Hello there. Well, I’m still playing with autumnal colours, this time from AAA Colourful, but today’s card heads out to the African savannah for a tropical sunset using the elephants stamp from last month’s Clarity Craft Club, thanks to the theme at The Paper Players. Although it’s not got as much white space as I’d… Read More elephants!
Hello crafty friends. You’ll know that we Brits are always focused on what the weather’s doing and we’ve had quite a bit of wind with rain showers this week! So I thought it was time to play with my new ‘blustery day’ stamp set from ClarityCrafts – a previous set from way back that they’ve… Read More blustery day
Hello there. I’m back with another take on the ‘playful sprite’ printed image from ClarityCrafts‘ Poppets collection – I do love this little pair! I’ve pulled in a couple more challenegs on this one, taking the colours from The Paper Players (with brown as my neutral) and Seize the Birthday‘s ‘cute critters’ theme. So I… Read More poppet birthday
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 there. I’m back with another silhouette stamp set from ClarityCrafts, this time it’s ‘meadowdance’. I just love the joy in these dancing children – they’re ready for the school holidays, methinks! I was inspired for this one by the theme over at The Paper Players – the stamps definitely say ‘summer fun’ to me!… Read More summer fun
Hello crafty friends. I’ve gone all American a day early today, with a card for one of my US friends who lives over here. This is another quick and easy card, just using a ClarityCrafts stencil, brushes and inks and I’ve used several challenges to inspire the final design! Festive Friday are celebrating 4th July… Read More happy 4th July
Hello friends and welcome to another look at the new ‘bijou dangles’ stamps from ClarityCrafts, taking a slightly different approach thanks to some inspiration from Tina Morris, one of my Clarity teamies. This is such a great design, just using several of the dangles stamps, without the larger words. I started with half a 6×6… Read More flower dangles
Welcome to my crafty blog! I’ve gone for another take on the new geisha stamps from ClarityCrafts, this time pairing it with one of the ‘enso’ stamps. Enso is a sacred symbol from Zen Buddhism; it means ‘circle’ and is traditionally drawn with a single brushstroke as a meditative practice in letting go of the… Read More sunset geisha
Hello there! Today’s card features one of the Country Scenes stamps from ClarityCrafts that I wasn’t able to get to on Saturday’s shows – the ‘friendship narrowboat’ scene. I’m going to share it with The Paper Players for their friends theme, as that’s the name of this lovely boat! I started with one of the… Read More Friendship narrowboat scene
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