Hello crafty friends and welcome to another look at the new French lace sampler stamp set from Clarity. I went down a different route with this one, tying in a striped background made with one of the Pergacolour pens. The first step was to create the background on a 5×5 card blank. I lined up… Read More French lace stripes
Hello friends. I have to say Friday does seem to come round very quickly each week, but that’s OK as it means it’s nearly the weekend! Let’s focus on today’s cards first though – I’m starting the day with our new theme of C for Circle at Alphabet Challenge. I went for three circles on… Read More C for Circle at Alphabet Challenge
Hello friends – I’m back today with our new sketch at CAS Colours & Sketches which runs for the next two weeks. I decided to use another of the SHAC floral panel sets today, this time the Scots pine – love these classic images. Both Inspire.Create challenges and AAA Birthday have got masculine themes at… Read More CAS Colours & Sketches 556 – a new sketch
Hello friends. I was crafting along this afternoon while watching Barbara Gray on Clarity Social TV, using one of Clarity Crafts‘ fab KISS (Keep It Simple Stamping) sets – ‘brighten your day flowers‘. I found a background piece in my stash that had the colours from Hand Stamped Sentiments, including the purple that’s Clarity’s colour… Read More KISS flower notecards
Hello friends – here I am back with another Christmas card! It doesn’t seem to matter how many I make each year, I always have to pull a few last minute ones togther – and this year is no exception! I’ve gone back to ClarityCrafts‘ ‘floral frame – Merry Christmas’ stamp set, which was still… Read More another floral frame
Hello crafty friends. Here we are with our new challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches – as it’s the second one of the month we’ve got a new sketch for you. The latest stamp from Clarity‘s Craft Club dropped through my letter box the other day, so this was a good excuse to play with… Read More CAS Colours & Sketches 549 – a new sketch
Hello friends and welcome to Sunday’s blog! I’ve got another look at one of ClarityCrafts‘ Christmas window stencils from Friday’s shows, this time paired with one of the ‘KISS Christmas wreaths’ stamps. I’ve channelled my inner Eileen Godwin on this design – she’s an absolute master at combining stencil & stamp images! I also picked… Read More candle window wreath
It’s Friday and time for our new theme at Alphabet Challenge – we’ve reached O and want to see your Ocean Animals! Lots of scope with this one, so I grabbed ‘Sam’s Bobbing Around’ set from ClarityCrafts – I really don’t like fish, but the expressions on this little shoal are just fab! I thought… Read More O for ocean animals at Alphabet Challenge
Hello there. This is the last of this run of Christmas cards for a little while, with the ‘snowflakes’ set from ClarityCrafts‘ ‘Tina’s Christmas Elements’ collection. This one was inspired by another of my Clarity design team buddies, Julie Dunn, who’s just brilliant at pattern building with stamps. I started with the snowflake tile stamp… Read More snowflake panel
Hello crafty friends. We’ve got a new challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches – it’s always a sketch for the second one of the month and, as I’m still hosting, I got to design it! Although I drew it earlier this year, it’s worked perfectly for the candles stamps from ClarityCrafts‘ new ‘Christmas Elements’ collection.… Read More CAS Colours & Sketches 543 – a new sketch
