Hello friends. I’m back with another of my demos from yesterday’s Clarity Social TV – I was using this bird tree stencil on the 2pm show.I decided to go for a colourful rainbow of birds bursting out of the grey tree – a simple technique which works for the challenges at Just Us Girls and… Read More Colourful life
Hello friends and welcome to the first of my weekend posts! I had a bit of a lazy morning today, after the busyness of yesterday’s Clarity Social TV shows but am spending the afternoon with my baby grandson, so all’s well in my world. I’ve got another of my demos from yesterday to share with… Read More King of the Castle
Hello friends! It’s a sunny Sunday here, but I’m tucked into my craft room finishing a few things before I head off for a break with friends tomorrow, and getting ready to watch Barbara Gray on Clarity Social TV with some more new goodies! As well as the fun characters & layouts I shared yesterday,… Read More be unique
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
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