Hello crafty friends! Meet Gnorma, one of the fab Clarity Crafts ‘letterbox gnomes’, who I’ll be showcasing live on YouTube tomorrow at 10am & 2pm, along with their elf cousins (and they’re all on offer in the Gray Friday sale!) I’ve been busy prepping my demos over the last couple of days, so hopefully I’ll… Read More Gnorma
Hello friends. I thought I’d share another Christmas card sample from my TV shows a couple of months ago, using the snowflake set from ‘Tina’s Christmas Elements’ by ClarityCrafts, just using one of the smaller single stamps to build a pattern on a one layer card. I’m going to share this one with the challenges… Read More Christmas hearts panel
Hello crafty friends. A nice and simple one layer card today using the ‘scots pine’ stamp set from ClarityCrafts, inspired by the photo boards at Hand Stamped Sentiments and Inkspirational both of which feature pine cones. I also picked up the ‘thanks’ theme from The Paper Players and Simply Clean & Simple I started by… Read More pine thanks
Welcome to my crafty blog and the start of another week! I like nothing better than meeting friends for coffee (and food!), so Linda Williams’ coffee themed stamp sets for ClarityCrafts are perfect for me I’ve managed to combine three current challenges on this card. The layout is from Freshly Made Sketches, the colours from… Read More the perfect blend
Hello crafty friends. Well. I’m cracking on with thank you cards in anticipation of lots of lovely Christmas presents at the weekend! I kept this one nice and simple, inspired by the photo over at TGIF challenges I started by creating a frame on the front of a 5×5 card blank with one of Clarity’s… Read More colourful thanks
Hello crafty friends. Well, here we are at the start of another week and the sun’s still shining here in the UK. I decided to use another of my favourite Claritystamp sets today – the ‘birdhouse garden’. I took the layout from the sketch over at Global Design Project and the colours from TGIF, then… Read More summer garden
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with another card using one of Claritystamp’s linocut stamps (‘daisy’) after watching Barbara Gray on selly telly this morning. I’ve just used one of the stamp pair this time – more of that in a minute. I thought the colours from Color Throwdown would be ideal for this image, and… Read More dear friend
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with another stamp that I picked up at Clarity’s Open Day – a brand new linocut set called ‘under the apple tree’. It’s such a lovely scene and perfect for The Paper Players‘ one layer clean and simple challenge. I thought the current colours over at Just Add Ink were… Read More under the apple tree
Hello crafty friends and welcome to Sunday’s dip back into Claritystamp’s Craft Club. I’m now up to November 2020 and the ‘winter’ stamps. I decided to just use the holly strip for a Christmas card, and stamped it twice in Archival ‘fern green’ across the front of an A6 card blank. I scored a couple… Read More Claritystamp craft club lookback – winter
Hello there! I’ve got a very quick and simple card to share with you today, using the Stampin’ Up! ‘textures and frames’ set from last year’s Saleabration. I haven’t used it very much, but it came to mind when I saw the inspiration photo from Just Us Girls. I’ve also used the ‘one layer &… Read More a little note
