CCEE Snow Moe Monkey

For our Catchy Name Featured Stamper (CNFS) with our CCEE challenge, Frances chose Copsmonkey and, yes, you guessed it: we had to make a card with a monkey on it. This is the only monkey image I own, so I chose to put his adorable face in place of the snowman on this Big on Christmas stamp. I stamped, colored, and cut out the hat. I added Tulip dimensional white paint and dazzling diamonds to the tops of my SNOW letters and the monkey's hat for a snowy effect.



This is also for a Doubledog Dare challenge given to us by Francie to use a button(s) in our design. My buttons are the center of the chocolate and white snowflakes.

If you'd like to see the cards my friends made and/or play along in either or both challenges, you can check out the details here:

CCEE CFNS
DDC buttons

Stamps: Big on Christmas, Moe Monkey (Stampabilities)
Cardstock: Bashful Blue, Chocolate Chip, Chocolate Chip dp, White
Ink: Brown Stazon, Bashful Blue
Accessories: tag shaped Nestability, ribbon, eyelet, snowflake punches, buttons, paper piercer, white gel pen, Copic markers, watercolor brush, dazzling diamonds, Tulip dimensional white paint, Cropadile

CCEE Catchy Featured Stamper Name - Grandma Overboard

If you're a follower of the CCEE challenges, you already know that Cindy Motherway has been our August hostess. She's been following a theme based on the popular 60's song The Birds & The Bees.

Let me tell ya about the Birds and the Bees
And the Flowers and the Trees
And the Moon Up Above
And a Name I Just Love!

As you can see, Cindy has used some artist license to change the last line of the song so that we can do one of our favorite challenges each month: the CNFS (Catchy Name Featured Stamper) where we select someone who has a catchy user name over on Splitcoaststampers (SCS). This month, Cindy chose fellow SCSer Grandma Overboard also known as Donna.

The requirements for our card is that it has to have a Grandma Overboard on it. She could have fallen out of a boat, off the stage, out of the tree, off of a flower, into the pool, off our card, into an oval, off of a building, off of a horse, out of a sleigh, out of an airplane, well, you get the picture, I'm sure with Cindy's ever over-active imagination. Hee-hee! She just has to be overboard!!

Meet Grandma Mertz Overboard. Her real name is Marilyn, but her good friends call her by her nickname, Mertz. Mertz loves da frosting and she loves da purple! She got a little carried away (also known as going overboard) with the frosting. She didn't just stick her little pinky in to sample the frosting, she dipped BOTH hands into it!!



And because I'm sure Cindy will accuse me of not using a grandmotherly image on my card, here's a close up of Grandma Mertz's hair (she never said the image had to be human):



The darling purple gingham dp, gingham ribbon, purple crystals, and purple heart button were gifted to me by my sweet friend, Dawn (Flowergal36), who was our CNFS when I hosted the challenge. Dawn knows I love purple and sent me an awesome goodie package shortly thereafter. Thanks, again, Dawn!

I hope you can play along with us this week. You can check out the details on our CCEE blog and you can also see the cards my friends made!

Stamps: Whipper Snapper Cupcake Mouse
Cardstock: Lovely Lilac, Black, White, purple gingham dp
Ink: Tuxedo Memento Black
Accessories: Copic markers (C1, C3, C5, E93, V12, V15, V17), paper piercer, gingham ribbon, heart button, purple crystals, MS picket fence border punch, circle Nestabilities, Cuttlebug embossing folder, silver Zig painty pen, 3-D Puffy Glue, dauber