Baby Got Bit!

So my teenage son has been complaining (as teenagers tend to do) that there are not enough boy friendly cards.  I think he is sadly mistaken(or sadly absolutely correct), but today I am creating a card just for him and his buddies. 

I pulled out the Oddball Art digital stamp IMG465 Zombie Unicorn just for him and set off to create a man-child friendly card!

I started by coloring the image in shades of blue and gray and then blend them out with some gamsol. 

I finished coloring the rest of the image, letting the gore of the image be highlighted more than I normally would (you know for my horror loving son).

I fussy cute the image out and set it aside.

To create the background, I got a little experimental.  I trimmed up a piece of heavy stock watercolor paper.  I then pulled out some liquid watercolor and added to the watercolor paper.

I sprayed the liquid watercolor, and spread it around a little with a watercolor brush.

While the watercolor was still wet, I sprinkle some black powdered watercolor onto the cardstock.  I heat set the cardstock.

Using some Distress Oxide in Black Soot, I blended ink around the edges of the cardstock to darken the look of the entire background.

I trimmed up the watercolor paper and adhered it to an A2 cardframe.  Then using some double sided adhesive, I adhered the focal image onto the card.

I pulled the sentiment included with the digital stamp, distressed it a little with some ink and adhered it to the cardstock.  I also pulled out a snarky sentiment sticker and added it to the card as well.

Finally, I added some Nuvo Drops in matte gray around the card to add just a little bit of guy friendly bling.

Let me know in the comments below what kind of guy friendly cards you make.  Until then, happy crafting.

Sparkle

Hi..

My name is Lena and I'm a guest designer for March with Oddball Art. I was on the design team a few years back and I still love these images with all my heart.

Today I'm using image #109, Kawaii Maddie n friends go back to school. 

My background paper is made using Distress inks and an acrylic block. I stamped and embossed my sentiment with a pretty sparkly embossing powder that I've had in my craft stash forever. The sentiment is from a stamp set by Taylored Expressions. It's called "Be a unicorn".

I used my ZIG Clean Color Brush pens to color Maddie.

I fussy cut Maddie and glued her to my pink distressed paper. A also used some sparkly paper for a frame and her spilling sparkles :-)

Don't forget to visit https://www.oddballartco.com. And please visit my blog for more details on how to make this card. Thank you :-)