I’m sure I’m not the only one out there that loves to bring home fun, bright and happy art into their home/office/studio. I just last week fell in love with a print from Etsy and had to buy one. I got looking around as I just sent in 2 pieces of my own art to get printed and their on their way back to me. So, starting with the one I bought, here’s some art of Etsy I’d love to own too

by Pennywishes

They all make me smile in one way or the other I love that! AND I’m all about supporting artists! Do you have any artist that you LOVE? I’d LOVE to see it!

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To my first Art Print! I’m really excited! This is Little Red Riding Kaylee. I’m creating this part separately and will be hand coloring it next then putting it with the background I will be working on next. This is a little daunting, making an actual piece of art for my Etsy vs just designing an image for my stamps. I’m not exactly sure why, people judge either when they see it but maybe I’m just used to it with the stamps. Putting my finished art pieces out there has always made me nervous. I can’t remember having a bad experience, I guess the chance of it might be enough to give me butterflies. After completing this I need to figure out where to have it printed. Local or online? 5×7 or 8×10 or both? What do you  like when you buy a piece of art?

Another bit, tomorrow I’ll be joining the girls at Paper Issues for our first ever Blog Hop! The theme is Fav’s and lovely Michelle has been organizing it, sweating and worrying over it. So hop to the PI blog at 9am on the 19th for all the deets! You can see one of the prizes that are going to be available from Miss Cassie here. See ya then! You can also see the sneaks for the hop on the PI Blog but here is my lil sneaky  ;-)

Its like two sneaks in one! Odd fans won’t want to miss the hop either  :heart:

Don’t forget to enter my giveaway if you haven’t already!

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This is Bee Tia from yesterday’s Some Odd Girl March 1st Spring Release I seriously couldn’t be a spring release with out a buzzy bee! I used Sass Indie Girl papers, AC thickers and Jenni Bowlin letters, MM brads and Kaiser Craft flowers. Of course Tia is colored with copics.

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For our next to last challenge for fabby prizes this week we played a lil elements game! Pick 3 from the list below and make a creation with all three. Easy Peasy? here’s the list:

This one might BEE my fav of mine for the week! It just came together so easy!  Buzzy worked perfect with the sticker/tag that spawned the whole creation. I colored him with copics Y00, Y02, Y04, Y28, N1, N3, N5, N7.  Not to mention my sewing actually looks like someone with half a brain did it… those circles can be tough for me! There’s Cosmo Cricket and Sass and K&Co on this card. Cut out with a nestie and embossed with my cuttle bug. I hope you are having fun with us this week! We are!

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Today is Some Odd Girl’s official One Year Anniversary! 12 whole months of operation. How crazy! If only I could stick with a diet this long lol! If you hop on over to the Odd Blog you can read a how we got started and where we’re going fun post and find a mini blog hop at the bottom. All the Odd Girls are sharing their fav cards from their term Its enough to make me more than a wee misty eyed! Here’s our mini hop list:

Yvonne
Tanya

I thought I would show you some of my fav cards from the last whirl wind year too! Let’s see…

Anjou

Fairy Fly Away Mae

Dancin Mae

Ornaments

Ollie Glee

Deer Mae

Tiny Tia Bow

Dancin Kaylee

I tried not to double up with the cards I picked as my Top Ten of 2010. I don’t think I completely succeeded LOL. 

Hop on over to the rest of the Odd Girls blogs to see what they have going on too! Now excuse me while I get my hanky *sniffsniff*

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Our first official Challenge of anniversary week is now up! AND its got a great prize! The challenge is just to use 1 digi in 3 different ways. You can do it on one project, two or three projects. On the blog, Robin and Cassandra have an assortment of different projects (layout, card, tins and tags) each using 1 digi in 3 different ways. I used 1 digi, Dancin Kaylee, on 3 cards. I made 1 small and punched it, I made one HUGE and FLIPPED it and I made one mid sized and used the whole image.

I finished the last card up this morning, the other 2 and my 3 projects for the rest of the week I finished all yesterday afternoon. I might be a lil carded out LOL! Give me until tomorrow and I’ll be good ;) I have to say the second one, the “Girls Night Out” card I am loving. Love how big Kaylee rawked on the simple layers

This challenge doesn’t have to be tough but can be a way creative endeavor! Let’s see it! The prize for this challenge is 3 digis of your choice from the shop AND a $10 gift certificate to Oozak.com! You will want to get in on that! So join in with us everyday this week for a new challenge and fun things!

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I finally have had to refill a couple of the colors of copics I have. Skin tones, of course, were my first to start getting dry. So poor Rusty at Oozak had to ship me some refills (I’m sure he was so bummed to take my money, poor Rusty indeed lol ;) ) so I could be a appy colorer again. While I was at it I thought I would change out a couple of the nibs. I hardly ever use the wide end on my copics, especially with skin tones, so I wanted to change it to a round tip. I have a lil pic step by step on how to change the tip and refill. Neither one is tough but if you haven’t tried or think about it first you might have to buy yourself a new tip or two

I used my alligator clip (this one came with my Pebbles Inc Chalk set) because it has the handy teeth on it, better for gripping . Pull the nib straight out of the barrel, it should slid right out.

Its better to underfill (which these amounts are suggested to do) rather than over fill. You can always add more but taking it out by scribbling is just a waste CC’s are marked on the side of the refill bottle. A refill bottle contains 25 cc’s so you can see how refilling can save you tons!

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Or at least that’s the way it feels Did anyone else seem to have a really long weekend? I’m not meaning that the relaxing never ended, I think it was bc I did a lot of cleaning and hanging and sorting, going out to the store or my SILs house for her birthday, just alot of things packed into 2 days. Not to mention DH was home Saturday, he usually works the weekend, and the days he’s home seem longer… not in a bad way lol!!! Just longer. That didn’t come out right at all! ;) Which reminds me! If you, or maybe your husband (you know if yours is! LOL!!!), is into comics, movies, and more geekery (which is a loving term here) then send them on over to my hubs blog: Tribble Zombie. The name is kinda a joke but seems appropriate in its own way Its new and he could use some blog buddies and I know I’m not the only chick married to a geek!

Today I’ve got a lil card to share featuring a new Some Odd Girl digi called Love Balloon.

This card sorta came together by accident with the scraps of papers laying about. The sentiment is computer printed I was also pleasantly surprised that the balloon had the right amount of stripes for the rainbow coloring… not a fore thought lol. I wish I could claim to be so smart Balloons were colored with copics: R24, YR04, Y04, G05, B28, E25

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Is up over at the Some Odd Girl blog now The challenge for the month is to make a valentine’s/love themed card that does NOT feature RED or PINK. It can have red and pink but it can NOT be the dominate color of the project. Here’s the example I made:

Deers mean love to me bc my hubs in MY dear  

I hope you’ll join us over at the blog for Digi Day! You can link up thru Sunday at 6pm EST

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I had a request a bit back for a tut about doing a specific hair color. Since I have a voice again I gave it a go! Check out the vid for all the deets

Just as a refresher the colors I used are E74, E77, E79, E49 W1, W3,W5,W7. You could probably pair that down by a couple but its what I used to get this exact color.

I mentioned in the vid that I was working from a reference photo of Megan Fox (jealous of her hair!!! seriously, mine is never so full and its thin so is never so lovely long BOO) to try and match the color. Here’s the pic

Not exact but with my limited inventory of colors I think Its pretty good! If you have any requests of questions just let me know and I’ll see if I can answer them for you! I plan on having an upcoming vid on changing your tips and refilling too. My fav skin tone is DRY, envision tumble weeds and cacti, and have the refill on the way with some medium round tips to replace the broad end that I never use so look for that!

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