Hello crafty friends. It’s a busy couple of days in my little bloggy world and I’ve got a second card to share again today, this time for the new theme at Sparkles Challenge. Maria has given us ‘pastels and/or rabbits’, which is a great springtime theme and I’ve managed to combine both elements into my… Read More Pastels & rabbits at Sparkles Challenge #199
Hello crafty friends and welcome to our new theme at As You See It challenge, where we want to know what cards you send most of during the year (other than Christmas!) Unsurprisingly, it’s birthday cards for me, added to by the fact that I make and manage the birthday cards for one of the… Read More More cards than Christmas at As You See It Challenge 370
Hello friends. I’m back with another design using the Mini Japanese Scene Builder stamps on a CAS card of encouragement, this time sitting my little scene on one of the Landscape Backdrop Prints toppers. I selected one of the tags (or small toppers) that had the sort of colours I wanted and simply stamped the… Read More Peace & love tree
Hello crafty friends! I hope you had a lovely Easter weekend – I had a great day with the family and then have travelled down to the West country with friends today, to spend the next few days in Minehead in Somerset (and the sun’s shining!) It seemed fitting then, as I’m on the coast,… Read More SHAC Garden of England
Hello everyone. It’s a lovely sunny day here today, so the perfect time to share some more new stamps from Clarity Crafts, which Barbara will also have on her HobbyMaker TV show at 2pm today. Meet the Art Deco Special Day set which has some lovely sentiments in it. I paired them up with one… Read More Wishes for a lovely day
Hello friends. I’m back again, this time with the next in my series looking back through last year’s Clarity Craft Club stamps. After yesterday’s jump forward to December, I’m now back in calendar order with the September set of stamps. I just think this little triangle figure is just joyous! I did a bit of… Read More Clarity Craft Club 2025 lookback – September
Hello crafty friends. It’s been another busy day demonstrating at Clarity Crafts’ Open Days – lots of interest in this Winter Wonderland stamp set which I combined with one of Barb’s Landscape backdrop prints to make a card of thanks for our new theme of ‘thank you’ at Sparkles Challenge. I’ve made several copies of… Read More thank you card at Sparkles Challenge
Hello crafty friends! I’ve got a busy day today with two shows on Clarity Social TV – I’m kicking off at 10am with Sam’s Shapes stamps, so here’s a look at one of my demos using the ‘don’t be such a square‘ set (plus a little friend!) This first demo is also my design team… Read More H for home at Alphabet Challenge
Hello crafty friends. The sun’s still shining here (although the temperature has thankfully dropped back down to the seasonal norm after the recent heatwaves) and we’re celebrating ‘summer days’ with our new theme at Sparkles Challenges. I pulled out another piece of the fab backdrop prints from Clarity and once again just added a few… Read More summer days at Sparkles Challenge
Hello everyone. Well after the heatwave here at the beginning of the week, I woke to grey skies and light rain yesterday, which felt wonderful! The sun is back now, but yesterday’s drizzle pointed me towards one of the new Timestamp Creations sets, which Clarity Crafts produce for Janice Phillips. All these little images are… Read More every step is better with friends
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