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 crafty friends. It’s time for a new challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches and Nancy has a sketch for us. It immediately made me think of three trees, so I went back to the ‘winter wishes’ set from Linda’s Christmas Compendium by Clarity Crafts. I opted for the colours from the left hand column… Read More winter trees for CAS Colours & Sketches
Hello crafty friends! I hope you’re having a good weekend – I’ve been getting busy batch making Christmas cards with the ‘bijou 12 Days of Christmas‘ stamps from ClarityCrafts, and they’re on offer at 30% off until midnight on Monday, so a great time to grab a pre-Christmas bargain. I’ve kept these firmly in my… Read More a couple of days of Christmas!
Hello there! I’m delighted to have been invited along as guest designer for the new challenge at Christmas Craft Creations. This month’s theme is ‘add a hat’ and I immediately thought of ClarityCrafts ‘family of penguins’ stamp set – this little one looks well wrapped up! I’ve taken the colours from Less Is More and… Read More add a hat for Christmas Craft Challenge
Welcome to my crafty blog and a first look at the next set of ‘Linda’s Christmas Compendium’ stamps that ClarityCrafts are launching tomorrow. I’ve got two cards to share today, both made with just one stamp from the ‘Christmas Treasures Advent A4’ set – the king from the second row on the sheet. For the… Read More three kings
Welcome to my crafty blog and a birthday card for a football fan! I’ve used one of ClarityCrafts tag dies as the topper on this card (I really should use them more often, they make a nice change from a square or circle). I took inspiration for this card from the challenges at The Paper… Read More sporty birthday
Welcome to my crafty blog and another look at one of the new bijou two-way overlay linocut stamps from ClarityCrafts – this time, the ‘midnight rose’ set. I’ve kept it very clean and simple on this one, first stamping the background image in ‘chipped sapphire’ Distress Oxide onto a 5×5 card blank. I then added… Read More bijou midnight rose
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with a second card today (this is becoming a regular occurrence!) courtesy of our new theme of ‘at the beach’ at As You See It challenge. Despite the fact that I’d picked this one back at the beginning of the year, I was struggling for inspiration until I remembered ClarityCrafts… Read More As You See It challenge – at the beach
Hello there! Did you catch the Clarity shows on Create & Craft TV yesterday? So much Christmas inspiration! One of the additional sets on the shows was ‘Barb’s funky houses’, orginally launched last year, and I thought they’d be perfect for our new theme of G for Green at Alphabet Challenge, together with the ‘CAS… Read More G for Green at Alphabet Challenge
Hello there! I’m back with a very clean & simple card today, using one of the ‘floral frames’ stamps from Julie HIckey Designs. I’ve pulled three challenges together for this one – the layout is from Inspire.Create and the colours from Color Throwdown, together with the overall theme from Less is More The first step… Read More daisy frames
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