Back in the land of computing

Yes, I am finally back. My PC swallowed the Windows service packs, and things are slowly but surely going back to normal.

While I was offline I played with the new sentiment stamp sets from Red Gingham Designs (their products are exclusive to Little Claire). I just love round sentiment stamps at the moment. And this set of 12 stamps provides the right words for so many different occasions.

For the first card that I would like to share with you today I used a stamp from the set 'Sentiments Mix' and the Little Claire cutting die 'Book, Ring & Cross'. My intention was to experiment with wedding cards in more unusual colours.

For the second card I opted for teabag folding in combination with a stamp from the 'Sentiments Mix' set. I really love teabag folding, but had not done it for ages. I guess it is a case of too many ideas and too little time. But I never use specific papers for teabag folding - I always use scraps of patterned paper that I cut into squares.

Little Claire Classes

The Little Claire team has a couple of interesting events lined up:

The Great Northern Papercrafts Show (GNPE) Harrogate, Sat & Sun 10 & 11 September 2011:

Breakfast Workshops will be held on both days. Cost £12, places strictly limited, booking for this MUST be made via CRAFTWORK CARDS (phone 0113 287 7794).

Spend a Day with Little Claire, Sat 17 September 2011, Thornton Hough, Wirral:

A whole day with the Little Claire Team, making so many cards and having so much fun! Cost £59, all materials and refreshments provided, Little Claire shop available, please bring packed lunch.

NEW DATE!
Spend a Day with Little Claire, Sat 15 October 2011, K2 Leisure Centre, Crawley:

A whole day with the Little Claire Team, spend a whole day making beautiful cards. So many ideas ready for you and each class will be structured to help you create lovely cards. Cost £59, all materials are provided together with refreshments throughout the day. Please bring a packed lunch.

For more information please see the Little Claire website or call 0151 342 5715.

Red Gingham Designs

Red Gingham Designs is a range of craft products that is available exclusively from Little Claire.

Just out are sets of brilliant round sentiment stamps. They are available as Christmas texts and a mix of sentiments. And at a price of £12.99 for a set of 12 stamps they are also great value for money (yes, that is less than £1.10 per stamp). Little Claire club members will, of course, also get their membership discount.

Here are two cards, which I have created with the Christmas text set, as a wee teaser.

Coming Soon to Little Claire

Little Claire have got the launch of another great stamp set in the pipeline: 'Butterfly Set'.

There are nine stamps in total:

• 2 sentiments
• a butterfly tree
• 2 images with butterflies
• a birdhouse
• 2 birds
• a cat

The stamps allow you to make a wide variety of cards, as they can be used individually or in combinations to create scenes. It is just a great set for beautiful cards and so much fun to work with.

Are you up for a sneak peak?

Watercolouring using Letraset AquaMarkers / pearlescent card

Coloured in using Faber-Castell Polychromos

This stamp set will be available on the Little Claire website very soon.

Little Claire on Tour

Next weekend (16 & 17 July 2011) Little Claire will be at the Doncaster 'Summer Crafting' event. Please say hello to the team in case you get a chance to go there.

And have you already heard of the 'Day with Little Claire' held on the Wirral on Saturday, 17 September 2011? The event runs from 09.00 to 17.00 and includes 3 classes in one day. All materials and refreshments are provided. The price per place is £59.00, but a discount is applicable for club members. You can find more information around this offer on the Little Claire website.