3-D Project With a Valentine Theme

Welcome friends and visitors! We're glad you came our way today and we want to begin by thanking all of you who participated in last week's "3 Musketeer" challenge. There were some amazing projects created by you talented people!

Are you ready for an all new Our Creative Corner?   We are so excited to roll out our "remake".  You've seen the facelift on our blog and last week we introduced our new design team members.  This week we're excited to share with you that we will now have an overall winner and top three.  These are judged awards.  Each week, our entire design team will look at all the entries and vote on our favorites.  The winners each week will receive a badge to display on their blog.  The categories are:

The Corner's Choice Top Talent Award for the entry we judge as best overall.  The Top Talent will be invited to a one-week guest designer spot with Our Creative Corner.

and the Talented Trio award for that week's three runners up.

Each week after the challenge closes, the team will vote on their favorites. Then every Wednesday we'll make the awards on our blog. So be sure to check back every Wednesday morning to see if YOUR entry has won an award and then proudly display it on your blog's sidebar!

This Week's Challenge
Are you ready for this week's challenge?! This week's challenge is to create a 3-D project with a Valentine theme. The big day is only 16 days away and by taking this challenge with us you'll be a little better prepared! So put on those creative caps and let's see what you come up with!

Also, we're so happy to debut the additions to our design team and hope you will help us welcome them! Yeah! We're so excited to have these talented stampers join our team and look forward to their inspiring creativity!

Jen Rzasa - Our Change of Art

Wendy Jensen - It's All About Stamping

Dana Grothaus - Dana's Dabbling Studio

Kristin Tierney - Lilly Pad Designs

Sarah Gough - thINKing stamps

Diane Gilbert - My Little Stampin' Spot

Vicki Burdick - It's a Stamp Thing

Rebecca Ednie - Eclectic Endeavours

Sharon Wheet - Designs by Sharon

Lori Rider - The Diva Stamper

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

Julie Leblanc ~ Kewlstamps-n-more

Everyone is welcome to play along.  If you upload your card/project to SCS, please use the keycode  OCCC.  Our only requirement is that your project be a new project and not back-linked to a project made before this challenge started.  

Three Musketeers Color Challenge

Welcome back to another fun challenge with Our Creative Corner. We had lots of wonderful entries to our challenge last week and want to thank everyone who joined in the challenge.

This week, our host, Wendy Janson, has a fun color challenge for us this week. It's a "Three Musketeers" color challenge which actually means an analogous color scheme challenge but that sounded so boring! So choose any 3 colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. They usually match well and create serene and comfortable designs. When using an Analogous Color Scheme choose one color to dominate, a second to support. The third color is used (along with black, white or gray) as an accent." Use an analogous color scheme for this week's project!

Let's get right to our terrific design team samples this week. We hope you will be inspired to play along!


Wendy Janson - It's All About Stamping




Diane Gilbert ~ My Little Stampin' Spot!




Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

Lori Rider - The Diva Stamper

Dana Grothaus - Dana's Dabbling Studio

Sarah Gough - THinkING STAMPS

Our New Design Team

Our design team call is closed and we want to thank each and every one of you who honored us by applying for a spot on our team.  It was a tough choice but the team reviewed all the applications and helped make the decision on who would be invited.  And now we are excited to announce the addition of the following new members to the Our Creative Corner Design Team.

Vicki Burdick - It's a Stamp Thing
Rebecca Ednie - Eclectic Endeavors
Jen Rzasa - Our Change of Art
Kristin Tierney - Lilly Pad Designs
Sharon Wheet - Designs by Sharon

Welcome aboard, ladies!  We are so excited about the opportunity to design alongside such a talented group.

Let's Play Dress Up!

Welcome friends! So happy to see you back here for another great challenge this week. We're so excited about all the changes happening in this new year here at Our Creative Corner. This week we'll be selecting a new design team which will be revealed here on Friday, January 21st along with some other changes happening here. And, how about the new look for our blog? We hope you'll all be energized with our challenge blog makeover and will be excited to play along with us week after week in 2011.

Our lovely host, Wendy Janson, has another terrific challenge for us this week. But before we jump into this week's challenge, we wanted everyone to see the lovely card made this week by our featured stamper Sarah Bruneski of Sarah's Scrap Shack. We hope you will drop by to check out her other beautiful projects on her blog. And thanks to everyone who visited us and especially those who found time to play along with our Hey Chickadee! challenge last week.

Let’s Play Dress-Up Challenge
Don't all girls love to play dress-up when they're little? Some of us still do! This week's challenge is to use this very basic sketch and dress it up any way you want! We just know you are going to come up with some very creative makes and can't wait to see them! Everyone is welcome to play along. Our only requirement is that you enter a new project and do not back link to something shared on your blog or other site prior to the date of our challenge.

Let's take a look at what the Design Team has created this week!

Sarah Gough - Thinking Stamps

Diane Gilbert ~ My Little Stampin' Spot!


Lori Rider - The Diva Stamper

Wendy Janson - It's All About Stamping


Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

Dana Grothaus - Dana's Dabbling Studio

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