Wednesday 7 November 2012

We are on our way...

...to the NEC today to set up our stand at the Hobbycrafts show in Birmingham, it's the biggest and last show of the year for us and if you are planning on visiting it over the next 4 days from Thursday 08 November through to Sunday 11 November, we look forward to seeing you - Steve has taken his Big Box of Bargains along, and it is just that: a super Big Box packed full of bargains especially for this show, so make sure you don't miss out, we are on Stand A45.

As well as having or stand packed full of goodies, from our beautiful Christmas stamps to delightful new designs we have taken a new look at two of our 'old favourites' and here are a couple of examples of two stamps we have featured at this show, which have been given a bit of a make-over:

First of all we have our wonderful 'Flowerhead' stamp and here are two new designs created by Heidi:

On the card above the Flowerhead design has been stamped twice with the top design lifted to stand out over the base design of the flowerhead.  Heidi has used double-sided paper and brought one of the corners over to reveal the pattern underneath.  The English Lace is from our stock and 'Sister' sentiment is from our Dictionary Definitions stamp set.
And look at this lovely flowerpot that Heidi has created, again using our Flowerhead stamp:




The flowers pop-up to reveal a message! (we love pink and brown together too)

You can see these two samples on our board at the NEC together with the Flowerhead stamps and Heidi has mentioned that her blog project here this Friday will feature a flowerpot made using this stamp, yay! so take a look on Friday for step-by-step instructions for making your own Flowerpot Card!

We are also showing off our Daisy Pitcher stamp, again this is such a good design for making wonderful cards:
Helen R
Gaynor
Look our for these two lovelies at the NEC and see the cards in the flesh, if you can't make the visit then both stamps are available on our web here and here and as we haven't had a draw for a while, how about posting a comment telling us what YOUR favourite Little Claire stamp or stamp set has been so far?
We'd love to know - and we will draw out 3 lucky winners to each win both Flowerhead and Daisy Pitcher on Tuesday 13 November 2012.
Yippee! a chance to win 2 stamps xxx

Best of luck, Little Claire x







19 comments:

  1. Gosh it's difficult to narrow down to one set, but I would have to say the changing tree as it's so versatile :)

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  2. Good choice Sally, we love this stamp idea too AND we have a great selection of new additions to this set planned for the new year......x

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  3. WOW beautiful cards and fabulous stamps. Love what the girls have done with them - well done teamies xx

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  4. I love all of your stamps but the Swirly Wirly set are fab and look so different dependant upon how they are coloured.
    Have a good weekend at the NEC and look forward to Fridays blog to learn how to make the flowerpot card

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  5. My favourite stamp is the butterfly tree. I have used it on cards for numerous occassions. It seems to say it all. I have sent cards with congratulations, with sympathy and just because. By using different colour combinations it is so versitile and i love it!

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  6. My favourite stamp at the moment is the Christmas House. I have used it in loads of ways for lots of xmas cards & it is just crying out for glitter.
    Look forward to seeing the team at the NEC this weekend.

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  7. A really difficult decision to make, they are all so FAB. if I had to choose, I think it would have to be the Butterfly tree. it's so pretty and versatile and I used it when I made my son and daughter in laws wedding stationery last year. Their theme was trees and vintage tea party / english country garden. He is the 'tree officer' for our local authority and they had their reception at our local arboretum so the stamp seemed really apt for the occasion.
    Have a good time at the NEC. Hope to see you there.
    Toni xx

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  8. My favourite is my mum elephant with little elephant, I love that stamp, but I also really like the cutie patooties...they're cute and classic all at same time. love to see more of these. X

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  9. Just a thought what about selling design sheets with images on to colour ourselves x

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  10. Uuuuummmm favorite stamp - that's a hard one as they're all great but at the moment it's the Christmas Village I think! I love the design, it's very English country village and so it's being sent round the globe this Christmas to remind our friends of 'home'!! It's going to France, Switzerland, Canada, Sri Lanka, Slovakia........ :-) xxx

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  11. My favourite has to be the owl sets. I am really into owls and these satisfy my cravings!!!! Sorry I couldn't make it to the NEC this year but then there's always next year. Well done team on all your hard work. X

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  12. I think my favourite stamp (so far!) has been the We Three Cats stamp that I bought at the Doncaster Show earlier this year. Having bought it, I wasnt sure at first what to do with it, but I found stamping the cats onto different patterned papers and decoupaging them made them look really funky! I'll be sending to all my cat-lover friends this Christmas! Hope the show at NEC goes well, unfortunately can't make it this time. xx

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  13. I have only just become one of your followers and there are too many good stamps for me to choose.

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  14. My favourite set are RWAV so versatile for any occassion and age. Have a great crafty weekend.
    Hazel
    x

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  15. I love your flower stamps, thanks for the chance to win them
    Its very hard to pick a favourite. I love all the animal stamps especially the Christmas doggies- Merry Kissmas but I love the robins too!
    Sue

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  16. Such a diverse selectionn of favourites from you! We've got a couple of fantastic club stammp sets coming up starting with next months club - this particular set made Carol & I 'squeal' with delight when we saw the cards from our teamies (we know it's good if it makes us squeal!)Funny though, Steve doesn't react in quite the same way.....

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  17. aww hard to pick a fav, love them all, not been stamping long but think the changing tree will become much used, good luck at nec
    Sue

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  18. Too many to choose from but the Swirly Whirly Cats, the Cat in a Box, the RWAV sets and of course last year's Christmas House are all firm favourites. Decisions, decisions. I think I'll have to go for the Cat in a Box if only for it's versatility.
    Frances

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