Little George

Do you like cute Christmas cards? What about making some with the adorable Little George, a new stamp by Red Gingham Designs?

Well fed and prepared for the winter he is snuggled up in his scarf and his wee hat. It is one of the loveliest Christmas images I have seen in a while. And he will be amongst the firm favourites for our personal Christmas cards.



The Little George stamp is now available from Little Claire. You can order online via their website or by calling 0844 800 4376.

Little Claire Monthly Challenge #12

The new Little Claire challenge is now live. This month the theme is 'wedding /anniversary'.

Now during the summer months there are probably quite a few of us, who need to make wedding or anniversary cards anyway. So why not enter up to 3 of your projects into the challenge? Just go to the Little Claire blog and link your entry before 18.00 on 9 September 2011.


For my design team card I used the Little Claire stamp 'Lilies', the Little Claire cutting die 'Book, Rings & Cross' and a sentiment stamp. I coloured in the image with ProMarkers. For the background I used a Darice embossing folders. The corners are created with a We R Memory Keepers shaped corner chomper. Embellishments are adhesive pearls and Woodware organza ribbon.

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 August 2011

With the beginning of a new month it is again time for a new Little Claire club stamp. And this time the team has brought out the gorgeous 'Rose Arbour' stamp set with lovely and delicate images.

The stamp set is now available from Little Claire.

I hope you like the two cards below for which I used the new set. I have coloured in the images using ProMarkers and the new ultra-fine nibs, which came in very handy for the detailed stamps.

Trimcraft Christmas Projects

I recently created a few Christmas projects for Trimcraft. The cards include the new Back to Basics and Fizzy Moon Christmas collections. Especially the Fizzy Moon collection provides a wide range of products and some gorgeous stamps.

Product lists and step-by-step instructions for all projects can be found in my Trimcraft gallery.

Please feel free to re-create the projects or to give them your personal touch. Please just do not enter copies of the projects into competitions.

Red Gingham Christmas Stamps

New to the Little Claire website is a fabulous range of Christmas stamps by Red Gingham Designs. Many of the stamps have a really elegant feel and are great for stylish Christmas cards.

Here are two cards that I created with the stamp 'Cold, Crisp Kisses', which is now available exclusively from Little Claire.

Coloured in using the green set of 6 Spectrum Noir pens by Crafter's Companion /
cutting dies by X-Cut and QuicKutz /
embossing border by Papermania

Coloured in with the turquoise set of 6 Spectrum Noir pens by Crafter's Companion /

accents created with Sakura pens - Gelly Roll in 'Clear Star' and clear Glaze pen /
cutting dies by Spellbinders and Marianne Designs /
sentiment stamp from the Red Gingham Designs Christmas text set

And please look out for further samples made with the new Christmas stamps by Red Gingham Designs. They will follow soon.

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.