Hello crafty friends. I’ve now reached August in my daily dips back into last year’s Clarity Craft Club stamps and this lovely set of leaves (which incidentally partner really well with the Elementree stamps). i just used a couple of the stamps when I played with them last summer (that post is here), but this… Read More Clarity Craft Club 2025 lookback – August
Hello again! I’m back with another new challenge, this time it’s at As You See It and it’s one of our infamous speed challenges! That means you have just 10 minutes to complete your card (start to finish) and this one’s on the theme of leaves. Helpfully, the August set from Clarity’s Craft Club is… Read More Lively leaves at As You See It challenge
Hello crafty friends and welcome to our new challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches where Laura has given this fab trio of tones. I reached back for Clarity’s Elementree stamp set for this one – they weren’t far from my craft desk as I’ll be demoing with them at Clarity’s Open Days in Kent at… Read More CAS Colours & Sketches 561 – new colours
Hello friends. Another late post today – we’ve had a fab Sunday family day out with the grandson, who’s now 7 weeks old! Anyway, having shared the February stamp from Clarity‘s Craft club with you yesterday, I’ve got this month’s stencil today, which is a lovely coriander leaves design. I’ve followed the technique by my… Read More Clarity Craft Club – coriander leaves stencil
Hello friends. I’m back to share another creation with you using the new seasonal ‘build-a-wreath‘ stamps from ClarityCrafts and today’s card uses the ‘autumn‘ set. These are fab collections with 35 little stamps in each set – just perfect for building lots of designs, not just wreaths. Having said that, I have got another wreath… Read More leafy birthday wreath
Hello craty friends. Well this A4 sampler set of stamps from ClarityCrafts proved very popular yesterday, selling out twice! I thought I’d share another of my samples using it, this time repeat stamping the little leafy frame using the tones from Color Dare The first step was to cut a small square of stencil card… Read More leafy squares
Hello crafty friends. Here’s another look at the new Abstract Layout 5 die and ‘Just Flowers’ A5 stamp set from ClarityCrafts, this time teamed up with one of the fab designer papers for a landscape background. I started with a square of Waimea Falls designer paper that I’d cut to fit on a 7×7 card… Read More abstract layout window
Hello crafty friends! Today’s card features an older stamp set from ClarityCrafts that’s a great bargain in their current Gray Friday sale (Barbara Gray doesn’t do black, obviously!) I’ve only used a single stamp on this, the one from the top left corner of the set, picking up the colours from HandStampedSentiments, the leaves from… Read More a clever corner!
Hello there. Today’s card uses some of the latest Word Chain stamps from ClarityCrafts, together with their ‘birch trees’. I’ve pulled a few current challenges together in this design: the new theme of ‘outdoors’ at Global Design Project, the right hand column of square card, masculing & leaves from TicTacToe‘s grid, and the photo of… Read More Grandad’s trees
Hello crafty friends and welcome to a card with a bit of a difference today – I’ve stamped the images onto a dried teabag! Barbara Gray of ClarityCrafts has recently resurrected this style, (which I think has been around for years – there are a few books on it) and it was one of the… Read More teabag leaves
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