Little Claire Monthly Challenge # 20 'Doing the Rounds'

Good morning, it's challenge time again. Thank you to all of you that took part in our 'Spring' themed challenge, so wonderful entries again.

Our winner this month of the lovely 'Flossie' stamps is :

Kimberley - # 5

Well done, your card was beautiful, full of the joys of Spring! Please can you contact Carol@littleclaire.co.uk so that your prize can be forwarded on to you.

To our top three, again some wonderful creations using Little Claire images.

# 3 - Louise
# 25 - Liza W.
# 107 - Stargroves

Well done ladies! You can take the Little Claire blinkie for your blogs.

We have a great theme this month to challenge you, 'Doing the Rounds'! We want to see lots of circles, spots & dots. Our DT cards below, will help with inspiration. We would love you to use Little Claire images but others are welcome too. If you want to purchase any of the LC images used below, pop on over to the on-line shop via Here .

The prize on offer this month is two fabulous stamps - 'Lazy Days' & 'Room with a View - Garage'. Here a couple of sample cards, showing them.

Here are our Design Team cards and we are welcoming our new members, Annette, Gemma, Isabelle, Lyndsey and Zoe (some DT cards are to follow).

Firstly,

Annette using 'Car' image and 'Sunshine Sentiment'



Donna - using 'Birdhouse Garland'

Gaynor - using 'Catapult Bert & Cupcakes from Cupcake Tree'

Gemma - using 'Catapult Bert

Georgina - using 'Seascape'

Heidi using 'Large Butterfly' & 'Sunshine Sentiments'

Helen N - using 'Swirly Whirly - Poppies'


Helen R - using 'Blissful' & 'Sunshine Sentiments'



Isabelle - using digi image 'Lydia goes Shopping'



Maxine - using 'Wheelbarrow with Flowers' and 'Sunshine Sentiments'



To enter our challenge, please follow the rules below to qualify :

(1) You DO NOT need to use a Little Claire stamp to qualify for the prize draw.

(2) Only those using Little Claire stamps will qualify for a Top 3 badge.

(3) You may enter the challenge UP TO 3 TIMES ONLY PLEASE and you may combine with other challenges.

(4) You MUST follow the challenge theme and NO BACKLINKING please, new cards only.

(5) Please provide a link to our blog in your post.

(6) Please leave a link (via link below) to your actual card, not just to your blog.

(7) Please turn off Word Verification on your blogs,it makes it so much easier & quicker to leave a comment on your blogs.

(8) The challenge finishes on Friday 11th May @ 18.00pm and the new challenge (#21) will be open on Saturday 12th May 2012 .

Good luck!

The Little Claire Team

xxxxx

A treat box tutorial

Good Morning! Hope you are all happy and well. It's my turn (Donna) to do the weekly tutorial and I've decided to make something to fill with sweeties as a gift or maybe use as a desk tidy, to fill with your crafty bits & bobs.

Using a 12 x 12 piece of card, score at 4in & 8in as shown above, making 9 equal squares.  Then score diagonally across the four corner squares and punch a hole in each of the four corners as shown above.

Fold the score lines as shown and thread ribbon through the holes.

        Pull the ribbons together and tie in a bow. Add a button detail.

Stamp four Little Claire's Butterflies onto two different colour papers and cut out as shown. Add glitter.

Die cut four square scallops in co-ordinating card and four squares in white card. Using an embossing folder, emboss and then ink the edges of the four white squares. Layer up the butterflies.

 Stamp four Little Claire’s Sentiments and die cut . Die cut four scallop circles in co-ordinating card & layer up together. Glue one to either side of a coffee stirrer & add a gingham bow.

 Assemble the scallop & plain square’s and stick onto the four panels, then attach the butterflies as shown. Fill will tissue, add sweets and sentiment sticks.

Happy Friday!

Happy Friday!
Here we are at the end of another week and it seems like we have only just had one weekend, over on our web we have added some new digi's Here  and we have a great selection on offer including:

gorgeous card designed by Donna x

gorgeous card designed by Helen R x

 

gorgeous card designed by Helen N - can you see that she has paper-pieced the coat?

Digi's are great, once you have downloaded them to your desktop they are yours to keep forever and you can size the image to suit your card size or project, so please take a look at our new selection, prices range from £1.60 - £1.40 p/image.

Craft Shows:

This Saturday 14 & Sunday 15 April, Steve will be at the Alexandra Palace, London, for the
'Big Stamping & Scrapbooking Show' if you are going, please pay him a visit especially as he will be accompanied by our lovely Heidi AND we have TWO NEW product ranges being seen & demo'd for the very first time!!!   Feast your eyes.........

(more about these new ranges in our blog next week)

Happy weekend, Little Claire x

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: