hello crafty friends and welcome to this week’s Christmas card! I know the sun’s been shining outside, but it’s week 20 of 2025 and I’m keeping up with my personal challenge! This week’s offering, using Clarity’s nativity miniatures stamps is inspired by the nativity theme at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown and the K for Kraft… Read More Landscape nativity
Happy Happy Christmas Day everyone! Just a quick post today to spread good wishes with this card I made using ClarityCrafts ‘miniature nativity’ stamps and the ‘highland treescape’ mask set, using colours that reflect the Middle East. A quick rundown on my process – I laid the ‘highland treescape’ masks onto a small square of… Read More Christmas nativity
Hello everyone! It’s time for our last challenge of the year at As You See It and Jane has given us this fab sketch to work with. As soon as I saw it, I thought of the fab bijou backdrop stamps from ClarityCrafts, which I’ve teamed up with the ‘nativity miniatures’ set, adding in the… Read More A new sketch for As You See It challenge
Hello and welcome into another dip back into Clarity‘s Craft Club archives, today featuring #97 ‘abstract pattern’ stencil which I’ve teamed up with one of the ‘Merry Little Christmas’ quote stamps and the ‘nativity miniatures’. I strated by gently brushing ‘chipped sapphire’ and ‘specked egg’ Distress Oxides through the stencil onto the centre of a… Read More Clarity Craft Club lookback – abstract stencil
Good morning crafty friends. I’m back with another card using the new ‘away in a manger’ stamps from ClarityCrafts, this time featuring the ones that didn’t appear on yesterday’s card. I’ve picked up the new theme of Clean & Simple (you know it’s my favourite style!) from Inkspirational, together with their optional twist of ‘inspired… Read More Away in a manger
Hello crafty friends. Today’s card pulls a few blog challenges together, using an old nativity scene stamp from Clarity Crafts, together with one of their ‘frame-it’ dies. I took the layout from Freshly Made Sketches and added in the new colours from Color Hues, together with a dash of inspiration from Hand Stamped Sentiments photo.… Read More nativity joy to the world
Hello crafty friends. We’ve got a new theme at Alphabet Challenge and it was my turn to choose it this time! We’re up to the letter P and I opted for ‘precious’. I thought this worked from two angles on this card – the Christ child is so precious for Christians around the world and… Read More P for precious at Alphabet Challenge
Welcome to my crafty blog and another Christmas card (I’m on a bit of a roll!) I’ve gone with stamps from the new ‘Peace to You’ set from Stampin’ Up! for this one, which was inspired by the sketch at Atlantic Hearts and the theme of ‘babies’ at As You See It – let’s face… Read More Nativity
Hello crafty friends. Today’s Christmas card was inspired by the new challenge at CAS Colours and Sketches, which is a combination of colours and a sketch as it was the fifth Tuesday in the month. I decided to go with a mixture of Claritystamps – I love it when different sets work well together. I… Read More joyful nativity
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with another Christmas card, this time using a couple of Clarity stamps that I’ve had for years (from back when they came pre-mounted onto Clarity’s curved handles). They have several of these framer word stamps, although I’m not sure that this is still available. I might have got a bit… Read More nativity joy
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