La-La Land Crafts' Christmas Release Blog Hop!!

Hi Everyone,

This Blog Hop post will stay up on top until our Christmas Release & Challenge next Wednesday. Please scroll down for newer posts. Thank you!!

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 of the Guest DT members will show you a sneak-peek of one of the new Christmas stamps...

If you are just starting out, be sure to start at the very beginning at La-La Land Crafts!

Here's my sneak peek...




I can't wait for you to see ALL of the new releases. Isn't this one so cute?!

Just a reminder...
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:


- 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

* Start your Blog Hop at the La-La Land Crafts' blog
* Each DT Member will guide you to the next Blog during the Blog Hop
* Final stop is back 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)

One comment per person please. We will draw the winning number from all the entries next Wednesday, October 14th, around 10 am PST. Everyone is welcome to participate. We will ship internationally!!

Our new Christmas stamps will be released and available in our online store on the same date, October 14th. We can't wait for you to see the new stamps. They are so cute and so much fun!!

SO... you are wondering where you need to go next, right? Well, before I send you off, I have a giveaway in celebration of La-La Land Crafts' Christmas Blog Hop!

Leave me a comment here and you will be entered for a chance to win the stamp that goes with this sneak peek and some surprise treats to go with it! Just leave me a comment here and let me know what you think of the blog hop and all of the sneak peeks!

Okay... now you can go to your next stop! Just click HERE!


Good luck!

Hero Arts Penguin and Snowman!

When Holly handed me the penguin stamp and snowman stamp from Hero Arts, I fell in love with them! They are just the cutest! Here's a quick card I whipped up as a sample for the store. I know I will be making more cards with these cuties.







I also wanted to show you this pumpkin I made using the Giga Scalloped Circle by Marvy Uchida.



I know I have seen this made somewhere but I can not remember where!
If you have a link to share for this pumpkin, please feel free to put it under comments. If you make one, I would love to see it as well!

If you want to see how I made this adorable pumpkin, click HERE! I have a step by step tutorial on the Scrapbooking Supplies R Us blog. Let me know what you think of it!

Happy Belated Birthday, Karin!

I just wanted to wish Karin Hoeve, Guest Designer for La-La Land Crafts, a "Happy Belated Birthday"!! With everything going on this week, I didn't get a chance to post the card I made for her on Tuesday. Then Irina pointed out to me that even if I had posted on Oct. 6th (her actual birthday), it would have been belated because she is in the Netherlands!! LOL! Oh! Our Karin has been a busy gal herself! She is the one that has been overseeing the La-La Land Crafts' Christmas Sneak Peek Blog Hop! Awesome job, Karin!!

Anyways, HAPPY BIRTHDAY KARIN!






hugs,

LLWWC7 and blog candy alerts

Well, long story short... Ken does not have the swine flu. He has strep throat. My poor boy had another round of high fevers with a headache, vomiting, and a stomach ache. At one point, he was so stiff and could hardly move his neck so the doctor mentioned meningitis. That nearly sent me over the edge. He is now on antibiotics and feeling so much better! Phew!

I am posting LLWWC7 late. That's La-La's Weekly Wednesday Challenge #7.
It's a big challenge... the guest design team came up with a medley of challenges. It seems like a lot at first but it's actually not that hard to put together. Have you seen those cards out there with thirteen or fifteen challenges met? This challenge can't be as crazy as putting together thirteen challenges from different sites! lol!

Here's what the guest design team put together:

Karin - Two different patterned papers
Kimmi - Color Combination: Strawberries (red), Chocolate (brown) and Cream
Marcea - Embossing (dry or heat)
Paul - Scallops
Sue - Paper Piercing

I know you can do it! C'mon! Join in on the fun!!

Here's my card:

Ahoy, Pirate Rosie!




Now I KNOW y'all love giveaways.

Check this one out!



All you have to do is go visit Irina at La-La Land Crafts HERE.

How about this cutie?



You can have a chance to win Trick or Treat La La by visiting Sue HERE.

Good Luck!!

My Wild Sprout

Yipeeeee! I did it! I entered The Greeting Farm "Design My Sprout" contest!

Please let me know what you think!

You can go HERE to see my entry in their gallery.



Here's the sketch:




Here is my colored version:





Koh-i-noor Pencils, Gina K Design's odorless mineral spirits, and Copics.



This was so much fun to do!
I don't go into contests like this... was a bit nervous about hitting that "process" button. LOL!
Isn't that a bit silly? Knowing that this is simply an entry and not expecting anything but still getting the butterflies? Baby steps!

Have a thrilling Thursday!!

LLWWC6 - Paper Pieced "Trick or Treat" Lala

It's time again for another La-La's Weekly Wednesday Challenge!

Before I go on to this week's challenge, I just wanted to thank everyone who participated in last week's challenge. Congratulations to our four winners (second was a tie!) - Victoria of Blue Jelly Too, Carolyn of Handmade Treasures by Creative Card Corner, Alexandra of Scrapbookende Zwergnase, and April Rose of April's Roses! It seems to be getting harder every week to decide on the Top 3! Such awesome talent out there! I can not wait to see what this week's challenge brings on!

Sheila is our host this week and she has chosen paper piecing as the challenge!

She says:

"This weeks Challenge is Paper Piece it!! I'd love to see your Paper piecing I love this techinque and love to see what others do with it, you can use other items to embellish your creations with to, like gems/flowers/ brads, just go for it and have fun"

I had so much fun with this challenge!

Here's what I started out with:

"Trick or Treat Lala"

This is what Lala ended up looking like after I was done piecing her together:







The card:






Just in case you are curious about the process:

Base:
I colored Lala's face, arms, hands, and legs with E0000 and E00. R00 for blush.

The shirt/sleeves:

The jumper:

The pumpkin:

The mask:

The hair:

I used Clear atyou Spica glitter pen to add some bling:

Pitch Black and Lavender atyou Spica Glitter pen used on this cutie:



Let me know what you think!
Come join in on the fun!!! Click HERE!
I want to see what you come up with!

Quick coloring tutorials and a giveaway!

I made this Acetate Treat Holder for a tutorial over at Scrapbooking Supplies R Us.

I also made this quick and easy card.

Before you head over to the acetate holder tutorial, I wanted to show you how I colored the pumpkins on the tag and on the card.

For the tag, I stamped the image on watercolor paper in Staz-On.


I inked up my craft sheet with Tim Holtz Dried Marigold Distress Ink.


Before applying color to my image, I like to "wet" the work surface.


Then I pick up some of the Dried Marigold off of the craft sheet and start "painting" the pumpkin.


Here is the image after several layers of color:


Then I started to "pull" the colors from the pumpkin out onto the surrounding area.
This allowed me to create highlights on the pumpkin and add some color to the watercolor paper.





Here I added some bling with my clear atyou Spica pen.


A quick and easy way to rough up the edges is to simply use your fingernail!

I used Copics on the card. The paper I used is Coconut Swirl (Bazzill).

I used the chiseled end to give the pumpkin a quick coat of Y17.

I used YR04 to add some dimension to the pumpkin...



Then I went back over the entire image with the first Copic, Y17



I used G99 once to cover the stem and leaf.

Then I went over it again to create some shading.

Here's the pumpkin as is:


Here is the same image with a touch of gray all around the image:

Now for the information for the giveaway!

Everything you see on the little card can be yours!

- Copics I used (Y17, YR04, G99)

- Happy Halloween Pumpkin stamp (Hampton Arts)

- a bottle of Spooky Dew Drops

- Boo to You "Monster Mash" paper

- Boo to You "Frightful Friends" paper

- 1 yd of Orange swirl ribbon

Simply go to my Halloween Acetate Treat Holder tutorial on Scrapbooking Supplies R Us.

Scroll all the way down to my signature and click on "Leave A Comment".

Leave me a message there about what you thought of both tutorials (coloring and treat holder) by this Friday (Sept. 25th) and you will qualify for the drawing!

Good luck!!