Do you like these cards?

Clean & simple, blue gingham card for a baby boy....

designed by Helen N

Pretty card for a pretty girl......

designed by Heidi

and a word of 'thanks' presented on pink gingham.....

designed by Helen N

What do these cards all have in common?  

The pretty Daisy text has been made using our NEW Daisy Dot Alphabet & Numbers stamp set which has just gone online today, this set contains 39 stamps including '!' '&' and numbers 0 -9 and they are a perfect size for your cards and for colouring to match your creations, here you can see them up close:

and hopefully the cards featured give you an idea of the size of the stamps -  great value, 39 stamps for £12.99, each stamp is clear and easy to place on your cards or projects

You can see here that Helen has used both the letters & the numbers and colour coordinated them too!

Freebie time: what's the first phrase or name that you would use this set for?
Let us know in your comment here before midday tomorrow Wed 11.07.12 and this big set of lovelies (Daisy Dot Alphabet & Numbers) could be yours!

Little Claire x

weekly blog project - Criss Cross card

Hello everyone it's my turn Maxine for the weekly blog project.

My project this week is a criss cross card.

You will need

Little Claire Bright Blue Skies stamp set

White card

Memento Ink pad

Pro markers

Pearl pen

White pen

2 blank cards approx - 5" x 5"

Backing papers

Flowers

Die cut leaves

Die cut circle

Boarder punch

Coloured card stock

Tab

Stamp the image, colour with pro markers and mount onto the die cut circle.

cut the two card blanks as shown above.

Stick the two cards together as above.

Cut a piece of backing paper to fit inside of the card and stick.

Cut two pieces of backing paper to fit the triangle sides and stick. Fold in the sides and stick together and at the bottom.

Attach two punched boarders to the sides.

Add the mounted image to the centre.

Add the flowers and leaves to the corners.

Insert

Cut a piece of coloured card stock approx 12cm's x 11.5cm's to fit inside of your card.

Add a piece of backing paper leaving a 2mm boarder. 

Add the tab to the top right corner.

Stamp the sentiments from the Bright Blue Skies set and the butterflies to the top of a die cut shape and stick to the insert.

To finish add some pearls and embellish with some flowers.

Message from Little Claire: Wow, this is such a lovely card Maxine and what a great idea, thank you!

It being Friday, here is the lucky winner (chosen at random) of our 'what makes you happy' comp: Heidi who said  
'These are lovely stamps so cute.  Snuggles in bed with my babies (well not babies 5, 1l and 16) make me the happiest.
Thanks for more super stamps'
Well done Heidi, pls contact Carol with your address. 
Thank you to everyone who submitted their happy thoughts they really were a pleasure to read.
Little Claire x

Bright Blue Skies.....

The skies may not be 'bright & blue' here in the UK, but here are a couple more cards made with our current Club Stamp Set (Bright Blue Skies) which hopefully will bring a little bit of sunshine to you today:

Here is a card designed by Lyndsey and the sentiment is also part of the stamp set

Boy, designed by Lyndsey - sentiment is part of the set

   An aptly designed Butterfly Card designed by Heidi, featuring the little girl, more sentiments & butterflies from the set and can you see that Heidi has used the butterflies to form the background pattern?

designed by Heidi

And how about this super circular card from Maxine, love the little tags with buttons! and the sentiment that Maxine has used is from our Dictionary Definitions set of 12 stamps   

designed by Maxine

Here is a really great 'boy' card designed by Gaynor and this time the cute little tag sentiment is from our Little Beauties set of 12 tag greetings

designed by Gaynor

Here is a little cutie from Gemma with a great idea to place the girl over on the side of the card:

designed by Gemma

And here is a clever card from Georgina where she has managed to put all the designs from the set onto a very tasteful card, you can see the text (both types) the butterflies stamped & coloured and then applied as a background

designed by Georgina

Have these lovely images cheered you up? We hope so, and what has cheered us up immensely is reading your comments from our current competition 'what makes you happy?' we were having a good read yesterday whilst the rain was pouring down outside so thank you for sharing - if you haven't entered our comp yet, just place a comment on our previous post telling us what makes you happy and you could win this new 'Bright Blue Skies' stamp set; the lucky winner will be announced tomorrow (Friday 06 July)

Little Claire x

New Month - New Club Stamps...

Here is our club set for July:

'Bright Blue Skies'

This set contains 5 stamps, the characters and butterflies are great for colouring and paper piecing and they come complete with super text too!
Here are a selection of cards made by the ladies in our Design Team and first we have two from Helen N showing the use of paper piecing:

'Bright Blue Skies; Boy' designed by Helen N

'Bright Blue Skies; Girl' designed by Helen N

Can you see how Helen has used the gingham paper for the clothes to match the background?

And here is a card made by Georgina where she has used the Butterflies from the set as the main feature and can you see how she has created a faint butterfly background again with these stamps - the text is also included within the set:

'Bright Blue Skies' butterflies & text, designed by Georgina

Are here are two cards made by Helen R:

designed by Helen R

We have lots more lovelies to share from this super set, so we'll post some more cards tomorrow.

So, this is our new Club set for JULY, and we are feeling quite generous here today - if you are not a club member and fancy seeing what the membership entails then here goes another competition:

Just leave a comment telling us what make you HAPPY and we will draw a lucky winner on Friday 06 July, to receive the full Little Claire club pack which includes our new stamp set, a project pack containing everything you need to make a lovely card with the stamps and two more colour project ideas.

So 'get commenting!' we are waiting to hear from you!

Little Claire & Carol - which one is Little Claire (aka Gill?)

Which one is 'Little Claire' left or right?

Hello lovely card crafters!

Here we are, Monday again and don't know about where you are but yes, we have rain and lots of it, but hey, never mind as here at Little Claire we have ideas and lots of them!

Thank you for the great response to the launch of our first two Christmas designs last week, here are a couple more cards from our DT's that we didn't show on the blog:

Christmas Owls, designed by Helen N

Christmas Owls, designed by Gemma

 And here are a couple of cards designed with our Christmas Beach Huts stamp:

Christmas Beach Huts, designed by Lyndsey

Christmas Beach Huts, designed by Helen R

You can probably guess that we just love these two new designs, they are so great to work with giving amazing results every time, but we do have more Christmas designs, cooking as we speak; and we will show these off as soon as they are ready, hopefully there will be something for everyone.


Christmas Owl Tree; and Christmas Beach Hut stamps are available now on our web, and oh yes, important job here, we must announce the lucky winner of a fabulous Christmas Beach Hut stamp from our comp last week and she is:  Lynne in N I  whose said:  'Oooh LOVE your new stamp. I'd like my wee beach hut to be in Lyme Regis in Dorset, or anywhere on the Italian coast. Either would be fine!'


Well done Lynne, please contact Carol  stating 'Christmas Beach Huts' and give your address.


Little Claire x 

Weekly Blog Project - The Robin and the Ivy

Good morning! It's my turn this week, Georgina, for the weekly Blog Project. My project is a tag Christmas card using the lovely The Robin and the Ivy stamp.

For this card you will need:
The Robin and the Ivy stamp
Dark green tag card blank
Christmas Text sentiment stamps
White Christmas Pals Outline Stickers
Tuxedo Black Memento ink pad
White ink pad
Smooth white card
Gold card
Diamond Stickles
Corner rounder punch
Green Bakers Twine
Lacey Circles Nestabilities
ProMarkers: Pastel Blue, Forest Green, Holly, Cocoa, Henna, Gold, Berry Red, Cardinal and Gold

1. Cut three 60x80mm pices of gold card and three 55x75mm pieces of white card. Round all the corners with a corner rounder punch.

2. Stamp sections of The Robin and the Ivy stamp as show in the photo with the Memento ink pad.

3. Carefully just ink the snowflake above the robins head with the white ink pad and stamp all over the tag.

4. Colour the stamped images with ProMarkers before attached the white and gold panels to the tag as shown in the photo.

5. Stamp the circle sentiment onto white card with the Memento ink pad. Cut the sentiment and the gold circle out using the Lacey Circles dies.

6. Tie bows of Bakers Twine throught the holes in the top of the tags. Add a peel-off greeting to the third panel. To finish add diamond Stickles.

Do you likey?

Here is our 2nd NEW Christmas release for this week (more to come):

Christmas Beach Huts

Christmas Beach Huts is a lovely stamp and a good size too, here are a selection of cards from our DT's and the 6 x 6 card size lets you see the size of the stamp:

from Helen R in cool blues

from Georgina, lovely embossed background and using a Little Claire circular sentiment

from Gaynor, a jaunty angle

from Gemma, candy colours

from Heidi, again using a Little Claire ciruclar sentiment

from Helen N, the kraft paper, and ribbon all from Little Claire

from Lyndsey, how apt are those pom poms!

We love this new stamp and hope that you do too, our DT's have certainly given us lots of inspiration with their lovely cards.

This new stamp is available to buy on our web Little Claire now, priced £6.50 and if you would like the chance to win one for yourself, you know what to do - please leave a comment on our blog maybe telling us that if you were lucky enough to have your own, real life Beach Hut where would you like it to be? 
We will announce the lucky winner on Monday 04 July.

Talking of winners, thank you to everyone who took part in the comp to win our Christmas Owls stamp, lots of super comments, the winner drawn at random is SUE JemimasJems who said:

'I spotted 10 owls on this tree.Absolutely gorgeous selection of cards by the DT,all so different too..love the stamp and I would love to win it cos I NEED to get started on my xmas cards ASAP:-)'
well done Sue; please contact carol@littleclaire.co.uk stating Christmas Owl Tree and include your address.  

Good luck everyone
Little Claire x