Friday Project

Diane here with today's friday project and I have a a simple little gift for you using the Geranium Dinkie Pot

 

 A gift box containing three note cards and envelopes

 

You will need:
2 A4 sheets of card, one peach, one white
3 Dovecraft cards and envelopes 3 1/2" x 3 1/2"
2 pieces of coordinating patterned paper
Promarkers, pear green, peach, blush and cool grey 2
2mm foam tape
Scallop corner punch
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To make the note cards:

1. Using scallop punch,  punch all four corners on 3 card blanks

2.  Cut 3 - 2" x 2 3/4"  of white card. Stamp geranium pot and colour using promarkers. Using scallop punch, punch all four corners.

3. Cut 3- 2 3/16" x 2 15/16" of  first patterned paper and scallop edges.

4. Cut 3 - 3 6/16" of second patterned paper and scallop edges.

  

 5. Glue geranium pot onto first patterned paper, then second patterned paper onto card base and mount geranium pot onto 3d foam tape onto card  front.

To make the box: 

1. From the peach card, cut a "4 wide strip and score at 4"- 4 1/2"- 8 1/2 - 9

 

  2. Cut two small strips from the peach 1" x 4" and score at 1/4" down  both sides and crease.

 

3. Glue these two strips top and bottom of the middle 4" square as in photo.

 

4. Fold up right hand 4" square and glue to strips to form box. Then fold over top flap and crease.

 

To make belly band:

5. Cut a white strip of card at 9 3/4" x 1 3/4"

A strip of peach card at 9 3/4" x 1"

A strip of patterned paper at 9 3/4 x 3/4"

6. Wrap the white card strip round box, creasing it at side edges and glue together at front, making sure it slides up and down easily. Then repeat with peach card and patterned paper gluing on top of white card.

 

 7. Onto a 3" circle of white card, stamp and colour geranium pot. Cut two more circles 1/8 " bigger in the two patterned papers. mat and layer all three circles together using the 3d foam tape and  glue onto the belly band at front.

A super small gift to give to any friend, family or maybe a teacher.

Here is another gift set in purple and lilac.

hugs Diane xx

and the winner is...

...thank you to everyone who entered our competition to win both sets or our new 'Rebecca's Really Useful Sentiments' stamps, we loved reading your comments, very encouraging, thank you - and without further ado the randomly picked winner is:

Jennifer who said: Love your card, Helen, and what a fabulous idea, Rebecca, to design the interchangable sentiment sets. Such a difficult decision to choose just one favourite, but as I make a lot of baby cards, and help reabilitate native animals for release, (Native Animal Trust), I guess my choice is the second set. Also the little birdies and flowers circle is so versatile.

Thank you for the chance to win one of these great sets.  Hugs, Jennifer. x

Well done to you Jennifer, please send your details to Carol and the two stamp sets will be on their way x

Everyone else - so sorry you didn't win this time, but some good news; you can purchase both stamp sets (rrp. £9.99 each) online for just £17.50 click here

The Little Claire Team xxx

Announcing 3 lucky winners!

Hello everyone, we have 3 lucky winners to announce today - from our Changing Birdhouse competition last Tuesday when we released our club stamp set for June, so the winners are:

Debra Kenworthy: Brilliant idea! I love the Changing Tree and now you've got the Changing Birdhouse with so many ways to use it. I need value for money with my craft purchases and this is just what you get with stamps that can be used over and over again but get a different look each time. I can't wait to see more Birdhouses. Just love them. Debra x 

Debi: This is an adorable set of stamps and great cards. I would so love to win the set. Thanks for having the giveaway.
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DebiB

Debbie: Wow what an amazing idea.The amount of things you could do with this stamp set and the different bird houses.Your design team are on fire with there stunning creations and well done for coming up with such a great concept.Thanks for the chance to win.Good luck everyone.Hugs Debbie x

Congratulations (all Debbies!) please contact Carol with your details and she will send the Changing Birdhouse sets to you, happy days x

Little Claire x

Little Claire Likes - 'Dinky Spikey Flower' Tent Card

Hello and thanks for joining us for another 'Little Claire Likes' - Monday project.  Where we showcase a new or much loved stamp from our extensive range.  We share with you, a product list, step-by-step instructions and a link to our website should you wish to treat yourself, to the products used on the card.

Today, is the turn of a 'Dinky' stamp - 'Spikey Flowers'

 

 

These little 'Dinky' stamps are such a fun size of stamp and they are only £2.00 each.  They make great little cards and backgrounds.  You can pop over HERE to the website, where there is a special offer.  You can purchase six 'Dinkies' for £10.00 or ten 'Dinkies' for £15.00

Heidi has made a quick and easy mini tent card using lots of black & white card and a die-cut dragonfly.

 Card Product List :

 

Little Claire 'Spikey Flower' Dinky stamp - £2.00
White A4 Superior Stamping Card - £3.50
Versafine Onyx Inkpad - £5.50
Clear Stones - £1.99
White Pearls - £1.80 per pack
Black Promarker - £1.90
Black Cardstock, embossing powders & Willow Dragonfly Die from stash

 

 Card Instructions :

(1) Cut a piece of black card to measure : 18cms x 9cms, score in the centre.
(2) Cut a piece of white card to measure : 8.5cms square.
(3) Stamp 'Spikey Flower' image onto the white card using the Versafine inkpad.
(4) Add black embossing powder and heat with heatgun.
(5) Cut a square from the front of the card, 1.5cms in from the edge.
(6) Stamp up flower around the edge of the card, cover with white embossing powder and heat.
(7) Cut a piece of black card : 6cms x 9cms. Score at 1.5cm, 3cm and 4.5cms.
(8) Stick this piece to the inside of the card at the bottom.
(9) Die-cut 'dragonfly' from white card scraps and stick to top of card.
(10) Add pearls.
(11) Using Black Promarker, colour stones and attach to dragonfly.

We do hope you have enjoyed and feel inspired by our project today.

The Little Claire Team

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Floral card for lots of occasions...

Hi there! It is my turn (Helen) to share a project with you today. I have made a simple card that can be put together quickly, will work in different colour schemes and can be adapted for lots of different occasions!

You will need

‘Spikey Flowers’ stamp (Little Claire’s): This is currently available as a ‘Dinkies’ stamp and could be used as a smaller image or stamped several times for a bigger image. Alternatively you could use another of Little Claire’s lovely floral stamps. J

‘Little Beauties’ tag stamp set (Little Claire’s)

White stamping card (Little Claire’s)

Card Blank

Memento ink in ‘Lady Bug’ and ‘Tangelo’

Dark brown cardstock

Patterned papers (Mine are ‘My Mind’s Eye, Notable’)

Small gems

Pearls

Yellow ribbon

Blue ink.

Adhesives: 3D foam pads and glue

1. Stamp out your image onto white card stock,  using a combination of colours on the stamp. Ink very lightly with blue ink before mounting on dark brown card stock and adding gems to the centre of the flowers.

2. Cut out 4 pieces of coordinating paper and mount them onto dark brown card stock. Mine are the following sizes, although you can choose to have your layers different sizes, considering the size of your card blank: 14.5cm x 13.5cm, 10cm x 10cm, 13cm x 5cm and 10cm x 4.5cm. 

3. Stick the largest panel to the card base and then the smaller square towards the top left hand side. Arrange the long rectangle as shown and adhere this to the card.

4. Before sticking the smallest rectangle down, attach ribbon and then adhere using 3D foam pads.

5. Stamp out a tag greeting, lightly ink the edges in blue and attach under your bow. Use 3D foam pads to attach the main image to your card.  

6. Finally, attach gems to the bottom of your card as shown in the picture and 3 gems to the top right hand corner of the card.

Thanks for taking the time to look at my project, I hope you find it useful! J Helen x

'Tis Thursday already!

Had lots of problems with our internet this morning groan, BIG GROAN, isn't it such a pain when these technology things decide to go on a go-slow, poor Steve's been at my desk doing his best to fix things, seems he needs to have an in depth look this evening when my chores are over...

And today we want to share with you the release of a FANTASTIC set of sentiment stamps, called
'Rebecca's Really Useful Sentiments - Male & Female'  Here is the Male set:

and here is the Female set - but of course the great thing is you can swap and change as the Female words fit inside the Male circles and vice versa. Great!

These two fantastic stamp sets are the brainchild of one of our customers, Rebecca Roberts who entered our recent competition to design a new stamp for Little Claire, and this is what she did! 
Well done Rebecca and thank you for such a good idea.

Each stamp set contains 6 different themed circles (all the same size as our usual circular sentiments) with themes such as Gardening, Driving, Music, Baking, Sports, Walking, Flowers and then lots of names to put inside so for instance, Daughter may like Baking or she may like Music...you choose which one suits the person to whom you are sending your card - great!

Here's a sample of one of the sentiments in use:

designed by Helen N

Helen has stamped 'DAD' into the drinking circle but all of the sentiments have been designed to fit inside the circle, just ready to be swapped and changed!
Each set of sentiment stamps cost £9.99 and they represent really good value - because they are 'really useful sentiments!'

Fancy owning both these stamp sets?

We have one set to giveaway - just leave us a comment telling us which sentiment you think you use the most when making cards and a winner will be announced next Wednesday 11 June 2014.

Little Claire xxx

Hello everyone!

Here we are in June, half way through the year - and a new month means a new set of club stamps, this month we are proud to present 'Changing Birdhouse':

This great set of stamps offers lots of uses, you can hang the birdhouse from one of the branches like this:

Helen Holbrook

or you can place the birdhouse onto the birdtable like this (this is the project card sent to our club members):

Heidi Green

or you can use the birdhouse on its own, like this:

Helen Nile

So, we hope you will agree, this is such a useful set - and we will be designing more birdhouses to use, you can then swap and change according to your theme, the first of the new corresponding designs are Changing Birdhouse Baby 1 and 2, here is baby birdhouse no.1 placed onto the birdtable:

Gaynor Bloor

and here is baby birdhouse no.2 used on its own:

Heidi Green

Aren't they just the best? (more birdhouses to follow!)

Would you like to win yourself a set of our new Changing Birdhouse club stamp sets?  We have 3 to giveaway - just leave us a comment on this post and 3 lucky winners will be randomly drawn on Monday 09 June with our 'Little Claire Likes' blog post.  Good Luck x

Little Claire

Little Claire Likes - Book Owl Card

 Good morning, it's Monday again so we are sharing another project with you.

 

This week, Heidi has made a Graduation card using our 'Book Owl' stamp.  It is a fun little image, that is great for all of those book lovers in your life! You can purchase it at the special price of £4.50 until this Thursday, 5th May 2014.  Just pop on over HERE.

 

 

With graduation ceremonies and school leavers approaching, its a great stamp for those special occasion cards that need to be made.

 

Here is a product list :

 

Little Claire 'Book Owl' stamp - £4.50

Little Claire 'Graduation' stamp - £2.00

Little Claire 'Superior Stamping A4 Cardstock' - £3.50

Memento 'Rich Cocoa' Inkpad - £3.90

DCWV 'Chickadee' Paper Stack

Promarker's : Spice, Honeycomb, Denim Blue, Khaki, Pastel Beige, Pear Green and Ice Grey I - £1.90 per pen

Linen thread, Labels 22 Die, Wooden leaves and Brown pearls from stash.

 

Card Instructions :

 

(1) Firstly, cut a piece of 'brown leaf' paper to fit a 15cms x 15cms square card, then an orange piece, stick together.

(2) Cut the bottom of a piece of paper, with the scallop edge and stick over the card on the left-hand side.

(3) Stamp up 'Book Owl' image, colour in with Promarker's. Die-cut image.

(4) Die-cut a frame using 'brown leaf' paper and stick over image.

(5) Stick down image and wind linen thread around. Tie a bow.

(6) Attach wooden leaves under bow of thread.

(7) Stamp up 'Graduation' onto white card, punch out and stick to top of card.

(8) Cut two oblongs of paper, cut into bottom edges to make flags.

(9) Add brown pearls.

 

We do hope you have enjoyed our project today, please do leave us a comment.

 

The Little Claire Team

 

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Lozzy's Friday Blog Project

Hi everyone and hope you all ok, its Lozzy here today for Fridays Blog Project and i have this little box i made using Little Claire Freedom Stamp Set.

To make this box i cut out 2 large x cut circles, take the next size down circle die and place on large cut out die, with embossing tool score round the inside

after scoring both circles cut small cuts up to the score line

fold little cuts upwards, cut out  large x cut scallop edge circle and glue onto, do this twice to make the lid and base

cut two strips of card, 25cm by 7cm and 25cm by 2 1/2cm. you can cut the width what ever size you like, just depends on the height you want your box

glue stripes onto the cut flaps

box put together ready to decorate

 stamped and cut out the girl, 3 large and 3 small butterfly's from Little Claire Freedom Stamp Set

coloured with pro markers and added lots of stickles to the butterfly's, layered the butterfly's together

glued on papers to the box, arranged the butterfly's and girl then added flowers, punched out leaves and ribbon with bow to the box

then you have a beautiful handmade box

Stamp Set i used and all the different stamps that you receive in the Freedom Stamps Set

Hope you liked my little Blog Project for today and hope you check out all of the beautiful stamps and all the great crafty accessories you can purchase from Little Claire Shop.

Dont forget you still have time to enter this month Spots and Stripes Challenge, great prise up for the winner...

Lozzy and Little Claire Design Team xx

Little Claire Likes - Butterfly Flourish Bunting

 Good morning, we are back today with our regular Monday project - 'Little Claire Likes'.

Today, we are showcasing the beautiful 'Butterfly Flourish' stamp set, which has lots of gorgeous images and a lovely sentiment.  The flourishes in the set are great for making borders and backgrounds.

You can purchase this wonderful set for only £6.99 (normally £8.99) HERE from the website at the reduced price until Thursday, 29th May 2014 or until stocks run out.

Here is the set

  

Heidi has made some bunting with some Kraft and Turquoise Bazzill Card, adhesive ribbon and wooden embellishments, all available from our website.

 

 

Here are the single elements of the banner

 

 

The centre-piece

 

 

The third piece of the banner

 

 

Here is a list of products used :

 

Little Claire 'Butterfly Flourish' stamp set £6.99

Kraft Card Card - £1.99 per pack

Turquoise Bazzill Cardstock - £0.50p

White A4 Superior Stamping Cardstock - £3.50

Memento 'Rich Cocoa' Inkpad - £3.90

White Adheshive Lace - £1.99 per pack

Cosmo Cricket Wooden Charms 'Happy Mail' - £4.50 per pack

Cosmo Cricket Wooden Charms 'Tiny Text' - £4.50 per pack

Promarkers used : Tea Green, Soft Green, Khaki, Pastel Beige - £1.90 per pen

White Small Pearls - £1.80

(Sizzix Banner Die and white string from stash)

Double-sided Tape

White Sticky Pads

Crop-o-dile hole cutter

 

Here is how the banner was made :

 

(1) Firstly, using the Sizzix Banner Die, die-cut three large banner shapes from kraft card.

(2) Die-cut three smaller banners from Turquoise Bazzill card.

(3) Using long 'Flourish' stamp from set, stamp over top of blue shapes and over bottom edges using smaller curved 'Flourish'.

(4) Stick turquoise shapes down onto kraft ones.

(5) Attach white adhesive-lace to centre of each shape.

(6) Stamp up two dragonfly and one butterfly shapes. Colour in and cut out.

(7) Stick shapes centrally over lace using sticky pads.

(8) Stick down two wooden hearts to edges and one 'Beautiful' shape above butterfly.

(9) Punch out two small holes at top of each banner shape.

(10) Thread through white string, tie bows and knots in string.

(11) Add pearls to decorate.

 

We do hope you have enjoyed our banner tutorial today.

 

We also have a new blog challenge running, where you could win lots of craft goodies if you enter a card into our challenge.  Just pop over to our challenge post HERE for more details.

 

The Little Claire Design Team

 

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