Thursday, May 1, 2014

Love Those Leftovers!

Hello everyone!

     Laura here - I am quickly invading Linda's post to just let you know what is happening at Our Creative Corner this month....





    It is exactly a year ago today that I became the owner of Our Creative Corner. I must first say a huge thank you to Linda for believing in me enough to let me take over as leader of a challenge blog that had meant so much to her. I also want to thank my wonderful, talented, supportive Design Team who have never failed to amaze me with their unique creativity, their wonderful challenge ideas and their willingness to always embrace new ideas.

 As May is our 'Birthday Month' it is going to be 'Party Time' here! This month is going to be crammed with posts - make sure you don't miss any of them! We will still have all the usual OCC features, but we also have the birthday bonus of each of us being put in the spotlight ourselves where we will be answering some questions. At the end of the month we will also be featuring a showcase of some creations that caught our attention over the last year - make sure you take a peek to see if yours is there! There is also a very special announcement as well...so watch out for that!

As this is a special month for us there is an extra prize draw for a mystery gift!!!

Every time you make a comment at Our Creative Corner, on any post, your name will be entered into the prize draw and the winner will be picked by random.org and will be announced on the 8th June.

    So comment as much as you can!....There will be 16 posts this month so everyone can potentially have 16 entries each in the prize draw!!! Maximize your chances of winning by commenting on every post this month. Comments made after 31st May will not be included.


Hope you enjoy celebrating the birthday fun over here at Our Creative Corner


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Hello friends of Our Creative Corner.  Thank you for visiting us during this special birthday month.  

 We're delighted to welcome back Crafty Individuals as our challenge sponsor for this month. They will be generously donating a prize to one random winner at the close of our challenge.



Linda here as your May host bringing you a challenge to use up the leftovers that are filling up your bins and boxes.  We all have those snippets of gorgeous papers we can't part with, embellishments made that didn't quite fit the project they are meant for, papers pre-colored from blotting up every last bit of paint and stain on our craft sheets.  Into the box they go and somehow never seem to see the light of day.  So get out those boxes and bins, sort through your leftovers and give 'em some love!

This month we want you to create a project made primarily from leftovers.  Please be sure to tell us in your blog post exactly what leftovers were used.  

Let's see how our design team has loved their leftovers:


Linda



Using scraps is a quick way to make a project.  Other than the corrugated cardboard backing and the Wendy Vecchi Art Parts top and bottom, this hanging was made entirely from leftovers in less than a hour.  That's lightening fast for me and it felt great to use some rejected embellishments that didn't make it onto previous projects.



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Julia



I enjoy trying to use up the bits and pieces which I can't bear to throw away. Often, I make something for a project, it's not quite right and into the box it goes for another time! I've used some die cuts from another project, two spare flowers made moons ago, a piece of paper used to clean off my brayer and an empty chocolate (sadly!)  box to make a 'basket' for an Easter Egg Hunt. Thanks Linda for another chance at this wonderful theme.



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Astrid

I was delighted when Linda chose to run the theme of her March challenge again. Another chance to use some of these scraps we all love to collect.... I am a hoarder of papers, I love to stroke them, but it's so hard to cut into them. Well for this project, a pocket tag card, I used loads of little scraps from those occasions when I did cut into them. And my two tubs of left over embellishments got a little bit emptier too.


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Laura




This creation is made totally from scraps - even using left over Distress Paint covered card.
It just goes to show that you don't need brand new embellishments each time to make something beautiful - raid the scraps box instead and discover what you can create




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Claudia


The scraps I used on this art journal page are really "special" (and go very well with the saying I used on this page): they are mostly watch glasses labels and wrapping paper pieces from the antique watchmaker's cabinet I got for X-mas. I used them together with some scraps from magazine pages (from a German magazine from 1938) which I used on a former project. I added some stamping and my "message"  - I just love my scraps! ;)

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Jenny


With the new Frameworks dies I will NEVER be at a loss for what to do with all the scraps I can't bear to part with. In fact boxes are being filled with them as we speak! This challenge gave me the chance to use those die cut scraps with a healthy dose of inspiration from the talented duo that are Wendy Vecchi and  Anna-Karin. Let the sun shine...


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Alison


Like Astrid, I was more than happy to use up some more scraps.  Things lie around on my craft table or in boxes - leftover scraps of paper; stamped images which almost became projects but never quite made it; inky, painty mop-up scraps; experimental tags trying out new products... all of them are to be found on this hanging.  Come and find out more at Words and Pictures!


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32 comments:

  1. Happy Birthday Our Creative Corner! and what a lovely challenge, how could we not join in! Fabulous inspiration from the DT. Jennie x

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  2. Happy first birthday OCC, I have only recently found you but I love seeing all your creativity. What a great theme, I try to use scraps on every piece I made so I shall enjoy joining in with the fun this month. Your DT projects are fab x

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  3. Happy Anniversary -- awesome pieces Ladies!

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  4. Happy birthday OCC, wonderful projects from the DT team.
    xxx Hazel.

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  5. Happy Birthday OCC! Hoping I can join in your challenges soon. I miss my art!

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  6. Happy birthday! and what a super idea to encourage us to use up our leftovers

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  7. Happy Birthday to Our Creative Corner wonderful inspiration from the DT .

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  8. You say it's your Birthday...da da da da da da da--It's my birthday, too...da da da da da da -- You say it's your Birthday....da da da da da da da ....We're gonna have a good time! :) :)
    OH BOY--This month's challenge is going to be FUN! Left-overs? Where do I begin!
    XOXO-Shari

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  9. Happy Happy Happy Anniversary :o)
    Loving the theme for this month's challenge too!

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  10. Happy Birthday - time flies! Thanks for the fabulous inspiration - always! This time a great opportunity to use my leftovers - hope to come back again!

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  11. Great challange theme and I love all of the DT inspiration. Happy Birthday OCC!

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  12. A great challenge and fabulous DT projects. I must get involved my scraps are taking over! Happy 'birthday' I can't believe a whole year has gone by ! X

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  13. Happy Birthday OCC, what fabulous DT projects.
    Here's to many more birthdays.
    hugs Kimx

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  14. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Lovely leftovers DT! :) Great challenge idea!

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  15. Congratulations on your first year!

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  16. Just found your beautiful blog! I'm a huge fan of Linda's and the Funkie Junkie! So glad to be here to enjoy the gorgeous projects your DT posted!

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  17. Happy Anniversary! The DT inspiration is always inspiring here and it's fun to be able to play along with the theme of this challenge. Thanks! xx

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  18. Happy Anniversary, found your blog via Astrid. Beautiful ideas from the design team.

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  19. I just had to leave a message in order to submit a birthday greeting to you all! Thank you for beeing here for us!

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  20. Happy Birthday!!! Glad I could join in on the birthday challenge it was the perfect inspiration for my dress form card.. Hope you have many more wonderful birthdays.. Great work this month all. The Design team have come up with some lovely pieces just beautiful..
    Sandy :)

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  21. Happy Birthday Ladies! I am your new follower and hope to get on time with my work for the challenge!

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  22. Just found your blog,so glad I did,it's great!

    Donna.x

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  23. Happy to join in this challenge - happy Birthday!!
    xx

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  24. Happy Birthday - here's to many more!!!

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  25. Happy Birthday!

    Absolutely gorgeous inspiration by your design team!

    I love this challenge! Great idea and an incentive to use up those scraps that I keep (hoard).

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  26. Happy 1st Birthday - can't believe it's been a year already lol! Gorgeous inspirations and a fab challenge - thank you ladies! Karen x

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  27. Happy Birthday and lovely work from the DT , going to see what scraps I have and have a good play

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  28. Happy birthday!!! Time is flying so fast these days :)

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  29. At first, Happy anniversary! :) And thank you for this great challenge, as I love leftovers... All the samples on this post are utterly gorgeous!! Usually I have not much time to read all and leave comments, but I will try to do some catch-up tonight or tomorrow, I realize that the month was particularly rich in creativity and in lovely stories! :) Coco x

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  30. Fab inspiration - thanks everyone!

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  31. This is such a good idea for a challenge, I keep a box of leftovers, then it gets full so I start another, I probably have boxes and drawers full of leftovers!
    Loving the DT inspiration too!

    Cazzy x

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  32. Happy Birthday!! Boy-do I have scraps!! Thanks for the challenge.

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