Hello there and welcome to another card featuring one of the new Rectangle Aperture A5 stencils & Word Chain stamps from ClarityCrafts. Once again, I’ve chosen to just highlight part of the stencil, but these are so versatile with the aperture that you can stamp a sentiment straight into. For this one, I cut a… Read More floral sorry
Hello there. I’ve just had a couple of inspiration filled days at ClarityCrafts‘ annual retreat, where I also did a little light shopping and treated myself to the ‘feathered friends miniatures’ stamp set. If you’re anything like me, then you’ll want to use new goodies as soon as they’re out of the shopping bag, so… Read More Canada geese
Welcome to my crafty blog featuring another of the ClarityCrafts Art Nouveau stamps – this time the other one from the ‘congratuations & thinking of you’ set that I used yesterday. As I said then, Barbara Gray will be showcasing these stamps on Create & Craft TV on Sunday afternoon at 3pm. I took quite… Read More art nouveau lilies
Hello crafty friends and welcome to a very optimistic card today! I’m currently away at a Christian festival in Kent and it’s barely stopped raining since we got here (very grateful that we decided to stay in a hotel and not camp on site!!) I do love the art nouveau series from ClarityCrafts – Barbara… Read More art nouveau sunrise
I’m delighted to have been invited along as guest designer for the new shades of teal and orange at Color Hues! For once, this card came together quite easily – definitely helped by the fact that I had a mop-up piece of card in my stash in exactly the colours I needed and that ClarityCrafts‘… Read More Guest Designer for Color Hues – teal & orange
Hello crafty friends and welcome to another Monday! Can you believe it’s nearly August already? I’m hoping summer returns soon – after the hottest June on record in the UK, we’ve had a fairly grey and miserable July. So here’s a card with a brighter day to end this month, using the SHAC hot air… Read More birthday balloon trip
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with the last of my design team samples for this week’s launch of the new SHAC Vases & Foliage stamp set. My Clarity design team-mates have produced some amazingly creative samples, but I’ve stayed firmly in my happy CAS place with my designs, going for a bit of an outdoor… Read More in the garden of life
Welcome to my crafty blog and an early peek at the brand new SHAC ‘vase and foliage’ stamp & masks set that ClarityCrafts are launching tomorrow on Create & Craft TV (3pm and 7pm UK time). These really lend themselves to my favourite CAS style (more of that in the next couple of days), but… Read More SHAC vase group
Welcome to my crafty blog and some new stamps that arrived in a happy parcel this week – ‘Tina’s happy birthday henna‘ set from ClarityCrafts. I decided to go with the rich colours at Color Throwdown and the sketch from Just Add Ink, incorporating the ‘three of something’ theme from Just Us Girls I started… Read More happy henna birthday
Hello there! I’m back with a rather tempting display of cakes today – I do love celebrating with an afternoon tea! I’ve given ‘Linda’s piece of cake’ stamp a first inking today (it’s been tucked away in my stash for longer than it should have been!) inspired by the moodboard at Just Us Girls, the… Read More a piece of cake!
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