Welcome to my crafty blog and our new theme over at Alphabet Challenge. We’re now at the letter O, and Helen has chosen ‘outdoors’. I’ve gone with the stamp from Claritystamp’s craft club in April – love this little treescape. I started by cutting a square into a piece of copy paper with a die… Read More O for outdoors
Welcome to my crafty blog and another Christmas card. This one uses the retired ‘Festival of Trees’ set from Stampin’ Up! – a standard favourite of mine. I’ve teamed it with a sentiment from the new ‘Stars are Shining’ set and taken inspiration from the photo at Inkspirational – I don’t have any fox stamps,… Read More celebrate the wonder
Welcome to my crafty blog. It’s Sunday so here’s the next in my personal challenge working back though my issues of Clarity’s new design club stamps. This week it’s the labradors from February 2017, who are getting an first outing. I always avoided these kind of stamps in the past, as I found it difficult… Read More Claritystamp new design club lookback – labradors #124
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’m feeling happy with today’s card as I’ve used up another of the many inky mop-up backgrounds in my stash without making another one in the process! I’ve been trying to make a few more masculine cards recently, and Claritystamp’s ‘tree rows’ stamps give a more contemporary feel to a… Read More trees and sky
Welcome to my crafty blog – it’s still really hot here so I thought it would be good to have a cooling walk through some trees, after sitting in my hot little spare room/office all day! I’ve gone back to one of my favourite images – the ‘treescape’ from Claritystamp – and have used both… Read More double treescape
Welcome to my crafty blog and the next installment in my weekly lookback through Claritystamp’s new design club. Today’s card uses the ‘deer heart’ stamp from December 2014 and takes us into the start of my third year as an NDC member. I used one of Barbara Gray’s cards on the project sheet as my… Read More Claritystamp new design club lookback – deer heart #98
Welcome to my crafty blog. It’s time for another challenge over at the Alphabet challenge blog and this week Helen has chosen ‘E for Easy Make’. Cards need to be a simple design, with minimal layers and no embellishments. I decided to go for a CAS (clean and simple) card as my design team contribution,… Read More easy does it
Welcome to my crafty blog and a very excited post. Today’s card is the first I’ve ever been asked to contribute to a blog challenge as a guest member of a design team!! I was absolutely thrilled to be the featured guest stamper chosen last week by the Color Throwdown team, and so this card… Read More tranquility – and a guest DT slot!
Welcome to my crafty blog. It’s Sunday, so I’m on to the next stamp in my lookback through the Claritystamp new design club – today it’s #92, the ‘row of trees’ from June 2014. I’ve used this one a few times over the years – I love its clean lines. I decided to use it… Read More Clarity new design club lookback – row of trees #92
Welcome to my crafty blog. It’s Sunday, so time for the next in my series looking back through Claritystamp’s new design club – this time with #90, the round tree from April 2014. This is a great stamp and I’ve used it a few times over the years. It works well for creating backgrounds, as… Read More Clarity new design club lookback – round tree #90
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