Hi there Thanks for popping in. I hope you had a good Christmas and are enjoying life? It‘s been full on here; a house full of young energy and action. It really has been lovely to spend time with the kids, but they have to get back to their lives. Grace and her Mark headed back to New York yesterday, and Dave is driving our Mark up to Heathrow this morning, so he is on his way back to San…
Hi there Thanks for popping in. Despite the best intentions to blog daily – or at least more regularly – Life is overwhelming, and the days just seems to fly by. Everybody has got something going on, everybody is carrying a load, I know that. This is why I choose to use the blog and the SHAC for positive and creative distraction, rather than a platform to unload my personal problems. Suffice it to say I, like you, have them,…
Hi there Thanks for popping in. The weather’s changing; there’s a biting chill here – perfect for staying in the warm and crafting! If you’ve been considering getting into Die-cut papercrafting, then this may just be the ideal starting place for you: 3 complete volumes of our annual Die CLubs – complete with all the photo step by step tutorials. Get one, get 2, get all 3! And just start working your way through the instructions and lessons. Paul is…
Hi there Thanks for popping in. Sunday’s Clarity TV Show on Create & Craft is right up my street! We’ve been working on these masks and stamps for a while now, and I love ‘em! Landscapes and Leaves – what a fabulous combination! I have always maintained that our masks – pound for pound/dollar for dollar/hour for hour – are such superb creative value for money. And the new Build-a-Scene masks are certainly that! I have been prepping for the…
Hi there Happy Sunday! It’s all systems go at Clarity! The Gray Friday Sale Weekend is proving rather popular. Thank you so much for shopping with us! With all the national economic upheaval of late, we were in two minds as to how this sale would run. Paul and I were apprehensive; we thought it would be much slower than in past years. Dave was in the other camp. He said it would be busier than ever. Dave was right….
Moving on with our Once upon a time at Clarity, we come to the 4th Chapter in our story: Fresh Cut Dies. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin… It was 2018, and the Groovi Explosion was happening. We were spinning plates and doing loads of TV shows, and just generally chasing our tails. Stamps were on the backburner because we just couldn’t keep up with design and production, and we were well and truly on the treadmill. Here…
Hi there Just a quick 2nd blog today, highlighting tomorrow’s launch of the 5th and final quintet of Christmas Treasure plates, by Linda Williams. These are very beautiful – and not just for Christmas! I shall be showing off these three Starry beauties tomorrow. Linda’s handiwork…the layering stars are superb. Here is a wonderful gallery of art, created for you by Linda and our Design Team…. To round off this unique Collection, Linda has created a superb Advent – Tag…
Hi there The year was 2015, and we were flying high. Claritystamps and stencils were selling very well, our Create & Craft TV shows were getting busier, and we were going like the clappers! Our new website was looking good, and we were certainly moving online. We had never had a bricks and mortar shop; we had always been a mail order company, and we have had a website / online shop for as long as I can remember back!…
Hi there. The story continues. We launched our Claritystamp range on telly in about 2008 – and that’s when things really took off. Our little corner stamps and pattern-building tricks proved very popular. It was something new to TV, and folks loved the way we presented. So we moved out of the portable cabin in the garden and into an industrial unit on a farm. It was the Old Pig Shed!! Our team grew then, to keep up with orders….
about 30 years ago, I had a bright idea…. Hi there. Thanks for popping in. In the run up to the GRAY FRIDAY SALE at Clarity (We leave Black Friday to the rest of the world), I thought I’d use these 4 days to tell you how we evolved in the the Claritycrafts Company that we are today. It was the early ’90’s, the kids were nippers, and we lived in Northern California. My Brother Steve and I were already…