Hi there

Thanks for popping in. As you may know, this year is The Year of The Alphabet at Clarity. We have been highlighting one of our lovely alphabet collections each month, and offering them to you at a super special price for the whole month. April is RHYME TIME month. This particular ABC is especially close to my heart. It was my very first art project, and the one which brought about our little art & craft company, back in 1993. So many years ago, yet still as popular and useful as on day one.

Let’s take a closer look. Here is the poster – which is where it all began. This was my first attempt at drawing something which was going to print. Mammoth task for this O level art girl! The original concept was a phonic ABC to help children learn their nursery rhymes (rhymes on the back). When I did my research for the rhymes, Mother Goose hadn’t written ones which started with several of the letters, and many of the Victorian nursery rhymes were rather dark and dismal. There was only one thing for it: I wrote a few myself! If you do get the posters for the découpage project (pictured completed below), see if you can guess which ones I composed, and which ones were Mother Goose.

We have taken the artwork and turned it into all sorts of things… Groovi plates, stamps, and even a little colouring book.

This masterpiece was presented to us by Karen Smith, and has pride of place at Clarity Towers.

Fabulous stampsets here. Large size and Bijou…

If you fancy a closer look, then pop over to our website, and have a goosie goosie gander HERE

Usually, we drop the price by 25% for the month. However. It’s Easter weekend, so we had a little conflab at work, and thought we’d bring the Rhyme Time Sale start date forward, and have a special offer for you, starting Good Friday and running right through until the end of Bank Holiday Monday. Starting today, if you invest anything to do with Rhyme Time during this period, you will receive not 25% but 40% off, plus your Clarity Club discount. That’s half price, or better than half price if you’re one of our diamonds xx

To be clear, this offer includes

• the stampsets
• the groovi plates
• the ii-book colouring and rhyme book
• the découpage kit
• a pack of 3 posters

If you would like to read a little more about when we lived in California, and I had this moment of Clarity so to speak, there is a previous blog which will take you right back: https://www.barbaragrayblog.com/2022/11/once-upon-a-time/.

Spot the kids! Grace and Mark were perfect little models, weren’t they? Actually, 30 years on, they’d still make pretty beautiful models – even if I say so myself! Let me find a photo…

Back to the super ABC deal! Take advantage of this super offer. The discount will drop fro 40% to 25% on Tuesday.

Thank you for joining in the E for Elephant SHAC yesterday evening if you did. It was fun! Here is the artwork we made from our doodles…

If you want to take a closer look at how this was achieved, how we got the pattern in the elephants etc, then why not head over to our Claritystamp Youtube channel..

Cocodamol eh?! Boy oh boy. Well, they looked like elephants to me!! Thanks Picasso!

Have a good Easter, friends. Make something.

Love always

Barb x x x