Hi there Been busy today, prepping for a TV show on Sunday 3-5pm. I do hope you will be able to watch! These new Poppet stamps are rather delightful! Here’s a blue-ish card I made today, using a split Companion Paper background… The Designer Paper and the matching Companion Paper I have used here are from our new Antarctica Collection. What a splendid combination of blues, teals, pinks and more. I just love these colours! The little Poppets are new…
Hi there! There’s something new on the horizon at Clarity. Many of you have already enrolled for my very first paid LIVE online Classroom workshop, which is coming up next week, on Saturday 12th October. What are we making? A beautiful, hand cut, hand crafted Lighthouse Paper Collage, mounted on a 12 in x 12 in Canvas board If you have already signed up, then you will have already received the lovely materials kit, including the canvas board, papers and…
Hi there. Tuesday’s blog – and the hours roll back, right? So I thought I’d roll back the hours to 10 years ago. Do you know what YOU were doing 10 years ago today? One of the biggest advantages of having a phone full to the gunnels with photos, is that I can pretty much track to the hour what my activities were a decade ago! My photos tell me even more accurately and irrefutably what I was up to…
Hi there Last day of September. Had the whole of September off work. Am just sitting in front of a log fire with Dave, watching Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse Gone Fishing. And I have to say, Life is good. Those two blokes really show you how to relish the simple things in life. Such brilliant English humour. Had a busy day at Clarity. Enjoyed hanging out with Paul and Jazz and Jim and Jilly. Got loads of planning done….
Hi there Thanks for popping in! Well, we’re as ready as we’ll ever be! Slight change of plan on the presenter front. So I’m working with Dean at 6pm !!! I know, right? I just told you he and I are close friends – and lo! There he is. So that will be good. Here is a summary of the timetable of birthday events this weekend, just in case you fancy keeping us company. Looks like the Floral ABC is…
Hi there Thanks for popping in. I got caught up making little cards today, out of the new 4×4 inch card blanks and envelopes that are pouring out of the Pinky Gray printroom at the moment, in readiness for our 31st Birthday weekend on Create & Craft! I used a print I had made using the new leafy layering stencils, which wasn’t very exciting as a whole. In fact, I didn’t even bother taking a photo of it. Yep. That…
Hi there Thanks for popping in. Wednesday’s blog something new, right? Well, I’ve got not ONE but TWO new things I want to share with you: Next up, let’s take a look at those new stencils I’m talking about. Actually, let’s look at the monoprint I made using them first… Right. Two sets, each with 3 stencils. Well actually, there’s loads in each pack. You get the inny AND the outy. Perfect for use with ink and brushes, but also…
Hi there Thanks for popping in. Trip down Memory Lane it is then! I scrolled back through my photos to a year ago today. And lookie lookie! Teabags! Remember this? I do love our Linocut stamps too! They are right up my street… I was filling one of our lovely little water colour Petite Journals with Teabag images. It really was a pleasure to do! Pity I haven’t had time to finish it. YET. There’s that lovely little word again….
Hi there Thanks for popping in. Before you wonder why I’m shouting about the SHAC today, when we‘re having a little break until October, well it’s Monday, and I have been thinking about things. This daily blog is a moving feast, right? So I’ve decided to modify our little verse which we wrap the weekly blogs around. Monday’s Blog – We’re in the SHAC!Tuesday’s blog – The clock goes back. So when we do get back together in the SHAC…
Hi there Thanks for popping in. Happy Sunday. Dave and I decided to work this morning, “to get ahead of the week ahead” as we say! He was heading for our Clarity Printroom, to die cut 5×5 inch scored white card blanks on the old Heidelberg press. They’re for next Saturday’s new Card-stitch packs. Conversation ran like this… Me? I just had to empty all the demo boxes from last Friday’s TV shows, and make a start on what’s coming…