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
Hello everyone. Welcome to Wednesday – it’s another Christmas card today as Paul’s up on HobbyMaker TV with some fab seasonal Clarity goodies, including the SHAC Bauble stamp sets. I’ve put the ‘Merry Christmas’ set back onto action today with this lovely bauble, which I’m also going to share in the galleries at The Holly… Read More starry bauble
Hello crafty friends. I’ve got another of my demos from yesterday morning’s Clarity Social TV show to share with you today, using another of the sets from Sam’s Shapes. This time I went for a bit of pattern building using both the stamps and stencils from the it’s a mixed bag set – where the… Read More it’s a mixed bag
Hello friends. I’ve got another of my demos from yesterday afternoon’s Clarity Social TV to share today, this time using Linda’s Floral Steps stamp set. These images really made me think of a little rustic French cottage and I decided to make a fancy fold card to make the most of the steps! I started… Read More floral steps
Good morning everyone! I’ve got a busy day on this little blog, with two more cards to come after this one – and I’ve not made a good start by forgetting to schedule this first one on time for the start of Alphabet Challenge‘s new theme! What’s even worse is that I’m hosting the challenge… Read More E for Embossing at Alphabet Challenge
Hello everyone! I’ve got another of my demo cards from Clarity’s Open Days to share with you (I am gradually working my way through the box of samples!). It’s another using the Elementree stamps, but this time with the abstract squares stencil This one works for a couple of current challenges, starting with the ‘frames’… Read More leafy frames
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
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