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Fun in the Sun…

OOPS! Sunburn!!! Lala has taken the heat advisory to heart here in Iowa today and is finding fun in the sun!  Not me,  mind you,  I’m staying in the house!!! lol  My fun is coloring in the A.C.!  You’ll find Beach Lala HERE along with both of these fun sentiments and two more all on the same piece of rubber!  I love getting a new package of rubber stamps in the mail to cut up! Yes,  of course in the A.C.!  I wilt in this kind of weather… fast! lol   Alright,  I’ll shut up about it!

Lala is standing on the Romantic Sunset Background from Magnolia Wedding Collection just released a month or so ago…I love their backgrounds with all the cute images I love to create with.  The swirl/wave looking bunch and the dotted wave punch are both EK Success border punches.  I used my stamp a ma jig to position the sentiment “life is a beach” along the bottom of the card.  I used coluzzle templates to cut out the circles.
Please join us for a fun-filled, week-long celebration for La-La Land's FIRST BIRTHDAY!!  Lots of games hops and PRIZES!

Lala is colored with Copic Sketch Markers

  • hair – E11, 13, 15, 17, 18, 19
  • skin – E000, 00, 01, 21
  • eyes – B21, 23, w1
  • lips – E02, 04
  • suit, pail, butterflies & ball – BG000, 01, 02, 05, Yg63 67, 41, 45, YR12, 14, 18
  • wood – E40’s
  • sand – E30, 31, 33
  • water – BG000, 01, 02, W0, 1
  • sun – YR31, E50

Oh the challenge of coloring hair! Her hair is dark but I like it….can’t make everyone blonde! lol  I do have one granddaughter with red hair and blue eyes…the other red heads have brownish eyes… oh the challenges of coloring! lol

I’m linking my card to the following challenges…

Lala Land Crafts Challenge – Upcycle

Moxie Fab World – Let’s do Fun & Cute

Color Throwdown Challenge – I used Not Quite Navy and Wild Wasabi.  I don’t have Marina Mist yet so I subbed Baja Breeze.  (I know, not much of the wild wasabi,  the sentiment is matted with it and I used matching copics)

Creatalicious Challenge – show some 3D

Tiddly Inks Challenge – I used their sketch (wanted to give them credit – I didn’t use their image)

Happy stamping to you and hope you’re cool where you are!!!

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Sunflower Rosie…

It’s a beautiful morning!!!  The sun has been shining this week in Iowa and we’ve had some lower temps (still in the 80’s) but how’d it get to be July already!  EEK! lol

This is my first post for the Sweet Stop Sketches Challenge Blog.  I found this blog through a friend’s blog awhile back and tried one of Korin’s sketches.  I’m looking forward to the next three months creating with her sketches and posting on Saturdays!  Here’s Korin’s sketch we used today. We’d love to have you play along! Details on the Sweet Stop Sketches Challenge Blog HERE.  Join us!

I used Sunflower Rosie (check her out, she comes w/sentiments!) from LaLa Land Crafts…so very fun to color and add details to!  She is stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and colored with Copic Sketch Markers.  All the E50’s for her hair,  starting with the lightest to color all the hair and then bringing in the other colors and then retracing back with the colors a time or two…I kinda lose track…until I like how it looks.  Rosie’s dress is the B90’s and Wgrays.  I used several yellows,  the green is YG00 and YG95,  the fence is the E40’s.  The background fence is from Magnolia of Sweden.

Enlarged photo…Rosie isn’t this big IRL…she is the size in the first photo…do you like enlarged photos?

I’m linking to LaLa Land Crafts Challenge blog…the challenge this week is to use “something new”. Easy to play along with this one! lol   Rosie is new and this McGill sunflower punch I’ve had a long time but  never used…so I’m saying a new technique??? lol  The punch works differently from most punches.  Normally you would punch a positive piece and use that but this punch gives you a stencil “look”.   I punched it randomly over the 5.25 in. piece of kraft card-stock.  Then punched 5/8 in. circles with an EK Success nesting circle punch from dark brown card-stock and glued them to the back side of each sunflower so the centers would be completely brown.  Mounted this kraft, punched piece on yellow Bazzill card-stock so the sunflower petals would be yellow.  I edged all the card-stock pieces with Van Dyke Brown ink (Nick Bantock from Ranger) and my ink blending tool.  Paper cord from JoAnn’s,  Scallop border piece is an EK Success border punch.  Buttons are from Lasting Impressions and I used the staples from the Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher stapler for the centers. (some hand manipulation required) It’s a pain but I like the “look”! lol

Happy Independence Day! I always enjoy fireworks and am so thankful for freedom!

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La-la Weekly Wednesday Challenge #27…

Time for a new challenge at La-La Weekly Wednesday Challenge blog! Hope you’re having a good week and ready to join in! Kathy from the La-la Design Team created a sketch for us to use….be sure to head to the challenge blog to see what the other gals created too!

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Teddy Bear Lala is stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with copic sketch markers…photo below.

Here is Kathy’s very fun sketch!  Hope you can stamp with us this week for LLWWC27!

After the fact….here we go…you’ll always have that with me…wishin’ I’d used ric rac somewhere and those teeny Bazzill brads!  In stock at 7Kids now…

I’m also entering Teddy Bear La-la in the following challenges…

This is my last post for this term as a guest designer for La-la Land Crafts….what fun it’s been coloring these adorable images. Thank you Irina for having me and thanks to your awesome design team for being so easy to work with also!

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La-la Weekly Wednesday Challenge #26…

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Time for a new challenge at La-La Weekly Wednesday Challenge blog! Hope you’re having a good week and ready to join in! Jane from the La-la Design Team wants us to use red, lots of red….Be sure to head to the challenge blog to see what the other gals created too! I stamped my background and aged the edges of everything with Van Dyke brown ink from Ranger and the Ink Blending Tool. Martha Stewart heart corner punch and the small Nellie Snellen flower punch set for the red flowers. Teeny script writing stamp is from Magnolia of Sweden. The flourish/scroll stamp is from Stampington. The sentiment stamp is from PSX and I split it up and stamped it straight with the wonderful stampamajig! I entering La-la in the following challenges this week…

La-la with Heart is stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with copic sketch markers…photo below. The oval die is a Nellie Snellen die…send Tab an email at 7KidsCollegeFund.com to see if she can get it for you…it’s cool. I backstitched wax linen through the holes.
I’ll be back later today with another post. Finally a snowman!!!

*****You know the teeny brads I’m always using???? well…. GREAT NEWS!!! Tab has them in the store now at 7KidsCollegeFund.com!!!!! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAY! I love these teeny 3mm brads…just perfect everywhere, ‘specially in the centers of flowers and in the label dies! oh, Thank you Tab, now I don’t have to worry about running out! lol*****

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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!