April 2010 | Crafts

LLWWC #36 - Altered Embellishments

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Welcome to La-La's Weekly Wednesday Challenge!

Hi everybody! Maureen here and I am your challenge hostess this week. First, thanks so much to everyone who played in last week's Shabby Chic Challenge!!! We LOVED seeing all of your creations using La-La Land Crafts stamps and digi images!

The theme I came up with for this week is ALTERED EMBELLISHMENTS. Take a store bought embellishment and change it in some way! For example, you can cut a petal off a flower to make a butterfly, sew a running stitch through some ribbon and gather to make a ruffle, take any embellishment and color it with paints/inks/markers, etc. Please include in your post what embellishment you altered and how you altered it. I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with!

Since I used Birthday Cake Maya on my card, she is on sale for 20% OFF through next Tuesday!!!

Also, one player will WIN a $10 Credit towards any rubber stamps of your choice in the La-La Land Crafts store!! And three of you will be awarded this TOP THREE award badge to proudly display on your blog!

Here's what you need to do to be eligible to win the PRIZE or Top Three badge:

Create a NEW card/project for the challenge using the sketch shown above. You are more than welcome to combine challenges!
Everyone is welcome to play, but to qualify for the Top Three badge and/or the prize your project MUST have a La-La Land Crafts stamp on it!! You are welcome to use any other stamps along with La-La Land Crafts images, such as sentiments, background, etc.
Link your project to Mr. Linky below by Monday, May 3, 2010 at 11:59pm PDT (GMT-8). Be sure to link directly to the blog or gallery post featuring your entry! If you post your card on Splitcoaststampers or any other online gallery, please use BOTH keywords LLLC and LLWWC36.
Create the link to this challenge (link back to us) in your blog or gallery post.

And here is what we have made for this challenge (don't forget to visit each designer's blog to find out how they altered their embellishments - the creativity blew me away!):

Maureen - Birthday Cake Maya

Jane - Cupcake Rosie

Kim - Lotus

Kristine - Sitting Lala

Jana - Princess Lala

1LuvnMama - Easter Dress Rosie

Sparkle - Lala with Rose

Please enter the FULL URL of your post with your challenge card in Mr. Linky below, or if it's a link to your gallery, please link us directly to your card. We can't wait to see what you come up with!!

Have a great day!

1. Renate
2. Joyce
3. Kim Mc (Living in Paradise)

4. Janna
5. Beth aka BR-T
6. Debbie

7. Kate
8. Meghna

Challenge 3 - Sparkle

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Good Morning everyone I can't believe how quick these two weeks have gone!!!!
Thank you all for joining in our last challenge they were beautiful entries...

It is now time for

Challenge #3

(April 28th-11th May)

This wednesday's Challenge Theme is chosen by our very own Marcea who wants to see

SPARKLE

Our sponsor for CHALLENGE #3 is:

Denise from WHIMSY STAMPS
Denise is giving the lucky winner a $15 GIFT CERTIFICATE to choose any stamps of your choice from her lovely store......

Thank you WHIMSY STAMPS!!!!

Here are the beautiful Creations from the Design Team
for inspiration...

Gina's Card

Challenge #35 WINNERS

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It's time to choose our Top 3 players from our Shabby Chic Challenge ! Thank you so much to everyone who played along! Also, just a reminder that we welcome everyone to play along in these fun weekly challenges... however if you want a chance to win the TOP 3 badge or win a $10 store credit we require you to use a stamp or digi from our store.

Now let's see who made our TOP 3 are for this challenge:

Lisa

Meghna

Kathy

And the winner of a $10 CREDIT to our store is... Lisa!!! Congatulations Lisa!! Please email Irina to redem your credit..

Please come back soon to see the new challenge for this week!!

Hugs!!

LLWWC #35 - Shabby Chic

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Welcome to the La-La Weekly Wednesday Challenge!

Happy Wednesday! Irina is here and I am your challenge hostess this week. First, a big shout-out to all you awesome peeps who played in last week's TIME TO GET SCRAPPY Challenge!!! We LOVED seeing all of your creations using La-La Land Crafts stamps and digi images!

This week we want to see your SHABBY CHIC cards and projects. Here is the link to a great article about what Shabby Chic means. And of course below you will find the samples from our Design Team for your inspiration.

Since I used Princess Lala for my card, she is on sale for 20% OFF through next Tuesday!!!

Here's what you need to do to be eligible to win the PRIZE or Top Three badge:

Create a NEW card/project for the challenge using the sketch shown above. You are more than welcome to combine challenges!
Everyone is welcome to play, but to qualify for the Top Three badge and/or the prize your project MUST have a La-La Land Crafts stamp on it!! You are welcome to use any other stamps along with La-La Land Crafts images, such as sentiments, background, etc.
Link your project to Mr. Linky below by Monday, April 12, 2010 at 11:59pm PDT (GMT-8). Be sure to link directly to the blog or gallery post featuring your entry! If you post your card on Splitcoaststampers or any other online gallery, please use BOTH keywords LLLC and LLWWC35.
Create the link to this challenge (link back to us) in your blog 5r gallery post.

And here is what we have made for this challenge:

Irina - Princess Lala

Elena - Whiskers Sleeping

Kim - Princess Rosie

Kristine - Princess Lala

Lisa - Sitting Lala

Maureen - Fairy Lala

Jana - Mermaid Lala

1LuvnMama - Lala with Heart

Jane - Rosie with Cat

1. Shelley
2. Leanne
3. Denise Lynn
4. Joyce
5. Carolyn
6. Jenny V.
7. Deanne Burton

8. Joan Ervin
9. Erin...
10. Margie Overman
11. Benedicte
12. sarah-louise
13. Helen
14. Kathy W.

15. Tracy Borba
16. Meghna
17. Carolyn
18. Lisa M.
19. Charlotte

LLWWC 34 - Challenge winners!

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Hello everyone! It's time to announce this week's winners of La-La Land Weekly Wednesday Challenge #34, which was a challenge to use your scraps. Thank you to all who played!!!

No more delays!

Here are the winners of the Top Three badge!

Kathy - Winter Creations

Sharon - Creations by SAZ

Helen - Creative Jeans

Congratulations, ladies!

The winner of a $10 Gift Certificate to spend on rubber stamps in the La-La Land Crafts boutique is.... Sharon!! Congratulations Sharon!

Ladies, please email Irina to collect your Top Three badge and for you, Sharon, to arrange for your gift certificate.

Remember, in order to be eligible for a prize and/or Top Three badge, you must use La-La Land Crafts stamps or digi images in your creations! That's easier than ever right now since we now offer digi images for instant gratification!

Have a wonderful day!

OUR #1 CHALLENGE WINNERS!!!

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PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR OUR LATEST CHALLENGE OR CLICK HERE!

Sorry I am late in posting the winners of our very #1st Challenge I have been plagued with a migraine for days!!!

We had a fantastic response to our #1st challenge, thank you everyone who took the time to join us here at CRAFTS AND ME CHALLENGES.

THE 1ST WINNER PICKED BY RANDOM.ORG IS:

NO. 31 - LISA SPARKLE

Congratulations Lisa, you have won Sweet Pea's Fantasy Art Collection Plate 8. Please grab the code for your "I'm a Winner" blinkie in the sidebar.

2ND PRIZE WINNER FOR USING A SWEET PEA STAMP PICKED BY THE D.T TEAM IS: NO. 82 - FRECKLE FACE

Congratulations Debs, you have won the Gum Drop Gang Easter plate! Please grab the code for your "I made the Top 3" blinkie in the sidebar.

3RD PRIZE WINNER ALL NAMES PUT IN A HAT AND PICKED BY A D.T IS: NO.85 - POPS

Congratulations Pops, you have won an A5 Art Nouveau stamp set sponsored by Lilac Lemon Designs! Please grab the code for your "I'm a Winner" blinkie in the sidebar.

CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU ALL !!!!
IF YOU EMAIL ME WITH YOUR ADDY
I WILL ARRANGE DELIVERY OF YOUR PRIZES

THE D.T'S TOP 3 CHOICE

It was so difficult choosing a Top 3 out of all the fantastic entries and we had a tie situation with 2 card getting the same amount of votes so we've awarded 4 cards as Top 3!

Congratulations Girls!

Freckle Face

Donna

Angie

Pops

Happy Birthday Jana!

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Hello and Happy Thursday! Did you enjoy our new release? New images are so much fun and we hope that you liked them as much as we did!

Looks like April is not only a month for the new release but it also brought to us another Birthday Girl. Today we are celebrating Jana’s birthday, our Guest Designer. We are very excited to have Jana in our team. When I first saw her beautiful cards that she made for the La-La Land Challenges as not being a part of the team yet, I was so thrilled to find that Irina invited her to join us. I think you will agree with me, just take a look at this:

Fancy Folds Challenge – sweet Winter Lala

Color (Red) Challenge – adorable Building Snowman Maya

Let’s get Punchy Challenge – cute Santa Lala

Aren’t they amazing! Her coloring, color sense, great layouts and embellishment choice, her creativity are truly an inspiration! And to all of this Jana has an incredible talent of writing. I enjoyed reading her rhymes on the day of sneak peeks. No surprise why she is a New Release Coordinator of the La-La Land!

But that is not all… Our Designers and Guest Designers also prepared a little surprise for our Birthday Girl. They created a special card just for her and wrote a post on their blogs:

Kim
Jane
Elena

Thank you Girls! I know that Jana will love it! I thought you may also would like to visit Jana's blog and leave her some birthday wishes. :)

So, Happy Birthday Jana! May this day always be a special one to remember.

Hugs,
Elena and La-La Land DT

Challenge #2 BROWN/PINK/YELLOW

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WOW what a Great success for our 1st challenge there was over 85 Entries and all of them Gorgeous, A big Thankyou to everyone that entered.,We will announce the Winners in the next couple of days and boy is it going to be hard to choose the TOP 3.
It,s my Turn to choose this fortnights challenge and i have choosen a Colour Combo BROWN/PINK/and YELLOW i do hope you will all join us again for this challenge. We are looking forward to seeing all the fab creations.
The Sponsor for this fortnight is BUGABOO STAMPS the lovely JODIE is giving the lucky winner 7 digi,s of their choice how fab is that.The winner will be picked by Random Org.