CCEEers Honor Cows

 

Joanne here with your new CCEE Stampers Challenge for this week.......

Tomorrow is National Cow Appreciation Day.
  Let’s create a card with a cow or two on it.
  If you happen not to have cow images, then use another
‘farm’ animal.  Please add a fun sentiment OR make it as a get well card.

Come to the CCEE Blog to see the fab cow creations by
 the rest of this talented team.

 

CCEEers Celebrate Eiffel Tower Day

 

Frances continues as the CCEE Stampers Challenge hostess.  Here is her last challenge for the month.

 

According to the Days of the Year web site today is Eiffel Tower Day. So for our challenge this week let's celebrate all things Parisian …. It could be the Eiffel Tower, French Poodle; Berets; Champagne; Red, White & Blue Color Combo etc.

As you have probably guessed, I went with the colors of the flag.  I am working on two gift stashes of all occasion type cards, so this is one more for the stashes.

I, once again, forgot to write down the company for the stamped image.  If you want to know just ask in a comment.  The sentiment is from MFT.  I used a MS border punch along with my Copics and piercing tools.

Please be sure to stop in at the CCEE Blog to see the fabulous French-inspired creations by this DT.

Happy B'day, Hoots!!!

 

 

 

Happy Birthday, Frances (Hoots)!!!!!!

 

Frances continues as the hostess for the CCEE Stampers Challenge.  This is her challenge for us this week.

 

As today is my birthday let's create a card that includes the things I love … owls and cards that pop up; flip or pull open; accordion style etc. Any type of construction style card will do anything goes but preferably not a flat card this week.

 

Any one who knows me well will know that this was truly a challenge for me.  I am not a fancy/fussy fold kind of stamper.  However, I admire so much when others make fancy fold cards.  Hoots is the queen of fancy fold cards in my book.  So......I put my discomfort aside and moved on.

 

Frances has enabled me to buy a few of these fancy fold dies, but I was intent on using the images you see, so I devised a pop up card design of my own.  I have decided, having made this card, that it is actually not the fancy folds that put me out of my comfort zone.  It is the 'decorating' of them that I find challenging.  Thus you will see that mine is pretty straight forward and not particularly clever.  The iimages are by Art Impression.  These images are winter images, honoring the fact that Hoots, being in Australia, is just ending her winter months.

 

Be sure to stop in at the CCEE Blog to see the other fancy fold, OWL creations by the rest of the team..

 

Have a fabulous b'day, Hoots!!!

CCEE Stampers Get Punch Happy

 

 

Welcome to week two of our CCEE Stamper February challenges with our hostess, Lynn.  She has challenged us to have a little Valentine fun.  Here is her challenge......

 

Back when I was in grade school, every Valentine’s Day my classmates and I had such fun creating Valentine Critters to decorate our Valentine boxes. The task for today is to create an animal of any kind on your card in which you use heart shapes for some of its body parts.

A while ago I had started saving punch art ideas on a Pinterest Board.  It came in handy with this challenge.  I adapted one of the collected pins to make my dog.  Hearts were used for the hind legs and nose.  Ovals were used for the head, body, snout, and ears.  I'm not sure the name for the leg punch but it is a long, slim, rounded rectangle which I bent to make paws.  I also sponged with white near some of the edges. Circle punches were used for the eyes.  I drew in the 'freckles; and mouth and added a touch of shine to the nose.  The sentiment is from a Sweet 'n Sassy dog stamp set.

Now be sure to check out the fab punched creations by the rest of the team......I can't wait to see them at the CCEE Stampers Blog.

Going UNDER with the Crazies

 

 

Welcome to another Crazy4Challenges challenge. Can you believe that one month of 2016 has almost gone already ... Wow!

Before we get onto this week's challenge we would like to thank Caz Counsell for being our Guest Designer for January,  We have loved having her play with us this month.

Frances is back with our final challenge of the month.

The 26th January was Australia Day, as I live in the "land down under", lets celebrate with a Down Under Challenge. Create a card with something down under, it could be under the sea, or a tree or underground, under an umbrella or even from down under in the world.

I used a virgin stamp set from Penny Black for both the image and the sentiment.  This is a one layer card....truly CAS.  I have been trying to work with this genre and I find it very challenging.  I am putting together a gift stash for a friend and CAS cards are the best for that gift stash.

Now be sure to visit the Crazies Blog to see the other 'under' creations by the rest of this team.

Crazy4Challenges in the New Year

Happy New Year Crazy Fans!

Welcome back to another fun-filled Crazy 4 Challenges with the "Crazies" 

Before we get onto our first challenge for the year, we need to let you know about a few changes. First up we sadly say goodbye to both Danielle Lounds and Kellie Hull. 

Joining us this year, we have Maryann Einam, Rebecca Ednie and Jen Benner  . We look forward to having them all play along with us each week.

Our Guest Designer for January is Caz Counsell, I am sure you will enjoy seeing her creations this month.

For our January challenges, we have Frances Byrne hosting. 

Apparently yesterday was Z Day. Let's celebrate by including something starting with the letter Z on our cards.  You could make a Z Fold Card, use a zip or zip image, zinnia, zebra, zoo etc. Let's show the letter Z how much we love it!

 My zebra image is from a very old, retired SU set.  The sentiment is from MFT.  I heat embossed the images and added some piercing aroung the base edges.  An easie-peasie CAS card.

Be sure to visit the Crazies Blog to see the Z creations by the rest of this talented team.

CCEE Goes Crazy for Critters

Frances is our CCEE Stampers hostess for April.  This is her challenge for this week.....

Apparently the 26th of April is Hug an Australian Day! Who knew? ( and I, Frances,  am Australian!!!  LOL.  If you don't know any Aussies close by you can hug me, however we might need to rely on virtual hugs Haha! {{{{hugs}}}}. For our challenge this week use a cute critter that you think would be huggable … Bonus points if you use an animal native to Australia.

I did not have any Aussie critter stamps, so I went with cute.......however, as I type this I realize they might not be very huggable ......lol!!!  This stamp is from Penny Black.

Stop in to check out the cute critters at the CCEE Blog.  You'll be glad you did!!!

The CCEE Stampers Go WILD

 

As the month of March came in like a lion (around New England, at least), so does our weekly challenge.  Anne, our hostess for the CCEE Stampers challenged us to go wild with lion or wild animal images.

After some hard thinking, I remembered I had this stamp set from Mark's Finest Papers which would perfectly fit the bill.  I used the lion image and the birthday sentiment from this set.  I added some layers and some paper piecing to finish the card, along with 3 brads.

Be sure to visit the CCEE Stampers Blog to see the wild creations by the rest of this very talented and friendly team.