Barbara Gray Blog

Happy Monday! Monday’s blog is Trees and Flowers, and since we have just had the busiest Clarity weekend EVER in Catterick (well, since Crowborough Open Days earlier in the year!) I hope you will forgive me for just uploading  the card I did on TV recently. I gave away every card I made over the weekend! But what a super time and what a fabulous welcome up north! Two days of smiling, friendly guests. Visitors came from as far away as…

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Hi there. Thanks for stopping by. Sunday’s Blog a step by step and typically Gray. This is pretty typically a Gray piece, methinks… What think you? Let’s start with a blank piece of Gelli Card, Build a panel with low-tack masking tape. Using stencil brushes and Stream, Juniper and Stonewashed, Fill the panel with those colours. Stamp the fabulous branch in Black archival into the aperture, before removing the masking tape. It should look like this now…. Time to add…

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Hello there! Thanks for stopping by. Saturday’s Blog a new technique, so let’s take a look. This is just a simple way of creating a lovely, colourful background in a specific shape. Read on….. Stamp our lovely Garden Heart stamp in black on  a piece of copy paper, and cut out the heart. If you do this carefully, you can use both parts…. Position the aperture heart over a piece of white Gelli Card, and dust through the heart-hole with …

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Hello there! Thanks for stopping by. Friday’s blog a private peek, right? Well, we’re up in North Yorkshire today,  all revved up to go to Catterick for the set-up of our WEEKEND of CLARITY OPEN DAYS What a glorious day for it! I say I say I say!! Heather and Elaine are twittering away in the kitchen, all ready for the off. Young Chloe has just surfaced, too. So I will keep this short and sweet. The doors for our…

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Hello there. Thanks for stopping by on this Thursday. Thursday’s blog is always blue, right? Well, today is September 11th. So I want to pay tribute to all those poor souls who lost their lives in New York on September 11th, 2001. And all their families and friends,  who will be remembering, re-suffering, re-feeling. How do you ever come to terms with that? I spent some time making a piece of artwork for them. So I spent the same time deep…

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Hello there! Thanks for stopping by. Rather late I’m afraid, but I decided to switch off from Clarity and crafting for a few hours, and just be a housewife. Isn’t it ironic? I have had such a delightful day, cleaning and hoovering and doing laundry! Many of you would argue that the woman’s lost it. I would argue that creating nice clean dwelling is pleasant, too. But. Monday’s Blog is Trees and Flowers. On the TV show yesterday, we launched…

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Hi there! Thanks for stopping by. Remember late yesterday, I blogged a Castle mask trick with shaving foam? You ought to go read that blog first if you haven’t really, for this one to make sense…. Let’s take another look. Well here is the coffee stirrer, and here’s the card I smeared with the coffee stirrer! I can see all sorts here, can’t you??? Come on, humour me! For a start, I can see waves crashing  and swirling oceans and…

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