Hello friends. I’m back with a second post, this time for our new challenge at Addicted to Stamps & More, where we’re celebrating birthdays. I decided to share the card I made for my grandson, who turned 1 on Sunday (and I have no idea where that year went – it doesn’t seem 5 minutes… Read More Xander’s birthday at Addicted to Stamps & More!
Hello everyone and welcome to our first CAS Colours & Sketches challenge of 2026. Nancy’s kicking proceedings off for us with a luscious colour palette and I took the opportunity to finish my retrospective of last year’s Clarity Craft Club stamps with one of the sentiments from the November set paired with the poppies image… Read More January colours at CAS Colours & Sketches #576
Hello friends. I’m back again, this time with the next in my series looking back through last year’s Clarity Craft Club stamps. After yesterday’s jump forward to December, I’m now back in calendar order with the September set of stamps. I just think this little triangle figure is just joyous! I did a bit of… Read More Clarity Craft Club 2025 lookback – September
Hello everyone – I’m back with a second offering today as my design team project for the new challenge at Love to Craft. I treated myself to Clarity’s 2026 Calendar, so it seemed only fitting to share my January page today as it’s the first of the month. This design is completely inspired by a… Read More January’s calendar for Love to Craft challenge
Happy New Year crafty friends and welcome to my first post of 2026 courtesy of our latest challenge at Christmas (or not) BINGO. I’m still on my journey back through Clarity’s 2025 Craft Club stamps as well, so used the flowers from last July for my card incorporating three of the prompts from Column I… Read More Clarity Craft Club 2025 lookback – July for Christmas (or not) BINGO
Hello everyone. Are you having a quiet few days in this time between Christmas and New Year or, like me, has life got busy again (so far this week I’ve been to a wedding and a funeral – and it’s only Tuesday!) With my grandson’s baptism and first birthday coming up on Sunday as well,… Read More Clarity Craft Club 2025 lookback – May
Hello there. I’ve got a card for you today using the ‘caravan’ stamp from last February’s Clarity Craft Club as part of my little series working through the 2025 Club stamps. It’s a bit of a change from my usual CAS style – very full-on for me with an easel card base and die cut… Read More Clarity Craft Club 2025 lookback – February
Hello everyone – how are your final Christmas preparations going? I’ve been wrapping the last of the presents today and then I’m all set. I grabbed a bit of time to play with the latest stencil from Clarity’s Craft Club, which is a fab little Christmas cottage scene. I wanted to create a snowy scene… Read More Clarity Craft Club – Christmas cottage stencil
Hello crafty friends. I hope you’ve had a good weekend – I’ve been recovering from all yesterday’s excitement today! I made this card at the end of last week, when a friend & I caught up for an online session together. She’d got Jayne’s Floral Sampler out for some last minute cards and I realised… Read More sparkly poinsettia
Hello everyone. It’s the last weekend before Christmas and I’m a bit earlier posting today’s card – we’ve got a Christmas play at my church this evening, with final rehearsals this afternoon and I’m then having supper with a friend to watch the Strictly Come Dancing final. It’s all go! Anyway, the Bijou Art Nouveau… Read More art nouveau thank you
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