Vintage Christmas on Kraft

I decided to use kraft card as a background for this Vintage Christmas Scene using new stamps from Clarity Crafts.

Christmas Goose

I used a variety of the worker stamps from various Christmas Animal stamp sets to create the wreath around this goose!

Retro BOW-WOB Dog

For my final sample using the Retro stamps and papers from Clarity Crafts, I used a gel plate to create a background for the card.

Retro Family

I used the small Retro papers to create a background for this card using the SHAC Retro Family stamps from Clarity Crafts.

One Layer Retro Card

This time I made a one layer card using all three of the Retro stamp sets from Clarity Crafts.

We Are Family!

I had fun combining the new Retro Family stamps and Retro papers from Clarity Crafts to create this card.

#dailyatc2026: Nine Months Complete

I have completed my eighth month of this year's challenge to myself - a daily ATC, following the prompts over on 365 days of drawing prompts and other art and using Clarity stamps and stencils.  Here are my offerings for the second half of September.

As usual I will be changing my background colours for my October ATCs.

WOYWW 904/124: Less Hectic

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.

This has been a far less hectic week.  I treated myself to a PJ day last Thursday and have been taking my time over making samples which I posted off yesterday.  My desk shows the start of sorting all my #dailyatc2026 backgrounds for October - last day of September already, where has the year gone.

I met up with Eva on Monday for a walk around the lake at Trentham Gardens and breakfast at the cafe. She came back to the shed for a crafty session afterwards, so here she is on the other side of the desk.

I will be visiting from Mum's on Friday as usual.  On Saturday I will be enjoying a day of recorder playing.  My brother is attending the workshop too so I am particularly looking forward to it.

Hope Helen and Susan are continuing to heal well from their operations.

Stay safe and Happy WOYWW.

Vintage Children Mini Makes

Once again, I combined the Vintage Christmas papers with some of the Vintage Children stamps from Clarity Crafts to create these mini makes.

Though She Be But Little

I decided to combine some of the Vintage Children stamps with one of the new Vintage Christmas papers from Clarity Crafts for this card.

Tartan Framed Postcards - Vintage Children

I had a play with the new tartan framed postcards from Clarity Crafts.

Gold Embossed Christmas Mini Makes

I decided to combine some of the stamps which accompany the Christmas Animals from Clarity Crafts to create this pair of mini makes.

Cute Christmas Robin

I love the cute robin stamp set which is one of Clarity Crafts' Products of the Month for October.  I used just one of the three robins to create this card.

Christmas Bear

I love the cute new Barb's Christmas Animal stamps from Clarity Crafts.  Here I used a couple of the stamps from the Bear set.

WOYWW 903/123: Out Gallivanting

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.

Having been catching up with my club stencils, it was time to use more of the Clarity club stamps from this year, so I was having a browse through the project folder.  I was busy working on samples for the 34th birthday celebrations at the weekend so can't show any finished projects yet (you can check back tomorrow for the first one).

I have done a lot of gallivanting this week.  Two theatre visits which were fabulous - I bumped into some former colleagues after the second one so we did a little catching up.

On Sunday I visited Keele for the first time in 30 years and went on the heritage tour of Keele Hall.  This was home to both the French and German Departments in my final year ('86-'87) so has changed a great deal on the inside.

But not on the outside.  Hard to believe that I was in my final year 40 years ago!

Not too much gallivanting this week - recorders in Lichfield yesterday and a visit to Mum's on Friday.

Stay safe and Happy WOYWW.