Little Claire Challenge 9

The ninth Little Claire challenge is now on underway. This time the topic is 'cards for men'. Many of us are probably making Father's Day cards at the moment. So why not enter some of those into the challenge? You can enter up to three cards.

There are again some design team cards for inspiration on the Little Claire blog.

Deadline for the current challenge is 2pm on Friday, 24 June 2011. Just click here to go directly to challenge on the Little Claire blog.

For my card I have used the 'Oh Man!' stamp set as well as black and white cardstock. The image is coloured in with ProMarkers and mounted onto a nesties lattice rectangle die-cut. The embossed sesction is created using the dot-matrix embossing folder by Tim Holtz. I finished the card off with 'Ritz' card candi.

I hope to see your creations soon. And good luck everybody!

The Great Outdoors

Have you already seen the new Little Claire stamp set 'The Great Outdoors'? It comes in very handy for male cards and cards for all those, who love activities like walking and camping. It is now available on the Little Claire website or by calling the team on 0844 800 4376.




Perhaps also have a peek at the sale section. There are currently papers, stamps and embellishments at great prices. And as many of us are already thinking about Christmas cards, it is perhaps a good opportunity to organise some more Christmas stamps.

First Edition Bird Song

Not long ago Trimcraft released a set of new First Edition paper pads. One of them is the gorgeous Bird Song pad with sheets of 200gsm cardstock. Some of these have glitter effects, others have double-sided designs.


You can find a product list and step-by-step instructions for this card in my Trimcraft gallery. I hope that you will enjoy re-creating this project or giving it your own twist.

Little Claire - Club Stamp June 2011

Time is really just flying by. Now it is already June. But at least it is also time for a new Little Claire club stamp.

And for this month the team came up with a very versatile gerbera set that contains a large flower, a small flower, a floral corner and two sentiments. It is great for experienced stampers, but also for new stampers with smaller stamp collections who might especially appreciate that the set can be used for so many different occasions.

The stamp set is now available on the Little Claire website. But you can, of course, also just phone the team who will be more than happy to talk to you.



You can find more inspiration in the gallery for this stamp on the Little Claire website.

Dream a little dream

This is a card I have created recently and do not want to miss to share with you.

I used the 'Dream a little dream' stamp by Little Claire and coloured in the image using ProMarkers. To give the bubbles a bit of sparkle I used a clear Sakura Gelly Roll pen.

The border strip is created using an X-Cut border punch. I wrapped ribbon round the border strip and attached the bow separately. I also threaded seed beads onto two head pins and attached these to the bow with a jump ring.

Additional embellishments are 'photo corners' created with a We R Memory Keepers Shaped Corner Chomper Photo/Angle and card candy.

I hope you like the card.

Bazoo Lions

Are big cats not just magnificient? And Helz Cuppleditch has created this cute stamp set with a lion and lion cub for the Trimcraft Bazoo collection. I just could not wait to play with it.

A product list and step-by-step instructions can be found in my Trimcraft gallery. But some of you are probably also keen to know which marker pens I used to colour in the image, so here we go:

ProMarkers:
- Terracotta
- Sandstone
- Caramel
- Burnt Sienna
- Marsh Green

Copic Ciao:
- C-0 (for the shading)

New Little Claire Floral Stamps

I think I have got new favourites when it comes to floral stamps. Visitors of craft fairs might have already seen the stamps at craft shows during the last couple of weeks, but now the daisy pitcher and the stamp set 'Good Things, Wheelbarrow' are also available on the Little Claire website.

Please remember that you can also arrange card payments over the phone in case you are having issues with the PayPal payment screen (PayPal are unfortunately blocking cards after a number of transactions and refer to the opening of a PayPal account).

Here are two cards that I created with the floral stamps. For the daisy pitcher card I also used one of the fab round Little Claire sentiment stamps.

I hope these two cards give you a bit of inspiration.