A Little Holiday Cheer from Camilla and Romy

We've shown you how our December Kit, "Silent Night" can be used for everyday layouts, but today we thought we would show you a few holiday projects by Camilla and Romy.  Enjoy!

"December" by Camilla Ekman

December is my favourite month of the year (not counting the lovely summer months though...). Lots of preparations for Christmas and lots of joy together with my family. 

These are my favourite Santas - my daughter and my son.

"Jul" by Camilla Ekman

Once Upon A Sketch offers a beautiful sketch each month.  This layout was created using the November Sketch.  You could choose whatever theme you want - I made one about what Christmas means to me. "Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas" - Calvin Coolidge.

***********************************************

"Christmas Tags" by Romy Veul

Tags seem to be my new addiction lately. I just love making them. These adorable angels on the Pion Design 'Collage' sheet made it so easy to whip up these two tags in no time at all!

December Kit Items Used and Available in our Store

InLinkz.com

Some Inspiration from Beverly and Erin

It's cold and rainy where I am and it's supposed to be that way for the next four days.  I have decided to hibernate all weekend!  Of course I'm planning to do some scrapbooking while I am hibernating.  Just in case you'll find some time to scrap this weekend, we thought we would share some inspiration from a couple of our Design Team members using our December Kit "Silent Night".

"Skiing 2012" by Beverly Sams

My son never misses a photo op no matter where he is! This was taken at the top of the mountain at Beaver Creek, Colorado on our family skiing trip this past winter.

 

"Joy" by Beverly Sams

These kids are so cute and their Mom has taken some great photos of them! This was taken under the Christmas tree last year and it looks as though they are being on their best behavior for Santa! I used a snowflake stencil with Martha Stewart's sparkling texture paste for the background.  This layout is based on the November sketch at Once Upon a Sketch.

"Angel" by Erin Blegen

My sister's daughter, Lilah, is one of my most favorite people. Probably because she reminds me a lot of myself- a fiery, temperamental redhead who is also sweet and fun, full of sarcasm and loves to be the center of attention! My sister actually captured this amazing photo of her and I knew instantly I wanted to scrap it! The pretty pinks in this kit, as well as the angel elements all just came together in this very fitting layout. 

"My Deer" by Erin Blegen

When I saw this adorable little deer hat, I just knew I had to get it for my own little "deer", Gunner . I wanted to keep this page fairly simple in design to help keep the focus on this "typical" photo of my middle child. I also wanted to draw on the more "masculine" shades in this kit to give my layout a naturalistic feel to compliment my little outdoorsy boy.   This layout is based on the November Sketch from Once Upon a Sketch.

 December Kit Items Used:

InLinkz.com

Welcome our Two New Designers

It is our pleasure to announce that we are adding two talented scrappers to our Design Team.  Keren Tamir and Brit Sviggum will be designing for us beginning with the January kit.  We're sure you will love the very different styles they will bring to C'est Magnifique Kits.   We will let both Keren and Brit tell you a little bit about themselves.  Welcome to the design team ladies!

My name is Keren Tamir and I'm 38 years old. I am a wife to a wonderful husband who is very supportive of my scrapbooking hobby and a mother of two amazing kids; a 10 year old boy and a 6 years old girl. I've been scrapbooking for 9 years and I mainly scrapbook about my family.  I love to create and experiment with many different mediums and techniques.

My style is mainly Shabby chic. I use lots of flowers and vines in my projects. I also love using pastes and misting on my layouts. My style is always evolving and that’s one of the things I love about this art.

One of the main reasons I started scrapbooking was to preserve memories and photos for my children. However over the couple of years, I’ve started to enjoy another aspect of scrapbooking. I love the artistic outlet that it gives me. I love to create and I’m passionate about what I do.
I’m delighted to be designing for Ces’t Magnifique.  I’ve been subscribing to their kits for the past year and they are fabulous. I’m so honored to be designing along an amazing group of talented artists.

This will be an amazing year!!  Hope you enjoy my creations!!

************************************************************

My name is Brit. I live in a small town in the south of Norway called Egersund. I am married to my great and understanding husband, Levent, that I met in Turkey 10 years ago We have two children, a boy age 7, and a girl soon to be 4. You can find them on 99% of my layouts. 

My interests are: scrapbooking, photography, travelling, reading craft magazines and of course being with my family.

I started scrapbooking after a holiday in America in 1999 ,where I found some scrapbooking equipment that I just had to buy and find out what to do with them. And the interest of this great hobby has just grown bigger and bigger for each year.

I am at the design team at Prima, CSI and Skissedilla ( a Norwegian sketch challenge blog). I also design for the English magazine Scrap365.

I don`t know exactly what to call my style. I guess it`s a kind of freestyle. A little bit storybook-like. I love cutting out my motifs and kind of place them into new scenes to make new stories!
I am so happy to be a part of this DT, and I can`t wait to start making layouts with these lovely kits.

December Bits & Pieces Giveaway

Want a chance to win some bits and pieces from our December Kit?   Well, you're in the right place!  Leslie is offering the bits and pieces from her December kit to one of our lucky blog readers. 

This giveaway will include full and partial sheets of the paper we are featuring in this month's kit, the Silent Night collection from Pion Designs, as well as embellishments from the kit, the flower add-on, and the embellishment add-on. 

Here's how our guest designer, Romy Veul, used the December kit to create this beautiful layout:

Here's what you need to do to enter our Giveaway:

1.  You must be a follower of our blog.  If you do not already follow us, just click on the 

"Join this site" button on the left sidebar and you'll be all set.  

The winner of this challenge must be a follower of our blog.

2.  Use the Inlinkz tool at the bottom of this post.

3.  We are giving you a chance to enter our giveaway twice!  Share this post on your blog (in a blog post, not your sidebar) and you can enter your name again using the Inlinkz tool below (just be sure to add the link to your blog post).  

The contest will close at midnight, December 12.  

The winner, selected by a random draw, will be announced December 13.  

Good luck to all of you!

Our November Sketch Challenge Winners

Thanks to all who participated in our November sketch challenge.  Your layouts were beautiful!   The winner of our prize package this month is:

Entry # 5 belongs to Melanie Harris of Australia.  Congratulations Melanie!  Please contact Leslie via e-mail at Leslie[at]cestmagnifiquekits.com and provide her with your full name and mailing address so she can get your prize package in the mail to you.  You will also have an opportunity to shop in our store and have your purchases sent with your prize package for no additional shipping.  Here is Melanie's layout:

Our second winner is chosen from those of you who used a C'est Magnifique kit when creating your layout.  The winner, selected from a random draw is Cathi O'Neill.  Congratulations Cathi!  You have won a $10 gift certificate to the C'est Magnifique store.  Leslie will be in contact with you to give the gift certificate details.  Take a look at Cathi's layout:

This month it was especially difficult to select just 5 layouts to feature.  We wish we could feature all of them.  But we did narrow it down to 6 layouts that caught our eye:

"Treasured Memory" by Megan Gourlay

"Simply You" by Francine Evans

"Heartbeat" by Angelica Astrom

"Eileen" by Sandra Scott

"My Sweet Family" by Andrea E

"Along the Garden Path" by Linda Eggleton

Our December sketch has been posted on our blog and we hope you will find some time during this busy month to create a layout using our sketch!

Our December Sketch Challenge

Welcome to December everyone!  We're starting the month by posting our December sketch.  We know that you're all busy during December, but you have the entire month to work with the sketch.  Our sketch has been designed by the very talented Michele Singh.  You can find Michele at her blog, Design Honey.

Here is our December Sketch and a few layouts from our design team using the sketch with our December Kit, "Silent Night".  

"En Angel" by Camilla Ekman

The December kit from C'est Magnifique are loaded with lovely papers from Pion Design. The papers are Christmas themed, but the papers are very versatile and can be used for other layouts as well. This angel paper suits my angelic niece Hannah.

"Sweet Baby Keegan" by Valerie Serfozo

This paper from the kit is one of those that doesn't have a holiday or winter theme to it. When I saw the delicate flowers in the corners, I thought of this photo of my nephew. I just love the way he is curling his little tongue. 

"December" by Erin Blegen

What's not to love in the month of December? It is one of the most warm, festive, and exciting times of the year! It usually means lots of family, food, music, and plenty of Christmas beauty all around! And this kit definitely provides plenty of opportunity for scrapping those special holiday photos- so I went very traditional here using the classic red and green Christmas colors, paired with Michele's fabulous sketch!

Now it's your turn to use this sketch as inspiration to create a layout for our challenge. 

This challenge is open to everyone.  You do not need to be a member of C'est Magnifique Kits to participate in the sketch challenge and you may use any supplies you wish.  

Since we are a kit club, there is an added incentive to use one of our kits to create your sketch layout, which I will explain below.

We will be offering 2 prizes for our sketch challenge.  One winner, randomly selected from all entries will receive a large prize package.   The winner will also be able to 

purchase anything from our Store and have it shipped free with their prize package - anywhere in the world!   

Here's a look at the December prize package:

Our second prize will be a $10 gift certificate to the C'est Magnifique Store that will be randomly awarded to someone who obviously uses one of our kits to create their layout.  This is our way of saying "thank you" to our members.

We will also be "featuring" 5 layouts from all of the submissions for this sketch.

What do you have to do to enter our sketch challenge?

1.  You must become a follower of our blog.  If you're already a follower, we thank you!

It's easy to become follower -see the left sidebar.

2.  Create a layout using the sketch, and add it to our blog using the Inlinkz tool below.  Please link to the blog post where you have uploaded your layout 

(not your general blog address).

 Deadline for entering the sketch challenge is midnight, December 31 (US time).

Have fun!  We can't wait to see how you use our December sketch.