Hello crafty friends and welcome to Monday! I was inspired to play with the SHAC floral panel roses stamps today while watching Barbara put them through their paces on Clarity Social TV this afternoon. They come with a great A4 oval aperture stencil, which is ideal for creating focal images – so that’s exactly what… Read More SHAC floral panel roses
Hello there! I’m still working my way through products from Clarity’s Craft Club, inspired by the current sale of back issues. I’ve got another stencil from the club today – the ‘simple rose’ #109. I always used to struggle with frameless stencils, but they are just brilliant to use on gel plates, so that’s what… Read More simple rose stencil
Hello crafty friends! It’s time for our new challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches and Joanne has gifted us a great sketch – perfect for a mix of British flowers combining the daffodils from ClarityCrafts‘ new Wales framer set, the thistle from the Scotland framer and the rose from Just Flowers (can’t believe such a… Read More CAS Colours & Sketches 533 – sketch
Hello again. I’m delighted to be back with my second card as the ‘surprise party guest’ for Seize the Birthday – this time the task is to use red as the main colour on our cards. I took the opportunity of an early peek at the new ‘Just Flowers’ that ClarityCrafts are launching tomorrow (Barbara… Read More Seize the Birthday challenge – red
Hello there! Well it’s launch day for the new ‘seasonal tags & frames’ stamps from ClarityCrafts and I’ve used one of the ‘summer’ set for a birthday card, picking up the layout from Atlantic Hearts and the ‘anything goes’ theme from Seize the Birthday. I started by stamping the sentiment first in the centre of… Read More birthday rose frame
Welcome to my crafty blog and a second outling for the new ‘roses’ floral aperture framer die from ClarityCrafts. I’ve got a bit of a different look on this one, after the white on white card I shared on Wednesday, thanks to a piece of Clarity’s Shenandoah designer paper. The die also works beautifully for… Read More Q for Quadruple at Alphabet Challenge
Hello crafty friends! We’ve got a new challenge over at Sparkles challenges – this month Zowie has challenged us to use an Alice in Wonderland theme for our creations. Well this definitely was a bit of a poser for me, as I don’t have anything that immediately fits the bill but then I remembered the… Read More Sparkles challenge – Alice in Wonderland
Welcome to my crafty blog! There’s a lot going on today, with the launch of some fabulous new additions to ClarityCrafts‘ Art Nouveau collection, plus I’m delighted to have been invited along as Guest Designer for the new sketch challenge at AAA cards. I’ve managed to combine both events with the new ‘bed of roses’… Read More bed of roses stencil
Hello there! I’m back with another card using the ‘simple rose’ stencil from last month’s Clarity Craft Club and a bit of inspiration from my sister at the weekend when she was making a card with it! There’s nothing too complicated about this one, in keeping with the stencil’s name! I laid the stencil across… Read More roses are red…
Hello crafty friends. I’ve been having another play with my June Craft Club goodies from ClarityCrafts – this time it’s the ‘simple rose’ stencil. I took Just Us Girls‘ ‘pastels’ theme for the colours, which worked beautifully with the floral inspiration photo at Inspired by and the central row of pink, encouragement & squares on… Read More take time to smell the roses
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