Hello and thank you so much for stopping by! It’s Wednesday already and it means it’s time for a new La-La Land Weekly Challenge. This week is represented by our wonderful designer Kristine. For this challenge, she’d “love for us to use HEARTS! Anything goes as long as there are hearts somewhere. And here are some ideas for you…

* Make a heart shaped card

* Add a heart shaped doily on your card

* Punched hearts or chipboard hearts

* Heart Lalas or Princess Rosie from La-La Land Crafts

* Heart charms

The possibilities are endless!” Thank you Kristine for the sweet HEART challenge!

LLWWC #24 - Hearts

Of course I wanted to use Lala with Heart stamp for this challenge. She is holding a heart and maybe thinking about her friend who is so far away or maybe about her loved one… Or maybe she wants to share her love with us! I had so much fun coloring Lala! Since the stamp is so pretty by itselft I decided to create a very simple card. I also reallly liked the DP that I chose; it matches to the print of Lala’s dress. This paper is a gift from my dear friend Anna! Thank you so much, Anna!

Almost forgot to tell that for the layout I followed Mercy’s sketch from last week. I am so glad that I played with it.

We hope that you will join us this Heart Challenge too and create a warm heartfelt greeting (or project) to somebody. Don’t forget to visit all of the designers who prepared a real inspiration for you as well:

Kim, Kristine, Pam, Jane, Lisa. Maureen, Cheryl, and Kathy.

Thank you so much for spending some time with me and leaving your priceless comments. They mean a lot to me.

Have a fabulous day,

Elena

Hello My Friends! Thank you for stopping by and joining me at the new La-La’s Wednesday Weekly Challenge.

This week is hosted by our very creative and incredibly talented Kim:”Gift card holders come in handy sometimes so for this change, let’s make one! You can make it any size, any style as long as it holds a gift card! Have fun and enjoy!” So it means this week we would like to see a Gift Card Holder!

There are so many great ideas for the Gift Card Holders, and one of them is Pop-Up gift card holder. It may look very complicated, but after I visited Cathy’s blog where she showed a great tutorial, I was not thinking this way anymore.

Birthday Cake Maya

As you can see I also followed Mojo Monday Sketch for the layout in front of my card. I inked up Birthday Cake Maya from La-La Land Crafts, perfect for any celebration! Everybody would like to receive this cake (fat free and zero calories) on the Birthday, and will be very surprised by the gift card inside!

Inside the Card

We hope that you will join us this week at LLWWC too and show us your gift card holder ideas! So looking forward for your projects! And don’t forget to visit our fabulous DT blogs with even more inspiration – Kim, Kristine, Pam, Jane, Lisa. Maureen, Cheryl, and Kathy.

Don’t forget about special offer at La-La Land Crafts – Buy three, get one FREE!! Between now and January 30th, when you purchase three stamps from La-La Land Crafts online store, you will receive a FREE stamp of your choice!! Just let us know your choice in the Notes section upon check out!!

Happy stamping and have a wonderful day,

Elena

Happy Wednesday and Welcome to the Weekly La-La Land Challenge!

I am a host of this week’s challenge… So I wanted to create a Fancy Fold card. Sound pretty fancy, isn’t it? But I am not trying to be this way, just wanted to try something different and fold our cardstock more than one time.

Happy Maya

I saw this Explosion Card tutorial by Dawn a very long time ago and always wanted to try this card too. The construction of this fold may look complicated, but it’s not difficult to make at all! Thank you to Dawn for the tutorial!

I took Happy Maya stamp and some DP that Irina sent to me in my DT package several months ago. For more interest I added ribbon and sentiment. The size of this card is 4 *4 inches when it’s closed, so it can fit in a small square envelope.

I hope that you will join us for this challenge and show us your Fancy Folds! For more inspiration and great ideas, please visit La-La Land Crafts blog. You will not be disappointed, I promise!

And don’t forget about special offer at La-La Land Crafts – Buy three, get one FREE!! Between now and January 30th, when you purchase three stamps from La-La Land Crafts online store, you will receive a FREE stamp of your choice!! Just let us know your choice in the Notes section upon check out!!

Thank you so much for stopping by today and leaving me your kind comments,

Elena

Supplies: cardstock from LSS, DP Daisy Bucket, Happy Maya stmp from La-La Land Crafts, Fly Away from The Greeting Farm for the sentiment, eyelets, ribbon, Nestabilities, Prismacolor pencils, Gamsol

Happy Birthday Kathy!

Hello My Friends! Today is a very special day at La-La Land Crafts; today is Kathy’s Birthday! Happy Birthday Kathy!!! I hope that this day as wonderful as you are and full of wonderful surprises!

We wanted to make something unusual this time and decided to create a Birthday card for Kathy by using her own card as an inspiration. I cased this very precious card that Kathy created for the blog hop not long time ago. I really liked the layout and pearls! Instead of flower I added snowflake, since it’s a Winter Birthday Girl. I tried to watercolor Winter Lala, but I think I need more practice in this direction. :) But honestly I always enjoy looking at Kathy’s gorgeous watercoloring! Wish I could color like her!

Kristine, Jane, Kim, Lisa and Maureen also created a Birthday card by casing one of the cards that Kathy already created.

Hope that Kathy will like it and enjoy these cards as much as we did while were making them. Why don’t you stop at Kathy’s blog and leave her some wishes too?

And don’t forget to come back tomorrow for a new La-La Land Weekly Challenge. Thank you so much for stopping by and leaving me your kind comments,

Elena

Hello! I know it’s Saturday and usually I don’t post this day… But I just wanted to share two cards that I finished.

For the first card I followed pretty sketch from Splitcoaststampers (SC263). I had this cute Elephant Huckabee stamp from Whipper Snapper for a very long time, and finally I inked it up!

Pink and Grey

I picked some scarps of the papers I used before and then realized that I can participate in Cute Card Thursday Challenge – this week you need to create a card with Pink and Grey colors on it. Once again I stamped a sentiment (Amy R. stamp set) on the ribbon using Staz-On ink.

And now to the second card. I love this adorable Banjo Maya from La-La Land Crafts! And you already probably recognized MOJO Monday sketch. Bo-Bunny DP helped with the color choices for coloring. To bring up some contrast to the card I decided to add a blue ribbon.

Bonjo Maya

Don’t forget about a special offer at La-La Land Crafts – Buy 3, get 1 free, which will be good till January 30. And even more good news all of the new stamps are already in stock!

I would say you good-bye for now and wish you a happy weekend,

Inky hugs,

Elena

We told you that the stamps from La-La Land new release will be available on January 20th, but they are already HERE!! You can place your orders on our website now (please disregard pre-order note, it will be removed shortly). Here is the link.

And, to make this news even sweeter, we have a special offer you!!!

Buy three, get one FREE!!

Between now and January 30th, when you purchase three stamps from La-La Land Crafts online store, you will receive a FREE stamp of your choice!! Just let us know your choice in the Notes section upon check out!!

Hugs,

Elena

Happy Wednesday everybody! If you are looking for the blog candy winner please scroll down or follow this link. Thank you!

Each Wednesday we have a new Challenge for you at La-La Land Crafts. This week is hosted by incredibly talented and creative Maureen who would like to see shaped cards – any shape other than a rectangle or square. Thank you for the fun challenge Maureen!

I love shaped cards even if I don’t make them so often. Part of it I think because I don’t think I have enough creativity fot this, and unfortunately my hands don’t do a very good job in this direction.

When I saw Cupcake Rosie I thought that shaped card is on the way – Cupcake Shaped Card. And after searching on-line for some templates and ideas, I stopped at this beautiful blog by Elsi. I saw her stunning Cupcake card and decided to give it a try too. I didn’t have any die-cuts, so I just drew this shape by hand. That is maybe why it is not so pretty as I wish it could be…

Cupcake Rosie

But anyway it’s a Shaped Card, right? And even it’s not perfect it goes pretty well with Cupcake Rosie. Don’ t you think so? And Rosie just told me that we can also participate in several challenges which are:

1) Pink Elephant Blog challenge – create a Birthday card;

2) Cupcake Inspiration Challenge – the colors of the DP goes well with the colors of the yummy treats that Rachel prepared for all of us this week;

3) Inspiration Challenge at Splitcoaststampers – this picture matches perfectly to Rosie’s shoes.

Why don’t you join us and show us your Shaped card? For even more inspiration and fabulous idea, please, visit La-La Land Crafts blog.

That is all for today. Thank you for stopping by and leaving me your kind comments! Have a wonderful day and happy crafting,

Elena

Hello! I would like to thank you everybody who participated in the La-La Land Blog Hop. Thank you so much for joining us! Hope that you had so much fun and enjoyed visiting our DT blogs.

Now it’s time to announce a winner of the Sweet Friends Rosie stamp. I used random.org to choose a winning number which is 58 – carrie, who wrote:

“Great card with Sweet Friends Rosie. I really like your colors and layers”.

Congratulations carrie! Please, contact me with your mailing address information. Sweet Friends Rosie will be on a way to you after January 20th.

Also wanted to remind that all of the New Stamps at La-La Land Crafts will be available after January 20th, but you can pre-order them! Don’t forget to check our new Weekly Wednesday La-La Land Challenge tomorrow. See you there,

Elena

If you are looking for NEW RELEASE AT LA-LA LAND CRAFTS, please scroll down or follow this link. Thank you!

Yoga Anya

For my second card I opened a brand new stamp Happy Day, also from The Greeting Farm (it was a limited pre-sale, they will be available in March). Thank you so much to my husband who bought it for me as a New Year gift! Several challenges inspired me for this cutie:

Happy Day

1. Crazy4Challenges – create a Birthday card. I made this card for a little girl’s birthday.

2. Farm Fresh Friday – use glue and glitter. I don’t know if you can see all the sparkles I added with a help of Quickie Glue pen.

3. Cute Card Thursday – use something new in your card. I used new DP (Basic Grey) and new stamp set.

4. Taylored Expressions Sketch challenge – for the layout I used Taylored sketch.

That is all for now. I will be back very soon with another project. Enjoy your weekend and happy stamping,

Elena

If you are looking for NEW RELEASE AT LA-LA LAND CRAFTS, please scroll down or follow this link. Thank you!

Hello and Happy Thursday everybody. Today is very special day for my family. First of all it’s a dayof Russian Christmas. And second it’s a Birthday of our Family (other words – Anniversary). Not so many years to celebrate yet, only five. But still it is a day when three hearts, three lives, and three people connected with each other – Ken, Sergei and me. I probably will make a cake so we can have a special treat for all of us in the evening. Not big celebration, just another day.

I also want to share a card with you using a brand new stamp Sweet Friends Rosie from La-La Land crafts, which will be available at the store on January 20. But the good news is that you can pre-order it!

Sweet Friends Rosie

For the layout I followed beautiful sketch at Taylored Expressions blog. Hope I’m not too late to participate in her challenge.

When I visited Color Throwdown Challenge blog I knew for sure what papers to choose. I really like the colors for this week! Thank to all the girls for providing a pretty color combination!

Also want to thank you all for the congratulations about my DT position. Without all of your support I would not be accepted in any DT; your visits, your comments mean a lot to me.

I think that is all for today. Have a splendid day everybody,

Elena

Здравствуйте дорогие гости моего блога!

Пользуясь случаем хочу поздравить вас всех с замечательным праздником Рождества!

Я сердечно поздравляю с Рождеством всех вас!

Счастья искренне желаю в этот светлый час!

Пусть Вас озарит сиянье с звездной высоты

И исполнятся желанья, планы и мечты.

Пусть нежданная удача взбудоражит кровь.

И конечно, много значат дружба и любовь!

А еще сегодня особый день для нашей маленькой семьи – День Рождение нашего семейного союза! Конечно дата не значительная, всего 5 лет. Но именно в этот день соединились три сердца, три жизни, и три человека – Кен (мой муж), Сереженька (наш сыночек) и я. Чтобы хоть как-то отметить это событие, я наверное испеку тортик. Сядем вечером и попьем чай все вместе, особо пышных торжеств мы не планируем.

Как вы уже заметили я не с пустыми руками – вчера сделала открыточку по эскизу, который нашла на блоге Taylored Expressions. Персонаж для открытки милая девочка Rosie.

А вот цвета для открытки я выбрала после того, как посмoтрела на симпатичные открытки с этого блога Сolor Throwdown blog.

Спасибо большое за то, что подарили мне немного внимания и зашли на мой блог. Всего самого доброго и до новых встреч,

Лена