Hello crafty friends. Today’s post is a bit less rushed, with a new theme from the Alphabet Challenge – we’re up to the letter U and Billie has chosen ‘unequal’. Essentially our cards need to have items of different sizes, eg a large and a small flower. I’ve gone for Julie Hickey’s large ‘happy’ sentiment… Read More U for unequal
Hello crafty friends. Well I’ve gone back to carry on with my trip back through Claritystamp’s Craft Club (previously the New Design Club). We’re now up to February 2018, which was this ‘love’ sentiment stamp (good timing for Valentine’s Day!) I decided to keep it very clean & simple on this one, so the sentiment… Read More Claritystamp craft club lookback – love sentiment #136
Hello crafty friends. Here we are on day 10 of my ’12 Dies of Clarity’ challenge and I’m making some 2022 Christmas cards already! This lovely ‘noel aperture’ die is from the October Craft Club, and I did use it to make some of my 2021 cards. It’s very easy to produce quick cards by… Read More 12 Dies of Clarity day 10 – noel aperture
Hello crafty friends and welcome to day 3 of my 12 Dies of Clarity personal challenge. Today, I’m using the ‘special friend floral frame’ from March’s Craft Club to make a couple of cards. I started by cutting the die in white card and snipped the sentiment out of the centre. I’d put ‘Stick It’… Read More 12 Dies of Clarity day 3 – floral frame
Happy Christmas everyone! Well, we’ve survived our first 24 hours of a 7 day isolation period & my eldest son & I are still testing negative for Covid. We managed to do socially distanced present opening this morning with my youngest son – we all had masks on, he sat at the other side of… Read More the midnight clear
Well it’s Christmas Eve and only one sleep to go to the big day! Our plans have taken bit of a unexpected turn today, however. We should have been heading to celebrate my father-in-law’s 96th birthday this evening (you can see the card I made him here), so in line with best practice we did… Read More A merry Christmas tree
Hello crafty friends. It’s time for a new theme over at Alphabet Challenge – we’re now up to S and Dawn has challenged us to use silver, which is perfect for this time of year. Our challenge runs until Thursday 30th December, so there’s lots of time to join us. I decided to go with… Read More S is for Silver
Hello crafty friends. Today’s card is a nice and simple one that took less than 10 minutes to make, thanks to the current challenge over at As You See It. The team have got a speedy challenge this week, with the theme of ‘snowflakes’, so this one definitely fits the bill. I decided to use… Read More snowflake wishes
Hello crafty friends. I’m back with another card using Julie Hickey’s ‘fresh florals’ stamp set – these are definitely a favourite of mine! This creation has been inspired by the current grid over at TicTacToe challenge – I’ve gone down the left hand column with heart, birthday & gold. I started by die cutting a… Read More wonderful day
Hello crafty friends. Who doesn’t love a cup of hot chocolate? I decided to christen my ‘nothing’s better than’ stamp set from Stampin’ Up!, picking up the themes from the challenges at Inspired by and Inkspirational I attached a piece of brown polka dot paper form my stash to the front of an A6 card… Read More hot chocolate!
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