Barbara Gray Blog

Happy Sunday! Thanks for stopping by.  A couple of ladies called this week, requesting a  how-to-use-the-new-Wheelie-stencils blog, so here’s one using the  Branch and Leaves Wheelie stencil It’s pretty clever. Wheelie wheelie clever, in fact! Take a closer look; 6 different leaves, 3 different sizes. And 4 different branches/twiggies to dress. Word Chain Special Memories Library Green Archival Ink Pad Coffee Archival Ink Pad A Gelli Plate background piece Make-up sponges. It really doesn’t get any easier than this! Simply dial…

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Hello and welcome! Thanks for stopping by. There was much excitement here at Clarity Towers yesterday morning, when a huge juggernaut arrived with our  new, beautiful blue  Clarity Portfolios.  We have been gradually building a collection of intelligent storage solutions, like our Stencil Folders : 7″x 7″  and  A4 / 9″ x 11″ A5 Stencil Folders land next week! Our Stamp Storage Folders with the Acetate : Additional heavy-duty Acetate available . And now we have further extended our range of useful…

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Hello there! TGIF, eh! How can such a short week last so long??? But anyway, thanks for stopping by, and spending some time with me. Friday’s blog a private peek, remember? Yesterday, I was thinking about the Clarity New Design Club, and I thought I would roll back the years a few, and tell you how it started… Way back when, I forget which year, but it was years before I appeared on the telly, I started the first Mail…

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Hello there, Thanks for stopping by today. Thursday’s blog is always blue; so will 3 blue-black Magpies do? Here’s what I used…. Magpie Montage Stamp Maya Angelou verse Theuva Card A5 Brayer Craft Knife Black Adirondack Lettuce Adirondack Stonewashed Adirondack Stamp the Magpies onto Theuva Card, using Black Adirondack. Mask off the sides with Post-Its. Add some Lettuce around the birds… Colour in the birds with Promarkers… Work on the shade in the feathers… Add some Stonewashed round the birds…

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Hello there! Thanks for stopping by! Our Wednesday Blog is always something new, and I wanted to show you this new Birdhouse stencil, which comes with 2 birds. I was in the Clarity Laboratoire (our kitchen) yesterday, and wanting to figure out how Open acrylics work.  It was the actual birdhouse I was interested in, the bit that falls out. So I got my Golden Open Acrylics out, and brayered a thin layer of it over my 6 x 6 Gelli…

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Hello there! Thanks for stopping by here on  YOU TUBE TUESDAY ! Thought it was time to tackle a Gelli Plate video. Here’s an 3-layer trick for you to try. I did this as a photo step by step blog a while ago, too. Thought it was a good idea to capture it on You Tube, too.  Here’s what I used: Gelli Arts Gel Printing Plate 6 x 6 Inch Speedball Brayer 7″ x 7″ Gelli Plate Card Word Chain…

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Hi there. Hope your Easter weekend has been pleasant?  Ours certainly has. Here’s a little step-by-step project for you, using 1 of 2 stencils, which were designed to work together, but can be used alone, too. Treescape Snowy Treescape Enhanced with our two Sapling Trees and  3 Ducks in flight. Let’s take a look… Let’s see how the 2 sit together first. Even though I have only used the underneath, I wanted to show you how they are related. See? But how…

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Hello there! Thanks for stopping by on this lovely Sunday morning. I hope you are well and happy? Thought I’d send an Easter card project to you; a simple celebration Sunday. I remember great amusement when doing this card together with Dean on telly; let’s see if I can embed the You-tube of that show…. Anyway, here’s what we used: Easter Greeting Easter Banner 3 Chicks   I cut and embossed an oval shape out of Theuvacard. Using a Versamark…

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Hello there! It’s Easter weekend, and here’s a cute idea you might enjoy trying. I used our Easter chicks and some cracking good eggs: Happy Easter Stamp 3 chicks Blossom Egg           Leaf Egg Cracked Egg The Cracked Egg mask Oh. An Espresso Adirondack and a few Promarkers, too. It’s as easy as boiling a soft egg, once you know how! Let’s take a look…. Stamp the bottom half of the cracked egg in Espresso. Use the Cracked…

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Hello there. Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you are well, and able to take a day off today. I thought it would be a good day to give away some prizes and put a smile on a few faces. So, let’s start with the Trees on the Gelli Plate exercise from a while ago (see blog posted 31st March). I used an Gelli Plate brickwall remnant to create a treeline, remember? And the challenge was to make suggestions…

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