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Happy Birthday to YOU, Happy Birthday to YOU…

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Cupcake Rosie is singing Happy Birthday dear Kristine!!! Today is La-la Land Design Team member Kristine Breach’s birthday! In honor of the Birthday Girl we decided to throw a little on-line party – Blog Hop! All of our Designers made a card for Kristine with Birthday Wishes. The hop starts at LLLC blog, and your next stop is Maureen’s blog.
Here’s a close up photo of Cupcake Rosie….

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I’m joining the Basic Grey Challenge blog with this card –  a sketch by Martine.

Cupcake Rosie is stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on Neenah classic crest supersmooth 80# card-stock and colored with copic sketch markers, (photo at the end of the post).  I used Basic Grey Sugar Rush pattern paper, Zva pearl flourish,  EK retro flower punches in med and small and punches from the Punch Bunch for the rest of the little floral bouquet.  I used clear glaze pen on the cherry…love that…I tried it on her eyes…ick,  don’t like that! lol

Thanks so much for joining us today on the Birthday Hop!

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ATS Weekly Wednesday Challenge…

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Scroll down a bit to get to today’s La-la Weekly Wednesday challenge post…thank you!

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The Challenge this week at All That Scraps Weekly Wednesday Challenge blogis to create a Tri-fold Shutter card.  There is just something about manipulating paper that draws me right in!  Love it! If you want to take a peek at my first tri-fold shutter card for one of our Grandson’s birthdays last Summer,  click here.  It’s CUTE!  Course I’m biased! lol

For my Tri-fold Shutter card with Miss Rosalie with Roses I added three pop-up/out hearts.  I haven’t seen this done anywhere and it worked out really fun…look closely and you can see them….cool.  I kept the embellishments at a minimum,  which is kinda my nature!  bah!  Quit laughing at me!  ok – there aren’t any!!!  lol  I’m counting the paper hearts…so there! lol  I love this heart punch from Stampin Up. There is a stamp set that matches the punch and I meant to get it out and stamp them before I punched,  but I forgot again! bummer…I guess I got ahead of myself! lol  The sentiment stamps are from Printworks…my all time favorite for sentiment stamps! Inked with Versafine Onyx black ink.

Sweet Miss Rosalie with Roses is stamped on Neenah Classic Crest supersmooth card-stock with Memento Tuxedo Black inkand colored with copic sketch markers (photo below).  I used my Nestabilitiesoval dies – three sizes…  Sugar Rush Basic Grey pattern paper…great stuff! I inked all the cut paper pieces with Antique Linen Distress inkand my Ink blending tool.  My scor-it board for the folds,  dug out my old Fiskars trimmer for the cuts.

Another picture, the card closed…

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A close up of Miss Rosalie…

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The copic markers I used…

I’m going to link this up to some challenges…it’s just fun! Look around,  meet more stampers,  shop….oops!  The truth comes out! lol

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La-la Land Weekly Wednesday Challenge #25…

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I always want to say,  “WOW,  It’s Wednesday again”!  It sure sneaks up on me fast! lol  I colored Princess Rosie for La-la Lands Weekly Wednesday challenge from Design Team member Lisa…no designer paper.  ok.  I can do that!   Rosie is stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on Neenah classic crest supersmooth 80# card-stock and colored with copic sketch markers, (photo at the end of the post).

Here she is up close…a real Princess for sure! so sweet!

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The inside…

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Visit the La-la Land Weekly Wednesday Challenge blog to see what the other Design Team members created.  I sure had fun…I love to stamp and use stamps…I’ll post a list of what I used.

  • Princess Rosie from La-la Land Crafts
  • Dreams from Printworks, F2857 (I divided the stamp again,  used my stamp a ma jig, I can’t stamp without it!) Inked and stamped with Versafine Onyx black ink.
  • Castle from Whipper Snapper, EY825
  • Flourish border from Sandylion, KSTP15 Borders 2, clear stamp set. Inked and stamped with Versafine Onyx black ink.
  • Magnolia grass and clouds background stamp, inked with distress inks, peeled paint and broken china.  I inked and stamped the grass first and then the clouds because I wanted more space between the earth and sky!  I filled in the grass with peeled paint and the ink blending tool.

So many fun challenge blogs out there!  I keep finding more,  so I’ll be linking this card to these challenges…

Thanks for stopping by….later this morning I’ll be posting for the All That Scraps Wednesday Challenge blog…so…see ya real soon!  We’re doing Tri-shutter cards today….fun!

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Tilda Blowing Hearts…

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I’m so hoping to get Valentines done this week to send to our Grandchildren…not sure it will happen but I want to! I stamped Tilda Blowing Hearts with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on Neenah Supersmooth Classic Crest 80# card-stock and colored her with Copic sketch markers. (I had her face colored nicely yesterday and then today, I thought I could improve on it and yukked it up! boohoo!  I guess it doesn’t really work to come back 18 hours later and start re-coloring. I get tired of education some-times,  don’t you?!!!  I used the Copic clear Spica glitter pen on her wings. I cut my Bazzill card-stock to 5.5 x 11 in. and scored it at the half mark with my scor-it board.
I stamped on Eclipse tape and then cut inside the lines to create a mask to cover her so I could stamp the Love Heart background over the top of her. I created flowers with the Nellie Snellen flower punch and embosser small size. The stamen is an old Family Treasures punch. Quickutz scroll dies from a Revolution 4×4 die. The red border is a new Martha Stewart scallop heart border punch and the older doily lace border punch on the bottom. I cut the Tilda image out with the Nestabilities label four set, the largest one. The black piece I traced around the die and hand-cut it…not hard at all…but I love to cut!
I’m entering this in some challenges…

Thanks for coming by! Happy Stamping!

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La-La’s Weekly Wednesday Challenge #24

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Time for La-la’s Weekly Wednesday Challenge! This week, design team member Kristine, challenged us to use hearts in our creations. I am using La-la with Heart. She is making me smile, even though this is the third time I am typing this up!!! I don’t usually have trouble but Safari just deleted everything I’d done when I went to schedule this! yikes! So, I will persevere because she is so cute! lol Here she is up close….

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I stamped La-la with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and colored her with Copic Sketch markers. Photo below showing what markers I used. She is cut out and mounted on My Minds Eye pattern paper.  This is my favorite Martha Stewart corner and border set punch so far this year! lol  A lot of year left and I’ve seen tons of new stuff coming from them!  I just love the lacey effect the double heart borders create! The three hearts are puff pillow stickers by K & Company. I stamped the sentiment, “Heart Warming Wishes” B3168 from Printworks with Versafine Black Onyx ink on the pattern paper. I aged the edges of all the “parts” with Antique Linen Distress ink and my Ink Blending tool.
Hope you have time to visit the challenge blog and the DT personal blogs to see their heart creations. Join us in using “hearts” this week.

I am entering my card in these challenges also…