Hello everyone. It’s a big weekend of football here in the UK, with the men’s FA Cup final yesterday and the women’s one today. That prompted me to start working on Father’s Day cards ready for next month – this first card uses the wee sports folk stamps from Clarity, plus their BOW-WOB (black-on-white, white-on-black)… Read More Father’s Day football
Hello again! I’m back with a second post today, this time for our new theme of ‘spots or stripes’ at As You See It Challenge thanks to my teamie Jan – there are so many possibilities with this! I’ve used an offcut of a gel press print that I found in my folder from last… Read More spots or stripes at As You See It challenge
Hello friends. I’ve got a bit of a reflective card to share with you today for our new layout at CAS Colours & Sketches, as we said a sad farewell to our lovely disabled cat, Tom, last week. My card is pretty stripped back so I’m also sharing it with Simply Clean & Simple. As… Read More CAS Colours & Sketches 560 – four square
Hello friends. Well, the new big SHAC people stamps are now live and kicking on Clarity’s website and Barb will be on Clarity Social TV at 2pm today to put them through their paces. I’ve teamed up one of the characters from Set 2 with the circle clean & tidy layout stamp on this card… Read More fabulous
Hello crafty friends. I spent a happy couple of hours this morning catching up with Barbara’s Gray’s show on Clarity Social TV from yesterday, using these brilliant new collage dies. Now, my question on this card is – when is a die not used for cutting? Well, when you use it with a shim to… Read More landscape in black and white
Hello crafty friends. The iconic Barbara Gray has been doing new product shows on the first Sunday of the month for over 18 years and tomorrow is no exception! After the success of her online collage workshops last year (which I absolutely loved!), she’s back on Clarity Social TV from 3-5pm tomorrow with a fantastic… Read More landscape collage die
Hello again! I’m back with a second post today, this time with one of my cards from this afternoon’s show which I wound up running through fairly quickly, so thought I would take a closer look at the process. It’s a bit of a departure for me, as I don’t usually make fun or fancy… Read More sport word framer easel card
Welcome to Tuesday – the Easter break is over and normal life has resumed! I’ve put another die that I haven’t used for some time back into action today, Clarity’s funky foliage, using a bit of paper piecing to highlight the detail. I decided that the two tones from Color Dare would work to give… Read More funky foliage birthday
Hello crafty friends and welcome to a beautiful sunny Monday! I’ve got a lovely spring scene to share with you today, using one of the new bijou layout montage stamps from Clarity – did you catch Barbara on YouTube yesterday demonstrating with these? They’re perfect for creating little landscapes, so I went with a few… Read More bijou montage landscape
Hello everyone. I’m back with an early look at some more new products from Clarity that Barbara is launching on their YouTube channel tomorrow! First there’s a fab bijou version of their existing montage layout stamps, plus a brilliant set of little characters that were drawn in the weekly SHAC sessions. If you don’t know… Read More party people
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