ABCs and 123s

Hello OCC friends. It's Saturday again and we have a wonderful challenge for you this week. We're so happy you have stopped by to see what's happening over at the OCC. Thanks for all those that stopped by and participated in last week's color challenge - there were so many beautiful entries. Before we tell you about this week's challenge, we want to spotlight our featured artist Iwona Palamountain. Here is her wonderful creation. Hope you will stop by her Blog to see more of her lovely work.

And now on to this week's challenge. This week our hostess, Lori Rider, is challenging us to feature letters and/or numbers in your project. This should be lots of fun and we can't wait to see your entries this week.

Here are our samples starting with our hostess, Lori Rider - The Diva Stamper


Diane Gilbert ~ My Little Stampin' Spot!


Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie


Samples by Jennifer Meyer






Dana Grothaus - Dana's Dabbling Studio

OCC Color Challenge

Hello Friends of the OCC! We would like to thank all those that stopped by last week and played along with our sketch challenge, all of your samples were beautiful!! Our August host, Wendy Janson, has challenged us to a Color Challenge! As you can see from below, we are using two of Dana's favorite colors - Cherry Cobbler & Early Espresso. Feel free to use something similar.

We would like to introduce and welcome our August Guest Designer - Lorri Heiling - Confessions of a Stamping Addict. Check out this awesome project she created below - WOW!!! Stop by Lorri's Blog for directions.

Now let's check out the colorful samples by the Design Team:

Wendy Janson - It's All About Stamping

Dana Grothaus - Dana's Dabbling Studio

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie



Diane Gilbert ~ My Little Stampin' Spot!



Sarah Gough - Thinking Stamps

Julie Leblanc~Kewlstamps-n-more

Lori Rider - The Diva Stamper

Our Creative Corner - SAS Blog Hop TONIGHT 8 - 9 pm CST

Happy Friday OCC!! Stamps and Smiles is on their last day of samples for their BRAND NEW STAMP RELEASE. Join us TONIGHT for a chance to win!!!! Play along with our Blog Hop from 8 - 9 pm CST - One lucky winner will win 5 sets from the NEW stamp release.

Our Creative Corner - Sketch Challenge

Hello OCC Fans!! We want to thank you for stopping by last week and playing along. This week our August host has challenged the OCC to a sketch challenge. Feel free to use your favorite stamps and supplies.

Please help us welcome our special Guest Designer Lorri Heiling - Confessions of a Stamping Addict

Now let's check out the sketch samples by the Design Team:


Wendy Janson - It's All About Stamping
Sarah Gough - Thinking Stamps

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

Designed by Jennifer Meyer

Lori Rider - The Diva Stamper

Dana Grothaus - Dana's Dabbling Studio

OCC Challenge - Back to School

Hello OCC Friends!! Welcome back to another challenge here on Our Creative Corner. We want to thank all those that stopped by and played along with our embossing challenge, all of your samples were amazing!!

Since its August and school is right around the corner, we challenge you all to use school supplies or a school theme in your card/project.

We also thrilled to present our August guest designer.............Lorri Heiling - Confessions of a Stamping Addict. Here is her sample for this week's challenge:

Now let's check out the samples by the OCC Design Team:

Wendy Janson - It's All About Stamping


Dana Grothaus - Dana's Dabbling Studio

Julie Leblanc ~Kewlstamps-n-More

Sarah Gough - Thinking Stamps

Lori Rider - The Diva Stamper

Diane Gilbert ~ My Little Stampin' Spot!



Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

Our Creative Corner - It's Embossable!

Welcome OCC friends! We would like to thank all those that stopped by and played along with us last week!! Before we show you this weeks samples, we would like to spotlight one of our participants... Stefanie from Stefanie's Basteleck. Please stop by her Blog to see more of her gorgeous work.


Can you believe it's August already... In fact, it seems embossable! (yes, a cheesy segue, I know) So with that being said, this week our challenge is to use embossing (i.e. heat, resist, dry, etc.) on your project.

There is no time limit on our challenges. Participate whenever you are able To play along, upload your creation to our blog or gallery, then use our linking system to submit your entry. If you upload to SCS, please remember to use the keyword: OCCC.

Now let's see what our design team has come up with!

Wendy Janson - It's All About Stamping


Lori Rider - The Diva Stamper

Sarah Gough - Thinking Stamps

Diane Gilbert ~ My Little Stampin' Spot!



Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

Julie Leblanc ~ Kewlstamps-n-more

Dana Grothaus - Dana's Dabbling Studio