Please Welcome......

Hi everyone!

     We are nearly at the end of 2014 - what an amazing year it has been for Our Creative Corner!

      2015 will hopefully be bigger and better! Although sadly we will be saying goodbye to some of our Team at the end of the year, we are taking on new Team Members to inspire you!


       As always our view at OCC is that it should be a place 'where your crafting creativity has no limitations' and we continue with that same free thinking attitude towards our crafts - now with a larger team and also a Resident Guest Designer on the team to add in some more variety with tutorials and advice. There is also lots more sponsors providing our winners with wonderful prizes - OCC is going to be an even more inspiring place to be....

      So let's welcome our new Team Members.....

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Pamellia

Hello Everyone! My name is Pamellia Johnson and I live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with my wonderful husband Andrei and our two little girls, Scully (a teacup Maltese) and Pebbles (a teacup black Pomeranian).

Creativity runs in my family, so it's no surprise that I enjoy crafting. I have been crafting in some form or another ever since I was a little kid, thanks to my very creative and talented Mom. I've dabbled in all sorts of crafts, but I think my true passion is handmade cards. I have only recently tried my hand at mixed media art and altered items, but I instantly fell in love with the messy side of crafting!

When Laura contacted me and asked me to be a member of the Our Creative Corner team, I almost fell off my chair! What an honour to be invited to craft along side some of the most talented artists out there! Thank you Laura, I look forward to this next leg of my crafting adventure.

This is my OCC trinket box, to see more you can visit me at My Little Craft Things.

 

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Lys

Bonjour! My name is Lys and I live in a village in south west of France. Beside my full time job I find self balance in scrapbooking and crafting, more and more as my children grow up and create their own life. I just discovered mixed media and the huge possibilities it offers to creativity. I love playing and trying new ways and looks.

I’m so happy and honored today to join  Our Creative Corner team! Creating alongside such inventive and brilliant ladies is amazing and thrilling! Thanks Laura for giving me this opportunity.

Here is my “introducing” layout, which gathers most of my tastes: vintage look, torn papers, layers, inks, textures, words… You can find more details on my blog.

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Shari

HELLO!!  My name is Shari Trumbull and I am so very pleased and honored to be here as a new member of the Design Team for Our Creative Corner.  I come to you from the mountains of North Idaho, USA where I live with my husband, Don and furry family of 3 dogs-Bella, Maxine & Ralph and 2 cats-Lille and Daisy.

I used to have a very hectic and very full-time work life in business administration and management, with not a lot of time for crafting.  Since moving to Idaho 5 years ago, I've been given the opportunity to be able to delve into my creative side and see where it would take me.  The creative journey (still in progress) has been amazing and has brought me here, to Our Creative Corner, working with a
group of AMAZING Artists!  I'm still in shock that I'm here!!  Laura, are you still sure it's Me??! 

Anyway, I'm carrying out the month of December with sharing some of the goodies I made for Christmas.  Some of my Christmas crafties where sent out as little holiday tokens, some--I kept!  Like this chipboard/manila stock ornament--Once I hung it on my Christmas tree, it wasn't going anywhere!! 

I've got a few details of how I put this ornament together on my blog--Come on over, I'd love to see you there!

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Jan

Hi Everyone!

I am so excited to be here, my first time as a Design Team member, thank you so much Laura for inviting me.

My name is Jan Hill, I live in Coventry, England, with my long suffering husband and son. I have been crafting as long as I can remember. I have made Dolls Houses and Miniatures for a number of years before I discovered Scrapbooking and Mixed Media. Now I am hooked! I spend a lot of time in my craft room in the attic, please check out my blog at

www.scrapintheattic.com

I created a scrapbook page for my intro piece. I chose a photo of my favourite place, Calvi on the beautiful island of Corsica, a special place for myself and my husband. When I see this photo I can feel the sun on my skin and smell the wild herbs of the Marquis! 

I hope you like it too! There are details on my blog of how I created the page

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Laurie

Hi my name is Laurie Moore and I’m truly honored to be a part of this wonderful talented team of artists. Thank you Laura for inviting me and letting me share in the adventure of the OCC blog.

I live in the USA near the small town of Lebanon in Oregon on a farm with my husband Richard. I have two married grown children and five grandchildren that are the loves of my life.

I can’t remember a time when I haven’t done some kind of crafting. I had been scrapbooking for about 10 years when I discovered mix media and altering things. I've done many different styles of scrapbooking over the years but altering items and giving them new life is my true passion. As you can see here I've altered a little red truck and created a home decor piece for my vintage style house.

I hope you will come share in my creative adventure and visit me on my blog 

www.MooreArtFromTheHeart.blogspot.com

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Candice

I am Candice (Aka Tincan Crafter) from South Africa.  I do like to make things and I LOVE UPCYCLING JUNK (hence Tincan Crafter).  I collect and buy really random things that I think can be turned into crafty supplies and tools – like dental picks and coloured hair mousse.  You might think that is sad, until you find your inner-dental-pick-collecting crafty goddess, then you will know, oh how you will know.  For a few hours a day I teach Philosophy at a University in Kwazulu Natal, South Africa and for the rest of the day I CRAFT!!!  I really think I only work so that I can buy crafting supplies…… I keep a little blog where I journal my crazy craft experiments and that you can check out here - tincan handmade craft deli

When Laura asked me to be a Guest Designer for OCC – I nearly fell off my chair!  I had no idea that anyone would think I was worthy enough to be featured as a guest designer, I have never ever taken design or art at any kind of educational level and I have always thought that I would never be good enough without any kind of formal training.  Then when she asked me to join the team for this coming year I actually did fall off my chair – seriously, got scraped and everything. I can hardly believe I have this blessed an opportunity to work on a team like this. I have been around to all the other team members blogs and I am so honoured to be included amongst this mind-blowingly creative, arty, talented group.  I feel challenged to step up and be as awesome as they are. 

I don’t think that I have a particular style, or if I do – I haven’t noticed it.  I don’t think that I am specially attached to one type of craft either, except crochet and knitting – never quite got the hang of that….heehee see what I did there, I am a crabbler (crafting dabbler) of note.  Needless to say my house is quite a mismatched, hodge-podge of bits of craft – I call this design style eclectic grunge!  It happens when you buy random dental picks and things.  For this little introductory post I am going to share my nutty love for Hot Air Balloons and show you how I made this mobile of cheery hot air balloons by upcycling old Incandescent Light Bulbs and Baubles, and a few other items that you are sure to have at home.  It was a fun project and I love the pop of colour it added to my house.

Looking forward to sharing my brand of crazy with you all and I know that I am going to be inspired beyond my wildest imaginings by you all.

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Ana K.

Hello dear crafters... I'm really delighted to be here, in company with very talented Our Creative Corner ladies...thank you for invitation Laura!

My name is Ana and I am from beautiful Slovenia. Creating came into my life by accident, but quickly I became addicted...I love everything old or old looking and that you can see in my creations...I love to create mainly collages, but I also love making altered projects and books...during creating process, I completely “eliminate rest of the world” and I can say that crafting is my escape from reality...

For introduction I made a project inspired by quote I like...welcome to my blog, where you will find details. 

So there is the new additions to the OCC Design Team - Please hiop along to their blogs and leave them some love - I am sure they would love to see you all there!

 They will be here on the 1st Jan with the rest of the OCC team to bring you the first challenge of 2015 which is going to be hosted by Pamellia....We all hope you come back and join in the fun!

Happy Crafting 

Laura xxx