Anything Goes - Part 2

         Welcome back to the second installment of inspiration from the Our Creative Corner team!


        Thank you so much to all of you who have taken part so far in our 'Anything Goes' challenge. There has been an amazing response and all the team have had so much fun visiting you all and seeing what wonderful creations you have shown us.

   Thank you so much for supporting our first challenge as a new team - we are so very grateful.....


       The first two weeks of the challenge started with half of the team showing you some creations to lead you on your way down your own creative path - Now the rest of the team are here to provide you with even more inspiration!

       I am sure you are impatient to see what has made for you to view here today...so no more talk from me!....I present to you the fantastic creations from the Our Creative Corner design team!


                                                        

Claudia

I created a vintage style booklet, telling about yet "untold" stories that may have happened that way in historic places but have never been told (as I believe it is the people who have been to them that "write" the stories and not the places themselves). And in a certain sense of the meaning we write history every day, don't we? Therefore I tried to keep the pages stories rather sketchy - so there is room for imagination and poetry.

 

Anne

I have a passion for and am totally inspired by all things Tim Holtz and Wendy Vecchi. I made this piece for a very special friend, for whom the words are totally appropriate.

Linda

I was in a girlie mood and wanted to use some of my lovely Pion Design paper.  I also pulled out an old goodie Wendy Vecchi stamp set to use for the sentiments.

Alison

This tag was the result of an impromptu crafty tutorial session for a friend completely new to crafting.  I was just grabbing anything to show her what was possible, and she followed along with her own version. 

      So it's got Distress Inks, Stains, stamping, embossing, wrinkle-free distress technique, spritz and flick, die-cutting, punching, and ribbon dyeing - a bit of everything and anything, and I ended up really loving it - so it seemed perfect for Anything Goes!

There are two more weeks of our challenge left....so why not have fun creating
anything you want and join our Anything Goes challenge

 

The deadline for this challenge is Tuesday 28th May at 11.59pm

The winner and Top 3 from this challenge will be announced on the 8th June.

The winner will be invited to appear as 'The Top Talent' here at OCC, have a short interview so we can find out all about them and there will be a 'Spotlight' on a new project they have created. 

The winner's Top Talent interview and creation will be on the 22nd July.

  
Make sure you are here next month to find out what our next challenge will be - Jenny will be here on the 1st June to announce her challenge. Come and see what surprises are in store for you and where your next OCC challenge journey will take you!

Anything Goes

Welcome to 
Our Creative Corner

Laura here! Welcome back to Our Creative Corner - I am so happy to be bringing you the first challenge.....and it is.............

'Anything Goes'!

       What will inspire you in the marvelous month of May?

Where will your imagination take you?

There are no limits in the land of 'Anything Goes' and we can't wait to see the entries!

     Whether your crafting passion is making Tags, Altered Art, Mixed Media, Journaling, 3D art, ATC's, Cards - We would LOVE to see you enter them in our challenge.

Use whatever you want, however you want - Let your creativity flow!

   Bring your creations to Our Creative Corner and you could be our WINNER!

 Challenge Winners

The winner and Top 3 from this challenge will be announced on the 8th June.

The winner will be invited to appear as 'The Top Talent' here at OCC, have a short interview so we can find out all about them and there will be a 'Spotlight' on a new project they have created. 

The winner's Top Talent interview and creation will be on the 22nd July.

We have a page on this blog called 'Winner's Corner' 
The winner's name will be featured on this

For entrants who have won our challenges and have been featured as 'Top Talent' 3 times - there will be a very special 'Gold Winner' badge for you to proudly display on your blog

There is only one way to get your badges and have your name placed forever in 'Winners Corner' - Enter the challenges! 

   

So now may I very proudly present some of our DT creations to inspire you

Remember, there are more DT creations to come. So please come back on the 15th of May for more wonderful inspiration!

                                       

             



                                                                      Laura

             

I decided to go with my usual Shabby Chic tag in faded dusty pastels. It is always so lovely working in lovely delicate vintage shades and also to add lots of flowers, ink, stamps, ribbons, lace, layers, torn paper and, of course, the essential - an inspiring sentiment. 

 Margie

 

For my very first Design Team project, I decorated this journal for a new crafting friend who is just 9 years old but has aspirations as a dress designer. I was longing to use the new Julie Nutting mixed media doll stamp mixed with some vintage scraps.



                                                                    Jenny

I always like to try new things or confront media or techniques that have so far been a challenge, so for my first Our Creative Corner project I tackled my nemesis - alcohol inks!! This little glass jar has been altered to within an inch of its life and it all started with alcohol inks

Julia

I've been learning mixed media and paint techniques with Andy Skinner and this is a club piece I finished recently. I think you'll either love him or hate him but he makes me swoon! The starting point was a plain bisque figure (cream coloured) designed by AS then many layers of Americana paint and Decoart mediums later, this is how he ended up.


RULES 

1.  You may enter each challenge a maximum of THREE times - but they must be different creations and posted on your blog separately.

2.  If you post too many entries then they will sadly have to be deleted.

3.  NO backlinking. Please do not enter a creation that was published on your blog before our challenge start date.

4.  Please link to your actual post - not your blog.

5.  Please include a link to our challenge in your blog post

6.  You may combine our challenge with as many other challenges you wish.

7.  If you want a comment from the Design Team then your entry has to be a link to a site that does not require us to become a member to sign in.

     

                               This challenge is open until 11.59pm Tuesday May 28th



         

Welcome to Our Creative Corner

Welcome to our Creative Corner

Hello! My name is Laura and I am the new owner of Our Creative Corner. 

Our Creative Corner was one of the first challenge blogs I ever took part in - and I loved it. It was a huge honour when Linda asked me if I would like to take over the running of it.

You will notice that somethings have been changed.  However, we will never be erasing Our Creative Corner's history, and the wonderful work by Linda and all the previous DT members will still be here for you to see.

    I have recruited a brand new Design Team to re-launch Our Creative Corner, and for the last few weeks we have been focused on bringing you a challenge blog that you will love. We have changed the decor, adjusted the challenge organisation and made some new rules, but, for those of you who have always visited Our Creative Corner,  I can assure you it will continue to be the inspiring challenge it always has been.

Behind the scenes we have all been working hard to form our vision of a new creative challenge.

I'll just give you the details of the things we have organised.

Our Creative Corner will now be a monthly challenge 
running from the 1st to the 28th of each month. 

Each member of the DT will host a challenge in turn and will judge that challenge.

 We would love to see all styles of crafting: shabby chic, grunge, vintage... 
and most of all we love to see projects where creativity is at the centre. 

We'd be thrilled to see a variety of creations - tags, scrapbooking, cards, altered art, ATC's, mixed media, journal pages, 3D projects and more......

Whatever you love creating - this is the Creative Corner for you! 
  

There will be two posts that show the DT creations.  Half the team will post their creations on the 1st of the month and the second half will be here to show their creations on the 15th - to inspire you throughout the month.

Challenge Winners

The winner from the previous challenge will be announced on the 8th of each month.

The winner will be invited to appear as 'The Top Talent' here at OCC, 
with the 'Spotlight' on a new project they have created. 

The Top Talent post will be on the 22nd of each month.

We will be having a page on this blog called 'Winner's Corner' 
This will feature all the names of the winners and the date that they were featured.

For entrants who have won our challenges and have been featured as 'Top Talent' 3 times - there will be a very special 'Gold Winner' badge for you to proudly display on your blog

There is only one way to get your badges and have your name placed forever in 'Winners Corner' - Enter the challenges! 

Rules  

We have adjusted the rules slightly 

1.  You may enter each challenge a maximum of three times but they must be different creations and posted on your blog separately
2.  If you post too many entries then they will sadly have to be deleted
3.  No backlinking. Please do not enter a creation published on your blog before the challenge start date
4.  Please link to the actual post, not your blog 
5.  You may combine our challenge with as many other challenges you wish

Please note - Our DT will not comment on blogs with word verification. So if you would like our DT to comment on your entry, then please turn off word verification.

                           

 The 'Our Creative Corner' Design Team

I am so happy and very proud to be able to introduce you to the Our Creative Corner Design Team.

This challenge blog has been, and will continue to be very much a team project - with all of us contributing our design work, coming up with interesting challenges and providing occasional surprise posts about our work, tutorials and other ideas that we will share with you.

It is such a honour to be joined by these amazingly creative artists......They will be hosting each challenge in turn and presenting you with their wonderful work.

Laura - Laurart
  My main interest in crafts is to focus on detail - that is why I love miniature work. I am new to the world of inks and stamps, but they really have transformed my work and I couldn't manage without them now. I am really looking forward to seeing what everyone makes for the challenges, and I can't wait to begin work on presenting this blog with such an amazing team!

Alison aka butterfly - Words and Pictures
I'm a relatively recent convert to crafting, but it would be fair to say I'm now completely addicted.  I love tags, and altered art and all things Tim Holtz, and I veer wildly from Shabby Chic to Grunge to Vintage... as long as I've got stamps, inks and paints to mess about with, I'm happy. 
I'm so excited to be a part of this team of astounding crafters.

Anne - Redanne 
I am thrilled to be part of this amazingly talented team!
I have been 'crafty' all my life - sewing, knitting, upholstery and I discovered paper crafting 5 years ago. I adore working with paper, ink, paint, wood and canvas and my style is eclectic. I am totally inspired by Tim Holtz and Wendy Vecchi.

Margie - MargiesBlueHouse
 It is so exciting to be involved with such a great team at the re-launch of this wonderful challenge blog that I know you are all going to love.
My style leans towards Vintage and I really like making little books, boxes and cards but I'm now enjoying getting messy with mixed media projects. I'm constantly amazed at all the creativity out there and looking forward to being inspired by what you make.

Linda - The Funkie Junkie
I am delighted to be asked to stay on the new Our Creative Corner. You probably already know my style, but I lean toward all things vintage from shabby chic to grungy.  Besides paper, I love incorporating textiles and metals into my craft projects.  Can't wait to get started with this awesome new team!

Claudia aka die amelie - VonPappeII
Gosh! I am so proud to be part of this awesome team - and that even with one of my very first cool challenge blogs I stumbled upon when starting my crafty "blogger career" about one year ago! Since then I have been exploring a lot of new techniques and found my focal points mainly with distressed looking tags a la Tim Holtz, Steampunk and altered art projects. I am one of those messy, "chaotic crafters" *lol
I enjoy visiting other people's blogs, thus diving into foreign worlds of imagination and creativity!

Jenny aka Buttons - Pushing The Right Buttons
How lucky am I to be a part of the amazing Our Creative Corner team! Having created things all my life, paper-crafting and mixed media has become something of an obsession in the past couple of years. Experimenting with new techniques and products drives me forward, and if I can inspire others to push themselves in the same way then for me that's job done.

Julia aka Julia S-W - Julia's Stuff
I am delighted to have been invited to join the Our Creative Corner team and to be amongst such wonderfully talented company! I am a life long 'creative' and would now class myself as an obessive crafter! I love stamping, mixed media projects, all things distressed, altered art and vintage is becoming a passion. The talent in 'blogland' continues to amaze and inspire me everyday.




Laura will be back on the May 1st, bringing you our first challenge - We are all really looking forward to it. We do hope that you come back and join us!

It's Goodbye For Now...But an All New Our Creative Corner is Coming!

Hello friends of Our Creative Corner.  We are back for our very last post as the current Our Creative Corner.  Our design team and Our Creative Corner as you know it are here to say good bye.

Linda here, saying a huge thank you to the very talented design team.  It's been an honor and a privilege to have been a long running DT member and for the last year, the owner, of Our Creative Corner.  But the time has come to hand the challenge blog off to a new owner who will be making some exciting changes to this challenge site.

Before we go, our designers are sharing one last project with you - each designer has selected her favorite project that she made for OCC to make a final good bye appearance here.

Lori Rider - The Diva Stamper

Irena Kowalczyk/Rudlis - love, life and crafts

Paula McClane - Scrap Addict's Attic

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie
My very first post for OCC - September 9, 2009

Liliana Inguanti-Garcia -Stampin from Home

Sharon Wheet - Designs by Sharon
(My very first post for OCC - Jan. 29th, 2011.)

The current OCC is closing for now but it will be returning to bring you further creativity and inspiration.  Please come back on the 27th of April for the new look OCC and the surprises that await you!

Top Talent Thursday

Hello and welcome back!  We are here today to share a wonderful interview and a sensational piece of work from our Top Talent winner from our recent Photo Inspiration challenge.  Our Top Talent for that challenge was Patricia Grissom of Cards by Trish.  Here's the gorgeous card Patricia made for this spotlight.

Let's get to know Trish:

-- Where do you Live? 

 Me, my hubby, and our little girl currently live in a small town in Central Illinois.

-- Describe yourself in five words? 

 Love of all things creative.

-- Describe a real life experience that inspired you artistically. 

 When my now sister in law and I first met, we both were scrapbookers. Our husbands frequent antique shows and such and we needed something smaller to take along to keep us entertained. We started stamping and have been making cards since!

-- Describe your most 'productive' crafting environment. 

 I seem to get the most done if my crafting room is neat and organized (which rarely happens) I also enjoy my windows and lots of sunlight streaming in. I generally have to have music going in the background as well - Michael Buble happens to be my favorite.

-- What if anything, do you consistently draw inspiration from? 

 I would have to say other crafters. I enjoy visiting the blogs I follow - there are some very talented people out there!!

-- If you were to create a slogan for your life, what would it be? 

 Serve, Snap, Stamp (I serve a Risen Savior and "serve" others as a registered nurse; I am a portrait photographer as well; I love to stamp and create). Pretty much sums me up!

-- Are you a Spring, Summer, Winter or Fall person? Do you feel you create better in that season? 

 I'm definitely a Spring/Summer girl - I enjoy being outdoors during the nice weather, but I also love having my windows open and coloring up my latest stamps. I probably get more crafting done in the winter though when life is a little "slower."

Thanks so much to Trish for this brief interview.  We enjoyed getting to know you a little better.  And we hope you will stop by her blog Cards by Trish and leave her some love!

Fashion and Style

Happy Saturday!
It's Irena, from 'Love, life and crafts Rudlis'. I am your hostess this week.
This week's challenge is titled: 'Fashion  and style".

 

You must use at least one item: a mannequin, stitching or item of clothing.
You can also incorporate some texture, (ie: fabric, ribbon, floss, etc) and a metal piece (ie: brad, push pin, charm, etc.). And most of all, have FUN!
Now, check out what this fabulous design team have created! And we would love to see what you create, too!

Sharon Wheet - Designs by Sharon

Linda Coughlin - The Funkie Junkie

 Lori Rider - The Diva Stamper

 Liliana Inguanti-Stampin from Home

  

 Paula McClane - Scrap Addict's Attic

 

Irena Kowalczyk/Rudlis - love, life and crafts