A Little Claire Class.....

One of our lovely DT's Heidi, ran a Little Claire class near to her home town in Crawley recently and here are a couple of her ladies all enjoying themselves creating wonderful Little Claire cards:

Heidi is in the top picture stood up in the middle holding one of her creations and she will be running more 'Heidi' classes very soon, if you would like more information about Heidi's classes please get in touch with us. 
We will be running a Day with Little Claire at the K2 Leisure Centre in Crawley on Sunday 19 June, where the Little Claire team will all be present, together with Heidi and it promises to be a jam-packed day of wonderful card making.  If you would like more information, please contact us: 0844 800 4376 or email Carol: carol@littleclaire.co.uk

This weekend will see us in Bristol at the UWE Exhibition & Conference Centre, Bristol from Friday 01 April until Sunday 03 April and Steve will be launching 4 new stamp sets live on Create & Craft on Thursday 07 April at 11am.

Hope that you are enjoying our challenges, there are 2 days left until submissions close so give it a go and thank you to everyone who has entered so far, the standard of entries is superb, you are a talented bunch!
All at Little Claire x

2 Lovely Cards!

What a lovely few days we've had here with the sun shining and spring in the air! Here are 2 lovely spring-like cards to show you. We think they are both stunning.....

'Floral Set' by Louise Hall





This lovely card was made by Kitty Frampton with our 'Armfuls of Wishes' stamp. Thanks to both of you for these beautiful cards.

We've been busy organising another 'Day with Little Claire', this time down south. It is scheduled for Sunday 19th June at the K2 Leisure Centre, Crawley

The cost for the WHOLE DAY is just £59.00, including all materials & tuition, teas & coffees (you can bring your own lunch or there is an on-site cafe), plus you will receive 2 newly launched Little Claire stamp sets to keep! The Little Claire shop will also be there, manned by Steve himself.
Just contact carol@littleclaire.co.uk if you would like to book or for more info.

No shows this weekend as Steve recharges his batteries. He'll be in Bristol next weekend though 1st-3rd April at the Crafts for All show at the UWE Exhibition & Conference Centre and as always, he would love to see you!

Before I go, yet another date for your diary - Steve will be on Create & Craft on 7th April 11am with 4 new stamp sets... not to be missed!

Challenge 3 - pink & green

Thank you for all your gorgeous entries to our 'flowers' challenge - so many beautiful cards!

Before we get on to the next challenge we need a winner, and that lucky person is...

No.183 - Chris Olsen

Congratulations! Please email Gill at Little Claire with your details (putting 'Little Claire challenge winner' as your subject)

We've also chosen our Top 3 from all entries using Little Claire stamps

No.23 - Marianne

No.48 - Jen

No.167 - Ali

Please help yourself to the Top 3 badge from the sidebar :o)

Now onto challenge 3 - PINK & GREEN

You can add touches of other colours, but your creations must be mainly pink & green.

Here's the fab prize you could win this time

We also have a bit of exciting news - the lovely and talented Donna has joined our DT, and she's made a fab card for the challenge using Lydia Goes Shopping which is currently available as a free download.

Donna's card

And here are the rest of the design team's lovely cards

Jess

using Big Hugs

Heike

using Mini Claire

Georgina

using Blossom Fairy and the Swirl cutting die

Louise

using Walkies and Sleeping Doggie

Helen

using Blissful

Maxine

using Lydia Goes Shopping

Carol

using Messing About on the River

Lisa

using Spiky Flowers

A FEW RULES

• You DO NOT need to use a Little Claire stamp to qualify for the prize draw
• However, only those using Little Claire stamps will qualify for a Top 3 badge
• You may enter the challenge UP TO 3 TIMES and you may combine with other challenges
• You must follow the challenge theme and NO BACKLINKING please, new cards only
• Please provide a link to our blog in your post
• Please leave a link to your actual card, not just to your blog
• The challenge will close at 2pm on Fri 1st April

GOOD LUCK & HAVE FUN! 

Here we come, Harrogate!

Just a quick hello and a reminder that we will be at The Great Northern Papercrafts Extravaganza, Yorkshire Event Centre, Hall 1, Harrogate this Saturday and Sunday.  Be sure to come and say hello if you are at the show. Steve's all packed up and ready to go...... xx

Easter idea!

Hi all
Just been sorting through old card examples to make design boards for the Harrogate show this weekend, when I came across an old favourite stamp, 'Walk in the Park' that we'd almost forgotten about! We've given the card a new lease of life, updated it with some card candy and some flowers and hey presto, a fab Easter card!

Let me know what you think...

And we'd also like to say a big thank you to all of you who have been entering our blog challenges, we are amazed at the response xxx

Come and spend the day with Little Claire!

Hi everyone! We have been busy planning our first ever 'Little Claire Day' - yes, a whole day filled with card making, fun and LOTS of inspiration!
The venue is the lovely Holiday Inn, Chester on Saturday 18th June and the whole day costs £100 (Club members will receive 10% discount), fully inclusive of all materials and TWO new little Claire stamp sets  - launched on the day - for you to keep (value: £11.00). The price also includes lots of refreshments throughout the day, including a delicious lunch. You will make lots of fabulous cards, Steve will be on hand to attend to your every whim and our Little Claire shop will be there for you to purchase any goodies!
We are SO excited about this event and hope you can join us - places are limited so if you're interested, either ring us on 0844 800 4376 or visit the website http://www.littleclaire.co.uk/ (new from Little Claire) for further info.

Steve will be at the Artstamps show at the Leisure Centre, Chepstow tomorrow 10am-5pm.  He's then off to the Papercrafts show at Leigh Leisure Centre, Leigh on Sunday. Go and say hello to him if you're in the area!

Here's a gorgeous card made by Heidi at the Farnborough show: it features our new Room with a View Wardrobe set which is proving to be very popular - we love the way Heidi has used silver mirri card on the inside of the wardrobe to look like a mirror....very effective!

That's all for now - hope you have a lovely weekend and don't forget to check out our 'day with Little Claire'!
xxx

Challenge 2 - flowers

Wow, thank you for making our first challenge SO successful - we had over 500 entries!

We decided as things went so well, we'd like to do it a bit more often, so our challenges will now be running fortnightly :o)

I can now announce the lucky winner of our first challenge....

No.269 - Betty Wright 

Congratulations! Please email Gill at Little Claire with your details (putting 'Little Claire challenge winner' as your subject)

We have also chosen our first Top 3 from all the gorgeous entries using Little Claire stamps...

No.39 - Donna

No.174 - Jackie

No.338 - Kerry

Please help yourself to the Top 3 badge from the sidebar :o)

Now onto Challenge 2 -  FLOWERS

You can use floral images, flowery paper, add some flower embellishments - anything you like as long as we can see some flowers!

A quick reminder - you can enter our challenge up to 3 times, we want to make things fair for everyone.  We were fairly relaxed about it last time as it was our first challenge, but from now on any extra entries will be removed.

Here's the fab prize you could win this time

And here are the design team's lovely cards

Heidi

using Flowerhead

Sharon

using Lilies and Flourish

Gaynor

using Pom Pom Dalia

Helen

using Daisy Pitcher

Missy

using Camellia

Kitty

using Armful of Wishes

Mary

using Single Flower

A FEW RULES 

•  You DO NOT need to use a Little Claire stamp to qualify for the prize draw
•  However, only those using Little Claire stamps will qualify for a Top 3 badge
•  You may enter the challenge UP TO 3 TIMES and you may combine with other challenges
•  You must follow the challenge theme and NO BACKLINKING please, new cards only
•  Please provide a link to our blog in your post
•  Please leave a link to your actual card, not just to your blog

GOOD LUCK & HAVE FUN!

We've been busy!

What a busy week we've had!
We hope that you managed to see Steve on Create & Craft last week and got to see our new 'Room with a View' stamp sets.
Hello to everyone who visited our stand at Farnborough, and thank you, we hope you enjoyed Heidi's demonstrations and from tomorrow Thursday 03 March thru to Sunday 06 March, Steve will be at the SECC Hobbycrafts Show in Glasgow, stand F17 - where he will have all of our new products on show.

Here are 3 quick cards that we have made using ONE SHEET of our stickers (hedghogs):

Hope you like............

And here is a small selection of our latest Room with a View designs:

WOW! Just a small selection, we are currently uploading all the fantastic cards created by our Design Team into the gallery on our web: http://www.littleclaire.co.uk/

More cards to come............. Little Claire x