Card "Lets Party!" by Roberta Cercato

 

Hello friends!

Here I am with another nice project for Oddball art.

To make it I used the Creepy Cute Chronicles digital stamp printed on cardboard suitable for use with alcohol markers and colored with Spectrum Noir Classique.

To make the background, I enjoyed spraying different splashes of color with the Distress Spray

Finally, after cutting out the colored digital stamp and the sentiment, I assembled my card.

You like it?

See you soon with another colorful project!

Roberta

Party Time!

Did you see that the 100th issue of Oddball Art's Creepy Cute Chronicles is launching tonight?  That's right, the 100th issue!  And celebrate this milestone, I am creating an extra special and large art project!  Today I have pulled out a full piece of 8.5x11 inches watercolor paper and combined this week's Creepy Cute Chronicles's free digital stamp and IMG443 Mermaid of the Stars and IMG434 Zombie Unicorn.  Because let's be honest, what's a party without a few of your closet friends!

I started by printing out the CCC100, IMG443 and IMG434 digital stamps out onto watercolor paper.

I then colored in each of the stamps with my Zig Real Brush water color pens.  I went vibrate with the Mermaid.

I stuck to a pretty traditional color palette for the ghost, focusing on pale grays.

For the Unicorn Zombie, I experiment with a pale purple and light gray to see if I could get an eerie feeling.  What do you think?  Was I close?

Finally, I went with bold and bright colors for the banners, because lets be frank....it's a party.

I then added a layer of Distress Oxide in Frayed Burlap around the edges of the massive project.

I then added layers of paint over the ink to create a rust effect to lock in the digital images into the
paper.

Finally I added several dollops of White Blizzard Nuvo drops around the project to add so sparkly (cause you know, it's a party).

What do you think?  Is this a party you would want to attend?  Let me know in the comments below.

And make sure you pop over to the Oddball Art Instagram Page.  The party will be continuing over there to celebrate the 100th issue of Creepy Cute Chronicles.

If You Knew My Family

Hey Oddballs.  It's EK and I've been making of course a ton of holiday cards lately, and am feeling a little burnt out. Don't get me wrong, I love holiday cards, but most of them are so serious. 

So I thought I would take a little break and create a bit of fun to my holiday card line up. Did you know that Oddball Art has a whole collection of holiday themed digital stamps?  Today I pulled two different digis out to create my humorous holiday card.  Today I am playing with IMG491 Scrooges's Kitty and IMG352 Xmas Fred Bear.

I pulled out my colored pencils to color these images, and I just love how the cat looks like he is so very guilty of something.  What?  We don't know, but diffidently guilty.

  

I like how these images make a card perfect for any cat family, but it is still pretty light hearted.  I also like the sticker sentiment i pulled out to finish the card.  It says, "if you meet my family you would understand", and lets be honest...that could not be more true.

Do you like serious cards, or ones that are lighthearted?  Let me know in the comments below what your favorite type of holiday cards are to make.  Until then, Happy Crafting.

September Winner

Hey there Oddballs!

September comes to an end, flew by rather quickly if you ask me. lol 

I am here to present the winner of the September Challenge, unfortunately we fell just one entry short of unlocking those TOP 3 prizes so we only have the 1 winner chosen by random this time around.

CONGRATULATIONS GRANDMA BONNIE!

Absolutely adore this spooky sweet card created by Grandma Bonnie using images from the Creepy Cute Chronicles and the Oddball Stamp Shop.

Please contact Lizzy Love to claim your prize no later then October 31 2019

Our October Challenge will be posted shortly and I hope you will join us for some crafty fun!  See you soon!

Lizzy xo

The End of Summer

There is still plenty of time to play with the currently Monthly Challenge over at Oddball Art!  This month's optional theme is Sweet Lemon Sour, so a really fun open theme to get involved and maybe even walk away with a prize from Oddball Art!

Today I am playing around with not only IMG 505 Creepy Cute Coconut but also the August exclusive stamp set for the Creepy Cute Chronicles premium subscription.
If you are not yet aware of the Premium Membership, it is a yearly subscription that not only gets you each month's premium digital image, but also instant access to all of the Creepy Cute Chronicles digital images.  Just so you know as of publication, there is 65 different images and on Friday, there will be one more!

I don't know about you, but the end of summer vacation, and well, frankly summer itself is quickly rushing up towards us.  And like a really good glass a Lemonade, I find it both sweet and sour.  The heat will soon be done, and the beauty of fall is on the horizon, and yet at the same time, the kiddos are back in school and the hectic race of that life making things just a little sour.  You might find it funny, but I actually like having the kids home on break, and each time a new school year starts, I get a little sad because of how fast they are growing.

So my project today is to sort of reflect those feelings I am having about the end of summer: the ice is melting, and the cocktail is gone.

I colored up my project with my copics and kept the card a single layered project.  I wrote in 'the end of summer' with my pen just so we don't think the card is too depressing.

I can't wait to see how you play along with this fun Oddball Art theme.  Struggling with the theme,  well, go ahead and submit a project anyway.  The theme is always optional, so you totally should get involved.  Until then, happy crafting.

June Challenge Winners

Our June Oddball Challenge has come to a close
 &
we are excited to announce all of our winners!

Thank you to everyone who came out to play in our...

Powdered Peach Scones June Oddball Challenge

Congratulations to our Grand Prize

Winner Wendy Lynn of Paper Whims

Wendy has won a gift card for the Oddball Stamp Shop with not just $10 on it but rather $13 because she followed our theme Powdered Peach Scones!  

This is the gorgeous card she created using 

Oddball Stamp IMG#4 Annie Doll

Grand Prize Winner

As most of you already know we require a minimum of 15 entries to unlock those extra TOP 3 PRIZES and we had 22 this time around so they were unlocked! YAY!

Chosen by Team Oddballs Lead Ambassador Eny Dunn

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR TOP 3 ODDBALLS!

Check out our 3 winners below then keep reading for details and links for the Oddball Stamps they used in their projects!

#1 Holley Barnhart

 Holley created this awesome card following our theme and using an Oddball Stamp, she is the winner of a $10 Gift Card!

(image link and details at bottom of this post)

#2 Grandma Bonnie

 Grandma Bonnie created this adorable sweet and summery card following our theme and using an Oddball Stamp, she is the winner of a $7 Gift Card!

(image link and details at bottom of this post)

#3 Patacakes

 Patacakes created this cute layered card following our theme and using an Oddball Stamp, she is the winner of a $4 Gift Card!

(image link and details at bottom of this post)

All of our June winners should contact Lizzy no later then July 31 to claim your prizes!

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I would also like to take another opportunity to announce the Grand Prize winner of our April Challenge where we are trying to give away the Copic Grand Prize Package!

Unfortunately our original winner did not respond in the given time plus extra time so we were forced to redraw the winner for the following Copic prize package...

CONGRATULATIONS CHRIS!

We announced the details HERE

and we cant wait to hear from you Chris!

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Here are the details and links for the stamps used in our TOP 3 winners projects....

This image is part of the Creepy Cute Chronicles subscription from Issue #50 Girl Gone Crazy and is only accessible by subscribing to our Full Access premium subscription for $15/year.  

What you get.....

You will gain instant access to this image plus all 59 of the other images, our monthly exclusive each month for the next year and any random perks that we send out periodically to our premium subscribers!

Kawaii Ice Cream Cone img#144 available in the Oddball Stamp Shop HERE

Torn Paper Frames img#305 in the Oddball Stamp Shop HERE

This image is part of the Creepy Cute Chronicles subscription from Issue #36 Free Hugs Hedgehog and is only accessible by subscribing to our Full Access premium subscription for $15/year.  

What you get.....

You will gain instant access to this image plus all 59 of the other images, our monthly exclusive each month for the next year and any random perks that we send out periodically to our premium subscribers!

Stay tuned for our July Challenge starting right here on this blog today....
 Link will be posted soon!

#OddballArtChallenge
#OddballArtStamps

Creepy Cute Chronicles #54

It is Friday, so that means it is time for a new Creepy Cute Chronicles newsletter over at Oddball Art!  Today, I am playing with this week's CCC digital stamp, but blowing it up have and mounting it onto a 8x10 inch wood canvas.

To give you perspective of how large I blew up the Red's Pet Wolf digi, I put a full size Distress ink case there.

Then using my copics, I colored both Red...

...And her pet wolf.  I am not crazy about the coloring on the wolf, but by the end of the canvas the coloring work.

I fussy cut out both of the image and set them aside while I build the background of the canvas.

I scraped on some black metallic acrylic paint onto my wooden canvas.

I die cut three panels of trees, and sprayed them with both a matte and a glittery spray ink.  I repeated the process with panels of grass cut out and gray, glittery black and green glitter spray ink.

Using soft matte gel, I adhered the trees onto the canvas, letting there be texture with the gel.  I also added the grass to the canvas with the same gel.

I then added the digital stamps onto the canvas.  I could have quit here and been happy with the end result, but I wanted to build the canvas up more.

So to build up the canvas, I pulled out metal crafting pieces, wire, paper flowers, art stones and more black acrylic paint an built up the bottom of the canvas with fun layers.

I really like how the texture built up the final look of the canvas.

Finally, I added a fun sentiment to the final product.

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