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Hello there! Welcome to Wednesday’s blog Let’s try a new stencil and a beautiful blue tit! I used The large Garden Bird aka Tit “A bird does not sing” by Maya Angelou Mask for the bird White Square card NEW Tangle Stencil 7×7 Black Archival Ink pad Worn Lipstick Distress Pad Weathered Wood Distress Pad Tumbled Glass Distress Pad Dusty Concord Distress Pad Slate Adirondack Stencil Brushes Low tack masking tape Clarity Blending Mat Stamp the bird in black Archival,…

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Hello there! Thank you for stopping by. It’s Tuesday, which is when we roll back the hours, so let’s go back a few paces…. Remember when I mentioned to you a couple of weeks ago that I was planning to open a gallery? It was rather tongue in cheek of course, and touched on the nerve that I have never framed or hung a piece of my own artwork up. You will recall, we were talking about confidence and self-criticism;…

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Hello there! Hope you had a good weekend? Lovely weather for a change.  A little sunshine and the whole world looks different, eh. So while darling Dave was up in Scotland slogging away, I have been having a grand old time! My lovely brother and I spent the weekend together, which is very rare, and boy! Did we laugh. He really is wasted. He missed his calling as a stand-up comic, that’s for sure. And then Sunday we were invited…

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Hello there! Thank you for stopping by on a Sunday. I promised somebody a Beach hut card, so if you are she,  please put your hand up! Here’s how. Stamp the beach images on the white square card using Black Adirondack. Tear a piece of paper, to create the illusion that the bucket is buried in the sand. It’s a really Happy Set, a summer scene… Now, we have to make a choice.  Either, we can just carry on, and…

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Hello Deer Friends! Happy Saturday and thank you for stopping by. Today I have decided to step-by-step a little technique I did on German TV recently, using the Deerscape to create an old photo effect. Nothing stag-geringly complicated,  Let’s take a look… I used White 7″x7″ Card The Deerscape  The Tree The Deerscape and Tree together special kit offer 4 Shapes Aperture Stencil Kit Eggplant Adirondack Lake Mist or Latte Adirondack Clarity Stencil Brushes Low tack masking tape Attach the…

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Oh yay oh yay! This is what my creative space looks like today. This is what happens when you jump from one job to the next one, with no time for f f f f filing. Stevenage Trade Show German TV  English TV All I can tell you is Stevenage stuff is at the bottom, English TV Stuff is at the top. So does that count as filing? Let’s look at it from a different angle. Nope. No prettier… But…

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THEY’RE HERE!!!! Remember weeks ago, we were talking about storage, and I teased you with the Stencil Folders? Well, they have finally arrived. They are on the Website little and large www.claritystamp.co.uk Well, this will certainly help me sort my stencil chaos out!

Hello there! Thanks for stopping by. Today’s blog is blue, so I am going to have another run at the  Word Chain and Panel Stencil. Somebody asked me how I got the 3-D shading on this, so I thought I’d go step-by-step for you. It is very easy actually. What have I used? The Word Chain Theuva Card Panel Stencil Denim Blue Promarker Pastel Blue Promarker Fine Promarker nib Pitch Black Adirondack Cloudy Blue Adirondack Clarity Stencil Brushes So take the…

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Good Morning Wednesday! Something new today, so I am going to give you a step by step of the Journal and Word Chain demo I did on the telly on Sunday.  Let’s take a closer look, shall we? I used: Banner Stencil Birthday Word Chain No 3 Journal Stampset  A5 Theuva Card Banner Panels Stencil Word Chains Stamps + mounts to match Butterscotch Adirondack ink pad Mushroom Adirondack ink pad Espresso Adirondack ink pad Potted Soil Archival ink pad Low-tack masking tape Clarity…

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Hello there! Thanks for stopping by. Tuesday’s Blog rolls back the hours, takes a look at the business aspect of crafting, and where Clarity came from. It’s also the day we open up a can of P’s. So are you sitting comfortably? Then let’s pick P for Pick. When my kids, Grace and Mark, were little, our living room used to look like a bomb had hit it most days. Toys EVERYWHERE! There was a Leggo table in the middle…

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