Welcome to my crafty blog. Today’s card used the fab ‘fresh florals’ stamps and dies from Julie Hickey Designs – I love the clean fresh lines of the stamps. I’ve taken inspiration from two current blog challenges (I’m getting better at combining them). The theme at Just Add Ink is ‘shades of green’, and I… Read More shades of green
Welcome to my crafty blog. Just a quick post tonight, with another sympathy card (I’m needing to make too many of these at present). I turned to an old favourite – the Stampin Up! ‘Flourishing Phrases’ set which is now retired, and used the colours from this week’s Color Throwdown challenge (http://www.colorthrowdown.blogspot.com) I started by… Read More Sympathy spray
Welcome to my crafty blog. It’s been a busy week, with not much time for crafting, but I found some time this afternoon to make a birthday card for a friend. I do seem to have a few birthdays to celebrate over Christmas and New Year. I used Julie Hickey’s ‘daisy medley’ and ‘fresh florals’… Read More Daisy Medley
Welcome to my crafty blog. I’ve had a bit of a break from making Christmas cards, and turned to a birthday card for today’s offering. I’ve used the ‘Be Happy’ stamps by Julie Hickey, inspired by the colours in this week’s Color Throwdown challenge (https://colorthrowdown.blogspot.com/) I started by stamping the large half sunflower and watercolouring… Read More It’s your day!
Welcome to my crafty blog. Two of my friends are about to start new jobs, and I remembered this sentiment stamp from Claritystamp’s New Design Club (several years ago), which said exactly the right thing. Things are not always exactly what they seem though (spoiler alert!) – I looked up this quote from Gandhi and… Read More Be the change you want to see in the world
Welcome to my crafty blog. Today’s card was made by watercolouring the stamped image. I’ve watercoloured using inks before, but this was the first time using watercolour pencils, and I was following the online tutorials from the brilliant Barbara Gray at Claritystamp. You can find them here – lots of great tips and techniques on… Read More Painting parakeets
Welcome to my little crafty blog. I should have been at the Claritystamp Open Day in Kent today with my sister, but Covid-19 has put a stop to that, as it has so much of what we knew as normal life. So instead I’ve spent the afternoon playing with some of my Clarity stamps. Air… Read More Up and away
Hello, and welcome to my little crafty blog. Some of you may remember there was an advert running in the 1970s encouraging us to “say it with flowers”, so I made a card that does just that (mainly because I couldn’t decide what sentiment to put on it!). I’ll keep it in my stock pile… Read More Say it with flowers
Hello! welcome to my little crafty blog, and thanks for taking a look. Just a simple card this week, but I love the words in this Celtic blessing stamp from Claritystamp. The last few lines feel particularly appropriate in these difficult days of social distancing, shielding and isolation. Even so, we are lucky that there… Read More Until we meet again
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