OCC Announcement & Giveaway

Hello Everyone! We are so excited to announce the addition of three NEW Design Team members on Our Creative Corner! Please join us in welcoming Kim Teasdale (blondie090277) Jackie Pedro (strappystamper) and Silke Ledlow (sparklegirl) as our newest members.

Kim Teasdale - Paper in the Works

Jackie Pedro - The Scalloped Edge

Silke Ledlow - My Life

Our Creative Corner has some fun things planned for all of our readers this coming year! We hope you will continue to play along with all of us in 2009!

How would you like to win some fun goodies from Jacksonbelle Embellishments? To be entered to win, add our banner to you blog and leave us a link here in this post. We will announce the winner on Wednesday, January 7th.

Happy New Year and best wishes to you all ~

OCC - Clear Thinking

Before we start with our challenge today, Our Creative Corner would to thank all that visit our Blog and participate in our weekly challenges! We had a wonderful year thanks to all of you! Our next round of challenges in 2009 will bring a few NEW surprises and more mid-week challenges to try. Please stop by Wednesday, December 31st for a fun announcement and giveaway.

Welcome to Our Creative Corner. Thanks to everyone who plays along with us each week! We hope you all had a fabulous holiday. Before we get to today's challenge, we'd like to announce the winner of last week's prize drawing. The winner of the $30 Verve Stamps Gift Certificate is... Patty (SCS-pepperrn)! Congratulations Patty, please email us to claim your prize!

This week's challenge is to add something clear to your project.
It can be anything you want – an acetate card or shaker, an acrylic shape, a clear button or embellishment, clear embossing powder, cello bag, etc. The sky's the limit! We can't wait to see what you come up with.

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

Our special guest designer this week is Jen Tapler! Don't you just love this awesome little Cosmo kit she made to ring in the new year? Just fabulous!

And here are the samples from the Creative Corner Designers:

By Denise Marzec - The Paper Landscaper




By Dawn Easton - Treasure Oiler Designz





By Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner




By Lynda Benden - Stamp Act




By Julee Tilman - Poetic Artistry




By Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Designs




By Laurie Schmidlin - Just Give Me Stamps





By Amy Sheffer - Pickled Paper Designs





Happy New Year!!

Lovey Dovey Challenge

Hello and Welcome to Our Creative Corner. We have a special challenge this week. Today is Julee's 11th anniversary, she has challenged us to make either a love of a lifetime/anniversary card/project or just something for that special someone who makes you go all lovey dovey.

Wanna play along and have a chance to win some new stamps? Just upload your creation to your blog or gallery and leave us a link here in this post so we can see what you made! To be included in a random drawing for a $30 Verve Stamps Gift Certificate, please have your project linked here by 12 noon on Friday, December 26. If you upload to Splitcoast, please include OCCC in the keywords. The winner will be announced next Saturday, December 27th.

This week it's our pleasure to have the very talented Jackie Pedro as our special guest designer. Isn't her card adorable?

And now for the lovey dovey samples from the Creative Corner Designers:

By Julee Tilman - Poetic Artistry



By Denise Marzec - The Paper Landscaper

By Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner



By Amy Sheffer - Pickled Paper Designs



By Dawn Easton - Treasure Oiler Designz

By Lynda Benden - Stamp Act

By Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Designs

Merry Christmas from,

The Giving Season

Welcome to Our Creative Corner! Thanks to everyone who played along in our sketch challenge. Before we get to today's challenge, we'd like to announce the winner of last week's prize drawing. The Elegant Christmas and Fairy Christmas sets from The Cat's Pajamas go to... Suzanne Dean ! Congratulations Suzanne, please email us your address so we can get your prize on its way!

'Tis the season for gift giving, and so this week's challenge is to make a gift card holder. There's all sorts of fabulous gift card holder ideas floating around in all shapes and sizes, and there's nothing like a little handcrafted holder to make the recipient feel extra special. Feel free to make any type of gift holder you want, but if you'd like a jumping off point, this week's guest designer, Tori Wild, has a simple little gift card holder template on her blog.

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, take a peek at Tori's adorable gift card holder. Isn't it just the cutest? Thanks so much for joining us this week, Tori!!

And now for the gifty samples from the OCC Girls...







By Julee Tilman - Poetic Artistry

By Denise Marzec - The Paper Landscaper






By Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner







By Lynda Benden - Stamp Act






By Dawn Easton - Treasure Oiler Designz









By Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Designs









By Laurie Schmidlin - Just Give Me Stamps






Have a wonderful weekend!!

OCC Sketch Challenge and Prize!!!

Welcome to Our Creative Corner! Thanks to all who played along last week, your snowy creations rocked the house! Also a big thanks to Denise Marzec for all the awesome November challenges.

Our December challenge hostess is Julee Tilman and she's starting the month off with a sketch challenge with a prize donated by this week's very special guest designer Alma de la Rosa. Alma is the swanky leader of The Cats Pajamas Rubber Stamps and one cool cat!

Wanna play along and have a chance to win some shiny new stamps? Just upload your creation to your blog or gallery and leave us a link here in this post so we can see what you made! To be included in a random drawing for the gorgeous Elegant Christmas and Fairy Christmas sets, please have your project linked here by 12 noon on Friday, December 12. If you upload to Splitcoast, please include OCCC in the keywords. The winner will be announced next Saturday, December 13th.





Check out Alma's drool-worthy project:

And now for the projects from the oh-so-talented OCC Regulars:

by Julee Tilman - Poetic Artistry



by Denise Marzec - The Paper Landscaper


By Dawn Easton - Treasure Oiler Designz



by Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner




by Lynda Benden - Stamp Act



By Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Designs



by Laurie Schmidlin - Just Give Me Stamps



By Amy Sheffer - Pickled Paper Designs