Welcome to 2025! Can you believe we’re a quarter of the way through the 21st Century? I’m clearly getting old! Anyway, enough about that, we’re kicking off the new year with a new challenge at Love to Craft and a bit of a change. As always the theme is ‘anything goes’, but we’ve bid farewell… Read More Happy New Year at Love to Craft Challenge
Hello there! Well, ClarityCrafts‘ bumper sale of back issues of their Craft Club products is still going strong, so I thought we’d look at one of the stamp sets today – ‘Happy New Year’ #194 from December 2023. These little glasses of bubbly are so useful for lots of occasions, not just New Year and… Read More Craft Club New Year
Hello friends. I’m back with the last of my design team samples for the new ‘Nutcracker’ stamp set from ClarityCrafts – this time I’ve done a bit of masking and added the trees from the ‘winter cabin reflection’ set. The colours from the current challenge at Sunday Stamps were ideal and I also picked up… Read More Christmas Nutcracker
Hello friends and welcome to December! It’s Advent Sunday today, so it really does feel like time to turn our eyes towards Christmas during this season of waiting. Barbara is back on Clarity Social TV with a fab new set of hand drawn stamps based on The Nutcracker ballet, which is often performed at Christmas.… Read More The Nutcracker
Hello crafty friends! Well the Gray Friday sale at Clarity Crafts is till on until midnight on Monday, but just to add a bit of spice into the mix Barbara Gray has got her usual first Sunday of the month show tomorrow on Clarity Social TV with a fab new set of stamps! Meet the… Read More Nutcracker suite
Hello crafty friends. Apologies for the lack of a post yesterday – I had a busy work day not getting home until late evening and, following a full-on weekend demonstrating at ClarityCrafts‘ Open Days, I simply ran out of steam! But I’m back in harness today and thought I’d share with you the second card… Read More black sheep, white sheep
Welcome to my crafty blog and a first look at the next set of ‘Linda’s Christmas Compendium’ stamps that ClarityCrafts are launching tomorrow. I’ve got two cards to share today, both made with just one stamp from the ‘Christmas Treasures Advent A4’ set – the king from the second row on the sheet. For the… Read More three kings
Welcome to my crafty blog and something a little different today! My friends who know me will will be very surprised by this card, as they know I can’t bear fish (whether swimming around or lying on a plate!) This trio from ‘Sam’s bobbing around’ set by ClarityCrafts are rather fun though, and perfectly fitted… Read More looking fintastic!
Hello crafty friends. I’m back today with a birthday card for my father-in-law, who’ll be turning 96 on Friday. He doesn’t get out of the house anymore, so I thought he might appreciate a landscape on his birthday. This one uses the colours from Inspire.Create – I thought they were ideal for a masculine card.… Read More snowy hills
Welcome to my crafty blog. Today’s card is for my father-in-law, who will be 95 on Christmas Eve! (don’t worry, he won’t be reading this blog so no risk of spoilers!). His cards are always a bit tricky, as he doesn’t have any specific hobbies or interests, so I thought this stamp set from Claritystamp… Read More Christmas birthday wishes
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