Hello again! I’m back with a second card featuring one of the new Rectangle Aperture A5 stencils that ClarityCrafts have launched today. These stencils are made from thin plastic, so it’s easy to get very detailed images from them. I decided to combine the stencil with some masking for my layout, and used a die… Read More floral birthday blessings
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 there and welcome to my weekly trip back into past issues from Clarity’s Craft Club – today I’m sharing the trellis die from April 2022, which came as part of a set with the pillow box and hearts. I’ve brought it right up to date as well with another outing for the ‘peace –… Read More Clarity craft club lookback – trellis die
Hello there. I’m back with a fun and vibrant card today, using ‘Cherry’s funky happy birthday’ stamp set from ClarityCrafts which has been the WIGIG (When It’s Gone, It’s Gone!) offer at 60% off for the past week, ending at midnight tonight, so you’ve just got time to grab a last minute bargain! I picked… Read More funky birthday
Welcome to my crafty blog and a birthday card showcasing one of ClarityCrafts’ floral frame dies. I took the layout from CAS Colours & Sketches, the right-hand column of diecut, bright colour & CAS from TicTacToe and ‘anything goes’ from Seize the Birthday The first spet was to cut the aperture die into the front… Read More happy birthday floral frame
Welcome to my crafty blog and a card using the new ‘scots pine floral panel’ stamps from ClarityCrafts (another one I ‘invested’ in at their Open Day last weekend!) I’ve kept this one fairly simple again, picking up the challenges from The Card Concept and Seize the Birthday I started with a square of white… Read More scots pine birthday
Hello there. Well, it’s Sunday again so I’ve dipped back into Clarity’s Craft Club for today’s card, this time to #33, the ‘happy birthday musical notes’ dies from September 2021. I took inspiration for today’s card from a couple of blog challenges. Just Add Ink have very helpfully got ‘music’ as their theme this week,… Read More Clarity craft club lookback – musical notes dies
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’m delighted to have been invited along as the Surprise Birthday Guest at Seize the Birthday‘s new challenge – this week the ‘extra topping’ is to make a ‘card for a child’, but you can just play along with the regular ‘anything goes’ theme if you prefer. I’ve gone with… Read More Seize the Birthday challenge – card for a child
Hello crafty friends and welcome to my Sunday trip back into Claritystamp’s Craft Club. This time it’s the turn of the ‘patterned circles’ die from May 2021. I thought it would work well with the sketch from Just Add Ink and incorporated the colour theme from Seize the Birthday, adding in grey as my third… Read More Clarity Craft Club lookback – patterned circles die
Hello crafty friends. I seem to be doing quite a bit of paper piecing into diecuts at the moment, so here’s another one, this time using Clarity’s ‘art nouveau tulips’ dies. I took the colours from Creative Colour Challenge and the ‘birthday’ theme from Time Out. Seize the Birthday have got a very interesting challenge,… Read More birthday tulips
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