January 2012 Papers and Add-Ons

We are so excited to bring you the new 7 Dots Studio's Dreamer line in January! These papers are grungy and cool on one side and the total opposite on the other - all soft and dreamy.

I am anxious to show you all some of the layouts the DT has been designing - you will be amazed! Come back often over the next couple of weeks for some sneaks. In the meantime though, enjoy the previews:

And here are the add-ons:

And as an added bonus - here is a sneak peak at a layout designed by DT member Kristie Taylor:

Please Welcome Nadia Cannizzo!

I am so pleased to announce that Nadia Cannizzo has accepted my offer of a position on our fabulous design team!! I strongly feel she will bring yet another style of design to our already diverse team and I look forward to seeing her projects with our kits! Please welcome her with open arms and make her feel at home!




My name is Nadia Cannizzo, and I live in Sydney Australia. I was born and raised in Greece and moved to Australia when I was 11. I am a mummy to 2, much loved and much wanted little girls and I have been married to my husband for the last 12 years. I am a Primary School teacher and have been teaching for about 11 years. I have been scrapping/paper-crafting officially for just under 2 years now and in March of 2011 I started my own challenge blog called Once Upon A...Sketch. At present I am on the Design Team for an Australian online store called Handmade By Suzanne.I am incredibly excited that Leslie has asked me to join this Design Team. I took one look at the kits and I was hooked! I will enjoy this SO very much and cannot wait!

Use Your Stash Challenge Winner

Congratulations to Giselle for being selected the winner of our 'Use Your Stash' challenge. In her stash she found an old Hambly Screen Print, embossed chipboard shapes, and a stick pin. Here's Giselle's layout titled "That Camera Face". Isn't that photo great!



Thanks for entering the challenge, Giselle, and for being a part of C'est Magnifique. Leslie will be sending you a RAK.

~~~Valerie Serfozo

Holiday Cards and Tags Challenge

I hope your holiday shopping is going well, and that you have been finding exactly the right gift for everyone on your shopping list. I am also hopeful that you're finding some "me" time, and are able to fit in a little scrapbooking along the way.

Well, we have a quick and easy challenge for you this week and I'm hoping to see a lot of entries. I know many of you have been making holiday cards (and are still making them), as well as gift tags. Maybe you've been inspired by following Tim Holtz's 12 days of tags. Whatever you've been working on, we want to see them! So take a photo or scan them, and post an image in this thread, and in the gallery (under the challenges section). You can submit up to 5 entries for this challenge (cards and tags, only).

You will have 2 weeks, until midnight EST (New York City time zone) Sunday, December 25 to complete your project. The more you enter, the greater your chance of being chosen the winner (which will be selected by a random draw). The winner will receive a RAK from C'est Magnifique. I can't wait to see your cards and tags!

Since no blog post is complete without a photo, I went to the gallery in search of a Christmas card. I found this one, created by Heather, using paper from The Scrap Cake. This paper is featured in the December kit, and individual sheets can be purchased in the store.




~~~Valerie Serfozo

A Few Layouts from the DT!

Here are a few more layouts from the design team using "Winter's Whisper"! I love the diverse projects they all came up with!

Kristie Taylor
A Letter To Santa

Kay Rogers
Christmas Greetings

Valerie Serfozo
Together

Look for more in a couple days!!

Winner Announced

Based on a random draw, it's time to announce the winner of our 'Music Challenge". Congratulations goes to Heather (aka scrappin_in_ak) for this great wrestling layout where she used the song title "Let's Get Physical" as the title for her layout.



We can count on Heather to participate in each challenge we have. For being chosen the winner of this challenge, she will received a RAK from C'est Magnifique. It's great to have around, Heather!

~~~Valerie Serfozo

I "'Wonder" what this week's challenge will be......

Here we are with the very first challenge of December, which we're calling the "Wonder" Challenge. Do you wonder what it's all about? It's simple. We want to see you use the word "wonder" in your layout title, or a sentiment for a card. Why? This month's kit includes a package of Prima transparent mirrors, and it contains the word "wonder". If you have the kit, you will already have this word, but you are not required to use the one in the kit.

What do you have to do? - create a layout or card and post it in THIS thread in our forum and the December "Wonder" challenge folder in our gallery. You will have 2 weeks, until midnight EST (New York City time zone) Sunday, December 18 to complete your project. The winner, chosen by a random draw, will be announced in both the forum and the Blog. The winner will receive a RAK from C'est Magnifique!

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

I 'wonder' what you'll create? Here's how design team member, Kristie, used the word from this month's kit:



~~~Valerie Serfozo