Oddball Art Stamps January FB Challenge - AG!

Good morning all! HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Today I'm sharing my Oddball Art Stamps Design Team challenge card for January 1st. What a way to kick things off; am I right? 

We have two challenges per month at Oddball, the first one is the Facebook Challenge, which is always Anything Goes in theme. The challenge takes place on Facebook (obviously) and runs from the 1st through the last day of the month. Just upload your Oddball Art Stamps cards to the album and viola! There is also a themed blog challenge that you can check out and play along in!

Oh...and did you know...if you need this, or any other image (you do), you can receive 10% off your order using coupon code DTJENNIFER10. Perk package!

My first project for our Anything Goes Facebook Challenge this month features this BEAUTIFUL image...Ziggy #285. She was colored up with a whole big pile of Copics, some Basic Grey brads, Gina Marie and My Favorite Things dies to round things out. Paper from Kaisercraft.

Challenges:
613 Avenue - January AG (1 of 8)
Lacy Sunshine - AG ending 1/20/17 (1 of 3)
Crafty Friends - #48 - AG (1 of 3)
C.R.A.F.T. - #396 - AG (1 of 5)
4 Crafty Chicks - #331 - AG (unlimited)
Art by Miran - #74 - AG (1 of 3)
Brown Sugar - #231 - AG (1 of 2)
Inspiration Destination - #118 - AG (unlimited)
Outlawz - Paper a la Mode 12/31 - NEW (1 of 3) - This is a New Image and also New patterned paper
Crafts Galore Encore - January AG (1 of 3)

That's it for me today. I hope you're all having a fabulous day! Don't forget to check out the Oddball Art Stamps Facebook Group for more inspiration. I hope to see you playing along with your Oddball beauties!

Creative Knockouts #172: Winter Wonderland!

Good morning stampers! Today I'm sharing my project for the challenge over at Creative Knockouts where the theme is....Winter Wonderland! 

This week's sponsor is Imagine That - Digis by Kris, and they are offering a wonderful prize to a lucky player!

Here is my project, featuring the super adorable set Tree With Presents. One of my FAVORITE things about Imagine That digis is that they come with both colored and outline versions in the bundle, and typically contain several images along with coordinating sentiments. SERIOUSLY. They are a great deal and very versatile!

Today I used the pre-colored version of this image. It's SO well done you can even see that the garland and ribbon are "sparkly"! I didn't add glitter - that's how it looks digitally colored from the shop. I love it. I had this wild & crazy vision when I saw this image. I hope I was able to fully bring it to life. That's the night sky with stars twinkling away in the background, and our lovely tree is in someone's beautiful snowy yard, and SANTA has just arrived and dropped off all the goodies! ;) 

I sponged Summer Sun craft ink on the background to create the glowing halo effect. The "stars" were created after I did the dry embossed background by mixing white ink and some water into a mini mister and spraying several times. The snowy hills are a MFT die, and I added Diamond stickles to the edges for extra sparkle. The sentiment comes with the set in the Imagine That shop, I used a Paper Smooches die to cut it out as a flag and had it hang off the edge for fun. The image was color printed, fussy-cut and put onto the finished background with foam tape.

Challenges:
Inspiration Destination - #116: AG (unlimited)
Crafting From the Heart - #140: AG (2 of 3)
Craft Your Passion - #342: AG (2 of 3)
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - #47: AG (3 of 3)

That's it for me today! Don't forget to swing over to the Creative Knockouts blog to link up your projects for your chance to win! My DT sisters have created some beautiful inspiration, so leave them some love too!

 

Penny's Challenge #308: Christmas

Good morning stampers! I hope everyone's week is going well! Busy busy busy, I bet! Christmas is coming so fast! My boys have been busy shaking the presents under the tree on a daily basis ;)

The new challenge at Penny's starts today though! Our sponsor this week is Lacy Sunshine. My favorite!! Prizes are up for grabs! You have until Tuesday night to link up with us on the Penny's Challenge blog.

Today's card features the gorgeous Rory - Christmas Princess:

Colored with Copics, dies from Gina Marie and Spellbinders, glitter dot from Fun Stampers Journey, and paper from my stash. Glitter all over her fuzzy cape and headband are Diamond Stickles.

Challenge Entries:

Inspiration Destination - #116: AG (unlimited)
Lacy Sunshine - AG: November 20 - December 16 (2 of 3)
Crafting From the Heart - #140: AG (1 of 3)
Craft Your Passion - #342: AG (1 of 3)
Paper Nest Dolls - #12: AG (2 of 2)
Art by MiRan - #73: AG (1 of 3)
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - #47: AG (2 of 3)

That's it for this post! Don't forget to swing over to the Penny's Challenge blog to link up your projects for your chance to win! My DT sisters have created some beautiful inspiration, so leave them some love too!

Bugaboo's Holiday Chaos - Day 7 Challenge!

Onward! Post #4 and my LAST POST because that makes 7 completed projects for this awesome, AWESOME Chaotic Party Train! Thanks Bugaboo for all the inspiration and the PUSH to get stamping!

Presenting: my project for TODAY, Day 7, which is BINGO. 

And here is the Bingo board:

My Bingo is vertical on the right-hand column...Glitter/Bling (plenty!), Snowflakes, and Non-Traditional Holiday Colors.

The details here - pretty easy, actually. Of course took awhile for me to be happy with all the sizes/layout/extra blings, but still. Really fun to create. And get this...No coloring! WHAT?! 

The one tiny sentiment is an old SU set that I really like for discreet Christmas/Winter greetings on cards where the image is the focal point. I made some of the paper I punched the circles from using Brushos paint powders in one of my first experiments using them. Used a bunch of different circle punches that I hung on to (I knew there was a reason!). Felt snowflakes are from Hero Arts and Stampin' Up!. Sequins are from Michael's Stash. Patterned paper from the Angel Company. Glitter balls from Fun Stampers Journey.

THANK YOU BUGABOO!! Shout out to the awesome DT for all that creating, AND leaving so many fabulous comments for all the players. *hugs*

Bugaboo's Holiday Chaos - Day 6 Challenge!

Onward! Post #3...

Presenting: my project for Day 6, which was "flash back" - use an OLD image and OLD paper. Well, I printed this image (along with dozens of others) to use for LAST YEAR'S Holiday Chaos party, and it was still sitting in the pile of "printed digis" I am apparently collecting in the corner basket of my stamping counter. So I dusted it off, and here we are! I bought this paper (I'm pretty sure) when we still lived in Cottage Grove, so that makes it 4+ years old as well). Time to get going using it up!

Colored with Copics. Stamp is Bugaboo. Die from Gina Marie Designs. Glitter ball from The Paper Studio. Ribbon also OLD from stash. Cardstock is Stampin' Up!'s u/s Vanilla, and for reference I was a SU demo for the last time in 2002...