Hello everyone. I spent a happy hour earlier watching Barbara Gray on HobbyMaker TV putting Clarity’s build-a-wreath collection through their paces and I thought I’d have another play with the winter set – this time I have made a Christmas card with it though, after yesterday’s spring offering! Now you’ll know I love a kraft… Read More Christmas build-a-wreath
Well, it’s Tuesday again and time for our next challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches – we’ve got a new layout for you to play with! Now, you may be surpirsed to see this stamp set featured, but the question is… when is a winter wreath not for winter? The answer is when you use… Read More CAS Colours & Sketches 558 – April’s sketch
Welcome to this week’s Christmas card – seven weeks in and I’m still on track of making one each week! You may recall that I completely fell in love with the various Clarity Crafts landscape treescape stamps & masks last year – well, Barbara Gray will be back on Clarity Social TV tomorrow with some… Read More moonlit stag
Hello everyone. Just a quick card to share with you today, inspired by Barbara on Monday afternoon’s Clarity Social TV when she was playing with their ‘happy – grunge elements‘ stamp set. As it happens, this was the only set from the collection that I had in my stash – however don’t panic as the… Read More grunge elements thanks
Hello crafty friends. I thought we could have a look today at one of the stencil in Clarity‘s bumper sale of back issues from their Craft Club. I’ve pulled out stencil #110 ‘wise old oak‘ to create a little landscape scene using the palette from Color Dare and the sketch from AAA Cards. I decided… Read More old oak stencil
Hello everyone! Another late post from me today – life is just so busy in the run-up to Christmas. ClarityCrafts have been celebrating their Year of the Alphabet in 2024 and are rounding it off with a sale on all their alphabet sets (what’s not to like…?!) I’ve kicked off today with their ‘wood block… Read More wood block alphabet
Hello crafty friends. Bit of a late post today – I’ve been out to supper with some of my oldest friends! Fortunately, this one is pretty simple to work through, just using one of the nested hexagon dies from ClarityCrafts and a few sheets of the Hibiscus infusions collage paper. You’ll notice that I’ve stepped… Read More hexagonal thanks
Hello friends and welcome to a busy day on this little blog – there are more cards to come over the day! We’re starting the morning with one of ClarityCrafts‘ gorgeous mini Christmas Poppets stamps – meet Pumpkin and her little bunny pal! I couldn’t resist this little pair for our new ‘P for Party’… Read More P for Party at Alphabet Challenge
Hello again. I’m back with a second post thanks to our new challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches – as it’s the second one in the month, we have a sketch for you to play with design by Laura. I’ve kept it very simple (even by my standards!) and decided it was a good opportunity… Read More CAS Colours & Sketches 547 -simple stripes
Hello crafty friends. We’ve got a Fresh Cut Die Bonanza over on the ClarityCrafts webiste this weekend, with some brilliant bargains to be had (I may have already sneaked a cheeky little order in!) Dies don’t only have to be the focal image on a card and I’ve used a border strip here along with… Read More from our house to yours
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