From our gallery........

Take a look at these beautiful layouts using items from our store:

Dana Tatar created this amazing layout using paper from Meg's Garden.

Wow, I love the way she has used this paper!

Erin Blegen used the Nature's Garden collection from Prima.  

Don't you love how she used gauze on this layout?

Fi Kenward created her layout using the Songbird paper collection from Prima.  

Love her fussy cutting of the birds.

We hope you enjoyed this inspiration from our gallery.

Bits & Pieces Winner

Happy Mother's Day!  I hope all of you are having a wonderful day.  

I wanted to stop by here real quick and announce the winner of our May Bits & Pieces giveaway. 

 The winner is number 19.  Congratulations to PG!  Leslie will be contacting you to get your mailing address so she can send you the leftovers from her May kit.  Have fun creating with this beautiful paper from 7 Dots Studios and all the fun embellishments and flowers!

Glitz Design is on Sale!

We have both the Pretty in Pink and French Kiss paper collections in the store.  We also have some beautiful embellishments.  Best of all.......through May 21, all Glitz Design products are on sale at 20% off.  Use code GLITZ20 at checkout.

Our design team member Camilla Ekman is on the Glitz Design design team.  

Here's a look at how she used the Pretty in Pink collection:

 

 And here's another layout where Camilla used the French Kiss collection:

Thanks Camilla.  Your layouts are beautiful!

Another Look at our May Kit

Today we'd like to share with you a few more layouts from our design team using the May kit, which features paper from 7 Dots.  You will also see items from the May add-ons (7 Dots add-on, flower add-on,  and embellishment add-on),  We still have a few kits and some add-ons available in the STORE. 

"Father and Son" by Leslie Kammerdiener

So this is Johnnie, my son's home health aide, and his little boy at the rodeo here in San Antonio. Johnnie is getting a new apartment and wanted something to hang on the wall and he asked me to create a layout. He didn't want anything girlie on it (flowers, etc) which made it really hard on me. I just can't do a layout without flowers, lol. (and wait til he sees that appliqué, hehe).

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"Memories" by Camilla Ekman

  like to layer stuff. The journaling pieces from Prima are perfect for this. I have used two different ones underneath the photo. I have scrapped a photo of my niece on her second birthday and softened the colours of the photo to fit the papers.

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"Wonderful to be Sisters" by Valerie Serfozo

 I received this photo from niece and the color was so bad, but I loved the photo - these 2 little sweeties laying together on the floor. So I applied a vintage action to it and I really like how it turned out. No fancy techniques on this one. I just let the beautiful background of this paper from 7 Dots do all the work. You will love this kit! I mixed some of the Blueberry Cobbler Shimmerz (love that name!) with some gesso to color the Dusty Attic piece. 

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"Evidence" by Fi Kenward

This is one of my favourite pictures my sister in law sent me of my brother and my baby niece. I just love the expression on their faces, priceless.

I used one of the pieces from the Quadrille paper to mat this photo and used my Grand Nestabilities Circle for the ring was cut also from the papers. I have used a few of the stickers here as well including the border strip just underneath the photo. I used gesso on the metal corner and then painted with the shimmerz before sanding it back of slightly. The journaling has been written on the Evidence tag poking out behind the photo, I adhered this to some paper as well. Rolled flowers were made from paper scraps using my sizzix rolled rose die cut and I have cut some of the pieces from the white appliques and placed them in the flower clusters and to finish it off I decided to add the bow down the bottom to finish it all off.

Thanks for looking!  We just love the many ways you can use this kit.

Have You Spotted Us?

C'est Magnifique has been seen a couple of places on the web recently.  We are sponsoring CSI (Color, Stories, Inspiration) this month, and the design team has been asked to be 'guest detectives'.  Here's a look at this week's case file no. 18:

Here's the design team's take on the challenge:

If you participate in this Case File, drop us a note and let us know.  We'd love to see your layout. 

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C'est Magnifique was also spotted on the Want2Scrap Blog on National Scrapbook Day.   We love to carry their products in our kits.  The May kit contained 'Charlie's Birdcage' and they featured the design team layouts using the birdcage. 

May Bits & Pieces Give-Away

Happy National Scrapbook Day!  We hope all of you were able to celebrate by doing some scrapping today.  We are offering free shipping our Store through tomorrow ($8 off international shipping).  The promo code is listed when you follow the link above to the store.  It's the perfect time to pick up some items you've been wanting (after all, it IS a scrapbooking holiday).  We even have a few of our May kits remaining.  And we all love free shipping!

Speaking of the May kit, it's time to show you what Leslie had left over after playing with her May kit.  There's a little bit of everything here, including some of the add-on items.

We are giving our blog readers a chance to win everything in the above photo.  We will ship this to you free of charge, anywhere in the world!  Please note that you will receive partial pieces of paper, embellishments and flowers.  It's Leslie's way of passing along her bits and pieces.

All you have to do is write your full name using the Inlinkz button below.  You have until midnight May 12th to add your link.  Good luck!  We will announce the winner, by a random draw, on May 13th.

The Design Team Uses our May Kit

"Besties" by Beverly Sams

Having a best friend is one of the greatest joys in the world! This photo of my niece and her best friend was such a great one for the 7Dots Wonderland paper. I embossed the Want2Scrap chipboard letters included in the main kit and painted them with the Blueberry Cobbler Shimmerz, also included and dabbed on some gesso. The lace trim got a Shimmerz treatment as did the Dusty Attic chipboard.

From the 7Dots Embellishment Add-on:
7Dots Studio Elements 12 x 12 Wonderland
7Dots Studio Stickers 12 x 12 Wonderland
7Dots Studio Stickers 6 x 12 Wonderland

Flower Add-On:
The Manor House: Kyeesha Orange Flower
Prima: Lucerne: Nature Garden

Embellishment Add-On:
Prima: Nature's Garden: Journaling Notecards
Prima: Mask: Swirls
Dusty Attic: Chipboard: Wrought Iron Trim Set
Teresa Collins: Fabrications Canvas Trinkets

From my stash:
Sewing thread
Gesso
Tim Holtz: Distress Ink: Black Soot
Sizzix Embossing Folder: Damask

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"Joy" by Erin Blegen

 I've created another layout for my little girl, Aspen. She truly is such a joy- always smiling and laughing- I just couldn't help but get these series of photos down on a page.
I tried to stick to a black & pink color scheme, with variations of the two colors. I hand-cut all of the hearts using the elementary school method of folding my paper in half and cutting out a half-heart- remember doing that for Valentine's Day? Lol...I then rumpled them and inked them a bit. The little banners at the top of my page were cut from one of the journaling spots included in the 7 Dots Studio add-on, using the Prima stick pins to embellish them. Finally, I used the Prima mask to create my flourishes in the two corners of my layout, using some gesso with a touch of pink spray mist.

From the 7 Dots Embellishment Add-On:
7 Dots Studio Elements 12x12 Wonderland

From the Flower Add-On:
Prima: Namazzi: Charcoal
Prima: Miss Godivas: Blush
Prima: Kennedy: Antique
Prima: Lucerne: Nature Garden

From the Embellishment Add-On:
Prima: Petal Pins: Iced
Prima: Mask: Swirls
Dusty Attic Chipboard: Wrought Iron Trim set
Want2Scrap: Pearl Swirls White

From My Stash:
Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch
Prima Fluid Chalk Edger Pad: Old Rose
Prima Fluid Chalk Edger Pad: Old Road
Maya Road Charcoal Mist
Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist: Pink Taffy
gesso

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"Some Days" by Nadia Cannizzo

This is a picture of my 2 girls and I and about the hard days as a mum of 2 little girls. 

It is not always easy!
-I used the lace trim that came in the kit, together with torn pieces of paper to overlap them and create an interesting background with gesso. This adds texture and depth.
-The Want2Scrap chipboard alphabet that came in the main kit, was left bare and inked with brown ink as it gives I quite liked the colour and it matched the papers
-The flowers were also inked to create a uniform look.
-I dabbed gesso on the Want2Scrap birdcage to blend it in with the other colours. 

All material is from the May kit.

We hope you'll check back tomorrow when our May "Bits and Pieces" goes live!