Making Melody

Happy Saturday paper crafting friends! It's Holly hosting this week.

I've enjoyed seeing the projects submitted for Tui's "Over the Edge" challenge. I hope you got your project in this week - we'll announce the challenge winner on Wednesday. If you didn't get a chance to enter your project, join us for this week's "Making Melody" challenge.

Music can be such a motivating thing in life, why not in your papercrafting too? Take inspiration from a song and work it into any papercraft project you'd like - a card, a gift tag or some other paper craft project. Be inspired by the lyrics or the feeling you get by listening along. Just make sure your post includes the song title (and if possible the artist) that inspired you!

Take a look at what our designers have put together this week for this fun music-inspired challenge to get your on a roll. Be sure to cruise by our Guest Designer Anni Karten's blog and drop a little thank you to her for being our guest this week.

Guest Designer - Anni

Anni-Karten

Song: Songbird by Fleetwood Mac

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

Song:  On the Road Again by Willie Nelson

Anita Houston - The Artful Maven

Song:  Tea For Two by Doris Day

Meihsia Liu - Simply Paper Crafts

Song: Yoü And I by Lady Gaga

Susan Butler-scrumplescrunch

Song 'Lady in Red' by Chris de Burgh.

Vicki Burdick-It's a Stamp Thing

Song-Remember When by Alan Jackson

Anne Marie Hile - Stampin' Anne

Song - Where Are You Going by Dave Matthews Band

Tui Nathan - Stampin Time

Song:  The Rose - Bette Midler

Marcy Kaminski - En Papillote Arts

Song: Over The Rainbow - Judy Garland

Holly Kean - Kean on Paper

Return to Pooh Corner - Kenny Loggins

Irena Kowalczyk / Rudlis

Song: Desert Rose - Sting

Sharon Wheet - Designs by Sharon

song:  Angel from Montgomery by Bonnie Raitt

Winner - Black and White with a Splash of Colour

Thank you to everyone for your beautiful entries to our Black and White with a Splash challenge. What a great response there was and we thoroughly enjoyed viewing all of your fabulous creations. So without further ado, our winner for this week is ... Lisa of You Made Me Ink

A fabulous card in every way, love the splash of blue on this spectacular black and white backdrop with such glorious texture and dimension, from the beautifully bordered frame to that great image (had a little giggle at this one) and of course those flowers with the pearl centres and jewelled hat pins provide a lovely touch of elegance and style. And who would've thought that a cut out newspaper heading could work so tastefully! Well done Lisa and Congratulations on being selected as our Top Talent. Feel free to take our badge to display on your blog.

It's not too late to still play along with this weeks challenge, "Over the Edge", the creations so far are spectacular, have you got yours in the gallery? We'll be back on Saturday with a new challenge and some new inspiration!

Just Say No - PLEASE!!!!

This week's challenge here.

If you blog much, especially if you are on a design team and leave a lot of comments, you have seen the new Word Verification format that Blogger has instituted.  This is making it very difficult for us to leave comments, sometimes requiring us to enter letters two and three times because we can't make out what the letters are.  We are all busy and while we love to leave comments on your wonderful work, we will no longer leave comments on blogs using word verification.

If you are concerned about spam, go to comment moderation.  I personally moderate all comments 14 days and older.  I find that if I do get spam it usually hits the older posts.  While searching the internet for this Just Say No button, I came across a very informative post on how to turn off word verification.  So rather than reinvent the wheel, I am going to refer you to the post on the Ramblings and Photos blog.  If you need help figuring out how to turn off word verification, there are step-by-step directions and photos to walk you through.  Thanks so much to Ashley Sisk for her very informative post on the subject!

You may not even know that you are using word verification.  I believe it is turned on automatically when you create your blog.  Now is a good time to check to see if you are using it.

Feel free to leave us comments on how you feel about our new approach and as always, we thank you for stopping by Our Creative Corner.

Over the Edge

Happy Saturday and welcome back to Our Creative Corner.

It's Tui here and I am happy to be hosting our challenge again this week. Thank you to everyone who took part in our Black and White with a Splash of Colour challenge last week.  There were a lot of fantastic creations and we were simply amazed at the stunning array of cards in the gallery! On Wednesday we will be announcing our Top Talent .... it could be you!

This week the challenge I have for you is "Over the Edge" - create a card, or paper craft item with a design element that is not restricted to the boundaries of the card edges, and continues to flow off the edge of the card, for instance this could be a die cut element, a sentiment banner, a fussy cut image, ribbon etc. Push your design to the edge .... and have fun!

And just to get your inspiration flowing, we have the very talented Karen Squires of Stampin by the Bay joining us this week as our Guest Designer. Be sure to stop by and say "hi", and of course our fabulous design team have some great samples which will surely get your creative juices flowing!

Guest Designer - Karen Squires

Tui Nathan - Stampin Time

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

Susan Butler -scrumplescrunch

Meihsia Liu - Simply Paper Crafts

Vicki Burdick~~It's a Stamp Thing

Irena Kowalczyk / Rudlis

Anita Houston

Marcy Kaminski - En Papillote Arts

Sharon Wheet - Designs by Sharon

Anne Marie Hile - Stampin' Anne

Best Friend Winner

Good Morning! We know that you are here to find out the winner of our 'Best Friend' challenge.  But first, we want to give a huge thanks to everyone who participated in our challenge. Your creations were gorgeous, as always! We hope you enjoyed playing along. So, without further ado, our winner this week is Maya!

We just loved the soft image Maya colored with markers.  She did a fabulous job!  Maya, included both flowers in her stamped image, as well as framing her focal image with paper blossoms.  How pretty.  Maya kept her color palette soft and neutral with little touches of detail.  Congratulations Maya!  
And here is our Top Talent Award.  Please display this award with pride! Congratulations, again!

Now don't forget, there is still time to play along with this weeks challenge, 'Black and White with a splash of colour'.

Black and White with a Splash of Colour

Happy Saturday everyone and thanks for stopping by!

First up, thank you to everyone who took part in our Best Friend challenge last week, wow .... your creations were wonderful and we were blown away by the talent and thoughtfulness that went into each and every project. The recipients of these cards will be delighted by them as we were when we visited your blogs. On Wednesday we will be announcing our Top Talent .... it could by you!

Hi, it's Tui Nathan here, and I am delighted to be hosting this weeks challenge for you, which is ....

"Black and White with a splash of Colour" - create a card or paper craft item with the colours black and white, and then add a splash of colour of your choosing! Which way will you go .... classic and elegant, modern and contemporary, clean and simple or shabby chic ... the choice is yours so have fun and be creative!

And just to get your inspiration flowing, we have the very lovely Steph Lee of Arty Crafty joining us this week as our Guest Designer.  Be sure to stop by and say "hi", and of course our fabulous design team have some great samples which will surely get your creative juices flowing!

Guest Designer - Stephanie Lee

Tui Nathan - Stampin Time

Anita Houston

Meihsia Liu - Simply Paper Crafts

Susan Butler -scrumplescrunch

Vicki Burdick~~It's a Stamp Thing

Wendy Janson - It's All About Stamping

Irena Kowalczyk / Rudlis

Marcy Kaminski - En Papillote Arts

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

Anne Marie Hile - Stampin' Anne

Sharon Wheet - Designs by Sharon