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
Welcome to my crafty blog and the new challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches, where I’m guest designer for the next few months. This time round we have a sketch for you, using a slimline (UK DL size) card. I’ve gone with these funky trees from ClarityCrafts which I think are now retired, taking the… Read More funky trees for CAS Colours & Sketches
Good morning and welcome to another set of fabulous new stamps from ClarityCrafts – the ‘festive rounds’ are launching on TV this afternoon. These are pairs of two-way overlay stamps – I went with the poinsettia ones for today’s card, linking in with the challenges at The Card Concept and Christmas Craft Creations I started… Read More poinsettia rounds
Welcome to another dip back into Clarity‘s craft club – today it’s the ‘peace aperture’ die (#45) from September 2022. It’s such a lovely design and I decided to use the layout from Freshly Made Sketches to showcase it, together with the colours from CAS Colours & Sketches; I’m also going to share it with… Read More Clarity craft club lookback – peace aperture die
Hello crafty friends and welcome to the final day of ClarityCrafts 30th birthday weekend celebrations. This afternoon, Barbara is launching a beautiful ‘bijou two-way overlay linocut’ selection of stamps, with some previous and some new designs, all in the smaller ‘bijou’ format. I’ve opted for the ‘daisy’ stamps for this card – it’s such a… Read More bijou daisy linocut
This really is the weekend that keeps on giving! Today sees the launch of another new set of stamps in ClarityCrafts‘ KISS range – ‘Build a Bauble’, and I’ve given the mistletoe patterned bauble the starring role on my card. I started by inking the bauble background stamp around the edge with ‘paradise teal’ Archival… Read More mistletoe bauble
Hello there and welcome to my second post today, this time showcasing the delightful ‘Penguin letterbox’ & alphabet stamps that ClarityCrafts are releasing today. I am in love with these excited penguin chicks! They were an obvious choice for my DT card for the new Christmas Bingo challenge. If you’ve not played along with us… Read More joyful penguins
Hello there! Today’s card features one of the ‘hats 2 – vintage’ stamp set from ClarityCrafts, which I think is just such an elegant design and is perfect for this card which is going to a friend who’s about to start chemotherapy for breast cancer (hence the pink shades and the turban!) I took the… Read More be yourself
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