I Will Hex You!

Hey Oddballs...Its EK Gorman and I am popping in to remind you that it is Friday night so that means it is time for a brand new Creepy Cute Chronicles from Oddball Art.  This week I am playing with the awesome CCC69 Coffee Hex digi stamp and IMG500 Magical Pile of Creeps.  I don't know about you, but I would not deny these guys coffee.

For these images I pulled out my colored pencils and colored in this image, and then added some distress oxide in both Vintage Photo and Brushed Corduroy.  

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Creepy Cute Chronicles #64

Hey Everyone!  It's EK and I am popping in to remind you that it is Friday night, so that means it is time for a for a brand new Creepy Cute Chronicles from Oddball Art.  This is the digital art of Buster Bites that is included inside this week's free newsletter.

I colored the image up using my colored pencils and used plenty of Gamsol

 to make it look like it wasn't simply colored pencils. 

Now, the question really is, did you sing along when you read the sentiment?  Let me know in the comments below.  Until then, Happy Crafting.

Naughty Gnomes Challenge Reminder

Hey Oddballs!  It's EK here wondering if you have you played along yet with the current challenge over at Oddball Art!  You can play along all month long with their Naughty Gnomes theme!

Today I have combined two different Oddball digis to create this naughty gnome card!  I used the new digi IMG461 Rollin' with My Gnomies and the background digi IMG379 City of Love.

I colored the two images using my colored pencils, sicking to a primary color for the foreground, and secondary colors for the background.  I finished image off with a snarky stickers for the sentiment.
Make sure you go over and play along with the challenge.  Things always end up being fun here in the Oddball camp!

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I've Got It All Together

Hey Oddballs!  It's EK from ekgorman designs and I am sneaking into let you know I've got a new coloring video up.

Today I am playing around with the digital stamp IMG81 Witch Sassy & Sissy Cat and some black cardstock.  Did you know that you can print your digital stamps onto black cardstock?  That's right, you can!

Today I am using my new colored pencils to really make this image pop out on some dark cardstock.

To help everyone see how I this process of coloring on dark cardstock works, I went ahead and whipped up a little video sharing my coloring techniques.  To pop over to my channel and see the video in HD, click here.

Thanks for popping in today and checking out my project.  Make sure if you play around with some dark cardstock that you share your projects with Lizzy and the team over on the Facebook!

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Happiness is...

Hey Oddballs!  It's EK from ekgorman designs, sneaking in today to share a little CAS card I created using my favorite colored pencils.

Today I am playing around with IMG19 Camper Girl Cassidy from the Big Eyed girl collection.

For today's project I pulled out, like I said my favorite colored pencil set, the Derwent Drawing pencils.  Now I own some five different brand of colored pencils, but despite its limited color range, these are my favorite.  These colors are really soft and in a wide range of natural and sepia tones.  Needless to say, their limited color range is perfect for a clean and simple card.

I additionally added a fun sentiment added in some denim blue ink, to add to the sweet mischief look on Cassidy's face.  The card got adhered onto a Kraft A2 card frame.

Do you play around with different brands of colored pencils?  What is your favorite?  And what Oddball digital stamp is your favorite to color with your pencils?

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Never Change

Hey Oddballs!  It's EK here sharing two different cards to celebrate the new shop.

Have you seen the new Oddball Art Shop.  It is such a fun place to be, with all kinds of interactive pages and a great new place to buy your Oddball digital stamps.

To celebrate, I am using two different images!

 First up I am using IMG311 I'll Cry if I Want to Birthday Party Jaz and my colored pencils.  I created a sign post and a small platform for Jaz to stand on to let everyone know that she just isn't feeling this birthday.

My second project features IMG407 Bats and Zombies along with my copic markers to create a card celebrating your differences.  I think this digi is suppose to be a Halloween image, but I really think it is a prefect anytime card.

For more on these projects and more, hope over to my world.

Looking to get these images or some new ones of your own, hope over to the new Oddball Art Shop and use the code DTEK10 to get 10% off your purchase!

When Nothing Is Sure Mixed Media Card

Hey Oddballs!  EK here to share a Tips and Tutorial Video!

I pulled out IMG328 Madhatter for today's project and decided to show you how I would not only color up this card with my Prismacolor colored pencils, but how I go about making a mixed media card as well.

To check out how I made the card today, by clicking the link below.

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When Nothing Is Sure Video

I am enjoying the wonky bubbles on the side of the images...seems very Alice to me.

I'm loving the sentiment I picked for this card, since when it comes to the Hatter, nothing is sure and everything is possible.

I don't normally play with layers like this, but I had so much fun adding the embellishments, that I am going to have to start using layers more.

Thanks for checking in today, and if you create any mixed media cards featuring Oddball Art, make sure you share it over on the Facebook Page.  

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February ATC Swap

Have you made your ATC's yet for the February Oddball Art ATC Swap?  The theme this month for the ATCs is "Cute or Die" and I've tried to use both words while creating these cards!

Here are my three cards that I can't wait to send out to new home!

All three cards were made using more or less the same techniques and products, just different colors.

My First ATC features the utter cute #210 Whimsical Ragdoll Zeddy the Zebra.  I printed him out onto some cardstock and colored it in with my prisma colored pencils, and fussy cute the image out.  ATC base was created using my Gelatos, some faber-castell textured lux and some prima marking mica flakes.  I added a sentiment stickers from Tim Holtz clippings stickers.

My second card features Oddball's #248 Spooky Sweet Skulls.  They were also colored with colored pencils and fussy cut out.  The background of the ATC also was colored with Gelatos and then a stencil was added and the gelato was rubbed off with a baby wipe.  Then bits of mica flakes were added and some more textured lux.

  

My final ATC has been created with one of my favorite digis from Oddball Art, the super sweet #360 Dragon on a Mushroom.  This also was colored with colored pencils and fussy cut.  The background was colored with more gelatos and a stencil and baby wipe were used to removed some of the color.  Finally, I added some Tim Holtz chit chat stickers.

Make certain you load your ATC's to the Oddball Facebook ATC file so that the team knows you want to send your cards to new homes!  Need a few new digis to play with, then use this code DTEK10 to get 10% off your entire purchase!

Dying to Be Yours

Hey Oddballs!  EK here from ekgorman designs to share a card for Oddball Art February Challenge.  If you aren't aware the February challenge's theme is "Cute or Die", which lets be honest, is so much fun for all of us anti-valentine kiddos.  

So what did I make...a anti-valentine that is 'dying to be yours'!

Today, I pulled out the digital stamp IMG367, Undead Leni.  I think Leni here is suppose to be a zombie, but I went with a much more realistic look with my coloring (with the exception of her purple eyes).  I pulled out my prisma colored pencils and went to work.

I love the idea of a scarred up gal being at the center of a 'valentine's' card.  

Make sure you get crafting, and get your projects linked up to the February Challenge.  You have till the end of the month to link up your designs, and of course you can load up to three different projects!