I’ve got a coastal scene to share with you today using the new ‘seascape’ set from ClarityCrafts bijou two-way overlay linocut stamps. It’s been really hot again here in North East London and a trip to the coast would have been very welcome! I’m going to add this as a second contribution to Time Out‘s… Read More ray of sunshine
Hello there! ClarityCrafts are celebrating their 30th anniversary this weekend and the celebrations are kicking off tomorrow (Friday) with the launch of the adorable penguin stamps and dies collection. I’ve got an early peek of one of the ‘penguin billboard’ stamps for you today – I just love these images! The first step was to… Read More penguin Christmas joy
Welcome to my crafty blog and anothe card showcasing the new ‘Linda’s Christmas Compendium’ stamp sets from ClarityCrafts – today I’ve used the trees from the ‘glistening winter’ set for a card that would work well for a winter birthday, rather than Christmas. As first step, I stamped the trees onto a piece of card… Read More winter trees
Hello there! Here we are again at Monday – not sure how that happened so fast! I’ve got another delightful stencil to share with you today from ClarityCrafts‘ Art Nouveau launch this weekend – this time it’s the turn of the snowdrops, which comes in a duo with the tulips from Saturday’s post. I’m sharing… Read More snowdrop stencil
Welcome to my crafty blog and a new theme over at Alphabet Challenge – this time it’s the letter I and Dawn is looking for our icecream creations. Now you may be wondering what’s going on with this card? Well, I don’t have any icecream themed stamps or dies, so had to get a bit… Read More I for Icecream at Alphabet Challenge
Hello there! I seem to be on a bit a of a roll with stencilling at the moment and picked out ClarityCrafts’ ‘winter tree aperture’ stencil for the main part of today’s card together with a couple of their ‘wee’ stamps, the boy and the dog. I picked up the colours from Hand Stamped Sentiments,… Read More best friends!
Welcome to my crafty blog featuring another of ClarityCrafts layout stamps, this time the ‘treescape doodle layout montage’. These are so handy for creating a larger card with small stamps – this one features the cricketer from the ‘wee sports people’ set, in recognition of the first Test match in this year’s Ashes series. For… Read More dream believe hope
Welcome to my crafty blog! Today’s card features one of the ‘elegant ladies’ stencils from ClarityCrafts, which was already out on my desk from an earlier project. There’s a few more steps to this one than my usual creations (I think I’m just a lazy crafter at heart, which is why I love CAS designs!!)… Read More city girl!
Hello crafty friends. I seem to be doing quite a bit of paper piecing into diecuts at the moment, so here’s another one, this time using Clarity’s ‘art nouveau tulips’ dies. I took the colours from Creative Colour Challenge and the ‘birthday’ theme from Time Out. Seize the Birthday have got a very interesting challenge,… Read More birthday tulips
Hello crafty friends. I’ve got a couple of cards to share with you today, both using the new ‘Hazel’s butterfly’ stamp set from Julie Hickey Designs. I’ve taken inspiration from a couple of challenges for these, Global Design Project and Time Out, both with a theme of CASE (copy and selectively edit) a design team… Read More a kaleidoscope of butterflies
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