Introducing Kristie Taylor!!

I am so excited to announce a fabulous addition to our design team! Kristie is her name and here is a photo, a short bio and an example of her work with the stunning December kit. She brings a new style to the team and I am looking forward to working with her!

Kristie Taylor

"Hi I am Kristie, and I presently live in Wisconsin, but I am a southern girl from North carolina through and through. I am mom to four amazing kids, ages 27,14,11 and 11.Who are often the subject of my scrapbooking pages. I love scrapbooking and working with the paper arts, I have served on several design teams, and have taught classes as well. I love adding texture and dimension to my projects, and love "found" objects too. When not playing with paper, or planning my next page, I also love to do mixed media art and some art journaling. I find that creating something.. anything soothes my soul and renews my spirit. I am honored and excited to be asked to join the Cest magnifique team and I hope that I can do these amazing kits justice!"

Here also is a little sneak of the December kit created by Kristie! Can you say GORGEOUS?!!



Here is Kristie's description of her layout:

I started with some white cardstock, and rubbed on some distress ink and glimmer mists. I cut the first layer and used fringe scissors to add some texture. Then I started building layers. The heavy paper from "The Scrapcake" just LOVES distressing because it is so thick. Each layer of paper was distressed and inked using distress inks as well as the awesome little brick red ink pad that comes in the kit. I used a lot of the add-ons including the beautiful flowers by Prima. The kit is just gorgeous and the photos just don't do it justice, everything is color coordinated and matches PERFECTLY! The pages just flow together, the only problem I had was that I didn't want to cut the gorgeous papers :)

Add-ons used:

Prima's North Country Chipboard
Prima's Innoscence 546014
Prima's Romantique Roses - SOLD OUT

Welcome to C'est Magnifique Kits, Kristie!

Store Sale!!!

Yay! In observance of Black Friday - we are having our first sale! Enjoy!!

December 2011 Papers and Add-Ons

December's kit is quickly becoming my favorite! The colors in this line of paper from The Scrap Cake out of Poland are superb!!! I love that these papers make Christmas Card making so easy too! Take a look:



Here are the add-ons for the month too:




Both the embellie and flower add-on packages are already sold out, but some of the items are available individually IN THE STORE. For first dibs on the add-ons, you may want to sign up for our email newsletter at the top left of the blog - it's where you learn first of the kit and add-on images.

And don't forget - as a monthly member you receive an additional discount on all add-ons for the month.

Challenge Update

I'd like to start by congratulating Sherrie Suttles (our resident marathon runner) for being the winner of our "Fall Challenge". Thanks also to those who participated in the challenge. We saw some beautiful fall layouts!

It's Sunday and time for another C'est Magnifique challenge. This week's challenge is all about photos. We'd like for you to use an odd shaped -or- odd sized photo for your layout. If you always scrap 4x6 photos, try using a larger photo. If you always scrap rectangular photos, why not try a square, or a circle. You could also create a photo strip or collage. The idea is to challenge you to use a photo size or shape that you don't typically use. There are no other restrictions.

You will have 2 weeks until midnight EST (New York City time zone) Sunday, November 27th to complete your layout. Please upload it to the November "Photo Challenge" folder in the gallery and post an image in this thread. The winner, chosen by a random draw, will be announced in the forum and on the blog. The winner will receive a RAK from C'est Magnifique!

Our challenges are designed to help you with your scrapbooking, so we ask that you upload only newly created layouts for this challenge. We can't wait to see what creative photo ideas you come up with!

~~~Valerie Serfozo

Creative Scrappers!

This month we are giving away a cool prize over at Creative Scrappers! It's pretty easy - all you have to do is create a layout based on one of the sketches numbered 180-184, link it on their site and you are then automatically entered to win!

How cool is that?!! Be sure to check them out!

And here are a few more layouts designed by our DT using our November kit:

Valerie Serfozo

Beverly Sams

Kay Rogers

Leslie Kammerdiener

This kit has been so much fun to work with, but girls...just wait until next month! Wooooheee!

Journaling Prompt Challenge

Wow, it's time for our first challenge of November. Do you always journal on your layouts? Do you save it for last and only add it if you have enough room? If you're like a lot of scrappers, journaling doesn't come easy. We're hoping this challenge will help jump-start your journaling. We'd like you to create a layout and use this phrase in your journaling "I am thankful for.....". That's it. No other restrictions.

You will have 2 weeks until midnight EST (New York City time zone) Sunday, November 20th to complete your layout. Please upload it to the November "Journaling Prompt" folder in the gallery and post an image in our forum here. The winner, chosen by the design team, will be announced here on the blog and in the forum. The winner will receive a RAK from C'est Magnifique!

Our challenges are designed to help you with your scrapbooking, so we ask that you upload only newly created layouts for this challenge.

~~~Valerie Serfozo

November Guest Designers

I am so pleased to announce our guest designers for November! This month we are also going to feature some of their work along with their bio and photos! Please welcome both Sarah Hill and Kay Fatula!!

Kay Fatula




My name is Karla but I'm better known as Kay--a nickname I've had since my college days. I'm a senior level Quality Analyst for a global fortune 100 company--this would be my day job. At night I'm an avid crafter. Art has been my passion since I was old enough to pick up a crayon. Scrapbooking is my only escape to my love for art & creativity. I've been an on & off again scrapper since high school but I got heavily involved with it back in 2007 & I haven't looked back since. I love the thought of documenting chapters & memories of my life that I'll be one day, passing onto future generations. On a personal note, I'm married to a great guy that supports my love of art & of course scrapbooking. I do not have any children as of yet. Just one little fur-baby by the name of Toby who's my little ray of sunshine.

Sarah Hill

I started crafting in high school by making collages on my notebooks from cut out magazines. I thought I was the coolest!! That type of "paper crafting" evolved into a small scrapbook of my high school boyfriend and I~done on sketch paper. Clearly I didn't know what I was doing. I got my older sister into scrapbooking then shortly afterwards didn't look at the hobby for several years. I got back on the train when my sister found a nearby Scrapbook convention!!! It's all history from there. Every since then I was hooked. I wanted to try every new thing in the book. I'm never scared to try something new or learn from a fellow scrapper.

I'm now married to my hubby Nick with 2 furry "kids" Rocko & Bella. My family is my life: husband, pooches, sisters, mom, dad, just everyone. I just love taking trips and making mini albums!!! A Large Diet Coke (NO ICE PLEASE!!) from McDonalds is my Achilles Heel :)

Amazing, huh? To see more layouts from either of these designers, we invite you to OUR GALLERY. There you will also see some gorgeous layouts from our talented design team!