Saturday, March 28, 2009

OCC - Color Challenge

Welcome to Our Creative Corner. Thanks to everyone who plays along with us each week! Before we get to today's challenge we have a few little announcements. First of all we would like to announce the winner of last week's prize drawing. The winner of the $25 in Clear Dollar Stamps is... Dori S.! Congratulations Dori, please email us to claim your prize!

Sadly, we have to announce that our very talented Laurie Schmidlin will be saying good bye to the OCC as she will be spending some much needed time with her family - goodness knows that she has a gazillion things going on and that family comes first :) Laurie we are so happy to have had you be a part of the team and we wish you and your family all the best! When a "goodbye" happens, there is always a "hello" to follow, so without further adieu, we would like to extend a warm welcome and introduce to you Jocelyn Turner (Stamps'nCoffee) who is our newest team member here at the OCC! Please join us in welcoming her and pop by her gallery to take a peek at her creations!

Now onto this week's challenge! We have a Color Challenge for you this week, and the colors are: More Mustard, Bashful Blue, Not Quite Navy and a neutral of your choice. You can use any designer papers that you would like and if you don't have Stampin' Up! card stock then feel free to substitute for colors that are similar. We can't wait to see what you come up with!

Remember 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 link 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 Angela Thomas! Don't you just love this awesome little Changito in his adorable rain gear?






Are you ready for some more inspiration? Check out what the OCC girls have been up to...


By Kim Teasdale - Paper in the Works



By Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner


By Joycelyn Turner - Stamps n' Coffee



By Lori Boyd - By LORi Designs


By Jenny Gropp - One Krafty Kat



By Robin - Robin's Artful Musings

By Frances Byrne - StampOwl's Studio



By Vicki Garrett-Summerthyme Studio























By Loretta Lock - love to create


By Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Designs


Silke Ledlow - My Life




Saturday, March 21, 2009

OCC - Sketch Challenge & Givaway

Hello and welcome to Our Creative Corner! Thanks to all who played in last week's Limited Supply Challenge. It was a joy to see everyone's creations!!

Our March hostess, Kim Teasdale, has put together this sketch for this week's challenge:


Wanna play along and have a chance to win $25 worth of Clear Dollar Stamps? Lori McCroskey has generously donated this week's prize and all you have to do is 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 CDStamps, please have your card linked here by 12 noon on Friday, March 27th. If you upload to Splitcoast, please include OCCC in the keywords. The winner will be announced Saturday, March 28th.

Before we show you the OCC designers' samples, we'd like to introduce and welcome Laurie Wilson as our guest designer for this week. Just look at how stunning those colors are together with all of that detail!

Now that you have had a chance to see Laurie's gorgeous card, let's take a look and see what the OCC designers have to show you today...

By Kim Teasdale - Paper in the Works



By Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner



By Frances Byrne - StampOwl's Studio


By Robin Willis - Robin's Artful Musings


By Jenny Gropp - One Krafty Kat


By Vicki Garrett- Summerthyme Studio
























By Loretta Lock - Love to Create



By Silke Ledlow - *My Life*


By Lori Boyd - By LORi Designs

By Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Designs
Thanks for stopping by Our Creative Corner!! Have a wonderful weekend!!


Sunday, March 15, 2009

Guess Who is Dirty???

Guess who the NEW Dirty Girl is... Our very own Kim Teasdale. Kim has been chosen as one of the newest members of the Splitcoast Dirty Dozen!! A BIG CONGRATULATIONS Kim, we LOVE ya!!!

Saturday, March 14, 2009

OCC - Limited Supply Challenge

Hi, and welcome to Our Creative Corner! We want to thank everyone who played in last week’s Add a Doodle challenge! We are so lucky to be able to see such amazing artwork :)

This week's hostess, Kim Teasdale, has created another fabulous challenge… she has challenged us to a Limited Supplies Challenge. Here are the rules: You may use any paper including designer papers but are only able to use a maximum of 3 layers (including your stamped image), 1 type of embellishment (buttons or brads or ribbon, etc), any stamps that you like and sentiments are optional.

Remember there is 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

Before we show you the OCC Designer's cards, we would like to introduce this week's talented guest designer, Christine Okken of Christine's Creations! Thanks so much Christine, for playing along with us this week!


Are you ready to view the eye candy that the OCC girls have created for you? Just sit back, relax and be ready to be inspired :)

By Kim Teasdale - Paper in the Works



By Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner



By Vicki Garrett Summerthyme Studio
























By Robin Willis - Robin's Artful Musings



By Frances Byrne - StampOwl's Studio


By Jenny Gropp - One Krafty Kat


By Lori Boyd - By LORi Designs



By Silke Ledlow - My Life
By Loretta Lock - Love to Create
By Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Designs


Have a wonderful weekend!!




Saturday, March 7, 2009

OCC - Add a Doodle

Welcome to Our Creative Corner! The response to last week's sketch challenge was amazing, and we want to thank everyone who participated!! Before we get to today's challenge, we'd like to announce the winner of last week's prize drawing. The Mama Bunny Loves Me set from Stamps and Smiles goes to... Angie C! Congratulations Angie, please email us your address so we can get your prize on its way!

We also would like to announce that Our Creative Corner will say goodbye to a few of our members of the OCC! We want to thank them for a wonderful and creative year!!

While we are sad to see them go, we are so excited to welcome our newest members of Our Creative Corner. Please help us welcome Jenny Gropp, Frances Byrne, Loretta Lock, Robin Willis and Vicki Garrett.

A new month brings a new OCC host. Kim Teasdale is our host and to start off the month, she has challenged us with a fun doodle challenge. Create a card/project using a doodle. You can draw your doodle, punch out a doodle or use doodle chipboard. Anything you consider to be a doodle!!

Remember 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 include a link to Mr. Linky form at the bottom of this post so we can check it out. If you upload to SCS, remember to use keyword: OCCC


Let's see what the OCC has created this week...


By Kim Teasdale - Paper in the Works



By Vicki Garrett - SummerthymeStudio



By Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner



By Frances Byrne - StampOwl's Studio


By Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Designs



By Robin Willis - Robin's Artful Musings


By Loretta Lock - Love to Create


By Jenny Gropp One Krafty Kat

By Silke Ledlow - My Life

By LORi - By LORI Designs

Before we go, if you LOVE a fun sketch challenge, Jennifer has created a sketch challenge every Thursday over at the Stamps and Smiles blog. Lots of fun samples to see each week!!