Filigraphy Framer

Welcome to Sunday crafters and I'm having a really lazy one today as I'm still in my onesie!

I thought I'd better blog another one of my projects from the last Clarity show before the next Clarity weekend is upon us.  The design team have already got their goodie packs to create artwork to inspire you so don't forget to tune in on Saturday 30th November for In The Classroom show and Sunday 1st December for the Stamping with Clarity shows.

Here's my artwork:

Materials used:

Stamp - filigraphy framer

Stamp - filigraphy shapes

Coloured with promarkers

The shapes all fit into the centre of the framer so you can choose which one you use and as you can see the framer fits nicely around itself creating an eye catching and interesting picture to colour.

Thanks for popping by today and hope you liked my project.  See you next time!

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

What can you see in the stencil?

Good morning crafters and welcome to a new day.  Will it be a crafty one for you?

My card today was created using the lone tree stencil from lesson 22 which we saw in this weekends "In the Classroom" show.

(click on the picture to take you to the Clarity website)

I wanted to try something different with the stencil and found that if you turned it on it's side that there were two yacht sails and the water.  It did take a bit of masking to get the different colours on the sails and also to get the hull and mast of the yacht in the correct place, but thanks to the wonder of post it notes it didn't hold me back!

Materials used:

Stencil - lone tree (7"x7")

Adirondack inks - red pepper, sunshine yellow,

sunset orange, pool, citrus & stonewashed

Stamp - birds in flight

Glamour dust - crystal

I hope you have fun playing with your stencil, I wonder how many other things can be seen and created using it?  Please post your pictures on the Clarity fan page as we'd love to see them!

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Christmas Bauble

It's all go for me this weekend, starting with the new Clarity Stamp challenge today, then we have Barbara Gray "In the Classroom" tomorrow and again with the Clarity shows on Sunday.  Whilst all of this is going on I will be with my bezzie Hazel at a workshop in Coventry all weekend with the lovely Clare Charvill making something wonderful with Graphic 45 papers and products.

Who said craft was meant to be a hobby, it's more like a full time job these days!!!

Back to the challenge and I think this one is going to be a popular one with you all.  Remember only Clarity stamps and products can be used though.

I decided to create a Christmas bauble, but the other design teams members have loads more inspiration on the challenge blog.

Materials used:

Nestability - scalloped square

Stamps - Twas the night

Coloured with promarkers

Gilding flakes - pirate treasure

Distress ink - antique linen

Stamp - scroll from birdcage set

Krylon gold leaf pen

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you've enjoyed my project for today.

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Harlequin

Another day, another dollar and the week starts all over again.

Did you survive the terrible wind last night and this morning? Nooooo not the after effects of the curry, the wind outside!!!!! We managed to avoid the gale force winds here in Peterborough although we did have torrential rain and a few areas that were flooded on the roads into work this morning.  I dread to think how much damage has been caused in other areas, hope you're all safe wherever you are!

On a brighter note, here's something to cheer you up.  It's another of my cards from the Clarity weekendathon.  The diamond within the new Clarity shapes gave me the idea of a harlequin so I set to with a piece of scrap paper to create my design.  This is how all of my designs start out so that I can perfect the design before putting it onto card.  Well that's the idea anyway!

Materials used:

Background

Dylusion ink - fresh lime, white linen,

lemon zest & after midnight

Adirondack ink - denim

Stamp - shape set

Masks

Stamp - Mask (NDC)

Fantasy film & fibre

Iron

Cocktail stick

Krylon gold pen

Thanks for popping by to view my artwork, there's plenty more to come!

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Dream...

Welcome to the weekend!

I don't know about you but I have all good intentions of blogging more frequently and then it just doesn't happen.  Mind you looking at Barbara Gray's new blog - One Day At A Time - it makes me think where does she find the time with such a busy schedule.  Maybe that should give me inspiration, let's see...

The card I have for you today is another one from the mammoth Clarity weekendathon showcasing several Clarity stamps.

Materials used:

Background

Black Clarity coated card

Sentiment - may all your dreams come true

Versamark

Perfect pearls

Bakers twine

Centre Piece

Nestability - labels 18

Stamp - butterfly

Adriondack ink - stonewashed

Distress ink - spun sugar

Splodge mat

Pearls

Stamp - letter box set

Glossy accents

Liquid pearls - silver pearls

Glamour dust - crystal

Thanks for stopping by to view my project and hope to see you again soon.

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Swirls and curls

WOW that week went quickly didn't it?  I blinked and Monday merged into Friday, how does that happen?
At least it means that it's craft time again - yeah!

After the busy Clarity shows last weekend I'd like to show you another of my cards.  Now I wasn't sure about this one and nearly threw it away but I'm so pleased I didn't.  This was using the curly strip stencil which has both an "inner" and an "outer" part to it.  Here's the picture which shows it much better:

Materials used:

Stencil - curly strip

Adirondack inks - sunshine yellow & citrus

Black micron pen

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx