Hi there! Thanks for stopping by. Playing catch up here, getting all fired up for the NEC Exhibition, which starts on Thursday and runs right through until Sunday. So Monday’s blog is Flowers and Trees. I take my inspiration today from a lovely birthday card, which my clever friend Maria Simms sent me for my birthday. I know she won’t mind if I share this technique; it is so lovely and quick to do! The hardest bit is tearing a leaf…
Hi there! Thanks for popping in. Just got in from London, after a lovely birthday weekend with Dave, Dee, (Beekie Mick n Titch). No, not really. Colin! Theatre, Covent Garden and the British Museum. Bit overcast and nippy, but hey! If you don’t like the English weather, just wait a minute! But a very simple, quick project now, because tomorrow it’s back to work – and I want to enjoy the log fire Dave has rustled up! So out with…
Hello campers! It’s Saturday and it’s the start of our Clarity Worry-Free Weekend! Thank you so very, very much for all your birthday wishes and cards and flowers and pressies yesterday! Overwhelmed of Crowborough, I can tell you! Just look at these masterpieces! Also represents many hours of love and kindness. Never to be thrown away. Always to be treasured. I am so lucky and blessed in so many ways. I really, really know it. And yet so often I…
Hi there! Friday 13th March. Friday’s blog a private peek. Sorry I’m so late, but had a smashing sunny day today, and only just got home. As my Mother never fails to remind me in her oh-so-strong German accent on the same day every year, “Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, zis time 56 years ago I voz having a hard day. Your Faza (aka Dad) voz viz za midvife…” Then Dad takes over and tells me how he had to go and get the…
Bonjour! Thanks for popping in. Thursday’s blog is something BLUE, so I thought we’d have some fun today. Ready for a little game? Most of you will probably already have our Letterbox set. It is the biggest selling stamp set we have ever conjured up! Having said that, the Wee Folk are hurtling up the outside and likely to lap them very soon! Wee Folk 1 Wee Folk 2 So I thought it would be fun to marry them up…
Hi there! Thanks for dropping in. Wednesday’s blog is something new. For who? For you? For me? Well, this week we launched the Paperartsy Chalk Paints at Clarity. They have been around a while, and I have loved them for a while. So today I thought I’d have a play with one of my all time favourite stencils, The Town Stencil, because they are shouting to be aged. Crackled, in fact. I want to get that really old English Wattle and Daub…
Hello there! It’s Youtube Tuesday and time for a neat background technique, showing off our lovely garden bird stamps. This Bokeh technique, using one of our stencils (aptly called Jo’s Bubbles, because clever Jo designed it!) is really fun and very effective. Items Used: Claritystamp Garden Birds and Blossom Branch Multi-buy Jo’s Bubbles Clarity Stencil Brilliance Moonlight White Ink Pad Black Archival Ink Pad Picked Raspberry Distress Ink Pad Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink Pad Mowed Lawn Distress Ink Pad White…
Hi there! Nice to see ya – to see ya nice! Monday’s blog is flowers and trees, so how about a lovely Treescape stamp, which we can adapt to depict any season? Well, spring is in the air, so let’s try a spring scene. Black Adirondack on A6 Claritycard. Clarity Blending Mat is ideal for blending different colours using a Speedball Brayer. I have mixed up a couple of blues for the sky. Tumbled Glass Broken China Peacock Feathers Cover…
Hello there! Thanks for drooping in. Haha! Well, it beats pooping in last week. I was having a clear out, and came across a set of stamps which I thought were brilliant and clever when Jim and I designed them: The Alphabet Animals So dust them off and get them out, I say! There are lots of them, from Giraffes to Crocodiles My personal favourite is the Elephant Each animal comes as lineart AND the fill. I am going to…
Hi y’all! Thanks for stopping by. Am having a play day with my pal Paul Church today, so have just stepped away to blog while he works out what we’re doing with Ken Oliver’s Colour Burst Granules and Paperartsy Paints! Saturday’s blog a new technique. I have been getting my head round these Fresco Paperartsy Chalk Paints, which are very very good. All things being equal, we should have them on our website ready to rock n roll by Monday! So here’s…