March Challenge Art Journal Layout

Hey Oddballs, it's EK from ekgorman designs and I am popping into to remind you to play along with this month's Challenge.

Everyone Month, Oddball Art puts out a challenge, that has a loose theme of "Life Size Leprechauns & Unlucky Clovers".  But in reality, this month long challenge is an Anything Goes, with any stamp and any theme.

This month, Oddball is stepping up things, and letting you get two chances to win...bring a friend to the challenge and if one of you is randomly picked, both of you win.

I created an Art Journal layout for this month's challenge reminder (see it is truly an anything goes challenge) with a non-saint Patrick's Day themed digital stamp from Oddball.  I pulled out the digi IMG129 Hadley and the Hairdresser and colored her up with my copics, and then added her to a more traditional art journal page.

If you want to watch not only how I colored up the image, but see how I created the background in the art journal, pop over and watch this video now.

Thanks for popping in today, and make sure you participate.  If you need to, say I referred you to the monthly challenge.

Not Only Does My Mind Wonder...

Hey Oddballs!  It's EK from ekgorman designs popping in today to remind you that there is still plenty of time to play with this month's Delightfully Dark and Dismal challenge!  Make sure you pop over to join in on all the fun!

Today I am using the digital IMG129 Hadley and the Hairdresser to get a little goofy despite the dark and dismal situation.

Using my copics, I colored up the image and then distressed the boarders using some distress oxides in both hickory smoke and black soot.

I then added some die cut pieces to card and some printed cardstock under the whole thing.  I wanted the card to feel fun, all the while a little grimy and dark.  I think I may have found the perfect balance between the two.

Need a new digital stamp, please feel free to use the code DTEK10 to get 10% off your next purchase!

Halloween - Magnet Slider Card Video

Hello Oddballs

It´s me, Tina: Yesterday our new Blog Challenge started and for that I created a Halloween card. You could already see her on the blog yesterday. 

Today i like to show you the video by seeing how the card looks in motion.

Halloween Magnet Slider Card

I used for the card:

#253 - Wendy on the Broomstick

#376 - Rustic Forest Birch Trees

I hope you like my little video.

You can use my discount code,

to get 10% on your next purchase.

DTTINA10

See you soon...

Tina

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 to see more of my creative work

August Oddball Challenge

Amazing turn out for our July Dots & Doodles Challenge, thank you to everyone who participated!

We had so much fun visiting your blogs and checking out your awesome artwork!

Created by Oddball Designer Julie using img#402 Ghost Dancer

Ghost Dancer #402

Have you had a chance to see if you were one of our July winners yet?

With 28 entries well over the 15 needed for a TOP 3 drawing we were able to draw 4 winners in July and we announced them HERE!

created by Oddball Designer EK using img#452 Adrienne The Creepy One

Adrienne The Creepy One #452

We are excited to open up entries for our new Oddball Challenge for August with the OPTIONAL theme... 

LOST SOULS OF INNOCENT DOLLS

PRIZES

GRAND PRIZE
(chosen randomly)

1 winner  = 3 Digi Stamps ($10 Gift Card)

Follow our theme to win +1 Digi Stamps!

TOP 3
(15+ Entries ONLY)

First Place = 3 Digi Stamps ($10 Gift Card)

Second Place = 2 Digi Stamps ($7 Gift Card)

Third Place = 1 Digi Stamp ($4 Gift Card)

Must follow our theme & use an Oddball Digi to qualify

created by Oddball Designer Tina using img#242 Creepy Cute Zombie Girl

Creepy Cute Zombie Girl #242

RULES

We have a few simple rules for you to follow if you want to play along in our challenge:

1. We have a monthly theme but it's optional

(to be considered for our TOP 3 prizes you must follow our theme)

2. Please mention and link back to our challenge on your personal blogs/galleries

3. You MUST use a digi stamp in your creation, it can be any digi stamp from any company.

(to be considered for our TOP 3 prizes you must use an Oddball digi stamp)

4. Creations must be NEW, no back linking

5. Limit of 3 entries per person

created by Oddball Designer AJ using img#427 Haunted Hearts

Haunted Hearts #427

Remember we need a minimum of 15 entries to draw the TOP 3 prizes so be sure to invite your friends and use the #oddballartchallenge

We can't wait to see what you come up with this month!

Happy Crafting!

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July Oddball Art Challenge

HAPPY CANADA DAY ODDBALLS!

Welcome back Oddballs for another Challenge!

Our OPTIONAL theme this month is: Dots & Doodles

remember our themes are always optional but if you do follow the theme AND are chosen as our winner you will receive +1 digi stamp with your prize!

We are excited to introduce you to our July Guest Designer Sharon Rogers!

She has created a beautiful card complete with a step by step tutorial on her blog so go check it out and if you decide to try it out we hope you will share your results with us in the Oddball Forum.

Our July Guest Designer is Sharon Rogers using img#393 Peggy Sue's Winter Blues

PRIZES

GRAND PRIZE
(chosen randomly)

1 winner  = 3 Digi Stamps

TOP 3
(15+ Entries ONLY)

First Place = 3 Digi Stamps

Second Place = 2 Digi Stamps

Third Place = 1 Digi Stamp

Follow our theme to win +1 Digi Stamps!

Created by our DT Leader Tina Focking using images #447 #448 #417 & our newest digi paper pack

RULES

We have a few simple rules for you to follow if you want to play along in our challenge:

1. We have a monthly theme but it's optional

2. Please mention and link back to our challenge on your personal blogs/galleries

3. Creations must be NEW, no backlinking

4. Limit of 3 entries per person

created by Oddball Designer Julie Gleeson using Perscilla rubber stamp & new digi paper pack

Now enjoy the rest of the super creative, amazingly inspirational samples from our Designers

created by Oddball Designer Alexa using digi images #312 & #194

created by Oddball Designer Alexa using image #447

  We are always looking for fresh new talent to create inspirational pieces for our community, if you love the stamps found here at Oddball Art Co. and are great at coloring, creating inspiring projects and taking nice clear photos of your work then we encourage you to apply for a Guest Designer position, click HERE to learn more.

created by Oddball Designer AJ using image #277

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We Have A Winner for June ~ Is It YOU?

Thank you to everyone who came out to play in our June Mermaids From Outerspace Oddball Challenge! We really enjoyed visiting your blogs and your gorgeous projects!

HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to our June WINNER....

Bernadet @ Cards By Bernadet

Please contact Lizzy to claim your prize of 3 digi stamps

Unfortunately we did not have the required minimum 15 entries to draw the TOP 3 prizes this month...

 however there will be another chance to do it all over again starting today in our July Challenge!

 See you all over there; we can't wait to see what you're going to create next!

Goblins, Fairies & Ghouls Oh My ~ Winners May 2018

Well done Oddballs!

We had 15 entries for May so that means we were able to choose even more winners with our Top 3!

Thank you to everyone that entered our Challenge for May, it was so fun to see all of your Goblins, Fairies & Ghouls Oh My creations!

CONGRATULATIONS to our Challenge Winner!

LeeAnn 

LeeAnn used a super cute Fairy Digi Stamp from Sasayaki Glitter titled 'You Blow Me Away'

CONGRATULATIONS to our Top 3 Winners!

First Prize: Cicciwiththepen using image#398 Gabbi

Second Prize: CreepyCuteGlowBugg using image#170 FionaFeary

Third Prize: HolleyBarnhartsBlog using image# 67 Jasmyn Fairy

Congratulations to all of our winners and HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who came out to join us for our May 2018 Challenge featuring all of the Fairies, Goblins and Ghouls of your wildest nightmares! 😉

Check back here tomorrow for our June Challenge
~ Mermaids From Outerspace ~
its going to be a fun one!

Please contact Lizzy Love by June 30 2018 to claim your prizes (only Image#'s are necessary) and grab our winners badge from the sidebar for braggers rights on your blog!

Oddball Art Stamps May 2018 Blog Challenge | Goblins, Fairies & Ghouls Oh My!

HELLO ODDBALLS!

It's Time for the MAY 2018 Oddball Blog Challenge!

Be sure to visit our WINNERS POST to see if you're the winner of the April Challenge!

Our monthly blog challenges run from the 1st til the end of the month. 

You have until the end of  May to submit your entries 

(Yes! you can enter up to 3 times as always)

You may link to your Facebook or Instagram posts to enter the challenge if you don't have a blog.  

But here's the catch...

Your entry just needs to be a NEW post dated sometime in MAY 2018.

Now for our brand new challenge.

 Just as in previous months we will have a theme BUT it's optional so...

you can enter our challenge using any stamp from any company with any theme BUT if you do decide to follow our theme,

"Goblins, Fairies & Ghouls Oh My!"

and are chosen as one of our winners, the following prizes will be awarded.......

We have a few simple rules for you to follow if you want to play along in our challenge:

1. We have a monthly theme but it's optional (see note below)
2. Please mention and link back to our challenge on your personal blogs/galleries
3. Creations must be NEW, no backlinking
4. Limit of 3 entries per person

NOTE: 

• regarding our optional theme:  if you are chosen as our winner AND you have followed the theme for that month you will win 1 extra stamp
•  regarding Top 3: we only have a Top 3 if we have AT LEAST 15 entries minimum into our challenge. We had 11 entries last month and would love to see even more this month so we can give away a Top 3 as well! So, don't forget to tell your friends about our challenge and encourage them to come and play along!!

Now for some Design Team Inspiration:

Our amazingly awesome Oddball design team will be posting inspiration throughout the entire month so be sure to subscribe to our blog for daily updates!

Tina using IMG #171, #168 &  #191
check out more of her incredible projects HERE

AJ using IMG#65 Starlina Fairy 
check out more of AJ's fabulous projects HERE

AJ using IMG#65 Starlina Fairy
check out more of AJ's fabulous projects HERE

EK using IMG#222 Gloomy Guss
check out more of EK's amazing projects HERE

Heike using IMG# 62 Spooky Spes
check out more of Heikes awesome projects HERE

Julie using IMG# 73 Dragonfly Fairy
check out more of Julies beautiful projects HERE  

We hope to see you in our monthly ATC SWAP of the same theme as well!  Join HERE

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Last Day to Enter!

Did you get your Messy&Sketchy craft on this month?

If so you have until the end of today to enter this Oddball Messy & Sketchy Challenge for an opportunity to win some free Oddball Stamps!

We only need 4 more entries to open up the Top 3 prizes to go along with our Grand Prize winner!

Did you know that you can enter our challenges here at Oddball Art Stamps using ANY digital image from any company AND you don't even have to follow our theme, however if you do follow our theme and are chosen as our winner you will win even more prizes!

We look forward to seeing your creations....  Enter HERE!

xo Lizzy <3

 

Here's Sugar with Suzi

Good Evening All, Time for me to share with you another journal page I've created for this months 'Messy and Sketchy' Challenge.  You've still got a little time to join in, so why not make something this weekend and enter to be in with a chance of winning some gorgeous images from the store.

Here's my journal page;

I used the gorgeous 'Sugar' image #242 for my focal point on this page.  I've added here to a canvas background which I created with Brushos and Gel Medium.  She's coloured with Alcohol Markers, coloured pencils, Faber-Castell PITT Pens and a little white Posca Paint Pen.

If you enjoy my posts here at Oddball Stamps please join me over on

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 to see more of my creative work

Don't forget to use my discount code in the Oddball Art Stamps Etsy store to get 10% off your purchase; DTSUZI10

Have a Wonderful Day

hugs

Suzi

xxx

Dying to Be Yours

Hey Oddballs!  EK here from ekgorman designs to share a card for Oddball Art February Challenge.  If you aren't aware the February challenge's theme is "Cute or Die", which lets be honest, is so much fun for all of us anti-valentine kiddos.  

So what did I make...a anti-valentine that is 'dying to be yours'!

Today, I pulled out the digital stamp IMG367, Undead Leni.  I think Leni here is suppose to be a zombie, but I went with a much more realistic look with my coloring (with the exception of her purple eyes).  I pulled out my prisma colored pencils and went to work.

I love the idea of a scarred up gal being at the center of a 'valentine's' card.  

Make sure you get crafting, and get your projects linked up to the February Challenge.  You have till the end of the month to link up your designs, and of course you can load up to three different projects!

Oddball Bookmarks

How's it going Oddballs?  I told you I am coming out of my comfort zone.  Today I am trying to inspire you to make other things besides cards, well I inspired myself to .. Da da, we have my very first attempt at bookmarks.

I hope you will stop by my blog www.hutcho53.blogspot.com  to get the lowdown on what I did and where I went wrong.  It's a good read, if you have a spare 2 mins or maybe 3, it's probably the longest blog I have ever posted!

Of course, you will see all the images I have used at the Etsy shop https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/OddballArtCo?ref=l2-shopheader-name. Specific image numbers are on my blog  https://hutcho53.blogspot.com/2018/01/oddball-art-co-new-releasefeature.html

and don't forget our first Blog challenge for 2018 with the optional twist of Feature a Creature

http://oddballstamps.blogspot.com.au/2018/01/oddball-art-stamps-blog-challenge.html. I hope I have given you some inspiration to maybe create some bookmarks for it.

Don't forget you can use my code to get an extra 10% discount off your order.

DTGAIL10

  See you again soon! 

Gail xx



Sleeping Fox IMG347

Welcome to my first post as an Oddball DT member.  My inspiration for the January Blog Challenge, (Anything Goes with an optional twist - Feature a Creature) is a stepper card using Sleeping Fox. 
 I think this image is so cute.

If you would like to read more about this project, please visit Gail's Blog and search for Oddball Art Stamps. You might even see more Oddball creations and don't forget when purchasing Oddball images at the Etsy shop, you can use my code DTGAIL10 to save a further 10% off your order.

Thank you for taking the time to read my first post, many I hope for Oddball.  I am so excited to be on the team, and I think working with these lovely ladies is going to bring me out of my comfort zone, something I really need to do in 2018.  See you soon.    Gail xx

Winners Post December 2017 Blog Challenge | Christmas Lights

Thank you to everyone who participated in our December Challenge!!

It is an Anything Goes Challenge with the optional theme "Christmas Lights"

CONGRATULATIONS to our Winner 

Teresa ~ Our winner of 3 + 1 digistamps from the Oddball Art Etsy Shop

We had 12 BEAUTIFUL entries this month!

Our entries for December!

Please contact Stephanie to claim your prize...provide THIS LINK in your email along with your image selections. (only the img# is needed) 

You have until January 31, 2018 to request your images.

January Blog Challenge will be announced on January 1, 2018

Thank you to everyone that participated......let's keep going and move ahead into January and shoot for a TOP 3 when we have 15+ entries.....now stop by our January Challenge for another chance to win!

Oddball Art Blog Challenge December 2017 | Christmas Lights

It's Time for the December 2017 Oddball Blog Challenge!

Be sure to visit our WINNERS POST to see if you're the winner of Oct/Nov Challenge!

JUST A REMINDER...

We have made a few changes on the Oddball Challenges. 

Firstly, we now only have ONE challenge. 

We will no longer have Facebook challenges. 
We will have Brand Ambassadors that will be chosen from the Facebook group.

Secondly, you have until the end of December to submit your entries (Yes! you can enter up to 3 times as always)
Lastly, you may link to your Facebook or Instagram posts to enter the challenge if you don't have a blog. Just needs to be a NEW post.

Now for our brand new challenge.

 Just as in previous months we will have a theme BUT it's optional so you can enter our challenge using any stamp with any theme but if you do decide to follow our theme,

"CHRISTMAS LIGHTS"

and are chosen as one of our winners.......

1 Grand Prize Winner if less then 15 entries and

a TOP 3 too if more then 15 entries!

We have a few simple rules for you to follow if you want to play along in our challenge:

1. We have a monthly theme but it's optional (if you are chosen as our winner AND you have followed the theme for that month you will win 1 extra stamp)
2. Please mention and link back to our challenge on your personal blogs/galleries
3. Creations must be NEW, no backlinking
4. Limit of 3 entries per person
NOTE regarding Top 3: we only have a Top 3 if we have AT LEAST 15 entries minimum into our challenge. We had 21 entries last month..would love to see even more this month! So, don't forget to tell your friends about our challenge and encourage them to come play along!!

Now for some Design Team Goodies:

Also the design team will be posting inspiration throughout the month as well!

Julie

Benny the Bear IMG#115

Stephanie

A Very Merry Jones Christmas IMG#354

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