OCC - Sketch Challenge & Giveaway

Hello and welcome to Our Creative Corner! Thanks to all who played in last week's Technique Challenge. You kept us inspired all week!

For this week's challenge, our January host, Jennifer Meyer, has put together this sketch:


Wanna play along and have a chance to win a NEW custom banner & watermark? Just upload your card 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 a random drawing for the banner & watermark, please have your card linked here by 12 noon on Friday, January 30th. If you upload to Splitcoast, please include OCCC in the keywords. The winner will be announced Saturday, January 31st.

Before we show you the OCC designers' samples, we'd like to introduce and welcome our guest designer for the week, Carla Suto. Don’t you just LOVE all that gorgeous detail?


Now let’s take a look at the fun samples the OCC has created just for you:

By Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Designs

By Jackie Pedro - The Scalloped Edge



By Kim Teasdale - Paper in the Works



By Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner




By Denise Marzec - The Paper Landscaper



By Lynda Benden - Stamp Act


By Amy Sheffer - Pickled Paper Designs



By Dawn Easton - Treasure Oiler Designz



By Julee Tilman - Poetic Artistry


By Silke Ledlow - My Life

OCC - Technique Challenge

Hello OCC friends! Thanks to all who played in last week's color challenge - you all are the best!!

For this week, how about a challenge the OCC hasn't done yet – Embossing Resist? Our Creative Corner has put together some fun samples to help inspire you. Find your embossing powder, dust off your heat gun and have fun with our challenge this week. We can’t wait to be inspired by your fun samples!!

There's no time limit on our challenges. Please feel free to participate in any of our challenges at any time. To play along, just post your project to your blog or gallery, then include a link in the Mr. Linky form at the bottom of this post so we can check it out. If you upload to SCS, use keyword: OCCC

by Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Designs



By Lynda Benden - Stamp Act


by Kim Teasdale - Paper in the Works




By Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner



By Silke Ledlow - My Life




by Denise Marzec - The Paper Landscaper





By Dawn Easton - Treasure Oiler Designz



By Julee Tilman - Poetic Artistry



By Jackie Pedro - The Scalloped Edge




By Amy Sheffer - Pickled Paper Designs



Laurie Schmidlin - Just Give Me Stamps

OCC - Color Challenge

Hello OCC friends! Thanks to all who played in last week's sketch challenge, it was our biggest challenege participation yet!! All of your samples looked amazing!! Before we start with the challenge, we would like to announce the winner for the Treehouse Stamp giveaway. Congratulations Jenn from Confessions of a Scrampaholic. Please email us your address so we can get your goodies out to you.

This week's challenge is to use two shades of blue along with a neutral color. There is no time limit on our challenges - 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 project so we can check it out. If you upload to SCS, remember to use keyword: OCCC

Our special guest designer this week is Julia Aston! Isn't her card beautiful? Thanks so much for joining us this week, Julia!!

And now here are the colorful samples from the OCC...

By Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Designs

By Kim Teasdale - Paper in the Works



By Silke Ledlow - My Life



by Denise Marzec - The Paper Landscaper



By Amy Sheffer - Pickled Paper Designs



By Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner



By Dawn Easton - Treasure Oiler Designz

By Jackie Pedro: The Scalloped Edge



By Lynda Benden - Stamp Act

By Julee Tilman - Poetic Artistry

OCC Announcement

Hello OCC friends! We would like to thank all of you for adding our banner to your blogs. We would also like to announce the winner for the Jacksonbelle Giveaway. Congratulations to Julia A from Create with Me. Please email us your addy so we can get your goodies out to you.

Please stop by Saturday for another fun challenge hosted by our January host, Jennifer Meyer.

Enjoy your week!

OCC - Sketch Challenge

Hello OCC friends and happy New Year!! All of us at Our Creative Corner would like to wish you all a healthy and happy 2009!

A big thanks to Julee Tilman who brought us the December challenges. This month, we welcome our January host, Jennifer Meyer. To kick off the new year, Jennifer has put together a fun sketch.

Our special guest designer for the week is Shannon Erskine (E3stamper on SCS). Not only has she put together a sample for this week’s challenge but she is also donating a NEW set called Owlentine from Treehouse stamps to one lucky winner from this week’s challenge participants. Thank you Shannon & Ashley!!

Ordinarily, there is no time limit on our challenges, but this week, to be entered into the drawing, you must have your project linked up here in the comments section by 12 noon Eastern Time on Friday, January 8th. We’ll draw a random name from the entries and announce the winner on Saturday, January 9th, along with out next challenge.

To kick-off 2009, here the samples from the OCC ~

By Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Designs



By Lynda Benden - Stamp Act



By Kim Teasdale - Paper in the Works



By Silke Ledlow - My Life



By Amy Sheffer - Pickled Paper Designs



By Julee Tilman - Poetic Artistry



By Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner


by Denise Marzec - the Paper Landscaper



By Dawn Easton - Treasure Oiler Designz

By Jackie Pedro - The Scalloped Edge

By Laurie Schmidlin - Just Give Me Stamps