Little Claire Designs

I recently rediscovered Little Claire Designs the other week as they were new guests on my favourite Craft Channel Hochanda (Home of Hobbies Crafts and Art.  

If you like making smaller cards you will find that their designs are perfect for this as the printed paper packs and designs are that much smaller.  

They were selling peel-offs on the show, ones they designed themselves.  I haven't used peel-offs in card making for a long time but was instantly drawn to these.

Below are cards I have made over the last few weeks.  I hope you enjoy them.  The first up was inspired by the show, I really love this paper pack because the proportion of the designs is just right and the colours are really me. 

Pretty flowers around the edge of the Spellbinder's topper make this card.

Here I have made an Easel Card.

And this one is a tri-fold card with ribbon to close in a pretty bow.

like this:

I really love this paper coming up!

I have used it to make quite a few cards using the Silhouette peel-offs as follows:

This was a great idea I picked up of using the peel-off three times on the one card.  

I like this cat card very much.  The embossing folder is one of Crafter's Companion collection.

Here I have matted and layered the image onto the card.

As with these:

These are slightly different but again, I have used one of Little Claire's paper pad and topper collections.  I have left them without a sentiment as this can be added as and when needed. These are 5x5 cards.

Thank you for taking the time to read my post.

Rachelle Anne Miller designs

These designs are absolutely adorable and I am so glad I also have them on a CD Rom as I can go back to them time and time again.

Here are some of the cards I have made to date using the toppers.

The smallest of toppers fit very nicely on my handbag cards.

Children's Birthday Cards

I don't very often make children's birthday cards and I suppose this is because I don't have any children of my own or get asked to make any. However, I recently offered to make some for a friend so I set myself a new challenge.  

My first thoughts were that they need to be colourful and fun in their design so as usual I turned to Pinterest for inspiration.  I found some ideas I liked and set about designing something similar with my Cameo Silhouette.

The two cards below were the inspiration.  They are popular designs that others have also replicated.





The Silhouette software was used to draw the legs of the birds and write the sentiment on the first card and then just the sentiment on the second card.

Here are the two cards: