OCC Challenge - Use a Tag

Hello and welcome to Our Creative Corner! We want to thank everyone who played in last week’s sketch challenge!! You really do know how to spoil us with your amazing samples!!

Laurie has created another fabulous challenge… she has challenged us to add a tag somewhere on the front of your card. It can be the focal point or more of an embellishment, large or small… just as long as it’s a tag.

Remember there is no time limit on our challenges. Please feel free to participate in any of our challenges at any time. To play along, just post your project to your blog or gallery, then include a link in the Mr. Linky form at the bottom of this post so we can check it out. If you upload to SCS, use keyword: OCCC

Before we show you the OCC Designer's cards, we would like to introduce this week's talented guest designer, Rose Ann Reynolds of Paper Delightz! Thanks so much Rose Ann, for playing along with us this week!

Rose Ann's wonderful Tag card...




Now let’s check out what the OCC girls have been up to…

By Laurie Schmidlin - Just Give Me Stamps




By Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner




By Dawn Easton - Treasure Oiler Designz




By Kim Teasdale - Paper in the Works




By Lynda Benden ~ Stamp Act




By Jackie Pedro ~ The Scalloped Edge




By LORi - By LORI Designs




By Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Designs




By Silke Ledlow - My Life




By Julee Tilman - Poetic Artistry




By Amy Sheffer - Pickled Paper Designs

OCC - Sketch Challenge

Hi everyone and welcome to Our Creative Corner! A HUGE thanks to everyone who played in last week's Inspiration Challenge!! This week, February's hostess Laurie Schmidlin has cooked up a sketch challenge for you!



A sketch is such a wonderful way to get the creativity flowing! While it's great to stay true to the sketch, please feel free to adjust the sketch to suit your particular card (i.e. flip it, change the circles to squares or some other shape, omit the ribbon, etc.). Just have fun with it! :-)

Want even more of a challenge? Why not send your finished card to someone who means a lot to you (who maybe you don't tell often enough). It could be anyone...a co-worker, a neighbor, an extended family member, a close family member for that matter :-), a friend, or how about someone you know who's serving in the Armed Forces? When you are ready to play, just link your creation below using Mr. Linky. If you upload to SCS, please include the keyword OCCC. Oh, and don't forget to tell us who the special "someone" is that you are sending your card to, and why they mean so much to you (you can do that in the comments section below)!


Also, this week we want to welcome Guest Designer Tosha Leyendekker! Thanks so much, Tosha, for playing along with us this week! Here is Tosha's STUNNING creation...





...and here are the "sketchy" cards from the OCC girls:


By Laurie Schmidlin - Just Give Me Stamps




By Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner




By Julee Tilman - Poetic Artistry





By Dawn Easton - Treasure Oiler Designz




By Kim Teasdale - Paper in the Works




By Lori Boyd - By LORi Designs




By Lynda Benden ~ Stamp Act




By Amy Sheffer - Pickled Paper Designs




By Silke Ledlow - My Life




By Jackie Pedro ~ The Scalloped Edge




By Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Designs

OCC - Inspiration Challenge

Hello and Welcome to Our Creative Corner!! First a big thank you to all who played in last week’s Crazy for Hearts challenge – we love when you play along with us!!

A big thanks to our January host, Jennifer Meyer. Today, we introduce our February host, Laurie Schmidlin. Laurie is challenging us to an Inspiration Challenge. All you have to do is pick your favorite embellishment (ribbon, hardware, charms, flowers, etc.) and create your whole card around it! How easy is that?!?!? When you are ready to play along, simply link your card below using Mister Linky so we can all see your beautiful creation! If you upload to SCS, don't forget to include OCCC in the keywords.

Notice anything NEW? Our Creative Corner has invited Lori Boyd to join the OCC. Please join us in welcoming Lori!!

Before we show you the OCC designers' samples, we'd like to introduce and welcome our guest designer for the week, Gabriela Divine of Gabi with an Eye. Thank you SO much Gabriela for playing along with us this week! Here is Gabriela’ BEAUTIFUL card!!

Need some inspiration, check out the samples made by the OCC team members!


By Cindy Haffner -Cindy Haffner's Corner




By Dawn Easton - Treasure Oiler Designz




By Lori Boyd - By LORi Designs




By Amy Sheffer - Pickled Paper Designs




By Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Designs




By Silke Ledlow - My Life




By Lynda Benden ~ Stamp Act




By Julee Tilman ~ Poetic Artistry




By Kim Teasdale - Paper in the Works




By Jackie Pedro ~ The Scalloped Edge

Laurie Schmidlin - Just Give Me Stamps

OCC - Crazy for Hearts

Hello and welcome to Our Creative Corner!! Before we start with this week's challenge, Denise (peanutbee) has a little message for all of you... I wanted to let you know that starting in February I'll be leaving the OCC. I've really enjoyed the last eight months with these talented girls and the fun challenges everyone has come up with. At this time though, I just feel that I need to focus on my design team commitments and play along with the OCC as a challenge participant when I can rather than as a blog team member. ~ Hugs to everyone, Denise

We are all sad to see Denise go but we know that she won't be far away! If you would like to leave her a message, I am sure she would love to hear from all of you!

We would also like to announce the random winner of last week's Sketch Challenge Giveaway. Congratulations Denise from The Crafty Den, you have won the custom banner & watermark!! Please email Jennifer Meyer at jdmeyer6@sbcglobal.net. We want to thank you all, we really enjoyed seeing all of your beautiful & inspiring cards!!

Now for this week's challenge... Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Jennifer has challenged us to create a card using two hearts or more. When you're ready to play along just upload your card/project to your blog or gallery, then leave us a link here, so we can check it out. If you upload to SCS, use keyword: OCCC


By Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Designs




By Silke Ledlow - My Life




By Lynda Benden - Stamp Act




By Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner




By Denise Marzec - The Paper Landscaper




By Dawn Easton - Treasure Oiler Designz





By Julee Tilman - Poetic Artistry




By Jackie Pedro - The Scalloped Edge





By Amy Sheffer - Pickled Paper Designs




By Kim Teasdale - Paper in the Works



Please join us next week with our February host, Laurie Schmidlin.