Little Claire Challenge #16

This morning the new Little Claire challenge went live. This time the topic is 'Family Christmas'.

You can enter up to three new projects by 18.00 on Friday, 6 January 2012. To participate please leave a link to the post with your challenge project (not just to your blog) on the Little Claire blog. And you can, of course, also add a comment in case you want to tell us more about your card or the special recipient.

The winner will receive a £10 Little Claire gift voucher. The top three entries using Little Claire stamps will get a badge/blinkie for their blogs.



For my design team card I used the cute polar bear family depicted in the stamp 'Not Long Now', which I coloured in using Spectrum Noir pens, as well as a round sentiment stamp from the Red Gingham - Christmas Text set. The snowflakes are created using Marianne Design dies. For the snow and the centres of the snowflakes I used a DecoArt Snow Writer.

I hope you will all enter your wonderful creations.

Little Claire Challenge #14

Would you like to win these craft goodies?


This is the prize for the 14th Little Claire challenge. The topic is 'Christmas'. You can enter up to three new cards by 18.00 on Friday, 11 November 2011. The winner and the top three entries using Little Claire images will then be announced the following day.

Here is the card that I created with the stamp 'We three Kings ...' as design team project for the Christmas challenge. I used white and dark red pearlescent cardstock, white grosgrain ribbon, white card candi, a Tim Holtz embossing folder and a Marianne Design corner die. The image is heat embossed using white embossing powder.


To get more inspiration through the projects by my fellow design team members or to enter the challenge just go to the Little Claire blog.

By the way, have you already seen the great products in the Big Sale at Little Claire's? There are some great bargains in form of stamps and cutting dies available. By clicking here you can go straight to the sale section on the Little Claire website.

And the new stock in form of First Edition paper pads and Trimcraft Neighbourwood products, which are designed by Helz Cuppleditch, are also worth a closer look.

Little Claire Club Stamp September 2011

Oh, are computers not wonderful gadgets??? Well, provided they are working ...

Our computer decided to play some dirty tricks on us and refused to start up again. So it was time for a new one, and I am now spending hours over hours setting everything up and trying to get to grips with Windows 7 and the newer version of Microsoft Office.

I an still fighting some battles, but at least things are improving and I can show you two cards made with the new club stamp set that has just been released by Little Claire. This time you are getting two sentiments and three fab images.

Manger

It can be tricky and very time consuming to create a larger number of Christmas cards with coloured in stamped images. The Little Claire stamp 'Manger' comes in very handy, as it is smaller, quicker to colour in and requires only a limited number of colours.

Most of the time I am using 15cm x 15cm square cards. But for the samples below I have used smaller square cards (12.5cm x 12.5cm), which can be cut from A4 cardstock and are perfectly fine for this size of stamp.



The stamp is now available on the Little Claire website. It can, of course, also be ordered over the phone.

Little Claire Club Stamp October 2010

The new Little Claire club stamp is out and now available on their website! This month it is another lovely Christmas stamp: 'Owl Gate'.

Here are two projects created with the owl gate stamp. The images on both cards are coloured in using ProMarkers.

For the first card I also used label nesting dies, Distress Stickles in clear rock candy for the snow and card candy.



For the second card, which contains an acetate front, I used dies from Marianne D and QuicKutz and also added a bow made from red Woodware organza ribbon.

A Giraffe for Christmas

Not a real one, but a very cute one on Christmas cards. I love this image, as it is so adorable and also not one of those typical Christmas images that can be seen anywhere.

For the cards below I used the the Christmas Giraffe stamp from Little Claire, dies from QuicKutz, Marianne D and Spellbinders, ProMarkers and papers from the Dovecraft Let it Snow paper pack. The centres of the poinsettias in the first card are small drops of Liquid Pearls in gold. The second card is embellished with adhesive pearls. The 'essentials' were textured cardstock in various colours, white Southfield linen card and white glass smooth card (200gsm) from Southfield as well as a black Memento ink pad.

Christmas Hedgehogs

Today I enjoyed a bit of quality crafting time.

I want to share one of the cards for which I used the Little Claire stamp' Happy Christmas from the Gang!' with you. I used textured white and light blue cardstock, small pieces of red, blue and silver mirri card and plain blue card that I enhanced with silver Spray & Sparkle from Crafter's Companion. The image is stamped onto glass smooth white card from Southfield and then coloured in with ProMarkers.

For the snow I used Distress Stickles in clear rock candy, which gives it a bit of an icy finish. All the die-cut shapes are made using QuicKutz 2" x 2" and cookie cutter nesting dies. The embossing is done with a snowflake embossing folder from QuicKutz. The 7mm organza ribbon is from Woodware.

Little Claire Club Stamp for September

Little Claire have brought out a fabulous stamp set as their club stamp for September. The individual stamps open up so many opportunities for different styles of cards that I will use it a lot for Christmas cards this year. And the penguin is just so cute that I cannot resist that individual stamp anyway.

Here are two cards which I have created using the new stamp set:

Christmas Stamps with Cats and a Dog

Part of the Little Claire Christmas range are also the cute stamps 'We Three Cats' and 'Warmest Wishes'. These stamps are so cute and put a smile on my face when I was working with them.

I hope you like the projects, which I created with these stamps.

Do You Like Polar Bears?

Today I would like to share with you two projects that I created with the new Little Claire stamp 'Star of Wonder'. The stamp is part of their new Christmas range.

The two polar bears are just adorable, and I am sure that I will use the image for many of my Christmas cards.





The stamp is now available on the Little Claire website.

Ready for another teaser?

Here is another teaser from the new Little Claire Christmas stamp range:



It was so much fun to work with the cute snowman and dog stamp. And as not the entire image needs to be coloured in, it is very useful for effective yet relatively quick Christmas cards.

Christmas without a Reindeer? No way!

Little Claire are bringing out a cute reindeer stamp called 'Deck the Horns!' as part of their new Christmas collection. It is a stamp that just makes one smile, and I really enjoyed working with it.

Here are two projects as a wee teaser:





The new Christmas stamps will be on the Little Claire website soon.

New Little Claire Christmas Stamp 'The Most Wonderful Time of the Year'

Yes, it is once again time to start thinking about those Christmas cards. And Little Claire are bringing out a great range of new Christmas stamps.

The quality of the stamps is great. They are nice and firm clear stamps and are producing clear images every time.The stamps are a real joy to work with.

Here are two cards that I created with the new stamp 'The Most Wonderful Time of the Year'. For both cards I have coloured in the images using Derwent Coloursoft pencils.




All stamps of the new Christmas range will be available on the Little Claire website soon. And watch out for more projects that will get added to this blog over the next days.