Hello crafty friends. I seem to be doing quite a bit of paper piecing into diecuts at the moment, so here’s another one, this time using Clarity’s ‘art nouveau tulips’ dies. I took the colours from Creative Colour Challenge and the ‘birthday’ theme from Time Out. Seize the Birthday have got a very interesting challenge,… Read More birthday tulips
Hello everyone! I’m thrilled to have been invited along as guest designer for the new challenge at Global Design Project, with these gorgeous colours. I decided to keep it fairly simple and just let the colours do the work with the large flowers from Stampin’ Up!’s ‘artistic’ die set. I’d seen a beautiful card over… Read More Guest designer for the new colour challenge at Global Design Project
Welcome to my crafty blog and my regular Sunday dip back into Claritystamp’s Craft Club. This time it’s February 2021 and the ‘with love floral forest’ die, which I’ve paired with the colours from Just Add Ink and the left hand diagonal of heart, free & die cut from TicTacToe‘s grid The first step was… Read More Clarity craft club lookback – with love floral forest die
Welcome to my weekly dip back into Clarity’s Craft Club with the ‘room with a view’ aperture die from January 2021. I went for a slightly more ambitious card than I usually make, picking up the palette from Creative Colour Challenges, with fancy fold, friendship statement and something shiny from the inspo list at Festive… Read More Clarity Craft Club lookback – room with a view die
Welcome to my crafty blog. I was delighted to be invited along as guest designer for the new challenge at TicTacToe – one of my favourites to play along with! The new grid is right up my street – I had so many options to choose from, but in the end went with the right… Read More Guest Designer for TicTacToe challenge #195
Well it’s Sunday again, so I’ve dipped back into Clarity’s Craft Club, this time to the ‘holly birds aperture’ die from November 2020. We’ve also got our first challenge of 2023 at Sparkles – it was my turn to choose the theme and I’ve gone with ‘friendship’. I thought these two birds were perfect to… Read More Clarity Craft Club lookback – holly birds
Hello there and welcome to the last of my 12 Days of Clarity challenge to close the 12 days of Christmas. The ‘Happy New Year’ stamps from December’s Craft Club arrived just before Christmas and I’ve only just got round to playing with them. I started by cutting one of the circle ‘frame-it aperture’ dies… Read More 12 Days of Clarity 2022 – Happy New Year
Happy New Year, crafty friends! We’re starting 2023 with a new challenge over at Love to Craft and as always the theme is ‘anything goes’. A friend asked me to make a birthday card for her daughter-in-law and I built the design around Clarity’s ‘happy birthday floral frame’ die. I started by cutting the die… Read More floral frame birthday
Hello crafty friends. Today’s dip back into Clarity’s craft club took me to the ‘bird in hand’ die from September 2020. This is another one that I haven’t used much, but it’s such a great image it really needs sharing a bit more. I decided to go with the sketch from Hand Stamped Sentiments for… Read More Clarity craft club lookback – bird in hand die
Welcome to my crafty blog and a Christmas card with no ink or stamping on it (not my usual style!) I thought of Clarity’s Santa round aperture die when I saw the theme at The Paper Players and it works really well for the sketch at Atlantic Hearts. Inkspirational‘s theme of paper piecing was also… Read More paper pieced Santa
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