Welcome to my crafty blog and our first challenge of 2024 at As You See It! Heather C has given us this great sketch to work with – I swapped the hearts for butterflies from ClarityCrafts‘ ‘SHAC peace – Japanese flowers & butterflies’ stamp set, and picking up the colours from Colorful Options (a new-to-me challenge)… Read More As You See It challenge – butterfly sketch
So here we are on day 10 of my 12 Days of Clarity series, with the ‘O Christmas Tree’ stamp from last October’s Craft Club. I was inspired by the layout at Freshly Made Sketches and the colours at Just Us Girls for another early 2024 Christmas card, which I’ll also share with Merry Little Christmas… Read More 12 Days of Clarity 2023 – October
Hello again! It’s day 9 of my 12 Days of Clarity, so here’s a card using the ‘sunflower panel’ stamps from ClarityCrafts‘ September Craft Club. I’ve combined the sketch from Global Design Project with the new colours from Color Throwdown on this one. The first step was to cut a piece of stencil card to fit a… Read More 12 Days of Clarity 2023 – September
Happy New Year everyone! I’m starting 2024 with a design team card for the new challenge at Love to Craft and, as always, the theme is ‘anything goes’. I’ve been trying to clear out some of my stash box of part finished pieces and found this die cut using ClarityCrafts ‘art nouveau tulips’ aperture die, which I… Read More art nouveau tulips for Love to Craft challenge
Hello there and welcome to day 3 of my 2023 12 Days of Clarity lookback through my Clarity Craft Club stamps – at least that was the plan until I discovered that I couldn’t find 4 of them, which had arrived while I was away travelling this year, or shortly after! I’ve searched high & low,… Read More 12 Days of Clarity 2023 – March
Hello there! Just over a week to go – how are your Christmas preparations coming on? I feel a bit like I’m in one of those circus acts spinning lots of plates on poles (and some of them are getting a bit wobbly!!) Never mind, it will all be fine when the day arrives. I’ve started on my family… Read More Merry Christmas gnome
Welcome to my crafty blog and the final one of my DT samples for ClarityCrafts new ‘summer tags and frames’ stamp set. I’ve mixed a few techniques on this one while keeping it CAS and am sharing it with TicTacToe (taking the right hand column of green, patterned paper & die cut) and Simply Clean… Read More lily frame
Hello crafty friends. Here I am with today’s card, which uses the same stamps (ClarityCrafts ‘winter tags & frames’) as yesterday’s but this time stepped up a bit further! This one fits the challenges at Inspire.Create and Peace on Earth, plus a second offering for The Paper Players I’m back to traditional colours today with… Read More pentagon frame wreath
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with the last challenge of the year from CAS Colours & Sketches and my final one as their guest designer. This time, the challenge is to choose any previous one from 2023 (they are all over on their blog) and make is a seasonal card. I decided to go with… Read More hanging frame for CAS Colours & Sketches
Hello crafty friends and welcome to another look at the new ‘summer tags & frames’ stamps from ClarityCrafts, this time with the hexagon sunflowers frame. I’ve picked up the watercolour challenge from Happy Little Stampers – you’ll see where in a minute if you haven’t spotted it already! The first step was to stamp the… Read More sunflower wishes
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