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…
Hello there, Thanks for popping in! Friday’s blog a private peek? Well, I thought it might be fun to talk about hoarding! Contrary to popular belief, I am not a hoarder! Well…craft stuff a little bit. I have a SABLE, A Stash Acquire Beyond Life Expectancy! If you could see the room I am sitting in, which looks as though it has been freshly burgled, you would raise an eyebrow for sure! But upon closer inspection, you will see that…
Hi there! Thanks for stopping by. Thursday’s Blog is always blue, so here goes! How about taking a little walk with me along Carmel Beach? It’s where Mark has headed off to today, Northern California. Dropped him off at Heathrow this morning. But let’s join him for a while – in thought at least. We have a new set of the most beautiful landscape stamps; each comes with a stencil, too. Carmel: Napa Valley: Lone Cypress: Today let’s visit Carmel-by-the-Sea….