New Challenge at Little Claire's and Blog Candy Winner! :)

Good evening to you all! Just a quick post to announce the winner of my blog candy & show you a card...

Random.org has chosen Heidi as the winner of my little bit of Candy I had on offer! Well done Heidi, I will pop your goodies in the post to you! :)

And here is a card I made for the current challenge at Little Claire's... which is shaped cards. I should have shown you this last week but I have had a horrible cold all week and it has been all I could do to get through the day at work... the evenings have been a total write off!

For this card I have used 'Good Morning Robin' by Red Gingham by Little Claire Designs, coloured with ProMarkers. The papers are 'Holly Jolly Christmas by Echo Park, mounted on black cardstock. The sentiment is a die-cut, also by Red Gingham, mounted on a panel cut using Lacey Circles Nestabilities. Card Candi and cardblank by Craftwork Cards.

I would like to enter my card in the following challenge:

I Love ProMarkers #92 - Christmas Trees (I am not sure if the tree here counts or if if has to be a traditional Christmas Tree- please feel free to delete my entry if it doesn't count! )

Thanks for taking the time to look at my card, hope you like it! :) x

Little Claire's First Blog Hop! :) x

Hello there and welcome to Little Claire's very first blog hop! :)

All you have to do is visit each of the DT's blogs (Links on my sidebar as well as on the Little Claire's Blog), leave a comment on their blog hop post and collect a letter from their post. Once you have all the letters, rearrange them to form a word & e-mail your answer to helen@littleclaire.co.uk to enter! :)

For this blog hop we are showing you cards we have made using the new range of stamps by Red Gingham, recently released by Little Claire's, and you could win the whole set!

here are some of the cards I have made using these stamps:

For the first card I have used the cats image along with one of the six sentiment stamps which have been especially designed to accompany these stamps.

For the second card I have used the flower stamp, along with a Red Gingham die cut sentiment.

For these cards I have used ProMarkers to colour the images, nestabilities to cut out the images, Core'dinations card stock and DCWV papers. Gems and pearls from my stash :)

Thanks for popping by, hope you like the cards... I will be blogging more cards using these new stamps and other new releases from Little Claire soon!

Oh and not forgetting... if you are entering the blog hop don't forget to leave your comment
below and the letter you need from my post is N :) x

New Challenge at Little Claire's :)

Today is the start of a new challenge at Little Claire Designs, and the theme is 'Christmas' :)

Here is my card for the challenge:

I have used 'Cold, Crisp Kisses' stamp by Red Gingham, available here from Little Claire's. The image is coloured using ProMarkers, stamped on card cut using 'Eyelet Circles' nestabilities. The papers are from Dovecraft ('Christmas Joy'). The sentiment is also from Red Gingham, stamped using green memento ink. The card base is made using half of a 'Top Notch' card by craftwork card, folded down the middle. I have edges the main panel with Stickles glitter glue. A simple card all in all :)

Thanks for taking the time to look at my card, hope you like it :) Don't forget to pop over to Little Claire's blog to take part & check out the other DT cards :) x

'Oh Christmas Tree'...

Hi again! It is very unlike me to get around to posting twice in two days... i'm quite proud of myself! I wanted to show you the other Christmas card we made yesterday in my class at the Wirral crafting day with Little Claire...
Again, this card was made using the lovely 'Oh Christmas Tree' stamp by Red Gingham, available only from Little Claire Designs. The image is coloured with Promarkers, the papers are from First Edition's 'Christmas Joy' paper pack, which I love :) I have paper pieced 3 of the parcels and the star with coordinating papers. The sentiment is from a Christmas Sentiments die-cut set by Red Gingham, mounted on card cut out with Lacey Circles Nestabilities.

I would like to enter my card for the following challenges:
Cute Card Thursday Challenge #182- Anything goes
One Stop Craft challenge #142- Girlie
Creative Inspirations #129- Anything Goes

Thank you for taking the time to look at my card :) I will be back in the next couple of days to share the other 2 cards from my class :) x

What a Lovely Day ... :)

Hello there :) it has been a couple of weeks since I posted here, as I have been getting ready for the Little Claire crafting day on the Wirral, which happened today.

Together Gaynor, Helen and I taught our first cardmaking classes. The ladies made cards with one of us, before swapping & moving on to another table. By the end of the day they had made lots of cards, drunk lots of tea & coffee and were quite tired, as were we!

It was a really lovely day which was very efficiently organised by Gill, Steve and Carol from Little Claire, who looked after us all wonderfully :)

In my class we made 4 cards, 2 Christmas and 2 'general'.

Here is the first of the Christmas cards we made:

The image is 'Oh Christmas Tree', by Red Gingham, coloured using ProMarkers. This card was made using 'Back to Basics Christmas' papers by Dovecraft & Bazzil cardstock. The buttons are also from the 'Back to Basics Christmas' range, Candi by Craftwork cards. The sentiment is one of the Red Gingham Christmas Sentiment Die-cuts, available from Little Claires, mounted on green cardstock cut with 'Lacey Circles' nestabilities.

I will try to be back tomorrow with the rest of the cards we made today :)

Thank you for taking the time to look at my card, hope you like it :) x

More Christmas Cards to Share...

Hi there! I'm trying to make the most of the time I have to craft and blog before term starts again :) Here are another couple of Christmas cards I have made recently...

This first card is made using a cute little stamp from Little Claire's called 'Manger', which is available here. I have coloured the image using ProMarkers.

The papers used here are Dovecraft 'Let it Snow', with blue and red Core'dinations cardstock. The sentiment is from a Red Gingham Christmas set, available only from Little Claire's, which I have mounted on a panel cut from 'Lacey Circles' nestabilities. I have made this panel by cutting 2 panels of the same size, one in red and one in blue, then overlapping them. The buttons are from my stash.

This second card is made using 'Little George', a stamp by Red Gingham. He is such a cutie, and a lovely image to colour! I have coloured him using ProMarkers.

The papers are Dovecraft 'Back to Basic Christmas', mounted onto black cardstock. The sentiment is from a Little Claire set, ribbon and gems from my stash :)

I would like to enter my cards in the following challenge:

Passion for ProMarkers challenge #115 - Flexible/anything goes

Thank you for taking time time to look at my cards, hope you like them :) Bye for now :) x

Christmas in August?!

When, at the beginning of the summer holidays, I realised that I would soon need to start making Christmas cards as the DT stamps were appearing on the doormat, I initially felt a little ill. Especially as I was in the process of sorting final preparations for my summer wedding, it felt a bit wrong to make Christmas cards. Having said all that, I was surprised to find how much I enjoyed making these and the others I have done, and I am looking forward to doing more! I know though, that by the end of December I will be glad to put away my box of Christmas Stash for a few months... :)

So enough of the rambling now... here are 2 cards I have made using the adorable 'Penguin Stuart' stamp from Little Claire Designs, available here.



This first card is a simple little card made using a Craftwork Cards cardblank. The image is coloured using ProMarkers. Papers and main image are mounted on black cardstock. The sentiment is from a Christmas Set by Red Gingham, available only from Little Claire's, mounted on a piece cut from Lacey Circles Nestabilities. I have added small blue gems to the petal points on the cardblank and to the centre of the snowflakes, which are cut using a Martha Stewart punch.

I have changed the colour scheme for this second card, which again uses black cardstock and an image coloured using ProMarkers. The papers are byDovecraft ('Let it Snow') , gems and ribbon from my stash. The sentiment is from the 'All Set for Christmas' stamp set, which has recently been discontinued by Little Claire's, but this could easily be replaced with a similar Christmas Sentiment.

Thank you for taking the time to look at my cards, hope you like them :) x

A Rose is a Rose...

Here are some pics of the cards I have made using the August Club Stamp from Little Claire Designs 'Rose Arbour'. The set includes this cute image of a little girl, along with the flowers and also a sentiment stamp, as well as a corner stamp :)

For this first card I have used the image of the little girl, along with a sentiment from a set by Red Gingham available from Little Claire's. The papers are First Edition 'Hideaway', with Core'dination cardstock. The sentiment is mounted on a panel cut using nestabilities. I have added glitter glue and pearls from my stash :)

The second card is made using DCWV papers ('Nana's Nursery Baby Girl'), mounted on black cardstock. On this card I have used both of the main images together, I have also used pearls and buttons from my stash.

Thank you once again for looking at my cards, hope you like them! :) x