Lovey Dovey Challenge

Hello and Welcome to Our Creative Corner. We have a special challenge this week. Today is Julee's 11th anniversary, she has challenged us to make either a love of a lifetime/anniversary card/project or just something for that special someone who makes you go all lovey dovey.

Wanna play along and have a chance to win some new stamps? Just 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 a random drawing for a $30 Verve Stamps Gift Certificate, please have your project linked here by 12 noon on Friday, December 26. If you upload to Splitcoast, please include OCCC in the keywords. The winner will be announced next Saturday, December 27th.

This week it's our pleasure to have the very talented Jackie Pedro as our special guest designer. Isn't her card adorable?

And now for the lovey dovey samples from the Creative Corner Designers:

By Julee Tilman - Poetic Artistry



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 Lynda Benden - Stamp Act

By Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Designs

Merry Christmas from,

The Giving Season

Welcome to Our Creative Corner! Thanks to everyone who played along in our sketch challenge. Before we get to today's challenge, we'd like to announce the winner of last week's prize drawing. The Elegant Christmas and Fairy Christmas sets from The Cat's Pajamas go to... Suzanne Dean ! Congratulations Suzanne, please email us your address so we can get your prize on its way!

'Tis the season for gift giving, and so this week's challenge is to make a gift card holder. There's all sorts of fabulous gift card holder ideas floating around in all shapes and sizes, and there's nothing like a little handcrafted holder to make the recipient feel extra special. Feel free to make any type of gift holder you want, but if you'd like a jumping off point, this week's guest designer, Tori Wild, has a simple little gift card holder template on her blog.

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 comment linking to your project so we can check it out. If you upload to SCS, remember to use keyword: OCCC

Before we show you the OCC designers' samples, take a peek at Tori's adorable gift card holder. Isn't it just the cutest? Thanks so much for joining us this week, Tori!!

And now for the gifty samples from the OCC Girls...







By Julee Tilman - Poetic Artistry

By Denise Marzec - The Paper Landscaper






By Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner







By Lynda Benden - Stamp Act






By Dawn Easton - Treasure Oiler Designz









By Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Designs









By Laurie Schmidlin - Just Give Me Stamps






Have a wonderful weekend!!

OCC Sketch Challenge and Prize!!!

Welcome to Our Creative Corner! Thanks to all who played along last week, your snowy creations rocked the house! Also a big thanks to Denise Marzec for all the awesome November challenges.

Our December challenge hostess is Julee Tilman and she's starting the month off with a sketch challenge with a prize donated by this week's very special guest designer Alma de la Rosa. Alma is the swanky leader of The Cats Pajamas Rubber Stamps and one cool cat!

Wanna play along and have a chance to win some shiny new stamps? Just 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 a random drawing for the gorgeous Elegant Christmas and Fairy Christmas sets, please have your project linked here by 12 noon on Friday, December 12. If you upload to Splitcoast, please include OCCC in the keywords. The winner will be announced next Saturday, December 13th.





Check out Alma's drool-worthy project:

And now for the projects from the oh-so-talented OCC Regulars:

by Julee Tilman - Poetic Artistry



by Denise Marzec - The Paper Landscaper


By Dawn Easton - Treasure Oiler Designz



by Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner




by Lynda Benden - Stamp Act



By Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Designs



by Laurie Schmidlin - Just Give Me Stamps



By Amy Sheffer - Pickled Paper Designs

OCC Snowmen/Snowflake Cards

Hello OCC friends, You all have been rockin' our challenges week after week - we love when you play along with us! This week's challenge, brought to us by our November host, Denise Marzec, is to incorporate snowmen or snowflakes (or both if you'd like) on your card/project.

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 comment linking to your project so we can check it out. If you upload to SCS, remember to use keyword: OCCC

Before we show you the OCC designers' samples, we'd like to introduce and welcome our guest designer for the week, Janice Melton (catcrazy on SCS), and she loves snowmen!! :) Here's her totally cute sample. Thanks for joining us this week, Janice!!

....and here are the wintery cards from the OCC girls:

by Denise Marzec - The Paper Landscaper



By Jennifer Meyer - Jennifer's Sweet Design



By Amy Sheffer - Pickled Paper Designs



By Dawn Easton - Treasure Oiler Designz



By Lynda Benden - Stamp Act



By Cindy Haffner - Cindy Haffner's Corner



By Julee Tilman - Poetic Artistry

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!!