CNFS - Jazzytobi

Hello again everyone. It is time for another fun CCEE challenge, this week we get to do one of our favorite challenges which we do every month. It is our CNFS or Catchy Name Featured Stamper challenge, each month we select one person on SCS who has a Catchy User name and we create our cards around the theme of that name and then we all send our cards to this person.

So who is our CNFS this month .... well it is Jazzytobi !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The instructions we were given for this challenge was that our card must have something musical on it, and the tea dying technique must be used.

So would you like to join us in this weeks challenge ..... we would love you all to participate! Make your card as per the challenge theme above .... you don't have to send your cards to Jazzytobi, although I am sure she would love them if you wanted to. Post a comment here so we can see your card. If you are uploading to SCS don't forget to use the keyword CCEEC.

Here is what our CCEE team created:

Tosh Leyendekker - Stamp Talk with Tosh

Cindy Motherway - This is My Story





Debbie Mills - Feeding The Soul




Charlene Merrick




Dawn Lusk - Dawn .... A New Day




Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner

Frances Byrne - StampOwl's Studio

Thanks for looking :)

Faux Silk!

Well it is Monday again, which means it is time for another of our CCEE challenges.

Thanks to everyone who joined us last week to play our Thumping challenge ... it was fun to see all your wonderful cards.

This week we again have another "technique" type challenge which was giving to us by our head cheerleader Tosh .... this week we were to create a card using the Faux Silk technique. You can find a tutorial for this technique here. Cindy Haffner suggested a bonus challenge this week which was to include an "Owl" on our cards, this was an optional extra.

Again we would love for you all to join us and play our challenge this week .... if you don't have an owl stamp you can still play .... we would love to see your faux silk cards. So why not check out the tutorial and then post a comment here so we can see your card. If you upload to SCS don't forget to add the keywords "CCEEC".

Here are the cards our CCEE team came up with this week:

Cindy Motherway - This is My Story



Debbie Mills - Feeding the Soul






Charlene Merrick




Dawn Lusk - Dawn ..... A New Day



Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner



Frances Byrne - StampOwl's Studio

Tosh Leyendekker - Stamp Talk with Tosh








thanks for looking!

Thumping!

Greetings everyone and thank you for visiting our blog.

Before I get started on our challenge for this week I thought I would reply to a question someone posted in the comments to last weeks post.The question was what does CCEE stand for ... well that is a good question. It stands for Cheers, Challenges Eager Eight. As you know there are 8 members in our group who are all eager to cheer each other on through the challenges we do between us.

Ok now onto our challenge for this week. As we are now in a new month we have a new host for our challenges which is Tosh. One of Tosh's favorite techniques is the "thumping" technique ... and no you don't start punching someone LOL that isn't the technique at all. If you would like to find out more about "Thumping" check out this great tutorial on SCS by Beate Johns here.

Don't forget we would love for you to also come and play in our challenge this week ... so why not check out the tutorial and then post a comment here so we can see your card. If you upload to SCS don't forget to add the keywords "CCEEC".

For more information on our individual cards ... click on the link above our cards to go to our blogs

Debbie Mills - Feeding the Soul

Charlene Merrick



Dawn Lusk - Dawn .... A New Day




Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner



Frances Byrne - StampOwl's Studio



Tosha Leyendekker - Stamp Talk with Tosh

Cindy Motherway - This is My Story



thanks for looking

Black & Brown

Hi again everyone, are you ready for another CCEE challenge ... would you like to play along??If so read the directions below.

Our challenge this week is another given to us by Cindy Haffner .... the final one for the month of June. Cindy challenged us with a color challenge:

Make a card using Black and Brown. You may use other colors in your image, but I want the card to read mostly Black and Brown.

Would you like to play our challenge this week .... Don't forget to post a comment here linking us to your creation. If you upload to SCS please use the keyword CCEEC.

Here are our cards:

Carolyn King - My Blog




Charlene Merrick



Dawn Lusk - Dawn ... A New Day


Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner


Frances Byrne - StampOwl's Studio


Tosha Leyendekker- Stamp Talk with Tosh

Cindy Motherway - This is my Story



Deb Mills - Feeding My Soul

thanks for looking!

Friends Furever!

Happy Monday everyone .... it is time for another CCEE challenge. Each month one of our challenges we do is a supply one where one of our members sends each of us exactly the same supplies with which we are supposed to create our cards. This month our supplies were organised by Cindy Haffner. Cindy asked Kim from MFT if she would send the girls the MFT "Friends Furever" set (well not Cammie or Frances because they already had them.). This is such a fun set! Cindy also added another part to this challenge .... we had to use 2 different design papers on our card.

Our CCEE group have been doing our challenges for over a year now and we all have such fun doing our challenges. Now that we have our blog we thought it might be fun to open up our challenges to include you all in our challenges ... each week we will post our cards and what our challenge for the week is ..... if you would like to play along then please do! Don't forget to post a comment here linking us to your creation. If you upload to SCS please use the keyword CCEEC. We would love to see what you come up with.

If you would like to play in our challenge this week and do not have the MFT "Friends Furever" set .... don't worry you can still play. Use 2 different design papers with any dog image.

Here are the cards we all came up with ... hope you enjoy them as much as we enjoyed creating them. For more details on our cards check out the link above the card.

Charlene Merrick

Dawn Lusk - Dawn ... A New Day


Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner

Frances Byrne - StampOwl's Studio


Tosha Leyendekker- Stamp Talk with Tosh


Cindy Motherway - This is my Story

Deb Mills - Feeding My Soul

thanks for looking!

CNFS - Orangegymnut!

Hi and welcome to our blog, this Monday is one of our favorite challenges we get to do - CNFS challenge. What is this .... it is our Catchy Name Featured Stamper challenge ... once a month we select someone from SCS who has a "catchy" user name and create cards in her honor and send her the cards we made.

This month our CNFS is Tanya aka Orangegymnut! The guidelines for our cards this week was that they MUST have orange in them and have something to do with the gym!

Hope you enjoy looking at our creations.

Debra Mills

Mothermark - Cindy Motherway

Charlene Merrick

Cindy Haffner's Corner



Frances Byrne - StampOwl's Studio


Dawn Lusk - Dawn .... A New Day


Tosha Leyendekker- Stamp Talk with Tosh

Polkadots and Gingham!

I absolutely love the challenge given to us by Cindy Haffner to make a card using polkadots and gingham ribbon! Two of my favorite items for cards!

I used SU's Spring dp in the polkadots to cover my scalloped piece of chipboard and then sponged the edges in Close to Cocoa. I tied the gingham ribbon on the one side and then I taped another piece of the ribbon underneath the large scallop and behind the dp to make it appear as though it is one piece of ribbon being used.

I also used SU's Spring dp and my 3/4" square punch for the corners by cutting them in half and then sponging them in Close to Cocoa.

I stamped Enjoy Your Day from SU's Riveting set, covered the center with a brown button, and inserted two pink brads on each side of the button.

Dots and Gingham!!

It's Monday, and that means it's time to upload a card that I was challenged to make by Cindy Haffner for our CCEE group. This week we were to make a card with polka dots and gingham ribbon. I, being the blonde that I am (well, my roots are...) made a card for next weeks challenge instead, (we get the whole month ahead of time) so I guess I'm a week ahead now. That's why I'm late to the arrival today. Today is my In-Law's 53rd wedding anniversary, so I made this card this morning.

I started off by picking out my paper (had to have polka dots) and went from there with the colors and images. This gorgeous paper is from My Minds Eye...the textures, colors, and prints are all soooo gorgeous. I got them at my local LSS and am in LOVE. You'll be seeing a lot from me with these papers, cause I can't get enough of them. This card uses the papers called Je Taime from the Tres Jolie line. YUM!!

The piercing was done with a piercing template that I got from Ellen Hutson's webstore, and the scallops were made with my slit punch from Stampin up. The small scallops along the bottom were done with an adaptable blade for my paper trimmer. Thanks for stopping by.

Supplies:
Stamps - Hero Arts Treasure the Moments
Paper - My Minds Eye
Ink - Adirondack Slate
Accessories - Charm (Heart & Soul), Pearls, Primas, Corner Ticket Punch, Slit Punch, Gingham Ribbon (Stampin' Up)

Ginger and Polka Dots

I love the combination of polka dots and gingham. I didn't have anything I needed for this card I had in my mind, so I had to be a little inventive. The dots are created with a pencil eraser and white embossing powder. The pink edging paper is white colored with a pink passion SU marker. The quote is computer generated because the stamp I have of this didn't fit the space. The only addition supplies needed are black and white cs, Offray gingham ribbon, a black button, and a prima flower. This great sketch format was created by our own Frances (StampOwl).

The Right One!

and it's Original too! (thanks to Frances for catching me before uploading the wrong card for this week! LOL)

nothing fancy, kinda funky...with a sneak peek of Big Inspiration being released June 12th from Cornish Heritage Farms.

Stamps CHF:
Large Polka Dot Backgrounder
Cardmaker's Shapes
Big Inspiration

Cardstock:
Prism Intense Yellow, Blush Red med
Confetti
Georgia Pacific white

Ink:
Colorbox Chalk Lime Pastel
Adirondack Mountain Rose
Distress Mustard Seed

Other:

gingham ribbon unknown
foam mounting tape