Creepy Cute Chronicles #45

It is that time of week again when Oddball Art releases its free weekly free newsletter.  And once again I am playing around with the free digital stamp that is coming out with the Creepy Cute Chronicles.  I however, and trying something a little different today, by creating a 5x7 mixed media canvas using this week's digi.

I also whipped a quick video sharing how this whole canvas came together.

Thanks for popping in today and checking this out.  I hope you enjoyed

Thanks for peeking in today.  Let me know what you think about using digital stamps inside mixed media pieces.  Until then, Happy Crafting.

Card Veggie Veronica Vegan Workout "Guest Designer Maria "

Hi, my name is Maria, 

but many people know me as Tinyworks will now be a part of Guest Designer. I am very happy for this opportunity that Lizzy is offering me.

To begin this journey of cards and projects.

Today I start with a card that strongly encourages physical fitness, 

I used Veggie Veronica Vegan Workout colored with copics.

if you enjoy my posts here at Oddball Stamps please join me over on to see more of my creative work

thank you so much..

An Oddball Valentine

Hey Oddballs!  It's EK from ekgorman designs and it is Friday again, and that means that the next issue of the Creepy Cute Chronicles from Oddball Art will be published again.  This is a weekly newsletter that you get in your inbox just for signing up for said newsletter.  And in that newsletter is a digital stamp that you can use.

This week's digi is a bit of hot chocolate, so I thought I would make an Oddball Valentine with.  I created a video sharing not only how I colored the image, but how I assembled the card.

To watch the video in HD, click here.

Thanks for peeking in and checking out how I created this valentine.  Make sure you pop over and subscribe to the Oddball Art Creepy Cute Chronicles today.

December Oddball Challenge

Welcome to a brand new Oddball Challenge friends!

Created by Oddball Designer Julie Gleeson using image # 257

Have you  had a chance to visit our winners post for the November Challenge yet?  We announced 1 winner for that challenge last night, unfortunately we didn't have quite enough entries to draw the top 3 winners but I'm confident we can turn that around this month!

What do you think?

Created by Oddball Designer Eny Dunn using the freebie image from Creepy Cute Chronicles # 18

As always ANYTHING GOES but we do have an optional theme, one I've been looking forward to all year actually!

This months theme is......

Created by Oddball Designer EK Gorman using image # 484 & #485

Holiday Haunts & Silly Stripes

our theme is optional but if you do follow our theme and you are drawn as our winner you will win an extra $3 on your gift card!   If you follow our theme and you use an Oddball Image in your creation you will have a chance at winning our TOP 3 prizes if we hit 15+ entries!  

Keep reading for a complete breakdown of our Challenge Rules and Prizes and make sure you click on each of our Oddball Designers to visit their blogs and learn about how they created these beautiful cards and what Oddball Stamps as well as other types of products they've used in their projects!

Created by Oddball Designer AJ Art Jypsy using image # 464 & # 339

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 Lead Designer Tina Focking using image # 485, # 487 and the freebie image from our most recent Creepy Cute Chronicles Issue # 29

PRIZES

GRAND PRIZE

(chosen randomly)

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

Follow our theme to win +1 Digi Stamps! (+$3 on gift card)

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 for the Top 3!

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

#oddballartchallenge

PS....... We have a Mini Christmas Pocket Letter Swap happening right now and I would like to invite you to come and join us!  Visit us in the FB EVENT to play along.

An InLinkz Link-up

Oddball Challenge October 2018

 

Happy October 1st Oddballs, we've finally made it!

I don't know about you but I am in my glory both online and in real life with all of the skulls, bats, ghosts, pumpkins, mummies and more........EVERYWHERE!  The only time of year that I can sufficiently shop for my year round interior decor!

Thank you to everyone who came out for our last challenge, we really enjoyed visiting your blogs and checking out your creative projects, we announced our winner yesterday, if you haven't seen it yet take a min. to head on over to our winners post and see who it is!

created by Oddball Designer EK GORMAN

Today we open up entries for our brand new ANYTHING GOES Oddball Challenge with the optional theme...

HAPPY HORRORS

(whatever that means to you)

created by Oddball Designer AJ ART JYPSY

PRIZES

GRAND PRIZE
(chosen randomly)

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

Follow our theme to win +1 Digi Stamps! (+$3 on gift card)

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 for the Top 3!

created by Oddball Designer ENY DUNN

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

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

#oddballartchallenge

created by Oddball Designer Tina Föcking

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

created by Oddball Designer SABRINA LAMARINA

For even more Halloween fun we have a couple of Happy Mail Swaps happening right now and you are invited to join in the fun!

Join HERE

Join HERE

An InLinkz Link-up

Naughty Gnomes Challenge Reminder

Hey Oddballs!  It's EK here wondering if you have you played along yet with the current challenge over at Oddball Art!  You can play along all month long with their Naughty Gnomes theme!

Today I have combined two different Oddball digis to create this naughty gnome card!  I used the new digi IMG461 Rollin' with My Gnomies and the background digi IMG379 City of Love.

I colored the two images using my colored pencils, sicking to a primary color for the foreground, and secondary colors for the background.  I finished image off with a snarky stickers for the sentiment.
Make sure you go over and play along with the challenge.  Things always end up being fun here in the Oddball camp!

Need a new Oddball digi, feel free to use the code DTEK10 to get 10% off your next purchase!

Spooktacular Issue @ Making Cards Magazine featuring Oddball Art....

Hey there Oddballs!!  

I am so excited to finally share the 2 Interactive Halloween Cards I made for the October 2018 Spooktacular issue of Making Cards Magazine.

In this issue all about interactive greeting cards,  you will find my tutorial showing you how to create these reveal cards as well as many other amazing tutorials all with a unique moving twist!

I used the following Oddball Digi's to create these 2 cards...

Witch & Cauldron Card

Tabitha the Wart Hoarder IMG# 396

Magic Pile of Creep IMG# 500

Too Cute to Spook Card

Too Cute To Spook Sentiment IMG# 409

Dots & Doodles Digi Paper Set

Be sure to subscribe to Making Cards Magazine on Facebook and on Instagram

and order your October issue HERE so you can get into the craft room and create some fun interactive Halloween cards of your own!

We just love seeing what you create so come on over to the Oddball Forum and share your projects, you may just be chosen to win our monthly $10 gift card and/or find yourself featured in an issue of Creepy Cute Chronicles!

Speaking of Creepy Cute Chronicles........ 

Before I go I would like to remind you that our newsletter Creepy Cute Chronicles will be going out tonight as it does each and every Friday night, and inside a fun freebie for you to play with so dont miss out..... 

Check out Oddball Designer Eny Dunn's video below where she demos how she made this creepy cute project using this weeks Back to School themed freebie!

you can sign up HERE 

Thanks so much for stopping by and checking out my cards and stamps!
Lizzy xo

Terror-ific

Hey Oddballs! 

It's EK here from ekgorman designs sneaking in to share my first official Halloween Card of the season using the digital stamp IMG500 Magic Pile of Creep.

Not only did I color up my first Halloween card, I did a fun little technique sharing how to back light a crowd.  Instead of trying to explain it to you, I went ahead and whipped up a little video so you can just watch!

Thanks for peeking in today and checking out this years first Halloween card (my favorite card making season)!

Find yourself needing a new digital stamp, feel free to use the code DTEK10 to get 10% off your purchase!

Happiness Depends on Yourself

Hi Oddballs!  It's EK here today to share a little bit of my current Oddball project.  

Today I am playing around in my art journal along with the digital stamp IMG9 Wanda.

I went with a black and white theme when coloring the digital image in with my copic markers.  Then I fussy cut out the image so I could add it to my art journal.

For more on how I created the art journal page, hope on over to my page ekgorman designs for more details.

Want to create your own Art Journal Page and need a new image, feel free to use my discount DTEK10 to get 10% off your purchase!

Choose to See the Good

Hey Oddballs!!!  EK here to remind you about the challenge happening here!

I've created a project using this month's theme challenge theme "Goblins, Fairies and Ghouls, Oh My", however did it without using a traditional goblin, fairy, or ghoul digital image.

Instead, I pulled out a perfectly "normal" image, IMG13 Stormy, and zombified it.

Then, after turning our big eyed girl green, and giving her some new stitches, I went crazy with my copics and created a stormy background.

Want to zombify your own image for this month's challenge, using the code DTEK10 to get 10% off your purchase!

Every Road Should Have a Path

Hey Oddballs!  Ek here today to share a little bit of coloring with you.  

No video today, just a little bit of coloring for fun along with the digital stamp

IMG300 Creepy Cute Snow White Tribute Charlotte.

The digital stamp was colored with my copics and then cut out and added to some printed paper that I distressed with some metallic wax.  Finally, I added a bit of a sentiment from a Tim Holtz sentiment sticker pack.

For more on the making of this card check out my page ekgorman designs.

Never Change

Hey Oddballs!  It's EK here sharing two different cards to celebrate the new shop.

Have you seen the new Oddball Art Shop.  It is such a fun place to be, with all kinds of interactive pages and a great new place to buy your Oddball digital stamps.

To celebrate, I am using two different images!

 First up I am using IMG311 I'll Cry if I Want to Birthday Party Jaz and my colored pencils.  I created a sign post and a small platform for Jaz to stand on to let everyone know that she just isn't feeling this birthday.

My second project features IMG407 Bats and Zombies along with my copic markers to create a card celebrating your differences.  I think this digi is suppose to be a Halloween image, but I really think it is a prefect anytime card.

For more on these projects and more, hope over to my world.

Looking to get these images or some new ones of your own, hope over to the new Oddball Art Shop and use the code DTEK10 to get 10% off your purchase!

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

An InLinkz Link-up

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