Welcome to my crafty blog and another spring-time birthday card for a friend. Today I’ve gone with the ‘three blooms’ stencil from ClarityCrafts, taking inspiration from the sketch and colours at Inspired by plus the stencil theme at Just Us Girls I’ve used all three of the flowers on the stencil on this card, starting… Read More a birthday bloom
Hello crafty friends and welcome to a long overdue installment in my trips back into Clarity‘s Craft Club – I haven’t shared one of these since the middle of January! Anyway, better late than never – today’s card features the ‘lace flower’ stencil #100. I’ve made another Easter card (two, in fact) with the ‘patterned… Read More Clarity Craft Club lookback – lace flower stencil
Hello crafty friends! It’s time for our new challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches and Joanne has gifted us a great sketch – perfect for a mix of British flowers combining the daffodils from ClarityCrafts‘ new Wales framer set, the thistle from the Scotland framer and the rose from Just Flowers (can’t believe such a… Read More CAS Colours & Sketches 533 – sketch
Hello there. It’s Mother’s Day here in the UK, so I’m sharing one of my favourite stamp images for all the mums out there who do such an amazing job for their families! I love ‘Tina’s floral spray’ from ClarityCrafts, and I kept this one with a soft feel using the palette from Color Throwdown… Read More with love
Welcome to my little blog and a masculine card using the ‘Gents A5’ stamp set that ClarityCrafts released last month. I’ve taken a bit of a loose interpretation of the layout at Global Design Project for this one. I started by stamping the sailing ship, the sentiment and two seagulls in black Archival ink onto… Read More gone sailing
Hello crafty friends. We’ve got a new theme at Alphabet Challenge – we’ve now reached X and Caz has opted for Xtra Love Hearts on our cards. I remembered that I’d got the ‘nested square lace heart frames’ die set last year, which hadn’t yet seen action, so this was the perfect opportunity! I’m going… Read More X for Xtra Love Hearts at Alphabet Challenge
Hello again. I’m delighted to be back with my second card as the ‘surprise party guest’ for Seize the Birthday – this time the task is to use red as the main colour on our cards. I took the opportunity of an early peek at the new ‘Just Flowers’ that ClarityCrafts are launching tomorrow (Barbara… Read More Seize the Birthday challenge – red
Hello there and welcome to our new challenge at As You See It! Jane has given us a recipe to play with this time – you need to incorporate all five elements into your card. I’ve used ClarityCrafts ‘occasions sentiments’ as the focus on my card, along with the stripes stencil and nested square doodle frame-it panel… Read More As You See It challenge – recipe 317
Well, it’s Ash Wednesday signalling the start of Lent (40 days to Easter…!) and Valentine’s Day, so obviously I’ve made a Christmas card!! 🤣 I am trying now to stick to my ambition of making one Christams card each week and this makes two Wednesdays in a row… I’ve gone with the cute robins from ‘Linda’s… Read More Christmas robins
Hello crafty friends. Today’s card uses one of the new ‘doodleology’ postcards from ClarityCrafts – these co-ordinate with their existing collection of stamps & stencils. I’ve used the ‘square’ design postcard for this offering, cutting the card along one of the curves for my landscape. First, though, I created the sunrise on my card using the ‘sunshine’… Read More sunrise landscape
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