Hello crafty friends. I’m sharing another of the ‘festive rounds’ sets that ClarityCrafts launched at the weekend – this time it’s the ‘holly’ stamps. I’ve used a die cut overlay with them, which picks up the circle design on the card by Lisa E at Just Us Girls The first step was to mask the… Read More holly circles
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 the final day of ClarityCrafts 30th birthday weekend celebrations. This afternoon, Barbara is launching a beautiful ‘bijou two-way overlay linocut’ selection of stamps, with some previous and some new designs, all in the smaller ‘bijou’ format. I’ve opted for the ‘daisy’ stamps for this card – it’s such a… Read More bijou daisy linocut
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with a couple of cards today that I made with ClarityCrafts ‘adorable baby’ stamp set and one of their new ‘nested square hearts doodle frame-it panels’ dies. I need these for my stash, but was prompted to make them by the challenges at Just Us Girls and Inkspirational, pulling in… Read More baby clothes
Hello crafty friends! Today’s card features one of my older ClarityCrafts stamps – the kingfisher, which I bought way back when the stamps came ready mounted on the mounts! I really thought it ought to see the light of day again – and it’s part of the current Design of the Week offer at 30%… Read More kingfisher
Hello crafty friends and welcome to another Monday! Can you believe it’s nearly August already? I’m hoping summer returns soon – after the hottest June on record in the UK, we’ve had a fairly grey and miserable July. So here’s a card with a brighter day to end this month, using the SHAC hot air… Read More birthday balloon trip
Welcome to my crafty blog and some new stamps that arrived in a happy parcel this week – ‘Tina’s happy birthday henna‘ set from ClarityCrafts. I decided to go with the rich colours at Color Throwdown and the sketch from Just Add Ink, incorporating the ‘three of something’ theme from Just Us Girls I started… Read More happy henna birthday
Hello there! I’m back with a rather tempting display of cakes today – I do love celebrating with an afternoon tea! I’ve given ‘Linda’s piece of cake’ stamp a first inking today (it’s been tucked away in my stash for longer than it should have been!) inspired by the moodboard at Just Us Girls, the… Read More a piece of cake!
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
Sunday again already? The weeks are just going by at speed, so here’s the next installment in my dips back into ClarityCrafts Craft Club. Slightly surreal today, as it’s 30 degrees outside and here I am with a snowflake die from December 2021! It’s such a great modern design though, I decided not to make… Read More Clarity craft club lookback – abstract snowflake die
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