Sketch Challenge - 7th January

Good morning everyone and welcome back to our CCEE Stampers blog. It has been a while (2 months to be exact), but after much needed R & R the CCEE Stampers are ready and raring to go!!!!!!!

Before we get to this week's challenge, there are a few changes we need to fill you in on about. First up sadly we bade farewell to four of our original CCEE Stampers, Cindy Motherway, Dawn Lusk, Carolyn King and Debra Mills. You can find links to their blogs in our CCEE Stampers Alumni listing on our side bar.

We are excited to welcome to our team two special CCEE Stamper friends Joanne Grzelak and Shirley Quarry. Please give them a big welcome!

And one more important change ...... we have changed our day! From now on we will be posting our challenge on Thursday rather than Monday, as Monday could get very hectic for some of our design team members.

To start off the year, Cindy Haffner is hosting the challenges for January. Cindy loves sketch challenges so to start the year with a bang, Cindy has challenged us to a sketch month .... a whole month of sketch challenges .... wow! So without anymore delay take a look at the sketch Cindy has given us for our first week, I hope you will find time to play along with us.



If you would like to play along all you have to do is create a card using the above challenge and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword CCEE1001. Don't forget to come back here and link it on Mr Linky so that everyone else can see your card too.

Let's see what the CCEE Stampers created this week ...........

Frances Byrne - StampOwl's Studio

Charlene Merrick - wheremmsgather

Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner

Joanne Grzelak -- Inky Ocean Gazer

Tosha Leyendekker ~ Stamp Talk With Tosh

Shirley Quarry

Altered Lunch Tin!

Hi everyone,

It's Monday which means it is time for another challenge with the CCEE Stampers! And this week it is a supply challenge.

Tosh our challenge hostess for October sent each of us a cute little mini lunchbox, with the instructions to decorate and fill it!

So are you going to play along this week??? This week you need to alter something .... anything you like! Once you have created your card/project come back here and link to your card/project to this post using Mr Linky so that we can see what you created. If you upload your card/project to SCS don't forget to include the keyword CCEEC. We can't wait to see what you create!

Before we get to our projects we created, I wanted to let you all know something. As you all know the holiday season is fast approaching and this can be a very busy time for many of us. With this in mind the CCEE Stampers have decided that this is a good time for us all to take a break from our weekly challenges for a couple of months. Don't worry we will be back ready and raring to go come the beginning of January!!!!!!!!!!! Hope to see you all back here then. Thank you so much for all the support you have given us during the past 10 months, and I hope you enjoy the holidays whichever ones you celebrate :)

OK now it is time to check out what the CCEE Stampers created this week.

Cammie - My Blog

"Better late than never!" Created for a very special birthday gal who just LOVEEEESSSS monkeys (evil laugh!)


Tosh Leyendekker - Stamp Talk with Tosh




Deb Mills - Feeding My Soul




Charlene Merrick - Where m&m's Gather









Dawn Lusk ..... Dawn a New Day

Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner


Frances Byrne - StampOwl's Studio



Well that's it for another week, see you next year!

CNFS - Sparkle Girl!

Good morning everyone and welcome back to our CCEE Stampers blog for another of our Monday challenges!

This week Tosh our challenge hostess of the month has another fun challenge for us all. As most of you know each month for one of our challenges we have our 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. Her instructions wereto 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. As you can see we are still on our "Shape Up" theme having to create a square card!

So are you going to play along this week??? All you need to do is to create a card following the challenge above. Once you have created your card/project come back here and link to your card/project to this post using Mr Linky so that we can see what you created. If you upload your card/project to SCS don't forget to include the keyword CCEEC. We can't wait to see what you create!

This week we have two blog posts for you, so when you have finished reading this one scroll down so you can see what we are up to in the other post.

OK now it is time to check out what the CCEE Stampers created this week.


Charlene Merrick - Where m&m's Gather



Dawn Lusk ..... Dawn a New Day

Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner

Frances Byrne - StampOwl's Studio


Tosh Leyendekker - Stamp Talk with Tosh





Deb Mills - Feeding My Soul

Carolyn King - My Blog

Well that's it for another week, don't forget to come back again next week

Teapots & Polka Dots!

Hi Stampers,

Welcome to our CCEE Stampers blog. Today we have an extra blog post for you, as we have even more cards to share with you. For our normal challenge scroll up to the post above.

So why this extra blog post .... I know you are all wondering. Well today is Cindy Motherway's aka Mothermark birthday and we all wanted to do something special to celebrate the occasion!

Happy Birthday Cindy!

As many of you are probably aware, 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.

If you would like to play along too you are more then welcome. I am sure Cindy would agree that there can never be enough teapots or polka dots around the place LOL. Once you have created your card/project come back here and link to your card/project to this post using Mr Linky so that we can see what you created. If you upload your card/project to SCS don't forget to include the keyword CCEEC. We can't wait to see what you create!

As today is a special ocassion we have a few special guests with us today who also have a card to share with you all!

Joanne Grzelak - Inky Ocean Gazer


Pat Smethers



And now for the CCEE Stampers cards:


Deb Mills - Feeding My Soul




Charlene Merrick - Where m&m's Gather



Dawn Lusk ..... Dawn a New Day

Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner


Frances Byrne - StampOwl's Studio


Tosh Leyendekker - Stamp Talk with Tosh



Carolyn King - My Blog


Well that's it for another week, don't forget to come back again next week

Shape Up and Stand Tall!

Hi everyone, are you ready for another CCEE Stampers challenge.

This week we are still "Shaping Up" under the command of Tosh as our October Hostess. This week she instructed us to create Tall cards!

So are you going to play along this week??? All you need to do is to create a tall card. Once you have created your card/project come back here and link to your card/project to this post using Mr Linky so that we can see what you created. If you upload your card/project to SCS don't forget to include the keyword CCEEC. We can't wait to see what you create!

OK now it is time to check out what the CCEE Stampers created this week.

Dawn Lusk ..... Dawn a New Day

It's still tall...just flipped!

Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner


Frances Byrne - StampOwl's Studio


Tosh Leyendekker - Stamp Talk with Tosh






Deb Mills - Feeding My Soul




Charlene Merrick - Where m&m's Gather



Well that's it for another week, don't forget to come back again next week

Shape Up!

Hello everyone and welcome to another challenge here on CCEE Stampers.

It's the start of a new month which means we have a new challenge hostess too. This month it is Tosh Leyendekker's turn to issue the challenges, and she is getting us all to Shape Up! This week we all have to create a round card .... what fun!


So are you going to play along this week??? All you need to do is to create a round card. Once you have created your card/project come back here and link to your card/project to this post using Mr Linky so that we can see what you created. If you upload your card/project to SCS don't forget to include the keyword CCEEC. We can't wait to see what you create!

OK now it is time to check out what the CCEE Stampers created this week.


Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner

Frances Byrne - StampOwl's Studio

Tosh Leyendekker - Stamp Talk with Tosh




Deb Mills - Feeding My Soul





Charlene Merrick - Where m&m's Gather



Dawn Lusk ..... Dawn a New Day





Well that's it for another week, don't forget to come back again next week

Let's Go Digital!

Greetings everyone and Happy Monday. Of course Monday's mean it is time for another CCEE Stampers challenge .... are you ready to play???

This week our challenge host for the month Frances challenged us all with a supply challenge. This is when we are all sent the same things and have to use those item/s to create our card or project for the challenge. This month Frances decided that we should all go digital.

Have you noticed that Digital Stamps or images (whatever you wish to call them) are becoming very popular in the stamping world. More and more companies are coming out with some wonderful designs that we want to use in our creations of our projects. Some places only sell digital images while some stamp companies are now also coming out with digital images that you can purchase too. Some companies even offer freebies too.

For our challenge today Frances purchased the digital image "End of Summer" for each of the CCEE Stampers from Mo’s Digital Pencil. You will find some wonderful images on this site so check it out and the fun thing about digital images is no waiting for the postie to deliver them. To use digital stamps/images all you need to do is download the image (you may need to purchase it first if it isn't a freebie), open it up on your computer either in you photo editing software or even your word program. One advantages of digital images is that you can resize them, flip them so they face the other way .... how cool is that! Just print them out on your card, color and create away!

While surfing for digital stamps recently I found a great site that lists many of the companies that sell digital images and also those who offer freebies. So just in case you haven't tried digital stamps yet you might want to check it out, you can find it here.

And here is another site that lists digital freebies.

So are you going to play along this week??? All you need to do is to create a card/project using any digital image. Don't have any Once you have created your card/project come back here and link to your card/project to this post using Mr Linky so that we can see what you created. If you upload your card/project to SCS don't forget to include the keyword CCEEC. We can't wait to see what you create!

OK now it is time to check out what the CCEE Stampers created this week.


Frances Byrne - StampOwl's Studio


Tosh Leyendekker - Stamp Talk with Tosh





Deb Mills - Feeding My Soul






Charlene Merrick - Where m&m's Gather




Dawn Lusk ..... Dawn a New Day

Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner





Well that's it for another week, don't forget to come back again next week