Spring Feverin and Craftin

Woot! I can feel spring. Its just out of reach.....So close! Bought 4 tanks and some shorts and capris the other week! Wait, FIVE tanks! Yeah...I am ready. Lets go! Need some green!! Need some warmth!

How about some cards for warmth? I wish I could share them all, but alas, I can't. They are for some DT projects, BUT, I can share these with you.

This first card is for Cupcake Craft Challenges. Their theme this week is Cake N Icecream. I thought this image from Papermom was perfect for this challenge! It wasn't as daring as I was hoping it would be, but it turned out kinda sweet. Sweet is good....since its a cake and all.

This second card was made for the Paper Players. I have been really wanting to get into their blog challenges, so here is my first submission. I really liked their sketch this time around and I had these papers staring at me begging to be made into something. I decided to step outside the box and NOT use a stamped image. Instead, I used this bling flourish from Recollections. I also sewed some fun zig zags and such around the edges. 

Hope you all really enjoy these. Don't forget to pop over to Card Makin Mamas and participate in our Birthday challenge! And make it "snappy!" You could win 4 images from Meljin!!

Stay Crafty!!!

Scallops Galore

Hello, all! I trust you are having a fantastic week!

This will be my last post as an Oddie, and I must say that it makes me sad. I love this team, and Some Odd Girl! The company embodies so much of what I love about creativity! At the same time, I am so grateful and happy to have been able to spend this time getting to know so many wonderful, inspirational people through this and I know that my crafting is better for having met them!

So, without further ado, here is "Scallops Galore". I simply adored this image and HAD to play with it! I received this paper as a RAK last year and kept wondering what I would use it for....Tah-daaahhhh....can't find a better match than this!!

I can't wait to see what you all come up with for this challenge. I see a lot of nesties in this post, lol! Stay crafty!

Last Odd Anny Day!

I have to admit, I am kind of sad to see anny week coming to a close! Seeing all of the odd inspiration has been SO FUN!!

Today, for your final challenge, make a card that is 3 inches by 4 inches or SMALLER. We want to see your "tiny" cards. Hmm. Maybe use some...TINIES?? 


The prize for this challenge is not so small. Not only does an entry here get you an entry for our big giveaway *coughcosmocricketoozakcough* but you'll be entered to win a $10 gift certificate to 2Peas in a Bucket and 3 digis of your choice from our shop! That is definitely NOT small beans! or peas ;)


Just like all our challenges this week your entry is due to be linked up by the end of day January 23 EST. and for all our challenges this week you MUST use a Some Odd Girl digi. Need a new digi for the challenge? Check out what sale might be going on in the shop! 

So distressed!

I recently won a gift certificate to Simon Says Stamp and with it I bought the most delicious paper pack! Crate Paper RESTORATION. I literally want to eat it, LOL! I was so inspired!

So...this first card is for the Tickled Pink sketch challenge this week. I have been wanting a few of these stamps and finally bought my first yesterday. 20's Lolita. LOVE her! I took the opportunity to paper piece with a digi for the first time as well yesterday. Will be doing it a LOT more now! 

I beaded her dress along with the paper piecing. I distressed the papers, and had fun mixing and matching the patterns in this paper pack. I swear this card basically made itself. All I provided was the tools. :)

This next card is for Anyone For Anya and Friends (pretty bows) as well as Tuesday Morning Sketches (heavy metal). I also got this "Hello Ian" at Simon Says Stamp. I have had my eye on him since I was introduced to The Greeting Farm AGES and ages ago. Finally, he is mine and it was well worth the wait! As you can see, I have a distressed bow for Anya, but I also have staples for Heavy Metal. I loved working with these elements together. 

Hope you all are enjoying your week's end. We are snowed it...AGAIN....seriously, this never happens in TN. What's the deal?? Ohs, well! Not much to be done for it! Stay crafty!

Oh, so many odd elements!

For this day of our anny week, Some Odd Girl is issuing an element challenge.

Choose at least 3 of these elements and make a project using an odd girl image.

Shaped Card (any shape but square or rectangular)

Organza Ribbon

Misting/Masking

Embossing

Orange

Doodling

Die Cut

Glitter

Ink

Ric rak

Layers (at least 4 on your creation)


Be sure to check out the main blog for some inspiration!! 


Just like all our challenges this week your entry is due to be linked up by the end of day January 23 EST. and for all our challenges this week you MUST use a Some Odd Girldigi. Need a new digi for the challenge? Check out what sale might be going on in the shop!


For this challenge you will be playing for another fun prize! And don't forget, all challenge entries also get you an entry into our big prize draws. The winner of our color challenge win be receiving a $9 gift certificate to our shop to spend as you please AND a friend of the winner's choice will also get a $9 gift certificate! You might be the new popular girl on the block, so find your besty and get your entry in!

Card Makin Mamas #13

Its that time again! Another wonderful 2 week challenge from us over at Card Makin Mamas! This time around its a sketch by yours truly. It was one of the first sketches I ever "sketched"!

For challenge 13 we have sponsor Totally Stampalicious! This company has good quality images and a great since of humor!

Here is the card I made with their birthday cake image! It was fun to color and the lines were crisp! I like that in a digi!

Incidentally, it wasn't my intention to use the same papers and colors as the last challenge. It just so happened that was the mood I was in, LOL!

Be sure to check out everything the rest of the design team has to show you! Stay crafty!

And Now I'm A Robot

So, in light of another impending snow day and Noah's already boredom.....Mommy decided to make Noah an optimus mask. For whatever reason he has talked a lot about Optimus Prime lately and since he does enjoy playing pretend I thought it would be fun to see if I could make a respectable mask for him.

I started with some felt that I had from AGES ago. I bought it to make embellishments out of. Its made from recycled coke bottles and such and is a lot stronger than your run-of-the-mill felt. Perfect for a little boy project, right??

I knew that since supplies were limited I would need a pattern to be sure I had everything right before I started snipping. I wanted something simple, but something that you could mostly tell who or what it was supposed to be.

So, once everything was sketched out I cut the pattern apart and cut the felt with my patterns.

Now, some of you may be noticing that I have brown felt in the places that should be gray (trust me, the kid noticed, LOL!) I didn't have the right color, so I decided to paint the brown gray. It worked like a dream. Unreal! It was a real risk since I was almost out of felt! I used my heat gun to dry the paint so that I could finish everything up and so Noah didn't have to wait. (because we all know how hard it is to wait for 3 mintues, right?) *note* be careful if you do use a heat gun on felt. It is made from plastic, and WILL MELT! (I got lucky, lol)

I used my hot glue gun to attach everything to the mask. I did have some technical difficulties with the pattern once everything was assembled. The eyes were too wide-set, so Noah couldn't see out. He also said it was squishing his nose, so we snipped a little more there too. I may go back with my bic markers later and add some detailing, but for now, here is the result and my very happy little boy. 

*note...he still claims to be BORED and have nothing to do....ummm...okay....cause I didn't just make you a mask and print pictures for you to paint and find your transformer toys in that black hole you call a toy box....

Hope you enjoyed another non paper post. I DO plan to do some paper-y things later, but with the way Noah is acting, that remains to be seen. Stay crafty!