La-La Land Crafts Sneak Peek Blog Hop and Candy!!!

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to La La Land Crafts' Christmas Release Blog Hop. To celebrate the release of the fabulous Christmas stamps on October 14th, we are having a fun Blog Hop. Each Design Team Member and Guest Design Team members will show you a sneak peek of one of the new Christmas stamps, and here's mine (Candy Cane Lala):

Besides seeing all the cute sneak peeks of our new images, the winner of the Blog Hop will receive not one but THREE of our new stamps (winner's choice!!) PLUS all of the items in the photo below:

- Spellbinders Shapeabilites Create A Flake 1

- Spellbinders Shapeabilites Pendants Fleur De Lis

- Spellbinders Borderabilites Fleur De Lis

- JustRite "A Merry Little Christmas" Set

- Basic Grey Holiday Ornaments Chipboard

- Cuttlebug "For You" Ornament Die Cut and Embossing Folder combo

- Copic Marker Soft Case for 24 Markers

- Three Copic Markers: E11, E33 and B41

- The Paper Company Bordeaux Filigree Accents

- Hero Arts Gemstones

Some of our DT members and the Guest Designers are also offering a little prize, randomly chosen from the entries on their own personal blogs.

I am personally offering Window Lala as a prize. To win this adorable stamp, all you have to do is leave a comment on this post. The deadline is 9:00 pm PST (GMT -8) on Tuesday, October 13th. The winner will be announced here on Wednesday, October 14th when I post my card using my sneak peek stamp!

So, what do you have to do to join our Blog Hop????

* Start your Blog Hop at the La-La Land Crafts Blog

* Each Design Team Member will guide you to the next Blog in the Blog Hop

* Final stop is back to the La-La Land Crafts Blog where you must leave a comment telling us how many different stamps there are in our Christmas Release (it can be tricky, so be careful!)

If you started the Blog Hop at the La-La Land Crafts Blog and followed all the links to my post, then your next stop is Sue Kment's blog.

Have fun and good luck to all of you!

And don't forget to leave a comment here for a chance to win Window Lala (above)!

Edited to add: Remember, if you want a chance to win the Big Prize package described above, you must leave your comment on the La-La Land Crafts blog with your guess as to how many new images are being released for Christmas!

You Make Me Happy!

Happy Sunday! Today is the day that the Lord hath made, let us rejoice and be glad in it! (Where did I hear that already today? The Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenge blog perhaps? Hee hee)

Yes, it's Sunday and that means it's time for a new challenge at Stampin' Sisters in Christ. My BBFF Kristine is this week's hostess, and she chose the scripture Psalm 97:1, The Lord reigns, let the earth rejoice!, let the distant shores be glad! The challenge is to show the "earth rejoicing"... flowers blooming, oceans roaring, trees bursting with fruit, mountains and hills 'clapping'... whatever comes to mind for you as long as your card or project shows the earth rejoicing.

What an awesome challenge! Too bad my mojo went on vacation just when I needed to make my challenge card. The one I ended up with is not what I had pictured in my head, but will have to do for now. I was just quite simply wiped out today. I think I got a touch of food poisoning. Not fun!

Nevertheless, I love the scripture and I love the challenge. Kris talks a lot in the challenge blog post about the blessing of worship songs, and I have to agree. Singing at church is one of my favorite parts of the service. The songs are always so moving. I also find them to be a huge source of comfort in times of stress, and a source of joy as I hum along with my day. One of my favorite praise songs is Shout to the Lord... "Mountains bow down and the seas will roar at the sound of your name!" Amen!

Remember when I said if you ever feel that your mojo is at a low ebb, find a good sketch and let it get you going? Well, I followed my own advice. My card is based on the Sketch 135 at Card Positioning Systems. I was too late for the prize drawing, but that wasn't the point... I just needed to jump start my creativity! (Too bad it sputtered after that! LOL)

The DP is Earth Love by Cosmo Cricket, which I thought of immediately when I heard Kris's challenge. The chipboard element is also by Cosmo Cricket. The greeting is by Unity Stamps. I distressed the layers with my edge tool and some brown ink.

I do hope you'll visit the Stampin' Sisters in Christ blog, read Kristine's challenge post, and meet our 7 new Design Team members. Those girls ROCK!!! I am so looking forward to getting to know them better. How blessed am I?

Thanks for stopping by. YOU make me happy!!! Have a very HAPPY day!

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps New Release Blog Hop and Scavenger Hunt!

Hello my friends, and welcome to another wonderful blog hop to debut two new stamp sets by Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps!!! Two stamps are being released today; one is called Baked With Love, which I used for my card, and for my sneak peak posted here. The other is Forget-Me-Not. You might recognize Forget-Me-Not since it was initially a digital stamp release, but now it's in rubber for your stamping pleasure! Click here to see the post of the card I created using the digi image of this set.

Each of these incredible stamp sets sells for the low price of $11.25. One lucky person will win both stamp sets by playing in our Blog Hop Scavenger Hunt. But you have to play today, because Korin will be drawing the winner tomorrow (Friday)! Start at the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps blog for all the details! Then hop around to visit my Design Team sisters to see what wonderful eye candy they have in store for you, and to pick up clues!

• Korin Sutherland
• Chris Dickinson
• Courtney Fowler
• Sandy Domelle
• Janette Olen
• Jeanette Comerford
• Teresa Kline
• Ceal Pritchett
• Deedee Anderson
• Lorie Souther
• Nancy Brown
• Leah Cornelius
• Shannon Pankow
• Belinda Chang

The clue assigned to me made me laugh. My eldest son Ian is always getting on me to eat healthier and lose weight. He nicknamed me Mrs. Butterworth one morning. Can you guess why? Okay, I could stand to lose some pounds, but that is not what he was referring to! {LOL} He called me that as he watched me spread BUTTER on my pancakes. Come on now, who doesn't love BUTTER??? And how can you eat pancakes without it!

Now on you go to find the rest of the clues! Enjoy the fun... and be sure to grab these stamp sets before they sell out. They are just too good to pass up! And while you're at it, check out the digi recipe cards that go perfectly with Baked With Love, and don't forget that today (Thursday) is FREE DIGI DAY so grab yours before it's gone!

With love from Mrs. Butterworth. Have a buttery day!

Yay!!!

OMGoodness, did this ever make my day!!! Yes, indeedy... I am so proud to be one of the winners at The Pink Elephant for Challenge #33, the card for which I posted here. Thank you to Lori Boyd, Robin Willis and all the Design Team girls at The Pink Elephant for this awesome honor! I have to say that's just the cutest darn badge, don't ya think? Big smiles and a thankful heart today.

Maya the Wise Wizard

Hello again! This is my second post for the day, so please scroll down to see the other.

If it's Wednesday, that also means it's time for the La-La Land Weekly Wednesday Challenge! This week, our five Guest Designers chose the challenge. Karin requested that we use two different patterned papers; Kimmi chose the color combo of red, brown and cream (I know my red is on the crimson side, and I ended up throwing in a bit of orange, but hopefully it qualifies!); Marcea asked us for some embossing... either dry or heat; Paul likes scallops; and Sue threw in paper piercing for good measure. Yikes, this was truly a challenge for me! I now have more respect for those of you who do several challenges at once... I've seen someone go as high as 22 challenges in one card. Yowser! I didn't even think there were 22 things you could do with a card! {LOL}

Never wanting to pass up a good sketch challenge myself, I used this week's Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge #84. My image is the very wise Wizard Maya. I colored her up with my Copics, and used my Buttermilk atYou Spica pen on the stars and moons in her robe.

The DP, cardstock and buttons are from a retired Taylored Expressions Key Ingredients kit... Cosmo Cricket DP and Prism cardstock. I checked and rechecked, and I believe I managed to meet all of the challenge requirements. Yay!

I hope you'll join us this week for our challenge. Come on now, be brave! If I did it, you certainly can!

Thanks for stopping by to visit. I hope you have a very wise day!

Witch Lala

Happy Wednesday! If it's Wednesday, that means it's time for another challenge at The Diedrich Dare!

This one is a sketch challenge by Jessica's son Jack. How cute! I hope he doesn't mind that instead of using stars and hearts, I used these cool Halloween buttons, part of the Taylored Expressions Halloween Key Ingredients Kit... also the source of the DP, cardstock and ribbon.

This super cute and whimsical stamp is Witch Lala from La-La Land Crafts. I just LOVE these images. They are also so much fun to color.

Be sure to pop by and see what the rest of The Daredevils have in store for you today using this sketch. And why not come along and play with us? It's fun!

Cassie Larson
Darla Wilson
Heather Schlatter
Jacquie Peifer
Jessica Diedrich
Kim Ross
Lisa Slusser
Rebecca Ednie
Taylor Usry

(Daredevils Debbie Lee and Sandra MacLean aren't able to play this week.)

Speaking of La-La Land Crafts, my next post will be for the La-La Land Weekly Wednesday Challenge, so stay tuned!

Hugs,

Ladybug Betty

I've always been a huge fan of Pink Cat Studio. Melissa draws the cutest images of Lily and Billy and cats and fairies and... the list goes on! Now she's opened the Pink Cat Studio Digi Stamps store, with all new characters that are just too cute for words! I LOVE digi stamps. It's instant gratification. Plus, they work great with Copics, my favorite coloring medium... and with watercolors, my other favorite way to color images. You just need to make sure you print on watercolor paper if you're going to watercolor, and it's always a good idea to heat set the ink before you get started.

Melissa has a great tutorial on using digi images that you might want to check out if you're new to working with digi stamps.

I'm also loving Cindy's sketches at Crazy 4 Challenges, and had to play again this week. The sketch was perfect for this sweet image of Itty Bitty Betty - Ladybug. (BTW, if you buy this digi image, you get Itty Bitty Betty - Ladybug w/the pumpkin candy basket as a bonus!)

The DP and brad are by Doodlebug Designs. For some reason, this paper makes me want to pull out my Janome Sew Mini and stitch! Betty is colored with my Copics, and I added a bit of sparkle here and there with my atYou Spica pens. I love how the background paper sparkles with glitter, too. I say you can't have too much sparkle!

Thank you so much for stopping by for a visit. I hope you have a very sparkly day!

I Won An Award!!!

Hey there! I just found out that I was one of the two winners of the Macabre Monday Challenge #006 - Perplexing Pigment Play - on Barb Foster's Haunted Design House Challenge Blog for my Please Feed The Monster card. Woo Hoo! (Thanks Patti, for cluing me into that challenge!) This award is especially sweet since Barb prefers spooky cards, while mine is definitely on the cutesy side. Thanks Barb!!! I shall display my badge with pride!

If you love Halloween, then you should pop over to the Haunted Design House blog. It's all Halloween all the time, with a new challenge every Monday! Spooky fun!