Hello crafty friends. It’s time for a new theme at Alphabet Challenge and Lynda has chosen T for Texture. I’ve picked up another of the Clarity Craft Club stencils (this one is from April) and the colours from Creative Colour Challenges. I started by attaching the stencil to a small square of card, so that the design… Read More T for Texture at Alphabet Challenge
Hello again – I’m back today with the last of the samples I made for ClarityCrafts TV shows this week using the mini mandala square dies. This time I opted to use set 2 to create an aperture on the front of a card, picking up the tones from Creative Colour Challenges. I’m also going to share… Read More mini mandala squares set 2
Hello crafty friends – how are your Christmas preparations getting on? Not long to go now – I’m onto present wrapping this evening. Before then, I’ve got another set of ClarityCrafts‘ square mini mandala dies to share with you and this one picks up several of the tones from Color Dare‘s ‘bold and bright’ challenge. I cut… Read More mini mandala squares set 4
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with a look at another of the mini mandala square dies from ClarityCrafts, this time set 1. I decided to simply use the middle die from the set as a frame for my stamped image – it’s a perfect fit for one of ‘Linda’s Advent Treasures’ stamps. I kept it very simple… Read More mini mandala squares set 1
Welcome to my crafty blog and an early look at one of my design team samples with ClarityCrafts mini mandala dies that will be featuring on Create & Craft TV tomorrow (Thursday) I kept it very simple with this one and let the dies do all the work as they’re so pretty! I started by cutting… Read More mini mandala squares set 3
Hello crafty friends. I’m finally getting back into the swing of things after my holiday, and was doing a bit of catching up at my craft desk this afternoon. My April Craft Club goodies arrived from ClarityCrafts while I was away, so I’ve given the mandala stencil a first outing on today’s card, inspired by… Read More mandala stencil
Hello there! It’s Sunday again so it’s back into Clarity’s Craft Club – this week I’m playing with the ‘nested doily mandala’ from June 2021. I’ve pulled three challenges together onto this card. The layout is thanks to the sketch from TGIF and I incorporated the middle row of die cut, green & layers from… Read More Clarity Craft Club lookback – nested doily mandala
Hello crafty friends. Welcome to day 4 of my 12 Days of Clarity and today it’s the ‘lace round’ stamp from April’s Craft Club. It’s such a lovely intricate design that it had to take centre stage on the card. But first the background – I cut one of Clarity’s ‘doodle frame-it aperture’ dies into… Read More 12 Days of Clarity 2022 – lace round
Hello crafty friends. Well, I’m continuing the poinsettia theme today, but without using a poinsettia stamp or die on this card! My Sunday dip back into Clarity’s craft club reached May 2020, which was a mandala die. When I looked at it, I thought I could turn it into a poinsettia style design and get… Read More Clarity Craft Club lookback – mandala die
Well it’s Sunday again so here I am with the next in my series working back through Claritystamp’s Craft Club stamps. Today it’s the ‘with love mandala’ set from January 2021 and I’ve also included the bonus set that was included at the beginning of the year – they work so well together. I started… Read More Claritystamp craft club lookback – mandala
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