Hello friends! Well, it may be seriously hot outside, but I’m sticking to my ambition of making one Christmas card each week through the year, so here’s my latest offering using Clarity’s Bijou 12 Days of Christmas stamp set. Once again, I’ve managed to combine a few challenges to produce this card, starting with the… Read More 25th December
Hello everyone. I’ve got a bit of a poignant card to share today, that’s gone to my vicar whose father passed away earlier this week. I opted to use Clarity‘s ‘floral delights – thinking of you’ stamp set for this one, inspired by the sketch at TGIF Challenges and the tones from Color Dare, with… Read More floral delights – thinking of you
Hello there! It’s Day 2 of the Clarity Crafts Members’ Half Price sale, which always proves very popular. Barbara & Paul have been showcasing some of the design team samples – yesterday they were looking at the fabulous Poppets designs, which inspired me to get Maeve (one of the Sprites collection) out for a play.… Read More Maeve
Hello friends. I’ve got an ATC (artist’s trading card) to share with you today. In case you don’t know, these are small cards (3.5 x 2.5 inches) that are little works of art to be traded or swapped. Clarity Crafts have started a new intiative of mini makes to help reinvigorate everyone’s mojo for the… Read More Clarity ATC swap – purple
Hello friends. I was inspired to get Clarity Crafts‘ ‘lizzy & rockery‘ stamp set out this afternooon while watching Barbara demonstrate with it this afternoon on Clarity Social TV. All the ‘floral walls’ sets in the collection are great for making CAS cards and I kept this one very simple using the sketch from TGIF… Read More lizzy rockery
Hello there, crafty friends, and welcome to a look at another of the goodies currently available in Clarity‘s bumper sale of their Craft Club back issues. Today, I’ve picked out the ‘thank you floral flourish’ aperture die, inspired by the challenge at TGIF. The great thing about the Craft Club issues is that you get… Read More Craft Club thank you floral flourish die
Hello friends. I’m back with the last of my design team samples for the new ‘Nutcracker’ stamp set from ClarityCrafts – this time I’ve done a bit of masking and added the trees from the ‘winter cabin reflection’ set. The colours from the current challenge at Sunday Stamps were ideal and I also picked up… Read More Christmas Nutcracker
Hello friends! Here we are halfway through another week already, so I thought I’d brighten your day with another new stamp set from ClarityCrafts. These gorgeous ‘Season’s Greetings Flowers‘ were designed by my Clarity Design Team-mate Tina Morris and were launched at last weekend’s Open Days – in fact Tina was the first person to… Read More Tina’s hellebores
Hi everyone! I’ve just had a fabulous couple of days at the annual ClarityCrafts summer retreat, picking up lots of tips and inspiration. I therefore thought it was only right to have got another of the background pieces from last year’s retreat used up at the weekend before I set off – I’ll have another… Read More all about the background!
Hello there and welcome to Monday! The sun’s still shining here, so I decided to play with some of my favourite honey bees today, inspired by the summer theme at TGIF Challenges using ClarityCrafts ‘Just butterflies & bees’ stamps and the layout from Just Add Ink. I’ve been tidying up some part finished projects and… Read More bee birthday
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