Barbara Gray Blog

Happy Birthday! Free Stencil with every order over £60!!

12th September 2025 Barbara Gray Comments 12 Comments

Hi there! And the Clarity Birthday celebrations just keep rolling! This weekend, until midnight Sunday, we‘re giving away a fabulous A4 Stencil (worth £7.99) with every order over £60. I love this stencil! It’s industrial in style, like retro packaging, with faux punchinella and stripes. You can buy it if you love it, or get it free with your order. The best part? This offer applies to anything you buy from our website, not just the goodies I shared with…

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New One Day Online Workshop

11th September 2025 Barbara Gray Comments 12 Comments

Hi there Tomorrow at 10am, I’ll be back on Clarity TV to continue our 32nd Clarity Birthday celebrations! It’s been a fantastic first week—the Clarity Street Collection and Mr Painter stamp sets were a real hit. Now I’d love you to join me as I launch my latest online workshop: Alcohol on a Gel Plate. As you can see from the front cover of the course booklet, we’ll be spending a whole day together, with a nice lunch break in…

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Happy 32nd Birthday, CLARITY!

6th September 2025 Barbara Gray Comments 33 Comments

Hi there Can you believe it’s been 32 years since Clarity was born in Santa Barbara? Where on earth does the time go?! That’s pretty much half my life – and it’s literally all of Grace and Mark’s lives! Truth is, they’re the reason Clarity exists in the first place. I wanted to work from home, to be there when they went off to school and when they came back. Back then, “working from home” wasn’t really a thing—unless you…

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We are Makers…

5th September 2025 Barbara Gray Comments 33 Comments

Hi there We really are makers, aren’t we? When I look at how far we’ve come—from stamps to parchment art, mixed media, and even soft crafts like felt and embroidery—it’s clear that we’re not just stampers. We are so much more than that. Clarity may be best known as a hub for papercrafts, but over the years I’ve come to see just how incredibly creative, clever, and versatile this community really is. You surprise and inspire me constantly. This summer…

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Going full Circle … Sale ends midnight.

1st September 2025 Barbara Gray Comments 25 Comments

Hi there Just a quick step-by-step demo for you, because the Clarity fresh Cuts Die sale ends tonight at midnight! I came up with a cool trick whilst making the August ATC card for my partner of the month, which I want to share with you BEFORE the Die Sale ends! You will soon see why! Here’s where we’re headed… You can see that I’ve made more than a card too! Why stop there when you’re having fun?! I enjoyed…

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Life. It turns on a Sixpence…

29th August 2025 Barbara Gray Comments 72 Comments

Hi there Life turns on a sixpence, as my Dad always used to say. One minute you’re all set and ready to go live on HobbyMaker TV, just about to get your best top on and put your lippy on. The next, you feel like somebody’s punched you really REALLY hard in the sternum, you’re seeing stars, and you have to lie down on the floor before you fall down. That’s what happened Wednesday. Two things to add to the…

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Join Our Live Shows today: A4 Sampler Stamps at Hobbymaker

27th August 2025 Barbara Gray Comments 10 Comments

Hi there Heads up! There’s a brand new and beautiful A4 Sampler Stamp set being released this week – and I will be showcasing it on Hobbymaker today! What is it exactly? It’s a bright and funky set of 24 boxed in, framed, ready-to-stamp stamps. Each stamp is just 1.5 inches square. What’s it for? Card making and all round paper crafting. Perfect for our popular mini makes Special Offer? It comes with a fab FREE floral stamp set too!…

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Let go, and let Creatives be creative.

26th August 2025 Barbara Gray Comments 52 Comments

Hi there, That’s it! Clarity Retreat Week is over for another year. I would say that both my inky, painty workshops during last week and Linda Williams’ Groovi parchment weekend were very well received, and that participants got a lot out of them. We always put a great deal of thought and prep into these events, and it certainly feels appreciated. Even the little touches, like fresh flowers on the ‘lunch tables‘, put a smile on faces. I forgot to…

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A Landscape Journey which spanned a year…

3rd August 2025 Barbara Gray Comments 9 Comments

Hi there Thanks for popping in. Before I head over to work, to set up for this afternoon, how about a quick blog, to map out today’s Clarity TV show flow at 3pm? I still have to find a few bits and bobs, but thought it would be good just to blog the journey we’ve been on with this Landscape Art… It all started with these tea-bag, tea infusion papers. Remember these? Well, I used them to develop a Landscape…

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Back behind the wheel tomorrow…

27th July 2025 Barbara Gray Comments 27 Comments

Hi there Just a quickie to let you know we’re back in Blighty! Maybe you didn’t even realise we were gone! And in we, I mean Sam Crowe and myself. She and I went on a 3-week long, arty, inspiration gathering road trip, from San Francisco to Albuquerque. It was pretty epic, and we did indeed experience so, so much. There were things we had planned, and there were things that simply presented themselves; we seized those unique moments with…

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