Hello crafty friends! Today’s card features an older stamp set from ClarityCrafts that’s a great bargain in their current Gray Friday sale (Barbara Gray doesn’t do black, obviously!) I’ve only used a single stamp on this, the one from the top left corner of the set, picking up the colours from HandStampedSentiments, the leaves from… Read More a clever corner!
Welcome to my crafty blog and another look at the new ‘bamboo’ stamp set from ClarityCrafts, this time for our latest challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches. It’s the fifth Tuesday of the month, so this time we have a double challenge using colours and a sketch. This is a really interesting sketch, not the… Read More bamboo life for CAS Colours & Sketches
Hello there! I didn’t manage to share a card yesterday thanks to a full round of work meetings, but I’m back today! I’ve had a play with the latest stencil from Clarity‘s Craft Club for this one to create the background using the colours from Color Dare and the sketch from TGIF challenges – I… Read More feathers & swirls stencil
Welcome to my crafty blog and a first look at the next set of ‘Linda’s Christmas Compendium’ stamps that ClarityCrafts are launching tomorrow. I’ve got two cards to share today, both made with just one stamp from the ‘Christmas Treasures Advent A4’ set – the king from the second row on the sheet. For the… Read More three kings
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with another of ClarityCrafts new ‘Christmas sentiment aperture’ framer dies that are being launched today. This time, it’s the ‘Health Peace & Sweet Content’ die – I’ve picked up the current ColorDare challenge (the paper has melon tones in the centre, along with the reds & greens) and the sketch… Read More health, peace & sweet content
Welcome to my crafty blog and a Christmas card using one of my favourite ClarityCrafts die – the ‘shepherds’ window’. I love this traditional stained glass effect and have combined paper piecing, glitter & mica powders on this one. I based the layout on the sketch at The Paper Players with the colours from Hand… Read More shepherds’ window
Well here we are at Sunday again, so I’ve delved back into ClarityCrafts Craft Club and today picked up ‘Jilly’s meadow frame’ aperture die from May 2022. As it happens, Clarity’s Jilly was demonstrating watercolour backgrounds at the Open Day last month, so it seemed appropriate to pick up that technique to complement her die… Read More Clarity Craft Club lookback – meadow frame die
Welcome to my crafty blog and a new stamp set that I’ve just treated myself to – the ‘village & harbour’ set from ClarityCrafts. It’s perfect for a few of the current blog challenges: AAA cards, TGIF challenges & Inkspirational I joined Barbara’s Gray’s ‘Moment of Clarity’ session online last Friday – although she was… Read More harbour boats
Welcome to my crafty blog and another outing for ClarityCrafts’ ‘peace Japanese flowers & butterflies’ stamp set – I just love this image! I thought it would work well with the sketch from TGIF challenges and the palette from Creative Colour Challenges – I’ll also be sharing it with Happy Little Stampers for their watercolour… Read More more butterflies!
Hello there! I need to replenish my supplies of new baby cards, so have done a two-for-one today using ClarityCrafts’ ‘adorable baby’ stamp set. I love this washing line stamp with all the baby clothes, which I thought would work for the sketch over at Atlantic Hearts challenge. I picked up the watercolour challenge from… Read More adorable baby
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