Use It Tuesday! Exciting News to share and Challenge #9

Hi everyone! 

I have two exciting things to share with you today. 

The first news, I have been holding onto this for awhile.

I am SO happy to be able to post it!

The funny part is that it was announced on the Use It Tuesday blog last week. There was a bit of email woes to sort through but I think I am good to go now! :)

Drum roll please....

I am now a designer for the Use It Tuesday challenge blog! 

The design team is fab! 

Sami is awesome and of course, there's the one and only Siobhan whom I adore. 

Jane
Papillon
Heather
Nancy
Dinah
Haven
Sonya

The second thing I want to share is my card for the new Use It Tuesday Challenge #9!

We challenge you to USE YOUR DIES, PUNCHES, or CUT-OUTS

that has NEVER BEEN USED BEFORE! 

A photo of my unused Lacey Ovals Nesties, which I found after scrounging around for some scrapbook paper. Yes... imagine that! Finding a long lost item under a pile of scrapbook paper. Has that ever happened to you before? Perhaps it's time for me to get a paper organizing system. LOL!

My card for the challenge:

I am in love with this adorable Pure Innocence Ladybug (MFT)!

I paper pieced her outfit and added diamond Stickles to her wings.

She is coloured in Copics. 

Hair: E33

Skin: E11, E00, E0000, E93

Shading: BV00, N04, N0

USE IT TUESDAY

Please link your creation using inlinkz over at USE IT TUESDAY by Friday June 24th. No blog? No problem! Just use keyword USE009 when uploading to an online gallery and leave us a direct link so we can find your creation.

Please make sure to mention you are playing along with a Use It Tuesday challenge (a link is great too!) so we know you are participating.

As always, one lucky participant will be randomly chosen to be a featured guest designer in an upcoming challenge!

I can't wait to see what you use and how you USE IT! 

Need more inspiration?
Check out what the rest of the fabulous DT has created with their unused dies, punches, or cut-outs!

Papillon

Heather

Dinah

Haven

Sonya

*NEW* Clown Owl and Mice Digis from Pink Cat Studio!

Pink Cat Studio has NEW fun & whimsical clown digis that are perfect for making cards to celebrate birthdays, say 'hi' or just to make your friends laugh. I love them! Well, most of you know I collect owls so this one was a fun one for me. These digis are SO much fun to color and I really had a blast picking out the paper for the image I chose for the release.

If you make a purhcase in the digi store today you will receive the "Clown Mice Balloon Ride" digi stamp for free! It will be emailed to you within 12 hours of your purchase.

These new digi stamps can also be purchased as full color files for use in your scrapbooks and craft projects!

 

I immediately fell in love with this super cute Clown Owls in Car digi:

 

 

 

Ink: Ink Jet Printer, Copics, TH Distress Marmalade and Tea Stain

Paper: X-Press It Blending Card, SEI Sunny Day (Garden Gloves), Coredinations (Dandelion)

Nestabilities: Fleur De Lis Squares, Classic Square Large

Accessories: SU ribbon, Dimensionals, Copics Opaque White, Distress tool

Copics: FY1, FYR1, FYG2, FBG2, FV2, Y19, YG07, RV04, E25, E27, T10, N3, 0

The layout was inspired by Mojo Monday 193

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a wonderful day!!

 

 

La-La Land Crafts Memorial Day Sale!

 From now until May 30th, you can receive a 10% discount on all of the orders at La-La Land Crafts that are over $50.00, including digis! Simply enter the discount code MEMORIALDAY when checking out.

                                                              Click HERE to go shopping!

*NEW* Pink Cat Studio COOL CATS digi release!

Click HERE  for the Summertime Collection La La Land Crafts Release Hop!

 

Pink Cat Studio has a brand new cool cat digis that are purrrrfect for that special guy!

If you make a purchase in the digi store today you will receive the "Kitten Pile " digi stamp for FREE! It will be emailed to you within 12 hours of your purchase.

All of Pink Cat Studio digi stamps can now be purchased as full color files! The colored files must be purchased seperately from the black and white files so please check our Terms of Use page for more details.
The colored images are perfect for use on scrapbook pages and are also a great time saver if you need to make a card in a hurry.

Here's my project... a treat holder!

Father Cat and Kittens

Summertime with La La Land Crafts BLOG HOP!

Hi, everyone!

La-La Land is gearing up for summer with new Design Team Members and some fun new stamps! We are hopping around today so that you can see some amazing creations by our new team, featuring these fabulous new stamps. We hope that you will join in on the fun! You will want to leave a comment on every blog you visit along the way to be eligible to win one each of the 6 new stamps in the Summertime collection. That's three new Marci stamps and three new Luka stamps! So be sure to start at the very BEGINNING of the blog hop if you did not get here from JANA's blog. I don't want you don't miss out on a thing!

I am so excited about this release... super cute images! 

Introducing: 

SUMMER LUKA

Here's my card.

I kept it sweet and simple to showcase Luca.

 

Paper: X-Press It Blending Card, Stampin' Up Whisper White cardstock

Designer Paper: Paradise (Fancy Pants Designs)

Copics:

Skin: E11, E00, E0000, BV00, E93 

Hair: E25, E27, E47 

Clothing: B91, B95, YG41 

Turtle: YG03, YG23, Y04, B60

Scuba Gear: C3, C5

Your next stop will be with JEANETTE!

Just in case you get lost along the way or there's a detour:

La-La Land Crafts Blog http://lalalandcrafts.blogspot.com/
Becca Fabozzi http://www.beccascraftycorner.blogspot.com/
Ching Tan http://www.notleftstanding.blogspot.com/
Cindy Haffner http://cindyhaffnerscorner.blogspot.com/
Jana Weaver http://stampwithjana.blogspot.com/
Jane Matsumoto http://whoopsiedaisy-jane.blogspot.com/
Jeanette Commerfort http://jeanette-happythoughtsinkspots.blogspot.com/
Karen Maldonado http://www.reallifeinpictures.blogspot.com/
Kim Dellow http://craftymakes.blogspot.com/
Kim Yu http://piggyandminniemouse.blogspot.com/
Lori Mama http://luvnthejourney.blogspot.com/
Michele Roos http://micheleroos-space.blogspot.com/
Pops Morfitt http://poppetsathome.blogspot.com/
Rosie Shaner http://rosemaryscreations.blogspot.com/
Sandie Dunne http://sandieshores.blogspot.com/
Trisha Mcmullen http://tbearstouch.blogspot.com/
Arlene Cuevas http://butterflykisseswithlove.blogspot.com/

Friendship, Back to School, and Birthday RUBBER stamps from Pink Cat Studio!!

 

We are releasing three new rubber stamp sets today!
  Melissa has converted some of her most popular digi designs into rubber.
Pink Cat Studio retailers have these stamps in stock now!

 

Recognize Blobby holding the birthday cake?

I made this card for the digi release last year...

 

 

 

 I love it when I step out of my comfort zone and try something new.

In this case, it was using such bold and vibrant colors. 

Be sure to check out the inspirational projects that the design team has created...

HERE

Happy Mother's Day!

 

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

I hope that everyone is having a good Mother's Day.

I have a few friends whose mothers have passed on.

Just wanted them to know that they are in my thoughts.

Then there are several friends who have lost a child.

You are in my thoughts on this very special day as well.

 

This most adorable little flower is part of a 4 digi stamp set called "Wee Bee - Pollinatin" by Amber Ink.

I punched three windows on a 4.25" x 5.5" sheet of blue cardstock with my 1-3/8" SU square punch. On a separate sheet of Certainly Celery cardstock, I punched out three matching windows using a 1-1/4" SU square punch. After gluing the green cardstock behind the blue one, and popped it onto the front of my card base with dimensionals. I sized my flower digi to 1.26" x 1.34". Three of them were printed onto X Press-It cardstock. Copics were used to add some color to each flower. Each were cut out and popped up inside the "windows" with dimensionals. 

Supplies:

Images: Wee Bee - Pollinatin' (Amber Ink)

Ink: Laser Printer (HP)

Paper: X-Press It, April Showers (Three Bugs in a Rug), Bashful Blue (SU) Certainly Celery (SU)

Misc: Copics (Y35, YR15. YG23, 0), Dimensionals (SU), rhinestones (SU)

Design Team Call for La-La Land Crafts

La-La Land Crafts is having a Design Team Call!

This Design Team call is open to everyone regardless of previous experience.

This call is for Design Team members as well as Guest Designers.  

Here are some of the requirements:

- create one project a week for our blog

- participate in monthly Blog Hops

- participate in team discussions

- participate in other team activities as needed

-  promote La-La Land Crafts

- submit your artwork with our stamps to various publications of your choice

Sounds good?

 

Check out all of the details HERE!

Good luck to all!

La-La Land Crafts National Scrapbooking Day Contest

La-La Land Crafts

National Scrapbooking Day CONTEST

  The National Scrapbooking Day is just around the corner and La-La Land Crafts would like to celebrate it with a contest! Irina is looking for different projects including but not limited to Scrapbooking Layouts, Decorative Items, Altered Items, 3D projects, etc.   

Anything but a card!!

 

There will be THREE winners for this Contest!!!

1st Place - $50 credit to the store

2nd Place - $25 credit\

3rd place - $10 credit

This Contest will run through May 7th.  

The winners will be announced on May 9th.

 

Click HERE to enter

Good luck to all!!!

Some Bunny Loves You!

Looking for the new Kiddies and Flowers release from Pink Cat Studio?

Just scroll down to the next post or click HERE

 

Last week, I posted a bunny love card for Amber Ink as my month long stint as the Purple Torch Bearer kicked off. I love the little bunnies so much that I wanted to use one of them for this week's project.

The image that I used last week is called "Sorry About That" and what's awesome about this image is that the download purchased comes in a set of three separate images! Now, if you care for just one of the bunnies, then you can purchase the two separately as well. Just click on the names and you will be sent to Amber Ink.

Love Bunny -Sorry About That

Love Bunny - Eager

 Love Bunny - Miffed

 Aren't they cute?!

Here's my card:

 If you take a good look at the bunny, you will notice that this bunny on my card is looking up at the sentiment "Some Bunny Loves You", which is also from Amber Ink. I printed the image onto designer paper and cut the head off from the body and used a pop-up dot to attach it onto the card. I tilted the head up a bit.

The card was missing "something" so I added flower buttons from SU! and some twine and then used my Old Olive marker to draw in the grass and stems. The stitching was done by hand. I can not get my sewing machine to work properly. I think the tension is off and don't have a clue as to how to fix it, so I just went for the old sewing by hand trick. :)

The card was inspired by Mojo Monday 186 Sketch from a couple of weeks ago.

Come join me on Friday over at Amber Inklings for Aloha Friday!