CCEE1204

Hi everyone!

Before we get into today's challenge we would like to introduce you to three more new members of CCEE Stampers. We are so excited to have them join the team! Welcome ....

Brenda O'Rear

Lois Bak

Sabrina Friel
Kathy Bradley

So now onto our challenge ... It is Frances here again with another challenge for you all. Most of you probably know that I live in Australia! Well it’s a special day for all Aussies today as it is Australia Day! It is on this day in 1788 that the First Fleet arrived at Sydney Cove. This day is special to us, just like the 4th of July is special to those of you who live in the USA!

Anyway I couldn't let this day go past without having our challenge Aussie related in some way today. I will give you a few options … use the colors green and gold on your card; create a beach scene (we love our beaches); use Australian Animals; Tongs (you wear on your feet btw) or anything else that you think would relate to Australia!.

I can't wait to see all your creations :)

If you decide to play along with us, all you have to do is create a card/project and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword CCEE1204. Don't forget to come back here and link it on Inlinkz so that everyone else can see it too.

Now let's see what everyone has come up with this week.......

Frances Byrne - StampOwl's Studio

Anne Harmon - Inkinginred

Joanne Grzelak -- The Inky Ocean Gazer

Sabrina Friel - SCS Gallery

Brandi Wiggins- The Squareheaded Stamper

Brenda O'Rear-BenziStampz

Lois Bak - Clownmom Creations

Vicky Gould - Village Stamper Ramblings


Kathy Bradley - Kathyville

Cindy Haffner



Shirley Quarry



Charlene Merrick - wheremmsgather

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CCEE1203

Hi everyone,

Welcome back to the CCEE Stampers Blog!

Before we get onto this week's challenge we have one more new member to introduce to you this week, which is Brandi Wiggins . We will be introducing the remainder of the new members next week.

This week I (Frances Byrne) am back with another challenge for you all.

Chinese New Year is celebrated on January 23rd this year and it is the Year of the Dragon … so for this week's challenge either use a Dragon on your card or find out what animal relates to your birthday year in the Chinese Zodiac and create a card using that animal. You can find out what year correspondence to what animal here on Wikipedia.

If you decide to play along with us, all you have to do is create a card/project and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword CCEE1203. Don't forget to come back here and link it on Inlinkz so that everyone else can see it too.

Now let's see what everyone has come up with this week.......

Anne Harmon - Inkinginred

Frances Byrne - StampOwl's Studio

Vicky Gould - http://villagestamperramblings.blogspot.com/

Cindy Haffner

Joanne Grzelak -- The Inky Ocean Gazer

Brandi Wiggins- The Squareheaded Stamper

Charlene Merrick - wheremmsgather

Shirley Quarry

CCEE1202

Hi everyone,

Before I get onto our challenge for day, I wanted to fill you all in on some changes that are happening over here on the CCEE Stampers blog. It's a new year and sometimes that means changes, we didn't announce them last week as we hadn't got everything sorted out but we are starting to now.

First up Tosh Leyendekker who is the one who got us all together in the first place about 5 years ago is taking a break. She isn't leaving completely (we wouldn't let her ;) .... she will remain as a special guest designer and participate every so often.

The other news we have is that we are expanding, we have decided to increase the number of Design Team members from 6 members to 12. This will happen over the next month as some of our new members need to get organised.

Today we would like to introduce the first of our new Design Team members ...

Anne Harmon

Vicky Gould

So now are you ready for another challenge??? I (Frances Byrne) am back with another one just for you!

Who likes sketch challenges????? I know I do! And as we haven't had one from CCEE Stampers in ages, I decided it was about time we had one this week. Hopefully you will find it a nice simple one!

If you decide to play along with us, all you have to do is create a card/project and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword CCEE1202. Don't forget to come back here and link it on Inlinkz so that everyone else can see it too.

Now let's see what everyone has come up with this week.......

Frances Byrne - StampOwl's Studio

Anne Harmon - Inkinginred

Cindy Haffner



Charlene Merrick - wheremmsgather

Joanne Grzelak -- The Inky Ocean Gazer

Shirley Quarry


Vicky Gould

CCEE1201

Hi everyone and Happy New Year to you all!

The CCEE Stampers are excited to be back again for another year of fun challenges, hope you will join in the fun with us :)

To start off the year, this month our challenge hostess is Frances Byrne.

Yesterday 4th January was Jakob Grimm’s birthday … he was born in 1785 and was responsible for many of the popular fairy tales that we enjoy today including Cinderella, Snow White; Sleeping Beauty; Hansel and Gretel; Rapunzel and many more found in Grimm’s Fairy Tales. So our challenge today is to create a card using one of the Grimm’s Fairy Tales as your inspiration … don’t forget to tell us which one you chose. If you need any help in finding a Grimm's Fairy Tale, you can find a whole list of them on Wikipedia.

If you decide to play along with us, all you have to do is create a card/project and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword CCEE1201. Don't forget to come back here and link it on Inlinkz so that everyone else can see it too.

Now let's see what everyone has come up with this week.......

Frances Byrne - StampOwl's Studio

Cindy Haffner

Shirley Quarry




Charlene Merrick - wheremmsgather

Joanne Grzelak -- The Inky Ocean Gazer