Hearts a Flutter in La-La Land

This week in La-La Land we are getting your Hearts a Fluttering by using hearts and/or butterflies. I took the opportunity to use one of  La-La Lands fabulous shadow box frame kits and dressed it up with papers, copics, die cuts and white paint. These are so much fun to put together and decorate! And who better for this challenge that the Queen of Hearts herself!

Don't forget to pop over to our BLOG where you can check out inspiration from my amazing teamies and remember La-La Land Crafts also have a Facebook Page HERE and La-La Lands Facebook Group HERE. We love seeing your amazing creations using La-La Land Stamps and Dies too.

Sweetheart Shadow Box Kit

Queen of Hearts with Sentiment

Heart Doily Die

Open Leaf Flourish Die

Copics Used

Skin - E11, E00, E000, R27, R24, R20, R11

Hair - E35, E33, E31, E18, E08

Clothes and Crown - 100, C8, C6, YR27, Y19. Y15, Y13, R59, R39, R29, R24, R22, R21

Frame - R24

A Simply Betty Sympathy Card

There are unfortunately those times in life when one must make a sympathy card and this week it was my turn. My husband's colleague recently lost her father and my hubby said he would get me to make a card for the team to sign. A while ago Corinne had made a sympathy card using one of the Simply Betty images and this is where the inspiration came for mine. I'm not sure if it's the same image - I tried to find Corinne's to link back but she's a prolific crafter and her version is somewhere among all of her other gorgeous work.

My husband wasn't too sure about this card though so I had to make a more traditional floral one for him - ah well. I just hope that this one gets put away for a long long time!

Image from Simply Betty Stamps - Lavinia Portrait

Dies from La-La Land Crafts

Filigree Corner

Heart Doily Border

Copics Used

Skin - E11, E00, E000, R20, R11

Hair - E39, E35, E33, E31

Clothes - C8, C6, C5, C3, C1, R27, R24, R21

Background - W3, W2

Time to Fence it In in La-La Land

This week in La-La Land we have to "Fence it in" - use a fence. With the gorgeous fence dies available at La-La Land Crafts my biggest decision was which one to go with - LOL. A little Wonderland scene ended up appearing on my desk - although I do confess my original project was binned after several hours of trying to get it to work! Luckily that doesn't happen to me often but it does happen ;)

Don't forget to pop over to our BLOG where you can check out inspiration from my amazing teamies and remember La La Land Crafts also have a Facebook Page HERE and La La Lands Facebook Group HERE. We love seeing your amazing creations using La La Land Stamps and Dies too.

Marci in Wonderland plus sentiment

Heart Fence Die

Open Leaf Flourish Die

Rolled Rose Small and Medium Dies

Heart Tree Die

Scallop Border Die

Butterfly Set 1 Die

Copics Used

Skin - E11, E00, E000, R24, R20, R11

Hair - E50, E33, E31, YR31

Clothes - 100, C6, C4, C2, C00, B00, B000, B0000

The Aurora Wings Challenge Blog is Open For Business!

Wooohoooo it's the very first challenge over at Aurora Wings Challenges and this week we have a really EASY one for you......

That's right!  Not only may you use any theme, but all stamps are welcome here.  Please do read the rules, however.  They are simple but important.  Also, for those of you who are new, Mitzi has graciously offered a Freebie, as well as a discount code for our followers, available through the end of the month.  You can find them under the "Offers" tab on the BLOG.

For my card I've used the amazing Steampunk Dark Angel. I've combined her with lots of die cuts (using La-La Land Craft dies) and an embossed panel behind her which almost looks like a rising moon.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the AMAZING DT inspiration on our BLOG. We also have a very active Facebook Fan Group with additional contests, challenges and inspiration.  Hope to see you there as well.

Our prizes each month will include:

1 (one) Artist's Choice Award winner to be selected from entries using AuroraWings digi (badge and $20 GC) 

1 (one) random winner ($20 GC)

Top 3 winners (badge and $10 GC) to be chosen by our DT

Copics Used - Skin {E11, E00, E000, R20, R11} plus C5, C4, C2, C0, Y19, Y15, Y13, E59, E57, E35, E31, E07, YR14, 

It's Pinspiration Inspiration This Week in La-La Land

This week in La-La Land we are creating using the photo from Pinterest on the left as the Inspiration. I also took the opportunity to create a card using one of my team-mates tutorials for La-La Land's Tutorial Thursday - you can check out Anne-Maree's pop up card tutorial HERE. It was a lot of fun to try something different but I think I embellished the base a little to much for the card to close properly - oops - I just never know when to stop!!!!

Don't forget to pop over to our BLOG where you can check out inspiration from my amazing teamies and remember La La Land Crafts also have a Facebook Page HERE and La La Lands Facebook Group HERE. We love seeing your amazing creations using La La Land Stamps and Dies too.

Nautical Marci

Heart Ribbon Corner Die

Bridge Die

Hot Air Balloon Die

Wave Border Die

Chipboard Seagull from Nautical Shadow Box

Copics Used

Skin - E11, E00, E000, R24, R20, R11

Hair - E07, YR07, YR04, YR00

Clothes - E07, YR07, YR04, YR00, W5, W3, W2, W00, 100

Shell - YR02, YR00, YR000, YR0000

Magnolia Challenge #231 and Some Sad News

This week at Magnolia Down Under Challenges we have a VERY SPECIAL celebration happening - it's our 5TH BIRTHDAY so our challenge is....

BIRTHDAYS

Wow - who knew when my friend Kellie started this challenge with myself and Kristy on board that we would still be going 5 years later!!!! I am SOOO proud of what we have managed to achieve and the DT gals have become family as well as friends :)

With that being said today is also a sad time for me as I have decided after 5 years to step down from the challenge team. The gorgeous DT gals have kept me going for longer than I probably should have - but unfortunately I feel it's time for a change.

Don't forget to pop on over and check out the AMAZING DT inspiration on our BLOG - and PLEASE make sure you keep supporting the girls and this amazing challenge.

Copics Used - Skin (E11, E00, E000, R20, R11) plus E18, E15, E13, C2, C00, RV66, RV63, RV55, RV10

One Layer in La-La Land

This week in La-La Land we have a challenge that caused a lot of discussion behind the scenes but has led to some very creative interpretations. Our challenge is....

One Layer with the Option of Luck (for St.Patrick's Day)

I decided to create a digital layout using digital designer papers and the digital version of my image. It's a bit hard to see here but these digi papers are designed for St.Patrick's Day with 4 leaf clovers stylized into the designs. I added borders to the papers and layered them up before adding Marci into the design and printing it all out. Then it was time to colour. Amazing how much detail you can achieve with one layer!!! I was going to add some digital embellishments too but they just didn't look right to me! I always love a bit of texture though, so I distressed the edges of my finished card front and added a cheeky die-cut, rhinestones and chipboard sentiment!

Don't forget to pop over to our BLOG where you can check out inspiration from my amazing teamies and remember La La Land Crafts also have a Facebook Page HERE and La La Lands Facebook Group HERE. We love seeing your amazing creations using La La Land Stamps and Dies too.

Irish Marci

Booktab and Labels Die Set

Copics Used

Skin - E11, E00, E000, R24, R20, R11

Hair - E29, E27, E08, YR07, YR02

Clothes - E44, E43, E42, E40, 100, C4, C2, C00

Clover - G28, G24

It's Party Time in La-La land

This week in La-La Land we are celebrating parties. I've used to gorgeous new Pinata Luka and popped him onto one of the La-La land digital papers before colouring. I tried to give the pinata a bit of texture to represent the paper fringing usually found on pinatas.

Don't forget to pop over to our BLOG where you can check out inspiration from my amazing teamies and remember La La Land Crafts also have a Facebook Page HERE and La La Lands Facebook Group HERE. We love seeing your amazing creations using La La Land Stamps and Dies too.

Stamp - Pinata Luka

Dies -

Happy Birthday Corner

Scalloped Banner

Steampunk Clock

La- La Land Digi Papers - Modern Steampunk Collection

Copics Used

Skin - E11, E00, E000, R20, R11

Hair - E19, E17, E15, E13

Clothes - E17, E15, E13, BG99, BG96, BG93, C4, C2, C00

Pinata -  E19, R59, R17, R14, B97, B95, B91, YG25, YG21, YG17, Y28, Y26

Shading - C4, C2, E15, E13

Aurora Wings Meets Scrapmatts

Last weekend I had the honour of helping out at the Scrapmatts stand at the Scrapbook and Papercrafting Expo here in Melbourne. Scrapmatts is an Aussie company - gotta love that - and they design and cut gorgeous chipboard pieces. This is the small layered fob watch - there's a bigger version for scrapbooking with too! I decided this would look awesome with one of Mitzi's Aurora Wings designs inset into the middle. I used the clock hands at the top of the floral spray on the right - nothing gets wasted ;)

This gorgeous image is called Sisterhood and is currently available as a FREEBIE for followers of the NEW Aurora Wings Challenge Blog - you can find out how under the "offers" tab - but be quick - it's a limited time offer!!!!

Hopefully this picture gives you some idea of the sparkle I have used on the image - my Sakura glitter gel pen was used over many of the areas - they look grey in the photo above and a little more shimmery in this photo but in real life they SPARKLE! It looks great with the addition of the lime green rhinestones too.....

Copics Used - Skin {E11, E00, E000, R20, R11} plus E49, E44, E43, E41, E40, RV66, RV63, RV55, RV10, G28, YG45, YG25, YG23, YG21, Y19, Y15, YR68, Sakura Clear Star Gelly Roll