60th Birthday Parchment Card

I thought my sister deserved a special card for her 60th birthday, so got busy with the lovely Floral Numbers designed by Linda Williams for Clarity Crafts.

September Calendar Page

I used one of the 6” x 6” Collage Landscape Prints as the background for my September calendar page.

Wedding Mini Make

I made a quick wedding card using bits I had on my desk.  This is the third card I have made from hot foiling one Doodleology postcard.  The other two are HERE and HERE.

WOYWW 846/66: Be Prepared

Welcome to the weekly sharing of desks which is WOYWW (What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday?), the brainchild of Julia, who kindly entrusted it to me to continue after the first 15 years of togetherness.  Please feel free to link up your desk and visit others' - we are a friendly bunch. 

I admit to having prepared this blog further in advance than usual (Monday instead of Tuesday afternoon).  I will be setting off early for the Clarity retreats tomorrow and will be calling into Crawley to drop off a card and presents for my sister before our birthday on Friday before arrival in Maidstone. I will also be meeting up with friends for an evening meal so wasn't sure if I would have time to write anything once there. My desk shows a die that I have been after for ages and which I finally managed to track down on eBay for a reasonable price. I will get photos from the retreat for next week!  EDIT The meal was cancelled due to illness, so having spent a lovely couple of hours with BIL I got checked in and took a photo for an update to the desk. 

My 'desk' at the hotel.

I am taking my trusty camera with me!

The age old argument - B, myself as a non pet owner.

Childhood memories.

I will try and update this tomorrow if I have time, but otherwise will visit everyone when I get back.  I am picking up a friend of my Mums who is coming to stay with her for a month and who lives in Gillingham on the way home, so I will have company on my birthday.  We are having a family get together on Sunday at Mum's, although sis' and BIL won't be arriving until next Tuesday - there were far more people who couldn't make it the following weekend.

Stay safe and Happy WOYWW.

If Friends Were Flowers...

I decided to keep things clean and simple when working with the July Clarity Club stamps and also went with a mini make.

Amazing Friend

I started following the instructions for Barbara’s project that came with Clarity New Design Club Stencil for July, but as you can see, I went off ‘piste’ before long.

#dailyart2025: August Part I

I have been enjoying my #dailyart2025 in August so far using prompts from the 365 days of drawing prompts and other art FB group.  I am still working in my 5th petite watercolour journal from Clarity Crafts.

My gateway into paper crafting.

The age old question.  Personally I go for B, but I don't have any pets.

 

Groovy Birthday Mini Make

I finally got round to using my Clarity New Design Club stamps from June of this year and really enjoyed making this groovy birthday card.

Lace Frames: Ideas and Inspiration

 I thought I would put together a round up of some of my projects using the nested square lace frames from Clarity Crafts as they were featured recently on Hobby Maker. As always, links to the projects are below each photo.

In gold on black - very striking (see HERE).

Collage Landscape Mini Make

I couldn’t wait to play with the new Collage Landscape Prints from Clarity Crafts. I started with a 4” x 4” print.

WOYWW 845/65: Busy Making Samples

Welcome to the weekly sharing of desks which is WOYWW (What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday?), the brainchild of Julia, who kindly entrusted it to me to continue after the first 15 years of togetherness.  Please feel free to link up your desk and visit others' - we are a friendly bunch. 

I have not yet had time to play in the new journal that was on my desk last week as I have had a few allocations from Clarity to make samples for.  I did, however, find an hour to play with one of the new Collage Landscape Prints which arrived with my last order.  The results will be on my blog tomorrow.

As you can see I am well back into the swing of my #dailyart2025 drawings.  I also had a great time at my recorder group on Saturday playing my new tenor recorder, and in Lichfield yesterday with another group.  This time next week I will be at the Clarity retreat down in Kent.  Stay safe everyone and Happy WOYWW.

Sketchy Pattern Building

I played around with pattern building for this card using the Sketchy City stamps from Clarity Crafts.

Sketchy Rainbow Reflections

A large card using one layer stamping and the Sketchy City stamps from Clarity Crafts.  I used my favourite rainbow colours.

August ATC and Card: Anything Goes / Rainbow Colours

The prompt for August the swap over on Clarity Crafts Mini Makes and ATCs is anything goes and rainbow colours. Didn’t take me long to come up with an idea.

Sketchy Paris It's Our Day

I decided to print my own background for this Paris themed card using the new Sketchy City stamps from Clarity Crafts.

Sketchy New York Love Heart

For my first sample using the new Sketchy New York, London, Paris stamps from Clarity Crafts I went with an American theme and combined two of them with a stencil.

Add the American Love stencil to the front of a 7” x 7” white card blank with low tack tape.

Add the heart and mask off. Brush Lumberjack Plaid Distress ink through the stripes with a Clarity stencil brush.

Move the masking and blend Prize Ribbon Distress ink through the stars likewise. Remove the stencil.

Add the larger Statue of Liberty from the Sketchy New York, London, Paris stamp set in Jet Black Archival ink.

Add the New York label likewise.

Add one of the black Pergamano rub-on transfers from the Friendship Sentiment set.

To finish, add a sketchy dropped shadow using Faber-Castell Polychromos (#231, #232).