Saturday, April 28, 2012

A Recipe for Mother's Day Challenge

Hello and welcome to another wonderful week at Our Creative Corner! Anne Marie Hile here as your hostess this week and I can't wait to share our challenge with you.

Before we get to that, each and every one of us at the OCC Design Team want to say a big thank you to everyone who participated in Irena's Butterfly Challenge last week. So many beautiful projects were shared. Don't forget to stop back and visit us on Wednesday, May 2nd to see who will take home the Top Talent Award for their beautiful butterfly creation.

This week's challenge is a recipe challenge, focusing on projects for Mother's Day! Mother's Day is right around the corner on May 13th, so we sure hope you will join us and share a project to celebrate

Here are the challenge details:


Anne Marie Hile - Stampin' Anne

Anita Houston - The Artful Maven Haven

Susan Butler-scrumplescrunch

Vicki Burdick~~It's a Stamp Thing

Meihsia Liu - Simply Paper Crafts

Wendy Janson - It's All About Stamping

Kristin Tierney - LilyBeth Boutique

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

Irena Kowalczyk/Rudlis - love, life and crafts

Sharon Wheet - Designs by Sharon


Thursday, April 26, 2012

Our Boys and Their Toys Winner


A big “thank you” to everyone that graced our gallery with your beautiful cards  for our “Our Boys and Their Toys ” challenge. We had a total of 48 entries and  .... was it tough to narrow it down to just one winner, but we did … and I am proud to announce that our Top Talent for this week is: LeAnne of  'Wee inklings'.


Fabulous, masculine card!!  Great use of the colours! Excellent work.
I love the texture, embossing, I am sure your BIL will love it, too.    
I am very impressed with this work. 
A fabulous boy card and so well deserving, 
Congratulations LeAnne on being our choice for Top Talent!
Feel free to take our badge to display on your blog!


It's not too late to still play along with this weeks challenge, Butterflies.  We've seen some beautiful creations so far, and we'd love to see more!  We'll be back on Saturday with a new challenge, so please come back again!

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Butterflies

Hello! I am Irena "Rudlis" Kowalczyk, of Love Life and Crafts, and your hostess again this week.  This week's challenge is based on this inspiration photo of  "Butterflies". Make a project, card, or tag inspired by the photo. Then tell why you love butterflies. 

Guest Designer: Brigit Edblom

Irena Kowalczyk/Rudlis - love, life and crafts

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie


Tui Nathan - Stampin Time


Anita Houston - The Artful Maven Haven

Vicki Burdick~It's a Stamp Thing

Wendy Janson - It's All About Stamping


Anne Marie Hile - Stampin' Anne

Holly Kean - Kean on Paper

Kristin Tierney - LilyBeth Boutique

Sharon Wheet - Designs by Sharon


Wednesday, April 18, 2012

In Your Easter Bonnet Winner!

Happy winner Wednesday everyone!  I'm Marcy Kaminski, here again to announce the winner for last week's "In Your Easter Bonnet" challenge and take home the Top Talent Award!  We appreciate all the amazing work from the entrants for this really fun challenge!  LOTS of gorgeous frills and flowers and SO much inspiration. Thank you all for your creations!
 Our winner is Daniele Haddon, who had a gorgeous card full of all the flowers, lace and pearls you would see on a beautiful Easter bonnet! SO vintagey and beautiful colors!
Congratulations Daniele, on being our choice for TOP TALENT!  Feel free to take our badge to display on your blog!

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Our Boys and Their Toys

Hi there and welcome to another fun weekly challenge here at Our Creative Corner! Thank you to everyone who participated in last week's 'In Your Easter Bonnet' challenge. So many wonderful entries were shared. Please stop by on Wednesday, April 18th to see who will take home the Top Talent Award for that challenge.

I'm Irena Kowalczyk aka Rudlis from “Love, life and crafts” and I am really excited to be your hostess this week. My challenge for you is a theme “Men's passion, hobby, interests ". Show us the hobby or interest of a man in your life – husband, father, son, brother or another male member of your family. Maybe he likes sports or cars or models. Make a paper craft project that depicts that passion – and be sure to explain what it is in your post write up.

Now let’s see what interests the men in our design teams’ lives have.

 Anita Houston - The Artful Maven Haven
 Passion- Coffee

Gardening


Marcy Kaminski - En Papillote Arts

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

Tui Nathan - Stampin Time

Anne Marie Hile - Stampin' Anne

Irena Kowalczyk/Rudlis - love, life and crafts

Holly Kean - Kean on Paper
Grandfather/Traveling



Thursday, April 12, 2012

Spring Green Winner


Happy winner's Wednesday everyone!  I'm Marcy Kaminski, here to announce the winner for last week's "How Green is Your Spring" challenge and take home the Top Talent Award!  We appreciate all the amazing work from the entrants for this really fun challenge!  LOTS of green for Spring and SO much inspiration.  Thank you all for your creations!
Our winner is Lin Brandyberry, whose amazing card was a standout, with gorgeous stamping, inking and fussy cutting while using a clean, crisp white and green color palette!  So well deserved!
Congratulations Lin on being our choice for TOP TALENT!  Feel free to take our badge to display on your blog!



Saturday, April 7, 2012

In Your Easter Bonnet!

Happy Easter weekend and welcome to another fun Saturday challenge here, at Our Creative Corner! My name is Marcy Kaminski from En Papillote Arts and I am really excited to be your hostess again this week.

I would like to extend a warm thank you to everyone who participated in last week's challenge, "How Green is Your Spring."  All the entries were amazingly creative!

My challenge for you this week, is to design a card/project that is inspired by a frilly Easter bonnet.  Use elements that you would put onto your own bonnet, such as lace, flowers, pearls, etc.  Please stop by on Wednesday, April 11th to see who will take home the Top Talent Award.

 We also want to extend a BIG Our Creative Corner welcome this week to our Guest Designer, Lisa Minckler from You Made Me Ink! We are so excited to have her with us this week! Be sure to stop by and visit her blog to see all of her beautiful creations. Please take inspiration from our fabulous and talented Design Team who have really outdone themselves!
Guest Designer: Lisa Minckler
You Made Me Ink

Marcy Kaminski - En Papillote Arts

Susan Butler-scrumplescrunch

Sharon Wheet - Designs by Sharon

Vicki Burdick ~It's a Stamp Thing

Meihsia Liu - Simply Paper Crafts

Tui Nathan - Stampin Time

Anita Houston - The Artful Maven Haven

Anne Marie Hile - Stampin' Anne

Irena (Rudlis) Kowalczyk - Love, Live & Crafts

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie