CeeCee's Creations

halloween? christmas? anybody?

i had a whole bunch of posts scheduled for last november and december but somehow only a few found their way here. so i'm trying to catch up. here are 2 cards i made using Modelling Cream by Viva Decor. i love this stuff. no, i adore it! it goes on smooth and adds a beautiful raised effect to your projects. i usually apply it with a spatula over a stencil.

what i did here is lay down a nice coat of Mother-of-Pearl Modelling Cream over a Crafter's Workshop stencil (#TCW251s Mini Branches Rev). then i added some SU dazzling diamonds glitter over some parts of the trees before the cream had a chance to dry. i wanted to have a silver/white card so i continued in this vein by adding torn pieces of white cardstock at the foot of the trees and layering another coat of modelling cream but this time i speckled it with my spatula and zapped it with my heat tool... instead snow!!! the stuff bubbles up and give such a nice finish. i love it!

you can see the raised effect on the trees and the snow. i added white berries with an Ice White Pearl Pen by Viva Decor also.

then i made another similar card but this time it's a halloween card.

i added a bit of Stampin' Up!'s basic grey re-inker to color the modelling cream. i wanted dark silver trees. the little "danger keep out" sign was an old rub-on from SU as well. i distressed the heck out of it and hung it on the punched fence with a piece of black wire. Fun!

have a fantastic day! CeeCee

a christmas necklace from tim holtz?

yes, he gave me a necklace! well.... to me and 200 other women :-P

this amazing pocket watch necklace was another project we did in tim's class and it is so gorgeous that i will definitely wear it during christmas.

gorgeousnesssssss! of course, everything was made using tim holtz' signature products.

i love everything about it. i love the rhinestone charm we added and the pearls and the tulle.

and how cool are those mica flakes?! i love the old santa peeking out. hehehe, he looks so conspiring.

happy day, everyone! CeeCee

don't forget to breathe!

happy monday, everyone!

are you all going bonkers with this holiday season's shopping and baking and decorating? try to breathe a little -- it helps! i see people go nuts over the holidays every year and i can tell you that no matter what you have time to do, your folks will enjoy themselves. so don't sweat the small stuff, ok?

here's something to feast your eyes on. i can say this modestly about this project as i didn't design this gorgeous mini book. Mr. Tim Holtz did. and what a beauty!

can you not appreciate this gorgeousness?! it's sitting up on my shelf just above my computer and i still get a kick everytime i look at it.

everything we used for that book is all tim's signature products of course. we even put the book together from scratch! there's a lot of distressing and perfect pearls mists and embossing and staining. oh, i love it!

look at the darling embellishment on the book cover. and the pull. it was very white when i got it but then i added a bit of black soot paint dabber on it, rubbed it off and what-do-you-know? there were cracks on the porcelain!  love it!

the numbers are funky as well. we took his plastic letters, dabbed a bit of silver acrylic paint and then glossy accents.

*swoon*  i know, right?!

have a great monday. CeeCee

a traditional christmas card + videos

here's a very traditional card i made for Scrapbook Centrale a while back. it was part of a tutorial using Paper Soft by Viva Decor. i now have permission to upload these tutorials  on my channel so i'll do this as soon as i find the time.

in the meantime, here's the card:

it's hard to tell from the picture but the red on the pattern paper is actually foiled. the paper is from the Timeless Christmas collection by TPC. most the papers from this collection is shimmery also -- really pretty.

the border stamp is also from Viva Decor and i fussy-cut around it and popped it on the side of the card. i added the red berries with a Glitter Liner pen from Viva Decor also. i also added some twine. it's a very simple card but i like it a lot!

i also added 2 videos recently and i completely forgot to post them :-P

 

 

 

happy thursday! CeeCee

santa gift card holder

it's friday and new year's eve! are you excited?! what will 2011 brings? have you made your new year's resolutions? i don't usually make any but because of recent health problems i am making one: to eat healthier and exercise. i've already started to do that so i guess my resolution is to keep at it.

as for today's project, it's the last of the gift card holder. this time, it's a little santa that i "butchered" for lack of a better term. i enlarged its body to fit the card inside.

once again, i used the christmas cheers cricut cartridge. the body is covered with retired dsp from stampin' up! the belt around santa was made with a piece of grosgrain ribbon and piece of hodgepodge hardware from stampin' up! the sentiment is also from the tags till christmas from stampin' up! also. the gloves and boots we covered with enamel accents in black by ranger ink.

i've blurred some of the message inside because the recipient hasn't received it yet! but basically, the card slips inside just like the other ones i've made from my previous day's posts.

for the bird and moustache, i used enamel accents in white from ranger and sprinkled flocking powder from martha stewart crafts while the enamel accents was still wet. it makes for a very fun effect. the eyes are also made with enamel accents in black.

penguin money card

it's wednesday... hump day as we call it in our household :-) my third gift card holder is a little penguin. i gave one to each of my kids for a little christmas bonus. to be fair, it's not a gift card holder per say but a money card since i didn't want to destroy the shape of the penguin.

once again, it was cut with the christmas cheers cartridge from cricut.

i didn't have a lot of room for the money so i rolled it up and used the shadow feature so that its belly would be carved out.

the fur on the hat was made with enamel accents from ranger in white sprinkled with flocking powder from martha stewart crafts. the eyes are also made with enamel accents but in black this time. see how well it holds its shape? it's like i glue tiny little balls. so much fun to play with.

have a wonderful day! CeeCee

winter house gift card

happy tuesday and it's day 2 of my gift card holder series. this one is a house cut with my cricut and the christmas cheers cartridge. i didn't have to do too much about  about it since the house was big enough to accomodate the gift card.

the house is covered with basic grey dsp (eskimo kisses). i used ranger's rock candy on the window pane to make it look like they're frosted and i love the effect.

i also added a tree in the front of the house cut from the same cartridge. i used some retired dsp to cover it up and decorated it with red stickles and a green metallic brad.

here's the inside. i used the same process as yesterday's card by doubling up the body of the house with an insert inside for the slot.

for the snow on the roofline, i played with my favorite embellishment medium of the hour: the enamel accents in white from ranger ink. i love the 3-d effect it makes. as you can see i've made a few air bubbles and forgot to poke them before it dried... oops! but i still like it. i also used scribbles 3-d paint in glittering gold for the chimney. contrary to what stickles does, it dries completely glossy -- just like if you'd mixed cristal effects or glossy accents with glitter. love it!

i hope you have a fab tuesday! CeeCee

reindeer gift card

i hope everyone had a good christmas with your family and friends or... animals. my family and i spent drove to toronto for the weekend to visit my in-laws and we had a great time (besides me being sick and not being able to enjoy the food... but that's a different matter). on saturday night, we gathered as many of the family as possible and everyone brought something to eat. we exchanged christmas presents from secret santa and that was a lot of fun. what was even more fun was signing old beatles songs with the help of my son, the musician, and his daddy and uncle mike. everyone sang and joined in on the fun. we even played ball hockey on the frozen pond with a tiny red ball with our boots and did a bit of house caroling with help of my son! a lot of fun!

on to crafting now -- for the next few posts, i'm going to show you the nifty little cards i made to give away with the gift cards i was offering as presents for christmas. this first one was for the secret santa exchange (i had picked my brother-in-law claude).

the reindeer was cut with the cricut and the christmas cheer cartridge. i was inspired by a project that Laura from Follow the Paper Trail did last week on UStream.

after i made the cut with the circut, i chopped off the body from the rest and cut piece of CS big enough to accommodate the gift card. then i doubled up the inside piece with creamy caramel CS and made a slit big enough to slide the card in.

to decorate my little reindeer i used stickles, some dsp from basic grey and ribbon from stampin' up!

as for the tail, i knotted some more ribbon through a large eyelet i inserted through the inside body part. i frayed the edges of my ribbon for added texture. a tag on the front from Tags Til Christmas by stampin' up! completes the whole thing.

that was a fun project to make so i decided to make others which i'll show in the days to come.

CeeCee

season's greetings!

i would like to wish each and every one of you a very merry christmas. may it bring you joy and comfort.

here's a funny card that hopefully made its way to england. they're dealing with major snowfalls and traveling to and from is quite complicated.

i love how it turned out. i colored the frogs image from penny black with copic markers and dotted them with the colorless blender.

to make it more festive, i added some icicles stickles underneath the frogs.

here's a close-up of the fun flock from stampendous. love the effect!

once again, have a Very Merry Christmas everyone! CeeCee

doggie christmas card

here's an unusual request: a christmas card to the dog sitter... from the dog! i didn't have a christmas/dog stamp so i improvised. i dog image is from impression obsession, the tree is from stamping bella and the snowflakes from stampin' up!

i cut out the images and layered them. fix-o presto... we got a doggie christmas card! i colored the images with copics and added glitter.

here are the copic markers i've used.

happy wednesday! CeeCee

baby's 1st christmas

we're getting on to the last stretch... christmas is this coming saturday! wow, where did the time go?! in all this hustle and bustle, i hope you're not forgetting what the true meaning of christmas is. it should all be about being kind to one another and being together with family.

and to paraphrase one of my favorite movies, "christmas isn't just about one day, it's a frame of mind!"

speaking of family, here's a card i took to heart. well, i take all my commissionned work at heart but let's just say this one was special. i was asked to do a 1st baby christmas card and that got me remembering my first born 1st christmas. a bit of nostalgia here: francis, my first child, in the arms of my father who passed on last december, dressed in his little santa baby pyjama and hat. anyways, enough about that. here's the card:

isn't this image the cutest?! it's a Mo Manning stamp from Stamping Bella. the dsp is Candy Cane from Stampin' Up!

i had a lot of fun coloring it in with my copic markers and prismacolor pencils. i also added a few glitter gel pen strokes. the image was cut with nestabilities dies and added some frosted snowflakes punched out of my own glitter cardstock with a martha stewart snowflake punch. pink pearls are nestled in the middle of each snowflake.

the above picture shows how i've made the fur on the hat. i did it with my new friend, the enamel accents in white from ranger, and flocking powder from martha stewart. the enamel accent dries shiny and keep its shape but i immediately sprinkled it with the flock. the enamel absorbed a bit of the flock and the shine of it shows through in certain areas. it's a wonderful effect. i also dotted some areas with a quickie glue pen from sakura then sprinkled some dazzling diamonds over it. it's like falling snow!

i even decorated the inside of the card, something i mean to do more often from now on.

here's what i've used. enjoy your day and don't stress out too much about the small stuff!

CeeCee

handmade card for a very special daddy

here's a cute request i had from a customer -- a christmas card from baby to daddy. i had so much fun with this. the other request for the card was to include a penguin. so i pulled out Stampin' Up!'s Punch Pals and Cold & Cuddly Stamp Set.

i played with some glitter, bling and my sewing machine. the main image was cut out with spellbinders oval dies. i made the sentiment on my computer and printed it on whisper white then punched it out with the word window punch. i added some dimension by stamping a 2nd penguin and popping him on stampin' dimensionals. i did the same for the hat. the only part of the image that is colored is the block of ice with Copic markers BG49, BG45 and BG000.

i'm almost done with my commissioned workd... i have to clear everything out next week to make my famous chocolate truffles. oooooh, these are soooo good. more on that later :-)

CeeCee

merry bella

still making my way through retired papers... dsp packs precisely. i needed a few modern and girly christmas cards for one of my customers to i wipped up this one with a stamping bella stamp.

ooh, and i'm getting the hang out of stitching my cards with my little sew mini sewing machine. i love that zigzag stitch. it's a lot easier than a straight stitch -- more forgiving.

i added quite a bit of bling and some liquid pearls on the hat and the boots. the little "merry" sentiment is from stampin' up's tiny tags stamp set. you'll see the glitter more clearly if you click on the picture.

i'm making a bit of a dent on my to-do list and that makes me happy.

have a safe wednesday! CeeCee

merry reindeers

it's a blizzard out here today so i thought a funny christmas card would be appropriate. i've used a classic stamp set from Stampin' Up!, Holiday Lineup.

the image is stamped on watercolor paper and colored with markers and an aqua painter. the eyes were previously covered with Crystal Effects to make it easier to color.

the nose is covered with Crystal Effects and red Micro Beads. around the one of the reindeer's woods, i attached a little sentiment with a jump ring. the sentiment from the Tiny Tags stamp set is punched out with the Jewelry Tag Medium Punch.

i've also added a bit of white puff paint on the hat of the reindeer on the right.

stay warm if you're in the montreal region... i'm going out shoveling :-)

CeeCee

 

naughty or nice?

oooooh it's cold over here, folks! i got my winter tires put on my car in anticipation of snow... that put me in the mood for a christmas card. this one is a special order for a friends and will probably be mailed out so no buldges please! that's why i kept the ribbon flat.

love this little girl from my favorite things from "candy cane kisse". i chose some patterned paper from kaisercraft (christmas carnival collection) from their 6" paper pad which comes with die-cut borders, tags and more. love it!

for some reason, i wasn't in a blingy mood. so i used ranger's dimensional paint for the hat, earmuffs and boots. it was still too shiny for me so i heated it up until it bubbled up!!! i love the effect... looks like fur.

my little girl is colored with copics and shaded with a black coloring pencil and OMS.

i also want to wish all my american friends a very happy thanksgiving! CeeCee

jennifer mcguire projects - final part!

well, that's the last batch of my "jennie" projects and it's almost like seeing an old friend go... :-( i really like all these cards and gift-ideas.

these last 3 projects are unusual in their shapes. this one is an accordeon-fold with a twist. and i love the vellum circle behind the reindeer. it's a subtle yet effective effect that give the reindeer its importance.

here's a simple treat bag wrapper. the swirls in the background were stamped with metallic silver ink.

here's a view of the candies, inside a plastic bag and poking out of a whole on top of the wrapper.

and the very last one is a gift-card holder that you can do up as either a tree ornament or a card. the polka dots in the background were made by running a piece of die-cut white core CS into an embossing folder in the big shot then lightly sanded to expose the white of the paper.

check out the shine on the tree! it was embossed in white over watercolor paper then inked with distress ink and spritz with pealized mist.

so that's it for those wonderful projects. i'll be back with some of my own stuff tomorrow!

happy tuesday - be good! CeeCee

jennifer mcguire projects - part 5

i've realized that we did a looooooooooooot of card during jennifer mcguire's class. today's color scheme is mostly red and green...

i didn't put a sentiment on the first one because i'm not sure if it's going to a francophone or anglophone! this is a tri-fold card and i love the effect of the stamped background.

the image was stamped on watercolor paper and we were told to color it in with markers and mixture of ink and pearlized mist.

i loooooove this next one. it's so happy! the image was printed by jennifer and i colored it at home with some copic markers. when i cut it out, i cut through 2 layers of white CS and i added adhesive only under the head of the snowman. i scored the 2nd layer just below the head and that's how it opens. i hand-wrote a sentiment and added the ribbon for the scarf.

here's another snowman card. the background was embossed with a folder through a die-cut machine and then we stamped over the whole thing with a background stamp. because of the texture, the background image just stamped on the raised dots... but obviously i stamped the text background image the wrong way. oh well! i still like it :-)

the last one is a thank you card. the flower is like my own ribbon flowers that i made a while back but this time it was made with sticky-back canvas. the canvas was torn into strips and that's what we wrapped around in a circle. then when the flower was done, we inked it up and sprayed it again with the pearlized mist. the background was stamped and embossed in white, then inked with pumice stone distress ink. it gives it a silver-y finish that's quite stunning in real life.

i hope you've enjoyed this batch of cards. i've got 3 more batches coming!!!

have a great weekend! CeeCee

jennifer mcguire projects - part 3

here i am, with batch #3 of my cards from the jennifer mcguire's class.

this one is all shimmery with lots of layered inking and stamping. the background was stamped with a script pattern in pumice stone distress ink. then it was given a wash of 2 different colors of inks mixed with a pearlized mist and painted on the die-cut shape. the trees were inked then given a spritz of the pearlized mist before being stamped. add a few blings and a sentiment and everything was adhered on pre-stamped mat.

this one above is another one of my favorites. the wreath was embossed in white over white cardstock. to make it pop, we sponged some chalk ink over the wreath. the chipboard bird was covered with a text paper, inked, then adhered over some ribbon and linen thread. the red berries were made with red liquid pearls. love the effect!

this last one for today is a fun card. the base is a piece of acetate that was ran through the Big Shot using an embossing folder. then we inked a clear acrylic block with 2 different color of distress inks, spritzed it with the pearlized mist than stamped on watercolor paper. can you say fun?! i'm certainly going to try this technique again. the embellishment was pre-stamped for us on watercolor paper; we just added a bit of sponging, a button and some linen thread.

part 4 tomorrow... have a great day! CeeCee

jennifer mcguire projects - part 2

today's going to post is going to be a quick one. i'll let the pictures speak for themselves. here's another batch of cards we did during jennifer mcguire's class.

i forgot all the technical terms for the techniques we learned but this one is basically a masking technique with a background that we first stamped with a pearl paint (like Stampin' Up!'s Frost White Shimmer Paint i would guess) then we let it dry and sponged some distress inks over the image. the effect is quite awesome.

this one is another masking technique with inking over versamark ink. i love how the top element of the card is actually just a flap that opens up to reveal a nice background. the little bird was just stamped with dye-based ink then sponged with more ink.

this is one of my favorites and you'll understand why from the next picture.

can you see all that shimmer!!! this was accomplished by first coloring with markers directly on the stamp and then spritzing very lightly with jennifer's homemade pearlized mist. love it!!!

back tomorrow -- enjoy your day! CeeCee

mini polar bear wishes

what a weekend! on saturday, i spent the day at my LSS making a whole bunch of cards with jennifer mcguire... me and the other 39 people that is. it was an amazing day. we almost finished 24 cards!!! i will start posting them this week. 

but yesterday, i took it easy -- besides managing the orders that came in for Card à la Carte's latest tutorial. if you haven't seen this new gift idea, it's a must. you can view all the details here.

so, like i said, i took it easy yesterday. i stayed in my jammies , ate leftovers and watched the last F1 race of the season (booo...) while I colored. it's my favorite activity to unwind.

this card is a 3" X 3" mini. i used leftovers from a project i made for Card à la Carte last week. i love this image from an old cube stamp i bought by a canadian company called the stamp barn. so cute and so fun to color. the backgroup dsp pieces are from stampin' up!'s elegant soirée -- one of them i glittered myself with versamark, heat & stick powder and dazzling diamonds glitter.

the image was stamped with memento's rich cocoa ink and colored entirely with prismacolor pencils and gamsol. i wanted a more subdued tone. i also added a rhinestone jewel in the middle of the star and dots of quickie glue with some dazzling diamonds for the background and on the bear. also notice the hat on the bear and the earmuffs on the snowman? i applied this fantastic product from ranger called enamel accents in white. it's a dimensional paint that maintains its shape and puffiness when it's dry. it's fantastic. it's one of the products that jennifer mcguire demoed during the class and ... i bought it!

i'll be back tomorrow with my "jennie" projects.

happy monday! CeeCee

carte de noël masculine -- xmas card for a man

i'm posting late today because i've had to devote my day to some family's paperwork (not the fun kind). all i can say is "thank goodness for accountants!" -- thank you, pauline :-)

on to today's project then. it's always a little bit more difficult to make a card for a man. this one had to be very simple as per my client's request. i had this little bit of designer paper leftover from yesteday's project, flipped it over and oh, but wonder of all... it's a nice brown striped paper. perfect for a manly card, dontcha think?! (in hindsight, the white background of my photo box is probably not perfect against the color of my card base...)

la plus grande difficulté que j'ai bien souvent c'est de créer pour la gente masculine... pas facile! on m'a demandé de produire une carte de noël simple pour un homme et le petit bout de papier qui me restait de mon project d'hier s'est avéré parfait puisque l'endos m'a révélé un beau ligné brun!

i had a completely different idea in mind when i first started the card but when i started playing with this brand new rustique patina bronze embossing powder (non SU) my project took on a new direction. so i took a christmas ornament image from Stampin' Up!'s Delightful Decorations and embossed it on Sahara Sand CS. it's really tough to see all the details and colors from the photo but basically there are specks of bronze, blue and white. really stunning (you can click on the photo for full size and a better look-see).t he blue in the powder made me want to add a splash of Marina Mist  in there, hence the little scalloped border. i added a ribbon, holly and berries, a sentiment from Many Merry Messages and some white gel pen stitches. it's definitely not a conventional christmas card and i'm pretty sure my customer's going to like it.

j'avais une autre idée en tête lorsque j'ai commencé ma carte mais la poudre à gaufrage que j'ai décidé d'utiliser a dicté une autre direction. j'ai donc étampe une boule de noël du jeu Delightful Decorations et gaufré avec la poudre "rustique patina bronze" sur du carton Sable du Sahara. c'est très difficile d'apprécier toutes les couleurs qui en ressort mais il y a des tons de bronze, bleu et blanc. le bleu du gaufrage a dicté l'ajout de la petite bordure de carton murmure marin. pour apprécier un peu plus toutes les nuances, vous pouvez cliquer sur la photo -- cela vous donnera un gros plan.

voilà, à demain! CeeCee

a christmas card with merrybella

here's another christmas card for you today. this one is perfect for a modern lady -- the stamp from stamping bella is whismical but the basic grey paper adds a touch of traditional.

voici une autre carte de noël qu'on m'a demandé de faire pour une fille moderne -- j'aime beaucoup cette étampe de stamping bella.

i loaded this one with tons of bling by adding stickles to and around the image as well as on the designer paper.

the image is colored with:

copics: E00 skin white, E47 dark brown, E99 baked clay, BG01 aqua blue, R27 cadmium red, YG95 pale olive

prismacolor: PC947 dark umber, PC911, olive green, PC908 dard green, PC943 burnt ochre, PC1082 chocolate, PC904 light cerulean blue, PC935 black

i also added some white flock on the hat and boots but i couldn't pick it up well with the camera.

j'ai ajouté beaucoup de brillants avec des "stickles" et du "flock" (désolé, je ne connais le terme en français) sur le bonnet et les bottes. malheureusement, le flock ne parait pas sur la photo.

l'imae est coloriée avec les copics et prismacolor énumérés dans le texte en anglais ci-haut.

on to make the rest of my order list...

happy monday! CeeCee

season's greetings

it's official -- i started working on my commissioned cards for christmas. not sure why i chose today to start... maybe the gloomy weather helped!

here's one that will make its way to england for christmas. i think i chose this old stamp just so i can spend hours coloring it. it's small, intricate and sooooo much fun! i'm not even sure that the manufacturer still exists (PSX).

c'est parti, mon kiki! les préparatifs des fêtes sont officiellement commencé puisque j'ai commencé aujourd'hui à travailler sur mes contrats de cartes et cardeaux pour noël. je ne sais pas ce qui m'y a poussé -- peut-être la température maussade!

voici la première carte qui s'en ira vers l'angleterre pour noël. je crois que je me suis fait plaisir avec mon choix d'étampe. c'est en une que j'ai depuis très longtemps et je ne sais même plus si la compagnie existe encore (PSX).

i colored the image in with copics (W00, W1, W5, BG0000, BG000, B91, B95, B97, B99, E35, E17, E49, G99, Y0000, Y00) and shadowed with prismacolor pencils (PC1086, PC1083, PC1012, 368, PC935, PC901).

j'ai utilisé les crayons copics et les prismacolor (tel qu'indiqué ci-haut) pour faire la mise en couleur de mon image.

i also added Dazzling Diamonds Glitter, puffy snow and pearl white paint. the whole card shines like an old christmas card and that's what i was aiming for.

j'ai également ajouté des touches de brillants diamants resplendissants, de la neige à gonfler et de la peinture blanche perlée. la carte brille vraiment sous les lumières. pour apprécier, cliquez sur la photo et vous la verrez en grandeur réelle.

have you started making your chrismas cards? if you're stuck for inspiration, there's still some space left for my christmas cards workshop next week. just click here to register!

avez-vous commencé à faire vos cartes de noël? si l'inspiration vous manque, pourquoi ne pas vous inscrire à mon atelier de cartes de noël de la semaine prochaine ... il reste encore quelques places. vous pouvez cliquer ici pour plus de détails.

have a great wednesday! CeeCee

working with silver glass stampin' glitter

oh, i had fun with this one. and i thought that Stampin' Up!'s glass glitter was going to be tough to work with so i was putting off breaking the jar open. but ... wow! it adheres well to the multipurpose glue and the leftover is easy to pick up to put back in the jar (unlike the fine glitter). and oh, what a shine!!!

 

here, i played with 2 stamp sets: Winter Post and Artistic Etchings. tand the distressing was made using the mahogany vintage ink spot and a sponge. rtès retro!

all the images were stamped in Soft Suede and to color the skaters i used Stampin' Write Markers. for some reason the watercoloring effect was not working for me today so i just went straight in with the markers. i just lifted some of the colors off the paper afterward for highlights. sometimes, you have to adjust! and the skaters are popped on stampin' dimensionals.

ooooh, and look at that glitter. i was so excited to see the glass glitter in the new Holiday Mini Catalog. i'm gonna buy the champagne one now :-)

on a different topic, there are still seats available for my World Class Making Day on saturday, october 2nd. so if you want to come and have some fun with other fellow stampers while making 12 cards and a beautiful purse-like box to carry them in, just go this link and register! we'll have a blast!

(all by Stampin' Up! unless specified otherwise)

stamp sets: winter post, artistic etchings

inks: soft suede classic ink, stampin' write markers in riding hood red, crumb cake, soft suede, mahogany vintage ink spot for distressing

cardstock: very vanilla, watercolor paper, love letter dsp

punches: bigz top note die for big shot die-cutting system

ribbon: victoria crochet trim

other: silver glass stampin' glitter, snail adhesive, stampin' dimensionals, multipurpose liquid glue, cherry cobbler brads

new... Stampin' Up!'s holiday mini catalogue is here!!! NOUVEAU le mini des fêtes est arrivé!!!

... and look what i've done with some of the new supplies!!! a very, very simple gift card.

i also broke out the seal on my Moonlight Smooch to color the image. the fine tip of the smooch brush makes it very easy to do fine detailing when you color the image in.

i embossed my image with Clear EP on Baja Breeze Cardstock. because the image is embossed it resists the Smooch making it even easier to color in! check out the snowflakes... i didn't even need to be careful -- a light swoosh of Smooch (say this 20 times real fast) and magic!

also, i omitted the "to" and "from" on the image from the Tags Til Christmas Stamp Set because i didn't need it for that purpose. just wipe off the portion you don't need with a cotton swab after you've inked your stamp.

you may have noticed in the sidebar that i've added a link to Stampin' Up!'s Holiday Mini Catalog so you can view all the amazing new products for the holidays to come, be it Hallowe'en, Christmas and even Valentine's Day! take a look-see and call me to place your order here. i ship everywhere in Canada and usually order every week or so.

have a great hump day! CeeCee

stamp set: Tags Til Christmas & Have a Cute Christmas

inks: Blushing Bride

cardstock: Baja Breeze, Whisper White, Blushing Bride & Candy Cane DSP

punches: 1-3/8" Circle Large, Decorative Label Extra-Large, Circle Scissors Plus

Other: Stampin' Dimensionals, SNAIL Adhesive, Clear Embossing Powder, Moonlight Smooch

fresh batch of xmas cards

Ah, the smell of a fresh batch of Christmas Cards.... nothing like it! I love making multiple cards. I did those with last year's Country Living Kit and the Holiday Best stamp set. My mission was to use up all of the supplies in the kit. There were quite a few self-adhesive die-cuts to play with and it was fun to mix and match. I added some glitter for a little extra punch! But all the cards were kept very simple and classic.

 

These cards are going to a special bunch of ladies (ssssshhh, it's a secret!).

CeeCee  

 

retired dormant stamp sets list + 12 weeks of christmas

Before I post the list of dormant stamp sets, I'd like to remind you that my 12 Weeks of Christmas Ideas is winding down with only 3 projects left. Above is a little sneak peak at my Week 10 project. With everything that's been happening in my family, I'm somewhat behind in sending them but 2 back-to-back are going out at the end of today. So, if you haven't signed up for my newsletter there's still time to do so and you'll get step-by-step instructions for the remaining 3 projects. It's fun! 

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So, without further delay here is the list of stamp sets that are part of the dormant list and that will be retiring as of January 4th, 2010.   This is your LAST CHANCE to get your hands on those amazing stamp sets. You can click on the Stamp Set name and view a picture. Call me at 514.830.9372 or email me to place your order.

Have a great day! CeeCee

Item Number	Stamp Set
113407	Back Woods
114492	Beautiful Baby
114486	Birthday Wish
113200	Branch Out
114496	Celebrations
113732	Central Park
113206	Classic Sketches
113226	Classy & Fabulous
114498	Flowers in Silhouette
113405	Font of You
113216	For the Bride
114494	Forever
109425	Friend by Definition
114488	Fun Flowers
113716	Garden Greetings
114490	Glad Friends
111580	Grand Soiree
113242	Hit the Road
113710	Lexicon of Leaves
113236	Man's Best Friend
114423	Ocean Commotion
113728	Playful Petals
109276	Polka Dot
111544	Putt Putt
113240	Quilt Quips
113754	Really Retro
113403	Sip by Sip
113726	Sweet Stems
113250	That's Funny
113688	Wonderful Watercolors
114028	Para la novia
114032	Acuarelas Maravillosas

i'm still here !!!

Wow, it's been a week since I posted and I've missed it. As you know, my Dad's been hospitalized since last Sunday and his health is a grave concern. I've been trying to spend as much time as I can with him, feeding him soup and watching him trying to rest. I'd like to thank all of you who've expressed your concern. Your positive comments really do help!

I've been trying to get back into the groove slowly this past week but I found myself mentally exhausted. However, knowing my Dad... he wouldn't want me to stay in this funk for long. He's always been a take charge and positive person. So I shook myself up and decided to slowly emerge from the dark -- Mwah-hawhaw.

I do apologize for my Newsletter subscribers for having missed last Wednesday's deadline for Week 10 and will make it up to you by including 2 projects instead of one for this coming Wednesday.

OK, now that I've got this out let's look at my last Stamp  Club project. I totally CASED it from Becky Roberts with a different spin on the cards.

 

It's a cute box with dividers to store 4 3" X 3" note cards with envelopes and three Hershey's Nuggets. The box has dividers and is made up of two pieces of Soft Suede CS. There's also a transparency sleeve that slides over the box. For an added touch, there's a piece of elastic cord adorned with a bow out of Soft Suede Polka Dot Grosgrain ribbon that wraps around the box. So cute.

 

The two cards on the left have been first inked in Real Red and Soft Suede and then dabbed with Frost White Shimmer Paint. I've used Christmas Cocoa Specialty DSP to decorate each cards and the Nuggets. Of course, the stamp set is Delightful Decorations and the ornaments are punched with the Ornament Punch.

I fully intend to post more often this week. Let's see how that goes. In the meantime, keep well and live creatively!

CeeCee
 

 

and the winner is....

.... Brandi Wiggins-Côté!

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Timestamp: 2009-11-22 04:07:32 UTC

Brandi said...

Yay, CeeCee! I saw your blog on the Inspirational Blog! I'm glad to see you being recognized for your amazing talent!!!
Hugs,
Brandi

ReplyFriday, November 06, 2009 at 10:35 AM

Brandi, please send me your coordinates and I'll send you the goodies (which I'll have a photo of tomorrow).

I would also like to award a special CONSISTENCY prize to Marie-Pierre Capistran. Marie-Pierre posted every day and for that I congratulate her. Bravo, Marie-Pierre et un gros merci pour avoir visité mon blog assidûment. Je te remettrai ton prix lors de ton passage au Québec en janvier!

On to today's project. It was actually last night's last Club Meet. Unfortunately, I can't show you the whole thing since I ran out of chocolates and had to give mine to Kathy but I can show you one of the mini cards.

 

I'l show you the whole project tomorrow when I have time to replace the chocolates. Gotta get some sleep now since I was out all day for my Copic certification. That was a lot of fun but I had to be up at the un-godly hour of 8 a.m.!!!

Have a fantastic evening, CeeCee

a trio for helena

Note: I've decided to extend the comment contest until tonight. So, I'll draw the name of the winner tomorrow. All you have to do is leave a comment anywhere in the previous 30 posts and this one -- or to all of the posts. One comment per post only. The more you comment, the more chances you have of winning some goodies.

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I have two awesome cleaning ladies, Helena and Michelle. They've both recently moved from England and will be sending Christmas cards to their families and friends abroad. So when Helena asked me to make simple cards for her, I readily agreed.

I wanted something I could whip up quickly this morning while they were busy in my house, so I reached for a Simply Sent Card Elements kit that retired a while back and came up with these:

 

Helena wanted "Across the miles from Montreal" showing on the front of each card and I didn't quite know how to work that out. I tried printing it out on vellum or on an acetate, but it didn't quite work the way I wanted it. So I decided to write them by hand with Stampin' Write Markers.

The finishing touch: Glitter of course!!!!

 

I added Dazzling Diamonds Glitter on the swirls. Pretty simple! 

Using Simply Sent Card Kits is a great way to make quick and classy cards. Look for those kits in the Idea Book and Catalog, pages 170 through 175. There are different themes to choose from, all gorgeous! You can send me an email here to place an order and I'll ship it anywhere in Canada.

Have a great day! CeeCee

un noël blanc... vert olive et sarcelle

I love the traditional red and green colors of Christmas but sometimes I do need a change. And those three colors really do the trick for me: Old Olive, Taken with Teal and Whisper White. These are the 2 last cards we did on Monday night's workshop.

 

Again here, I wanted to have my guests try their hands at glittering in different ways. For both cards, we used a Sahara Sand CS background with Holiday Lounge DSP. For the card on the left, we stamped Dasher with Whisper White Craft Ink and embossed with White EP. The peak-a-boo window is punched out of the Designer Label Punch. We've also stamped the sentiment from Christmas Punch stamp set in Old Olive, punched it out and popped it with Stampin' Dimensionals inside the card.

The card on the right is stamped with the Delightful Decorations and Nombreux Joyeux Messages (French version of Many Merry Messages). Old Olive ribbon from the Mistletoe Ribbon Originals, Ornament and Scallop Edge punches, Rhinestone brad and Frost White Shimmer Paint were also used.

 

Gosh, I love these micro beads. They look almost yummy enough to eat. We laid down a piece of Sticky Strip and the little beads stuck to it. Love it!

 

Check out the shimmer on this baby!!! Wooo-wee! The Taken with Teal CS was sprayed with a homemade mixture of rubbing alcohol and a few drops of Frost White Shimmer Paint and that's become very addictive. The ornament was stamped by dabbing Frost White Shimmer Paint directly on the stamp.

And if you haven't done so already, this will be your last chance to win some free products by leaving me a comment on this post. Contest ends tonight at 11:59 EST and I will be drawing a name out of all of the comments that was sent to me since October 19th. 

Also, my 12 Weeks of Christmas Ideas is coming out tonight so if you haven't subscribed to my newsletter yet, you can do so by typing your email in the "Join My Newsletter" box in the left sidebar.

Good luck and I'll be back tomorrow! CeeCee