Lovely New La-La Land Crafts Images

Oh I'm just so excited! 

Why? I hear you ask!

Because I get to share with you news of the beautiful new images from La-La Land Crafts.  I almost fell off my chair when I first saw these new images, just the cutest! 

I'm busy colouring them at the moment and they are lovely, I particularly love Sugar n' Spice Marci, I'm such a sucker for any baking related stamps!

Well I thought you guys would wanna see all these cuties and the best news is that if you can not wait for the rubber stamps you can get the digi-stamps now over at the La-La Land Crafts blog.

~ DARLING MARCI ~

~ SWEETHEART MARCI ~

~ SUGAR N' SPICE MARCI ~

and ~ AMOUR LUKA ~

Let me know if you have coloured any of these beauties in, you know me, always up for a good nose at all the gorgeous work everyone does!

Containing my excitement, off to do some work now...

Catch you later!

Make The Day Special Baby Hanger

Ok so we are now 4 days into the New Year...how many of those resolutions/ life-style changes have you kept too? Oh how we struggle to become better people with the New Year! I'm pacing myself this year, that is my New Year's resolution to pace my life-style improvements over the whole year and not just in the first two weeks of January, this works particularly well if you still have Christmas chocolates left over - *Big Grin!*

Tee Hee!

A make for you today using the Unity and Cosmo Cricket cross-over - De-lovely Childhood stamp kit  available over at Make The Day Special. I've made a little hanger for baby's door.

Good luck with your resolutions / life-style changes!

Thanks for popping in.

Kimx

Thank You Cards For 2011

Happy New Year All, here is my first La-La Land Crafts make of 2011 and I've used the lovely Marci with Rose for a thank you card. You can get her as rubber stamp or as a digi-stamp.

I've used the lovely Meadowlark Dawn papers from My Mind's Eye available at Quixotic Paperie.

Just trying to get use to it being 2011!

Have a wonderful week.

Kim

My Favourite Makes 2010

Hi Guys, we are at the eve of a New Year and it is only natural that we want to look back over the passing Year. I love hopping around people's blogs at this time of year to see all their favourite makes and I've picked some of my favourites for 2010 to have them in one place. 

I was happy to find that I had a few favourites from 2010, you know how it is, sometimes you love what you do and sometimes you hate it (and sometimes both - do you get that?)!

 This year I found it quite hard to pick just 10 to show but I had to have a cut off point somewhere!

Enchanted Seamstress Picture from October

Mixed Media Gift Box from August

Life Tree Card from August

Live It Journal Page from September

Timely Rose Card from October

Walk In The Park Notebook from October

Had A Bad Day? Card from May

Mini-Us Anniversary Card from October 

Curiouser And Curiouser! Altered Book Page from April

Simply Handmade Card from June

It is fun to see how the work develops and the direction it goes through the year. A lot of my favourite makes seem to fall within the second half of this year. 

All years have their creative ups and downs, as I am finding out, and I definitely feel that I had a positive creative jolt in the second half of this year. I put a large portion of this change in my work down to starting to explore art journalling and a change in my own creative mindset. 

So it has definitely been a challengeing and interesting year for me. I look forward to seeing where it goes next year not just for me but for all of my crafty/arty bloggy friends, just the best creative community and I'm so happy to be a part of it!

Thank you for popping by and do leave me links to your 2010 catch-up posts so I can have a good nose :)

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Cute Card Thursday Thank You!

Cute Card Thursday is helping us all out this week with the fabulous challenge of

Thank You!

How are your Thank You cards going? I have one here, a really simple one!

She is the super, super cute The Greeting Farm Cheeky Cherry Cherry Pie available over at Quioxtic Paperie. Oh so pretty, isn't she lovely? Yep, another one of my favourites!

Thank you for popping by.

Have a fun and relaxing week.

Kim

Last Minute Bargains

Only a few days left to grab a bargain before The Altered Element closes it doors for the last time!

Recycled Painty Heart

Oh I do like a bit of messy paint, as you know! So I've got a bit painty mad using the Unity Kisses and Wishes stamp set.

Lots of fabulous recycling for this one, some packing and old sewing patterns all recycled!

So what you all up to during the Christmas week?

Have a great Painty Heart day.

Kim

New Presents For Luka

Hope you and your family enjoyed your Christmas weekend. Now it is back to crafting! Tee Hee!

I have my Cute Card Thursday make to show you today. We have a fabulous sketch challenge on the go this week and I've used Luka with his new toy truck which you can get from La-La Land Crafts as rubber stamps or digi-stamps.

I've matched Luka with Pink Paislee Paper from Quixotic Paperie and the stitching was my first play with the Sew Easy Tool with the Cross Head.

Enjoy your Christmas week and crafting :)

Kim

Scribble Technique

Want to know how I got the colouring on this Christmas Tag using ZIG pens from Kuretake?

It is a fabulous colouring technique which I'm calling the Scribble technique.

You will need:

A craft mat or non-stick surface

ZIG Pens in this case I've used the ZIG Calligraphy pens

A spray bottle with water

Heat tool

Card

Scribble the pen onto the craft mat or non-stick surface and spritz with water.

Layer the card on top of the coloured droplets and lift off then dry with the heat tool. Repeat until you have the look you want.

Try getting different patterns, if you swirl the card in the droplets, or the droplets are big you will get a more even coverage of the colour. If the droplets are small and you touch down and lift off without swirling then you will get a more patterned look. 

Have fun with this one!

Kim

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With Love At Christmas

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Wishing you all a completely wonderful day.

ps. if you wanted to see how to make this little tag it is up on the Kuretuke website!

Edit: This tutorial is now on my blog.

Waiting By The Christmas Tree

Santa is putting on his suit, the elves are packing up the sledge, the reindeer are warming up  - it's Christmas Eve! 

I hope you have got all your presents including the ones for the pets? My pet cat - Squeaky would hunt under the tree 'til she found her present then she would sit with it waiting patiently until Christmas morning. Bless her, how she knew that gift was for her I will never know. It wasn't always a smelly pressy - I could understand her finding that! I think she read all the gift tags :)

So here is a Christmas make for the pets! The tree and pet stamp and the sentiment are both from Scrolls Work and I've used a touch of watercolouring with distress inks to give the subtle colours.

When is Santa coming? 

So what time can I go to bed? 

Can I go to bed now? 

Please? 

Tee Hee!

Have a wonderful Christmas Eve.

More Snowflakes Falling?

So we are almost there! Not long to go now! Are we taking bets for a White Christmas? What do you reckon? Will you have snow on Christmas Day where you are?

I've been all snowy with my snowflake makes recently, this one uses the CC Designs Snowflake Stamp kit available over at Quixotic Paperie with the sentiment from the Unity Itty Bitty Merry and Bright stamp available at Make The Day Special.

Hope all is Merry and Bright with you.

Kim

Summer Turned To Winter

Yep, more Christmas cards and this one today is from {Ippity}.

You might recognise the image from the Ippity Summer 2010 release? A Summer stamp on a Christmas card?  Yep, add a bit of snow and there you have it a Summer image turned to Winter.

I do love this stamp - so versatile :)

Have a lovely snowy day!

Kim

Just For You On La-La Land Crafts Monday

A bright card for Winter using the super cute Winter Marci from La-La Land Crafts that you can get as a rubber stamp or as a digi-stamp.

Doesn't she look nice and warm? 

Hope you are staying warm where you are.

Kim

Is It Snowing?

Has anyone got any snow? How snowy is it where you are? We are have lots of snow, watched it go from snow-free to a blanket of thick snow in two hours yesterday. I've captured a snowflake here to go with all the snow outside! A large decorated Tando Creative Snowflake available over at Quixotic Paperie.

I've decorated it using some Christmas paper and inks and added one of the sentiments from the CC Designs Snowflake Stamp kit then finished it with some Viva Decor Glitter Liner to add that touch of icy sparkle.

Elaine has lots of fab new products in Quixotic Paperie including some new very cute SCACD stamps. Also you might like to know that you can get

FREE P&P ON UK ORDERS OVER £30

16TH DECEMBER - 20TH DECEMBER

Last posting before Christmas will be 4pm on Monday 20th December, so get those last minute orders in now! 

Enjoy your snowy day!

Kim