Little Claire Monthly Challenge # 33 - 'Challenge / Blog Hop'

 

Hello, welcome to another great challenge.  We had lots of lovely entries last month's theme 'Spring' using a great sketch from our teamie Gemma.

 

We have a winner of challenge # 32 is and that is .......

 

Kate's # 22

Here is her winning card -

 

 

(Well done! Please contact Carol@littleclaire.co.uk. who will forward on your prize)

 

To our top three, lots of lovely Little Claire images were used on entries this time, so here are the three, chosen at random

 

Marg B # 6

Rachel # 7

Sue # 17

 

Please feel free to take the blinkie from the side-bar  for your blogs.

 

Now to this month, we are going to do something a little different, as well as our usual challenge we are hosting

 

a 'Blog Hop'

 

We would still like you make a card, the theme is 'Open', so you can use any image (including Little Claire) and enter our challenge as usual, leaving a link.  Then blog hop via each Design Team member, where you need to find a letter on their blogs and leave them a comment before you visit the next DT member.  You need to find eight letters, put them together and they will spell out one of our popular stamps.  You then need to email your answer to Gill - info@littleclaire.co.uk, with the title 'Blog Hop Answer' in the title, so that she can enter you into the challenge - please enter the competition ONCE only - thank you.

 

Here we go, the first letter is  -

 

'A'

 

you now need to go to 'Donna's blog via HERE, then to Gaynor etc... until to you have visited all of the Design Team members.

Here are the prizes you could win, the first for the normal challenge -

'Open' Theme

 

prizes to include :

 

1 x Men A4 Die Cut sheet

1 x Man Squares stamp set

(including circular sentiment ‘Man’)

1 x You’re so Tweet stamp

 

 and

The Blog Hop Prize

 

prizes to include :

 

3 x A4 Design Sheets

2 x Scallop Circle Easel Cards & Envelopes

Tulip Cat Stamp

Butterfly Blossom Stamp

Family Ted Stamp

Poppies Stamp

1m off Crafted with Love Ribbon

1m off Pink VW Campervan Ribbon

 

Now to our Design Team's creations,

 

Donna has used
'Happy Days' stamp set

 

 

 Gaynor has used

'Happy Days' plus butterflies from 'Blossom Butterfly', bottles from 'Man's Tree Set' and sentiment from the 'Little Beauties' Set. 

 

 

 

Gemma has used

 'Best Friend's' stamp set including sentiment

 

Georgina has used
Geranium & Pom Pom Dahlia stamps & 'Tag' Card

 

 Heidi has used

'Butterfly Blossom' & LC sentiment

 

 

 Helen N has used

'Oh Man' stamp set

 

 

 

Helen R has used

'Changing Tree' & 'Education Embelishments' &

Sentiment is from the 'Little Beauties' stamp set.

 

 

 Our Blog Hop rules :

 

(1) Please enter your cards via the link below, a maximum of one entry per person for blog hop please.

(2) Collect all of the competition letters from the Design Team blogs, after leaving a comment on their post.

(3) Email Gill at info@littleclaire.co.uk with 'Blog Hop Answer' in title.

(4) A winner for the card entries and 'blop hop' competition will be notified on Friday 14th June @ 4pm on a blog post.

Challenge Rules :

(1) You DO NOT need to use a Little Claire stamp to qualify for the prize draw.

(2) Only those using Little Claire stamps will qualify for a Top 3 badge.

(3) You may enter the challenge UP TO 3 TIMES ONLY PLEASE and you may combine with other challenges.

(4) You MUST follow the challenge theme and NO BACKLINKING please, new cards only.

(5) Please provide a link to our blog in your post.

(6) Please leave a link (via link below) to your actual card, not just to your blog.

(7) Please turn off Word Verification on your blogs, it makes it so much easier & quicker to leave a comment on your blog.

(8) The challenge finishes on Friday, 14th June 2013 @ 16.00pm and the new challenge (#34) will be open on Saturday, 15th June 2013.

 

Good luck, have fun and hope you enjoy playing along with our challenge/ blog hop!

 

The Little Claire Design Team

 

xxxx

 



Friday project - scalloped card gift box

Good morning! hope you are all ok. Donna here with a very easy peasy tutorial for a little gift box.

You will need : a 6x6 inch scallop card blank

Patterned paper & co-ordinating cardstock

Butterfly Blossom stamp set

Spellbinders circle dies

Promarkers

flower & leaf punch

white card

ribbon

gems

Take the card blank ( without folding in half ) and score at 13.5cm from either end. Then fold on these score lines, to make a deep spine,measuring 3cm, as shown below.

Stick a length of ribbon halfway up the back inside and front.

Take a piece of card measuring 19cm x 20cm and score 3cm all way round. Cut the corners as shown below, then fold in and glue to create a box base.

Glue the box base onto the inside back as shown.

Cover the front and spine with patterned paper matted onto card.

Stamp & colour image. Cut with circle dies, layer onto a scallop circle and attach to front as shown. Add some flowers, leaves & gems to finish.

Hope you enjoyed my little tutorial, please pop back soon for some more inspiration.

We had a very busy day yesterday...

...because we were invited to Wrexham to take a card making class for a wonderful group of crafting ladies, and what a great time we all had, it was a fantastic day all round.
Here is a picture of us all yesterday:

Happy Ladies at Wrexham

And we made a super selection of cards all designed by one of our teamies, Helen N:

'You're so Tweet'

We stamped onto Kraft paper (above) and paper pieced the little dress (below):

'Best Friend'

We built up our 'Man' trees:

'Changing Tree Man'

Cut off our flaps (we know what we mean!) and made a gorgeous owl card:

'Swirly Whirly Owls'

And just before our time was up we made this cute little tag card:

'Elephants in Squares'

We had a great day and thank you so much to the lovely Wrexham ladies for inviting us x

More class dates with us on the Wirral:

Saturday 22 June, Animal Magic 9am - 12pm
Saturday 22 June, Get into Shape 1pm - 4pm

Saturday 20 July, Christmas in July 9am - 12pm
Saturday 20 July, Flowers and Butterflies 1pm - 4pm

Our classes cost £15 each with all material and refreshments provided, we have a super light and airy venue with a great kitchen for lots of teas and coffees; for more information please go here or call us:
0151 342 5715

Little Claire x

Little Claire Likes .... 'Elephant's in Squares'

Good Monday to you, welcome to another Little Claire Likes, where each Monday we showcase a favourite stamp from our range and give it a new twist. We also offer the stamp at a reduced price (for a limited time only).

Today is the turn of the gorgeous

'Elephant's in Squares'.

Isn't it it a lovely little stamp?

You can purchase it for £4.50

(normally £6.50)

until Thursday 16th May 2013.

Call 0844 800 4376 or by via the website HERE

Here is an altered bag showing the stamp and another set from our range, 'Georgina's Rosette's' have been designed by our design team member, Georgina.  It is a must have set which really shows off sentiment circle stamps.

Here is a close up of the bag, showing the image and embellishments.

Products Used :

Little Claire 'Elephant's in Squares' stamp - £4.50

Little Claire 'Georgina's Rosette's' stamp set - £17.50

First Edition 'New Bloom' paper pack - £7.50

White Adhesive Lace - £1.99er pack

White A4 Stamping Cardstock - £3.50

Promarkers - Pastel Beige, Khaki, Lavender, Lilac, Pear Green & Ice Grey 1

Spellbinder 'Postage' die, White bag (Hobbycraft) and Lilac Pearls (Meiflower)

Bag Instructions :

(1) Cut two pieces of paper in different colours to measure : 13.5cms x 13cms, stick together.

(2) Stick a piece of lace to paper as shown, stick down onto bag.

(3) Stamp up 'Elephant's in Square's' onto white cardstock, colour in with Promarkers.

(4) Die-cut 'Postage Stamp' square and stick to back of image.

(5) Stamp a 'Rosette' and frill onto matching paper, cut out and stick together.

(6) Stamp up sentiment, cut around. Punch out circle and stick elements together.

(7) Attach a piece of sticky lace to handle of bag.

(8) Add lilac pearls to lace on handle and two at bottom of bag.

We do hope you like the project today, please feel free to leave us a comment and grab your stamp at the reduced price whilst available.

Also, we have some exciting news for you! Instead of our normal monthly challenge, which goes live this Saturday 18th May, we will be hosting a blog hop.  You could win lots of fabulous Little Claire goodies, so make sure you stop by here on Saturday for details on how to enter.

The Little Claire Team

xxxx



Friday Blog Project

Good Morning, Friday once again and my turn for the weekly Friday blog project.  I have used one of the projects that I designed and created last weekend at the Little Claire Day on the Wirral.  I had a lovely time and really enjoyed myself, spending a day with craft minded folk a real treat.

I have used the cheery Tulip cat stamp recently released, the two little doggies stamp also works equally well......oh decisions, decisions, so we had both stamps on the table during the workshop!

I added a red border using my poppy promarker around the red and white spotty paper, the card for the stamped image and the green backing paper mount as shown.  This lessened the weight and bulk of the finished card

Promarkers used as shown.

Everything but the Fleur Die is currently available from Little Claire.

  Please do check out the Little Claire website for bargain prices on Nestabilities Dies......fabulous assortment, the hardest part actually choosing!

Hope you like my little project................comments always welcomed.

Off now to have a play with some of the Little Claire Die Cut Images also just released.........

xxGaynor

.

Thrilled...

...to have 7 of our designs featured in Papercraft Essentials Issue 94 out now!

Seven of our teamies each made a card and gave step by step instructions to create a super set of projects

We have our Little Doggies stamp:

designed by Donna

Cherish, Hugs and Dream stamp set:

designed by Gaynor

Girl Cat:

designed by Gemma W

You're so Tweet:

designed by Helen R

Butterfly Blossom:

designed by Helen N

The Smile I Bring:

designed by Lyndsey

 and Tulip Cat:

designed by Heidi

So if you would like to have step by step instructions to make all of these 7 wonderful cards, grab yourself a copy of Papercraft Essentials Issue 94 on sale today!

Thanks to our teamies for a great selection of designs x

Little Claire x

And the winners are...

...two very lucky ladies randomly drawn will each receive a

Poppies stamp:

designed by Lyndsey

and a Family Ted stamp:

designed by Gemma

and the two lucky winners are:

Rachel and Helen T well done ladies, please contact Carol letting her know your details and these two lovelies will be sent out to you x

Yesterday we shared a step by step guide for how to make our current club stamp card and today we are able to bring you some more card samples using this great set:

designed by Heidi

Heidi has created the card above showing the man relaxing in his deckchair, with the circular text included and on the card below Heidi has hilighted the bird feeder which is also included within this stamp set:

designed by Heidi

Georgina has created the card below to show the box of flowers which are also included within this set:

designed by Georgina

and on the card below you can see that Georgina has managed to include all of the elements from the stamp set, the box of flowers, drowsy man, bird feeder, lawnmower & sentiment!

designed by Georgina

Gaynor has made a feature of the flower boxes:

designed by Gaynor

Gemma has the bird feeder:

designed by Gemma

as does Donna:

designed by Donna

and Lyndsey has combined this set with a circular greeting from our Dictionary Definitions stamp set 'Dad'

designed by Lyndsey

So lots to inspire you with our current May club stamp set, if you are interested in joining our club please get in touch or you can find details on our web.

Little Claire x