Hello crafty friends and welcome to Seasonal Saturday. We’ve got a theme challenge this week at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown and Valentina wants to see Christmas mailboxes (postboxes for us Brits!) on our cards. I remembered this fab little image from Linda’s Children Through the Seasons – Winter – she fits the bill perfectly! I… Read More Christmas mailbox at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown 26-39
Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s Seasonal Saturday card, this time featuring a bauble thanks to our new theme at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown. I remembered that there is a bauble on one of the sets from the Twas the Night collection – these are such a fantastic series of images that Barbara drew… Read More Baubles for 52 Christmas Card Throwdown 26-27
Hello everyone. I’ve got some more new goodies to share with you today, together with our new F for Festivities theme at Alphabet Challenge. I put one of the new Wee Affirmation Stencils to use on my design team card – I can’t decide whether this couple are celebrating an engagement or getting ready to… Read More F for Festivities at Alphabet Challenge
Hello again! As it’s 1st July, it’s only right that I share my new calendar page for this month, which is also my design team contribution for our new challenge at Love to Craft – as always, our theme is ‘anything goes’. This design actually has it’s origins in Barbara’s workshop day at the end… Read More July’s calendar for Love to Craft Challenge
Hello crafty friends. Today’s card is a look at the Mini Landscapes – Countryside stamps with a simple outdoor scene and a little pencil colouring. So, having cut a piece of premium card to fit on a 5×5 card blank, I stamped the little house into the centre, straightening out the ground line on it… Read More Mini landscape
Hello everyone. I’m back with another look at one of the new Floral Spray greeting cards and this time opted for a little hot foiling and simple watercolouring on the ginkgo leaves design. This time round I chose one of the cards that already has a greeting printed on it and started by running it… Read More Ginkgo love
Hello friends. I’m back with another look at the new mini Japanese Scene Builder stamps that launched yesterday, this time keeping it very CAS and just using neutral tones. I started by cutting a piece of premium card to 3.5″ by 2.5″ (the size of an ATC) and laid upper part of the mountain section… Read More Serenity mountain
Hello everyone and welcome to Monday! Barbara’s back on screen this afternoon with some fabulous Japanese Mini Landscapes stamps, that I’ve had great fun playing with. I opted to use one of Clarity’s Abstract Layout dies (unfortunately currently out of stock) to create a series of little landscapes, but this would work just as well… Read More Japanese Mini Landscapes
Hello crafty friends. I’ve got another of my Clarity Social TV demos from last Friday to share with you today, as I promised at the time having skipped through this one quite quickly in the 2pm show. The Kite Doodle stamp set is another one hand-drawn by Barbara in the earlier days of the SHAC… Read More SHAC Kite Doodle
Hello crafty friends. I had some time to play this afternoon and was inspired by Jilly from Clarity’s post on Barbara Gray’s blog (Barb’s taking a break at the moment) showcasing their watercolour pads. It reminded me that I made some watercolour backgrounds a couple of years ago that have been languishing in my stash… Read More it’s your birthday today
