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
Hello crafty friends! I’m sharing more new goodies from ClarityCrafts with the delightful ‘Linda’s Christmas Compendium’ stamps – these were previously available as Groovi plates for parchment craft but today have been launched as A6 stamp sets 😍 There are 5 sets in the collection and I’ve used two of them (‘winter wishes’ & ‘deep… Read More holly robins
Hello there. Well after yesterday’s dip back into Clarity’s Craft Club, I’ve come right up to date with the latest club stamp that arrived at the end of last month. I’ve kept it nice and simple today taking inspiration from a few current challenges, with the layout from Freshly Made Sketches, three of the colours… Read More flowery birthday
The latest Craft Club stamps from ClarityCrafts dropped through my letterbox last Friday, so I treated myself to a quick play with it at the weekend! I thought it might work for the layout at Hand Stamped Sentiments, using the colours from Inspire.Create and the top row of flowers, green & embossing from The Paper… Read More craft club flowers
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