Hol-ODD-day Hop starts NOW!

Some Odd Girl is having their 3rd Annual Hol-ODD-day hop December 3-6 on the Some Odd Girl blog! Its one big Linky Party and you’re invited! All you have to do to hop with us is to create a post using a new or old holiday themed project using a Some Odd Girl digi or stamp and invite your friends to come hop by linking back to the hop in your post then just LINK UP at Some Odd Girl! Hoppers will be featured a few times a day on the Some Odd Girl Blog and linked up Hoppers will be entered to win some great prizes! Link up early for your best chance to be featured AND win!

Want to see my fun project using the adorable Angel Gwen clear stamp set.  The sentiment is also from the set.  The snowflakes that I stamped and embossed are from the Tiny Tia Warm Wishes clear set.  Both of these sets has so many cute items!  Make sure to check them out!

Make sure to head over to the blog and join us for prizes and features!

Distress Inks and Stamping

Hi ya everyone! I am sharing with you a brief tutorial on using Distress Inks to paint an image at The Bug Bytes today.  I've made a video tutorial to share with you, but first I will share with you the supplied I used to create this fun card.  All supplies were purchased/supplied at iCopic and from Sheila a Close to My Heart representative. Supplies: Distress Inks - Broken China, Mustard Seed, Peeled Paint and Spiced Marmalade Staz-On Paper - Ranger Inkssentials and My Mind's Eye - Stella Rose Water filled brush Adhesive Twine Stamps - Close to My Heart - A Garden

This paper from Ranger worked amazingly with the Distress Inks.  The paper didn't pucker or change at all!  This is amazing really as even watercolor paper changes a bit. 

 This is a very easy technique and can be fun and add a unique twist to your artwork! For more fun projects please visit The Bug Bytes!

Simple Thank You - Crafty Creations Challenge

Hi ya everyone!  This week at Crafty Creations the fabulous Amy chose this weeks challenge - Thank you!  Great challenge right?  I love it - we all need thank yous in our stash and this really helps to beef up those NEED type cards!  The Stamp Fairy is sponsoring and oh my such adorable stamps.  She let the design team use a few!  This sweet little image found here was painted with Distress Inks...thought I'd try something different.

These are much harder to work with then Copics and I'm still learning.  I did turn to my Copics for his nose and foot pads.  Once I had him completely colored I fussy cut him and then used some cute Basic Grey papers from the stack Sugared.  They matched SO well the colors I used in the flowers (Worn Lipstick, Mahogany and Peeled Paint).  I  used my nestabilities and cut out pieces for the bear to rest on.

I added a tiny pink ribbon and stamped a Thank You sentiment from Inkadinkadoo with Walnut Stain and used the same to ink the edges of the sentiment and card.  Lastly, I made these tiny little flowers as embellishments!
Thanks for stopping by and check out our challenge at Crafty Creations!  You could win a prize from
The Stamp Fairy!

Spice It Up - Crafty Creations Challenge

 Hi ya everyone!
  This week at Crafty Creations we are challenging you to add a bit of spice to your life and warm things up!  Either with a project with coffee or hot chocolate or spice things up with a spicy color or how about a spicy food or maybe some hot embossing??  I decided to use my new Tim Holtz inks!  I love the Spiced Marmalade and used that and Fire Brick red to color the heart in this adorable Tiddly Inks character called All My Heart which is a Lilly Bean character.  I took an ink dauber and followed the tutorial from Tim Holtz found here.  I then took my water brush and painted the image using this technique.

 My paper is not good enough for this and I'm back to the drawing board to find a paper that I can print on and use my inks.  I paper pieced the large heart after coloring it.  I cut Lilly using my nestables ignoring the heart since I was placing the inked one on top.  I took a straight edge and carefully cut Lilly's arm out and then nestled the heart underneath.

 I then used My Mind's Eye paper to coordinate.  I stamped the sentiment Happy Valentine's Day with my embossing ink and then used a red glittery embossing powder and heat embossed.  I then inked the edges with Spiced Marmalade.  Please join us and let's get out of the winter blues by heating things up at Crafty Creations!