By: Jeanne Streiff
Today’s sneak peek is from the adorable set by Debbie Corbari called Under the Mistletoad! Yep, our adorable frog is back, but this time all geared up for Christmas, nestled down with some warm hot cocoa! He’s thinking he’d like to be Rudolf…. silly little frog. 
By Cambria Turnbow
As always, our sets are loaded with all kinds of fun matching images and sentiments! Isn’t this tree just the cutest? We can’t wait to show you the entire set! Hope you enjoyed this little peek… see you tomorrow!
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By Cambria
– July 28, 2010
Hi there, OCL friends!!! We are at CHA in Chicago and having a GREAT time! Meeting OCL friends and making new ones! Today the doors opened at 10am and the fun began! We are showing new product – and Cami is showing you sneak peeks of the new product this week as well. Hope you are enjoying it!
Here are some pictures to help make you feel like you are here with us!
From left to right: Anthoni, Mario, Kimberly, Mrs. Arevalo, Mr. Arevalo, Jay. OCL family!
Chelle Fowler was doing the Make & Takes. She rocked it! Everyone who came by loved the cute project!
It was a fun day. We’ll be back tomorrow with MORE MORE MORE! Cami will have another sneak peek of another stamp set. And then tomorrow evening I will be back with more updates on CHA day#2!
Happy Stamping!
~Heather~
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By Heather
– July 27, 2010
By: Michelle Fowler
Hello Friends! Summer CHA officially started this morning! The OCL booth has been busy busy busy! Michelle is at the MITI booth this morning, so if you are in Chicago, stop by and say hello, sit down and make a cool holiday cocoa holder!
Today, I show you a sneak peek of the set called Bountiful Harvest by Marianne Walker. I LOVE this tractor! The whole set is loaded with beautiful artwork and wonderful sentiments. This card was made by Michelle Fowler! LOVE how she adds so many elements to her cards. Girl can color!!
By: Lisa Zappa
Here is another amazing sample by Lisa Zappa. Shabby Chic from this girl! Look at the wonderful stitching and those beautiful buttons.
Have a wonderful Tuesday! Stay tuned for more from Summer CHA and more sneak peeks tomorrow!
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By Cambria
– July 27, 2010
Today, I show you sneak peeks from a new CHA Holiday Release set called Butterfly Kisses. It’s illustrated by my friend, Kisa Peters. It’s available at Archivers now, and will be shipping to retailers early August. If you are attending Summer CHA in Chicago this week, you can stop by our booth and see many more gorgeous samples of this wonderful versatile stamp set. This beauty was designed by Pam Hooten… I LOVE her style!
By: Kisa Peters
This card is designed by Kisa Peters, she combined Butterfly Kisses with the popular Dandy Days stamp set. It’s also last Friday’s DT Sketch… have you had a chance to play along yet?
Hope you all had a great weekend! I’ll be back tomorrow with another sneak peek and Heather will be blogging in the evenings later this week from CHA! You won’t want to miss it!
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By Cambria
– July 26, 2010
Hi there OCL friends! We hope you are having a FANTASTIC weekend! Be sure to check out Friday’s post and play along with our sketch challenge. We just love seeing everyone’s interpretation and creativity!
So CHA is in Chicago (Rosemont, IL) THIS COMING WEEK! And guess what . . . Our Craft Lounge will be THERE! Come by and visit us at Booth# 2020!!! We’ll have a fun display and we’ll be doing Make & Takes that you won’t want to miss! Be sure to come and lounge with us – it’s guaranteed to be fun!
And be sure to visit our blog all week this week. We’ll have some sneak peeks to show you some new stamp sets that we have coming out in August. And of course we’ll have some fun pictures for you from CHA.
Looking forward to seeing you!
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By Heather
– July 24, 2010
Fabulous Friday is HERE! It’s been a long and HOT week in my area – how about yours? I definitely think that means it is time to stay inside and stamp in the AC!!! LOL Stamp a beach themed card. Or something that makes you think of a nice, relaxing afternoon. Use the sketch to get you going!
You can even WIN A PRIZE – any one Our Craft Lounge stamp set of your choice. ONE WINNER will be selected for each MONTH. On the first of each month, we will select a winner for the previous month. This means that you could have four or five weeks to be able to participate. You can participate as many times as you would like. A random winner will be selected and posted here on the OCL blog on the first of each month.
Here are the rules:
* use any Our Craft Lounge stamps that you wish – but you must use OCL stamps to be eligible to win the prize
* link to your card/project at the bottom of this post using Mr. Linky – **be sure to link DIRECTLY to your challenge card – not a general blog or gallery link**
* use the sketch as your basis – do whatever inspires you, but please base it on the sketch
If you upload to SCS, please use the Keyword OCLDT23.
Here’s the sketch, along with the super cute card by Kendra Wietstock.
Happy Stamping!!!
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By Heather
– July 23, 2010
Welcome to the final day of Celebrating Silhouettes Week! I hope you’ve enjoyed taking a walk through the silhouette sets of OCL and that you’ve enjoyed the eye candy along the way!
Today’s set that I’m sharing with you is Treasured Friend. If you love beach sets, you’ll love this one! I know I do!
The first project I have to share with you was created by the person who actually created this set, Kisa!! Isn’t this ensemble that Kisa created just gorgeous?! I just LOVE it!
The next card was created by Pam. The colors Pam used are just beautiful and I LOVE how real the sand looks!
The next card was created by Broni. Broni used such beautiful, beachy colors here. . .and look at that bathing suit! Adorable, huh?
The last card is one I created using this set. As I said, I LOVE silhouette sets because you don’t have to color them if you don’t want to! That’s exactly what I chose to do on this card. Simple, right?
Well, thank you for hanging out with me this week! I hope you’ve enjoyed the silhouette sets that I’ve shared with you! Be sure and stayed tuned tomorrow for the next Our Craft Lounge Design Team Sketch! Have a great day!
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Tagged with Broni Holcombe, Charmaine Ikach, Kisa Peters, Pam Hooten, Spotlight of the Week, Treasured Friend.
By Charmaine
– July 22, 2010
Today marks Day 3 of Celebrating Silhouettes Week at the OCL Blog and today I have some cards for you using Fishing With Dad.
This set is perfect for those masculine cards we all sometimes dread. You don’t really need a lot of fancy embellishments with this set. You can simply stamp the image and add a sentiment and the card would be perfect.
This first card was created by Jeanne Streiff. I LOVE how manly it is. The paper kind of looks like denim, the image is colored to give a serene feel to the card. . .perfect.
This next card was created by Amber. I love how Amber colored this card. The dock, the man and the boy. . .not to mention the clouds in the sky. Just wonderful!
These last two cards are from me. I actually used both of them for Father’s Day too!
Isn’t this a great masculine set? Thanks for sticking with me this week! Tomorrow is the last day of Silhouette Week, so I hope you’ll stop back to see the last set I’ll be sharing with you. Thanks for stopping by!!
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Tagged with Amber Hillman, Charmaine Ikach, Fishing With Dad, Jeanne Streiff, Spotlight of the Week.
By Charmaine
– July 21, 2010
It’s Day 2 of Celebrating Silhouettes Week here at the OCL Blog and today we’re taking a look at another one of my FAVE OCL sets, Dandy Days.
Here are a couple of my favorite cards that Denise created using this set. Aren’t they just dreamy? I just LOVE how soft and beautiful they are!
By Denise Marzec
And here’s one from me. . .
How about that set? Another great one, huh? Hope you’ll stop back tomorrow for another silhouette set! Thanks for stopping by today!
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Tagged with Charmaine, Charmaine Ikach, Dandy Days, Denise, Denise Marzec, Spotlight of the Week.
By Charmaine
– July 20, 2010
Hi there! It’s Charmaine, and this week we’re “Celebrating Silhouettes” here on the OCL Blog and taking a look at some of the silhouette stamp sets Our Craft Lounge offers! Silhouette stamps are one of my absolute favorite kind of stamps. I love them so much because when you’re in a pinch, you don’t have to color! All ya have to do is stamp the image and maybe a sentiment and you’re done! Nothing more needed!
Today I’ll be sharing one of my all time favorite OCL sets with you, Sandy Sunsets. I loved this set the moment I first saw it and it has remained at the top of my list!
Just a simple card with a few embellishments. . .simple!
Another simple card with some dry embossing to add a frame to the image.
A card using all different patterned papers and then just stamping the image in a deeper blue than the cardstock it’s on.
Isn’t this a great set? Hope you’ll come back tomorrow for another silhouette set! Thanks for stopping by!
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Tagged with Charmaine, Charmaine Ikach, Sandy Sunsets, Spotlight of the Week.
By Charmaine
– July 19, 2010
