Happy Holidays with Marci!!

Happy Tuesday!  I'm Karen and I am here to share Birthday Marci today!  This time Marci is ready to celebrate the holidays with her sweet little panda and present she has all wrapped up for that special someone!  Designer papers are from Basic Grey's "Jovial" collection!

We are coming close the the end of the month, but there's still time to submit your cards into the Customer Gallery for your chance at a prize!!

Enjoy your day!!

Hugs & Smiles,

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Christmas Tray

This was quite a project!!  It was almost like designing seven cards at once and they all had to go together :-)  But it's done now and I am pretty happy with it.. It was actually fun to do and I know that I will make this type of trays again for other occasions.

This tray measures 12" x 12" with each opening measuring 4" x 6".  Click on the photos to enlarge to see the details :-)

Did you notice that I made a window for Marcy?  I made it out of Grunge Board - painted with acrylic paints, distressed with Inks and embossed with wood grain embossing folder to give it some texture :-)

I used tons of different products and used a lot of different techniques for this project.  To name a few.. 

Project Recipe:

7 Gypsies Tray in White
Stamps: La-La Land Crafts - Fancy Marci, Panda and Tuffy (dog) - From Tuffy Set
Winter Scene stamp (in the window) by Stampendous

Papers: Cardstock - Couture, Patterned Paper - Cosmo Cricket

Tools: Tim Holtz - Grunge Board, Wood Embossing Folder, Swirls die, Flower Die, Christmas Tree die, Martha Stewart Border Punch punches and Snowflake punches, EK Success Flower Punches and Corner punches, Cricut tree

Embellishments: Stickles - Crystal and Golden Rod, Viva Pearl Pen - Cream and Gold, Mudd Puddles - Snow, Flower Soft in Polar White, Ribbon and Twine - May Arts

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, Distress Inks - Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain, Wild Honey, Old Paper, Crushed Olive and Peeled Paint

Copics Used:

Skin - E000, E00, E01

Hair- E50, E13, E35, E37

all Red- R21, R24, R27

all Green - YG03, YG63, YG67

Panda - E13, E35, E37

Please email me if you would like to join my Workshop and if you have ANY questions  :-)

Hugs!!

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Icy Santa Marci Sends Her Christmas Wishes!

Hello all, hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Where does the weekend go? It is Monday so I'm back and this week I have a little Icy Santa Marci for you today, she is very cute with her little Panda. 

Hope you like her, I've been a little free with the glitter, started putting it everywhere!

Hope you all have a stunning week. 

Kim

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Free Pattern: Kid-Sized Potholder

My #1 got a play kitchen for her birthday.  Her pan set came with a potholder, but she doesn't have the coordination to pinch the square of fabric around the pan.  I barely do!  So I thought she needed a potholder like mine, with a pocket for her hand.

I saved this from my project graveyard (the bag where I put things I've lost interest in or couldn't figure out.) It started out as a burp cloth, when my #2 was on the way.  When I didn't finish it before she was born, it got stashed.  I was looking for this yarn for the potholder, and I realized that what I had already crocheted of the burp cloth was the exact thing I needed.  The body of the pattern is, therefore, Christina Budd's copyrighted burp cloth pattern.

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Season's Greetings & Birthday wishes

SALE EXTENDED!!!

  We had such a great response to our "Friday BEFORE Black Friday SALE" that we decided to extend it throughout the weekend, until 11 PM PST on SUNDAY (today)!!!  If you didn't get the opportunity to shop our sale on Friday, here is your second chance!!!!  Details HERE..

Hi all! This is guest designer Alice. I have two cards to share with you today.

I used the super cute Ice Skating Marci for my first card. Isn't she a cutie? I added Flower Soft to her hat and gloves for some fun texture. The patterned paper is from Cosmo Cricket's Mitten Weather collection and the sentiment is from Waltzingmouse Stamps.

I used the beautiful Fancy Marci for my second card. She looks so elegant in her pretty dress! The patterned paper is from BasicGrey's Wisteria collection and the sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

That's all from me. Hope your Sunday is fabulous! =)

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Fancy Marci

SALE EXTENDED!!!

  We had such a great response to our "Friday BEFORE Black Friday SALE" that we decided to extend it throughout the weekend, until 11 PM PST on SUNDAY!!!  If you didn't get the opportunity to shop our sale on Friday, here is your second chance!!!!  Details HERE..

Hello everyone! Lisa stopping by today to share a little something I created featuring our newest Marci! Isn't she adorable, all dressed for a party? Fancy Marci is available for a short time in digi format until the rubber arrives, so if that's your preference, you'd better act quickly! And while you're there, you'll want to snag Formal Luka, too!

I paired Marci with patterned paper from the Dear Lizzy collection by American Crafts. I thought the dresses in the background paper were perfect for a party girl. :)

Have a la la lovely day!

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Fancy Marci Celebrates Christmas

Hi everyone - Debbie here. I hope you all managed to grab some gorgeous stamps for yourself in the LLLC sale yesterday - woohooo - who doesn't love a bargain?!?!?!  

SALE EXTENDED!!!  We had such a great response to our "Friday BEFORE Black Friday SALE" that we decided to extend it throughout the weekend, until 11 PM PST on SUNDAY!!!  If you didn't get the opportunity to shop our sale on Friday, here is your second chance!!!!  Details HERE..

Last week saw the release of 2 new images from La-La Land Crafts - this is one of them. This is Fancy Marci and she's all dressed up to celebrate Christmas here. She is such a dream to colour up and looks adorable in many different colour combos - I just love her cute little pose.

My DP is from Basic Grey and I cut the poinsettia flowers using a My Time Made Easy template and my craft robo. I downsized the template so didn't use all the layers.

Fancy Marci is available for a limited time only as a digi before she comes out in rubber - check her out HERE.

xXx

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SALE!! plus Birthday Chipboard Album

Happy Friday, everyone!

First of I want to remind you that today we are having a BIG SALE on all Marci and Luka, all stamp sets plus the cute panda!! Today and ONLY TODAY! They are all 20% off (excluding digis).  Scroll to the post below or click HERE for more details

As always, shipping is FREE on orders of $50 and over!!  What a GREAT deal combined with the SALE Discount!!

Don't let this great deal pass!!  Click HERE to go to our store, you might want to start your Christmas Shopping EARLY!!  ;-)

Have fun shopping! 

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Onto my post...

After checking out the Cinch at the Scrapbook Show last month, I was in the mood to make albums! LOL I didn't get the Cinch at the show but it did inspire me to create this album!

The album itself didn't take me long to finish but using a single hole puncher to punch these holes was a pain! Now that I've completed this album, I ordered myself a Cinch! LOL I guess I do things in reverse. LOL I haven't tried the Cinch yet but I am sure it's way better than a single hole puncher!

Anyway, I thought it would be a cool idea to have a little book of all my friends' birthdays. These books are handle. I keep books of everything. hehe

This book measures 5 x 8 1/2 inches. I used Marci and Luka images..plus the little adorable panda.

For the cover, I used Marci With Rose.

January: Sweet Dreams Marci

February: Winter Marci

March: Panda

April: Marci With Rose

May: Birthday Marci

June: Star Boy Luka

July: Super Cupcake Marci

August: Marci With Rose

September: Pirate Luka

October: Pumpkin Marci

November: Ice Skating Marci

December: Birthday Marci

So what do you think? Pretty cool, huh? I wasn't thinking so I repeated a couple of Marci's. I had really wanted to use a different image for each month.

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One day ONLY SALE!!!!

During this time of the year we are reminded that there is a lot to be thankful for.. Here at La-La Land Crafts we are most thankful for our loyal customers!! 

To show you our appreciation, for the FIRST TIME EVER (!!) we are having a SALE on our new Marci and Luka Collection!!  YES!!  You heard me right!!  You can get all of your favorite stamps in our new collection at a sale price!!  But keep in mind, this offer will be available ONE DAY ONLY, tomorrow - Friday, November 19th starting at 12 am PST.

We call this

Friday BEFORE Black Friday SALE!!

What's on SALE? 

- ALL Marci Stamps

- All Luka Stamps

- Panda stamp

- Super Hero Window Stamp Set

- Tuffy Stamp Set

* digis exluded 

How to get the SALE price?

- no coupons or special codes needed!! 

- your 20% OFF Discount will be automatically applied in the Shopping Cart!!

COME BACK and shop with us TOMORROW!!!  Click HERE to go to our store, you might want to start your Wish List early ;-)

Hugs!!

 

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Vintage scrapbooking can be fun!

Hey everyone, Jana here! Before I get to my project, I have some exciting news for you all - LaLa Land is having a HUGE sale TOMORROW, the Friday BEFORE Black Friday! So be sure to come back here to the blog, or straight to the LaLa Land Boutique midnight tonight (Pacific Standard Time!) to check it out!

I have to admit, I don't often scrapbook with paper anymore having switched over to digital scrapbooking recently, but when I sat down to work with the newest Marci and Luka images (only available digi right now, but rubber is coming SOON) all I could picture is this photo of my parents taken over 50 years ago when they were in high school and going to a formal dance. Of course, no one can FIND the photo now...but as soon as I do I'll be scanning it in to fit onto this page!

Since I know the photos is black and white, I wanted those to be the primary colors on the page. However, I also know that my mom's dress was blue, so I wanted to add a touch of blue. I thought marina mist would work well. I used some new SU! dsp for the base of the page, then I created my photo layer (the vanilla) with the 2 mats (black and marina mist) and I put those on top of the Marina Mist satin ribbon layered under the lace. I added the satin bow on top (along wtih a little extra narrow vanilla grosgrain) and then added the rhinestone accent as well.

For my stamped images, I printed them on vanilla cs and colored them with my W00, 01, 03, 05 and 07 markers. Then I added just a touch of blue (B93) to both Marci and Luka (see if you can spot his, it's pretty small!) I cut them both out and then created ovals for them using more dsp layered on some Marina Mist cs. Don't Marci and Luka look adorable all dressed up for their prom?

Now, don't forget to come back and check out the SALE tomorrow!! Have a  wonderful Thursday!

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