Look at us!!

In the May issue of Cardmaking & Papercraft magazine, on sale now; our designs are featured on two pages! Yipee!

This is a feature using our lovely  'Garden Set' 'Deckchair'   'Trailing Birdhouse' & 'Birdtable'   
So thank you Karen Watson for making such good use of our Garden Stamps, we love them x                                                         

Our Blog Candy Winner.......

Hello everyone and Happy Easter from Little Claire, we hope you had a lovely break despite the cold weather.
Thank you to everyone who left a comment for our Blog Candy - our lucky winner this week is: 

Carrie-Lee 

congratulations Carrie-Lee, please email carol@littleclaire.co.uk to claim your super prize.

Our Candy Challenge for this week (Tuesday 10 April - Monday 16 April) is our fabby
RWAV Beach Huts stamp set  here 

This is one of our favourite stamp sets EVER! It is so cute and we love the way you can open the doors of the Beach Hut to reveal the lady inside who has been caught unawares! Lots of uses for this set as you can see in the samples below:

gorgeous card designed by Gaynor Bloor

gorgeous card designed by Georgina Sweetenham (the text is also included in this set)

gorgeous card designed by Heidi Green (flowers are included within the set)

So have a go and join in for your chance to win this super Candy, here's what you need to do:

1. You must be a follower of this blog.

2. Post a picture of the blog candy with a link back to this post on your blog  

3. Leave a comment on this post with your blog address.  

4. The blog candy will close at midnight next Monday, 16 April and we'll announce the lucky winner on Tuesday 17 April.

5. If you don't have a blog, you can still join in - leave a comment on this post and let us know that you don't have a blog.

Good luck!
Little Claire xxx

Weekly Blog Project - Easter Tag Card

Here is this week's blog project, an Easter Tag Card made by Design Team Member, Gaynor.

Good morning all! Today it is my turn for the weekly Blog Project - topical and maybe a little inspirational for any quick Easter cards.  I have used Little Claire Duck Mum and Gerberba Set, available to purchase Here.

Ingredients:

LC - Gerbera Stamp Set

LC- Duck Mum Stamp Set

LC -Sentiments tags

LC -Tag Card – white

Lime gingham paper

Black card

Promarkers:

To do:

Cut 4 gingham rectangles 7cm x 8 cm

Mount onto black card.

Stamp out images and colour using promarkers. 

Trim and mount onto black card

Fix to tag as shown.

Add faux stitching, embellishments and ribbon.

Hope you have enjoyed the tutorial, please leave us a comment to let us know what you think.

Wishing everyone a happy and safe Easter. xxGaynor

Another blog project will be along next Friday.

  

Introducing Our New Design Team Members ....

A big thank you to everyone who applied to be a member of our Design Team - we were overwhelmed by the number, and quality, of the applications.

We have now picked five ladies who will be joining our Design Team and they are:

Gemma - visit her at gemslittlecreations.blogspot.co.uk/

Isabelle - visit her at isabelle-isabelleskunstjes.blogspot.co.uk

Lyndsey - visit her at lyndseymariedesigns.blogspot.co.uk/

Net - visit her at caique-momma.blogspot.co.uk/

Zoe - visit her at blog.craftyheaven.co.uk/

It's great to have them on board and we're looking forward to working with them!

Keep an eye out for their work appearing here on the blog and on the Little Claire website very soon.

And don't forget our second weekly blog candy is now open - have a look here for all the details.

Blog Candy Winner and New Candy!

A big thank you to everyone who left a comment for last week's blog candy!

The lucky winner is: Shaz

who said: "Brilliant candy lovely creations made too
thanks for the chance to win them"

Congratulations, Shaz - please e-mail helen@littleclaire.co.uk with your full name and postal address so we can send your prize to you!

This week we have another great blog candy prize for you - two great stamps from our 'Claire's Super Six' collection 'Later, Later' and 'Sunday Morning':

and this is what you need to do to join in:

1. You must be a follower of this blog.

2. Post a picture of the blog candy with a link back to this post on your blog  

3. Leave a comment on this post with your blog address.  

4. The blog candy will close at midnight next Monday, 9 April and we'll announce the lucky winner on Tuesday.

5. If you don't have a blog, you can still join in - leave a comment on this post and let us know that you don't have a blog.

Good luck and we hope lots of you will take part!

To give you some ideas for using the stamps, here are some card made by our Design Team:

 First of all, 'Later, Later' from Georgina:

and from Donna:

Next, 'Sunday Morning' from Heidi:

and from Gaynor:

April Club Stamp - Oodles of Joie de Vivre!

The brand new April club stamp is now available on line and it's the beautiful 'Joie de Vivre' set which includes the main image of the lady with a dress of flowers, a circular sentiment with the definition of joie de vivre and a separate sentiment 'to someone with oodles of joie de vivre'.

Isn't she gorgeous?!  The stamp is so elegant and suitable for lots of different occasions. You can see more details plus a gallery of inspiration from the Design Team here on the Little Claire website.

So how does the Little Claire club work?  

You will receive a new Little Claire stamp (or set, we vary every month), pre-cut materials & colour project ideas etc each month.

You will be given your own unique, Little Claire membership number which will entitle you to 10% discount from all your purchases with us either online, by phone or at shows (whilst a member).

We will also send you a written newsletter each month together with your project.

And here's some more inspiration from the Design Team using this month's stamp:

first of all from Donna:

and from Gaynor:

next from Heidi:

and from Helen N:

next from Helen R:

from Maxine:

and finally from Georgina:

Weekly Blog Project - You Are My Sunshine

Good morning everyone!  This week it's my (Helen N) turn to share one of my creations with you and I've made this hanging card using 'Garden Set' and one of the gorgeous new 'Sunshine Sentiment' stamps.  

Here's what you'll need to make the project:

'Garden Set'

'Sunshine Sentiments' 

white stamping card

Tuxedo Black Memento ink pad

Promarkers

pale green card

pale green gingham paper

lime zest gingham ribbon

circle and scalloped circle Nestabilities dies

Go Kreate scalloped square dies

Corner rounder punch

And this is what you need to do:

1. Stamp the flower pot, wellingtons and sentiment on to white card and die cut using two sizes of the circle dies:

2. Then die cut from the pale green card four scalloped squares and scalloped circles to match the three circular image panels:

3. Cut three white squares (8cm square) from the stamping card and round the corners.  Cut a square of the pale green gingham paper (7cm) square and round the corners of this:

4. Colour the two main images using Promarkers:

5. Layer the two image circles on to the larger scalloped circles and then on to the white card.  Then layer the sentiment circle on to the smaller scalloped circle, then on the pale green gingham paper and then the white card as shown in the photo below:

6. Starting with the top panel, lay one of the scalloped squares on to your craft mat and then put the ribbon over the top of this creating a loop above the scalloped square.  Use some sellotape to tape the two sides of the ribbon to the green scalloped square:

 7. Next place your first white square on top of this so the ribbon is sandwiched between the two pieces:

8. Continue attaching the other scalloped squares in the same way as shown in the photo below:

9. Attach the two final white card squares to finish the card:

I really hope you like the card!  Here's another variation I made using the 'Babies Are Such a Nice Way' set and a bit of paper piecing using pale blue gingham paper:

 Hope you like the cards!

Lots of Lovely New Things to Share!

Today we've got lots of great new products to share with you!

First of all, a range of brand new Digi Decoupage Sheets featuring Flossie:

All you have to do once you've purchased them is save the file to your desktop and then the sheet is yours to print out and use as many times as you want!

We also have some great new digi papers:

this one goes perfectly with our Claire's Owl stamp

this one is ideal to use with Garden Set

and this one goes really well with Man Squares

You can find all of them in the 'Digi Downloads' section on the website.

We also recently brought out two new sets of sentiment stamps and there's now a video on the Little Claire website showing you both of them in action.  Have a look here - http://www.littleclaire.co.uk/onlinevideos.asp?playvideo=yes&vd=62 to see it or go to the videos section of the website.  

Here are some examples of how you can use Save the Date

And here are all the Sunshine Sentiments stamped out.

Don't forget we still have our first weekly blog candy on offer - click here for all the details.

Finally, the first Little Claire column will be in the issue of Quick Cards magazine which goes on sale at the end of April - we'll let everyone know here on the blog and on Facebook once it's in the shops!

Birthday Giveaway

A big thank you to everyone who left birthday wishes for Steve yesterday!

As promised, he's chosen someone to receive a Little Claire gift and the lucky person is .....

Mau 


who said: "Relatively new to Little Claire, but had to Say Happy Birthday Steve, Hope you have a Fab day and don't worry about age....I have a daughter as old as you, and I don't mean 26 either.....lol how old does that make me :O"

Congratulations, Mau!  Please e-mail helen@littleclaire.co.uk with your full name and address and we'll get your prize out to you.

Happy Birthday Steve!

Happy Birthday Steve x

It's Steve's birthday today, so we thought we'd share a pic with you of him getting ready for his NEW Column that will be in the April issue of 'Quick Cards made easy' magazine, on sale in the next week - needless to say, he is sooo excited about this and hopes that all the ladies will enjoy reading his column each month.
If you look closely at this pic, you can get a sneak peek of April's Club Set which is coming out to all of our Club Members from tomorrow.
Any 'Happy Birthday' wishes that you would like to send to our Steve today would be greatly received and, as he will be in such a good mood, one lucky person may be picked to receive a goodie prize chosen by him!