Frame It!

Hello and welcome back to another weekly challenge with Our Creative Corner.  It's Linda with you again this week, hosting our challenge.  We're so glad you are visiting us today and hope we can provide some inspiration for your crafting this week!  We love to have you visit and love it even more when you play along with our challenge.  We want to thank all who joined in our Au Naturel challenge last week and hope that you found it a fun and inspiring challenge.  

Are you ready for this week's challenge?  It's Frame It!   This week, we want to see you create a frame out of cardstock, chipboard or any other medium you can think of and add it to your card, page or project. The frame should be 3-D and raised up off the background.  We're sure you're going to give us a lot of beautiful samples to drool over.  And we have some inspiration to get you started.   Check out what our design team has done for this challenge.   

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

Lori Rider - The Diva Stamper

Vicki Burdick--It's a Stamp Thing

Sarah Gough - THinkING STAMPS

Jen Rzasa- Our Change of Art

Kristin Tierney - LilyBeth Boutique

Rebecca Ednie Eclectic Endeavours

Rebecca put her frame under her focal image.

Sharon Wheet - Designs by Sharon

The Wonder of Weaving Challenge Winners

Happy Wednesday! This morning we have the results of our latest challenge, the Wonder of Weaving. As always, the DT loved all of the entries (you guys are the best!) and we can't wait to announce our Top Talent.

Our challenge winner is...

Lorilk- Afternoon's Delight

This was a unanimous choice by the DT! We all completely loved the innovative way in which she incorporated the weaving. The distressing and embossing add to the realism of the pie. A perfect idea with perfect execution!

Congratulations! Please take the Top Talent badge from our sidebar to display on your blog. We can't wait to have you as a Guest Designer!

Next up is our Talented Trio:

Carla Suto- Carla's Stamping Spot

The DT loved Carla's simple and lovely design. The colors are so dreamy, and the ribbon looks gorgeous woven through the lattice. It frames the card so nicely.

Joanne- The Inky Ocean Gazer

Joanne's card has so much beautiful texture. We love how the designer paper peeks through from behind the trellis, and the big, bold flowers are so pretty!

Becky Wall- Becky's Blog

Becky's fun, bright card is so sweet! The woven polka dot paper is a great backdrop for the bold stripes, and wonderfully folded focal point. The buttons along the bottom are a great little finishing touch.

Wonderful cards! Please pick up our Talented Trio award from our sidebar to display on your blog.

Don't forget to enter our current challenge, Au Naturel With a Twist. Entries will be accepted until Friday night at 11:59pm ET.

Au Naturel With a Twist

Whoohoo, it's Saturday!  We're so glad to have you kicking off your weekend with us at Our Creative Corner.  Linda, here, to host this week's challenge.  Thanks to all of you who joined in the fun with us last week for our weaving challenge.  Wasn't that a fun one?  Thanks to Jen Rzasa for bringing us that challenge!

This week, I'm setting you up with a Funkie Junkie favorite - monochromatic.  Not just any monochromatic colors though.  No, I'm asking for all neutrals (and gold/silver or metallics).  The main project must use only pale neutrals (ivory, white, beige, tan, gray) with darker neutrals (dark gray, brown, black) as accents only.  The twist is to include lace and buttons.  Let's see how our talented guest designer and wonderful design team have interrupted this challenge.

Guest Designer Angélique - Bits and Pieces of My Life

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

 

Wendy Janson - It's All About Stamping

 

Lori Rider - The Diva Stamper

Sarah Gough - THinkING STAMPS

 

Sharon Wheet - Designs by Sharon

Jen Rzasa- Our Change of Art

Vicki Burdick-It's A Stamp Thing

Rebecca Ednie Eclectic Endeavours

Fab Floss Challenge Winners

So glad you could join us for this week's winners post! The design team had a wonderful time checking out everyone's entries for the Fab Floss challenge. Thanks to all who decided to join us!

I'm happy to announce that our Top Talent is none other than.....

Sara Mac: The Unhurried Life

So simple, yet so striking! The team absolutely loved Sara's use of embroidery floss- the way it is twisted adds so much interest to the tied knot. Everything about her card design is bold and graphic, and that fuchsia color is fab!

Congrats to Sara- please grab your Top Talent badge from our sidebar to display on your blog, and we'll be contacting you soon with an invitation to be a Guest Designer on a future challenge!

These next 3 wonderful cards make up this week's Talented Trio:

Meihsia Liu: 隨便剪剪﹑貼貼﹑拍拍照

Meihsia's card has such a fantastic layout and design. The house image is lovely, especially when paired with that banner. We loved the way it looks strung on embroidery floss with the perfect little bows on either end.

Hannah Clark: Delightfully Distressing Designs

Wow- Hannah can certainly color! The team loved that gorgeous flower, and all of the interesting texture around it. The embroidery floss border frames the image so nicely, and we liked her use of machine stitching, ribbon, and rhinestone flourishes.

Tracy MacDonald: I Wanna Build a Memory

The team adored Tracy's sweet image and lovely coloring on this card. She made the perfect holes for her floss to weave in and out of with a border punch- very clever! The flowers, patterns, and cute sentiment pull it all together.

Congrats to our Talented Trio- please pick up the award badge from our sidebar to display on your blog.

There's still time to enter our current challenge, the Wonder of Weaving. We are accepting entries until Friday night at 11:59 ET, and we encourage you to play along!

The Wonder of Weaving

Good morning, and welcome back for another challenge! Thanks to everyone who played in my challenge last week- the DT has loved checking out all of the entries, and our winners will be announced on Wednesday.

This is Jen, from Our Change of Art, and this week we will explore the Wonder of Weaving. There are so many ways to use the technique of weaving in your paper crafting. You can weave paper strips, ribbon, decorative trims, felt, fabric etc. This week, weave something into your project!

We have some great inspiration from our Guest Designer, as well as our fantastic design team:

Guest Designer - Shaz - Simply Shaz

Jennifer Rzasa - Our Change of Art

Rebecca Ednie Eclectic Endeavours

Sarah Gough - THinkING STAMPS

Wendy Janson - It's All About Stamping

Lori Rider - The Diva Stamper

Vicki Burdick-It's a Stamp Thing

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

Sharon Wheet - Designs by Sharon

Easel Card Challenge Winners

Welcome back to our Wednesday winners' post.  Today we are happy to share some beautiful examples of easel cards that were submitted for our easel card challenge. Thanks so much to everyone who played along.  All of your cards were beautiful and we had our usual hard time narrowing the field down to the four winners.

This week the design team has voted this card as the Top Talent:

Wendy Aungst at WeeBeeStampin4Fun

The team thought that Wendy's sympathy card was perfectly understated just like a good sympathy card should be. The beautiful sentiment, comforting verse and soft colors make this a winner.  Congratulations on your lovely entry, Wendy! We hope you will pick up your Top Talent award badge from our sidebar and display it on your blog. We'll be in touch with an invitation to guest design for an upcoming challenge. 

The next three beauties will take home the Talented Trio awards.   

Joan Jeffrey at J J Creations

Joan's Easter card just screams simple elegance.  Everything fits together so well and is perfectly balanced. We loved the color combo, the way the scallops were used at the bottom and the stamping arrangement was lovely.

 Karli at Crafting With Class

This sweet box reminded us of a little girl's jewelry box. We loved everything from the image to the roses to the ribbon to the drawer.  Great use of sparkle too!

 Gloria Dojlido at Gloria's Greetings

We thought it was wonderful how Gloria carried the nautical theme throughout the card. The stamped section with the distressing is awesome - we loved the simple black and white image.  Masculine cards are tricky for most of us women crafters and she really did a great job on hers!

Congratulations to all of this week's Talented Trio winners. Ladies, please feel free to pick up the Talented Trio award badge from our sidebar and display it on your blog.  

Thanks again to everyone who played along with our easel card challenge. We hope you will be joining in the Fab Floss challenge that is currently running.  You have until Friday evening, May 5th at 11:59 p.m. ET to upload your creation.