Brewing up some Trouble

Look who's back again!!

I was invited to be a guest designer for 

Oddball Art Stamps 

Creepy Cute Chronicles new image release today.

I have to admit that signing up for the
Creepy Cute Chronicles Exclusive membership was the best

$15 I have ever spent. Well worth the price of admission, folks!

If you haven't heard of it, you really must check out the details here.

The weekly chronicles freebie this week is this fabulous Mer-Witch.

She is quite the stunner!!  

I had to color her up with Copics, as its my chosen medium to color with.

I tried to stay away from my standard orange, lime green, purple, and black

color scheme, but failed. I just don't see Halloween in any other colors.  

I also don't usually "do" scenes, but this little lady was just too

perfect to fussy cut out of her underwater lair. She comes in a set of

images which you can arrange any way you'd like, or use her already in

the scene as shown. She comes with lots of accessories and even a friend.   

I am still on my Nuvo drops kick. I used the green translucent drops

for her potion bubbles. And some White Blizzard glitter drops for some

underwater bubbles. I love these drops!

 Lastly, I mounted the colored panel onto some black card stock

and added a sentiment from my Halloween sentiment collection. 

I actually have an entire binder full of just Halloween words.

It's a sickness, but one I don't mind suffering from.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Have a great weekend!!! 

And don't forget to stop by the Oddball Art Stamps website and

get signed up for the CCC and even go for it and sign up for the 

Exclusive Membership as well. All the cool kids are doing it!! 

Where's my Witches at?!

Back real quick with another Halloween make using another

Oddball image. Well, actually multiple images.

I love this kitty image that Lizzy drew to help heal 

from the passing of her own sweet kitty.

I fussy cut the kitty after coloring her in with Copics,

and popped her on top of the headstone.

I am also a sucker for witchy things, so this hat was a must for this card. 

I used an acetate ghost, with some TH Halloween words, a punched bat border, 

and the finishing touch of Nuvo drops to bring this card together. 

I was going for the familiar waiting for her witch, kind of vibe here.

I'd also like to enter this card in current challenge at 

Oddball Art Stamps. 

  

Oddball Halloween Trick or Treat

I've been busy with the chaos of life, but managed to find the time

to get some coloring done.

I was inspired by this Oddball Art Stamp, and then just went with it,

and actually produced a card for Halloween.

This adorable little rotten elephant is from the October Monthly Exclusive set.

All the more reason for you to pop for the $15 to join the member's club.  

I colored him using Copic Warm Grays, and added pops of Halloween type colors.

I managed to work in a cupcake liner and an old Glow Skull from back in the day. 

I finally figured out that if you cut into the cupcake liner like fringe, it will lay

flat. I've been struggling for far too long on that issue.

I also used some seriously vintage paper and adhesive border from my ridiculously

overstocked Halloween stash. And my new thing is to add Nuvo drops to everything.

I added the drops in White Blizzard, but they turned turquoise on the black liner. 

I like it. 

Thanks for stopping by today.

I'd like to enter this card in the current challenge at 

Oddball art Stamps.

Colorful Ghosties

Has hell completely frozen over?!
Is it raining frogs?!

Something is definitely in the air, since this is my second post

in a week, for the first time in what seems like years.

I am thrilled to be working with another Oddball Art Stamp image today.

I started off by printing the ghosties from the 

Dots and Doodles paper pack

onto some watercolor card stock.

Since it's been so long since I've colored anything, some of my Copics are

trying to dry out. I thought I'd check my even more neglected Zig watercolor markers,

and lo' and behold, they're still just as juicy as the day I bought them!

So, water color the ghosties, I did!

After my rudimentary attempt at water coloring, I decided to color

in the background using a black Copic marker. No way was I going to risk

ruining everything at this point by trying to watercolor in between the ghosties. 

These little guys really pop against the black background! 

I love it!!

Since this image is actually background paper, I decided to keep the entire

panel as my focal point. Too pretty and cute to cover it up.

I popped the image onto some linen textured lime green card stock, and

mounted it onto a simple black card.

I found the perfect sentiment from a retired Kraftin' Kimmie 

rubber stamp set, and stamped it onto vellum to keep the ghostly feel.

Thanks for stopping by today!!

Happy Halloween!!!  

Remember me?!

Long time no see, huh?

The last couple of years have really screwed up my crafting and creating.

And then it seems like the more I want to get back to creating, the more

shit life throws at me.

But,

I received an invite from Lizzy at Oddball Art Stamps to play along 

this week using the new Poison Posies image she created using 

my idea from a past facebook poll on her fb page.

This was just the kick in the tush I needed to get my Copics out and start

coloring my life again!!

This image is so much more than I had hoped for!!

So pretty, and wonderfully weird, and creepy, all at the same time.

Win, win, win!

I used the image with the blank banner so I could add my own

words. Which I instantly regretted after seeing my finished scribblings.

I was hoping for some beautiful script to fall out of my pen, but that 

takes practice, which I haven't been doing. 

Ultimately, I am thrilled with this card and how it turned out.

Considering I haven't been crafting much, this doesn't suck at all.

Well, except for the hand lettering...
I added a die cut I have had for years, but never used until now. 

I think it works, along with some black Nuvo drops.

Luckily, my niece is a creeper just like her Aunt, 

and she will love this card for her birthday.   

FYI: This image is for tonight's Creepy Cute Chronicles freebie image.

Have you signed up yet? 

If you haven't, you are really missing out!!

Remembering Aletha

This post today is part of a very special blog hop. 

We are celebrating the life of an amazingly talented artist and friend. 

The crafting community lost Aletha Jane Williams on May 5, 2019. 

Those of us that worked with her on Design Teams or on Challenge Blogs 

all agree that she was one of the sweetest and most talented women we knew. 

We are not here to mourn her loss though. 

This hop is happening in conjunction with a very special celebration 

of her life and her art that her husband Bob is holding

 in her home city of Tulsa, Oklahoma. 

Please join us in honoring our incredibly creative friend, Aletha.

When I think of Aletha I remember her amazing talent with 

design, composition, and most of all color.

That lady had such a knack for creating with color. 

Mitzi was sweet enough to create this adorable Sprite in honor of Aletha.

I'm a bit out of practice with my Copics, but I tried to color this purple passion

cutie as close to the actual flower as I could manage.  

I never really know what to say in times like this, so I will just say, 

"Thank you for your friendship and your colorful inspiration, Aletha. 

You are very missed."

Please join us on our blog hop to honor our friend, Aletha.

Alison Heikkila 

Mitzi Sato-Wiuff

Suzi Baker McKenzie

Marion Lones

Silvia Sencaka

Ann-Marie Johansson

Jane Bradshaw

Creepy Glowbugg

Donna Mundinger

Susan Salyer

Cristena Concialloni-Bagne

Jan Thompson

Virgo Girls Rule!!!

It is so weird to be back here blogging again.

It's been far too few and in between posts over the last year. 

Sadly, it's seems like the blogs are a thing of the past. 

Fewer and fewer views as the months roll past. 

But to enter some challenges it is still necessary to blog 

about your project in order to enter.

Fair enough. I kind of miss sharing my makes 

via the 'old fashioned' way. 

I created this page for a chipboard book I have that was just 

screaming to be made into something beautiful.

Mission accomplished!

I have been bugging Lizzy as to when she was going to unveil the 

Virgo Girl in her Zodiac line of digital images. 

Wait no more! She is gorgeous!

I had to color her up immediately after buying her, but then she lived on

my desk for a couple of weeks until inspiration struck. 

I've been getting in touch with my witchy side, and have found 

my love affair with the moon something to be celebrated.

I picked up a great paper pad at HL that is all about galaxies,

 and unicorns and  moons. I swooned when I saw it. 

I took one sheet of each 12 X12 design and trimmed them all down 

to 6 x 6 sheets. So much easier to get proper use out of the pad this way. 

I started layering die cuts, and found a great inspirational sentiment

to go with my Virgo page. I used the green die cut webbing and the

sparkly green spider to help move your eye around the page and balance out

the green from the her sash. I added my new love, Jewel Drops from Nuvo in 

Key lime. I am loving how this turned out!!

I would like to enter in the current challenge at

Oddball Art Stamps challenge blog - Anything Goes