Springtime

always brings happy memories for me as my mum loved to celebrate spring/easter.  More and more of us now love home decor and my mum use to love doing it when we were kids, but Blue Peter style. 

She use to make an easter tree which was a branch from a tree which she then covered with tin foil and decorated with chicks and eggs and bits and pieces she had.

 Now that brings me nicely onto my bit of springtime home decor (not Blue Peter style)  as "Springtime" is our next challenge theme at Little Claires for you.

My little banner is made from squares of chipboard cover with Little Claires Dinkies mini gingham papers which you can find HERE. Then decorated by stamping, colouring and fussy cutting out Tulip Bunny, Butterfly Bunny and Hunny Bunny

Yes I stamped and fussy cut out more tulips from the pot that Tulip Bunny is holding,  mad or what !!

Then finished off with some chipboard letters coloured with pastel promarkers, die cut some white dollies and tied the banner squares together with ribbon.

Can't wait to see what Springtime creations you guys come up with . Pop over now and check out all the wonderful makes by the team !!

Would love to enter:

Wags 'n' Whiskers; ready for spring

Little Red Wagon: cute cute cute

Ruby's Rainbow: anything but a card

Country View Crafts; anything goes

Daisy

Daisy the Sheep is one of the 11 new dinkie stamps from Little Claire and is such a sweetie !!

 

Here I've just made a simple round card with lots of layers and faux stitching. I use dots to colour in a lot , but have just found out from Woodware that the technique is called "Pointillist" as you will see HERE ,  mind you mine is very simple....

 Now you don't just have to stop at one Daisy, why not have five !!

A super spring card with jumping pastel coloured woolly Daisy's !!  Shame about the photo, it was one of those dull wet days with no light....

 

Anyway why not check out Daisy and all the other fab 10 Dinkie stamps at Little Claire !!

hugs Diane xx

Would love to enter;

2 Cute ink challenge; spring

Scribble and Scrap: always anything goes

Allsorts: spring is in the air

Wags 'n' Whiskers; ready for spring

Little Claire and Through The Craftroom Door

 Woohoo Gill is the feature digi artist in the online magazine Through The Craftroom Door March/April with 12 wonderful creations made by the design team with instructions on how to make them all !! 

 Here is the card I made for that feature.

 

I got to work with the fab digi stamp " Chair Man " and have paper pieced and decoupaged the whole image even the cute little dog !!

 The circle sentiment is also a Little Claire digi.

 You can find all Gill's digi stamps HERE

Would love to enter\;

Whimsy Inspirations: use a sentiment

Crafty Cardmakers; stripes

Watercolour Bokeh take two

Morning guys !!

Yesterdays laugh of the day, but a sad sign of the times was me setting off Tesco's alarm with a jar of HONEY !! Yes my Manuka honey which is for my dogs had a security label which didn't clear when I paid for it. Did you know that the meat also is security protected ?? Sad but true.....

Anyhoo...here;'s my second attempt at a Bokeh background.

This time using fresh bright oranges and yellows and the sweet Little Claire Silhouette Cats which you can find HERE.  The sentiment is again from a Doo Lally Pip set . 

And here's my card from yesterdays post.   Two different backgrounds and one technique, give it a try and see what you can come up with !!

Hope you all have a fabulous day...

hugs Diane xx

Would love to enter:
Deep Ocean Challenge: our furry friends
Papertake Weekly: anything goes
Through The Craftroom Door; always anything goes

Watercolour Bokeh

Hope your now going " what on earth is that "  like I did !!

Well its a fab fun, but messy technique you can do to make backgrounds !!  You'll find loads of great tutorials on You Tube if you want to have a go.

So here's my first attempt which I love...

 I've done this one in lovely spring colours.  Sadly the Little Claire Silhouette Dog stamps are not available at the moment, but the cat ones are and I'll show you another card using them tomorrow.  The dogs work so well with the Doo Lally Pip large sentiment stamp !!

What'd you think then .....

Would love to enter:

2 Cute Ink challenge; spring

Craft Your Passion: always anything goes

Counry View Crafts ; anything goes

Spring is in the air !!

well it is trying.......hope you guys had a fab weekend whatever the weather !!

Time for another challenge at House Mouse and Friends and the theme is 

"Spring" 

So anything spring like or you can still choose to do anything goes !!

Guess what I chose..... 

Just inked up my cloud effect sky and hand drew the grass using Spectrum Noir pens,  stamped and coloured my mice flowers and then fussy cut them out and mounted onto 3d foam tape. Covered chipboard letters with dotty green paper and again mounted them using 3D foam tape. Mounted this panel onto a purple matt and then onto my white card blank.

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The team have made some amazing creations, so please pop over and leave them some love while you check out our fab challenge !!

 

Would love to enter:

Glitter 'n' Sparkle: anything goes
Scribble and Scrap: anything goes
We Do Doobadoo: spring/greens

March Flowers !!

Wowee here we are 1st March already guys !!  The old saying "time waits for no man" is soooo true and it doesn't wait for any crafter either !!

So being the beginning of a new month means a new Little Claire Club Stamp Set and it's called "March Flowers" !!  Such a pretty set of three flower squares which can stand alone or work together !!

How about this card to brighten up a wet day using just one of the squares and greetings !!  The paper is by Stampin Up,  did loads of matt and layering,  faux stitching and finished off with buttons and bows coloured in using spectrum noir pens.

 

Now my next card uses all three squares together and one I have made using one of the sentiments.

You can't see very well,  but I have stamped,  coloured and decoupaged all the flower squares even the dandelion clock !!  How's that for fussy cutting !!  Each square has been raised using 3d foam tape as well.

A really pretty set with so many uses....

Would love to enter:

Brown Sugar: anything goes

Tuesday Throwdown: anything goes
Crafting from the Heart: anything goes