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Santa’s Round. 4 for 2 Offer!

2nd December 2014 Barbara Gray Comments 31 Comments

Ho Ho Ho! Thanks for stopping by! YouTube Tuesday’s back ! So it’s Day 2 of our Clarity Blog Advent. Here’s a cool yule video. Very simple tricks and techniques, using Texture paste. Hope you enjoyed that one? Here are the ingredients I used. Grunge paste Masking Tape Archival Black Bottle Adirondack Cranberry Adirondack Antique Linen Spectrum Noir Pencils White Fineline Pen Black Micron Pen Theuva Card A5 Spreader Stencil Brushes ClarityStencils: The Star Wreath The Holly Wreath Also in…

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Clarity Advent Day 1

1st December 2014 Barbara Gray Comments 39 Comments

Happy December 1st! Thanks for stopping by. I hope you will join me in celebrating the advent of Christmas. 24 days. I decided to look up advent. It comes from the latin word meaning coming. So what we are celebrating in effect, is the coming of the Lord, one day at a time, in the lead up to Christmas. Monday’s blog is trees and flowers, so let’s launch our Clarity advent with a little Christmas tree and greeting, and some…

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Saturday. Time to ponder…

29th November 2014 Barbara Gray Comments 54 Comments

Hello there! Thanks for stopping by. What a sunny Saturday here in Kent! I’m sitting at the window, and the sun is just pouring in. Very warm and calming. Yesterday was a busy day in London – and I shall certainly tell you all about it when I get the photos together next week. But the problem with busy, packed days is that you can’t stop to think or reflect. And the good thing about busy, packed days is that…

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Hares in a Tangle…

27th November 2014 Barbara Gray Comments 38 Comments

Hello there! Thanks for stopping and and supporting the daily blog. Thursday blog is always blue, right? So I decided to have a play with my hares. (That sounds awful!) Ready? First we need a dramatic background. Here’s one I did earlier, using an 8″ x 10″ Gelli Plate, Process Magenta acrylic paint (pink) Process Cyan acrylic paint (blue) and one of our stencils: The Tangle Stencil I cut round a cup to make this huge moon mask! You can…

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Leaves a-flutter …

24th November 2014 Barbara Gray Comments 55 Comments

Hello there. Thanks for stopping by on the sunny Monday morning here in England. Got back from España late last night, but it’s good to be back in the groove. Thought I’d get back to arty crafty blogging. So Monday’s blog is Trees and Flowers, right? Well the colours in the garden hit me this morning! What a difference a week can make. When we left, it was still mostly green, with a whisper of red. Ten days later? The ginkgo…

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When Journalling meets Chinese Lantern Stencil

13th April 2014 Barbara Gray Comments 59 Comments

Hello there! Thanks for stopping by. It’s day 2 of the Ally Pally Stamp Show today, and I’m pretty sure we’ll be spinning like tops! Here’s one we prepped for the TV, but didn’t get to show off because the stencils sold out! Using my favourite stencil: The Chinese Lantern. Here are the ingredients: Word Chain Set Journaling Set White 7″ x 7″ Card Blending Tool Clarity Blending Mat Butterscotch Adirondack Caramel Adirondack Mushroom Adirondack Grunge Paste Coffee Archival Ink Pad…

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There once was a man from Dorset…

12th April 2014 Barbara Gray Comments 86 Comments

Hello there! Thanks for stopping by. Saturday’s Blog a New Technique. To who? To you? To me? So just a quickie, an old favourite, a demo using the corset and Angelina Fibres. So many of you have seen this technique. But there will be loads of readers who have never even heard of Angelina Fibres, or Fusible Fibres, let alone know what to do with them! Ingredients: Corset + Feminine leg Claritystamps Black Archival Pink Angelina Fibres Wisteria Angelina Fibres Iron Riser…

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A new, very lovely landscape stencil….

2nd April 2014 Barbara Gray Comments 87 Comments

X Hello there! Thank you for stopping by. After yesterday’s YOU TUBE TUESDAY, and all that hilarity with Clarity, let’s get arty with a brand new stencil and some rather lovely new stamps. I used: Woodland Stencil 7″x7″ there are 2 other 7″x7″ stencils which make up the set: Bullrushes Cottage Flyaway Boy with Birds Claritystamp Love is in the Air Claritystamp (watch TV on Sunday for the boy and the girl stamps) New Word Chain inc. Dream (watch TV on Sunday for the next…

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