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
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’ve got something a bit different today, but it’s alwasy good to ring the changes. I don’t usually do many cards with dark backgrounds, but one of this week’s challenges definitely called for it. Just Us Girls challenge has got Northern Lights/Aurora Borealis as it’s theme, and I teamed it… Read More aurora borealis
Welcome to my crafty blog. Today’s card is a masculine birthday one, which any crafter will tell you is more tricky to make than female ones. I’ve been asked to make a few for a friend so had to get my thinking cap on. I’m using another one of my inky mop-up backgrounds from cleaning… Read More Two trees birthday
Welcome to my crafty blog. Regular readers will notice I’ve got a new layout – I updated the blog theme now I’ve got a bit braver with editing my site – hope you like it! Speaking of themes, you may well have spotted the one for today’s card…? Snow it is! As it happens, two… Read More And then there was snow!
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’m back today with the second installment of my lookback through the Claritystamp New Design Club stamps from when I first joined. Today’s card is made with the ‘Be The Change’ sentiment that was the club stamp for edition #75, back in January 2013. I have actually used this a… Read More Clarity New Design Club lookback – ‘Be The Change’ #75
Welcome to my crafty blog, on day 5 of my little ’12 Days of Clarity’ challenge, using the 2020 Claritystamp New Design Club stamps. Today’s cards use May’s ‘wicker texture’ stamp, and is another one that I have actually previously used! It’s featured in my blog ‘Vespa Dreams’ posted on 21 Sept – here’s a… Read More 12 Days of Clarity – day 5 May ‘wicker texture’ stamp
Welcome to my crafty blog. Today’s card is a masculine birthday card that I made using one of the Claritystamp monthly New Design Club dies. It’s a great landscape scene, which I think works perfectly for lots of occasions, including birthdays. This one is destined for a friend in Romania, which has the most amazing… Read More Birthday landscape
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