Hello crafty friends – today’s post features one of Clarity’s ‘floral crescent‘ stamp sets, partners to the panel I used on yesterday’s card. These are also two-way overlay stamps, and I’ve actually made use of the infill today. I’ve combined the sketch from The Paper Players with the palette from Creative Colour for a card… Read More floral crescent
Hello friends. In case you thought I hadn’t got a Christmas card to share this week, here it is now! I’m delighted to have been invited along as Guest Designer for the new challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown, although it definitely did give me a bit of a challenge as I don’t usually make… Read More Guest designer at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown
Hello there! I’m late on parade today (it’s been very busy), but didn’t want to miss the chance to give you an early peek of these fabulous ‘Japanese floral tiles‘ stamps that are launching from Clarity Crafts tomorrow – Barbara will be on Clarity Social TV with them at 10am & 2pm. They play perfectly… Read More Japanese floral tile
Hello crafty friends. Well this week’s Christmas card has posed me a bit of a challenge – as you know it’s Japan month at Clarity Crafts and oriental stamps generally aren’t Christmas themed! But you know I always like to think a bit laterally and I remembered the heron stamp (#125 from Clarity’s Craft Club… Read More Christmas heron!
Hello there. I thought I’d do something different today having put the new Japanese sampler stamps away – Clarity Crafts have made March their Japanese month, so I fished out the ‘peace square‘ aperture framer die with it’s beautiful waterlilies pattern. It’s unusual for me not to have any stamping on my cards, but I… Read More waterlilies birthday card
Hello there! Lots of new stuff to share with you today – it’s the launch of the new ‘Japanese Flowers & Butterflies sampler’ set from ClarityCrafts, plus our new theme at Alphabet Challenge. We’ve now reached X in the current cycle and Dawn has given us XOXO (as in hugs & kisses). I had to… Read More X for XOXO (hugs & kisses) at Alphabet Challenge
Hello everyone – I’ve got the last of my samples from Friday’s Clarity Social TV shows to share with you today, using the lovely ‘mini hobbies – baking‘ stamp set. I created the border with Clarity’s ‘vertical stripes box‘ stencil, which fits pefectly with the theme at Just Us Girls – read on for the… Read More Mum’s cake
Hello there! I’ve got a couple of notecards for you today using Clarity Crafts ‘haberdashery‘ stamps from their mini hobbies collection – these little fabric samples stamps are just so sweet and perfect for smaller cards! I ran out of time on today’s 10am Clarity Social TV show to demo these properly (you can catch… Read More fabric samples notecards
Hello friends. Another late post today – we’ve had a fab Sunday family day out with the grandson, who’s now 7 weeks old! Anyway, having shared the February stamp from Clarity‘s Craft club with you yesterday, I’ve got this month’s stencil today, which is a lovely coriander leaves design. I’ve followed the technique by my… Read More Clarity Craft Club – coriander leaves stencil
Hello everyone. We’re getting towards the end of the month, so it’s time I shared the February Craft Club stamp from Clarity Crafts with you – it’s a fun little caravan drawn by the very talented Linda Williams. I decided that the colours on Inkspirational‘s moodboard would be ideal, and based my layout on the… Read More Clarity Craft Club – caravan stamp
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