Hello crafty friends. I’ve revisited ClarityCrafts ‘birch trees’ stamp set for today’s card, picking up a few of the prompts from Festive Friday (clean & simple, card, stamps & a ‘for you’ sentiment – I think the blessing counts on that one!). As it’s a CAS style, I’m also going to share it with Simply… Read More birch tree blessings
Hello friends. I’m back again with a sneaky peek at some new products that ClarityCrafts are launching tomorrow (Sunday) – these fab 8×8 stripe stencils (there’s a set of plaid ones as well). I’ve kept it simple with this one (my favourite approach!), just using the stencil in the background of a masked panel, inspired… Read More fly away boy
Hello friends. I hope you’re not bored with this series of Christams cards, as I’ve got another one to share with you today from the weekend’s ClarityCrafts launch! Today it’s the ‘mistletoe swirls’ stamps and I’m back in my happy CAS place, just using the two little leaf images in the set. This works well… Read More mistletoe panel
Welcome to my crafty blog and a sneaky peek at some more goodies from Clarity Crafts that have been resized – Barbara will be launching them on Create & Craft TV tomorrow (Friday) at 9am & 1pm. These are some of Barb’s linocut designs and I thought we’d start with the poppies set. I’ve managed… Read More bijou linocut poppies
Hello crafty friends and welcome to another of ClarityCrafts‘ re-released Old is Gold stamps – the ‘time spent with a friend’ set. This is such a sweet image of the boy and his dog sat fishing on the riverbank and I paired it up with the ‘peppermint’ infusions paper for a bit of a different… Read More time with a friend
Hello there! I’ve got some more new ClarityCrafts goodies to share with you today – this lovely ‘dippy toe lady & company sampler’ set of stamps are launching tomorrow at 3pm on Create & Craft TV. I took the snowdrop & cornflower stamps from the bottom left of the set for this card, keeping it… Read More life in colour
Welcome to my crafty blog and another card using the new Japanese floral two-way overlay stamps from ClarityCrafts, this time just using the small frame from one of the panel sets. The tones pick up on the new challenge at AAA Colourful and the ‘weather’ theme at Simply Clean & Simple (you know I love… Read More simple things
Welcome to my crafty blog! I’ve gone for another take on the new geisha stamps from ClarityCrafts, this time pairing it with one of the ‘enso’ stamps. Enso is a sacred symbol from Zen Buddhism; it means ‘circle’ and is traditionally drawn with a single brushstroke as a meditative practice in letting go of the… Read More sunset geisha
Hello crafty friends. Today’s card is another of my samples from Barbara’s TV shows yesterday, this time using one of my all-time favourite stamps, the A6 ‘Tina’s floral spray’ set. I went with the spotlight technique, taking inspiration from the photo at AAA Colourful; I’m also going to share it with Just Add Ink as… Read More floral spotlight
Welcome to my crafty blog and a sneak peek at some more new ClarityCrafts products that are launching on Create & Craft TV this evening – the ‘nested circle diamonds & dots doodle frame-it panel’ dies. I thought they’d be ideal for the sketch at AAA Cards, keeping it CAS for Simply Clean & Simple… Read More Half circles
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