💚💚💚Wellcome to Ghoulish Garden💚💚💚

 

Happy Easter dear Creepy Girls, in this somewhat breathless period in which sometimes the sun is still obscured by clouds and rain, I show you this card as if it were an excerpt from everyday life. Who knows if among you there are those who keep their tender plants at home in the winter to protect them from the cold ... up and up we are almost there, soon they will be free. I dedicate this card to the last rainy day, whether symbolic or not, before the exuberant arrival of sunny days and perhaps carefree days.

To recreate it I used various stamp sets from our dear Lizzy from OddballArtStamp:

-GHOULISH GARDEN digital stamp

-CCC142 WTF Cactus digital stamp

-CCC138 ART YOUR HEART OUT digital stamp

-MARCH MEMBER ESCLUSIVE RAINY DAYS digital stamp

Basically the procedure is the same, I design everything on the PC with photoshop and then print on paper for markers. This time I wanted to play a lot on the composition and intertwining of the different timbres to create a very dense set of figures, to create an almost normal life scene.

Once the coloring was done I created the background, however small, first passing a pink base with a copic pink and then passing over it with a "shifter Brust" stencil and a "victorian velvet" distress oxide all by Tim Holz, creating a 70s wallpaper.I finished the edges with the same oxide and that's it.It's done for today too, I hope to be able to inspire you with my cards and with my way of using digital ... which I love more and more!

A kiss to everyone, I wait for you in the comments below and on the OddballArtStamp blog.

yours

CiecoFuffo

Love Bites: An Anti-Valentine from the Heart

With Valentines day just around the corners, it seemed about time for my annual anti valentines card. It is not that I am against Valentine's Day or anything, I just find the card against it so much more fun than the ones for it. I thought this digital stamp, IMG#506 Vamp Boy Mr. Valentine from Oddball Art is perfect for my anti-Valentine.

I started by printing out the digital stamp onto some cardstock and coloring it with my copic markers.

I then fussy cut out both the image and the sentiment so they could float on my card.

To create the background, I dripped Dr. Ph Martin's Hydrus water color ink in red down some heavy duty cardstock along with a few well placed splatters. Let me know in the comments below if this came out just a little too realistic.

To finish the background off, I added a heavy rubbing of Black Soot Distress Oxide around the edge.

I finished the card by adhering the background to an A2 card frame, and then adhere Mr. Vamp to the background. I also floated the sentiment with a little three dimensional tape so it is popped up.

Let me know what you think of my anti-Valentine and if you make fun cards like this during the love holiday. Until then, happy crafting.

✉🏧 Snail Mail power...a Pocket Letter for a Friend "Makers gonna Make!"🎁🔖

 

Dear Creepy Girl and Boys are here with a small project for Lizzy Love's Oddballs to show you the latest set of stamps made for the members of the group, all dedicated to Snail Mail and Mail in general, with an addition of another set dedicated to creatives like us ... "" Makers gonna Make! "

When I saw these digital I immediately thought of all the Swapps we make, from Pocket Letters to Loaded bags or Gift Boxes… in short, a side of Scrapbooking that I have always liked. So why not make a nice PL for the occasion?

First I printed the basic card for the minicards to insert in the page protector, front and back of course, and using Lizzy's digital cards. Once I printed them and the digital stamps I wanted to use I moved on to cutting and coloring.

Once I have prepared my cards, decorated and colored, I just have to write the letter for my friend and insert it in the central box, which has always been my favorite place, and also the most elaborate one, package everything and decorate wrapping with the latest digital, the largest.

I put some details of the decorations and the set of stickers that I inserted, of course all digital stamps of the Oddballs colored by me.

Below is a small video of the packaging

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At this point I just have to send you lots of kisses and I hope they all get there

yours

CiecoFuffo

👇👇👇DIGITAL STAMP USED👇👇👇

• CCC136Spooky Mail
• CCC135 Makers gonna Make
• CCC20 Digital Paper Stay Creepy, Bats and Bones, Pick your poison
• CCC 125 PREMIUM SPOOKY SEASON PUMPKIN
• CCC 127 FREE PUMPKINS PLEASE! SKULL
• CCC 129 PREMIUM MAPLE MONSTER BANNER
• CCC 131 PREMIUM CRISP LEAVES GHOST
• LizzyLoveIMG203
• LizzyLoveIMG424

💔A special Gift to get you in the Spirits of the things-Card🎁

 

Hello everyone Micette and Spooky Girl, with not a few technical problems here is another card for the OddballArtStamp Dt in which I interpreted some Halloween-themed digital stamps for a content not related to this party. It happens to everyone to give some unappreciated gift, it is inevitable, with this card I wanted to exorcise, in a humorous way, the fear that one has of making a mistake on a gift and focus on the importance of the thought one had for the person who receives it.

To make it I used two sets of Digi Stamps :

Creepy Cute Nun & Skull with Horns Digital Image Set IMG 539

CCC# 127 PUMPKINS PLEASE DIGI STAMP Creepy Cute Chronicles

I reworked them as usual with Photoshop and then printed on paper for Markers, I then printed the same image on masking paper to cover the colored drawing and proceed to create the background.

To create the background I used two masks I created to separate the wall from the floor and then I characterized the two different sides with stencils, one by AgaBaraniak and one by Tim Holtz, blending different colors of Oxide and drawing small details with white gel pens. and black.

Here are some basic tools I used, you don't just see masking paper.

NB. A little anecdote about the creation of the masks, when you spray the spray glue on the back of the paper to make it repositionable adhesive, it is good to do it a few hours before, if not the day before, otherwise you risk it being too sticky; in my case, having little time, I hadn't waited for these times, and when I went to remove the mask the glue took away the glitter of the nun's dress polka dots and left, here and there, some small residues, so be careful!

Well Micette and Spooky Girl that's all for today, I'm waiting for you for questions and comments on the Oddball Blogg and mine.

Random Kiss

Yours 

CiecoFuffo

Stay Cute

Hey Oddballs!  It's EK popping in with a brand new card designs.  Anyone else during these strange times finding they now have day jammies and then switch into their night jammies?  I never wear jammies during the day normally, and rarely wear work out cloths unless I am actually working out.  However, with my family staying home to flatten the curve, I find that all of us dress like we are constantly off to bed.

Yesterday, I walked down fully dressed in adult cloths (really nothing fancy, just jeans and cute top) and my children asked where I was going.  I informed that today I was going to dress like life was normal, and stay cute.  This morning, all three of my kids (one a teenager, and the other two preteens) walked down dressed for school like they had prior to covid.  I asked what they were doing, knowing that I too was dressed like normal, and my 11 year old said simply, "Staying Cute."

I thought it would only appropriate today to pull out the digital stamp IMG471 Skull and Ball Cap from Oddball Art and create a little card to remind us all to Stay Cute!  (By the way dressing in 'real' cloths really helped my outlook on my day, if you were wondering.  I'm curious to see if it does the same for my kids).

I started by printing out the digital image onto some cardstock.  Then using my copic markers I colored the image.

After coloring in the image (and aiming for a girly feel despite the skull), I fussy cut out the focal image.

I have been playing with my alcohol inks a lot lately and decided to create a fun purple and grey background for my oddball stamp.  I used Pebble, Purple Twilight and Wild Plum to create this background.

I adhered the background to an A2 card frame and then adhered with double sided tape the skull to the background.

Finally, I added a sentiment from Tim Holtz Snarky sticker collection.  I think no truer sentiment could be used in these strange times.

I hope my card finds you happy, healthy, still possessing a sense of humor, and frankly staying cute.

If you are looking for some new images to color while you finish up doing nothing from yesterday, pop over to Oddball Art to snag a few new digital stamps.  Oddball Art is known for their whimsical images with a touch of humor.  And you don't have to wait to the mailman to arrive to get crafting.  All you have to do is print!

Make sure you share you work over on the Oddball Art Facebook Ground with the design team so we can see what you are up to.  Until then, happy crafting!

Age of Aquarius

Hey Oddballs!  It's EK.  Have you ever seen the Zodiac Signs digital stamps from Oddball Art?  I am not really a zodiac person, but I am obsessing about the digital stamps that Lizzy Love has draw!  They are frankly perfect!

So since I am frankly drooling over the images, I thought I would go ahead and feature them.  I am leaping off with Aquarius since we are in the Age of Aquarius (and will back track to Capricorn at some point).

I colored up the IMG496 12 Odd Oracles- Aquarius  with my copics and layered it on top of several coordinating papers.  I also gave a clear layer of Nuvo drops over all the ribbons to add to the water feel of the card!

Let us know in the comments below if you are digging this odd look at zodiac signs as much as I am!  Until then, Happy crafting!

An Oddball Halloween

Hey Oddballs...its EK and I am popping in to remind you that there is still time to play with the current challenge over at Oddball Art.  Since it is October and the high holly days at Oddball (aka Halloween) it is the challenge is the perfect theme...Monsters on Parade.

Today I am using IMG 106 Halloween Candy Corn and IMG406 Halloween Ghouls to create my Halloween themed card.

I colored the images up with my copic makers and fussy cut them out.  Then using some halloween themed printed paper, I created a fun spooky themed background for my candy corn and ghosts to had out on.  I also love the piece of halloween themed ephemera that I found to add as a sentiment for this project.

I also added a few drops of glow in the dark Nuvo Drops, because who doesn't want their halloween cards to glow in the dark.

This isn't a great photo, but you can sort of see how the drops are glowing!

I really can't wait to see how you play with this month's theme.  Until then, Happy Crafting!

A Pumpkin Patch

It is Friday night, so it is time for a brand new Creepy Cute Chronicles from Oddball Art.  This week there is a really fantastic pumpkin patch digital stamp included in the newsletter in addition to catching up on all things happening in the Oddball Art.

I am parting this week's CCC digital image with IMG 84 Halloween Bats to give the card a little bit of an extra halloween feel.

Wondering how I put together this card, well you are in luck because I have a video sharing not only how I colored these images, but how I assembled the whole card.

Want to watch today's video in HD, there simply click here!

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