Hi there Thanks for popping in. Had a busy day again today, getting ready to welcome all our guests to this years’s Clarity retreats. Everything’s ready, the tables are laid – all we need now is for everybody to arrive safely, all set for a couple of days of doing what we love best – no!! Not eating cake!! Crafting!! The first project – the warm-up project – involves Teabags. Dave and I have been religiously drinking tea and drying…
Hi there Thanks for popping in. I must say, I do appreciate your comments on the blog. I read them every day. Yesterday, one reader (Lynda, I think) said she felt I was movin’ too fast. Ain’t that the truth! In my defence, I honestly think it’s a common Business Owners’s lament. In an attempt to keep the business afloat, to make provision for the next dry period, I really have bitten off a bit more than I can chew…
Hi there Thanks for popping in. My intention to blog daily has certainly run adrift. The days are zooming by, work is piling high, she’s a poet but she don’t know it! Sunday I shall be back on TV, 3-5pm, showcasing our lovely Art Nouveau range. On Sunday I shall focus on the stamps, but of course, we have created them as Stencils, Groovi plates and Dies too. Snowdrops & Tulips Bed of Roses & Poppy Fields Eden Roses/Best Wishes…
Hi there Thanks for popping in. It’s time for our weekly design salute. To celebrate being in business for 30 years this year, we focus on a popular design, with 30% off + Club discount for a week! This week is the Butterfly Wreath Available in A5sq & A6 Stamp Sets and also A5sq & A6sq Groovi Available HERE Here is some inspiration from the design team Happy to report that I’ve already finished all the prep and demos for…
Hi there Thanks for popping in. Today, at 4pm on Create & Craft, rolling straight on from my SHAC TV show the hour before, Paul will be launching the 2nd collection of Linda Williams’ Layering Frames. You may recall that we launched part 1 last month during the Christmas event on Create & Craft. Part 1 This is part 2 They are exclusive to Create & Craft and will not be available on the Clarity website until 9am on Saturday…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in. Shout out for all you Shackers! Remember these vases that we drew together in the SHAC a while ago? We were working on designs with no outer line art, trying to create a screen printed look. Well folks – it worked! What a cracking little stampset this is! And the Groovi plate works a treat too. Bud vases for my buddies! Available in stamps and Groovi… I will be launching them at 3pm &…
Hi there Thanks for popping in. It’s time for our weekly design salute. To celebrate being in business for 30 years this year, we focus on a popular design, with 30% off + Club discount for a week! This week I thought we might take a walk through the meadow grasses… These are my kind of build-a-scene stamps, but they also work beautifully as delicate centrepieces. Let’s take a look. Available in stamps… and also Groovi… Available HERE Here is…
Hi there Thanks for popping in. On Friday evening, during our Moment of Clarity LIVE Craftalong on Youtube / Facebook LIVE, I rolled the brayer off onto a few little scraps. If you watched you may recall, I was telling you all about the misty Scottish highlands that I could see in the little scrap… So I thought I’d play the film right through to the end, so you too could see what I see! Simple step by step coming…
Hi there Thanks for popping in. Just got in from a little walk with Dave up on the Ashdown Forest. Early risers get to see the earth coming alive. Beautiful cloud formations, birds twittering and flitting through the greenwood, sheep and black angus cattle roaming free – and a carpet of gorse and heather everywhere. Bit dark over Will‘s Mum’s house! We got back to the car just before it started to sprinkle with rain. I never thought I would…
Hi there Thanks for popping in. It’s a waxing Crescent Moon tonight. Look out for it… During this Moonphase, the lit-up part of the Moon increases from a weeny sliver of 0.1% to 49.9%. Waxing means that it is growing, and crescent refers to the curved shape. Traditionally, the thinnest sliver of the Waxing Crescent Moon is considered the New Moon. And in case you were wondering, the next Full Moon is on 1st August. It is a Supermoon, also…