Barbara Gray Blog

Hello Deer Friends! Happy Saturday and thank you for stopping by. Today I have decided to step-by-step a little technique I did on German TV recently, using the Deerscape to create an old photo effect. Nothing stag-geringly complicated,  Let’s take a look… I used White 7″x7″ Card The Deerscape  The Tree The Deerscape and Tree together special kit offer 4 Shapes Aperture Stencil Kit Eggplant Adirondack Lake Mist or Latte Adirondack Clarity Stencil Brushes Low tack masking tape Attach the…

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Oh yay oh yay! This is what my creative space looks like today. This is what happens when you jump from one job to the next one, with no time for f f f f filing. Stevenage Trade Show German TV  English TV All I can tell you is Stevenage stuff is at the bottom, English TV Stuff is at the top. So does that count as filing? Let’s look at it from a different angle. Nope. No prettier… But…

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THEY’RE HERE!!!! Remember weeks ago, we were talking about storage, and I teased you with the Stencil Folders? Well, they have finally arrived. They are on the Website little and large www.claritystamp.co.uk Well, this will certainly help me sort my stencil chaos out!

Hello there! Thanks for stopping by. Today’s blog is blue, so I am going to have another run at the  Word Chain and Panel Stencil. Somebody asked me how I got the 3-D shading on this, so I thought I’d go step-by-step for you. It is very easy actually. What have I used? The Word Chain Theuva Card Panel Stencil Denim Blue Promarker Pastel Blue Promarker Fine Promarker nib Pitch Black Adirondack Cloudy Blue Adirondack Clarity Stencil Brushes So take the…

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Good Morning Wednesday! Something new today, so I am going to give you a step by step of the Journal and Word Chain demo I did on the telly on Sunday.  Let’s take a closer look, shall we? I used: Banner Stencil Birthday Word Chain No 3 Journal Stampset  A5 Theuva Card Banner Panels Stencil Word Chains Stamps + mounts to match Butterscotch Adirondack ink pad Mushroom Adirondack ink pad Espresso Adirondack ink pad Potted Soil Archival ink pad Low-tack masking tape Clarity…

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Hello there! Thanks for stopping by. Tuesday’s Blog rolls back the hours, takes a look at the business aspect of crafting, and where Clarity came from. It’s also the day we open up a can of P’s. So are you sitting comfortably? Then let’s pick P for Pick. When my kids, Grace and Mark, were little, our living room used to look like a bomb had hit it most days. Toys EVERYWHERE! There was a Leggo table in the middle…

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Good Monday morning! Monday’s Blog is Trees and Flowers, so here’s a lovely Flower stamp we didn’t get to show off yesterday on TV.  Oh boy were we busy though! Thank you for watching.  Freesias. What a fantastic work of God’s art . I am actually looking at a vase of lilac and white freesias in front of me here; the fragrance is wonderful. So let’s get started. A very simple exercise, using Parchment. I used: the Freesias Claritystamp The…

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Hello there! Well, it is TV day on Create & Craft 9-11am, and I am hoping I will be able to do a demo for you with these lovely new Garden Birds of Mel’s. But if for whatever reason, I cannot show you my little birds on TV, I thought it would be good to do a step-by-step here, too, and take a really good close-up look at them.  They are pretty special! I used: A large Garden Bird Small Garden Birds…

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Happy Saturday! It’s a New Technique Blog today, and I am pretty chuffed with my first attempt at using paste through a stencil. Sometimes, having no clue about a new medium can be advantage, because you just have to figure it out.  The first attempt didn’t go so well.  Paper too thin. Too much Paste. Fiddled with it too much.  Bindit… So the next time, I went with thicker card, less paste, and I worked fast. Result? Well, decided for yourselves…

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Friday’s blog a private peek, so I am writing to you from a hotel in Munich. It’s a challenge piecing a blog together on an Ipad, but I so want to share this day with you! You know, how you have a plan, but then unexpected things keep cropping up? Well, when we arrived this Thursday morning, the plan was to go into the city and just enjoy the fruit & veg market in the centre. So that’s where we…

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