Marci Ballerina!

When I saw this new image from LaLa Land Crafts...it so reminded me of a sweet picture of a little ballerina  I saw a while back. I thought I would make this card and send it to her-it even looks like her!!! As I was cutting out the image (it is on dimensionals)  I was chuckling to myself. I mean...really...how long do you think those little legs and arms will last on a card for a 4 year old??? Oh well...she will like it while it lasts LOL!

A quick post to announce the winner of my La La Land blog hop post last Friday.

Drum roll please..........and the winner is Martha from A Scraping Time.  Martha, please contact me by Wednesday and send me your mailing info!

Thanks to all of you who stopped by to visit during the blog hop! You still have time to purchase Marci Ballerina as a digi-she is being offered for one week only and then will be released as a rubber stamp!

Card details:
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Stamps: Ballerina Marci from Lala Land
Cardstock: Rose from SU!, DP is My Minds Eye-Quite Contrary
Ink: Memento Black, copics, chalk
Misc: Pink ribbon SU!, Nesties, basic grey chipboard letter, glitter, corner punch, pearls

Day 6 of La-La's Birthday Beach Bash!

Welcome to Day 6 of La-La's's Beach Bash! 

We would love if you would join in celebrating the first birthday of  La La Land Crafts! Goodness, I can't believe it has been one year since Irina asked me to join her as part of her first group of Guest Design Team Members! My how time gets away from me!

For this wonderful first birthday celebration, there will be a new blog hop each day, with lots of prizes offered along the way. The hops are going to be short and sweet, so they will be very easy to join in. If you want to join in for the beginning blog hops, CLICK HERE. Be sure to leave comments on all the hop stops as well as the main La La blog to win a chance at the "mystery blog favors". Each member will have a fun treat to offer!!!

Game #3-What did Lala take to the Beach?

Hop along to find what Lala has in her hands and then leave your answer in your comment at the LaLa Land's Craft blog. 

 

Don't forget to leave comments along the way for your chance to win some goodies! All prizes will be announced on Monday, August 9th.

Meet Birthday Marci

This is the first sweet image designed by the owner of La-La Land's owner, Irina. Don't you just want to pinch those little rosey cheeks? Birthday Marci is offered HERE as a digi this week only. Hurry- don't miss out!

Here is the card I made for this Summer Beach Birthday Party. Meet Sherman! He just cracks me up! Sherman is out and about exploring the ocean today, looking for the toys that Lala took to the beach....hmmm wonder where they are?  I think he needs your help!

This is sort of a diorama style card. I have always wanted to make one of these  3D cards, and what fun they are! You really can't tell from this picture, but the purple glittery coral is 3D along with the top of this card. The fun part of this style card is that crazy Sherman  and the rest of this card can be folded flat for mailing!

You can find Sherman HERE.  I also used a digi from Meljen's Designs for the inside sealife. It can be found HERE.

I entered this in the Totally  Papercrafts Challenge...By The Sea! Thanks Sue!!!

Okay, sorry to get so chatty, but wanted to share it all with you! If you have come from Maureen's blog then you are on the right track. 

The next stop is CHERYL'S blog -go see the fun she has going on...See ya there!!!

Happy Birthday Irina...a Surprise Blog Hop!

Happy Birthday to Irina from La La Land Crafts!

Today several of us La La stampers decided to surprise Irina with a Secret Birthday Blog Hop! How fun is that? If you have arrived from Karin's blog, Scrap Everything, you are in the right place!

I hope you enjoy this hop and can find a few minutes to leave Irina a message on her blog. I know she would be tickled pink to hear from you!  Just keep on hopping over to Jane's blog, Whoopsie Daisy, for the next birthday wish card  and the next blog link!

ETA: If you want to start at the beginning, start at Kims blog, Kimbee's Creations!

Have fun and enjoy the hop...

Happy Birthday Irina...hope your day is as special as you are!

Card details:

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Stamps: Window La La from La La Land Crafts, Sentiment from SU! Birthday Count, Birthday cake is retired from SU! Little Hellos

Cardstock: SU Ballet Blue, Regal Rose and the DP is from imaginisce- all kinds of cake Chatty Cake

Ink: Copics, Memento Black, Versafine for the sentiment

Misc: Hero Arts Pearls, New Martha deep border punch ( I thought this would make cute shutters!), SU! ribbon, misc little flowers, nesties, dimensionals

La La Land Crafts Blog Christmas Release Blog Hop!

Hello there! Fun stuff going on at this week and next week at La La Land Crafts Blog!

I want you to meet Hot Cocoa Whiskers. This is the image and card I will be showing you next week on my blog.

This week I am sending you on a hunt to find the pot of gold! Sweet Irina is offering some great blog candy to all of you who follow the links below and leave the correct answer at the end of the hop!

Darn, I wish I could win...there is some great candy here, so don't miss out. I am going to sweeten the deal with some candy of my own...A set of Atyou Glitter pens by Copic. Sorry, my order didn't come in the pretty package as shown, but as individual pens...but they are all here waiting for you to win them. You might even find more blog candy along the trail too! All you have to do to win my blog candy is leave me a comment here. That's it...pretty simple! I will announce the winner next Wednesday, so don't forget to come back and check to see if these babies are yours!





We can't wait to show you the new images to be released. Read the text below that will be posted on La La Land's blog to find who I am linking to(hint...look for the green name that starts with K) Make it easy on yourself...start at the beginning...click on the link provided in red below and it will take you to the La- La Land Crafts blog.

Posted on the La- La Land Craft Blog:


Hi Everyone,

Welcome to La- La Land Crafts' Christmas Release Blog Hop. To celebrate the release of the fabulous Christmas stamps on October 14th, we are having a fun Blog Hop. Each DT Member and all the Guest DT-members will show you a sneak-peek of one of the new Christmas stamps...

What's in it for you???

Besides seeing all the cute sneak peeks of our new images? The winner of the Blog Hop will receive not one but THREE of our new stamps (winner's choice!!) PLUS all of the items in the photo below:




- Limited Edition Spellbinders Shapebilites Create a Flake 1
- Spellbinders Shapeabilites Create A Flake 1
- Spellbinders Shapeabilites Pendants Fleur De Lis
- Spellbinders Borderabilites Fleur De Lis
- JustRite A Merry Little Christmas Set
- Basic Grey Holiday Ornaments Chipboard
- Cuttlebug For You Ornament Die Cut and Embossing Folder combo
- Copic Marker Soft Case for 24 Markers
- Three Copic Markers: E11, E33 and B41
- The Paper Company Bordeaux Filigree Accents
- Hero Arts Gemstones



Some of our DT members and the Guest Designers are also offering a little prize, randomly chosen from the entries on their own personal blogs.

What do you have to do to join our Blog Hop????

* Start your Blog Hop here at the La-La-Land Crafts' blog
* Each Dt-Member will guide you to the next Blog in the Blog Hop
* Final stop is back here at La-La-Land Crafts Blog where you have to leave a comment telling us how many different stamps there are in our Christmas Release (it can be tricky, be careful )

If you started the blog hop at La-La Land Crafts and followed all the links, then your next stop is Kathy Page at Distessed Stampers.

If you are just stopping by and want to join the Blog Hop, then just go to La-La Lands Blog and start there!

Have fun and good luck to all of you!

Blog Candy!

Don't forget to leave your comment for my fun La La Land Crafts blog candy HERE!

La La Land Weekly Wednesday Challenge-Paper Piecing

This week's challenge on La La Land's Weekly Wednesday Challenge is paper piecing. Okay, Okay...I admit to only piecing the broom, so is that cheating? Nawww.....

Actually, this witch was just too much fun to color to add too much piecing! I have to tell you, these images have taught me so much about my copics! And...I really wish all my stamps created such wonderful images. I really am a red rubber girl!

I got out all of my Halloween punches, stamps and papers and decided it was time to play with them...How fun! On this card I used some Debbee Mumm DP, and added Witch on the Broom Rosie on dimensionals. The black oval I put through a cuttlebug spider embossing folder.

There are lots of stampers joining our Wednesday challenge, you don't have to use a La La Land image, but it really is a bonus for us to get to see Irina's stamps "in action". Come join us with your paper piecing for this week's challenge.

Card details:
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Stamps: Witch on the Broom Rosie from La La Land Crafts, Sentiment is from a Studio G $1 set

Cardstock: Lavender, Black and Dusty Durango(all SU!) and Debbee Mumm DP


Ink: Memento Black for image, Versafine Black for the sentiment, copics

Misc: Martha spider web and bat punches, spider cuttlebug folder, spider web ribbon(thanks Libby), oval nestie

La-La Land Crafts Challenge #4 -Embellish!

This week's La La Land's Weekly Wednesday Challenge is EMBELLISH!

Welllllll....Embellishments are not really my thing. I tend to like simple and clean with lots of layers, but I gave this a shot! Irina (the owner of La-La Land Crafts) is just a master at embellishing, so I am anxious to see what she comes up with! Her creations are always an inspiration!

Emblellishments strain my brain, but I managed to use twill ribbon, a punched sentiment, and some little green leaves under the ribbon. Whew!( I know that sounds silly...)

I used the sketch challenge this week from Mary Jo's Technostamper Monday Lunchtime Sketch Challenge #87. Mary Jo always has GREAT challenges.

I stamped up Sweet Rosie for this challenge. I added Rosie to this very pretty Basic Grey (BG) gift tag (this is a pretty big tag(6.5 x 3.5 inches), that was embellished with some BG DP. I also added a touch of blue, kiwi kiss and rose colored cardstock for accents.

La La Land has posted their cute Halloween images HERE! You should see samples of these coming your way soon. Also, all US orders over $50 are shipped for free during the month of September! ...and I have seen a sneak peak of the Christmas images...fun, fun, fun!


Tag Details:

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Stamps: Sweet Rosie from La La Land Crafts, sentiment retired from SU!

Cardstock: Basic Grey Tag and DP, rose, kiwi, blue from SU!

Ink: Memento black, copics, versafine onyx black for the sentiment

Misc: twill ribbon, EK Success punch, SU scallop and circle punch, paper shaper vine punch, dimensionals

Let's Distress! La La Land's Weekly Wednesday Challenge #4

Where has the time gone? It is already week 4 of our La-La Land's Weekly Wednesday Challenge. This week it is all about distressing!

I chose to use Window Lala for my creation this week. Sitting her in a window is pretty simple! I used my new nesties (I think they are label four), but I am not sure. It is late and my brain has gone to bed already LOL!

This beautiful DP set the tone for this card...and sorry I don't know the name...maybe Irina can help me with that as she sent it to me along with this sweet Lala!

I don't think this card needs too much explanation. My distressing is around the edges of the card and and the turquoise layer also. I used that cute little pink Heidi Swapp distresser to rough up the edges. The flowers are cut from some of the coordinating DP and layered with dimensionals.

Come join us this week...it has been fun to see all entries! Irina added Mr Linky, so that simplifies everything...so no excuse not to play this week! Come be one of the top 3!!!

Card Details:

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Stamps: Window Lala from La-La Land Crafts, Sentiment from Hero Arts

Cardstock: Blush Blossom and Choc Chip(SU!) , Turq is DCWV and the DP (?)

Ink: Memento Black, Choc chip, copics

Misc: Labels and tag nesties, memories twill ribbon, dimensionals

La-La Land Crafts Challenge #3 BLING!

The challenge this week at La-La Land Crafts blog is BLING! I hope you can see all the blingy stars in the sky around Sleeping Whiskers. I thought this was the cutest image because poor Whiskers is just snoozing away...with this little chick waiting and waiting for Whiskers to wake up.

This little chick could be my daughter Abby, and I could be Whiskers. When Abby was a wee one (around 3) she decided to be a morning early bird. Every morning I would wake up to this child staring at me...her little face was no more than 2 inches away from my eyes...When I would open my eyes, she would smile at me and say "Mom, I need sumthun" ...now mind you- I was not in the habit of serving her breakfast at 5 or 6am! It took a long time to break her of that habit, but I still remember her staring at me at 5 am...26 years later! (and yes she is still an early bird girl!)

Card Details:
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Stamps: Whiskers Sleeping by La-La Land Crafts, Sentiment by SU! celebration set Happy Harmony

Cardstock: Blue(SU!), DP by g.c.d. studios

Ink: Memento Black, copics

Misc: Nesties, ribbon and sparkly "star" crystals
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I hope you all can jump over to the La-La Land Crafts' Weekly Wednesday challenge with your "blingy" cards!

And check out some great sneak peeks of 11 new Halloween stamps to be released on September 10th! You can have a shot at winning one of the new releases by leaving a comment here.

Cherish Everyday! La-La Land Crafts Challenge #2

On to challenge #2 at La-La Land Crafts blog ! I chose to use Sitting Lala for the challenge this week...Stitching! I love to sew on my cards, but I don't do it often enough. I am so glad for the challenges that make me fire up my machine. Hmmm...I seem to faintly recall that I have started a Christmas quilt for my little grandson...Gwamma better get crackin'!

My card was inspired by this week's From Courtney's Closet Challenge. #54. Little Cupcake is wearing the sweetest little cherry patterned dress--- and you know I can't resist cherries! (and polka dots- right Libby?) If you have never joined in on Libby's Little Addiction challenge...you are missing out! It is so fun to watch her sweet babies (Carter and Courtney) grow up before my eyes.

The DP and ribbon are retired product from Stampin Up (sad face).

You can't read the little chipboard sentiment, but it says Cherish Everyday.(thanks Irina!)

Now if you have never visited Irina's blog, you will be totally inspired by her wonderful creations. Irina is the owner of La-La Land Crafts store. I have been a follower of Irina's blog for quite a while and that is where I read about her La-La DT call. This has been a lot of fun for me and I want to thank Irina for this opportunity! Don't forget to visit her personal blog, Everything Paper Crafts.

Blog Candy winner!

The winner of my Sweet Rosie stamp from La-La Land Crafts is Charlene!

If you have never been to Charlene's blog, go take a peek at Paper and Ink Playground! Charlene has many, many wonderful creations...and she is a good cookie baker too!

Don't forget my Blog Candy!

Don't forget to leave a comment to win my blog candy for this Sweet Rosie image from La-La Land Crafts. I will draw the winner on Sunday night. Just leave me a comment HERE. That is all it takes. If you are a follower and leave a comment, I will enter your name twice! Be sure to let me know! Leaving a comment on this post will not enter you in my drawing.

Flower Power!Meet Rosie from La-La Land Crafts...and blog candy!

I am so happy to show you my first challenge project for La-La Land Crafts Weekly Wednesday Challenge as a member of the Guest Designer Team for the new stamp company La-La Land Crafts. Our first challenge is Flower Power and anyone can join in! The only requirement is that you have at least one flower on your card or project! Now, that is pretty easy don't you think?

For my project I chose to make this cute box from a challenge I found online. Now, I can't find the darn challenge again...I have lost it! If you find it...let me know and I will post a link for you all. I hate that when that happens.....

You can read more about the Flower Power challenge on the La La Land Crafts blog HERE.
If you add your card to SCS, please use the keywords LLWWC1 or La La Land Weekly Wednesday Challenge.

If you choose to participate, here is what you can win on the blog.

- The Top Three will receive buttons for their blogs.

- The Winner of the challenge will receive a 25% discount at the online store in addition to the button.

- To kick off the Challenges, everyone who participates in the first challenge will be entered into the drawing for a FREE Window La-La stamp.

For my blog readers I am going to offer up a new La-La Land stamp too.....Sweet Rosie (02004).
Follow the link to visit Rosie! All you have to do is leave me a comment(and if you are a follower and leave me a comment, you will get two chances)! You have until Sunday night to enter (that's when I will be home from celebrating Cole's birthday)

I hope you have enjoyed this project and will join in for the very first La-La Land blog challenge!


Here are the details for this project:

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Stamps: Rosie with Bird (02001) by La-La Land Crafts , sentiment is a Studio G Clear Stamps series 7

Cardstock: Pink Passion by SU!, Dp is from The Paper Company-Green Mini Flowers

Ink: Memento Black and copics

Misc: downloaded template for box, Martha spooky fence punch, misc flower brads, misc ribbon, SU! ribbon punch

La La Land Crafts Grand Opening Tonight!

Just a little reminder!


La-La Land Crafts will go live tonight at 11pm! The website will go live at 11 pm PST!

To celebrate the Grand Opening on the online store, Irina will be offering a 10% discount storewide!! This is a limited time offer! It will only last for the first 24 hours!!

La La Land Crafts!!!

Check out this sneak peek!

I am excited to finally share with you all that I have been asked to join as a member of the Guest Designer Team for the months of September and October for the new stamp company La La Land Crafts.

The grand unveiling of these new stamps will be August 12th with the La La Land Crafts Store website going live August 12th at 11pm that night. Be sure to be there...put on your robe and slippers and join us at 11pm!

You can visit their blog Here and read about the announcement!

Visit the blogs of the new Design Team to view some wonderful creations and see some great La La Land creations coming soon!!

Design Team:

Jane Matsumoto- Whoopsie Daisy

Sheila Lygo -Doubtfire Musings

Kim Yu-Kimbee's Creations

Maureen Wong-My C.A.S.E. Studies

Lisa Hjulberg-My Crafts Meow

Kathy Page-Distressed Stamper

Guest Design Team:

Karen Hoeve-Scrap Everything

Marcea Watkins-Marcea's Crafting Corner

Paul Ford-Crafty Blogocks

Kim Blakey-Poppy Petal Designs

and...lil ole Me!!!!