Keep Your Cool Color Challenge - Blues & Greens

Greetings friends of the OCC. We're so glad you dropped by for our last challenge in June. Thank you so much to those of you who played along with us in our Case an OCC girl challenge. Wasn't it fun? We really enjoyed seeing which of our prior creations you cased. Here is a sample we especially enjoyed this week and we wanted to feature the designer, Angella Crockett of Body, Mind, Spirit and Stamps blog.

Our sponsor this week is relatively new digital stamp company, Isabella's Sketchbook. Despite being a young company, there are over 250 beautifully drawn digital images in the Isabella's Sketchbook Digi Boutique. Isabella, the owner and artist, is offering 3 digital stamps to one random winner of this week's challenge. In order to qualify for the prize, you must have your entry uploaded to our blog by 10 p.m. EST on Friday, July 2nd.

Since this is the last June challenge, it will be our June hostess' last week to set our challenge. This week Linda Coughlin wants us to use the cool colors of blue and green on our projects. Summer is really heating up so this week, let’s chill out and keep our cool with those nice cooling colors.

Starting with our hostess, here are the design team's responses to the blue and green challenge.

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie



Lori Rider - The Diva Stamper

Diane Gilbert ~ My Little Stampin' Spot!



Julie Leblanc ~ KewlStamps-n-More

Wendy Janson - It's All About Stamping



Dana Grothaus - Dana's Dabbling Studio

Our Creative Corner - Case an OCC Girl

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 here at Our Creative Corner. Thanks to everyone who participated in last week's Gotcha Cornered challenge. There were so many fabulous entries. Before we tell you about this week's challenge, we want to spotlight our featured artist Patricia Garcia. 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. We’ve got some great talent here (if we do say so ourselves!). This week our hostess, Linda Coughlin, is challenging us to case an OCC girl. Go ahead, surf our blogs and check out our on-line galleries (links on our sidebar). Find a card you like and case it, changing at least two things. Include in your post a link to the cased project and let us know what you changed. This should be lots of fun and we can't wait to see your entries this week.

The design team had a blast casing each other. Here are our samples starting with our hostess.

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

Linda cased Sarah Gough with this beauty, changing the stamp sets used, the orientation of the ribbon and flipping the sentiment panel.


Diane Gilbert ~ My Little Stampin' Spot! Diane cased Sarah Gough with this beautiful card, changing the colors, the sentiment and did not add the ribbon.


Wendy Janson - It's All About Stamping
This card is CASEd from Dana Grothaus's card here.

Jennifer Meyer ~ Jennifer's Sweet Designs. Jennifer cased Wendy Janson's yummy card and layout - She changed the colors, used a different border punch and also flipped the sketch. Please stop by my Blog for a chance to win this card.



Dana Grothaus - Dana's Dabbling Studio
Dana picked this great card from Wendy Janson. She added some yellow, switched the pearls to rhinestones, used a different edge punch and changed the sentiment.

Julie Leblanc~Kewlstamps-n-more
Julie cased this card from Dana by doing a digital card, using ribon instead of a strip of dp, changing the shape of the yellow paper and adding a flower brad in lieu of a paper flower.





















Lori Rider - The Diva Stamper

Lori picked this card from Sarah Gough. She flipped the layout, changed the colors and images, and used piercing instead of stitching.

Our Creative Corner - Gotcha Cornered

Hello friends and welcome back to another challenge with Our Creative Corner. We had a terrific response to our summer inspiration challenge last week. Thanks to all our participants for sharing their beautiful work with us. Our featured artist this week is Lynne from Cards from Lynne's Loft. Below is her wonderful creation, please stop by her blog to see more of her outstanding work.

Our sponsor this week is Prairie Fairy Designs, a digital stamp company. Their online shop is filled with delightful designs that make quickly and easily for your papercrafting projects. Roberta, the owner and artist, is offering 5 digital stamps to one random winner of this week's challenge. In order to qualify for the prize, you must have your entry uploaded to our blog by 10 p.m. EST on Friday, June 18th.

Now let's get to the details of this week's challenge. Our hostess, Linda Coughlin, wants us to focus on our corners this week. Let’s spruce up those sometimes-neglected corners with stamped impressions, flourishes, die cuts, bling, flowers or anything fun that strikes your fancy. Don’t let us back you into an empty corner!

Here's the delightful line up from our designers this week to jumpstart your mojo. Our hostess will starts us off.

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie


Diane Gilbert ~ My Little Stampin Spot!


Julie Leblanc~ Kewlstamps-n-more

Wendy Janson - It's All About Stamping

Dana Grothaus - Dana's Dabbling Studio

Designed by Jennifer Meyer



Lori Rider - The Diva Stamper

Our Creative Corner - Summer Inspiration

Hello and welcome! We're so glad you stopped by to visit with us this week. Last week's black and white challenge entries were just sensational and we want to thank all those who joined in the fun with us! This week we want to spotlight Andrea of EwenStyle Blog as our featured designer. Here is her wonderful entry in black and white. Be sure to stop by her blog and see more of her lovely work.

A new month brings us a new hostess here at Our Creative Corner. This month, Linda Coughlin has some fun challenges lined up for us. It’s the good old summertime – a time for the beach, picnics, patriotic parades, yummy summer foods, seasonal fruits and so much more. Reach back to the traditional summers of your childhood. This week we want you to make a card inspired by what summer means to you.
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 for our summer inspired challenge.

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

Sarah Gough - Thinking Stamps

Designed by Jennifer Meyer

Wendy Janson - It's All About Stamping

Dana Grothaus - Dana's Dabbling Studio

Diane Gilbert ~ My Little Stampin' Spot!

Lori Rider - The Diva Stamper

Julie Leblanc ~ KewlStamps-n-More

Our Creative Corner - Color/Texture Challenge

Hello OCC friends & thanks for stopping by!! We would like to thanks all those that stopped by and played along with our sketch challenge, you amazed us all with your beautiful layouts!! Before we show you today’s samples, we would like to announce our featured designer, Kathrin from Kruemels Bastel- Blog. Below you will see her gorgeous sample using our sketch layout, please stop by Kathrin's Blog to see her amazing work!!

This week, Loretta Lock, has challenged the OCC to a Color/Texture challenge. Sometimes, texture speaks louder than colour. Your challenge is to make a black and white card with lots of texture. And as a bonus, use text as your focal image rather than a coloured image…

There is no time limit on our challenges - participate whenever you are able. To play along, upload your creation to your blog or gallery, then leave us a comment linking to your project so we can check it out. If you upload to SCS, remember to use keyword: OCCC

Now let's check out the musical samples by the OCC ~

Julie Leblanc ~ KewlStamps-n-More

Sarah Gough - Thinking Stamps

Loretta Lock - love to create

Joycelyn Pelkey - Stamps 'n' Coffee


Lori Rider - The Diva Stamper

Dana Grothaus - Dana's Dabbling Studio

Wendy Janson - It's All About Stamping

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie


Diane Gilbert ~ My Little Stampin' Spot!

Our Creative Corner - Sketch Challenge

Welcome back to another creative challenge at the OCC! We want to thank all those that stopped by and played along with our masculine birthday challenge last week. All of your cards and projects were amazing and we were all so impressed and inspired by you!! Speaking of last week's challenge, we would like to spotlight one of our participants from last weeks challenge. Jennifer from Jennifer's Designs - way to go, !!!


Now, onto this week's challenge. This week we have a fun sketch layout. We hope you are inspired by the samples below and we look forward to seeing your designs this coming week!! To play along, upload your creation to your blog or gallery, then link it here with the direct link with our NEW linky system. If you upload to SCS, remember to use keyword: OCCC

Here are the samples from the OCC Design team:

Loretta Lock - love to create

Sarah Gough - Thinking Stamps

Lori Rider - The Diva Stamper

Joycelyn Turner - Stamps 'n' Coffee

Dana Grothaus - Dana's Dabbling Studio

Julie ~ KewlStamps-n-More

Diane Gilbert ~ My Little Stampin Spot!

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie