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

CCEE1150

Hi everyone,

Welcome to another CCEE Stampers challenge. This week's challenge will be our last challenge for 2011 as we all want to take a little time to concentrate on family and friends during the holidays. Of course we will be back on 5th January to start another year for fun challenges, hope to see you here too!

I guess you are wondering what the challenge is this week, right! I, (Frances) am your hostess this week and I am challenging you all with Christmas Ornaments …. Create something Christmas Ornament related it can be a card or a 3 D project.


We would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your continued support of our challenges every week, we love that you play along with us.

Wishing you all a Merry and Safe Christmas and New Year.

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 CCEE1150. 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

Charlene Merrick - wheremmsgather

Joanne Grzelak -- The Inky Ocean Gazer

Shirley Quarry

Tosha Leyenekker ~ Stamp Talk with Tosh

CCEE1149

Hi everyone, welcome to a FUN CCEE Challenge, today we want to see chipboard on your project. You can make your own or use store bought. Can't wait to see what you come up with.

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 CCEE1149. 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

Charlene Merrick - wheremmsgather

Shirley Quarry

Tosha Leyendekker ~ Stamp Talk with Tosh
(chipboard circle in snowflake)



Joanne Grzelak - Inky Ocean Gazer

CCEE1148

Hi everyone,


Well today is December 1st! Wow can you believe it, where did the year go! Christmas is now only a matter of week's away! This month we will be having a different hostess each week for the next 3 weeks and then we will be taking a break until January, so that we can spend some time with our family and friends over the holidays.

To start of the month we have Joanne Grzelak as our hostess! Joanne has challenged us to use Snowflakes & Bling on our cards/projects this week. Have fun!

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 CCEE1148. 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

Tosha Leyendekker ~ Stamp Talk with Tosh

Joanne Grzelak -- The Inky Ocean Gazer

Shirley Quarry

Charlene Merrick - wheremmsgather

CCEE1147

Hello, and Happy Thanksgiving to all of our American stamping friends!! We hope you have a blessed Holiday!!

Now, it's tradition to go all out on Thanksgiving, whether it be with food, or in fun. But this is the final week in our countdown this month, and that means we're down to the number "1". So, I'd like all of you to make a one layer card.

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 CCEE1147. 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.......

Tosha Leyendekker ~ Stamp Talk with Tosh



Joanne Grzelak -- The Inky Ocean Gazer

Frances Byrne - StampOwl's Studio

Cindy Haffner



Shirley Quarry




Charlene Merrick - wheremmsgather