Barbara Gray Blog

I have been asked by several blog readers to go over the nail varnish remover transfer technique. So many of you have tried it and cracked it, whilst others struggle to get a good transfer.  Two ingredients are essential to get it right: the printer and the nail varnish remover.  Let’s take a look. You will need: Any white card – Claritycard, Theuvacard. Coated or non-coated are fine. Nail varnish remover – cannot tell you much, except the one from Sainsbury’s…

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It’s Friday Private peak Blog, and the day before Clarity TV weekend, so as usual, the artroom looks like a bomb has hit it. Whether you believe it or not, I spent 2 hours clearing my corner up first thing today, just so that I had a work surface! 10 hours later, and I think I’ve just about managed to pull every ink pad, every stamp and every piece of card out of its little home.  Industrious or industrial!  Either…

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Hello there, Thought I would share a new stamp with you. I drew it last week, and the finished effort – one super, large Claritystamp – landed on my table today. So I had to try it out, and I have to say, it is absolutely delightful! So much so, that I decided to showcase it here, on Thursday the Blue Blog day. The new Clarity Garden Heart: Why the blue? Our stamps are indexed with blue.  Always have been.  There’s…

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What is it with candles this week?! I even sent Dave (nicely) to Morrisons to buy some, so that I can make a candle on Telly on Sunday afternoon! But here’s one of our lovely new Stained Glass stencils – The Candle! What you need: Candle Stencil or check out 5 for the price of 4 Stained Glass Stencil Windows Double-sided A6 adhesive sheet Gold Gilding Flakes Finger Sponge Blue Card  (actually, I used the blue paper stencil insert! It…

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Been thinking about getting home and writing this blog all day! It’s funny how a trip down memory lane once a week can be so enjoyable!  Last Tuesday, I was telling you about the Rhyme Charts and how they came to be, and we touched on P for Price, remember? Well this week, I wanted to talk to you about P for Placement. Because let’s face it, you may have created the loveliest hand-knitted scarves and gloves in the world,…

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Monday rolled round fast, didn’t it! In case you are new to the Clarity blogging ‘One Day at a Time’, I thought I would recap the poem which I wrote and which I follow here, for my daily blog: Monday’s Blog is trees and flowers, Tuesday’s Blog rolls back the hours, Wednesday’s Blog is something new, Thursday’s Blog is always blue Friday’s Blog, a private peak, Saturday’s Blog, a new technique, But the blog that is posted on the Sabbath…

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Oh happy day! I had planned to do something completely different for the Sunday step-by-step, but something MUCH better came up to light the way! Yesterday evening, we were invited to dinner with friends, and I noticed a table full of fabulously elegant candles, all with our stamp designs on them. So I asked Debby how she made them, and she offered to show me. At which point, I grabbed my Ipad, followed her into her wonderful craftroom, and this…

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It’s Saturday and it’s a new technique! For who? For me? For you? Definitely for me! I have to admit, I did wonder what would happen when I started ironing the stencil. Would it just disintegrate? Would it curl up? Would it smell vile? Well, unless you try it, you will never find out the answer to those questions Barbie! So, in the name of Crafting Science, and being prepared to ruin a perfectly lovely and BRAND NEW STENCIL, I…

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Sorry it has taken me sooo long to write today’s blog! Work got in the way today. So much to do, so much to catch up. But I want to tell you about the last 2 days. I have had the most exciting, amazing, uplifting time of my life! I have met, listened to, and talked with many iconic businessmen and women. And if anybody had ever told me that, one day, I would actually be invited to speak at…

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Let’s wear a lovely blue dress and go to Paris! Sounds wonderful, at the moment, I am sitting in a cold waiting room at Edenbridge train station, waiting for the 12.10 to London. It’s cold and raining, and I’m dressed for the arctic. What are the chances of getting back home with the hat, both gloves AND the umbrella?? But we can pretend we are off to sunny Paris, can’t we? The imagination is a wondrous thing you know… I…

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