Hello My Friends! Thank you so much for stopping by! Hope you all have a wonderful weekend! It is finally warm here (about 40F), looks like spring is coming! My DH already had a barbecue; he was waiting for this sooooo long!

Good weather inspired me for the card instead. Of course without Mercy’s beautiful sketch (MTSC63) I wouldn’t create this card. Thank you so much Mercy for sharing it!

Rosie With Teddy Bear (MTSC63)

For my card I used Rosie With Teddy Bear stamp from La-La Land Crafts. I think she is so precious! First I wanted to leave the image on white piece of paper, but then I decided to cut her out and attach with the dimension tape.

That is all for now… Enjoy the rest of the weekend! I will see you next time with more projects!

Thank you so MUCH for leaving your kind comments! I really appreciate it!

Inky hugs and happy smiles,

Elena

Здравствуйте дорогие читатели и гости моего блога. Надеюсь, что все вы наслаждаетесь выходными деньками. Наконец-то у нас потеплело, похоже что весна-красна уже приходит на смену зимы. Солнышко вдохновило моего мужа на приготовление ужина на барбекю, а меня на открытку. Но прежде чем я расскажу о моей открытке, хотела бы вас всех поблагодарить за пожелания выздоравления Сереженьке. Дя нашей семьи это очень важно, и мы это очень ценим. Сережа чувствует себя сейчас хорошо, чему мы все очень рады.

А теперь несколько слов об открытке. Не только солнышко, но и красивый скетч на блоге у Mercy (MTSC63) подарили мне вдохновение. Ну, и конечно, симпатичный штампик Rosie With Teddy Bear. Сначала я хотела оставить рисунок девочки на белом листе бумаге, но потом решила ее вырезать. По-моему получилось не плохо.

Вот пожалуй и все на сегодня. Поздравляю вас с наступающим Днем 8 Марта! Улыбок вам, хорошего настроения, любви и море весенних цветов!

До свидания и до новых встреч,

Лена

Hello My Friends! As I promised yesterday I have two cards to show. I was so happy to be back to crafting, missed all my papers and colored pencils.

As you may know from my previous post La-La Land Crafts just released Easter Collection of the digital stamps. Of course I wanted to try them too! If you are not familiar with the digital stamps Irina created two tutorials that will help you to understand how to save and print them. And don’t forget about the Spring Is Here Blog Hop at La-La Land Crafts blog. Not only you will enjoy visiting our DT and Guest DT blogs, but you also can win a prize!

My first card was inspired by the Sketch Challenge  (SC 270) at Splitcoaststampers. I printed Easter Bunny Rosie and colored her with Prismacolor pencils and OMS. Then I cut her out and attached to the embossed piece of the white paper. Three little buttons, ribbon and card is ready!

This card is also made for several other challenges:

- Crazy4Challenge – add texture to your card;

- The Pink Elephant Challenge blog – use green color;

For my second card I decided to join another sketch challenge at the brand new and fabulous blog called Oh, Alice! I am so glad I did it! Thank you to Jessica and her amazing Team for creating it and making our crafting life even more interesting!

La-La with Rose was perfect for this layout, and what I like the best about the new images is that you can use them for almost every occasion. I made a Thank you card, but you can make an Easter card, Mother’s Day card or even a Birthday card! Possibilities are endless!

I am going to send these cards to the Nurses who gave a very good take care to Sergei while we were at the hospital.

That is all for today I think. I will be volunteering at Sergei’s classroom today. Missed two weeks, so excited to be back!

Thank you so much for stopping by and leaving your comments! Have a beautiful day everybody,

Elena

Hello! I would like to thank you all for the get-well wishes and all the prayers to Sergei. It really did help and we are finally home! Sergei is doing much better, and you will never tell just by looking at him that this little boy spent several days at the Hospital (with the pain and IVs). I think I was stressed out more than he was; it is probably typical for all parents. :) While this is all over for now, I just hope that we will not be back to the Hospital so soon. Believe or not but I wasn’t really ready for this… Thank you so much from all my family for your support! It means a lot to us!

I have more news to share with you today and several announcements. Today is a day of a Spring Release at La-La Land Crafts! DT and Guest Designera prepared an awesome Bunny Trail Blog Hop for you! Unfortunately I can’t participate in it because of all the “drama” I had in my life later, but I don’t want you to miss this FUN! Besides seeing all the gorgeous cards from our Design Team, the winner of the Blog Hop will receive all the goodies from the blog candy at La-La Land Crafts.

All of our images in this release are available as digi stamps!! We can not be more excited to move into this direction. No, we are not going to stop making rubber stamps. We are expanding our collection by providing you with more options for your paper crafting needs.

All of these DIGITAL stamps are already available for purchase in our online store! Once you have completed the purchase, your digi stamps will arrive to your mailbox within 24 hours – you do need to pay for shipping and don’t need to wait for it! Our digi stamps come in the set of two of the same image, one is a line art and the other one is a colored image.

Digital La-La Land Crafts stamps

If you have not used the digi stamps before, you will be surprised how easy it is to print the images from your computer on your home printer.

One more announcement before I finish this post- we are very excited to have our new Guset Designers, super talented ladies on our team for the next two months:

1LuvnMama

Jana Weaver

 Sparkle Smith

Welcome to the team girls!!! So excited to work with you!

That is all for now. I will be back tomorrow with a new card. Now I need to catch up on my blogging duties – will be visiting you all soon! Missed you all!

Have a fabulous day everybody,

Elena

Hello my dear blogging friends!

I am writing this post from the Children’s Hospital where my son is right now. Remember last year we got there because of his Pancreatitis? It happened again… This time we asked for help in a right time and he is not in a very  bad condition as he was.

I don’t know how long we will stay there, everything depends on his blood test results. When all the numbers will go down, we will be ready to leave the Hospital. Right now we can only hope for the best.

Because of all of this I will not be able to visit your blogs and leave you comments. But as I will be back home, I will visit you all!

Also wanted to tell you about some great news coming at La-La Land Crafts! Next week we will have some NEW images coming! I know that you will love them! Especially that they will be all ready for spring!

I will be finishing now, thank you MUCH for stopping by!

Elena

Hello and welcome to our Weekly Wednesday Challenge at La-La Land Crafts! This week is presented by incredibly talented Kathy. Kathy gave us a beautiful Sketch, my favorite kind of a challenge. Thank you Kathy!

LLWWC #27 - Sketch Challenge

Once again I chose Sweet Friends Rosie stamp from La-La Land Crafts. I just love this sweet little girl and her bear. I don’t know if you can see, but I added some stitching to the bear, so it will look like he was handmade. The papers (Cosmo Cricket) and flower were sent to me in the DT package, thank you to Irina!

Why don’t you join us for this week’s challenge? Don’t know where to start? Please visit La-La Land Crafts blog and you will find so much inspiration there! Our DT and Guest Designers always have something interesting for you! We are looking forward for your fabulous creations, show us how this sketch can inspire you!

Before I will finish I have one more card to show. This time I played with a sketch from Karen’s blog – Sweet Sunday Sketch.  I really loved the fun stripes in the layout she created. Thought that Happy Maya from La-La Land Crafts will join this fun too! I like how this card turned out. Maybe it is a little bit unusual, lots of green colors and patterns. But we need to try ourselfes in something different.

Okay, I need to go now. Thank you so much for stopping by today and leaving your lovely comments.

Have a wonderful day everybody,

Elena

Hello, hello My Friends! Thank you so much for leaving so many kind comments about my cards from previous post! You really made my day!

As I promised here is my non-card making project. It is a little cross-stitched picture which I made several months ago, but just couldn’t find a frame for this. The pattern for the picture is from a mini-kit which came in the CrossStitcher  magazine one time. It had all the embellishments in there also. So that was very nice.

Why it took me so long to finish it? I couldn’t find a frame… but then I got an idea! I went to a thrift store and found one for 80 cents and decided to give it a try. My husband helped me to change the color of the frame and reattach the finished project inside.

Little cross-stitched project

I am so glad that I finally made it! And now it is on the way to one talented lady, who sent me a precious cross-stitched gift too. Isn’t it’s nice to receive gifts, that not only made just for you, but made by hand with love!

Thank you so much for looking, hope you liked it! I will be back tomorrow with another card for the La-La Land Weekly Challenge!

Have a fantastic day everybody,

Elena

Привет, привет дорогие гости и читатели моего блога! Спасибо вам большое за ваши теплые комментарии от предыдущего сообщения. Не представляете как приятно их от вас получать!

Я обещала показать маленькую поделочку, которая не имеет никакого отношения к открыточному искусству. Может кто-то из вас знает, что помимо открыток, я увлекаюсь вышивкой. И вот наконец-то закончила эту маленькую картинку (схема и все украшения были в наборе, приложение к журналу CrossStitcher). Вышивать кораблик было не сложно, а вот рамочку найти нигде не могла очень долгое время. Но потом меня “осенило” зайти в магазин товаров бывшего употребления и представлете - нашла! Правда цвет был не то что нужно, но мой муж помог мне в небольшом преобразовании рамочки.

Я так рада, что наконец-то этот маленький проектик закончен, и я смогу отправить эту рамочку одной очень талантливой рукодельнице. Ее тоже зовут Лена, и она совсем недавно порадовала меня очень симпатичным подарком (тоже вышивка)! Все-таки, что не говори, а подарки получать приятно, особенно если они сделаны вручную и от души!

Вот пожалуй и все на сегодня. Благодарю вас за подаренное мне время, за то что заглянули в мой маленький уголок рукоделия!

Хорошего вам всем дня и до новых встреч,

Лена

Hello! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend! I decided to make a quick post today and show you several cards that never been shown on my blog.

Smiley

This cutie is from The Greeting Farm brand new stamp Happy Day that coming on March I think (it was a limited pre-sale). I made one card with the girl, and here is little boy card. I just love his excited face and all the dinosaurs toys he has. For the layout I used Mercy’s Tuesday sketch from a long time ago.

Tri-Shutter Card

Moving to the second card which was created for the last week’s ATS Challenge blog. It was a Tri-Shutter card, and I gave it a try. Not too bad for the first time, don’t you think so?

Candy Cane Lala

And my third card is going to my Early Christmas Cards box. I played with SC261 and forgot to show it here. Really like Candy Cane Lala, she is so sweet! I was very pleased with how this card turned out. Papers worked so well together, plus I had this polka-dotted ribbon for a finish touch.

I will be back tomorrow with a non-card making project. Hope you will like it!

For now I will wish you a happy day and thank you so MUCH for sharing some time with me,

Elena

Hello and welcome to the La-La Land Weekly Challenge #26. This week is hosted by our Fabulous DT Coordinator Jane:

“In honor of Chinese New Year and Valentine’s, I would like to host a RED challenge. The card must be mostly red. Red card stock, red designer paper (other colors on there are okay but focal color is red), red ribbon, red bling, red glitter, red brads… RED! Black, white, pink, or gold are fine to use as accents as long as red is the main color on the project.”

Thank you Jane for your great challenge!

LLWWC #26 - RED

I never used Window Lala stamp, and that was a good way for me to bring it to life. As you can see I combined two colors, but RED is the main one. Added some die-cut corners, pearls, ribbon, button… I also “cheated” here a little bit – pearls were not red in the beginning; I colored them with a red Sharpie. And the ribbon is re-used one from a store bought card. But maybe it is not “cheating”? Let’s call it Being Creative!

We hope that you will join us this week too and show your RED inspired projects! Don’t know where to start? – just visit our La-La Land blog and I promise that you will not be disappointed!

Thank you so MUCH for visiting me today and leaving me your nicest comments! You really make my day and it means a whole world to me.

Have a beautiful day my friends,

Elena

Hello and Happy Friday everybody! Today is a very special day, and you probably know already why! Yes, that is right we are celebrating a Birthday of our La-La Land DT Girl – Kristine! Happy, Happy Birthday to our dear Kristine!

I have never met Kristine in person, but I am glad that I had a chance to meet her through the blogland at La-La Land! I always believe that your cards or whatever you create (scrapbook, paper projects) speak to me. Yes, they do! From the first time I stopped at Kristine’s  blog and looked at her amazing work, I knew that she is not only a talented crafter but also a very heartfelt and generous lady.

In honor of our Birthday Girl we decided to throw a little on-line party – Birthday Blog Hop! All of our Designers made a card for Kristine with some Birthday Wishes. The hop starts at LLLC blog. And if you came from Kim’s creative corner, you are on a right track.

Happy Birthday Kristine!

When I was thinking of what card to create for Kristine, I heard a whisper from the shelf where I keep all my stamps:”Pick me, pick me!” It was Pepper with Cake! And I picked Pepper… For the layout of my card I followed a sketch from the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge blog.

Pepper told me that he baked this cake just for Kristine and now it is her turn to Make a Wish and blow out a candle! Are you ready Kristine? Okay, we will sing you a song while you blowing out the candle:

Happy Birthday to you,

Happy Birthday to you,

Happy Birthday Dear Kristine,

Happy Birthday to you!

We also want to wish you lots and lots of pleasant surprises and hope that all your dreams will come true!

Are you ready to hop to Kathy’s blog? It’s about time, and I know that she has prepared something sweet and special for Kristine too!

Thank you so much for stopping by today! I will see you soon!

Inky hugs,

Elena and Pepper