Hello again! I’m back with another of the new ‘Merry Christmas’ quote stamps from ClarityCrafts, which today I’ve teamed up with the ‘family of penguins’ set – they’re just perfect for our new theme of ‘winter animals’ at Sparkles challenge. And obviouly I can’t resist sharing it with a few other Christmas challenges at The… Read More Sparkles challenge – winter animals
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
Hello crafty friends. I’m back today with my design team card for the new theme of ‘tropical or beach’ for Sparkles challenge. This card contains something old and something new and is a bit of an arty departure for me – definitely not my usual CAS style! I spent two days last week at ClarityCrafts‘… Read More Sparkles challenge – tropical
Hello there. It might seem odd that I’m sharing another Christmas card today, in the middle of July, but ’tis the season when crafters start to produce their cards! Add to that the new theme of ‘Christmas in July’ over at Sparkles Challenge and this is the result, which I’m also going to share with… Read More Sparkles challenge – Christmas in July
Welcome to my craft blog and our new theme at Sparkles challenges. I’m in my happy place with this one, as Helen has chose CAS (clean and simple) for this month. It gave me a good reason to play with my new little set of ‘celebrate your day flowers’ by Tina Cox for Clarity’s KISS… Read More Sparkles challenge – CAS
Hello there. It’s time for a new theme over at Sparkles Monthly Challenges and this time it’s men only – we want to see your masculine cards! I’ve gone with some brand new stamps for this card – I picked them up at the IndigoBlu Open Day on Saturday, which I went to with my… Read More Sparkles challenge – men only!
Well it’s Sunday again, so I’ve dipped back into Clarity’s Craft Club, this time to the ‘holly birds aperture’ die from November 2020. We’ve also got our first challenge of 2023 at Sparkles – it was my turn to choose the theme and I’ve gone with ‘friendship’. I thought these two birds were perfect to… Read More Clarity Craft Club lookback – holly birds
Hello there and welcome to our new challenge at Sparkles. Angela has chosen ‘gnome home for the holidays’ as our theme this month, so Clarity’s ‘letterbox gnomes’ got to come out and play one more time! I started with the holly stencil from Clarity’s ‘christmas rounds’ set and laid it over the front of a… Read More Sparkles challenge – gnome home for the holidays
Welcome to my crafty blog and something a bit different for me. I generally just make cards, but our new challenge at Sparkles is to use a die or punch and for once I thought Christmas treat boxes would fit the bill. I used the ‘mini cube box’ from Clarity’s craft club earlier this year… Read More Sparkles challenge – die or punch
Hello crafty friends. Well we’ve got a new theme for the next month over at Sparkles Challenge and Zowie has chosen ‘owls’. I’ve gone for a kid’s card with the new ‘hoot hoot hooray’ set from Avery Elle – this little chap is just too cute! I’ve picked up the layout from Freshly Made Sketches… Read More Sparkles challenge – owls
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