Hello crafty friends. I’m still working through my design team samples from Sunday’s launch of ‘Tina’s retro stamps’ from ClarityCrafts, this time combining two of the sets, ‘retro candles’ & ‘retro stars’. I thought it would work well as a second offering for the ‘cheers to the years’ theme at The Paper Players The first step was… Read More celebrate with retro candles
Hello crafty friends. Today’s the day when ClarityCrafts release their first new stamps of 2024 -this card (one of my design team samples) uses one of the ‘retro candles’ set designed by Tina Cox. These are perfect for all ages and styles, as well as the challenges at The Paper Players and AAA Birthday It won’t… Read More block of candles
Hello again! I’m starting the New year with a double share – this time it’s the next in my 12 Days of Clarity series, working back through Clarity‘s Craft Club stamps from 2023. I’ve gone a bit left field with this one – the ‘flowers like friends’ stamps (#201) was from July, but I thought they would… Read More 12 Days of Clarity 2023 – July
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with a look at another of the mini mandala square dies from ClarityCrafts, this time set 1. I decided to simply use the middle die from the set as a frame for my stamped image – it’s a perfect fit for one of ‘Linda’s Advent Treasures’ stamps. I kept it very simple… Read More mini mandala squares set 1
Hello crafty friends and welcome to another look at the new ‘summer tags & frames’ stamps from ClarityCrafts, this time with the hexagon sunflowers frame. I’ve picked up the watercolour challenge from Happy Little Stampers – you’ll see where in a minute if you haven’t spotted it already! The first step was to stamp the… Read More sunflower wishes
Hello crafty friends. There’s another collection of new goodies coming from ClarityCrafts tomorrow – seasonal tags and frames. I’m still in a Christmas crafting mood, so here’s an early peek at one of my design team cards using the winter set. This card ties a few challenges together – the colours from TGIF challenges, the… Read More merry & bright frame
Hello again and welcome to our latest speed stamping challenge at As You See It – it was my turn to choose the theme this time & I went with stars. For my card I’ve used one of ClarityCrafts ‘Merry Little Christmas’ quote stamps, the stars from their ‘Christmas rounds – Santa’ set and some… Read More As You See It challenge – speedy stars
Hello crafty friends! I’ve got a very minimalist card to share with you, using one of the new ‘Enso enlightenment’ stamps from ClarityCrafts as part of their Japanese collection. I didn’t manage to use any of these on my design team cards for their release, so I thought I’d make up for it now! I’ve… Read More enlightenment
Hello crafty friends. We’ve got more new goodies from ClarityCrafts today and this card features the fab ‘bamboo two-way overlay’ stamp set. I wanted to keep it pretty simple (no surprise there!) to reflect the ‘zen’ quality in the stamp I’ve used again today from the small ‘Japanese sentiments’ set. I started with a square… Read More bamboo spotlight
Hello crafty friends. I’ve kept playing with Linda’s Christmas Compendium stamps from ClarityCrafts and done a bit more mixing and matching on this card, using the trees from ‘Deep in the Forest’ and ‘Home for Christmas’. I’ve taken the colours from Creative Colour Challenges and the foliage theme from Sparkles Christmas challenge, together with watercolouring… Read More watercolour trees
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