Bakin' Beauties

Here it is!  My last challenge as hostess.  I hope you enjoy it.  I do tend to make you work outside the box, but this one is pretty easy.  Are you ready?  

I'm obsessed with beautiful cookies and 'fancy' cakes!  I always try to make them myself, but generally fall a bit short...  Your challenge this week is to make a creation based on these delish looking treats - the catch?  You MUST use something you would use in baking in your creations.  Get creative - use food coloring, paper liners, or sprinkles.  Know any cool techniques with egg whites, flour or sugar?  You need to explain your 'ingredient' in your description of your creation.

 

Are you drooling?  Well, let the DT get your mouth watering!

Kristin Tierney - LilyBeth Boutique

#1 - Pink sanding sugar, sprinkles and white nonpareils

#2 - burnt powdered sugar, pink sanding sugar and white nonpareils

 

Wendy Janson - It's All About Stamping

Sprinkles

                   

Susan Butler-scrumplescrunch

Gesso and Baking Soda.

Meihsia Liu - Simply Paper Crafts

Food color and Sprinkles

Anne Marie Hile - Stampin' Anne

Cupcake Wrapper and Sprinkles

Lori Rider - The Diva Stamper

The flower and largest circle are made from cupcake liners.

Marcy Kaminski - En Papillote Arts

The skirt is a real cupcake wrapper!

Tui Nathan - Stampin Time

Food Colour - Spritzing

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

The red circle is a cupcake paper and the white rosette is made from parchment paper.

Holly Kean - Kean on Paper

Mini cupcake paper flowers

Anita Houston- The Artful Maven Haven

aluminum pan, cupcake wrappers, sprinkles, course sea salt, teaspoon

Irena Kowalczyk/ Rudlis - love, life and crafts

  flowers with baking paper

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'10' Challenge

Hello All!

It's Kristin here, your long lost DT member!  I really have been around, checking out all your fabulous creations over the last few weeks.  I do however have some sad news, after hosting these next 2 challenges I will be leaving the OCC as a Design Team member.  It has been a great 2 years of challenges and inspirations, working with a group of  very talented women!  These challenges have helped me hone my skills for my magazine and professional works.  Who'da thunk having so much fun would be so beneficial?  Thank you all!

Ok, now on to the challenge!  10 years ago yesterday, I married my amazing hubby.  In honor of a decade of married bliss, my challenge is for you make a creation with either the number 10 in it or it must contain 10 of the same items (ex: buttons, flowers, repeat images). PLEASE - be sure to let us know where your "10" is in your creation!  Don't get overwhelmed - check out all the amazing creations the Design Team came up with.

Guest Designer - Daniele Haddon

The Musings of a Chocoholic

Kristin Tierney - LilyBeth Boutique

Meihsia Liu - Simply Paper Crafts

Susan Butler-scrumplescrunch

Tui Nathan - Stampin Time

Anita Houston - The Artful Maven Haven

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

Sharon Wheet - Designs by Sharon

Irena Kowalczyk/Rudlis - love, life and crafts

Marcy Kaminski - En Papillote Arts

We can't wait to see what you all come up with!  Be sure to link up to your creation directly so we don't have to fish around for it.  Now go get creating!!!

http://scrumplescrunch.blogspot.com/

Favorite Tim Holtz Technique Winner

Hello and thanks for stopping back by today to check out our winner of the Favorite Tim Holtz Technic challenge.  We had some great entries and a tough decision to pick a favorite.  But we did and here is the winning entry by Liliana Inguanti of Crazy About Magnolias.

Lili's card was made with Tim Holtz's Custom Stamp Pad technique.  Look at those gorgeous butterflies.  Lili really achieved exquisite coloration by inking her stamp with her custom stamp pad.  Congratulations Liliana!  Please feel free to download the Top Talent badge from our sidebar to display on your blog.  

Thanks to everyone who played along with this challenge.  We had a wonderful time visiting your blogs and learning what your favorite Tim Holtz technique was!  And there is still time to play along with our current challenge Buttons and Bows or Burlap.  Hope to see you there!

Buttons 'n Burlap or Bows

Greetings OCC friends!  So great to have you visiting us today.  A huge thank you to all of last week's participants and visitors.  We loved looking at all your wonderful Tim Holtz techniques and hope you found inspiration from both the team and the participants.

Don't forget, we currently have an open Design Team call.  All the details and the linky to apply are here in this post.

Linda back with you for a second week of hosting challenges.  This week, we are going super simple with just two required ingredients, but they are some of my favorite embellishments - Buttons and  Burlap or Bows (must include buttons and either burlap or bows or both).  Easy peasy and lots of fun, right?  So grab your buttons and your burlap and your bows.  Let's see what you can do!  To get that inspiration flowing, here's the line up of our design team this week.  

Guest Designer: Jessi Fogan

One Crafty Mama

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

Susan Butler-scrumplescrunch

Meihsia Liu - Simply Paper Crafts

Anita Houston - The Artful Maven Haven

Lori Rider - The Diva Stamper

Tui Nathan - Stampin Time

Marcy Kaminski - En Papillote Arts

Irena Kowalczyk/Rudlis - love, life and crafts

Sharon Wheet - Designs by Sharon

Anne Marie Hile - Stampin' Anne

A Winner for the Embellished Frame Challenge.

Hello Everyone.

Sue back again to announce the Winner of last weeks Challenge.

Thank you so much to you all for your wonderful creations on the 'Embellished Frame Challenge'. 

But as always there can only be one Winner:

So well done and congratulations to Mitra  with this amazing creation.

Your 'tart pan' is dramatic, but it does not overpower your frame which you have embellished amazingly with the gorgeous flowers, and even though your centre image it is low key, which is what I was looking for in this Challenge; the frame being the priority.

It is unorthodox and unconventional in it's design; but most certainly a feast for the eyes! 

 Congratulations!

PLEASE  feel free to display our Top Talent Award badge on your blog.

 

There is still time to enter this week's Challenge to check it out click here.

 You have until Friday, June 15th at 11:59 EST to link up to the challenge.
Please join us.
Smiles:)
Sue

Our Creative Corner Design Team Call

Looking for our current challenge?  Click here.

It's time again to invite some new designers to join our team and that just might be YOU!  We are looking for talented designers who consistently put forth their best work, work that is fresh and creative, work that will excite and inspire our readers.  We are a large team with great diversity and we need designers with strong individual styles ranging from CAS to shabby chic to grunge.  We want to highlight work to inspire all kinds of paper craft artists.  Show us your best work by linking up below.  It does not need to be a new creation.  Pick something or make something that you feel best depicts your style.

The application period will end at 11:59 Eastern Time on Friday, June 22nd.  Once you have linked up your creation, you can officially apply by emailing Linda at thefunkiejunkie@gmail.com (please make sure you put a "the" in front of funkiejunkie to ensure the email come to me!).  Tell me about yourself and your paper crafting experience by answering the following questions:

• Name
• eMail address
• Blog address
• How long you have been stamping/papercrafting?
• Tell us a little about your stamping/crafting style
• Past and current design team experience, if any (not required)
• Why should we consider you for the Our Creative Corner design team?  What do you believe you can contribute?

Any questions can be left here in the comments section or emailed privately to thefunkiejunkie@gmail.com.  Thank you for considering a design team opportunity with Our Creative Corner. 

Your Favorite Tim Holtz Technique

Welcome back friends of the OCC!  It's great to have you with us this week.  We want to thank everyone who visited us last week, especially those who joined in with Sue's Embellished Frame challenge.  Be sure to stop back on Wednesday to see who we chose as the Top Talent for that challenge.

Linda Coughlin here as hostess.  Before we get to my challenge, I also want to let you know that we will be kicking off a design team call here starting on Monday, June 11th running through June 22nd.  We will have a post up on Monday with all the details and an linky for you to submit your best work.  We will have five open positions and are looking for a wide range of styles from CAS to grunge to shabby chic.  Anyone who has had a blog for six months or longer is welcome to apply so be sure to stop back on Monday for all the deets.

This week my challenge to you is to show us your favorite Tim Holtz technique (A TECHNIQUE!  USING A TIM HOLTZ/RANGER PRODUCT DOES NOT QUALIFY FOR THIS CHALLENGE!!).   Whether you are a big fan of Tim Holtz or not, you can't deny that he has had an incredibly powerful impact on the paper crafting industry and it's a lot of fun to try out some of his techniques.  Check out his blog and the Ranger blog for all sorts of step by steps and demos on dozens of techniques.  What's your favorite Tim Holtz technique?  We hope you will share it with us this week.  And now let's check out the favorite TH techniques of our designers.

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

Technique:  Rusted enamel

Holly Kean - Kean on Paper

Paint Resist

Meihsia Liu - Simply Paper Crafts

Photo Distress

Marcy Kaminski - En Papillote Arts

Embossed Alcohol Inks 

Susan Butler-scrumplescrunch

Technique-Paint Dauber Resist

Anita Houston - The Artful Maven Haven

Techniques: Distress Ink Photo Tinting & Distress Stain Marbled Background

Irena Kowalczyk/Rudlis - love, life and crafts

Sizzix Die Mini Paper Rosettes

Tui Nathan - Stampin Time

Technique:  Brushless Watercolour

Sharon Wheet - Designs by Sharon

Techniques: Distress Inks & Masks