Competion Winner, Whooo Hoo! & Little Claire Likes - Oh Man!

Good morning,

There are three parts to this blog post today.

Firstly,

 

Thank you all for entering our competition last week, to win the gorgeous January Club Stamp Set - 'Swirly Bird's'.

 

The winner is :

 

 Entry # 9 - Karen, who wrote

 

 'My favourite just has to be the hanging heart. It would make beautiful cards for almost any occasion - beautiful and stunning design. The card samples are very pretty too xxx'

Well done Karen - please contact Carol (carol@littleclaire.co.uk) who will forward you your 'Swirly Bird's' stamp set.

Secondly,

We have just seen that we now have over 900 followers on our blog -

 

Whoo Hoo!

 

Thank you for following our blog! To celebrate surpassing 900 followers, we will have a ‘Find-It’ competition on our blog tomorrow, so don't forget to pop back.

 

We will make a £5.50 stamp just £2.00 and all customers have to do is find it to buy it…..

 

Third and lastly,

Here is today's 'Little Claire Likes'.  We are showcasing the male-themed set 'Oh Man', which has some great images and sentiments in the set.

Here is Heidi's card, using one of the sentiments in the set

You can purchase this set from the website HERE at the special price of £6.50 instead of the normal price of £8.99.  This special offer is only available until Thursday, 16th January 2014.

Here is a list of products that Heidi used :
 

Card Products :

 

Little Claire - Oh Man! Stamp set - £6.50 (normally £8.99)

 First Edition 'Man Made' Paper Pack - £7.50
White Card Pack (6x6) - £1.99 per pack
Raven Black Bazzill Cardstock - £0.50p per sheet
Momento 'Tuxedo Black' Inkpad - £3.90
White Natural Hemp Cord - £1.50 per pack
Promarkers : Denim, Pastel Blue, Pastel Beige, Khaki, Pear Green, Sandstone, Caramel, Pastel Pink & Ice Grey I - £1.70 each
  

Card Instructions :

 

(1) Cut some 'Raven' cardstock to measure 14cms x 14cms. Cut a piece of chevron paper from the 'Man Made' paper pack, 13.5cms x 13.5cms. Stick together and town onto card blank.
(2) Stamp up image onto an oblong of white stamping cardstock, colour in with Promarker's.
(3) Cut two more piece of black card : 12.5cms x 10cms and 11.5cms x 6.5cms.
(4) Cut two pieces of different papers : 12 x 9.5cms and 11cms x 6cms, stick together.
(5) Stick all elements together.
(6) Stamp up sentiment 'Put your feet up, it's your birthday', matt onto a piece of 'Raven' card.  Punch a hole in top and thread through white twine and tie a bow.
(7) Cut an oblong of black card, cut into centre and out again, making two points. Add white twine and stick to back of sentiment as shown.
(8) Stick all elements down.

We do hope you have enjoyed our male-themed card today. Don't forget to grab your stamp at a reduced price and pop back tomorrow for our new competition.

The Little Claire Team

xxxxx

 

 



Little Claire Monthly Challenge # 41 - Thank You Card & Sketch

Happy New Year!

Welcome to a new challenge.

We had lots of great entries into our 'Make a Gift' challenge last month. 

Our winner of the craft goodies is :

 Pauline # 28 - Crafting with Cotnob

Here is her winning entry, a beautiful altered mirror

Well done Pauline, please contact Carol (carol@littleclaire.co.uk) who will forward you your prize.

We want to give a special mention to Entry # 9 - Sarah Bell, who has used the Little Claire Stamp, 'Armful of Wishes'.  Please take the blinkie from the sidebar for your blog.

 Now to our first challenge of 2014.

We have a great sketch for you to use, designed by our teamie Gemma and the theme for January is

'Thank You'



Here is the prize on offer this month :

A £20 Little Claire Voucher

  
New Teamie

We are really happy to welcome Doreen to our Design Team this month.  Doreen is an avid crafter who makes gorgeous cards, welcome Doreen!

Here is her blog :

Doreen O'Brien (http://www.doreensdream.blogspot.co.uk/)

Here is her card for this challenge.

She has used 'Button's & Bow's stamp set - just gorgeous!

 Now to the rest of our design team's work. Their cards using the sketch are just fantastic!

Firstly,

Diane has used 'Daschund's in Square's'

  

Gaynor has used 'Butterfly Blossom' & black peel-off sentiment

  

Gemma has used 'Tulip Bunny' stamp

Heidi has used 'Tulip Cat' stamp

 Helen N has used 'Tulip Bunny' and 'Sentiment's Mix'

  Lozzy has used 'Dinkie's - 'Flower Head' stamp

& 'Swirly Whirly Butterfly' outline stickers

We hope you feel inspired by our Design Team's creations.  Please follow these instructions when entering our challenge.

Here is an email entry from Alison Beesley, a lovely card with a spring feel, using 'Deckchair'.

 

  

 Here are the Challenge instructions :

Can we please ask that your card/creation is an original design of your own and not a copy or remake of another card. This is plagiarism and these entries WILL NOT be included.

(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 blog.

(8) The challenge finishes on Friday, 14th February 2014 @ 16.00pm and the new challenge (#42) will be open on Saturday, 15th February 2014.

Good luck!

The Little Claire Design Team

xxxx





Friday Project - Butterfly Tree Pyramid card.

Morning everyone, Gaynor here,

Well first week back - and it feels fabulous, batteries recharged and ideas flowing.......and that's just work ha, ha,  I hope each and everyone enjoyed their Christmas and I wish you well for 2014.

On with today's project: A pyramid card - have been fancying a play with this style for a little while and the Friday Project gave me the incentive to play.  I have used the beautiful Butterfly Tree Stamp Set which includes additional stamps which I haven't used in this project.  Once again I have used my trusty promarkers, a little glitter glue and of course adhesive stones.

I cut 3 x 5" squares and scored a fold diagonally.

 

Using wet glue I joined the three squares together.

 

Showing both front and back views.

 

I punched three holes to thread ribbon through to assemble the card.

I threaded through the ribbon prior to adding my chosen pretty paper again using wet glue which allows the opportunity to line up correctly.

 

Die cut my shape using a nestabilities die and stamped and coloured in the image using the promarkers shown. I also cut a small die for the stamped sentiment.

 

Assembled the card using 3D foam pads, a couple of butterflies punched using a Martha Stewart Punch.

A little closer to show the embellishments used.

 

Finished card.

 

I hope you have enjoyed my little make.  Lots happening recently at Little Claire - delicious new stamps just released and more on the way.  New project challenge also begins tomorrow......

Well that's it from me for now......................xxGaynor

Our club set for January

Hello everyone, here is our club set of stamps for January, Swirly Birds:

What a lovely set of stamps with so many uses - wedding, engagement, anniversary, birthday, general and we just love the 'hang on in there' sentiment for someone going through a bad time.

This set has been sent to all of our lovely club members together with the project pack to make this card, designed by Helen N:

outside of card

inside of card

and our teamies have been busy creating, look at this beauty from Diane:

Diane

and from Heidi:

Heidi

and from Lozzy:

Lozzy

from Gaynor:

Gaynor

from Gemma:

Gemma

and we love this card, stamped onto kraft paper:

Helen N

That's our January club set in all it's glory!

Would you like to win yourself this set together with the project pack to make the card featured at top of page?

Please let us know which is your favourite image from this set - is it the birdcage, the hanging heart.....
we will announce the lucky winner on Monday 13 January - good luck x

Little Claire xxx

New Ribbons!

Here's a selection of new ribbons just uploaded to the Little Claire website, we couldn't resist and only 50p p/metre...which one to use first?

 

Pop over HERE to see the full range and treat yourself!

 

The Little Claire Team

 

xxx

Competition Winner & Little Claire Likes - 'Sweetest Wishes'

 Good morning,

Thank you for all that took part in our Stamp Launch Competition last week.

The winner of all five stamps is :

Sue (#13) Creations By Bearhouse

Well done Sue! Please contact Carol (carol@littleclaire.co.uk) who will forward the stamps onto you.

Now to another 'Little Claire Likes'.

Our regular Monday slot where we share a project using a much loved stamp from our extensive range.

 

Today, we are showcasing a new stamp called 'Sweetest Wishes'.  It really is a gorgeous little stamp set, which comes with three different sentiments, that mix and match really well.  The little set can be purchased for £5.50 HERE

 

Heidi has made a card with a 'mono' theme today.  She has used some gorgeous papers from a 'Back to Basic's paper pack and has coloured in the image using Promarker's in different shades of grey. 

 

 

Here is a product list of what was used to make her card.

 

Little Claire 'Sweetest Wishes' stamp set - £5.50

Dovecraft White Card Pack (6x6) - £1.99

Back to Basics Monochrome Designer Paper Pack - £3.50

'Raven' Bazzill Cardstock - £0.50p per sheet

White A4 Stamping Cardstock - £3.50

Momento 'Tuxedo Black' Inkpad - £3.90

Promarkers Used : Ice Grey I, 2, 3 & 4 - £1.70 per pen

(Dies, black fine liner pen, black pearls & black ribbon from stash)

 

If you would like to purchase any of the items used, just click on the item listed.

 

Card Instructions :

 

(1) Start off by cutting a square of 'Raven' Bazzill card to fit card blank, giving a border. Add a square of white card to it and one of paper with the flowery pattern.

(2) Stick together and down onto white card blank.

(3) Onto an oblong of white card, stamp up 'Sweet Wishes' image.  Colour in with Grey Promarker's and edge with black fine liner pen.

(4) Die cut 'Label's 23 die from 'Raven' card and matt image onto shape.

(5) Cut an oblong of black card and one in the papers from pack. Stick piece of ribbon over right-hand edge and stick down, tucking under oblong.

(6) Stick oblong down onto card base, then image covering edge of ribbon. Tie large bow.

(7) Die-cut 'Floral Border' and stick to bottom of image, centrally.

(8) Stamp up sentiment, stick to black card and onto card, add small black pearl.

 

We do hope you have enjoyed our project today.

 

The Little Claire Team

 

xxxxxx

 



Fridays Project: Henny Penny

  

 Morning peeps, 

 Diane here with a cute friday project for you using "Henny Penny"

 Corner bookmarks are quick and easy to make and a fab way of using up scraps of patterened paper !!

You will need:

Henny Penny stamp

white card

patterened paper

border punch

3 1/2" circle die/punch

ribbon

1 pearl gem

wet glue

double sided tape

1. Cut a piece of white card 4"x 4"  and mark the centre point on 3 sides, Score and fold back.

 2. With a border punch, punch bottom edge and then cover front with strips of patterened paper and add some faux stitching.

 3.  Now stamp Henny Penny onto a piece of white card and cut out. Also die cut a white 3 1/2"circle and a white square 2 3/4" cut in half. (you will only need one half)

 4. Paper piece Henny Penny with patterened paper, I have used Papermania's "Burleigh Blue" . Add faux stitching round white circle and cover triangle with paptterned paper.

4. Wrap a piece of ribbon round front and tape down on back of bookmark. Also stick triangle onto back at top to close bookmark top. Then cover ribbon and back with strips of patteren paper.

 5. Now glue white circle onto front and then Henny Penny on top of that. Finish by knotting a small piece of ribbon to left side and adding a small pearl gem to Henny Penny's bow front.

And here's another one using a different combination of the same paper.

 Why not brighten someones day by making and giving one as a surprise gift !!

 

hugs to all, Diane xx

Two for you, and brand new too!

Here are two more of our 7 new stamps for January and first we have 'Let's do lunch':

This stamp set includes the kitty and tulips, the bird on the branch and text 'let's do lunch x'
A fantastic stamp set for just £4.50!

Here is a lovely card from Helen H featuring the kitty and the tulips, with a tag sentiment from our 'Little Beauties' set of tag stamps:

and here is a card from Helen N featuring the kitty with bird branch and Helen has created a border with the tulips - clever!

and Lozzy has stamped the cats twice below - love that effect!

So we hope you will agree that this new set is just great value at £4.50!

And last but not least - 'Sweetest Wishes' we just love this sweet girl:

Isn't she just perfect? New today and just £5.50 complete with the 3 sentiments and she is striking in red from Helen N below:

and perfect in pastel from Gaynor, a versatile set for birthdays, thinking, just because, sorry etc...

and beautiful in brown from Heidi:

That completes our first 7 new stamps for January, all available on our web now, look out for our new January club stamps, lovely samples coming soon and with the New Year comes the start of the craft shows all around the country, look out for us at a show near to you (more details click here)

Little Claire xxx