Heart Birthday Card

 Just a simple card made with a Clarity Die, and a couple of stamps from my stash,   Hopefully my cousin will like it as much as I do.

Die-cut Birthday Card

 

Less is more - a simple die-cut card using a member dies from the Clarity Stamp Club, with a piece of pale green embossed paper behind it.

Anniversary Card

 

A simple (but I hope effective) Wedding Anniversary Card - although it could be for any occasion.

The snowflake die was cut out of the card, and then backed with a piece of Clarity parchment from one of their parchment pads,

I then highlighted the flowers with coloured pencils.

Sympathy Cards

I had two sympathy cards to make this week - one for the wife of my mum's cousin.   The last of that generation - I am now one of the oldest generation of the family living - but not the oldest.   The other was for a long standing friend.   We have been friends since our teens, and we both got married on the same day.  (A standing joke between us as I got the slot at the village church that she wanted, so she got married in a different church).   We lost touch and now she lives in the next road to me.   I shall think of her later this year too, when we both would have been celebrating our golden weddings.

As you can see the the two cards are similar.  I wanted to keep them simple but a little bit cheerful in these difficult times.   The inspiration came from my new Clarity Club die that arrived on Monday.  The aperture has a section of one of the Clarity paper pads behind it.

Die cut Birthday Card

Birthday card today using the January member's club die from Clarity Stamps.  Cut into the card and backed with Clarity Designer parchment in pink and blue shades.   The sentiment was also cut from the same parchment.

.... and on the same theme

I had another card to make this week - this time for a male, so I thought I would carry on with the idea I had for the card I posted the other day, and do some more experimenting, this time with embossing powder.

Once again I used some Clarity Designer Paper and Craftascope stamps - this time one of the leaves, which I embossed with white embossing powder.   The sentiment was cut from the reverse of the Designer Paper and was once again a Clarity die.    I water-coloured some darker blue and green on the leaves, and again found some peel-offs in my stash to match.

Simple Birthday Card

I wanted to try out my new Craftascope stamps, and having seen a card with a strip down the side I decided to try them out on that.

I cut a strip of Clarity Designer paper, and randomly stamped the daisy.   It looked quite effective, but then I had the idea of trying a white gelly roll pen on the petals (yes I was at this stage just playing to see what effects I could get).   I then remembered that I had a birthday card to make ........

and thus the card above evolved.  I edged the strip with some peel-offs - yes probably like most most of you I have a stash of them from when I first started crafting.  I also found some little circle peel-offs in a matching colour - so those were added to the centres of the flowers.   I die cut the sentiment using a Clarity die, and added an insert.

Die-cut Wedding Anniversary Card

Another family wedding anniversary card for this weekend - simple but effective.   Die cut into card stock with a Clarity die, and backed with Joanna Sheen Faux Pour paper in red.   Sentiment created in Craft Artist and backed with the same paper