OCC Basic Grey Challenge

Once again, a huge thank you to all who played along with our Brads & Buttons challenge last week. Your projects have been such an inspiration to us!! Are you ready for another go?! This week's challenge, brought to us by our June host, Cindy Haffner, is to create a project using Basic Grey designer paper. The OCC designers are using older Basic Grey, but you can feel free to use any Basic Grey that you have. We can't wait to see your creations!! Remember to leave a comment here on this post with a link to your project. If you upload to SCS, use keyword: OCCC, which stands for Our Creative Corner Challenge. By the way, we're using the same keyword every week to keep it easy to remember!

We've been teasing you a little bit this week about some exciting news for this week's challenge. We're so pleased to announce that Lindsey Botkin of Jacksonbelle Embellishments will be awarding a $15 gift certificate to one lucky winner from this week's challenge participants. Ordinarily, there's no time limit on our challenges, but this week, to be entered into the drawing, you must have your project linked up here in the comments section by 12 noon Eastern Time on Friday, July 4. We'll draw a random name from the entries and announce the winner on Saturday, July 5, along with our next challenge.

The OCC {hearts} Lindsey!! If you haven't been (or even if you have), be sure to check out Jacksonbelle Embellishments. Lindsey keeps her store stocked with a plethora of all the latest and greatest in papercrafting products from all your favorite manufacturers (including the very newest Basic Grey, "Euphoria"). You'll find a link to the store on our righthand sidebar under "OCC Friends."

We're also excited that Lindsey said "yes" when we asked if she'd like to make a sample for this week's challenge! Thank you, Lindsey!


After teasing you with Lindsey's card, take a look at what the OCC designers have put together:


Card by Cindy Haffner - Cindy's Creative Corner



Card by Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Designs



Card by Lynda Benden - Stamp Act



Card by Dawn Easton - Treasure Oiler Designz



Card byAmy Sheffer - Pickled Paper Designs



Card by Denise Marzec - The Paper Landscaper



Card by Laurie Schmidlin - Just Give Me Stamps




Thanks so much for stopping by! We hope that we have inspired you to go and create!

What a Tease!

Hello from the OCC team! We're checking in mid-week to let you know we have some super exciting news we'll be announcing with our next challenge. Be sure to check back with us on Saturday morning - there could be something in it for you (hint hint)!


In the meantime, keep those Brads & Buttons creations coming! We're loving what we see so far!

OCC Challenge - Brads & Buttons

Hello, and welcome to Our Creative Corner! Before we get to this week's challenge, we want to send out a special thanks to all those who played along in last week's sketch challenge. We've had a blast checking out all the fabulous entries over the past week. You all are amazing!!

For those who are visiting us for the first time, we're so glad you're here! You'll find NEW challenges posted on Saturday mornings, along with samples from the Our Creative Corner designers. We're aiming for lots of variety, so you'll see everything from sketches to color combinations to specific products - whatever the host designer can dream up! Subscribe to receive NEW challenges by email -- that way you won't miss a thing!

Without further ado, this week's challenge, brought to you by our June host, Cindy Haffner, is to use at least
1 button and 1 brad on your project. Easy! And fun! To play along, upload your project to your blog and/or to your SCS gallery. Leave a comment here with a link to your project to we can take a look. If you upload to SCS, please use keyword "OCCC" (for Our Creative Corner Challenge). We can't wait to see what you create!


In the meantime, take a look at what the OCC designers have put together:

Card by Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner




Card by Dawn Easton - TreasureOiler Designz




Card by Denise Marzec - The Paper Landscaper



Card by Amy Sheffer - Pickled Paper Designs



Card by Lynda Benden - Stamp Act



Card by Laurie Schmidlin - Just Give Me Stamps
























Card by Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Designs




Thanks so much for stopping by! We hope that we have inspired you to go and create!

Special "OCC" Announcement

A hearty congratulations to our very own Denise Marzec, one of the newest Splitcoast Dirty Dozen! We are thrilled to see Denise receive this wonderful honor!

See you on Saturday for another fun "OCC" Challenge!

Our Creative Corner Sketch Challenge...

Hello!! Welcome to Our Creative Corner (OCCC). We are all super excited to bring you weekly stamping challenges. Every Saturday we will post a new challenge along with samples from each of the OCC designers. You'll see a fun variety, from sketches to color combinations to specific products - whatever the host designer can dream up! Subscribe to receive new challenges by email -- that way you won't miss a thing!


Ready to get started?! First up is a sketch challenge, brought to us by Cindy Haffner. To play along, create a card using Cindy's sketch and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS gallery. Leave a comment here with a link to your project so we can check it out. If you upload to SCS, please use keyword "OCCC". We're so excited to see what you create!
ETA: We have changed the Key Word in SCS to "OCCC" for Our Creative Corner Challenge.

To prime the pump, we also bring you seven inspiring samples:


Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner



Dawn Easton - Treasure Oiler Designz


Denise Marzec - The Paper Landscaper


Lynda Benden - Stamp Act


Amy Sheffer - Pickled Paper Designs




Laurie Schmidlin - Just Give Me Stamps

Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Design's

Thanks so much for stopping by and playing along with Our Creative Corner! Tune in again next week for a product-focused challenge. Until then ...

Happy Stamping!

Welcome To The OCC Blog...

Hello Stampers! Welcome to the "Our Creative Corner" Blog. Here you will find a bunch of talented stampers who are set to challenge one another and YOU weekly. Starting this Saturday, June 14th you will find our first challenge, which is being hosted by Cindy Haffner! Be sure to stop back then ;) We hope that you will play along with us and link us to your creations so we can check them out.

If you upload to SCS please use "OCCC" in the keywords. It will make it much easier for us to find your wonderful creations! We look forward to seeing you all back here on Saturday, June 14th!

Thanks for stopping by,