Hi there
What a lovely Saturday we have had today. The sun was bright and shining in through the window early in the morning, and my absolute favourite tree – which I can see from the bedroom window – is coming to life! Can you guess what it is? The Magnolia Tree! It grows so well in this area. But it’s the one that waves from all the gardens, telling you that Spring is almost here! Spring officially arrives on 20th of this month, but sitting in the Strandkorb with Dave this afternoon, listening to the birds singing and twittering away, I would have to argue that it’s come early.
The Cherry blossoms will follow shortly. It’s a lovely drive to work, counting the cherry blossom trees, the magnolias and the magpies. I love it.
Speaking of cherry blossoms – it’s JAPAN MONTH AT CLARITY
Yesterday we launched a fabulous Bijou set of Japanese Butterfly rounds. All three rounds in one A5 set. I love em.
Here’s the simple demo I did in the 10am show.
I showed you a little trick how to cut out the stamped circle accurately by using the larger nested circle to get your eye in. Here it is in photo steps:
If you missed it, then you can always watch on Catch up at Claritycrafts.com
Great stamp set. Perfect for so many occasions! From birthdays to get well soons, from anniversaries to thinking of you’s. The larger, individual stamps, which come complete with stencil, are immaculate. AVAILABLE here
an additional set of decorative stencils
some Japanese symbols
Also available in Groovi
We then turned them into squares in our Fresh Cut Dies
How about a lovely gallery from our design team:
Original Stamps & Stencils
Fresh Cut Dies
All available HERE
Check out the little snowdrop in the centre of that stencil above. Remember those SHAC panels we drew? So Japanese too, don’t you think? I am sure there was a Japonica panel in this series too. Yep.
Do you remember them? I think I’ll blog about them tomorrow.
Love always,
Barb x x x