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.

Little Claire Club Stamp July 2011

Have you already seen the great stamp set that the Little Claire team has brought out as club stamp for July? A lawn mowing hedgehog, a floral scene, individual flowers and a round sentiment stamp are all part of the set.

The set is now available to order online on the Little Claire website or by phone via 0844 800 4376.

Here are two cards that I have made with this fab new stamp set. You can find more inspiration and more cards created by design team members in the gallery that accompanies each stamp on the Little Claire website.

Watercoloured with Letraset AquaMarkers

Coloured in using ProMarkers

Re-discovery of sealing wax

Yes, I am still alive. But due to PC issues (my computer does not want to swallow the Windows Vista service packs, which causes problems with more and more programs) I have currently very limited Internet access. And I am still living in hope that an expert will be able to sort everything out or manage to upgrade my PC to Windows 7 over the next two weeks.

On the upside, an offline PC also means that there is a bit more time for crafting and experimenting with new techniques.

As teenager I liked to seal letters with a wax seal. But for years I did not give that much thought. Now I have re-discovered sealing wax for craft projects. It just makes it so easy to arrange flowers with a stem, decorative stick pins, feathers, ribbon and so much more and to hold everything in place perfectly. And gorgeous papers like the ones with glitter effect in the First Edition Summer Breeze designer paper pad by Trimcraft just do not need large toppers or many embellishments to show their full beauty.

A product list and step-by-step instructions for the following card are in my Trimcraft gallery.