Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Challenge day at La La Land Crafts

Are you ready for today's challenge over at La La Land Crafts?  
Lori has challenged us to make a card using black and white with a pop of color.  The pop of color from my understanding is to be one color and/or shades of one color, I hope I did this right!  

Right or not I had a really good time making my card!  
I thought La La with the rose would be perfect for this project, I imagined her rose to be the pop of color and I'm really liking BG11, 13 & 18 with black.  My La La is a digital image so I made her just the size I wanted  to fit into the Spellbinders Labels 10 die I wanted to use.  After coloring her, I used the Waltzing Mouse Vintage Labels 10 stamp set to stamp the dots around her then cut her out with the die.  I'm living dangerously, I know...  I should know better, I'm really disappointed when I mess one of those up too.  

After all that I looked through my pads of designer papers and found the perfect match to her rose, I just had to find some black or black and white pattered paper from my stash.  I used a sketch I'd saved from a Stamping Bella challenge in June and really like the way it all came together.  The black panel is embossed with a Papertrey Ink floral embossing plate and I made an insert for the envelope out of the leftover patterned paper using the Papertrey Ink die for that.  I love the look of an envelope with a liner, very fancy!

Lori used Bubble La La for her challenge card this week so she's 20% off this week at La La Land Crafts!

Challenges my card is entered into:
Crafty Hos' - Black White & ______
Penny's Paper Crafting Challenge - 7 of Something
Danni's Dreams - Layers

11 comments:

Cheryl Valadez said...

Jan, this is fab! Lala looks wonderful and I love that sketch! I may have to borrow that one later ;D The little dots inside the die cut are such an awesome detail! You're right, you do like to live dangerously. I would have made a complete mess of it...hehehe! PLUS, those little pearls along the side are just the right finishing touch!

Eva said...

Jan, this is just too cute!!! Love your coloring! I am learning so much from you guys!!!

Rae Anne said...

OMG. . .Gorgeous!!! I love that turquoise/teal color with the black, and the image is darling! Thanks so much for working the corner with The Crafty Hos! :D MWAH!

Jana Weaver said...

Gorgeous!!! Love all teh shading on her hair, and details you've added. It's a beautiful card and perfect for this challenge!

Karen said...

Super duper cool La La and loving that bit of blue! Love this Jan!!

1LuvnMama said...

Wonderful and fabulous! Luv how you incorporated the envelope to go with the card! You did an amazing job!

Unknown said...

How totally sweet, Jan! Wonderful card!

Kristine said...

Beautiful card! I just LOVE your pretty papers and colors and this LaLa is one of my faves *Ü* Great job with this challenge!!

Karen Howard said...

Wow, this is really stunning! I love the papers you used and the coloring is fantastic!

Courtney said...

What a great card! Thanks for playing along with our 7's challenge at Penny's!

~Courtney~
PPCC DT

Tammy Miller said...

What a great card! I just love it! Thanks for joining us this week at The Crafty Ho’s Challenge blog! Hope to see you again for our next challenge!