Free Pattern: Camera Lens Cozy

While I was on vacation this week, I made a lens cozy for my dad's zoom lens.  A camera lens cozy or sleeve can protect your lens from scratches or bumps without having to buy a padded camera bag.  The cozy should be snug, so this pattern will easily adjust for whatever size lens you have.  This lens cozy is for a Nikon.

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Birthday Celebration continues with a SALE!!

 Our Birthday Celebration continues with a SALE!!

Today and tomorrow ONLY receive a 10% OFF on any purchase of over $35 in our online store.  To receive a discount please enter promotion code FIRSTBDAY upon your checkout.

PLUS all orders placed on August 5th and 6th will be entered into a DRAWING for a $10 GIFT CERTIFICATE!!

Click HERE to go shopping!

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La-La Land Inspiration Friday ~ Tearing

Happy Friday! This is Jeanette and it is my turn to welcome you to La-Land Land Crafts Inspiration Friday.

Before I start with our Inspiration post, I would like to remind you about some activities that are happening on our Blog right now!!

To celebrate Marci's and Luka's First Birthday we have a CARD CONTEST right here on our Blog!!  The winner will get to take home a set of 36 Copic Markers!!  WOW!!  This is something that you can't afford to miss!!   For details please scroll down to the post below or click HERE.

We also have a FACEBOOK Contest for a chance to WIN TWO RUBBER STAMPS of your choice!! To enter you just need to ask your friends to join our Facebook Fan page and tell us in their comment that you sent them.  The person with the most referrals wins!!  Just like that!!  EASY!!  For more details please click HERE.

Every Monday and Friday La-La Land Crafts new Design Team will be bringing you a new inspirational theme. 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.

This week it was my turn to choose the challenge I chose “Tearing”. Pretty easy and such a fast way to add interest to your project.

Here is the wonderful inspiration from the DT:

Jeanette (that’s me) has used Mermaid Marci:

Copic Colors:

Skin: E000, E00, E01, R20

Hair: E50, YR31, E31, E33

Top & Tail: RV000, RV63, RV66, YG00

Star: Y00, Y21, YG00

Sandie has used the sweet Faerie Marci:

Copic Markers:

Skin: E00, E01, E11, R20

Hair - E71, E74, E77.

Dress: BV00, BV11, BV13

Tights/Wings: RV02, RV10, RV21.

Cindy used Marci with Flower Pot:

Copic Markers:

Skin: E00, E11, R20

Top: RV21, RV23

Pants: G00, BG32

Hair Y11, Y21

our wonderful new guest Beate has used Mermaid Marci:

Copic Markers

Hair: E08, E09, E19

Skin: E000, E01, E11

Lips: R21, R22

Tail: G12, G14

Vest: Y13, Y15, Y17, YR12, YR15, YR18

Sky: Airbrushed B12

Waves: Airbrushed G00

Hope you enjoyed our fun challenge. We hope to see your cards in the customer gallery. Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs Jeanette xxohttp://www.facebook.com/pages/La-La-Land-Crafts/124543968704

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a CONTEST with a SWEET PRIZE {36 COPIC SKETCH MARKERS}

Voting is now CLOSED!! Thank you so MUCH to everyone who participated in the Card Contest and to those of you who voted!! Click HERE to see who WON!!  :-)

Just because we can...  Just to be a tease...  We are showing you the PRIZE first!!  

And what a prize it is!!  A FULL 36 SET of SKETCH COPIC MARKERS!!

How can you get it??  We decided that it would be so very appropriate to have a CONTEST for you as one of the way to celebrate Marci's and Luka's First Birthday!!

What's the Contest? 

Create a Birthday themed card or project with our stamps. 

We have so many stamps to choose from, it should be so easy for you!!  

We will give you until the end of the month to post your cards right here on our blog using the link on the bottom of this post.  

You can make as many cards as you and post them here as many times as you want during the month of August to increase your chances of winning!!  And with a prize like that you will probably want to enter a few times ;-)

And the best of all, we will let you, our fans decide which project deserves to win!!   We added this super cool feature to allow you vote on the entries.  FUN!!  You will need to "like" the ones you think are the best and the project with the most "likes" will WIN!!  So, if you enter, you might want to ask your friends and family to come here to our blog to vote for you.. just saying...
IMPORTANT UPDATE!!  We have now removed the voting option as we found out that it didn't work correctly.  Therefore, the vote count on the previous entries will not be taken in the consideration.  We are sorry for the inconvenience.  You can now leave comments to vote for your favorite project.  One vote per project please.    


Contest ends on August 31st, but you can vote on your favorite entry until September 5th!!  On September 5th we will count the likes and announce the winner.  Oh, I mean the lucky owner of the new Copic Markers ;-)  

Let the best card win!!

Voting is now CLOSED!! Thank you so MUCH to everyone who participated in the Card Contest and to those of you who voted!! Click HERE to see who WON!!  :-)

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Challenge 46 - Anything Goes

Good morning peeps how are you all? Vicky here today to bring you a new challenge as this week its the Rockin' Rubbah Girlz to bring you your new challenge. Thank you to everyone who entered last weeks challenge for the digi girls they sure love hopping along your blogs.

This week we are losing our lovely Sylvia as she is stepping down from our DT, we will miss you sweetie mmwah.

Now onto this weeks challenge & its one you all love.................

ANYTHING GOES

See what did I tell ya........easy peasy so no excuses this week as anyone & EVERYONE can join in with us.

The fabberlicious prize on offer this week is from our fab sponsor.......

SWEETPEA STAMPS

The prize is a $25 Gift card

Now lets see some stunning inspiration from our yummy DT girlz........

TRACY

Using the NEW Prerelease Ariel by Sara Burrier available from Crafts and Me Soon

TRISH
Using VIVID WINGS Jasmine Becket-Griffiths available HERE and Coloured satin Flower Ribbon HERE

AMY
Using the new Jasmine Becket-Griffith "Bat wings" stamp available HERE



ANGELA
Using Molly Harrison's "Creekside Magic"

Gina

Used going Out available HERE

VICKY xx

Using 'Sweet Selina' by Hannah Lynn available from Crafts & Me here.

Big hugs from the DT gang xoxox

August Wikio Rankings...

It's that time of the month again....rankings...

We are at number 9 in the Top 20 peeps so from everyone here at Crafts & Me we would like to say a HUGE thank you for coming along & supporting us, we couldnt do without you.

MMWAH

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Happy Happy Birthday Marci and Luka!!!

Can you believe it has been a year since we introduced our oh so popular line of Marci and Luka stamps??!!  

Yes, that's right!!  

Our Marci and Luka have just turned ONE!!   


This occasion calls for a very SPECIAL CELEBRATION!!  And we will celebrate the whole month of August with different activities and prizes!!  

To start, we have for you a FACEBOOK CONTEST!!  

What to do?  If you are not yet one of our Facebook Fans, you will need to join our Facebook page.  Then refer your friends to do the same.  Make sure that your friends leave us a comment on Facebook telling us who send them.  Something like "Michelle R. sent me" :-)  EASY!!

The person with the MOST REFERRALS wins!!

What's the PRIZE?  TWO FREE STAMPS of your choice!!

This contest will run for one week.  We will announce a winner on our Blog and Facebook page on Tuesday, August 10th!!

Click HERE to go to our page on Facebook.

P. S.  the easiest way to share on Facebook is to use SHARE link located on the very bottom of the left side of the page.  you will just need to type in your personal comment to let your friends know what to do :-)

Let festivities begin!!

Hugs!!

:) Irina

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CHA Blog Candy WINNER

WOW!!  We got so many comments on our CHA Blog Candy!!  Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who took the time to comment on our NEW Release and to leave us some love!!  Much appreciated!!

We picked a random winning number and the winner is..

#206

Congratulation Kellan!!  Please contact us with your information to claim your prize.

Hugs!!

Irina

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Inspiration Monday {Tearing}

It is a new week and a new Inspiration at La-La Land Crafts. This week the inspiration is all about including:

Tearing

Into your design.

So to kick off we have Trisha McMullen with Sir Luka.

Copics used:

Skin: E000, E00, E21, E11, R20

Hair: E49, E39

Armour, shield, sword: C1, C3, C5, R14, R17, R27

Rosie Bridges uses Buccaneer Marci.

Skin: E000, chalk

Lips: R29

Hair: E29, E25, E33

Black Areas: BV23, black chalk

Gold Areas: YR23, Gold UHU Glitter Glue

Skirt: R29, R24

Bag: E55, E25

Scope: BV23, C3, Liquid Glass

Rebecca Fabozzi with Genie Marci.

copics used

Skin - E21, E00, E000, E0000, R21, R30

Hair - E57, E55, E53

Outfit - Y38, Y35, Y32, C5, C3, C1, C000, R02

Lamp - Y28

Karen Maldonado uses Sir Luka

Copics -

Hair: Y21, E13

Skin: E000, E01

Outfit & Sword: W1, W3, W5, Y28

Shield: Y28, YR30

Kim Dellow uses Mermaid Marci

Pencils: Prismacolor Pencil: Skin - Pink; Peach; Seashell Pink

Hair and Tail - Muted Turquoise

Koh-I-Noor: Hair and tail - 6

Clothes and Jewellery - 1; 13; 4; 19

Don't forget if you fancy playing you can link up your makes in the Customer Gallery for a chance of a prize! Also don;t forget to pop by on Friday to see the rest of the DT's lovely work.

Have a good Monday.

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Free Pattern: Size 3 Thread Washcloth Close Scallop Stitch Small

This is my favorite washcloth.  It fits right over my hand, stretches, scrubs up tough junk, and dries pretty fast.  The larger size, better for big spills, is found here.  This stitch pattern is from The Crochet Bible.

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Inspiration Friday - Center Step Card

Hi everyone Cindy here, I want to welcome you to La-la Land’s Inspiration Friday. Every Monday and Friday La-La Land Crafts new Design Team will be bringing you a new inspirational theme. 

This week we are doing a Center Step Card!! You can find directions here from my FABULOUS Friend Frances!!! 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.

Here are some FABULOUS samples from our so very TALENTED Design Team!!~

Jeanette: Princess Marci

Copic Colors Used:

Skin: E000, E00, E01, R20, R85

Hair: E50, YR31, E31, E33

Clothes: R000, R81, R83, R85, C1, C3

Cindy- Princess Marci

Copic’s used:

Skin: E00, E11, E50, R20

Hair: Y21, Y23

Sandie- Skeleton Luka

Copic Markers -

Skin E00, 01, 11. R20

Greys - C1, 3, 5, 8

Greens - G20, 21, 24

Oranges - YR02, 14, 18

Hope you have been inspired today with our Center Step Cards and newly released images!!

HAPPY Week-end Hugs Cindy XXOO

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