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Hello everyone! It is time for another challenge at The Craft Garden where our theme this month is a picture. For my card I have used one of the gorgeous La-La Land Crafts stamps (I am obsessed with this stamp range!) and I coloured her with copics. My sentiment is from Whimsy Stamps and I have also used some dies from Magnolia.

 

Purple Christmas!

Hard to believe but I am now starting to make Christmas cards! Wow, the year has flown by! We are onto another challenge at Hooked On Craft Challenges and our challenge this time is 'Christmas - no red or green'. I have made a card for a friend who loves the colour purple, so I have made a nice purple and blue themed card. My image is one of the gorgeous stamps from La-La Land and she is called 'Christmas Elf Marci'. I have coloured Marci with copics and added lots of glitter and glossy accents. My 'wish list' is a stamp from Whimsy Stamps and I embossed it with pretty purple embossing powder. My corners are also from Whimsy Stamps and I cut them out with glitter paper (can't get enough glitter on my cards!). As always my beautiful flowers and rose buds are from the fabulous Hooked On Craft.

Please join us at Hooked On Craft Challenges for our 'Christmas - no red or green' challenge!

My card:

Inside of my card (I kept it simple):

Side view of my card:

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

- La-La Land Customer Gallery 

- The Crafty Pad Designs. Challenge #194; Christmas is coming

- One Stitch At A Time Challenge Blog. Challenge #137; make 1 for Christmas

- Crafty Ann's Challenge Blog. Challenge #77; Christmas in October

- Just Keep On Creating. Challenge #4; anything goes

Marci And Her Panda!

Here is a card I have made just for fun! I have used one the gorgoeus stamps from La La Land Crafts called 'big panda Marci' and I have coloured her with copics and I added a touch of spicas for added sparkle. My sentiment is from Cuddly Buddly. I have also used a Martha Stewart border punch (at the sides of my ribbon and my tag), spellbinders, and my Magnolia Doohickey swirl die (oh how I love this die!). I finished my card off with some sparkly dragonflies, butterflies and bling.

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

- Sweet Sketch Wednesday. Challenge #149
- La-La Land Crafts. April customer gallery
- Totally Gorjuss. Challenge #127; bling
- 7 Kids College Fund. Challenge #45; die cuts/punches

 

Sunny Australian Christmas!

Here is a couple of Christmas cards I made for some friends featuring two very cute stamps from La La Land Crafts; 'sunny Christmas Marci' and 'sunny Christmas Luka'. Here in Australia it is usually hot on Christmas day so when I saw these two 'sunny' looking Christmas stamps I knew I had to get them! I have coloured my stamps in with copics and added some glitter for sparkle (I seem to be using glitter a lot lately; I love glitter!). My circular sentiments are free from Bizzy Becs Store Blog. The design of my two cards is called a 'telescoping card'  which is an expanding layered card and I followed a tutorial on Splitcoaststampers. Telescoping cards are so much fun; I made a lot of them this Christmas!

I am entering my cards into the following challenges:
- La La Land Crafts. December customer gallery
- Paper Sundaes. Challenge #100; celebrate!
- Drunken Stampers. Challenge #80; glittery holiday
- Totally Gorjuss. Challenge #111; for someone special
- Card Making Mamas. Challenge #35; Christmas
- Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge. Challenge #52; monochromatic and sparkle

 My cards closed:

Middle section expanded.You can write a message in this section of the card:

 Close up of the bottom section of my cards with the cute stamps:

My two cards fully expanded:

Princess Meets Her Prince!

Here is a stair-style card I have made featuring two of the gorgeous stamps from La-La Land Crafts; Princess Marci and Prince Luka. I just adore La-La Land Crafts stamps, and I must confess, I own a lot of them now! But I just can't resist; they are too cute! I coloured Marci and Luka with copics and added some bling to them (I felt that Luka's crown was calling out for bling!) I cut out the castle and the cute unicorn in the background of my card using my Cricut and 'once upon a princess' cartridge.

Hope you like my card!

I am entering my card into the following challenges:
- La-La Land Crafts. November customer gallery
- Moving Along With The Times. Fairy Tale Cards
- Our Craft Lounge. Challenge 91; Once upon a time
- Charisma Cardz Challenges!. Challenge #44; Cutesy

 Background of my card; princess castle and a unicorn!:

Side view of my step card:

Trick Or Treat!

Halloween is coming and I am so excited! I love all the fun spooky things and all the delicious lollies and chocolates! I also love playing with my Halloween stamps. Here is a Halloween side-step card I have made featuring the very cute 'skeleton Luka' from La-La Land Crafts. I have coloured him with copics and added some glossy accents to his treat bag and hat. My halloween haunted house was cut out on my Cricut using my 'mini monsters' cartridge. My spooky lamp post and grave were also cut out on my Cricut and I distressed the edges with Tim Holtz distress ink in 'walnut stain'.

Please let me know what you think!

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

- La-La Land Crafts. October customer gallery

- Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog. Halloween / Goth

- 7 Kids College Fund Challenge Blog. Challege #32; Happy Halloween

- Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenges. Fall or Halloween

- Creative Card Crew. Spooky fun

- Stamping Scrapping Challenge Central. Halloween

- Cupcake Inspirations. Challenge #131 (I picked the Halloween cake!)

 Side view of my side-step card:

It's Getting Cold Outside!

It is starting to get a bit cooler here in Melbourne, Australia so I thought I would make a winter card! I have used the very sweet 'winter marci' from La-La Land Crafts. I just love these stamps, they are so cute and fun to colour as well. I fear it may not be much longer till I accidently buy all of them...... I have used my new Prismacolour pencils to colour her (only my second go with these pencils, but i'm loving them!). My mesh ribbon, bud and bow ribbon (how awesome is that ribbon? I love it!), tiny bow, flowers, and leaves are all from Hooked On Craft. I thought I would have another go at distressing, so I have distressed the edges of my card with a 'Heidi Swapp edge distresser'. I'm glad I purchased it because it is cheap, easy to use, and it works well!

Stay warm everybody!

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

- Sweet Sketch Wednesday; Challenge #102. Love this sketch challenge blog! The design team always leave me such lovely comments too - thanks ladies! :-)
- La-La Land; Customer gallery for May 2011
- Creative Craft Challenges; Vintage and/or distressed
- Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog; Challenge #28 No sentiment
- Cupcake Inspirations; Challenge #111. Some delicious looking photos of cupcakes with blues, whites and pale greens in an 'outdoors' theme. The pictures of the cupcakes on this challenge blog always make me drool.....yummy! Now, if you will excuse me i'm off to find myself some yummy cupcakes to eat!

Julia The Purple Ballerina!

I have made this card for my friend Julia becuase it is her birthday today! Happy birthday Julia!
My stamp is one from a range of stamps called La-La Land Crafts that I discovered last weekend when I went to a craft show. When I saw them I knew I was going to have to buy heaps of them and by the time I left the craft show I had accidently purchased 6 of them! This sweet little ballerina is called 'Marci Ballerina' and she is just gorgeous. I coloured her with copics and added a row of little pearls in her hair. My friend has lovely long black hair and her favourite colour is purple so I tried to colour the stamp to look like her. My flowers are spritzed with Glimmer Mist in 'timeless lilac', 'creme de rouge' and 'spring rain' (yes, I am obsessed with glimmer mist too and I am too scared to count exactly how many I have purchased....). I also used lace, ribbon, pearls, bling and gorgeous deep purple glitter paper.

Let me know what you think!

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

- Friday Sketchers; Sketch #147
- Simon Says Stamp Challenge; Mother's Day/Girly Challenge
- Fab n' Funky Challenges; 'Do it more than once..!'
- Pile It On; 'Pearls and Rhinestone and Bling, Oh my!'
- La-La Land Crafts; March customer gallery
- Allsorts Challenge Blog; For a Special Lady
- Cupcake Craft Challenges; Monocramatic

Top view of my easel-style card:

Close up of the top of the easel card:

Close up of the bottom section of the easel card:

Happy Birthday Julia!:

Side view: