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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

LLWWC #36 - Altered Embellishments

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:
  1. Create a NEW card/project for the challenge using the sketch shown above. You are more than welcome to combine challenges!
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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

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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Challenge #35 WINNERS



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!!

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

LLWWC #35 - Shabby Chic

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!!!


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:
  1. Create a NEW card/project for the challenge using the sketch shown above. You are more than welcome to combine challenges!
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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:

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



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. 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

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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

LLWWC 34 - Challenge winners!

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!





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!

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Happy Birthday Jana!

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

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

LLWWC34 - Time to get Scrappy!


Welcome to the La-La Weekly Wednesday Challenge!

Happy Wednesday! I'm Jane and I am your challenge hostess this week. First, a big THANK YOU to all you who played in last week's sketch challenge!!! We LOVE seeing your creations using La-La Land Crafts stamps and digi images!

We have a new challenge for you this week to go along with a NEW RELEASE! That's right, we have 7 new images for your wondering eyes to behold. Yesterday, you got a little peek (and hopefully played along with our fun game!) and now you get to see all these fun additions to La-La Land. First up, the winner of our $25 shopping spree in the La-La Land Crafts Boutique is Marilyn Scheller. Congratulations Marilyn!! We will email you the details on how to redeem your credit!

And now...here they are, our fabulous new stamps!

First up, introducing our first new digital character, Lucky!
And our sweet new little digi kitty, Sherman

Rosie is back in a new digi stamp sporting some adorable new wings, here is Fairy Rosie

Lala is back too, and she's taken up swimming with her lovely new tail, here is Mermaid Lala
And Princess Lala is ready to win the Prince (or realize she doesn't need one!)
And check out that beautiful bouquet Maya has, all ready to give to her mom, or a good friend!
And a sweet new Rosie is sitting Pretty.
These stamps are all available now in the La-La Land Crafts Boutique...so go check them out after you've looked over the wonderful challenge cards we have for you below!

This week, I want to see what you can make with the SCRAPS that you have lying around. If you are like me, you have folders and bins of scraps stored away just for the right card... or maybe you have some lying around on your craft table (like me). LOL! Scraps are everywhere in my craft room! So now is the time to get your collection out and put them to good use! Scraps of cardstock, designer paper, ribbons... whatever you have lying around.

You can see what our fabulous Design Team and Guest Designers came up with below using the images from the new release.

Since I used Lucky for my card, he 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:
  1. Create a NEW card/project for the challenge using the sketch shown above. You are more than welcome to combine challenges!

  2. 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.

  3. 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, please use BOTH keywords LLLC and LLWWC34.

  4. Create the link to this challenge (link back to us) in your blog or gallery post.

DESIGN TEAM CREATIONS

GUEST DESIGNER CREATIONS

Irina - Sherman

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!!
1. Gloria M
2. Kathy W.
3. Jenni
4. Carolyn
5. Denise Lynn
6. irit cohen
7. Itzuvit
8. Helen P
9. Brenda
10. Helen
11. Scrappy HP
12. SAZCreations

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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

April Release Peeks, and a CONTEST!!!

We have some new stamps coming to La-La Land tomorrow, and you are going to LOVE them! We have 2 new characters coming out in the digital stamp line along with an old favorite, and 4 new rubber stamps. Below we have some peeks of our new images from several of our designers and guest designers. Tomorrow we'll have the full cards, along with the images for you to view and BUY! We hope you'll like them as much as we do!

Now for some fun...included with each sneak peek below is a little unfinished rhyme. I have left spaces for the number of letters in each correct word, just email the 7 words to info@lalalandcrafts.com
and YOU could win a $25 credit to the La-La Land Crafts boutique to buy these gorgeous new stamps, or some amazing older ones - it's up to you! But don't delay, you have only until midnight Pacific time TONIGHT (Tuesday) to get your entry in, because we'll announce the winner tomorrow when we share the full images (and cards) for all these new stamps! Good luck!

A new La-La who enjoys exploring underwater caves
but here she is flitting through the salty sea _ _ _ _ _.

This cute little guy is feeling quite ducky
when he gets a bone he's also quite _ _ _ _ _

This sweet new Rosie might make you wary
but don't you worry, she's a good _ _ _ _ _.


A fun new Maya peeking in today
don't you just love her flower _ _ _ _ _ _ _?


This elegant new La-La I must confess
is heading to a ball for she's a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.


Another sweet Rosie and it's only fitting
for her to be resting, so here she is _ _ _ _ _ _ _.


Another new character with a smallish rat
please welcome to La-La Land Sherman the _ _ _
Now make sure to leave a comment here AND send your answers in to mailto:info@lalalandcrafts.com right away for your chance to WIN $25 to spend in the La-La Land Crafts Boutique!