Hello crafty friends. I’ve dropped back into my happy CAS style today, with a card of encouragement for a friend thanks to the ‘SHAC Vases & Foliage’ stamp set from ClarityCrafts. I took the colours from Color Throwdown and based the layout on the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches I started with one of the… Read More keep the faith
Hello friends. Well I’m firmly back in my favourite CAS place with today’s card using ClarityCrafts ‘SHAC Peace – Japanese flowers & butterflies’ stamp set, which ash become one of my favourite sets too! Lots of inspiration for this one, with the colours from Color Hues and the summer themes from Addicted to CAS and… Read More butterfly kisses
Hello friends. TIme for a new challenge at Love to Craft – as always the theme is ‘anything goes’. The summer days are now here (Wimbledon starts today), so I’ve gone for a garden window view on my card, using one of ClarityCrafts ‘floral walls’ with their decorative panel window dies. I cut the arched… Read More garden window for Love to Craft challenge
Hello crafty friends! It’s been a busy few days for the ClarityCrafts team, with a number of TV shows over the last couple of days and some fabulous new goodies on offer! Today brings that to a close with the final two shows (the last one is at 12pm) and I thought I’d feature the… Read More Lizzy & rockery
Hello crafty friends and welcome to our new challenge at As You See It. Summer is heading our way and Jane has appropriately given us ‘weddings’ as the theme this time round. I made this card combining a couple of Clarity Crafts that, at first glance, don’t look like they should work together – ‘Tina’s… Read More weddings at As You See It challenge
Hello crafty friends and welcome to our new challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches. It’s time for sketch this time round – I rotated it, as one of the new ‘Tina’s bijou retro stamps’ from Clarity Crafts was the perfect shape! I decided to also pick up the tones from the moodboard at Just Us… Read More Craft Colours & Sketches 537 – sketch
Hello there. I’m back with another look at one of my demos from Saturday’s shows, using the trio of candles stamp from Clarity Crafts‘ new ‘Tina’s bijou retro’ stamp set. Obviously, it’s perfect for sharing with AAA Birthday, but also picks up the ‘backgrounds’ theme from TGIF Challenges My starting point was a small square… Read More birthday candles
Hello there! I’ve had another day trying to use up bits of my stash and dug this piece of background out of my folder from last year’s ClarityCrafts retreat – we spent a happy hour walking a brayer with acrylic paint across pieces of paper. I do love the A6 ‘star flower’ stamp set as… Read More star flower birthday
Hello crafty friends. Well, it’s time for our new challenge at Sparkles and I’m a happy bunny as Caz has chosen ‘clean & simple’ as the theme! I made this one a little while ago when ClarityCrafts released ‘Barbara’s loving heart’ stamp set – just perfect for weddings! I started with a square of stencil… Read More wedding day hearts
Hello crafty friends! I’m back with another card featuring Clarity‘s ‘calligraphy girls’ stamps, this time sitting her on a watercolour background and picking up the palette from Creative Colour Challenges with the layout from Freshly Made Sketches This story starts back last summer at the Clarity annual retreat, when we spent a happy session making… Read More she’s got style
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