Inspirational Friday - Hey Girlfriend !

Hi everyone !  It's Jo Nevill here and I am the host of this week's Inspiration Friday !

We hope that you all enjoyed the launch of our New Release Images and have been able to get your hands on a few of them !  Have you also seen that La La Land Crafts have now also released their own FABULOUS NEW DIES ? !  Wow, you really need to check these out because they are super fantastic !!  Here is a LINK to them !

This week the inspiration for you is 

HEY GIRLFRIEND !

The DT girls have used images from La La Land's Girlfriends Collection 

TARA using ALLY

 

 Copic Markers : 

Skin: E000,00, 21, 11 R20 

Top: Y21, Y23, E53 

Skirt: W00, 00, 01, 03 

Hair: E40, 42, 43, 44, 49 

Shoes and Jewellery : R32, R37



SANDIE using ALLY

 

Copic markers

Skin - E00,11, R20
Hair - E23, 25, 27
Clothes/Shoes - BG11, 13, 15
Jewellery - Y21, 26, 28

KAREN using JESALYN

 

Colour: Copic's: 

Skin: E0000, E00, E11, R20, R22, E71
Hair: E99, E29, E97, E11
Clothes: E71, E74, E77, E79
Atyou Spica pen in Sand on the Earrings and Bracelet

CHRISTINE using  SHOPPING ALLY

 

Distress inks: Vintage photo, tea dye, antique linen, worn lipstick, spiced marigold, tumbled glass, black soot, shabby shutters, broken china, faded jeans, weathered wood, mustard seed, barn door, walnut stain

SUZANNE using JESALYN

 

Copic Markers:

Skin: E000, E00, E11, R01, R02, R05, R14
Hair: E31, E33, E35, E37
Clothing: R05, R14, R17, R27, R29

ARLENE using JESALYN and EIFFEL TOWER DIE

 

 Copic Markers:

Skin: E000, E00, E21, E11, R20
Hair: E31, E33, E35
Dress/Shoes: E02, E08, E09
Jewelry: Garnet At You Spica Glitter Pen

JO using SHOPPING ALLY

 

Copics used :

 Skin : E000, E00, E13, E11, BG15, R20, R21 and R29
Hair : E27, E25 and E23
Top, Bag and Shoes : E04
Jeans : B97, B95 and B93
Shopping Bags : E33, E31, T6 and T4

We hope you have enjoyed seeing the cards the girls have made for this challenge.  We love to see your La La Land Crafts creations so just link them up to the CUSTOMER GALLERY and be in with a chance of winning a prize !

Have lots of crafty fun !

Jo x

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Customer Gallery WINNERS {February, March and April 2012}

We really enjoy seeing what our customers make with our stamps!!  You are all so talented and are doing such a great job bringing our images to live!!   Thank you so much for taking time to share your makes with us in our Customer Gallery.  

We would like to announce the winners from the last THREE months!

February - Evie with her card with Dress Up Marci!  

March - Dana with her card with Fisherman Luka!

April - Vannessa with her card with Kitty Kat Marci!

Congratulations Ladies!!  Please email us at info@lalalandcrafts.com with your choice of a rubber stamp from our STORE and your mailing address!!

Our MAY Customer Gallery is now OPEN!!  Click on the tab above or click HERE to upload your makes with our stamps.  Remember, you can upload multiple times during a month, we only ask you that your creations are new :-)

Hugs!!

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Challenge *83* Punches and Die Cuts

Good Morning everyone its Gina here with you today i hope you are all well and looking forward to our next challenge which i have set the theme for of Punches and Die Cuts so a nice easy one for you all.

Our Sponsor this week is Sweetpea stamps

The Prize is a $20 Gift Card

KARINA

using Diamond

TRACY

Using Pansy Sisters & Memory Box Butterfly Die

TRISH

Useing Janna Prosvirina ,s Night Blossom Available HERE

VICKY xx

Using 'Petal Melody' by Lemon Shortbread, Crochet Border Die, WOJ Pennants die & Lacy Oval die, Flower Ribbon & White Gesso.

GINA

Used Zindy Neilsen Believe Available HERE

Amy 

Using Cordelia and glossy blue flat backed oval pearls

Well that's it from all of us here at Crafts and Me please use the InLinkz to add your link.

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Inspirational Monday - Hey Girlfriend....

Hi fellow crafters, It's Debra James here and I'm the host of this weeks Inspirational Monday.

What an amazing last few weeks we have had...

First we had all the wonderful NEW RELEASE IMAGES, aren't they just gorgeous and if that was not enough to get your creative juices flowing then La La Land Crafts released their very own

FABULOUS NEW DIES,

OMG... have you checked them out yet.....Here is a quick link for you to take a look, but remember to come on back so I can share all DT girls stunning card creations....

This week the inspiration for you is

******HEY GIRLFRIEND!*****

The DT girls have used images from the La-La Land Crafts Girlfriends Collection.

SARA using JESALYN

Copics...
Skin: E00, E11, E02
Hair: E50, E51, E53, Y21
Dress: C1, C3, C5, C7, black

KIM using ALLY

Prismacolor...

- seashell pink, peach, pink, burnt ochre,

dark brown, black, red, tyscan red.
Koh-I-Noor - gold

CINDY using MUSIC JESALYN

Copics..

Skin: E00, E11, R20
Hair: E51, Y23
Pinks: R30, R81
G00, BG11

TRACY using JESALYN

Copics...
Dress: V20, V22, V25, V28
Skin: E000, E00, E11, V20
Jewelry: C00, C3, C5
Lips: R02, R05
Hair: E21, E23, E25, E29

ROSIE using SHOPPING ALLY, EIFFEL TOWER DIE & FILIGREE CORNER DIE
Copics & Chalk...
Skin: E000, E01, E11, chalk for cheeks
Eyes: YG41, G00
Eyeshadow: E13, stickles
Lips: R85, R81
Hair: E49, E29, E25, E13
Shirt: RV21, R83, R85, YG41, YG45, G00, Stickles
Belt: Black 100, Stickles
Pants: G00, YG41, N2, N4
Shoes: Black 100, C7, C5
Clutch: R81, R83, R85, Stickles
Shopping Bags: E53, E55, Black Sharpie, R85, R83, R81, Inkssentials White Pen

DEBRA using JESALYN

Copics...
Skin: E00, E51, E53, R22.

Hair: E40, E42, E44.

Dress/Shoes: C0, C1, C3, BG000.

Spica Pens: Baby Blue, Turquoise.

JING using JESALYN & HEART CHAIR

Copics and Faber-Castell Pencils...

Hair: E25, E34, E53, E50

Face/Arms/Legs: E000, E00, E11,BV00

Eyes: BG0000, BG72

Dress: RV000, RV00, RV63, RV66, RV69, W3, V000, V06, Atyou Spica #04 Orange, #00 Clear, Faber-Castell Pencils

Lips: Atyou Spica #21 Lipstick

Shoes: RV000, Atyou Spica #14 Blossom

Heart Chair: E00, E25, E29, Turquoise Flocking Powder

KAREN using SHOPPING ALLY
Copics...
Skin: E000, E01, E02
Hair: E15, E17, E29
Blouse/Purse: V000, V04, V12
Pants/Belt: B91, B93, B95, E49
Shoes: E81
Chair: E81, E84

Hope you’ve enjoyed the cards from the girls for this challenge! We love to see your La-La Land Crafts makes so just link them up to the Customer Gallery and be in with a chance to win a prize.

Happy crafting, DEBRA. xxx

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Free Pattern: Swirl Flower

Using a similar technique as the no-sew rose, this flower is a clean spiral, great for making a few into a headband or decorating a hat.

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Inspiration Friday ~ {All Wired Up}

Happy Friday! This is Jeanette and I am here with our Design Team’s creations for this week’s Inspiration Friday:

All Wired Up
This week please use some wire or chain on your creation.

Here are the gorgeous creations from our Friday Team starting with our fabulous Guest Designer - 

Christine Dark  used Mermaid Marci:

Distress Ink Markers: Antique linen, tea dye, vintage photo, walnut stain, barn door, tattered rose, tumbled glass, broken china, faded jeans, black soot
Caran d'Ache watercolour crayons: black, golden cadmium yellow

Arlene Cuevas used Kimono Marci:

Copic Markers:
Skin: E000, E00, E21, E11, R14, R20, BV00
Hair: C3, C5, C7, C9
Hair bands: R27, "Lipstick" At You Spica glitter pen
Umbrella: E55, E29, R27, 110 Special black
Trim on Kimono: "Lipstick" At You Spica glitter pen
Slippers: R14, R27, "Lipstick" At You Spica glitter pen

Jeanette used Marci with Lantern

Copic Colors:
Skin: E000, E51, E21, R11, R12
Hair: E30, E71, E74, E77, E79
Clothes: YR02, YR04, YR09
Lanterns: Y11, Y21, Y24
Twinkling H20 Poppy Red

Jo Nevill used Dress Up Marci:

Skin : E000, E00, E13, E11, R20 and R21, R29
Hair : E25, E23, E31
Dress, Hat and Shoes : BG15, BG13, BG11, BG10, R85, R83, R81, Y21

Lou Mac used Sitting Luka:

Skin - Blush, Sunkissed Pink, Coral, Cinnamon
Greens - Grass, Emerald, Lush Green, Pink
Blues - Turquoise, Marine, Petrol Blue, Midnight Blue
Greys - Cool Grey 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Trousers - Mustard, Soft Khaki, Warm Grey 4

Hope you’ve enjoyed our makes for this challenge! We love to see your La-La Land Crafts makes so just link them up to the Customer Gallery and be in with a chance to win a prize.

Hugs Jeanette xxo

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Tutorial Thursdsay {LLLC Dies - Cuttlebug Tutorial}

Yesterday we announced an NEW addition to our range of products - STEEL DIES!! Today we would like to share a Product Introduction video that included a Cuttlebug TUTORIAL!

If you already purchased our dies or have them on your Wish List, please make sure to watch this video to learn how to use our dies properly :-)

Enjoy!

 

Hugs!!

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EXCITING NEWS!!

 

We have some very EXCITING NEWS to share with your today!  

La-La Land Crafts just expanded into EXCLUSIVE steel dies in addition to rubber and digi stamps!  YAY!!!

I can't tell you how happy we are to offer you these high quality dies that we designed to be used with our stamps!  Our dies are very detailed and will be a gorgeous addition to all your paper crafting projects.

Here are all of the DIES that we've releasing TODAY!

Eiffel Tower Die

Dress Form Die

Street Lamp Die

Palm Tree Die

Butterflies Die Set of 2

Cloud, Sun and Island Die Set

Wave Border Die

Filigree Corner Die

These dies are now available in our online store!
Click HERE to shop!

I designed a recessed window Frame card to showcase some of our NEW DIES!  On my card I used our PALM TREE Die, ISLAND Die (one of the dies from the Set) and a WAVE BORDER Die (inside of the card, see photos below).   Plus this card features two NEW stamps from our last release HULA Marci and UKULELE Luka.

This card measures 6" x 6".

 

 

We will be showing you more samples made with our DIES within the next days and weeks.  Stay tuned!

Hugs!!

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April Release Winners

We received a GREAT response to our April Release!  Thank you SO MUCH to everyone for loving our new images as much as we do!!!

As promised, we have a few PRIZES to give away.

Winner of THREE RUBBER STAMPS from Inspiration Monday New Release Blog Hop -

Leah Ann Gast. 

Winner of THREE RUBBER STAMPS from Inspiration Friday New Release Blog Hop -

Tasha. 

Winner of the REFUND from the purchases made in our online store -

Toni Sanchez. 

CONGRATULATIONS Ladies!!!  Please email us at info@lalalandcrafts.com to claim your prizes :-)

Hugs!!

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