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….

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…

• Prairie Fairy Fridays – sketch
• Paper Take Weekly – Love Actually
• Creative Card Crew – Valentines
• Pile it on – Enough of Winter’s colors
• Paper Sundaes – Valentine
• Friday Sketchers – sketch
• Fussy and Fancy Friday – Hearts

This week the design team and guest designers for La-La are making “shape” cards…anything other than a rectangle or square….so take off creative people and let’s see what you can come up with! I decided to color up Happy Maya with my copic sketch markers,  cut her out and let her out of the barn! Moooo-oooh lala!  I wanted the rooster to be crowing that but the banner just didn’t fit over there and it was too late to turn the rooster around! lol  The rooster is a Tonic punch and I hand cut the hay. Bringing up Tonic makes me want to mention the paper cutters I use. “Commercial”………..I LOVE the Tonic Guillotine cutters!  The only ones for me and I have them all! Just in case you’re lookin’ for the best cutter out there!  The barn is cut three times on the Cricut, 2 red and 1 brown from the newer Everyday Paper Doll cartridge at 5.5 inches. I used a Karen Foster ribbon brad at the end of the banner.
Here’s my card for this challenge…

Happy Maya is stamped with Memento Black Ink on Neenah Classic Crest 80# card-stock. I stamped the barn with my Stampin Up Sanded background stamp and edged everything with distress ink.

The hearts on the inside are from a Stampin Up punch…very fun!  I wish I’d thought to use some nestabilities on the inside…*sigh*….always forgetting stuff! lol

Sorry about all the pictures… I decided to take a picture of the stamps to show you how I did the words.  I used my stampamajig!  oh my,  “Commercial”  I LOVE my stampamajig!!!  do you all use one?  I could do a tutorial,  if it’s something you might like….just pictures,  I don’t have a video camera.  whew! lol

I used three stamps from Printworks. All stamped in Versafine Black Onyx ink…love this ink for just traditional stamping…a very sharp crisp image.

• C2902 Merci (just the “m”)
• C2873 Oooh La La
• D2242 Laughter is the Sun (I couldn’t find this one to link it, when I do, I’ll come back and add it)

See the other designer’s creations on the La-La Land Crafts blog!  Wishing you lots of laughter!