Welcome to Friday and a new letter over at Alphabet Challenge! It’s my turn to choose this week and, as it’s now K, I went with kittens and cats (sneaky, eh?) It gave me another excuse to use one of my all-time favourite ClarityCrafts stamp sets – the ‘birdhouse garden’. I just love this hopeful… Read More K for kittens & cats at Alphabet Challenge
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with a card starring another of the new 8×8 stencils from ClarityCrafts – this time it’s the thin plaid one, which I used to emboss the card rather than blending ink through it. I failed to take pictures at each stage of this one, but it’s simple enough to talk… Read More checked birthday wishes
Hello there! Exciting news today, as I’ve been invited along to the latest Color Throwdown challenge as theur guest designer! We’ve got a lovely palette of red, yellow & green to play with and I decided to go with a bunch of summery flowers thanks to ClarityCrafts ‘star flower spray’ stamp and stencil (not forgetting… Read More Guest designer at Color Throwdown 805
Well here we are at the start of a new week and I’m showcasing another of the new 8×8 stencils from ClarityCrafts, this time the ‘thick and thin plaid’. Perfect for a bit of simple ink blending to pick up the colouring mediums theme at Make My Monday I started with another of the 5×7… Read More plaid thank you
Hello friends. I’m back again with a sneaky peek at some new products that ClarityCrafts are launching tomorrow (Sunday) – these fab 8×8 stripe stencils (there’s a set of plaid ones as well). I’ve kept it simple with this one (my favourite approach!), just using the stencil in the background of a masked panel, inspired… Read More fly away boy
Hello friends and welcome to a new challenge at As You See It! Heather has given us a great recipe to work with and I opted to feature one of my favourite ClarityCrafts stencils – the ‘treescape’. I went with the sketch from Atlantic Hearts and will also share it with Can You Handle The… Read More forest recipe for As You See It challenge 329
Well here we are at the last Monday in July – maybe I’m getting old, but this year just seems to be flying by! I’ve got a birthday card to share with you today using the ‘three blooms’ stencil from ClarityCrafts, and picking up the bright summer tones from Color Throwdown, the sketch from The… Read More three blooms
Hello there and welcome to our new theme at Alphabet Challenge! Caz is in charge this time and she’s offered us a moodboard of colour to inspire us for the letter I. Well it struck me as just perfect for one of my favourite ClarityCrafts images – the SHAC ‘peace – Japanese flowers & butterflies’… Read More I for Inspired by Colour at Alphabet Challenge
Hello friends. I hope you’re not bored with this series of Christams cards, as I’ve got another one to share with you today from the weekend’s ClarityCrafts launch! Today it’s the ‘mistletoe swirls’ stamps and I’m back in my happy CAS place, just using the two little leaf images in the set. This works well… Read More mistletoe panel
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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