Fancy Marci - Colour Challenge at La-La Land

Good Morning and happy Monday everyone, if you're in the UK I hope you've dried off a bit from the awful weather yesterday (of course this is scheduled so it might be awful today as well lol).

Apart from the weather I have had a simply wonderful weekend.  I had the mojo flowing and got 3 projects made (a good side effect of the bed weather and keeping indoors) and when I got up on Saturday morning I had a message to tell me that I'd been chosen to Guest Design for Little Darlings Rubber stamps for their new release of  Saturated Canary stamps!!  2 never before seen stamps are now winging their way to little old me.  Just a couple of projects to make which is perfect cos I have such a busy time coming up over the next few months.

I'm at work as this goes live but then I have 4 days off work because it's my baby girl's birthday today (I say baby, she's 25 now, but she'll always be MY baby) and she's coming to spend a few days with her Mum : ) WoooHoo!!

Anyway onto the reason I'm here and as usual on a Monday I'm bringing you my inspiration post as GDT for La-La Land Crafts.  Today our theme is a colour challenge, and I've put the inspiration pic at the end of my post so you can play along.

La-La Land Craft Item's Used:

Fancy Marci

Birdcage Die

Heart Doily Die

Dress Form Die

Lattice Border Die

Fancy Bracket Die

Lattice Doily Border Die

Fancy Butterfly Die

As soon as I saw the colours in the inspiration pic I knew exactly the papers I wanted to use, the new Coffee in the Arbour collection from Maja Design has some papers which are the perfect colours! As usual I've inked and hand stitched all my layers.

I thought Fancy Marci would look really good in these colours so I coloured her up with my Copics for easy colour matching.

Colours used:

Skin: E04, E11, E21, E00, E000, R20

Hair: E50, Y23, YR21, E33, E37

Clothing: RV10, RV91, RV93, RV95, RV99, G21, G82, G85

Apart from the dies which are all available at Dies to Die for (except the new ones which should be in stock soon),  I added some seam binding , flowers and flat back pearls from The Ribbon Girl and some lace from Live and Love Crafts.

This was the photo we had for colour inspiration

Do pop over to the blog to check out the rest of Team Monday's makes, I have to say I think this is a particularly good week for us, all of the girls creations look super stunning!  Also if you're on Facebook don't forget to join in the fun in our group here.

Why not have a try using these colours and see what happens?  We'd love to see the results!

That's all from me today, don't forget I've moved my posting day for Dies to Die for from Tuesday to Friday, so I'll see you again then.  Have fun! : ) x x

Vintage Violet at Dies to Die for

Happy Tuesday crafters!  I'm very happy to be here today to share my inspiration post with you because I really love the way this turned out, you know how sometimes you see something on someone's blog or FB and you think, wow, I would love to be able to make something like that....well when I finished this card I felt almost like that except it was my own work!  I hope that doesn't sound too vain, I'm just sooo happy with this one, it really is one of my best ever works (in my opinion).

Soooo what did I make?  Well some time ago now Tracy sent me some lovely Carta Bella papers, Sew Lovely  and though I really like them, I really wasn't coming up with any inspiration for using them.  Then more recently I received a die set Stitched with Love  by Taylored Expressions in my DT pack to play with, I decided they were made for each other and put them together with Vintage Violet by Saturated Canary from Little Darlings Rubber Stamps.  Now I know there's nothing on this stamp to do with sewing, but she always makes me feel like she puts her outfits together from vintage buys on an old sewing machine.

Anyway, here's what I made putting them all together.

I also added a Memory Box Button Border at the top of my card. I've distressed and inked all my papers and hand stitched them with top stitch thread. Violet is coloured with distress ink, pads and markers.

Colours used:

Hair: Antique Linen and Broken Twigs

Skin: Tattered Rose, Tea Dye and Vintage Photo

Clothing Spun Sugar, Victorian Velvet, Peacock Feathers, Black Soot

Shadow: Pumice Stone.

I cut her out with a Spellbinders Reverse Wonky Rectangles nestie and popped a little cheese cloth behind my layers.

 The Satin ribbon, lace, flowers,pins and pearls are from The Ribbon Girl and the tape measure ribbon is by Kaiserkraft and was a gift.

I cut all the dies cut pieces from a sheet of Bazill Basic, I'm sorry but I can't remember which colour this was, and then backed them with plain white card stock, this makes them less bendy.

I hope you like my make for today as much as I do, I only hope I can do as well on the next one!!

Just to let you know that from next week I'll be saying 'Happy Friday' as I'll be changing my posting day for Dies to Die for from a Tuesday to a Friday as this evens out my week a little more.

That's all from me for today, but I'll see you again next week, have fun! : ) x x

Totally Tilda Candy Winner

Just a super quick hi from me to announce the winner of my candy for our 100th Challenge over at Totally Tilda.

I used the old Random.org to pick my winner and it chose ..........ta da!...........

Cinderella

Congratulations! Please contact me at linda.levoir@gmail.com with your mailing address, and I'll pop your prize in the post to you.