May 2011 | Crafts

On the Road AGAIN!!

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We are going back to So Cal!! This time is to to teach classes!!

If you live close or even not that close to Scrapbooking Made Simple store in Santa Clarita, you can join me there on Saturday and Sunday, June 11th and 12th for FOUR classes. We were there just a few months ago for a Trunk Show and had made tons of new friends!! The store and the staff including the owner, are absolutely awesome!! If you are in the area, this is the place to shop for anything and everything paper crafts!! Seriously, they have the largest selection of so many different product lines including our Marci and Luka of course!!

Scrapbooking Made Simple

18909 Soledad Canyon Rd #E
Canyon Country, California 91351

(661) 298-1112

Oh, and they are on Facebook too!! Click HERE to go to their page.

All four of my classes are project based and we will cover coloring with Copics in each class as well!!

Class 1

Dress Up Marci Book Box

Saturday, June 11th

10 am to 1 pm

Class 2

Cutie Pie Painter's Trey

Saturday, June 11th

2 pm to 5 pm

*just a little note about this photo of the trey.. some of the embellishments were moved and do not appear in the right places.. just envision that the stack of cups and the sentiment are on the left side of the trey and are not in front of Chef Marci and there is one embellishment missing on the lower right corner..

Class 3

Jesalyn Twisted Easel Matchbook Box

Sunday, June 12th

10 am to 1 pm

Class 4

Ballerina Marci Altered Canvas

Sunday, June 12th

2 pm to 5 pm

You can stop by the store to see the samples of these projects. Believe me, they look even more AWESOME in real life ;-)

Please call Scrapbooking Made Simple store at (661)298-1112 to sign up for any or all of the classes.

Hope to see you there!!

Hugs!!

:) Irina

Inspiration Monday {Summer Time Fun}

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Hi! This is Ching here today and I want to welcome you to the first of our Inspiration Mondays.

La-La Land Crafts new Design Team will be bringing you new inspirations twice a week on a weekly basis, so be sure to tune in every Monday and Friday.

You are more than welcome to play along as we would love to see your creations with La-La Land Craft stamps. Please link your projects to our Customer Gallery.

For this week, we are creating summer time fun for Marci and Luka.

I love what Kim did here with Prismacolor pencils and Koh-I-Noor pencils when coloring in her Marci with Flower Pot.

Pops created such a fun beach scene with BOTH Beach Marci and Summer Luka on this easel card.

Isn't her easel card adorable?

Copics Used:
Skin:E00, E11, E02
Hair:E30,E31,E57,E59,E35
Pinks:RV00,RV10,RV02
Red:R14,R17,E07
Green:YG03,YGO5,YG06
Blue: BOOO,BOO,BOO
Turtle:g12,YG63
Lips:R2O
Cheeks:Chalk

Trisha made this delightfully sweet Beach Marci in pinks.

Copic Colors Used for Beach Marci:

Rosemary hit it out of the ballpark with this realistic beach scene complete with sand on sweet Beach Marci's toes in this Side Step Card! Tee Hee!! How cute is that? She is also paired Beach Marci with Summer Luka!

Copics Used

Beach Marci:
Skin: E000 & chalk
Hair: E37, E25, E51
Hat & Swimsuit: R81 & chalk/ Y21 & chalk/ stickles
Inner tube: BV00 & chalk/ Y21/ Liquid Glass

Summer Luka:
Skin: E000 & chalk
Orange areas: YR02, YR04
Blue: B00, B02, BG10
Inner tube: G14, Prismacolor Grass Green, Y21 & chalk/ Liquid Glass

Karen whipped up this sweet, soft summer rendition of Beach Marci.

Copics Used:
Skin - E000, E00, E01
Hair - E23, E25
Float - RV02, Y08, Y11, YR07
Swimsuit - YG23, YG03, BG53
Splashes of Water - BG01, BG10, BG15

Thank you so much for stopping by and have enjoyed the inspiration!

My Time... Gone Fishin'

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Happy Sunday everyone! Hope you all have been enjoying this long Memorial Day weekend. I am up to my ears in crafting and apologize for getting my post up late. So let's get to it.
When Irina and Eric debuted the new Summer Collection to the design team I was so excited. So many cute images in so short a time. When the new DT debuted each of the new images I was so inspired and awestruck with their creativity in bringing the new Lukas and Marcis to life.

So for my card today I chose Fisherman Luka. I think he is so adorable with his fisherman hat and fishing pole. He's on vacation on his own tropical island and can't wait to get down to the ocean to fish for his dinner. The background is a digi stamp from Make it Crafty and I thought it would be a perfect backdrop for Luka.

I kept the rest of the card pretty simple. I really enjoyed working with him. You now have a chance to purchase Fisherman Luka or any of the other Summertime Collection at the NEW La-La Land Store. And if you hurry over you can take advantage of the Memorial Day sale going on. Click HERE for more details on how you can receive a 10% discount on all orders over $50. Don't forget to upload your creation to the Customer Gallery.

Alrighty my friends, it's been such a blast creating and sharing my cards every Sunday. Looking forward to the new Design Team, and all the changes that will be taking place. I hope you keep coming back and getting inspired. You never know when inspiration will strike!

Mahalo Irina and Eric for the wonderful opportunity to create with your wonderful images. You both have a wonderful line and I am so happy to have been a part of it. Looking forward to what happens next for you and your collections. Mahalo to everyone on the DT for your support and inspiration. And to the new DT, Congratulations ladies, I know you will rock and inspire us with your creativity. I'm looking forward to it.

And to you lovely La-La Land friends, MAHALO for your lovely comments and for helping bring these cute images to life with your creations.

Hugs,
Leanne

Card Recipe:
Stamps: Fisherman Luka Digi (La-La Land Crafts); Beach background digi (Make it Crafty)
Cardstock: White & Dark Brown (Neenah); Kraft cs (Recollections); Blue cs (DCWV Linen Closet)
Punch: Small clouds (Fiskars)
Twine
Copics:
Luka:
Skin: E50,51,95 / Hair: E43, 44, 49/ Hat & Shoes: B97, 95, 93, 91 & E31,33/Top: YR20, 21, 23 & E31, 33 /Shorts/Sox: E43, 4 & YR20/ Fishing pole: E25, 53, R37 & white & sparkle gel pen (Sakura) / Pail: C1, 4 & B91
Background:
Hut & Chair: E21, 25 & G94, 99 / Sand: E31, 33 / Sky: BG0000, BG000 / Tree: E44, 47 G94, 99 / Fence: E44, 47 / Water: BG000, B91

Free Pattern: Plarn Wet Swimsuit Pouch

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Wet swimsuits are annoying, especially when you have to stick them back in a bag full of other things, like dry diapers and snacks. This plarn pouch keeps the wet suits from soaking the other things in the bag, but it breathes, so that the suits won't get stinky quite so fast if you forget to take them out!
This is the first plarn project I've finished. Plarn is pretty tough to work with, so make sure you give your wrists plenty of breaks!

See pattern »

Everything grows better with love...

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Nothing could be more true, right!? Everything DOES grow better with love.

It's been so exciting getting to see each of the new La-La Land Crafts Summer 2011 Collection creations! With each new introduction, my smile got bigger! I thought for my first day out with the summer crew that I would work with Marci with Flower. Here she is!

I used my trusty Copic markers to color Marci in:
Hair: E40, E42
Skin: E51, E53 (cheeks R20 )
Shirt: R81, R83, R85
Denim Capris: B93, B95, B97
Flower pot: E04, E07, E09
Outer Shading: C1, C3
I also used Copic Atyou Spica glitter pens on he hair ties, flower, and garden tool.

The paper used for the scalloped oval and first light blue layer is from DCWV Garden Party. The white card stock is my go-to Neenah white. The very slightly visible second rectangle layer is from the DCWV Citrus stack and the actual card is also Neenah. Both ovals are from Spellbinders and I'm sorry, I can't say where I got all the flowers because I have a wonderful HUGE bin of assorted flowers that I get to dig into.

So, there you have it! I hope she makes you smile...because really...that is truly the purpose for me to make anything and everything...smiles.

Aloha always,
Renate'

Friends are flowers that never fade . . .

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Today is bittersweet . . . this will be my farewell and last post I, 1LuvnMama, will do as a DT member for La-La Land Crafts. It is with a sad heart that I have decided to bid farewell to Irina, the girls, and of course, Marci and Luka. My time is stretched thin and my "babies" need me.

When Irina asked me to join her team about a year and a half ago as a Guest Designer, I was so humbled and honored. Then I joined the ranks as a DT member along side some very talented and creative ladies whom I've come to admire. I will miss everyone! Thank you Irina for allowing me the opportunity to create for you! To the girls ~ May you inspire! And to everyone who comes by to visit ~ Thank you for your support and encouraging words!

On to my card. Since this is my last DT card, I found it fitting to use Marci with Flower, which is one of the new images being released this summer! The sentiment says it all for me . . . Friends are flowers that never fade. This is my tribute -- I've made wonderful friendships through La-La Land Crafts and I know I will continue those friendships!

Be sure to check out the new Design Team members! They are fabulous and will bring Marci and Luka life! :) Thanks for coming here for a visit! Have a great Memorial Day weekend everyone!

Memorial Day SALE!!

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We decided to add something SWEET to your long Memorial Day weekend :-)

SALE, SALE, SALE!!!!

From now until Monday, May 30th when you enter a discount code MEMORIALDAY during your checkout, you can receive a 10% discount on all of the orders over $50.00!! Digis INCLUDED!!

Click HERE to go shopping!!

Farewell Kim

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Hello! Kim here. Hope everyone is having a super sugary Friday and looking forward to the long weekend! Any plans? BBQ perhaps? :) My SIL is having a housewarming party so that's where I will be at. hehe

Today I have this cute Sugar n' Spice Marci card to share. I colored Marci with Copic and use this sweet cupcake paper from my Basic Grey nook and pantry paper pad. Perfect paper to go with Marci, don't you think? :) I used a couple of my handmade crochet flowers. I sure have been adding quite a lot of these flowers on my cards lately. LOL

Card Details:
STAMPS: LLLC, Sugar n' Spice Marci, Papetrey Ink;
PAPERS: Basic Grey Nook and Pantry;
EMBELLISHMENTS: pearl, crochet flowers;
TOOLS: corner punch, border punch, word window punch;
COPIC COLORS: E11, E21, E00, E000, R20, R85,R83, R81, E59, E57, E55, RV00, G94, G24, YG03, E47, E44, E42, o, C3,C1,N0

Raise your hand if you are wondering about the title of this post. LOL I actually feel kind of awkward to say farewell to myself. LOL I have been with LLLC since the beginning, almost two years now. It has been such a wonderful experience working along side some of the most talented crafters, playing with all the adorable LLLC images and to see these images come to life! Totally awesome!

Anyway, I've decided to pass on the torch to Irina's new talented team! You all have seen their work and boy weren't their work amazing?? They have A LOT more in store for you!

There are some nice changes coming up at LLLC and I think you all will LOVE it! So stay tuned!

Thank you for stopping by! Happy Friday, everyone!

...and the WINNER is

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First of all we would like to thank all of you for celebrating our NEW Summer Release with us!! We loved reading your comments on all of our DT blogs as well as our La-La Land Crafts blog!!

We picked the random number from the comment entries and the WINNER of the Blog Hop is..

#27

Congratulations Shirley N!! You are the WINNER of ALL SIX stamps in our Summer Release!!

Shirley, please contact us to claim your prize :-)

All of these stamps are now available for purchase in our online store. Click HERE to go shopping :-)

Hugs!!

New Summertime Collection is HERE!

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La-La Land is gearing up for summer with NEW Design Team Members and some fun NEW stamps! We're hopping around today so you can see some amazing creations by the new team featuring these fabulous new stamps, and we hope you'll join along.You'll 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 our Summertime Collection.

The BEST part, you can already BUY them!! In our NEW and IMPROVED Online Store!!

That's three new Marci stamps and three new Luka stamps!! Wanna see them?

Introducing Beach Marci

and Scout Luka

Your first stop on the hop today is the Fabulous Becca Fabozzi! Then keep on hopping along so you can see all the amazing creations the design team has in store for you!! Don't forget to coment along the way so you can WIN!! Good luck!

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/

1LuvnMama 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/

Click HERE to go SHOPPING!!

Gems and Pearls Challenge 36*

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Good morning folks its Gina here and I'm the host for your next challenge but we would like to thank you for all your entries in last weeks challenge now onto this weeks challenge we want to see your creations with pearls and gems, nice and easy lol.

Our Sponsor this week is STIX 2

And the fab

Prize

Contents=
3 X Rolls of Ribbon
1 x Shiny Transfer Foil Set
1 x Pack of 132 All Occasion Gift Discs
1 x Pack of 440 Double Sided Foam Pads
1 x Roll of Double Sided High Tack Ultra Clear Tape
1 x Roll of Stationary Tape- Clear
1 x Quick Stix Glue Stick
1 x Sticky Sheet
All kept in a re-useable zip bag.

Here's the Design team creations for you

AMY
Using making a wish stamp available HERE