We've been teasing you a little bit this week about some exciting news for this week's challenge. We're so pleased to announce that Lindsey Botkin of Jacksonbelle Embellishments will be awarding a $15 gift certificate to one lucky winner from this week's challenge participants. Ordinarily, there's no time limit on our challenges, but this week, to be entered into the drawing, you must have your project linked up HERE in the comments section by 12 noon Eastern Time on Friday, July 4. We'll draw a random name from the entries and announce the winner on Saturday, July 5, along with our next challenge. Sound fun?!?!? Now, on to the challenge!
This weeks challenge is to use ANY OLD Basic Grey papers! Now, OCC does not have any challenge police so if you DO want to use NEW Basic Grey paper, you won't get in trouble or be disqualified from winning the gift certificate!!!! We're pretty easy to get along with huh??? Well, here is my card ~
The base of my card is 5 1/4" square and is Chocolate Chip cardstock. The next mat is a blue from Basic Grey's Figgy Pudding. The next polka dot mat is also from the same collection. The photo corner punch is from SU! and the bottom brown piece is from Figgy as was the top decorative corner. The strip across the middle is first the brown and then white papers from Figgy. I stamped the BRAND NEW Inkadinkado Silhouette Deer Trail on the white strip and again on another piece of the same white using Chocolate Chip ink. The reindeer has just been released and Lindsey will be getting it in her store early next week so if you are interested, send her an email to reserve yours! I used my Oval Nestabilities to cut the oval for the deer and then cut a larger oval from the brown Figgy paper to mat it. I then lined it up so the flourish trail would look continuous from the deer in the oval and then cut my white strip to fit on the front of the card. I matted this with first the brown and then the blue which I punched one edge using my Martha Stewart border punch. I colored some of the snowflake/flowers using my Cool Caribbean ink pad and a blender pen. I added clear MAMBI rhinestones all over this card!!! I mounted the deer on top of the strip using dimensionals.
The sentiment is from Fancy Flexible Phrases and was stamped on the white Figgy paper using Chocolate Chip ink. I punched this using my small oval punch and then matted it on the brown Figgy paper and cut a mat with my scissors. I then matted both of these on the decorative oval I punched using the large oval punch. I added a small snowflake punched from the blue and added a clear rhinestones because I didn't have enough bling on this card!!! LOL!!!
Recipe ~ Stamps ~ Fancy Flexible Phrases and Inkadinkado ~ Silhouette Deer Trail Paper ~ Chocolate Chip cardstock and Basic Grey Figgy Pudding DP Ink ~ Chocolate Chip and Cool Caribbean Other ~ MAMBI Clear rhinestones, Photo Corner Punch, dimensionals, Oval Nestabilities, large and small oval punches, small Marvy snowflake, blender pen, Martha Stewart border punch
Remember, when you upload to SCS be sure to add OCCC (Our Creative Corner Challenge) in the keyword section. Be sure to check out the beautiful creations the "Girls" have made ~
Lindsey
Cindy
Dawn
Denise
Jennifer
Amy
Laurie
Thank you all so much for stopping by and I really hope you have time to play!
~Lynda
Gorgeous Lynda! Wow! I love the choc and blue together...it is wonderful! That image is so peaceful to me. I really like the bling you added too! I was in a wintery mood too ;) Awesome job!
Posted by: Dawn Easton | June 28, 2008 at 10:20 AM
Lynda your card is exquisite, thanks so much for playing along with me.
Our paragraphs are the same because I cut and paste off our OCCC blog, wasn't i suppose to? So sorry.
Posted by: Cindy Haffner | June 28, 2008 at 10:43 AM
This is gorgeous, Lynda! I love the non-traditional Christmas colors (2 of my favs), the LO and of course, the bling! Such an awesome use of embellishments!
Posted by: Beth | June 28, 2008 at 12:15 PM
Stunning, Lynda! The image is fabulous!!! I love your paper choice and all the bling!
Posted by: Amy Sheffer | June 28, 2008 at 12:23 PM
HOly smokes Lynda! This is beyond STUNNING! I love the colors, paper, bling, that stamp is so awesome! Fantastic job!!! :D
Posted by: Lindsey (jacksonbelle) | June 28, 2008 at 12:27 PM
Beautiful card Lynda, LOVE the gorgeous design. The image is stunning and I LOVE the trail of flowers along with the stunning paper you used!
Have a wonderful weekend,
Jennifer :)
Posted by: Jennifer Meyer | June 28, 2008 at 12:43 PM
Beautiful card, colors and image. What a gorgeous creation!
Posted by: Julee T. | June 28, 2008 at 12:48 PM
This is so very beautiful! Sounds like you had fun with this card!
Posted by: Tanja F | June 29, 2008 at 08:46 AM
Gorgeous!! LOL I thought I commented yesterday, but I left ASAP to email my order to Linz!!:) Your work is always Stunning!
Posted by: Dee Jackson | June 29, 2008 at 09:54 AM
Lynda,
Your cards are wonderfull. So much inspiration. You are a great slump buster.
Diana
Posted by: Diana | June 29, 2008 at 01:20 PM
Gorgeous card! I can't wait for this stamp to be available! I love Lindseys on your OCC blog too! Great job girls!
Posted by: Kisa | June 30, 2008 at 05:08 PM