Barbara Gray Blog

Hello There! Happy Saturday! Thought I’d just show you a neat birthday card, using our Claritycard and a resist technique. You need: The Matrix Feather Stamp Birthdays are a feather stamp A5 Claritycard A4 Clarity Paper Versamark Ink Pad Peeled Paint Distress Pad Weathered Wood Distress Pad Old Paper Distress Pad Black Adirondack or Black Soot Distress Pad Speedball Brayer Blending Mat Stamp the Matrix Feather randomly over the Claritycard using Versamark. Be sure to remove the blue indexing ink from the…

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Hi there! Thanks for stopping by. Thursday’s blog is always blue, so here’s a Scottish Castle: Eilean Donan Castle, to be precise… I used: Castle stamp Denim Adirondack Sepia Archival  Cobalt Archival Clarity Blending Mat A6 Clarity Card Ink up the castle in Denim and blot it lightly on copy paper before   you stamp it carefully directly onto the blending mat. Lay the Clarity card down onto the wet image,  and transfer the image by rubbing the back. Well, I’ve seen…

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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!