Brand New on the Little Claire Website!

Just added to the Little Claire website today, two brand new sets of circular sentiment stamps!

First of all, 'Save the Date' (above) an extremely versatile set which allows you to personalise your sentiment with the correct age and there's also a 'handmade by' stamp to which you can add your own name!  You can find the set here on the Little Claire website.

Next, a set of 'Sunshine Sentiments' - a lovely range of words suitable for lots of different occasions.  You can find these here on the Little Claire website.

Blog Candy!

If you head over to the Little Claire blog here we've got blog candy!  If you leave a comment on the post about the new stamps you'll be in with a chance of winning a set of the stamps - we've got one of each set to give away.  The blog candy closes tomorrow evening at midnight so make sure you go and leave your comment soon!

Ponder a Moment .....

While I was blog browsing recently I came across a digi-stamp site called D'Arcy's Diaries and couldn't resist buying a couple of them!

Here's my first card made with one of the images which is called 'Ponder a Moment'.  I've used some Making Memories paper, a bit of lace and one of the Tim Holtz ticket sentiments plus a paper flower and some Card Candi.  

I'd like to enter my card in the following challenges:

D'Arcy's Diaries Digi Challenge - 'anything goes'

DYSU - 'favourite colour' (pink)

The Poodles Parlour - 'anything goes'

2 Sisters Challenge - 'spots and dots'

Happy Mother's Day!

This is the card I made for my Mum for Mother's Day using the 'Mother's Day Set' from Digistamp Boutique.  The set has the lovely vase image plus various sentiments - I've used one of them on my card.

I've also used some Bazzill card and some Craft Creations paper plus some punched dots to match the scalloped circle.

I'd like to enter my card in the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly - 'for the girls or Mum'

Moving Along With the Times - 'special lady'

Sparkles Forum - 'mother's day or spring'

Allsorts Challenge - 'three in a row'

Digistamp Boutique - 'March customer competition'

New Challenge at Little Claire - Spring

A new challenge has just been launched on the Little Claire blog and this month our theme is 'Spring'.  Have a look here at the blog to see more details plus the gorgeous cards made by fellow design team members and details of the great prize on offer!

I've made my card with one of my favourite Little Claire floral stamps 'Daisy Pitcher' layered with green gingham paper and yellow card.  The sentiment stamp I've used is from Penny Black and I coloured the Card Candi I used with a Promarker to match my coloured image.

I'd like to enter my card in the following challenges:

Crafty Sentiments Designs Monthly Challenge - 'Easter'

Sweet Stamps - 'thing Spring'

I Love Promarkers - 'anything goes'

Crafty Ann's Challenge Blog - 'spring in to Spring'

Simply Create Too - 'it's Spring???'

Totally Gorjuss - 'Spring'

Crazy 4 Challenges - 'green'

Sweet Stampin' - 'use lots of green' 
Fab 'n' Funky Challenges - 'the luck of the Irish' (I've used green)

A Little Bit of Spring ....

Today's card was made using one of the Nutcrafters stamps I bought with my recent challenge win - this one is called 'Let It Grow' and it's a really sweet little image which is easy to colour in.  

I've used it with two colours of pink card and some green gingham paper and added a strip of card punched with a Martha Stewart punch and some pink ribbon.  To finish it off, I've added two of the little flowers punched our by the border punch and some pink gems.

I'd like to enter my card in the following challenges:

Nutcrafters - 'bingo' (I've used a punch, ribbon and gems)

Paper Creations Ink - 'spring is in the air'

Crafters Companion - 'spring'

I Love Promarkers - 'anything goes'

Cute Card Thursday - 'happy birthday'

Joanna Sheen Challenge - 'spring is in the air'

Paper Sundaes - 'feminine flair'

A Little Bit of Glitter ....

I'm not a big fan of glitter but I do love the Little Claire Glitter Sparkle Sheets - mess free, self adhesive glitter film that is so easy to use!

I've use some for this card and put it over the stamped and coloured image - it works really well with stamped images and with peel offs too.  The stamp I've used is called 'At Home' also from Little Claire - it wasn't designed as a Christmas stamp but I think it works really well for Christmas cards.

The paper I've used is from Craft Creations and the sentiment I've used is a peel off - I've also used some white Card Candi.

I'd like to enter the card in the following challenges:

Christmas Stampin All Year Long - 'non-square card'

Crafty Hazelnut's Challenge - 'glam it up with glitter'

Craft Your Passion Challenge - 'easel cards'

Cupcake Craft Challenge - 'going dotty'

Less is More - Script

This is my card for the latest Less is More Challenge which is to make a single layer card using script.  I hope you can see the script on my card - have a careful look!  I've scanned this card rather than photographing it as I normally would because there's no chance of seeing the background on a photo!!

The background was made using Adirondack Cool Peri applied over white card and then overstamped using my old Hero Arts handwriting stamp, again in the Cool Peri.  The dandelion head stamp is from Lavinia and the sentiment from Kaisercraft.

New Challenge at The Squirrel and the Fox - Love

A brand new challenge has just been launched at The Squirrel and the Fox challenge blog and this time our theme is 'love'.  For more details about the challenge and to see the gorgeous cards from my fellow Design Team members, have a look at the challenge blog here. 

Our sponsor for this challenge is:

and they're offering the lucky challenge winner 7 digi images of their choice!

Bugaboo also gave the Design Team a choice of digis to make our challenge cards and I picked the very cute 'Heart Mouse' which you can find here on their website.  The backing paper I've used is from Nitwits and the punch I've used is a Martha Stewart one.  The sentiment stamp is from Elzybells.

And I'd like to enter my card in the following challenges:

Crafting When We Can - 'animals'

Papertake Weekly - 'anything goes'

The Paper Shelter - 'anything goes'

Chocolate, Coffee and Cards - 'feathers and fur'