Hey, Hey....It's CCEE day!

It has been awhile....too long since I have participated in a CCEE challenge.

I LOVE these gals! Today--we did double duty!
You can check out the AWESOMENESS that my fellow CCEEers created HERE.

This week's (first) challenge was the CNFS challenge (Catchy Name Featured Stamper), this is where the hostess for the month picks someone over on SCS who has a catchy user name. We then have to create our card around that name and any instructions that the hostess has given us for that particular challenge. This month Tosh has selected Sparklegirl aka Silke Ledlow. I just adore Silke's beautiful clean designs. Tosh's instructions were to make a Square card, and include a girl, some sparkle, and true to Silke’s style, a lot of white space. There’s a twist too. Since her name has the word Silk in it, you must use the Faux Silk technique found on here on Splitcoast Stampers.

Here is my card-----
For this card I used Flopsey's Flowers (My Favorite Things) and the (cropped) sentiment from Snow Bunny Flopsey (MFT). I stamped the bunny twice and then stamped the flower section a few more times on designer paper. I cut out the flowers to layer them in the bunny's hands and then added some more of the flowers to the grass so it looks like she is in a field of flowers. I added some crystal stickles to each of the flowers so they really sparkle.

Rules I followed:
1. Make a Card for Silke with a girl on it. Yes...that rabbit is female!
2. Make a square card. Well....even though every rectangle is not a square-----every square is a rectangle. In geometry, a rectangle is defined as a quadrilateral where all four of its angles are right angles. So.....I am calling this a square card! (heehee!)
3. Add sparkle *check out the sparkle on all those flowers....!
4. Lots of white space. Yep!

Rule I didn't follow:
1. Oopsie---forgot the faux silk.

Everyone knows I can't follow that many rules.....but four out of five ain't bad! SNORT!

Materials used: Stamps-Flopsey's Flowers, Snow Bunny Flopsey (My Favorite Things); Memento black ink; Copic markers; designer paper- Jack's World; Strip Tease (Cosmo Cricket); cardstock-pure luxury white (Gina K Designs); ribbon-American Crafts; corner rounder punch (Creative Memories).

Our second challenge: Today is Cindy Motherway's (Mothermark) birthday and we all wanted to do something special to celebrate the occasion!
As many of you may know, Cindy loves teapots and she also loves polka dots ..... so what better way to celebrate then to create a card with either or both of these items on it.
Here is my card:
Followed the rules on this one! Woohoo!
I drew a teapot and used it as a template to create this. After I cut out my design, I used Copic markers to add shading.
Then, I stamped a flower from A Year of Flowers (Gina K Designs) and colored it in...trying to mimic a decorative porcelain tea pot. I added a little tag with the sentiment from Tropical Windows (Gina K. Designs).
This card opens at the top. Happy Birthday sweet CINDY! xoxo

Materials used: teapot template (Carolyn King); stamps- A Year of Flowers, Tropical Windows (Gina K Designs); hemp; Memento black ink; white pure luxury cardstock (Gina K Designs); Copic markers; eyelet (Making Memories); Cropadile.

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Grandma OVER Board

It's Monday and time for another CCEE Challenge. This week is the CNFS (Catchy Name Featured Stamper) where we feature someone who has a catchy user name over on SCS.

This week Cindy chose Grandma Overboard. Here are Cindy's instructions: Your card must have a Grandma Overboard on it. She could have fallen out of a boat, off the stage, out of the tree, off of a flower, into the pool, off your card, into an oval, off of a building, off of a horse, out of a sleigh, out of an airplane, etc. etc. etc. She just has to be overboard!! Cindy also warned us that if we were thinking of cheating and just putting the words Grandma Overboard on our card, then those words have to be falling off/out of something!

No problem!

Grandma

OVER

Board

I decided to put the fun grandma driving stamp from You Know You're Old When (Gina K Designs) over a board. The board is just a piece of cut designer paper that has some wood grain on it. I sponged a bit of Tea Dye (Ranger) ink around the edges of it before adhering it to the card. The sentiment is from Tropical Windows (Gina K Designs).

You can check out all the other interpretations of this challenge HERE!

Tonight: Gina K Designs PREVIEWS begin!

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A Moon-y CCEE Challenge

Hi Ya'll!!!
Today, it is time for a CCEE Challenge. I am sooo thrilled to be able to (finally!) play with my CCEE buddies again.
This week the challenge was to create a card with a moon on it! (Gosh, I just LOVE when Cindy does the challenges...heehee!)

I was in a halloween-y mood so here is what I came up with: I used two Gina K Designs sets for this card---Happy Haunting and Spooky Silhouettes. I paper pieced the moon from the background paper so that it would be the focus for the card---cause...that is the challenge and I ALWAYS play by the rules! Giggle!

All of the paper from this card is from my scrap bin--woohoo!!! I always forget to look in that thing :)

You can check out all of the other fantabulous CCEE girls cards HERE!!!

****Be sure to stop by tomorrow---my sweet daughter Cara is hosting a challenge on my blog to win a FREE GINA K STAMP set! See you then!

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Shiver Me Timbers...it's time for a CCEE Challenge!

Hi everyone! Good luck to everyone who entered the PaperCrafts giveaway!!! I hope you ALL win!
Today it is time for another CCEE Challenge. This week we had to "use a die, a tool, or embellishment" that we haven't used in a long time.

Well, I figured it was high time to ink up this adorable set from The Cat's Pajamas--Arrgh! Piratey.
Since I just got it..I haven't used it in awhile (giggle) :) Also, I used some fun tab tops on this card--something I did VERY often about a year ago and I always forget about doing it these days.
Finally, I wanted to challenge myself to NOT use designer paper (aside from the water of course!), since I tend to use it a lot to create the background of my cards. I used Weathered background stamp to stamp the caramel cardstock. Then I just layered the images on the front panel.

The pirate ship is another thing I have only used one time...so I thought I would throw that onto the card as well!!!

Hope you will play along in the challenge! You can see all the other CCEEers cards HERE!

Materials used: Stamps- Arrgh! Piratey (The Cat's Pajamas), Weathered (SU!); ink-Memento tuxedo black, Ranger tea dye distress ink; cardstock-caramel (Stampin' Up!), chocolate, vanilla, white (Gina K Pure Luxury); gold, platinum stickles (Ranger); eyelets (Making Memories); brads (Making Memories); hemp (Hobby Lobby); oval punch (SU!); pirate ship die (Quic Kutz); Cuttlebug (Provocraft); dimensionals; Copic markers.

In other news: My computer is slowly dying. I bought a new one so I will be working on setting it up for the next few days....yipes...I hate learning new programs but it is MUCH needed.

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The Celebration Continues....and a CCEE sneak peek!

BLOG CANDY WINNER: Rita said...
I luv all the stars on this thank you card!I can't wait to see the new Gina K stamps & all your creations. I heard you have a new stamp set coming out too! Congrats!Hello! Happy Sunday!
Congrats Rita!

We are enjoying our company--my parents are in and my kids are keeping them on their toes! (heehee!)

I am sooo excited for this week.....Gina K Designs previews start TOMORROW!!! Wait till you see the SEVEN new sets being released on Thursday. Definitely something for everyone! Check back for peeks at all the new sets and, of course, my week long celebration will continue throughout it all!
<---For now, here is a peek at my sketch card for our weekly CCEE Challenge. Cindy H. is the hostess with the mostest this month. Check out the CCEE Blog on Monday for all the wondermous challenge cards and play along!

Oh....and remember.....you have until TONIGHT at 8 p.m. CENTRAL time to comment on the post below to win the set of Spellbinders Nestabilities!! (Some of your guesses are making me giggle!)

Today, let the celebration continue with some more Blog Candy! Leave a comment on this post and you will be entered to win a STAMP SET OF YOUR CHOICE from My Favorite Things! You have until Tuesday night at 8 p.m. Central time to be entered. Random.Cara will select the winner and I will post it on Wednesday. You will have three days to claim your prize. (Subscribers are always welcome to post twice!)

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A BIG funny....

I was working on a recent pub call and created this card.
It made me chuckle (out loud in my office).....so my husband and daughter came to see what I was laughing about....
Hubby: What are you laughing at?
Me: This card. Do you get it????--Meet the frog under the mistletoe ...one kiss...and you have a prince. What a cool Christmas gift!
Hubby: They aren't going to get it.
DD: I think it is funny, mom. I bet they accept it.

I used my JustRite Harmony Rectangular Stamper and Brayton font to create the sentiment.

Here is where the story gets even funnier:
This card didn't get picked up but I was emailing the editor about something that was picked up and I just had to ask if she "got" it---

Me: So did you get the card with the frog that says "Meet Me Under the Mistletoe"
Editor: Oh yes, we got it. Sorry that it wasn't accepted.

Doh! I realized my mistake as soon as I hit the "Send" button. I wanted to know if they understood the humor of it not if they received the submission.
Now...I REALLY think this card is funny! (hee!)

Luckily, I take rejection very well---the publication kind anyway. That editor probably now thinks I am C*R*A*Z*Y! ---->How many times do we have to reject a project???

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It's Monday and time for another CCEE challenge. We all received some stamped images and designer paper from Stamps and Smiles and had to make a card with them. Unfortunately, the stamped images I received bled a little when I tried to color them with Copics so mine didn't do the image justice!
You can check out all CCEE cards HERE! Hope you will play along!


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Happy HOOTS Day!

Still digging out of all the vacation laundry....

but I wanted to take a moment to post my card that I created for this week's CCEE challenge. This week Frances wanted us to make Scraplings (cards created from the left over cardstock when cutting larger cards). But....since her birthday is tomorrow...we all decided to make her birthday cards instead (heehee!)

Here is mine:
Happy Birthday, Hoots! Hope it is a great one! (I know, I know...I get the buzzer..what else is new?!)

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KNIGHT not NIGHT and a COLOR challenge

Hello everyone! It's Monday again and time for another CCEE challenge. This week is the Catchy Name Featured Stamper challenge--where we select a person who has a "catchy" sign-on name on Splitcoaststampers and make cards for him and her based on that name.

This week Frances chose Jessie Rone (Knightrone). So, we had to make a card with a "KNIGHT" not a "Night" (as I was told many many times)! Giggle. No problem!

Here is my card:

Double points---because I have lots of "knight"s on my card and it is at night! (Just covering all the bases here!) Nanner, nanner, nanner girls---they were all waiting for me to mess this one up!

I used Kim Hughes' adorable Twinks the Owl for the main image and set him on a die cut flourish with the moon behind him. I typed out the bottom of the card on my computer interchanging "Night" and "Knight". I used the fabulous Harmony Rectangular Stamper Set from JustRite and the Brayton Font for the sentiment. I love how I can customize any card with this thing. Cannot wait to get my hands on the new vertical stamper so I can make sentiments along the side! You can find lots of JustRite products at Stamper's Dream (and at great prices too!)

You can see all the other fabulous KNIGHT cards on the CCEE BLOG!
Materials used: Stamps-Twinks the Owl (Kim Hughes); Brayton Font and Harmony Rectangular Stamper (JustRite); cardstock-black, white (Gina K Pure Luxury); Designer paper-Homespun (Memory Box); Cuttlebug and dots embossing folder (Provocraft); ribbon (Gina K Designs); Circle die (Spellbinders); computer; Copic markers; star punch (SU!); small star punch; QuicKutz flourish die; dimensionals (SU!).


Wanna Win a Stamp Set??
This week starts the previews of the newest Gina K Designs stamps sets. The "official" previews will begin tomorrow, but for today...here is a peek at some new digital paper that will be released. It is designed by Emily Giovanni! Isn't it beautiful?

Wanna will a stamp set worth $19.95 or less? Come on over to Stamp TV and play in my color challenge today. A random winner will be selected from all the participants next Monday! What have you got to lose?

The color challenge is to use black and any combination of pinks and reds that you would like. That is it! Easy!

You can find the challenge information HERE! Hope you will play along!

Materials used: Elegant Flowers, Botanical Dreams (Gina K Designs); Cardstock-black (pure luxury-Gina K Designs); Memento black ink; Digital paper-Rich & Shabby (designed by Emily Giovanni for Gina K Designs): ribbon (Gina K Designs); brads (Gina K Designs); Frame die (QuicKutz); corner rounder punch (Creative Memories).

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CCEE Challenge and Thanks Papertrey

Hello and Happy Monday! This is a busy week. Today, I wanted to start off by thanking another fabulous company that helped with the Heart to Heart Card fundraiser for Caregivers of Alzheimer's disease. *Yep! Still thanking all the fabulous companies who generously donated to the cause.

Today---I want to say thank you to Papertrey Ink.

I recently picked up Damask Designs which was designed by the awesome Dawn McVey for Papertrey, so I decided to use it for my Monday CCEE challenge. This week we had to use adhesive address labels on our cards. Easy enough! I stamped the damask pattern on each label and then peeled them and stuck them to the black matted cardstock. I stamped another damask design and then used the small circle punch (SU!) to punch the design and add it onto a brad:
I love how dramatic the black and white looks. Check out all the other label-ed creations on the CCEE blog! Hope you will play along.

And here is another card I created with the Damask Designs. When I first saw this large image, I immediately thought of a chandelier. So.....I created a simple one layer card with that large image as the main focus. After stamping the design, I added some darker parts with a black marker (kind of representing shadows that all chandeliers give off). Then I used some Mark Richards tiny black crystal stickers to add the chain and some interest to the chandelier itself.

I used a larger black crystal sticker in the center. Finally, I stamped the sentiment, added some more crystal stickers around it and then tied the ribbon (Berry Sorbet) to the top.

Think it looks like a chandelier?

THANK YOU so much Nichole and Papertrey Ink for generously donating to a very worthy cause. I will never forget your willingness to help. I am so grateful.

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Coming this week:

***TOMMORROW: I will begin showing MFTeasers of the new sets that will be released on Wednesday from My Favorite Things!

***Did you see? MFT is having an Idol Contest! Check out the IDOL thread HERE for all the details on how you can enter to win a $250 shopping spree!

***SU Blog Candy! New to you---15 sets need a new home. Stay tuned for this subscriber-only blog candy.

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A STINKY challenge

OOPSIE! I hit the post instead of the schedule button so this published early! Instead of deleting it...just pretend that you are reading this on Monday! K?

It's Monday (again!--doesn't there seem to be a few in a week?) and time for another CCEE challenge. This week was a supplies challenge and Tosh sent out the skunk image (Pun Fun- SU!), the scalloped ribbon, the dp, a set of sentiments and the die cuts to each of us.

We were to make a card using all the supplies and send it (optional) to Laurie, who HATES skunks (I am right there with her!). Nice Tosh! But, of course I had to play along because Laurie has tortured Tosh because she doesn't like monkey stamps. (Believe me---she had this comin'!)

I colored the image with Copics and cut out one of the flowers from the dp to attach over the stamped one. This was an easy way to coordinate the image with the paper. I added some pink to the stinker's cheeks and then added some stardust glitter over it for a bit of sparkle.

<--Here is a close up of the main image. Hope you enjoy all your skunk cards, Laurie! (Blame Tosh!) You can check out all of the other Skunky cards on the CCEE blog.

Other news: By now you have had time to check out Stamp TV. I just wanted to let you know that starting this week you can play along in daily challenges. Everyone who plays each challenge will be entered to win free stamps. It is that easy! Today's challenge is a color challenge. You can play along HERE!

Other other news: PaperTemptress is having a PAPER party on Wednesday at 8 p.m. Central on the forum on PaperCraftPlanet! Come and chat with the design team and see all the gorgeous samples used with the new paper that will be released in the store that night. Beautiful stuff.

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CCEE Monday-Spotlighting

Hello everyone! It is Monday and time for another CCEE Challenge. This week is our CNFS challenge (Catchy Name Featured Stamper) ... we pick someone who has a catchy user name over on SCS and then we create our card around that stamper's name and send off our cards to them.This week it was Tosh's turn to select the person whose name we were going to use and she selected Michelle aka JustPaintingAround. Tosh told us that Michelle has a spotlighting style that she loved, so for our card we had to use the spotlighting technique.

Of course I was a doorbell about this challenge and couldn't figure out the spotlighting style they were referring to (I have now learned that it is Michelle's way of framing certain parts of an image!) It is awesome.

So, I created a simplistic card spotlighting the bird. All stamps are from Gina K Designs. The trees and sentiment are from Tree Silhouettes and the bird is from Home Tweet Home (illustrated by Rupa Shevde). The shimmery cardstock (Poison Ivory Curious Iridescent) is from CutCardstock.com. (Did you notice the shimmer that comes through the ink on the trees?--lovely!)

You can check out all the other amazing cards by the CCEE team HERE. Hope you will play along!

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CCEE Valentine Treat Bag

It is Monday and time for another CCEE challenge. This week is a supplies challenge. Cindy M sent us all the same supplies: a white coffee bag, two heart embellishments, two heart ribbons, two pieces of designer paper, heart stickers and a sentiment.

We had to use the white bag and the sentiment and one of the papers. We had to fill it with something fun for our husbands for Valentine's Day.
Here is what I came up with:
I cut off the fold over top of my bag. I punched a Marvy heart and used a craft blade to trace the design on the bag front (Tip: Insert a piece of cardstock inside the bag when you cut it out so it wouldn't cut through to the other side!) I used a heart I punched out to create the bag closure. The silver heart brad can be taken out for the bag to open.

I cut up my sentiment and placed it all around the heart (tried to make it look like it was fluttering!) Here is a close up of the opening:

You can check out all the other bags the clever CCEEers made on the CCEE blog!

Note: I am at CHA this week but will return on Wednesday!

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IS it a Fish??

It is Monday and time for another CCEE challenge. This week it is the "Catchy Name Featured Stamper" challenge (CNFS). This is one of our favorite challenges that we do each month ... basically one of our members picks someone who has a catchy user name on SCS and then we create a card around that name. This week, Cindy Motherway picked the CNFS and she picked 'Fishlips'! Cindy instructed us that when we created our card it had to have fish/fish lips on it, or fish of some sort (preferably the kind that swim!)

My dilemma---I received my new Gina K stamps that will be released this week (on Thursday!) and fell in love with this seahorse image (from the Best Fishes set). So, I created this card and my husband said, "I don't think seahorses are fish. You might want to look that up!"

Ekkk! I did not have time to make another card and I knew that no one else would use a seahorse for their fish image. So I did a bit of research and found that a seahorse IS a bony fish. They don't have scales but they have a thin layer of skin over plates that are arranged in a circular pattern throughout their body. They swim upright and during times of social interaction, they turn a bright color.

Score.

So, I am proud to present my FISH card (giggle!):
I love this seahorse. It was the first new Gina K stamp I have played with and I know I will use it lots. I painted the seahorse with reinkers and then applied a layer of Shimmerz (olive and December sky) over him. Then, to add even more sparkle, I added some crystal Stickles to some of the sections.

In this picture you can see more of the shimmer. This seahorse really sparkles!!!

Materials used: Stamps- Best Fishes (Gina K Designs); chocolate chip cardstock, Watercolor paper (SU!); Designer paper-My Mind's Eye; Memento black ink; bashful blue, old olive, certainly celery, brilliant blue reinkers (Stampin' Up!); Close to cocoa Classic Stamp pad (SU!); sponge; paper piercing tool and mat pack (SU!); Shimmerz-December sky, olive, blue; Stickles- crystal (Ranger); jumbo eyelet (SU!); Cropadile; hemp (Hobby Lobby); spellbinders dies; Cuttlebug (Provocraft); dimensional (SU).

You can check out all the other FISHY CCEE creations here. Hope you will play along!

Stay tuned: Gina K previews begin tomorrow! I cannot wait to share some more of the newest sets that will be released on Thursday!

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BABY Cammie....Revealed!

Well, now that you have all had the day to look at the CCEE blog and guess who is who....we are all revealing our pics and cards/pages on our blogs today.

Yep--this is me. This was a tough project for me--as I was the seventh of eight children and I found two good pictures of me at this age--and they were both taken on the same day.
(Sigh!)

My parents don't even have a newborn hospital picture of me because "the camera was broken at the hospital that day."
When I asked my parents--"Where the heck are the pictures of me?" My mom told me that I was a "shy" baby. *lol! Yeah, you can stop laughing now!

(Seriously reconsidering the adoption possibility, if only I didn't look so much like my brother and sisters I would probably believe it!)

So this is the photo I had to work with. (I took it to the local CVS to get copies made and decided because it was a small photo..to just make some tiles of it.)

And I ended up creating a scrapbook page--proof that I existed!

At this point--you may have caught on that I bent the rules a bit. Well, I didn't bend them as much as you think! The beautiful die cut flowers are not die-cuts at all...I simply cut a portion of designer paper that came that way (KI Memories.) And the flowers aren't primas--they are not made by Prima...they are from Paper Studio (Spare Parts)! *giggle*

I did however use brads(6) and one little flower punch. (I had it on good authority that the others weren't following the rules either so I decided that if I am gonna cheat...I am gonna cheat!)

Here is a close up of the main part of the page. The quote reads "Little Girls are Heaven's Flowers." (Hence, the flower design!)

I hope you had fun with our little contest! I am still trying to figure out who everyone is!

UP NEXT: Fold Over Flap Card tutorial (finally!) and your chance to win a Scor-Mat!

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Guess that CCEE Baby Contest

It is time for another CCEE Challenge! This month was Cindy Motherway's turn to supply the challenges.

Cindy challenged us to make a card using our baby pictures.
Here are the rules:
No fancy edges or borders using a fancy punch of any kind, no scallops, no nestabilities, no nuttin!
No fancy primas, no brads, no eyelets, no charm, no ordinary or extraordinary embellishments. No sewing on any of the cards and no Thomas Kinkade landscapes!
No over the top, crazy complicated, triple and quadruple layered sketches!

Here is what you must do:
You must use a piece of ribbon.
You can use as many different colors of cardstock/designer paper as you wish.
You must make your baby picture the main panel, main focus.
You can use stamped images with your baby picture as long as your picture is the main focus.
You must try to keep away from what you feel is your signature look.

If you check out our CCEE blog, you will see all of the things we created with our pictures---and all you have to do is guess which picture belongs to who! [To help you there are photos of each of us as we look today .] So post a comment and give us your guesses.

One random participant will win this Rubber Soul Baby Stamp Set which has been kindly donated to us by Michelle from Stamper's Dream. You have until 12 midnight EST Saturday 17th January to be in the running for this prize. Check out Stamper's Dream store for TONS of your favorite products all in one place. Thanks Michelle for donating the prize!!!
Now head on over to the CCEE Blog to check em all out and enter to win!

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I Have no Shame

Hi everyone! It is nice to be back. It was a hectic few days traveling for the Thanksgiving holidays but we are all settled back at home again and school resumes again today (woohoo!)

Seems like Christmas is just around the corner and there are so many things to do so I cannot promise how good I will be at blogging but I will certainly pop in with things when I can.

Today, I wanted to share a card I did for our weekly CCEE challenge. We originally were going to take the month of December off but then a few decided to create a few challenges for whoever wants to play. Since I had a little bit of time today, I was able to play along. The easy challenge this week was to create a card with blue on it and you also must use brads.

Here is mine:
I used the Gina K Designs set Warm and Cozy Christmas. I adore this fella. I colored the image with Copic markers and matted it on a scalloped red circle. The designer paper is from October Afternoon and I thought it was perfect for this challenge. To accent the snowflakes on the dp, I added some Spellbinders snowflakes on top of a few of them and accented each of them with a red crystal sticker.

I also used the Pure Luxury cardstock and ribbon (Gina K Designs) on this card. Crystal stickles were added to the snow by the boy's feet so it has a nice sparkle. The final detail is the little mini candy cane. Honestly, I added this so that my kids would tell me that they loved the card. I am a bit rusty since I took a few days off so I went for the easy "Hooray" from the judges! What can I say---I have no shame!! It worked!

Materials used: Stamps- Warm and Cozy Christmas (Gina K Designs); Memento Tuxedo Black ink; cardstock-very vanilla, real red (Stampin' Up!); Pure Luxury 80 lb cs (Gina K Designs); Designer paper - Tinsel-October Afternoon; ribbon- Pure Luxury holiday assortment (Gina K Designs); Copic markers; Crystal stickers (Mark Richards); brads (The Paper Studio); Spellbinders Snowflake Wonder dies; Circle and scalloped circle Nestabilities (Spellbinders); Cuttlebug (Provocraft); Crystal stickles; corner rounder punch (Creative Memories); dimensionals (SU!); paper piercing tool and mat pack (SU!); candy cane.

You can see all the cards by the other CCEE gals HERE!

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A Christmas CCEE Challenge and a SALE

Time for another CCEE Challenge---Charlene (who was the challenge hostess for this month) sent each of us the following supplies:

Red starburst translucent paper
Three different poinsettias: dark red; red with yellow cream centre; sheer red.
Gold stretch cord & gold ribbon
Red ornament embellishment
Three snowflakes: white; red & gold

Charlene instructed us to create a Christmas card using some portion of the red designer paper,
using at least one of the poinsettias, using the gold ribbon or cord (or both). The red ornament and snowflakes were optional.

Here is what I created with the supplies:

I chose a sentiment from the Sketches Scrollwork Christmas Set, that is filled with lots of beautiful Holiday phrases. You can find this set at Stamper's Dream and until November 30th... ALL Holiday stamps are on sale for 15% off. Just enter the coupon code HOLIDAYS on the checkout page to apply the discount. (This means that the Partridge stamp I used on yesterday's post is discounted as well! Yipeee!)

You can see all the other fabulous cards by the CCEE Gals HERE!

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MFTeaser #1- Got Cupcakes?

Today starts the MFTeasers of the new sets from My Favorite Things that will be released on WEDNESDAY! Check out the MFT forum on Splitcoaststampers for all the fun release party details!

This card uses the fun new set called A Cupcake Kind of Day. I combined the MFTeaser with my weekly CCEE challenge. This week we had to create a card using SC75 (from Splitcoaststampers) but change the rectangle in the corner to any shape we wanted.

I love this fun BIG cupcake...and the BEST part is that there is another one in the set! And there is another related set that will be released on Wednesday too--I used a sentiment from that for this card! Woohoo! Who doesn't love cupcakes??

Here is a close up of the cupcake.

I colored the image with Copics and added stickles along the frosting so it is nice and sparkly! I added the cherry detail by punching a small heart shape and adding a button to the center of it.

Materials used: Stamps-A Cupcake Kind of Day (My Favorite Things); Brilliance black ink; Cardstock-whisper white (SU!); Designer paper-Honey Pie (Cosmo Cricket); slit punch (SU!); Spellbinders oval nestabilities; ribbon (May Arts); heart punch (Creative Memories); button; hemp (SU!); Crystal stickles (Ranger);Copic markers; Threading water punch (Fiskars); dimensionals (SU!).

You can view all of the CCEE group cards HERE! Hope you will play along!

I cannot wait to show you some more MFTeasers. You are gonna love all the new sets.

**In the mood for some great Holiday project tutorials? Check out the Holiday Blitz on Splitcoaststampers. A new project tutorial will be featured each day. You can view them on the home page HERE!

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A MOOving Post

It's Monday and time for our CCEE challenge. This week our challenge is a supply challenge. Each month, one CCEE member sends everyone on our team supplies and instructions for our cards that week. This month Cindy Motherway organized our supplies for us. Heather the owner of H & M Stamps was kind enough to send Cindy enough of A Lil' Behind stamp sets to send to each of the CCEE girls so this set is what we are using for our challenge today. (FYI: Cindy Motherway was the creative mind behind this set! Isn't it cute!)

Dawn who was organizing the challenges for this month also added an additional clause to this challenge which was to use chipboard somewhere on our card.

My first card I created is a shadowbox card. You can find a tutorial on how to make these fun 3D cards here! The sentiment reads "Just a little behind!"
I used chipboard flanked with dimensionals to give the cow some extra depth on the inside of the box.

Materials used: A Lil' Behind (H & M Stamps); cardstock- vanilla, chocolate chip (SU!); designer paper (SU!); label punch and oval punch (SU!); Scor-Pal; Spellbinders oval Nestabilities; Copic markers; chipboard; dimensionals (SU!); slit punch (SU!); ribbon (Offray).

And here is a quick 10 minute card I did with the same image. The background is scored with my Scor-Pal but it doesn't show up well in the photo. This card was fast and easy! The sentiment on this reads "Enjoy life and NEVER look back." Love that!

Materials used: A Lil' Behind (H&M Stamps), tall grass (savvystamps); brilliance black ink; classic old olive stamp pad (SU!); Copic markers; cardstock-olive, black, white (Stampin' Up!); Scor-Pal; ribbon (Offray); Cropadile (We R Memory Keepers); eyelet (SU!); Rectangle Nestabilities (Spellbinders); corner rounder punch (Creative Memories).

You can see all the rest of the fun creations for this challenge on our CCEE Blog! Hope you will play along!

Check back tomorrow - I have somfin' fun to give away!

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