Hello everyone – how are your final Christmas preparations going? I’ve been wrapping the last of the presents today and then I’m all set. I grabbed a bit of time to play with the latest stencil from Clarity’s Craft Club, which is a fab little Christmas cottage scene. I wanted to create a snowy scene… Read More Clarity Craft Club – Christmas cottage stencil
Hello crafty friends. I’m sharing a card & ATC (artist’s trading card) that I sent to my partner in this month’s Clarity ATC swap. The theme was ‘festive’ and ‘silver’ and I opted to put the November Craft Club stencil into use on both the ATC and card. Let me talk you through the process… Read More Craft Club stencil – foliage tree
Hello everyone. I was catching up with Barbara’s show on Clarity Social TV from this afternoon and realised that I hadn’t shared today’s card with you, so here it is now – better late than never! Meet Pru, one of the mini Christmas Poppets stamps – I paired her with the holly wreath from the… Read More Pru’s holly wreath
Hello crafty friends. I’ve got another new challenge to share with you today – this time it’s our next theme of ‘autumn leaves & pumpkins’ at Sparkles Challenges. Well, I knew exactly where I was going with my DT card for this one, and that was straight back to Clarity’s Autumn Build a Wreath stamp… Read More autumn leaves & pumpkins at Sparkles Challenge
Hello crafty friends. I’ve been playing today with another of the goodies from September’s Clarity Craft Club – this time the stencil (#136 square framework). I said the other day that I need to make better use of my stencils stash, so this is a good start. It’s a great background and I built a… Read More Clarity Craft Club stencil #136 – square framework
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with another of the stamps from Tina’s Flowers Sampler set – this time I paired it with the Art Nouveau Bed of Roses stencil for a soft background. This works well for the stencil theme at Just Us Girls and picks up the sketch at The Paper Players. I started… Read More hopeful roses
Hello friends and welcome to our new challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches! I’ve put together these lovely soft colours for summer and decided they would work well with the latest stencil from Clarity’s Crafts Club. I’m sharing my DT card with a couple of other challenegs as well – the club stencil makes it… Read More CAS Colours & Sketches 567 – August colours
Hello crafty friends. I’ve switched away from Christmas cards today to share my DT card for our new challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches, where I get to host this month! I went with this simple sketch which I think has lots of possibilities (you can flip or rotate it) for some great CAS cards.… Read More CAS Colours & Sketches #566 – August sketch
Hello crafty friends. Today I’ve got the stencil from last month’s Clarity Craft Club to share with you – it’s a fabulous background design with spots, stripes and apertures. I took inspiration from the card by my good friend Jane on the project sheet that comes with the Craft Club goodies each month, although I… Read More Clarity Craft Club – spots & stripes stencil
Hello everyone. I found time yesterday to play with the latest stamp from Clarity’s monthly Craft Club, which is this lovely bouquet of flowers and sentiment. You all know that I like to pick up themes, sketches, colours, etc from blog challenges and I pulled a few together with this card. I find colour palettes… Read More Clarity Craft Club – friends & flowers
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