OCC Snowmen/Snowflake Cards

Hello OCC friends, You all have been rockin' our challenges week after week - we love when you play along with us! This week's challenge, brought to us by our November host, Denise Marzec, is to incorporate snowmen or snowflakes (or both if you'd like) on your card/project.

Remember there is no time limit on our challenges - feel free to participate whenever you are able. To play along, upload your creation to your blog or gallery, then leave us a comment linking to your project so we can check it out. If you upload to SCS, remember to use keyword: OCCC

Before we show you the OCC designers' samples, we'd like to introduce and welcome our guest designer for the week, Janice Melton (catcrazy on SCS), and she loves snowmen!! :) Here's her totally cute sample. Thanks for joining us this week, Janice!!

....and here are the wintery cards from the OCC girls:

by Denise Marzec - The Paper Landscaper



By Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Design



By Amy Sheffer - Pickled Paper Designs



By Dawn Easton - Treasure Oiler Designz



By Lynda Benden - Stamp Act



By Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner



By Julee Tilman - Poetic Artistry

OCC Sketch Challenge

Hello OCC friends! We'd like to thank all of you who played in our challenge last week! We love seeing your samples!!


This week Denise has a sketch for us. There is no time limit on our challenges, so feel free to participate whenever you are able. To play along, upload your creation to your blog or gallery, then leave us a comment linking to your card/project so we can check it out. if you upload to SCS, remember to use keyword: OCCC


Before we show you the OCC samples, we'd like to introduce and welcome our guest designer for the week, Jami Bova (sgtstamper). Here is her amazing sample below. Thanks so much for being our guest this week, Jami. Your sample ROCKS!!...

...and here are the beautiful samples from the OCC girls:

by Denise Marzec - The Paper Landscaper



By Cindy Haffner - Cindy's Creative Corner



By Julee Tilman - Poetic Artistry



By Dawn Easton - Treasure Oiler Designz



By Amy Sheffer - Pickled Paper Designs



By Lynda Benden - Stamp Act



By Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Designs



Have a wonderful weekend!!

OCC Challenge - Silhouettes

Hello OCC friends, and welcome to another challenge from Our Creative Corner!! Our challenge this week is to make a card/project using silhouette stamps. We hope you play along with us. If you download your cards to Splitcoast, please include OCCC in the keywords so we can see all of your beautiful samples!!

We would also like to introduce our special Guest Designer this week, Silke Ledlow. In honor of Silke AKA Sparklegirl on SCS, feel free to add a little "Sparkle" to your cards. It's not required, that part is totally up to you. :)

Here's Silke's gorgeous sample:

...and here are the samples from the OCC crew:

by Denise Marzec - The Paper Landscaper



By Lynda Benden - Stamp Act



by Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner



By Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Designs



By Julee Tilman - Poetic Artistry


By Dawn Easton - Treasure Oiler Designz



By Amy Sheffer - Pickled Paper Designs



Have a wonderful weekend & we can't wait to see your samples!!

Inspiration Challenge

It's Saturday and time for another OCC challenge!

Today's challenge is an inspiration challenge using this pretty cupcake from the Martha Stewart website.

You may be inspired to recreate the picture, but that isn't necessary ... get your inspiration from the colors, make a cupcake card, something with polka dots, a Christmas card with holly maybe, etc. Make the inspiration piece your own...and don't worry, no card is 'wrong'.

Be sure to leave a comment here on this post with the link to your card/project so we can see what you've done. If you're uploading to SCS, don't forget to include OCCC in the keywords.

We're very excited to have Taylor VanBruggen as our guest designer this week...after all, the inspiration piece DOES have a cupcake in it and we all know how much Taylor loves cupcakes! Here is her adorable sample, and what a cute sentiment...

...and here are the samples from the OCC girls:

By Denise Marzec - The Paper Landscaper




By Dawn Easton - Treasure Oiler Designz




By Julee Tilman - Poetic Artistry




By Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner




By Amy Sheffer - Pickled Paper Designs




By Lynda Benden - Stamp Act




By Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Designs



Have a wonderful weekend,

It's all in the Coloring

Welcome & thanks for stopping by Our Creative Corner! Before we start our post for our weekly challenge, we have a special card request for you... Laurie Schmidlin’s twelve year old daughter Ali is very sick. If you would like to send Ali a get well card or a thinking of you card, please email us and we will send you her addy. Laurie, please know you and your family our in our thoughts & prayers!!

Thank you to Lynda for hosting our October challenges last month!! The random winner of last weeks gift challenge and the Imaginisce/Shimmerz prize package is Sue Daly AKA: StampnDaly! Congratulations Sue, please email us your address so we can get your prize out to you!

We would also like to thank everyone who played along in our Vintage Verve midweek challenge!! We'd like to congratulate Sue aka suen, winner of a Verve Stamps set!! Sue, please email us your full name, address and choice of stamp set so we can get your goodies in the mail! Woohoo!! And here's a little look-see at all the fabulous vintage values cards that were submitted for the challenge.



Our first challenge for November is All About the Coloring. Show us your favorite way to color...copics, watercoloring, gamsol magic, etc....or just pull your favorite image that you enjoy coloring and have some fun. Our special guest designer today is Lori McAree (LMcAree on SCS) and here is her sample card, using the Gamsol Magic Technique.

...and here are samples from the OCC girls:

By Denise Marzec - The Paper Landscaper ~ Gamsol Magic




By Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Designs - Watercoloring




By Julee Tilman - Poetic Artistry ~ Prismacolor Pencils




By Dawn Easton - Treasure Oiler Designz ~ Copic Markers




By Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner ~ Copic Markers




By Amy Sheffer - Pickled Paper Designs ~ Watercoloring




By Lynda Benden - Stamp Act ~ Prismacolored Pencils




Thanks for stopping by, see you next week!