merry Christmas frame
Hello crafty friends! I’ve got a very minimalist card to share with you, using one of the new ‘Enso enlightenment’ stamps from ClarityCrafts as part of their Japanese collection. I didn’t manage to use any of these on my design team cards for their release, so I thought I’d make up for it now! I’ve… Read More enlightenment
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