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.

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.

If you are not yet signed up for the Oddball Weekly newsletter...what are you waiting for.  Sign up today.  And until then, happy crafting.

A Pastel Pile of Creeps

Hey Oddballs!  It's Ek from ekgorman designs, and I am popping in to ask you an important question...

Have you played along with this month's April Puffy Pastel Polka Dots theme challenge?

If not, what are you waiting for?  There is so much cool stuff happening this month, you surely don't want to miss out on the opportunity to join in!  Not only do you have a chance to win a digi from Oddball, but you have a chance to win these packs of copic markers!

Today I am playing with the digital stamp IMG500 Halloween Crowd-Pile of Creeps and created a mixed media canvas to play along with this month's theme.  I also created a short video sharing how I colored this image and created the canvas.

Thanks for peeking in today and make sure you join the Oddballs in this month's fun challenge!

#506 ... Love Bite e so do I By Sabrina

Hello! Today is my turn of publication and I show you one of the pages of my art jorunal with the beautiful Creepy Cute Vamp Boy Mr. Valentine Image # 506!

I started spreading the plaster on my page and, once dried, I spread the oil pastels and then I watercolor, creating the background

I waited for it to dry out and I created the decorations with the crayons.

I added some stamps and reliefs with the stencil and pearlescent relief paste

I colored Creepy Cute Vamp Boy Mr. Valentine Image # 506 always with oil pastels

I colored Creepy Cute Vamp Boy Mr. Valentine Image # 506 always with oil pastels

Fortune Tellers Magic Glass Ball Pastel Goth Image #476

hello, today I show you one of the pages of my art journal!

I printed Image #476 Fortune Tellers Magic Glass Ball Pastel Goth Image #476

And #234 Creepy Cute Sad Bunny on Skull Sweetie Pie Image No. 234  and colored with the Copic

 For the background I laid a chalk base and sand paste to create a texture, once dry I used the black Merlin arcilico, with the stencil and the black chalk I created the dotted relief on which I then spread the opal Magic . With the stancil stars and the Glimmer Paste Tonic !!

I added the stickers, the rhinestones and my page is ready !!

I love her so much that I think I'll make a box to contain my tarot!

XOXO Sabrina

Sally IMG#11/11B

Hey Oddballs,


A last bit of inspiration for our April "Messy & Sketchy" theme before the month comes to a close.  Today I have used IMG#11/11B available in the Oddball shop - here is the link
https://www.oddballartco.com/product-page/digital-stamp-big-eye-bedtime-pajamas-girl-sally-image-no-11


Sally is such a cutie!!



As you can see I have made a "Get Well Soon" card.  For more details on my background check out my blog https://hutcho53.blogspot.com/2018/04/oddball-art-stamps-sally-img1111b.html and don't forget my discount code over at the new Oddball Art Stamps shop https://www.oddballartco.com/shop for 10% off your order

                                                          DTGAIL10

April ATC Swap

Hey Oddballs!!!  EK here today to share a couple of ATCs I made for the April ATC Swap.  Have you gotten your made yet?  

If not, maybe the video I made today with help inspire you to create a couple using this month's theme, Messy and Sketchy.

Want to see how I created these, then scroll on down and click the link to you tube.

For this ATC, I used Lizzy's Fight Like a Girl digi, who hopefully soon will be available to purchase again!

Here I used IMG434 Glitter Bones, which is one of the newest digis in the collection.

Finally, I used IMG 374, Easter Basket & Eggs Ghoulish Gifts for my final card.  I know Easter is over, but the image is just too cute to wait a full year to use again.

Need some Digital Stamps to help create your ATCs, then feel free to use the code 

DTEK10 

to get 10% off your purchase!