Hello crafty friends and welcome to our new challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches. Joanne’s given us a lovely palette of spring colours and I thought they would work beautifully with the new Dream Bird stamp set from Clarity. I’ve used both the outline and infill stamps on this card – such a easy way… Read More Dream bird in colour for CAS Colours & Sketches #580
Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s Seasonal Saturday. I dipped back into my stash for a set I haven’t used for some time, the Festive Rounds Poinsettia, ready for our latest challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown. It’s our technique challenge this time round, and Andreja wants to see us using heat emboss resist… Read More Heat emboss resist at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown 26-08
Hello crafty friends. I’ve got the final one of my demo’s from last Friday’s Clarity Social TV shows to share with you today – a quick and easy one using the Feathered Friends Miniatures stamps and one of the Dawn & Dusk Landscape toppers. I decided to go for an evening look on this card,… Read More Kingfisher at dusk
Hello everyone, and welcome to this week’s Seasonal Saturday card courtesy of our new challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown, where Andreja has given us Letters and/or Numbers for our theme. This was an easy one for me – I went straight for the Bijou 12 Days of Christmas stamp set, with all these wonderful… Read More 12 Days of Christmas at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown 26-07
Hello crafty friends. We’ve got a new theme to inspire you over at As You See It Challenge and Heather has tempted our sweet tooth with ‘candy’ (or sweets if you’re in the UK!) I spotted Clarity’s ‘sweets’ stencil, which is appropriate for this time of year as the design looks like Love Hearts –… Read More Candy at As You See It Challenge 366
Hello crafty friends. We’ve got a new theme for you at Alphabet Challenge – today we’ve reached the letter U and we want to see Uplifting thoughts on your cards. I took the opportunity to play a bit more with the new Fabric Strip Card and doing something different with a bargello technique, which I’ve… Read More U for Uplifting at Alphabet Challenge
Hello crafty friends. It’s show day at Clarity, with Barbara’s regular first Sunday of the month show over on Clarity Social TV and some wonderful round masks that pair beautifully with the Folkart stamps too. I’d been saying to Barbara a while back that I’d love a bear and other North American animals in stamps,… Read More The One with The Bear
Good morning everyone! I managed to get my hands on an early set of the new Fabric Strip Card pack when I was up at Clarity Towers last week, so had time to put a piece into action ready for the official launch yesterday with Barbara & Paul. These card sheets are taken from a… Read More Fabric strips card
Hello friends. I’m back with the second part of yesterday’s card creation, this time using up the piece of Leafy Mini BOW-WOB paper that I used to create the gel press print. Just to remind you of the starting point for yesterday’s card, I brayered ‘chipped sapphire’, ‘blueprint sketch’ and ‘salty ocean’ Distress Oxides onto… Read More Mini Leafy BOW-WOB
Hello everyone – I hope those of you in the UK are staying safe and warm in the middle of all the snow and ice (although it’s been a few degrees less cold here on the edge of London today). I’ve got a few more cards to share with you using the new Square Tree… Read More Colourful tree aperture stamp
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