Valerie's Layouts and our Bits & Pieces Winner

Hi all.  This will be our last post featuring the September kit, and today it's my turn to show you how I used the kit with paper from ScrapBerry's and KaiserCraft.

Adored

For this layout I used a few pieces of the ScrapBerry's paper and flowers from the kit and add-on.

Using the vellum envelopes and tags, I was able to include an little note to my niece
that is hidden behind the photo.

I used the Manor House flowers and vine in the kit and flower add-on to create a sweet little pink flower cluster.   The top flower was spritzed using the mist that is in the kit. 

A Blessing

There are some amazing colors that can be pulled from the ScrapBerry's paper.  This time
I focused on the purple in the paper.  It's very subtle, but by adding just a few purple embellishments, I was able to bring out the color.

Here you can see that I did some stamping with a script text stamp from my stash.  I added some white circles by dropping acrylic ink on the paper, then spreading it around with my finger while it was still wet.  I finished it up by using the mist that is in the kit.  For the Blue Fern Studios Doily Bunting chipboard, I applied a coat of gesso, some purple ink, and stamped on it using the same script stamp, and followed up by stamping on the banner, as well.

A mixture of purple and white flowers carried out the purple theme in a subtle way.

I Love You

 For this layout, I used the beautiful paper from KaiserCraft. 
Having these roses in the corners is a great start. 

This is a portion of the Blue Fern Studios chipboard floral wreath.  I really like to cut apart larger pieces of chipboard so I can use them on several layouts.  I wanted a pretty soft color so I began by applying a coat of gesso (a primer) to the chipboard.  I then randomly scribbled on it with a green Gelato.  To spread the Gelato around, I used a dampened brush with some more gesso on it. 
It gave me just the the soft color I was looking for. 

A few flowers, some die cut pieces, and a little bling from the embellishment add-on
completed the layout.

Hugs

All four of my layouts this month feature photos of my precious nieces.  I'm so fortunate to have all of them in my life and absolutely love to use photos of them for my projects.

Once again I chose to add some elements to the background by using a stamp from my stash (Prima) and the mist (Lindy's Stamp Gang) that is in the kit.  I played up the circles on this paper by using the Prima circles that were in this month's embellishment add-on.

I love the 2-tone look of the Lindy's Stamp Gang Starburst mist that's in this month's kit.

A few September Kits are available in the Store, as well as some of the add-on items. 

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BITS AND PIECES WINNER

Speaking of our September Kit, it's now time to announce the winner of Leslie's Bits and Pieces Giveaway.  This winner will receive all the items remaining from Leslie's kit,
the flower add-on, and the embellishment add-on. 

This month's lucky winner is:

Entry # 92 belongs to Kitika.  Congratulations Kitika!  Please e-mail leslie{at}cestmagnifiquekits{dot}com within 7 days to claim your prize.

Thanks to all who entered our Bits and Pieces Giveaway this month.

Check back on the 15th because we will be giving you a peek at our upcoming October Kit!

September Kit Inspiration From Svetlana

Hello everyone! Svetlana is here today. It is my turn to show you how beautiful and dreamy September kit is. But i think that many of you already fell in love with it totally and completely :-))))

Love Dream Imagine

I made this layout as a gift for my very special friend. She was such a beautiful bride! For this layout I combined the papers from Kaisercraft and ScrapBerry's and you can see that they go perfectly together!

From my own stash I used ribbons, bling, dry glitter, gesso, mask, ink pad, liquid pearls, paper doilies, and die cuts.

Happiness

This combination of soft blue and pink papers from Kaisercraft in this month kit was just perfect to scrap this cute photo of my friend's adorable daughter.

From my own stash I used ribbons, bling, stamp, gesso, liquid pearls, paper doily, and glimmer mist.

Dream Happy Dreams

I just love this paper from ScrapBerry's with bubbles on it! I was so happy to find a photo that went perfectly with the theme. I outlined some of the bubbles with different color liquid pearls. I also continued with the color combo from the main paper onto the chipboard banners, wooden cages and the sticker alphas.

From my own stash I used ribbons, bling, stamp, paint, ink pads, liquid pearls, denim, die-cuts, border punch, black pen, sequins, and beads.

Just a Little Girl

ScrapBerry's paper have very special nostalgic feel to me. I liked all the old lace and floral design on it. It was perfect to scrap this old photo of me. I altered the background by applying some gesso, some tea spills, random stamping and a few dots with gesso through a mask. I also stamps little flowers and painted it with diluted with some water Lindy's Stamp Gang spray from the kit.

From my own stash I used twine, bling, gesso, mask, ink pad, liquid pearls, paper doilies, border punch, stamps, tea, and cotton thread.

Thank you for letting me share my projects with you! I hope you enjoyed it!

Some layouts plus video from Evgenia

Hello girls! its Evgenia Petzer with yu today with my other 3 layouts from this month's gorgeous kit. I really had a great time playing with it and hope that you will also like it.
This paper is really uniqie, its come from my motherland Russia and i really love the designs.

The kit and some add-ons are still available in the store, please check this link.

Ok, lets have a look on my samples?

For all of the LOs I used the main kit, and then both add-ons
and from my stash:

• pearls
• doilies,
• gesso
• acrylic paints
• viva decor paper pen

You can check once again the content of the kit here:

Thank you for checking my projects, hope all of you will have a wonderful week!

Evgenia.

Sketch Challenge Winners!

Welcome to the weekend!  We're excited to show you a few new things that have just arrived in our store, to announce the winners of our August Sketch Challenge, and to feature some of YOUR layouts!

So, let's get started.  Looking ahead to winter and the holidays, we have the beautiful Wintertime in Swedish Lapland collection from Pion Designs of Sweden.  We know many of you love Pion and this is the perfect collection to get you through Christmas and have plenty left for your winter photos.  You can get a closer look at the paper by visiting the Pion Designs website.

We have also added quite a few new items from Blue Fern Studios, a USA chipboard manufacturer.  Here is just a sample of the new designs:

By the Sea

The popular Graduated Circles

(5 circles in the set graduating in size from 3" to 11")

Screen Panel

Just one of many 12x12 panels available that you can cut apart

 and use for cards, layouts, and mixed media projects.

Creepy House Set

(more Halloween images coming soon!)

Next, we'd like to announce the winners of our August Sketch Challenge.  We had 30 entries in August and based on a random draw, the winner is...............Caroleanne Wright of the UK.

Caroleanne, please e-mail Leslie(at)Cestmagnifiquekits.com and she will give you all the details.  Your prize must be claimed within 7 days.  Here is the layout Caroleanne created using our August  sketch:

 

Our second prize is randomly awarded to a participant who used one of our kits.  

This month, the winner of the $10 gift certificate to the C'est Magnifique Store is Roslyn!   

Please contact  Leslie(at)Cestmagnifiquekits.com and she will give you 

 the gift certificate number.  Your prize must be claimed within 7 days.  

Here's the layout Roslyn created using our August Kit:

This month we have chosen the following layouts (in no particular order) to feature based on a variety of styles and interpretation of the sketch.

Milolia of Russia

 

Francine of New Zealand 

IrinaR from Russia

Alain Grinchuk of Russia

Dariya from Russia

Congratulations to those of you who have been featured, and thanks so much to all who participated in August.  We are always amazed by your talent!

We hope you will give it a try again in September.  You can find a link to the new sketch in our left sidebar.  Have a wonderful weekend!~

September Bits & Pieces Give-away

We're glad you stopped by today, because it's time for our Bits & Pieces Giveaway.  If you're new to our monthly give-away, it's very simple.  Leslie puts together the bits and pieces remaining from her kit and add-ons, and gives them away to one of our lucky blog readers.  Here's what is up for grabs from our September Kit "Shabby Dreams". 

It's easy to enter our Bits & Pieces 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!  To enter 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, September 12. 

The winner, selected by a random draw, will be announced a few days later.

Good Luck!

Meet our September Guest Designer

We hope you all had a wonderful Labor Day weekend!  We're back today to introduce our September Guest Designer, the very creative Natasha Naranjo Aguirre.  We all fell in love with her style and how she used our September kit, "Shabby Dreams".  

Now we will turn over the blog post to Natasha and let her tell you a little bit about herself and show you how she used this month's kit.

Hi!  My name is Natasha & I’m the mother of two wonderful children & the wife of an amazing, supportive man.  I am a floral designer by day and a scrapbook designer & mixed media artist by night.  I began crafting in 2010 when I married my soul mate.  He inspired and encouraged me to start creating.  My favorite things to create are scrapbook layouts and mixed media projects.  As for my scrapping style... I’m not really sure how to categorize my style.  :o)  I just create using products I love!  I like to incorporate different techniques in my work and use a variety of elements.  Every day I am inspired by the work and talent of others, and I hope to be able to inspire others with my work.

Love

For this layout, I used this month's Sketchabilities sketch. I really love the Kaisercraft die-cut shapes that coordinate with the papers. I layered several pieces beneath and around my photo. The pretty pink flower come in the flower add-on and the little roses were hand-made from the Kaisercraft papers. The adorable vellum envelope & tag is by Melissa Frances and comes in this month's embellishment add-on. I added a little journaling on the tag and tucked it away behind the doily.

Joy

I decided to keep this layout simple because the Kaisercraft papers are stunning alone! I cut apart a doily and stitched the edge to my layout, and I cut apart the pink vine from the flower add-on and added a small floral cluster beside my photo. The Kaisercraft die-cuts make perfect embellishments for this layout.

Beautiful Soul Canvas 

 This is a canvas that I made using this month's kit. Included in this month's kit is a stunning piece of lace that I cut apart and added to the cluster of hand-made roses. The roses were made from a combination of both Scrapberry's and Kaisercraft papers. To add texture to the background of my canvas, I used a damask stencil and texture medium.

Always Search Within

This layout focuses on the beautiful papers by Scraberry's. I decided to make this layout very muted to concentrate on the soft tones of lavender and mint in the papers. The Prima canvas alphas (included in this month's kit) were painted white and gently inked with lavender. I printed out a portion of my title and adhered it to the alphas.  For this layout I also used the lavender Manor House flowers from the flower add-on and the Prima iridescent circles from the embellishment add-on.

We're sure you will agree with us that Natasha is a wonderful designer and we feel very fortunate to have her with us this month.  She has inspired us all. 

We'll be back in a couple of days with our September Bits & Pieces Giveaway!

Welcome to our September Sketch Challenge

Hi blog readers!  We are happy to bring you another sketch challenge this month, once again created by our awesome sketch designer, Michele Singh.  She has pulled in a couple of elements from our beautiful September Kit, but don't worry if you don't have the kit, everyone is welcome to participate in our sketch challenge. 

And here's a look from our design team using the September Kit "Shabby Dreams" with the Sketch:

Maja Stokk

Camilla Ekman

Svetlana Austin

Evgenia Petzer

Natasha.NAguirre (our guest designer)  

 Tracey Gregory 

Now it's YOUR turn to create a layout using our sketch.  Our Sketch Challenge is open to everyone and you may use any supplies you have on hand.  You do not need to be a member of our kit club to participate.  Feel free to flip or rotate the sketch, but we do want to be able to look at your layout and tell that you used the sketch.

We will be awarding two prizes.  The winners will be selected by a random draw.  The first prize is this beautiful assortment of paper and embellishments that we have put together.  The winner of this prize package will also be able to shop in the C'est Magnifique Store, and have their purchases sent with the prize package, so that means you won't have to pay for shipping.  

Our second prize, a $10 gift certificate to the C'est Magnifique Store,  will be awarded randomly to one of our participants who obviously uses one of our kits to create their Sketch Challenge layout. 

We will also chose 5 (or maybe more) layouts to feature on our blog!  

You have the entire month of September to submit your layout.

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

1.  You must be a follower of our blog.  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). If you do not have a blog, you may link to an online gallery.

 Deadline for entering the sketch challenge is midnight,  September 30, 2013 (US time).

Have fun with the sketch.  We can't wait to see how you use it!