Hello crafty friends and welcome to our latest challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches, where we’ve got a new layout for you to play with. I decided to have another play with the Build a Bloom stamps, inspired by the brilliant free Craftalong that Barbara Gray ran last Thursday evening – it pushed me out… Read More Build a Bloom for CAS Colours & Sketches #585
Hello everyone. I’ve got a beautiful garden of flowers to share with you today, using another of the new Floral Wall Mixed Impressions stamps, this time the A6 sized outline image from the bottom of the left hand sheet. I’ve basically just stamped it onto designer paper and coloured it in, adding one of the… Read More Floral wall birthday
Hello crafty friends. It’s Saturday again and time for this week’s Christmas card (and apologies if you read this post when it first published a few hours ago – I originally wrote it last night and somehow it failed to save! I’ve only just discovered that when I came to check something, so have now… Read More May’s colours at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown 26-18
Hello crafty friends. I’ve got another of my Clarity Social TV demos from last Friday to share with you today, as I promised at the time having skipped through this one quite quickly in the 2pm show. The Kite Doodle stamp set is another one hand-drawn by Barbara in the earlier days of the SHAC… Read More SHAC Kite Doodle
Hello everyone. I’ve got another look at the new Folkart stamps to start the week, this time creating a scene on one of the small Collage Landscape Print toppers. These toppers are a great little set, featuring the designs from the online handcut Collage workshops that Barbara ran last year (they’re still available to work… Read More Folkart collage topper
Hello everyone and welcome to my second Seasonal Saturday of 2026 with our new challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown. Andreja’s given us a great palette to play with, which I thought was perfect for the Triangle Trees masks, together with a fab new set of Art Deco sentiments, which are Clarity’s Product of the… Read More Triangle trees for 52 Christmas Card Throwdown
Good morning everyone and welcome to the weekend! Some of you may recall that I set myself a challenge last year of making one Christmas card each week to get my stash built up ahead of time – well I pretty much managed it, other than in September when I was away travelling in Australia.… Read More snowman sketch for 52 Christmas Card Throwdown
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
Hello everyone. It’s been a damp grey day here, so I thought I’d inject a bit of wintery atmosphere with the latest stamp from Clarity’s Craft Club the fab little ‘Let It Snowman’. I sat him in a chilly scene from the Landscapes by Barbara toppers set. The first step was to find a suitable… Read More Clarity Craft Club – December snowman
Hello crafty friends. I’ve been playing with another new Clarity product today – the Triangle Trees masks. These came out of one of Barbara’s SHAC (Safe, Happy & Creative) sessions when she was drawing them, and they make layering up the trees so easy. First, though, I needed to create a frame on a 6×6… Read More triangle trees
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