New Image Inspiration

Hello Oddballs

It´s me again, Tina: Today i want to show you for inspiration two new images

"Skulls & Bats"

#370

"So Happy I Could Barf"

 #372

I colored both with Touch Twin Markers

See you soon...

Tina

"PaperPlotterLotta"

Technique - Pigment and Distress ink Background

When I was asked to come up with a technique to share I was a bit worried.  I mean what can I share with such fabulous crafters.   I then remembered a very simple but effective technique using white pigment and coloured inks (in this case distress inks).   

Tools

Scrap paper

Kraft Card Stock

Daubers or sponges

White pigment ink

Coloured inks (I used three colours of Distress)

Stencil with any pattern with large open areas

Baby wipes or cleaning tools to wipe off the stencil

How to's

Prepare your card stock, score and fold.  Then open onto your scrap paper.

Place your stencil on your Kraft card stock and using a dauber or sponge, add a generous layer of white ink to your card stock.  You dont need to apply ink to the whole stencil, pick and choose where you want to lay colour.  There are no rules here.

Let the white ink dry for a few minutes and wipe down your stencil and air dry it.

Place the stencil back over your card stock and offset it slightly in any direction.

Now grab some colour and a dauber and apply colour to the stencil areas.   The result is a two toned effect with the colour and a definite "how did you do that" comment from your friends.

Don't forget to clean up the stencil as your card dries.

Once you have your background, its time to make up your project, by adding one of the fabulous OddballArt images.

YOU'RE MY BEST FRIEND Challenge

Hello everyone, and happy Wednesday to all!  Hope everyone is doing well and are having pleasant weather in whatever part of the world you reside.   Hope you are checking back here frequently to see all the lovely technique and new release posts from the DT gals, and I hope you are able to find inspiration from them, I know I am!:)

Welcome back to our challenge here at Oddball Art Stamps.    Thanks so much to all our participants from our Crazy Little Thing Called Love challenge.  HUGE apologies to the DT and all our fans for not getting the reminder posted this month - it was a crazy and stressful month for all of us.  We had so much fun visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations.  We hope you will come join us again this month in our New Challenge, but before we get to that, we have a Winner to announce (sadly no Top 3 as 15 entries are required)!!

Our randomly chosen winner receives 1 image of choice from ODDBALL ART STAMPS!  Please contact Audrey to claim your prize.

9. Jane Savage

**We also have a SPECIAL RECOGNITION PRIZE this time for Gena, age 13 who made this lovely card.  Please contact Audrey to claim your prize.**

Our New Challenge is YOU'RE MY BEST FRIEND.  When creating your projects for this challenge, we are looking for you to use our challenge theme as a prompt to create whatever the challenge theme inspires you to do.  We encourage thinking "outside the box."  We offer our monthly challenge with the hope that joining us will push you to create something unique and amazing, perhaps something outside of your comfort zone.  Can't wait to see what you are inspired to create this month!

You have until Aprilq 14, 2017 at 10pm EST to come play along.  For quick reference, you can find our challenge rules in the sidebar.  1 Random winner will get to choose 1 digi from ODDBALL ART STAMPS and  a Top 3 with prize format as listed above (provided at least 15 total entries).....

Other than that, you are free to use images from any company, however, in order to qualify for the Top 3 prizes, you must use images from ODDBALL ART STAMPS.  Lizzy, our amazing owner/illustrator, has so many wonderful images in the shop.  Here are some other useful links to help you become more familiar with the awesomeness that is ODDBALL ART STAMPS!!

Some Useful Links:)
Company Website ♥ http://www.oddballartco.com
Art Blog ♥ http://oddballartco.blogspot.com
Facebook Fan Page ♥ http://www.facebook.com/oddballartco
Facebook Friend Page ♥ http://www.facebook.com/oddballart
Twitter ♥ http://www.twitter.com/oddballartco
Flickr ♥ http://www.flickr.com/photos/oddballartco
Zazzle ♥ http://www.zazzle.com/oddballartco
Fine Art America ♥ http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/lizzy-love
Tumblr ♥ http://www.oddballartco.tumblr.com

Don't forget our Anything Goes with Oddball Art images challenge on our ODDBALL ART FACEBOOK GROUP CHALLENGE.    We have a new challenge on the 1st of every month, so still lots of time left to go play there:) We also have some NEW features happening in the FB group - tutorials, planner pages, etc. so make sure you check that out!

Before we get to the DT samples, we have a few "housekeeping" items.  First, it is with great sadness that we say "see you later" to Jenn B. and Sarah Bell.  Jenn has been part of the DT from the very early days and Sarah has only been with us a short time, but we are equally sad to see them both go, however, we know they have important life matters to deal with and we wish them the very best!  Hugs to you both and you are welcome back to the DT anytime.

On the plus side, we have the wonderfully talented and long time Oddball AJ joining our DT.  Welcome AJ and we know all of you will enjoy seeing her awesome creations!!

Our DT gals have certainly outdone themselves by creating some fabulous samples to inspire you.  Hope you will pay them a visit on their personal blogs by clicking on their names.

AJ

Suzi

 Elaine Parker aka LaLuna

Hope you will join the fun!!  #ODDBALLARTCHALLENGE

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It´s Technique Time: Soap Bubble

Hello Oddballs

Tina: It´s technique time...

Today I would like to show you, as you can easily create a background.

The technique is called

"Soap Bubble Technique"

And here comes the photo tutorial

1.

You need

*Disposable gloves

*Drinking straws

*Something to stir

*Not too high containers

*Acrylic paints of your choice

*Dish Soap

2.

Now you put some dish soap in your bowl...

3.

and add a little color to it ...

mix it

4.

Now use the drinking straw carefully,

until there are so many bubbles that protrude beyond the edge.

If it does not make enough bubbles ... 

the mixture simply with the ingredients still expand.

5.

Now take a white piece of Cardstock and

place it gently over the bubbles.

Then lift the paper off immediately.

6.

The result should look something like this ...

The process a few times in different places

repeat on the paper!

7.

Now you can repeat everything with one or two other colors,

until you like the background.

And now everything has to dry well ... about 2-3 hrs.

Do not dab with a cloth over it . it ruins the soap bubbles!

In the meantime you can edit the motif or

prepare the design of your card.

Here is my finish card

I used for this Easter card the image

"Evie n Bunny"

#30

I colored with Touch Twin Markers

Can you see

how beautiful the soap bubbles look in the background?

I would be very happy,

if you use this technique for your next work and

took part in our Challenge in the Oddball Facebook Group.

This way...

See you soon...

Tina 

"PaperPlotterLotta"

Nelly& Her Nymphes

Hello Oddballs

I´ts me again; Tina:

Today i want to show you a new image . I used here: "Nelly & Her Nymphes"

I have printed the sweet Nelly on a little cloud and colored she and their nymphs with Polychromos.

Then I cut a card in the cloud shape from mirror cardstock and put Nelly on it. The little hearts are fastened with a sewing thread.

I hope you like the little Cloud Card and Nelly.

See you soon...

Tina

February Release Inspiration from Jennifer

Good morning Oddballs! Jennifer here, and I'm so excited to have my day to share some inspiration using the February 2017 release images from Oddball Art Stamps!

I've made two cards for you today; this release is SUCH a good one, I had SO many ideas floating around it was tough to narrow things down!

Here is my first project, featuring the fantastic Norah's Dance with Cooper and Cruz, #364. This image is so much fun, I adore the look on her face and her sweet little partners, just loving life!! 

I have colored the image with Copics, and went with a springy palette, as we are having record-high temps here in Wisconsin (I'm not a fan of winter, but it is still strange to have 65 degrees in February...). Anyway, I was inspired by our lovely temps, and made this card a SERIOUS dance party, with colored sprays, gem and bling, Stickles and Nuvo Drops all falling from the sky to join the fun! It was a lot of fun, and I can't help but smile every time I see this image, I have to say!

My second card features Bedtime Hudson, Image #365. Holy cuteness, Batman!

Again, this image is printed out and colored with Copics. I LOVE this FACE!!! I have boys, so I'm always on the lookout to get my hands on some sweet little guy images...and Hudson is PERFECT!!

That's it for me today! Don't forget to use coupon code DTJENNIFER10 when you're picking up all your new Oddballs in the Etsy shop! Always good to save a few pennies (so you can buy more stamps, of course!) Can't wait to see you again next month for more Oddball Release inspiration!

 

New Release Inspiration - by Penny

Undead Leni is one of the New images in the store for February.   As soon as I saw her I wanted to layer her up to lean on a wall or a fence.  I used the PNG version of the image and ensured that she was at the front, so her elbow was over the wall.    Playing with the brick background was a fun way to test out colour combo's of bricks, without too much concern about how it would blend.  Lets face it, a brick is pretty forgiving in terms of colouring. 

The card layout was made using MFT blueprints, and there is a T.Holtz scribble die thrown in there too.   What I love about this particular image is, she can be pretty or more dark.   By adding rosy cheeks and bright lips, i've kept her more sweet than "undead"   

Until next time

Penny Lee xx

CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE Challenge

Hello everyone, and happy Wednesday to all!  Hope everyone is doing well and are having pleasant weather in whatever part of the world you reside.   Hope you are checking back here frequently to see all the lovely posts from the DT gals, and I hope you are able to find inspiration from them, I know I am!:)

Welcome back to our challenge here at Oddball Art Stamps.    Thanks so much to all our participants from our A Winter's Tale challenge.  We had so much fun visiting your blogs and seeing your amazing creations.  We hope you will come join us again this month in our New Challenge, but before we get to that, we have a Winner to announce (sadly no Top 3 as 15 entries are required)!!

Our randomly chosen winner receives 1 image of choice from ODDBALL ART STAMPS!  Please contact Audrey to claim your prize.

6. Andrea Norris

Our New Challenge is CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE.   When creating your projects for this challenge, we are looking for you to use our challenge theme as a prompt to create whatever the challenge theme inspires you to do.  We encourage thinking "outside the box."  We offer our monthly challenge with the hope that joining us will push you to create something unique and amazing, perhaps something outside of your comfort zone.  Can't wait to see what you are inspired to create this month!

You have until March 14, 2017 at 10pm EST to come play along.  For quick reference, you can find our challenge rules in the sidebar.  1 Random winner will get to choose 1 digi from ODDBALL ART STAMPS and  a Top 3 with prize format as listed above (provided at least 15 total entries).....

Other than that, you are free to use images from any company, however, in order to qualify for the Top 3 prizes, you must use images from ODDBALL ART STAMPS.  Lizzy, our amazing owner/illustrator, has so many wonderful images in the shop.  Here are some other useful links to help you become more familiar with the awesomeness that is ODDBALL ART STAMPS!!

Some Useful Links:)
Company Website ♥ http://www.oddballartco.com
Art Blog ♥ http://oddballartco.blogspot.com
Facebook Fan Page ♥ http://www.facebook.com/oddballartco
Facebook Friend Page ♥ http://www.facebook.com/oddballart
Twitter ♥ http://www.twitter.com/oddballartco
Flickr ♥ http://www.flickr.com/photos/oddballartco
Zazzle ♥ http://www.zazzle.com/oddballartco
Fine Art America ♥ http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/lizzy-love
Tumblr ♥ http://www.oddballartco.tumblr.com

Don't forget our Anything Goes with Oddball Art images challenge on our ODDBALL ART FACEBOOK GROUP CHALLENGE.    We have a new challenge on the 1st of every month, so still lots of time left to go play there:) We also have some NEW features happening in the FB group - tutorials, planner pages, etc. so make sure you check that out!

Our DT gals have certainly outdone themselves by creating some fabulous samples to inspire you.  Hope you will pay them a visit on their personal blogs by clicking on their names.

Sarah

 

Monika

 Elaine Parker aka LaLuna

Hope you will join the fun!!  #ODDBALLARTCHALLENGE

An InLinkz Link-up