Hey Chickadee! Inspiration Challenge

Welcome to Our Creative Corner's "Hey Chickadee!" Inspiration Challenge!   Thanks so much to everyone who kicked off 2011 by participating in our first challenge of the new year.  We're so excited that you have stopped by today.  Wendy Janson will be hosting our January challenges and she has a great line-up of challenges for the month.  Before we get to this week's challenge, we wanted to feature one of our entries from last week.  This week's Featured Stamper is Sharon Wheet of Designs by Sharon.  Here is her lovely entry for last week's Thank You Recipe Challenge.  Hope you will all stop by her blog and check out the rest of Sharon's beautiful work.

Design Team Call

Don't forget, we still have another week to apply for our design team.  The call is open through January 14th.   We are looking for five new designers for a six month term - February 1st through July 31st. One of them could be you!  Click on the page link above for the DT requirements and how to apply.

This Week's Challenge

Our challenge to you this week is to use the image below for your project inspiration. For example, you could use birds, winter, colors, berries, etc. as your inspiration.  Everyone is welcome to play along at any time.  If you upload your card/project to SCS, please uses the keyword OCCC.

Check out what the Design Team has created!  Our January host will start us off.

Wendy Janson - It's All About Stamping



Sarah Gough - Thinking Stamps

Diane Gilbert ~ My Little Stampin' Spot!



Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie



Dana Grothaus - Dana's Dabbling Studio



Lori Rider - The Diva Stamper

Julie Leblanc - "Kewl" Stamps-n-More

A Thank You Recipe Challenge and a Design Team Call

New Year to all of our wonderful OCC friends! We're so happy you are starting the New Year off by visiting Our Creative Corner! Thanks to our December host, Sarah Gough, for her wonderful challenges throughout December. And a huge THANK YOU not only to you diehard players who found time to play during the hectic holiday weeks, but to everyone who visited and played throughout 2010.

Thank You is the theme of our challenge this week, but with a twist. We want you to use a blue and cream color palette and add metal and vellum to your creation. Our designers have created some beautiful creations to jump start your mojo this week.


Design Team Call
It's time to freshen up our design team. Today we are kicking off a design team call that will run through January 14th. We are looking for five new designers for a six month term - February 1st through July 31st. Click on the page link above for the DT requirements and how to apply.

Everyone is welcome to play along at any time,  If you upload your card/project to SCS, please uses the keyword OCCC.  Now let's see what the design team has created for us this week!



Dana Grothaus - Dana's Dabbling Studio

Diane Gilbert ~ My Little Stampin' Spot!




Wendy Janson - It's All About Stamping


Linda - The Funkie Junkie

OCC - Fa-la-la-Felt!

Welcome back OCC Friends and a very Merry Christmas!! We would like to thank everyone that stopped by and played along with our embossing challenge last week. This week, our December hostess Sarah Gough ~ Thinking Stamps is challenging us to use felt, flocking, flocked paper or felt embellishments on our projects!


Everyone is welcome to play along at anytime, if you upload your card/project to SCS please use the keyword OCCC. Now let's see what the design team has created for us this week!


Sarah Gough - Thinking Stamps

Wendy Janson - It's All About Stamping

Dana Grothaus - Dana's Dabbling Studio

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

OCC - Embossed with Color

Welcome back OCC Friends! We would like to thank everyone that stopped by and played along with our sketch challenge last week. This week, our hostess Sarah Gough ~ Thinking Stamps is challenging us to add color and depth to our dry embossing using ink and a sponge or brayer, paint, or by inking the embossing folder directly before running through your die cutting machine.

Everyone is welcome to play along at anytime, if you upload your card/project to SCS please use the keyword OCCC. Now let's see what the design team has created for us this week!

Sarah Gough ~ Thinking Stamps

Diane Gilbert ~ My Little Stampin' Spot!



Dana Grothaus - Dana's Dabbling Studio

Julie Leblanc ~ Kewlstamps-n-more

Wendy Janson - It's All About Stamping

OCC - Sketch Challenge

Welcome back OCC Friends! We would like to thank everyone that stopped by and played along with our color challenge last week. Before we show this week's samples, we would like to feature Shar with her gorgeous creation...

This week, our December hostess Sarah Gough ~ Thinking Stamps is challenging us to a fun sketch challenge. Feel free to use your favorite stamps and supplies.

Everyone is welcome to play along at anytime, if you upload your card/project to SCS please use the keyword OCCC. Now let's see what the design team has created for us this week!

Sarah Gough - Thinking Stamps

Diane Gilbert ~ My Little Stampin' Spot!

Dana Grothaus - Dana's Dabbling Studio

Wendy Janson - It's All About Stamping


Julie Leblanc~Kewlstamps-n-more

Lori Rider - The Diva Stamper

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

OCC - Alternate Christmas Color Challenge

Welcome back OCC Friends! We would like to thank everyone that stopped by and played along with our challenge last week. Thanks also to Linda Coughlin for all the amazing challenges during November! Our featured stamper this week is Patti with this gorgeous creation..

Our hostess this month is Sarah Gough ~ Thinking Stamps and she is challenging us to a color challenge. With Christmas fast approaching, you may be sick of the traditional reds and greens - use this pretty combo to create a gorgeous holiday card!  

 

(photo credit: The Inspired Room) If you don't have these colors, use whatever you have that is closest.

Everyone is welcome to play along at anytime, if you upload your card/project to SCS please use the keyword OCCC. Now let's see what the design team has created for us this week!

Sarah Gough - Thinking Stamps

Lori Rider - The Diva Stamper

Wendy Janson - It's All About Stamping

Diane Gilbert ~ My Little Stampin' Spot!

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

Julie Leblanc~Kewlstamps-n-more

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