It's Wednesday and time to award the Top Talent Award...Congratulations are in order for Gwenny for the beautiful card she entered into last week's transparency challenge.  We loved Gwenny's color combo and the way she positioned her main panel, leaving a thin frame of the transparency serving as a see-through window to the red panel below.  The white snowflakes stamped on the transparency are a creative reflection of the red ones on the main panel.


Wonderful work, Gwenny!  Please take our Top Talent Award button from the sidebar and display it with pride.

The current challenge (theme is Fabulous Faces) runs through midnight on Friday, October 28th.  We've already had nearly 50 entries...is yours on our site or are you still working?  You know you can work some magic with this theme!  We can't wait to see your creation.  All of us at the OCC really appreciate your enthusiasm and support of our challenges.

It's that time again - time to crown our latest Top Talent! The entries for the Fall Color Challenge were just wonderful - we appreciate everyone that played along, even if you thought the combo was (ahem) unusual! LOL! Anyway, the winner this week is...


Chupa - Iwona Palamountain! The coloring and paper piecing on this card is simply stunning, and the simple design with the natural elements of grass and clouds just pops off the page. The addition of a little glitter and stitching made this card even more outstanding! We really loved your creation this week. Congratulations!

There is still time to get out some transparencies and play along with this week's challenge. Saturday will come around soon also with a brand new challenge for you! Thanks for all your support of our challenge and team!

Happy Saturday and welcome to a new OCC challenge! We really enjoyed looking at all the entries for last week’s fall color challenge. The winner will be announced on Wednesday. I’m Marjie Kemper and I’m thrilled to be hosting here at OCC for the first time. I chose “Totally Transparent” as my theme because transparencies are so versatile and they can easily be used in any kind of paper crafting. I like supply challenges because they spark my creativity and prompt me to use things that might’ve been a bit neglected.

Transparencies come in all sizes, from tiny tags to full 12X12 scrapbook overlays. They can be written on, stamped, inked, painted, misted… the sky’s the limit. You can also use your clear packaging material… recycling is always a good thing! I decided to make a scrapbook layout and used a pre-made round journaling transparency on it. It’s visually appealing to put some things behind and some above your transparency, and by putting things above you can hide your adhesive (there are staples behind the blue flower on mine) below. Let's look at what our guest designer and design team came up with this week:

Thanks to everyone who celebrated WCMD with us by making an internationally inspired creation. It was great to see the countries that all of you chose. Without further ado, the Top Talent for this challenge is...