Hello crafty friends. I’ve got a busy DT day today, starting with our new theme at Alphabet Challenge, where Tee has given us G for Girlfriend. It was a great opportunity to get the Hippie Chicks back for another outing, this time with a little paper piecing and added inspiration from TicTacToe (CAS, summer colours… Read More G for Girlfriend at Alphabet Challenge
Hello friends. There’s another heatwave on the way for the UK this weekend, so I decided to channel cooler thoughts with this week’s Christmas card (although I don’t think these snowflakes would last very long outside!) It’s another very simple card using Clarity’s Christmas Corners stamp set and a bit of sparkly heat embossing. I… Read More snowflake corners
Hello crafty friends and welcome to another look at the new French lace sampler stamp set from Clarity. I went down a different route with this one, tying in a striped background made with one of the Pergacolour pens. The first step was to create the background on a 5×5 card blank. I lined up… Read More French lace stripes
Hello crafty friends. I’m busy on Clarity Social TV today with shows featuring gorgeous stamps drawn by Linda Williams. I demo’d this tasty offering on the 10am show and it was the perfect opportunity to use the new colours for our next challenge at As You See It. As it happens, I chose this palette… Read More Let’s eat cake at As You See It challenge
Hello there. I’m late posting this evening, but I’ve just been running out of energy in this heat! I seriously don’t know how the tennis players at Queens are coping – or maybe I’m just getting old! Anyway, I opted for some summery colours for a simple butterfly card today, using one of Clarity’s Just… Read More silhouette frame butterfly
Hello friends. Here I am again, with a third offering for you today – this time it’s our new sketch at As You See It challenge. Joanne has given us a design that works perfectly for my CAS style – although it did pose me a bit of a challenge (read on for the details…)… Read More As You See It Challenge 350 – Joanne’s sketch
Good morning everyone! I’ve got a busy day on this little blog, with two more cards to come after this one – and I’ve not made a good start by forgetting to schedule this first one on time for the start of Alphabet Challenge‘s new theme! What’s even worse is that I’m hosting the challenge… Read More E for Embossing at Alphabet Challenge
Hello everyone! I’ve got another of my demo cards from Clarity’s Open Days to share with you (I am gradually working my way through the box of samples!). It’s another using the Elementree stamps, but this time with the abstract squares stencil This one works for a couple of current challenges, starting with the ‘frames’… Read More leafy frames
Hello crafty friends. I’ve had a fab (but tiring) couple of days with lots of friends from the Clarity Crafts community while I’ve been demonstrating at their Open Days – it’s just so good to catch up in person with social media friends! I’ve been sharing inspiration using the Elementree stamp sets, and realised that… Read More Elementree leaf
Hello crafty friends. As promised, here’s my second card for today, this time for our new challenge at As You See It. It’s the return of our dreaded speed challenge to make a card in less than 10 minutes, this time on the theme of water. I’ve recently been working my way through Clarity’s online… Read More fast flowing water at As You See It challenge
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