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
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
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