La-La's SURPRISE Birthday Blog Hop for IRINA!!

Hello everyone!

I have to tell you that as you read this on Saturday, Irina and I are in Disneyland, celebrating her 40th birthday. She wished she could spend her birthday at Disneyland and I am making her wish come true! What are friends for, right?! I really wanted her 40th birthday to be as special as she is. So let's make it even more special by having you join in on the SURPRISE Birthday Blog Hop!

Each of us have created a card with birthday wishes for our special Birthday Girl. If you arrived here from Sue Kment's blog, then you are already on the right track! If you are just starting, then be sure to start this blog hop at La-La Land Crafts blog.

If by some reason you loose track on your journey through the hopping spots, here is a list of all of your stops:

Kim

Kathy

Lisa

Katie

Karin

Sue

Jane

Moon

Maureen

Elena

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, IRINA!

Now hop on over to see what Maureen has created! It's Moon's turn in the blog hop but I noticed that she is not up yet. :)
Don't forget to visit Irina and wish her a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!


hugs,

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

新年あけましておめでとうございます!

Wishing you all the best for 2010!

Ringing in the New Year with a Triangle Treat Holder!

Before I get started, I would like to wish my family and friends in Japan:
新年あけましておめでとうございます!

To all those who are already celebrating 2010: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

I hope that everyone else has a wonderful and safe New Year's Eve!

I have been getting quite a few requests for the Triangle Treat Holder that I had posted a week ago for La-La's Weekly Wednesday Challenge.

There is another site that I blog for and I decided to post it there. The blog is called "The Crop Spot" and it is on Scrapbooking Supplies R Us site, which is the online store linked with Memories Live On... an awesome local scrapbook store that I teach at.

Here's are some sneak peeks for the tutorial...

Check out the Triangle Treat Holder Tutorial!

Leave me a comment there or here and let me know what you think of the tutorial.

Wishing you all the best in 2010!!

hugs,

A New Year Challenge!

Can you believe there are just three more days until the new year? What are you going to be doing this new year's eve? How about a couple of new challenges to kick off the new year? To see La-La's Weekly Wednesday Challenge, click HERE!

Time for another Pretties Wednesday Challenge & Blog Hop!! If you didn't hop onto my blog via Kristy Ketterlin's blog then you might want to hop over to the very beginning of this blog hop with Christie Ortman's blog.

This week it is Julie Masse’s turn to host the challenge and she has the perfect challenge to kick off the new year! Julie has challenged us to alrer a notebook to use for 2010!

I thought long and hard about what kind of notebook or journal that I wanted to make for the new year. I am SO bad about birthdays so I decided to alter a small notebook to keep birthday reminders in. There is a little charm that I attached to the spine that I will use as a bookmark. The cakes are from one of my favorite Paper Pretties set "Time for Cake". I colored the cakes with Copics and added some bling with Papertrey glitter. I added some glaze on the tops of the cakes of each layer as well. I really love this set!!

Ugh! I need to find a way to take better pictures. Any suggestions?

Here's how to enter the challenge!
Create a card using the challenge above and any Paper Pretties stamp set(s) you have. Upload your project to the Paper Pretties gallery. Please include it in the Weekly Challenges category and use keyword PWC84.

Deadline: 6pm EST Tuesday, January 5th.

Prize: $15.00 coupon to the Paper Pretties Boutique.

I hope you will join us this week for the challenge!

Now hop on over to check out what Jennifer Greco has altered!

Charmed!

I hope that you all had a wonderful holiday! I am so excited for the new year!

Before I get to La-La's Weekly Wednesday Challenge, I just wanted to say "CONGRATULATIONS" to Elena and Kristine who are staying with us and moving up to the Design Team!

I am also very excited that we are going to have two new Guest Designers for the months of January-February! We can't be more excited to have these very talented ladies join our team!!! Welcome, Cheryl Rowley of Cottage Creations and Pam Sparks of Expressions with Heart!!

Now for this week's challenge at La-La Land Crafts!

One of my "things to try" in the new year is to try new techniques and new supplies. Well, it turns out that I get to start early on my crafty new year resolution. This week's challenge at La-La Land Crafts calls for charms. I don't own any so I found some pretty ones at Michaels.

Here's what Kathy has to say about this week's challenge:

Hello there! Welcome to another great La-La's Weekly Wednesday Challenge! I am Kathy and this week is my turn to pick the challenge. I decided to go with CHARMS. I hope this one isn't too challenging for you!

Well, I have to admit it was quite a challenge but not because of having to add a charm. I went through two layouts and attempts at putting them together before tossing them aside and working on this one. I took a little vacation from the craft table for a week and I guess my muse decided to go on her own vacation. *sigh*

Here's what I came up with for this week's CHARMED challenge!

This is Princess Rosie! I decided to make her into twins!


I hope that you will kick off the new year with us and join in on the fun!
I look forward to seeing what you do with this challenge!

hugs,

Paper Pretties SALE

Happy Monday, everyone!

Paper Pretties is having a Boxing Day Blowout sale from now until New Years Day. Everything Christmas related - stamps, paper, ribbon, etc. - is 45% off!!

No coupon code needed!

As a bonus, anyone who orders during the sale will receive a FREE Around the Block Antiquing Tool ! How cool is that?!

Here's a little information about this handy dandy tool:

It has a very ergonomic little handle that is very easy to hold and work with. One end of the tool is a little ink pad (brown in this case) and the other end is a little sanding disc. The ink pad end comes with a little plastic cover so that the ink doesn't dry out. This end works really nicely on the eges of cards stock before or after they are sanded as well as for "swiping" over card stock to give it an aged appearance.

The sanding edge works so nicely both on the edges of cards and to sand the surface of white core card stock or photos.

La-La's Weekly Wednesday Challenge 18 - Anything but a card!

Hoooooray! It's wonderful Wednesday and that means two awesome challenges from Paper Pretties and La-Land Crafts! If you are looking for PWC83 - Nontraditional Valentine (no reds or pinks), then click HERE!

I hope you all had a chance to join the royal blog hop last week. It was so much fun! Thanks to all who stopped by and left me a comment. I have a winner to announce. But first, I need to let you know what our challenge this week is!

Our talented Kim Yu is hosting this week's challenge. LLWWC18 is ANYTHING BUT A CARD. Here's what Kim has to say about this challenge:

Now, for this week, I would like to challenge everyone to create ANYTHING BUT A CARD! I know everyone is quite busy at the moment with the Holiday but we hope you can come and play along! Why not make this a real challenge for yourself before the year ends? :D

To get you inspired, our awesome Design Team and Guest Designers have come up with a few samples for you! Check them out at La-La Land Crafts blog HERE!

My inspiration is from my Christmas tree. This year, the boys and I had decided to decorate our tree with the small gifts and treats that we have been receiving over the past couple of weeks. As a teacher, I get many handmade gifts from the children and I cherish all of them! In keeping with the handmade theme, I decided to make a few ornaments that I could fill with little goodies for the boys to open every day after Christmas until the New Year, when our Christmas tree comes down. This triangular ornament (treat holder) is one that I made during a make-and-take at the store by a demonstrator from a stamp company. It's so quick and easy to make! I will make up the tutorial on this later this week.

Here's what I came up with:

Down the Slopes Rosie

JOIN IN ON THE FUN!!!
I LOVE seeing all of the fabulous creations you all come up with!

Need some inspiration? Check out what our awesome DT and GDT have come up with!!!
Elena
Kathy
Katie
Kim
Kristine
Lisa
Maureen


NOW...
I have a winner of the Fairy Lala stamp from last week.
I drew a name from the box and I pulled:


KATHY WINTER

Congratulations, Kathy!
Please email me your mailing address. It's up in the sidebar under "About Me".

Orange You Gonna Be My Valentine?

Can you believe there's only two more days 'til Christmas?! Yikes! Seriously... where does the time go? Well, it's time for another Pretties Wednesday Challenge & Blog Hop! If you are following the Paper Pretties' Wednesday Challenge blog hop, then you should be coming from Wendy's blog. If not, then simply start with Julie Masse so that you don't miss out on a thing!

BTW, have you checked out the new and FABULOUS Paper Pretties' website? It's awesome!

To take our minds off of the Christmas countdown, our talented Jana Weaver has a Valentine challenge for you! The challenge is to create a Valentines card without using any Red or Pink! No red or pink on the designer paper and on Sophia... or any other Paper Pretties stamp you want to use. Jana did say pink on the cheeks are okay though. Ha ha ha!! Can you do this? I did... it was really fun!

Orange You Gonna Be My Valentine?
You have a piece of my heart!!

Come play along with us!!!
How to Enter: Create a card using the challenge above and any Paper Pretties stamp set(s) you have. Upload your project to the Paper Pretties gallery. Please include it in the Weekly Challenges category and use keyword PWC83.
Deadline: 6pm EST Tuesday, December 29th.
Prize: $15.00 coupon to the Paper Pretties Boutique.

Now hop on over to Jennifer's blog to see what she has come up with for this fun Valentine challenge!


Can't wait to see what you come with!

PWC82 Eyelets!! and New Home for Paper Pretties!

This is my second post for today!
La-La Land Crafts is having a FAIRY TALE RELEASE BLOG HOP!
Click HERE for some magical blog candy!!



Paper Pretties Challenge #82:
This week Christi is hosting the challenge and it's all about EYELETS! I know! Isn't this a terrific challenge?! I still have a few containers of eyelets but I rarely use them any more. What a good opportunity to rummage through your stash!

Here's what I came up with:

I just LOVE "Gliding By Sophia"! I used Bo Bunny dp and Be Merry Accessory Sheet from My Mind's Eye. I kept it simple and embellishment free, trying to keep the focus on the eyelets that are on the snowman and the tree.

Now it's your turn! Play along with us!

How to Enter:
Create a card using the challenge above and any Paper Pretties stamp set(s) you have.
Upload your project to the Paper Pretties gallery.
Please include it in the Weekly Challenges category and use keyword PWC82.
Deadline: 6pm EST Tuesday, December 22nd.
Prize: $15.00 coupon to the Paper Pretties Boutique.

Hop on over to check out what Jennifer Greco has in store for you!

BUT... before you go, I have some FABULOUS news about Paper Pretties!


Paper Pretties has a new home!!
We are very excited to introduce you to our new and very improved home. Same address but with many upgrades to the site that will be of great benefit to those of you who visit regularly.

A new and very exciting feature is that our home page is now a feed! This means that you can subscribe and get all of our updates for challenges, sales, and happening at Paper Pretties. This also means that the Paper Clip will no longer be active.

To celebrate everything in the store (except for the clearance section as it is already deeply discounted) is on sale! It is for 35% off with the coupon code "newsite" (no spaces and case sensitive). Now that's awesome!! The sale will run from NOW until Saturday, December 19th at 11:59 pm cst.

So... go shop, shop, shop before the sale ends!!

La-La Land Fairy Tale Release Blog Hop!!

Welcome to La-La Land Crafts' Fairy Tale Release Blog Hop!

To celebrate the release of our new Princess Rosie stamp, we are giving her the royal treatment that she deserves. Every member of our Design Team and the Guest Designers have made their cards with Princess Rosie, which they are now showing on their blogs.

To make the Blog Hop even more fun, you will find some clues (a secret word or two) on every blog. When you follow the order of the Blog Hop and get to the very end, you will have collected all of the words and will be able to put them together into a sentence. When you are done, you will need to come back to La-La Land Crafts Blog and leave your entry into the Blog Candy with Mr Linky.

What's in it for you???

Besides seeing all the gorgeous cards from our Design Team? :)

The winner of the Blog Hop will receive the newly released Princess Rosie stamp along with these goodies:

There's more! While on your treasure hunt for the secret words, you might find some more treats offered by our designers! I have one here! Leave me a comment about the blog hop, Princess Rosie, the cards, and you will be entered for a chance to win FAIRY LALA!!



Best of all, I have some great news for you! Princess Rosie stamp is already available for purchase in our online store!!


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 during the Blog Hop

* Collect all of the secret words and put them together into a sentence

* Final stop is back at La-La Land Crafts Blog where you have to leave your entry as a comment under this post. IMPORTANT!! Do not reveal your answer in your comment!! We will contact the winner for the answer. If the answer is incorrect we will draw the winning number again..

One entry per person please. We will draw the winning number from all the entries next Wednesday, December 23rd, around 10 am PST. Everyone is welcome to participate. We will ship internationally!!

We wouldreally appreciate it if you could help spread the word about our Blog Hop on your blog or just by the word of mouth if you don't have a blog.

If you started the Blog Hop at the La-La Land Crafts Blog and followed all the links to my post, then you are done! That's correct... this is your final stop! I have one last secret word for you to complete your sentence... "them." Congratulations on making it all the way through!! Now you just need to hop back to La-La Land Crafts Blog where you have to leave your entry as a comment on Irina's blog hop post.

Remember... please do not reveal your answer in your comment!! We will contact the winner for the answer. If the answer is incorrect we will draw the winning number again..

GOOD LUCK!!!!