OCC Sketch Challenge

Hello OCC friends! We'd like to thank all of you who played in our challenge last week! We love seeing your samples!!


This week Denise has a sketch for us. There is no time limit on our challenges, so feel free to participate whenever you are able. To play along, upload your creation to your blog or gallery, then leave us a comment linking to your card/project so we can check it out. if you upload to SCS, remember to use keyword: OCCC


Before we show you the OCC samples, we'd like to introduce and welcome our guest designer for the week, Jami Bova (sgtstamper). Here is her amazing sample below. Thanks so much for being our guest this week, Jami. Your sample ROCKS!!...

...and here are the beautiful samples from the OCC girls:

by Denise Marzec - The Paper Landscaper



By Cindy Haffner - Cindy's Creative Corner



By Julee Tilman - Poetic Artistry



By Dawn Easton - Treasure Oiler Designz



By Amy Sheffer - Pickled Paper Designs



By Lynda Benden - Stamp Act



By Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Designs



Have a wonderful weekend!!

OCC Challenge - Silhouettes

Hello OCC friends, and welcome to another challenge from Our Creative Corner!! Our challenge this week is to make a card/project using silhouette stamps. We hope you play along with us. If you download your cards to Splitcoast, please include OCCC in the keywords so we can see all of your beautiful samples!!

We would also like to introduce our special Guest Designer this week, Silke Ledlow. In honor of Silke AKA Sparklegirl on SCS, feel free to add a little "Sparkle" to your cards. It's not required, that part is totally up to you. :)

Here's Silke's gorgeous sample:

...and here are the samples from the OCC crew:

by Denise Marzec - The Paper Landscaper



By Lynda Benden - Stamp Act



by Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner



By Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Designs



By Julee Tilman - Poetic Artistry


By Dawn Easton - Treasure Oiler Designz



By Amy Sheffer - Pickled Paper Designs



Have a wonderful weekend & we can't wait to see your samples!!

Inspiration Challenge

It's Saturday and time for another OCC challenge!

Today's challenge is an inspiration challenge using this pretty cupcake from the Martha Stewart website.

You may be inspired to recreate the picture, but that isn't necessary ... get your inspiration from the colors, make a cupcake card, something with polka dots, a Christmas card with holly maybe, etc. Make the inspiration piece your own...and don't worry, no card is 'wrong'.

Be sure to leave a comment here on this post with the link to your card/project so we can see what you've done. If you're uploading to SCS, don't forget to include OCCC in the keywords.

We're very excited to have Taylor VanBruggen as our guest designer this week...after all, the inspiration piece DOES have a cupcake in it and we all know how much Taylor loves cupcakes! Here is her adorable sample, and what a cute sentiment...

...and here are the samples from the OCC girls:

By Denise Marzec - The Paper Landscaper




By Dawn Easton - Treasure Oiler Designz




By Julee Tilman - Poetic Artistry




By Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner




By Amy Sheffer - Pickled Paper Designs




By Lynda Benden - Stamp Act




By Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Designs



Have a wonderful weekend,

It's all in the Coloring

Welcome & thanks for stopping by Our Creative Corner! Before we start our post for our weekly challenge, we have a special card request for you... Laurie Schmidlin’s twelve year old daughter Ali is very sick. If you would like to send Ali a get well card or a thinking of you card, please email us and we will send you her addy. Laurie, please know you and your family our in our thoughts & prayers!!

Thank you to Lynda for hosting our October challenges last month!! The random winner of last weeks gift challenge and the Imaginisce/Shimmerz prize package is Sue Daly AKA: StampnDaly! Congratulations Sue, please email us your address so we can get your prize out to you!

We would also like to thank everyone who played along in our Vintage Verve midweek challenge!! We'd like to congratulate Sue aka suen, winner of a Verve Stamps set!! Sue, please email us your full name, address and choice of stamp set so we can get your goodies in the mail! Woohoo!! And here's a little look-see at all the fabulous vintage values cards that were submitted for the challenge.



Our first challenge for November is All About the Coloring. Show us your favorite way to color...copics, watercoloring, gamsol magic, etc....or just pull your favorite image that you enjoy coloring and have some fun. Our special guest designer today is Lori McAree (LMcAree on SCS) and here is her sample card, using the Gamsol Magic Technique.

...and here are samples from the OCC girls:

By Denise Marzec - The Paper Landscaper ~ Gamsol Magic




By Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Designs - Watercoloring




By Julee Tilman - Poetic Artistry ~ Prismacolor Pencils




By Dawn Easton - Treasure Oiler Designz ~ Copic Markers




By Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner ~ Copic Markers




By Amy Sheffer - Pickled Paper Designs ~ Watercoloring




By Lynda Benden - Stamp Act ~ Prismacolored Pencils




Thanks for stopping by, see you next week!

OCC - Handmade for the Holidays.....

Hello and welcome to Our Creative Corner!! Thanks to all who played in last week's sketch challenge, your samples were beautiful!!

Before we start with this week's challenge, we need to announce the random winner of last week's sketch challenge for a $20 gift certificate to Jacksonbelle Embellishments. The winner is ~ Shannon Erskine ~ AKA: e3stamper!!! Congratulations Shannon!!! Please email us and we will get your goodies out to you!!! Thank you to all who play along, we really appreciate it!!

On with the challenge... Remember when you were little and your Mom would explain that you didn't need to buy her a gift and that she would rather you make it by hand???? Let's go with that idea for the Holidays this year and make something!!! We know you ALL have supplies to make a Holiday gift for someone! Let's put those neglected supplies to use! How about a monogrammed card set, a decorated bag, a gift tag or maybe you would rather make a decoration for your own home!!! There are no OCC police so really, anything goes!!!

Ready to be inspired??? Please join us in welcoming our honored guest this week ~ Lindsey Botkin from Jacksonbelle Embellishments!!! Here is Lindsey's beautiful creation ~

Want to play along? Upload your creation to your blog or gallery and leave us a link here in this post so we can see what you made! To be included in the random drawing for the prize package, please have your project linked here by Friday, October 31st by 12 noon. If you upload to Splitcoast, please include OCCC in the keywords. Here are the goodies you could win...

Check out what the OCC designers have created ~

By Lynda Benden - Stamp Act




By Denise Marzec - The Paper Landscaper




By Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner




By Amy Sheffer - Pickled Paper Designs





By Dawn Easton - Treasure Oiler Designz






By Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Designs




By Julee Tilman - Poetic Artistry




By Laurie Schmidlin - Just Give Me Stamps




Thanks so much for stopping by! We can't wait to see this week's creations!

OCC Challenge - Vintage Verve

Hello OCC Friends! It's time for another Our Creative Corner mid-week challenge!

This challenge is hosted by Julee Tilman, who wanted us to get a little inky with our Verve stamps. The challenge is to give your Verve projects a vintage glow with a technique called Vintage Values. 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.

Vintage Values How-To: Requires 2-3 shades of the same color of ink and a craft sponge. Starting with your lightest shade of ink, use a craft sponge to sweep ink from the outer edges of your cardstock inward as far as you want your glow to touch. Repeat with your next shade of ink, but only sweep about 2/3 as far in (so some of the lighter color still shows in the inner sections). Repeat with the darkest shade of ink (if desired), sweeping with short strokes, only about 1/3 of the way in.

What would a Verve challenge be without a Verve prize? On Friday, October 31 at noon EST, we'll be choosing one random participant to receive their choice of any Verve Stamps set. If you don't have Verve stamps, feel free to play along with stamps from any company. We never met a stamp we didn't love!

And before you get all inky, check out these vintage beauties by the OCC crew:

By Julee Tilman - Poetic Artistry



By Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner



By Dawn Easton - Treasure Oiler Designz


By Lynda Benden - Stamp Act

By Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Designs