Hello! Welcome to today’s crafty blog and another look at the new ‘Japanese floral tiles‘ from Clarity Crafts. This time I’ve just used one of the three-way overlay stamps – being able to combine all three of a design, or two of them, or use onay of them on their own really adds to the… Read More happiness mandala
Hello friends. Another late post today – we’ve had a fab Sunday family day out with the grandson, who’s now 7 weeks old! Anyway, having shared the February stamp from Clarity‘s Craft club with you yesterday, I’ve got this month’s stencil today, which is a lovely coriander leaves design. I’ve followed the technique by my… Read More Clarity Craft Club – coriander leaves stencil
Hello crafty friends – it’s Friday already and the weekend’s just around the corner! It’s also Valentine’s Day today and all these hearts and love themes have been the perfect reason to add to my stash of wedding cards, ready for the summer season! Clarity‘s Half Price Members’ Sale is still going strong (it runs… Read More to the happy couple
Hello everyone. I did say yesterday that I wasn’t quite done with Christmas cards yet, so here’s one I made a while ago using the star window die from ClarityCrafts with their brick wall stencil. I do love the rich effect you get from gilding flakes – perfect for Christmas cards. The stencilled surround picks… Read More star window die
Hello there! Time for our next theme at Alphabet Challenge and we’re now up to R for Round. I’m still playing with the fab ‘letterbox gnomes’ from Clarity Crafts – you met Gnorman a couple of days ago, so now meet his bestie Gnorbert! I’ve sat him inside one of the ‘Christmas Rounds’ stencils to… Read More R for round at Alphabet Challenge
Hello crafty friends. I’ve got another sample using the new ‘woodland treescape overlay‘ stencils from ClarityCrafts today – and this time I actually did overlay them! This card is about as grungy as I get (it’s still essentially CAS, just lots of inky colour), picking up the tones from AAA Colourful‘s board, the layering theme… Read More trio of trees
Hello friends and welcome to Sunday’s blog! I’ve got another look at one of ClarityCrafts‘ Christmas window stencils from Friday’s shows, this time paired with one of the ‘KISS Christmas wreaths’ stamps. I’ve channelled my inner Eileen Godwin on this design – she’s an absolute master at combining stencil & stamp images! I also picked… Read More candle window wreath
Hello crafty friends. I’ve got a card today that I made a little while ago when the ‘Just woodland & birds silhouette’ stamps were launched by ClarityCrafts, teaming up with the ‘olive branch’ stencil. I’m planning to share this with Triple B (it features birds!), Cardz 4 Galz who’ve got a new theme of ‘circles’… Read More woodland wreath
Hello crafty friends. My new ‘leafy overlay stencils’ from ClarityCrafts arrived at the weekend, so they just had to come out for a first play! I’ve used all three stencils in the set, picking up texture & foliage from Just Add Ink, the tones from Color Hues and the autumn option from Stencil Fun with… Read More leafy overlay stencils
Hello crafty friends. Well, I’ve really gone for it with a couple of ClarityCrafts stencils on this card for the our new masculine theme at Sparkles Challenge! Eileen Godwin on the Clarity design team does amazing things with stencils and I’ve taken a little inspiration from her blending techniques for this one, which I’m also… Read More one for the boys at Sparkles Challenge
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