The July Kit with Valerie

Happy 4th of July to those of you in the United States who are celebrating this fun holiday with fireworks, family, parades, and picnics!

Today is my last official blog post for C'est Magnifique Kits.  It's never easy to say goodbye, but by making this difficult decision, I will be able to pursue other interests, both personal and professional.  I have loved being a part of this awesome kit club, and meeting all of you.  I'm thankful for being given the opportunity to design with the beautiful international paper that C'est Magnifique kits are known for. 

I would also like to announce that our most recent addition to the design team, Cathi O'Neill, will be taking over as Design Team Coordinator.  If you haven't had a chance to meet Cathi, see this blog post from a couple of days ago.  I assure you that I am leaving things in very capable hands!

Now I would like to show you a few layouts I have created using the July kit:

This month I created all my layouts using the main kit and the Magnifique Mixed Media kit.   Like all of you, I added in a few items from my stash, as well.  When my husband and I travel to the country, I can always count on coming home with some beautiful bird photos, like this one of a brightly colored woodpecker.

The paper in the July kit is the Blue Fern Studios Ombré Dreams Collection.  The background has a dreamy water color look and is perfect for creating your own backgrounds.  Here I used one of the sheets with a little bit of orange and yellow, then enhanced those colors with media from the Mixed Media Kit.  

 

My final layout shows the watercolor look to this paper.   Although this layout is using a photo of my niece at the playground, the title really sums up my experience here at C'est Magnifique Kits - Happy Memories.

Here are a couple of close-ups.  

I assure you that great things are in store for C'est Magnifique Kits.  Enjoy your weekend everyone!

Meet our New Design Team Member

Did anyone notice that we included a layout from Cathi O'Neill with our sketch challenge yesterday?  We are pleased to announce that Cathi has joined the C'est Magnifique Kits design team as of July 1st!  Cathi has been a long-time kit subscriber and was a guest designer for C'est Magnifique Kits, so she has a lot of experience creating with our kits.

I will turn it over to Cathi now, and let her tell you a little bit about herself:

I am so excited to be joining the C'est Magnifique design team this month! My name is Cathi O'Neill, and I am an American who married an Irishman and I have been living in Ireland since 1997. I live in a beautiful village on the Shannon River with my DH of nearly 19 years (wow, that makes me feel old!) and my two beautiful daughters, Aine (onya) 11 and Aisling (ashling) 10 who are the subject of many of my projects!!

I have always love crafting since I was a little girl. My grandmother taught me to knit and crochet and I remember sewing Barbie doll clothes with her on her front porch! I am a knitter and quilter as well, but have recently in the last three years found cardmaking and scrapbooking, and an obsession was born!! I truly love creating and make vintage cards to sell here in our local village cafe as well as stacks of mixed media and shabby/vintage style layouts of my girls to keep and share with family! I also love to do tags, ATC and altered projects, barely a day goes by when I haven't done something crafty!!

I am currently on the design teams for manufacturers LaLaLand Crafts and Meg's Garden. I also design for challenge blogs Berry71Bleu and Sugar Creek Hollow.  I have been lucky enough to design and guest design for some great manufacturers like May Arts Ribbon, Frosted Designs, Couture Creations, Visible Image Stamps, and Creative Expressions. I truly enjoy the challenge and inspiration that scrapbooking and cardmaking bring me.

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All of us at C'est Magnifique Kits are thrilled to have Cathi join the team.  She will be sharing her layouts later this month, but we will give you a peek at one of her projects using the July Kit:

Please join us in welcoming Cathi to C'est Magnifique!

Our July Sketch Challenge!

Welcome to July everyone!  We are back this month with a brand new Sketch Challenge for you.  Our sketch has been created exclusively for C'est Magnifique Kits by Michele Singh.



Need some inspiration?  Well, we have some from our Design Team.  Take a look at how they have used this sketch, along with our July Kit, "Sweet Summer Dreams".

Camilla Ekman

Cathi O'Neill

Karita Vainio

Ulrika Blomfelt

Vicky Alberto

We would love to see YOU use our sketch as inspiration for a layout.  We have very few rules for our Sketch Challenge........as a matter of fact, we have just one rule.......we want your layout to resemble the sketch.  Feel free to flip or rotate the sketch, but we do want to look at your layout and be able to see that you used the sketch.  Other than that, you are free to use anything you have in your personal stash, and we welcome all styles of scrapbooking. 

We will award two prizes for this sketch challenge.  The first prize will be a collection of paper, flowers, chipboard, and embellishments.  The winner of the 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 July 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, July 31, 2014 (US time).

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

An InLinkz Link-up

Our July Kit Reveal!

Wow, our design team has shown you some amazing layouts using our July kit, and now it's time to give you a look at everything you can find in the kit, and to remind you of our add-ons.

July Kit - Sweet Summer Dreams

Kit Paper

Blue Fern Studios: Ombré Dreams: Charlotte's Dream
Blue Fern Studios: Ombré Dreams: Dream Cards
Blue Fern Studios: Ombré Dreams: Ginger's Dream
Blue Fern Studios: Ombré Dreams: Joyce's Dream
Blue Fern Studios: Ombré Dreams: Julianna's Dream
Blue Fern Studios: Ombré Dreams: Leslie's Dream
Blue Fern Studios: Ombré Dreams: Shannon's Dream
Blue Fern Studios: Ombré Dreams: Susan's Dream

 

Kit Embellishments:

Prima: Frilles Bluebelle Flowers
BoBunny: Enchanted Garden: Ephemera
BoBunny: Enchanted Garden: Combo Stickers
Prima: Seashore: Shellfish Flowers
Prima: Shabby Treasures: Crochet Icons 4
Blue Fern Studios: Chipboard: Layering Stems
Shimmerz: Green Olive

 We also have the following three add-ons available in our Store:

Magnifique Mixed Media Kit 

Lindy's Stamp Gang: Starburst: Salt Water Taffey
Tim Holtz: Distress Paint: Shaded Lilac
Luminarte: Twinkling H2O's: Ginger Peach
Luminarte: Twinkling H2O's: Snapdragon
Shimmerz: Dazzelerz: Lemon Drop
The Crafters Workshop: 6x6 Template: Mini Texturized
Melissa Frances: Vintage Resin: Arrows (2)
Manor House: Yellow Flower
Prima: Innoscence 2 Flowers
Prima: Something Blue: Ring Bearer
Burlap Circles
Bazzill Basics: Small Word Stickers: Family
Blue Fern Studios: Chipboard: Royal Monarchs
Glass tiles (various sizes)
(some items may be partial packages) 

Flower Add-on

Petaloo: Penny Lane Mixed Blossoms: Lavender
Petaloo: Penny Lane Forget Me Nots: Teal
Prima: Ascot Park: Carnation
Prima: Something Blue: First Dance
Prima: Anna Marie: Flowers
KaiserCraft: Mini Blossoms: Honey 

Embellishment Add-on (sold out)

BoBunny: Enchanted: Brads
Prima: Woodgrain Alphabet
Prima: Resin: White Feathers
Blue Fern Studios: Chipboard Word: Fabulous
Blue Fern Studios: Chipboard: Princess Window
Prima: Say it in Crystals Mini Swirls: Multicolor
BoBunny: Stamp: Gateway

We have a lot coming up in the next couple of weeks.  Tomorrow, our monthly Sketch Challenge will return.   We will be announcing a new design team member later this week, and of course, our awesome design team will be back to inspire you with more layouts using our July kit.

July MMM kit with Karita + video tutorial

Hi everyone!

It´s Karita here and today I have something special to share with you

 made by using the July MMM kit.
This kit is absolutely beautiful! And so are the papers and add-ons as well.

 

 Kit contains:

Lindy's Stamp Gang: Starburst: Salt Water Taffey

Tim Holtz: Distress Paint: Shaded Lilac

Luminarte: Twinkling H2O's: Ginger Peach

Luminarte: Twinkling H2O's: Snapdragon

Shimmerz: Dazzelerz: Lemon Drop

The Crafters Workshop: 6x6 Template: Mini Texturized

Melissa Frances: Vintage Resin: Arrows (2)

Manor House: Yellow Flower

Prima: Innoscence 2 Flowers

Prima: Something Blue: Ring Bearer

Burlap Circles

Bazzill Basics: Small Word Stickers: Family

Blue Fern Studios: Chipboard: Royal Monarchs

Glass tiles (various sizes)

(some items may be partial packages)

And here´s a layout I made with this kit. 

 And also I have a start to finish video tutorial to share with you!

Few close ups...

And here´s my video tutorial:

Here´s a link to the store, where you can purchase this beautiful kit!

Thank you for visiting!

Have a wonderful day!

-Karita-

Ulrika's July kit Projects!

Hi there! It´s time for me to show you four out of five of my projects that I created with the amazing July kit! You need to hang in there a bit for the sketch layout. You will just love this kit! It was so much fun working with the new Ombré Dreams from Blue Fern Studios! They can turn out so different depending of what colors you add. Hope you will be a bit inspired by my work!

The first layout is in fresh blue and white tones. Just love this photo of my boy smelling the Lilacs. He´s just like me and love to smell the flowers.

I used the stencil from the MM kid with some Gesso. I also painted the Princess Window in white. You find that Chipboard in the Embellishment add-on kit. 

I also used supplies from the Main kit, Flower add-on, Embellie add-on and the MM kit.

From my own stash I used: Gesso, doilie, cardstock and a die.

My next layout is much more dramatic in the color choice! I just love to add a little bit of black to make the colors pop! I cut out stripes and smaller pieces from the Bo Bunny Ephemera bag. You find that bag in the Main kit. It´s filled with yummie stuff to use. I also used the button a rhinestone and the darker flowers from that bag. For this layout I also used supplies from the Main kit, Embellie add-on, Flower add-on and the MM kit.

From my own stash I used: stamps, ink pad, enamel embossing powder and acrylic paint.

Now on to my third page! Here I left some white space to let the pretty paper show properly. I cut out a large Butterfly from the Ephemera bag and used it behind all layers. In the Mixed-media kit you get some fun Burlap circles. I punced out circles from one of the Ephemera papers and glued them on to the Burlap ones. For extra depth I doodled a bit with a black pen. I used the arrows to point out the way the bubbles take.

I also used supplies from the Main kit, Mixed-media kit, Embellishment add-on and the Flower add-on kit.

From my own stash I used: black pen, circle punches

This is the last layout I have to show you today! Here I also added some black to get a nice contrast. I painted the chipboard leaves and the word in black. To get a soft feeling I added the bow to my chunky flower cluster. A tip is if you find the larger flowers to lumpy to put under your photos just rip them apart! Yes, you are allowed to do that! I often use the bottom petals under a photo and then I use the rest somewhere else.

For this layout I use the Main kit, Flowe add-on, MM kit and the Embellishment kit.

From my own stash I used: edge punches, acrylic paint, doilie, cardstock.

That´s all from me for today! If you want to see more close-ups of the layouts you are very welcome to my personal blog at: www.lillblommanskapar.blogspot.com

Hugs from Ulrika!

Tammy's First Layouts with the New July Kit!

Hi!  I am Tammy, a new DT member. I am so honored to be here for the first time on C'est Magnifique Kits to share what I've created with the Fabulous July Kit! Let me tell you this kit is packed with some awesome goodies!

This first layout I call "Cherish".  It is a picture of my Husband and I.

I used items from the Main Kit, Flower Add-on, Embellishment Add-on, and the Magnifique Mixed Media Kit. I also used a paper punch, a doily, and pieces of cheesecloth from my stash. I also used a little bit of white stain on the purple flowers to soften the color.

I really love the romantic look I got from this kit! 

  

I call my second layout "Sisters".  The picture is our youngest daughter and a few of her sorority sisters when she was still in college.

  

I used items from the Main Kit, Flower Add-on, Embellishment Add-on, and the Magnifique Mixed Media Kit.  I started by using some gesso from my stash. I used it on the paper, photo and a little on the burlap. I also used some green stain from my stash on the chipboard, The lamp post stamp from the Embellishment Add on kit went perfect with the picture. The butterflies above the DZ were fussy cut from the BoBunny package in the kit.(I don't throw anything away) This kit was really fun to play with!  

I can't wait to see what the other Design Team Members have created with this kit!