Say "Hi!" to Ollie!

So I bought a new (to me) Some Odd Girl stamp. I had been eyeing the Ollies for a while, and then my seven-year-old gave me the perfect excuse. She saw me watching one of Kristy's coloring videos and it blew her mind that Kristy is the one that draws all the SOG stamps (I've let her color others before, and she's seen the cards I've made for other people). She is quite the budding little artist. So I showed her the online store. She liked a bunch of them, but when she saw Ollie Glee she said, "Aww, he's so CUTE! He costs three dollars? I have three dollars!" She wanted to spend all the money she had been saving on him. Isn't that adorable?

Her birthday was a week later and I just couldn't imagine making her card with anyone else. So, I bought him and printed up some extras that I slipped inside her birthday card for her to color. She was very excited. Rewardingly so. Later she mentioned that she didn't think I had ever made her a card with a SOG stamp on it. Which is true. (Truth be told, we bought her card last year.) I didn't realize it would mean so much to her! I'm kinda excited to have someone who appreciates my papercrafting so much. I guess I have a new little SOGgy on my hands!

This is for Some Odd Girl's April Sketch Challenge.

Images: Some Odd Girl, Create with TLC
Papers and ribbon: Stampin' Up Pool Party, Island Indigo, Tangerine Tango (small strip of orange paper is some random brand)
Die: Stampin' Up Apothecary Accents Framelits
Embossing Folder: Lifestyle Crafts

Super Heroine

Here's a little number I whipped up a while ago - I was going for a kind of comic book feel, hence the word bubble sentiment and the black line border around the image (which I did with a straightedge and black marker). I forgot to snap a pic of the inside, but it said "Hope it was SUPER!"

I'm entering this in this month's Oozak Challenge, "Anything Goes with Your Favorite Colors." I love anything aquamarine, teal, turquoise, etc. If it's bright and it's got blue and some green in it, I'll love it! :) Purple, in general, comes in somewhere second to that color range.

New Stamps!

I got a bunch of new crafty stuff with Christmas money! Yay! Chief among it was my first Some Odd Girl clear stamps, Make a Statement and Birthday Mae. I also got a Cuttlebug from my mom, so of course I had to order some nesties! I especially can't wait to play with the Lifestyle Crafts Pinking Circles and Hexagons!

Here is a card I created for my sister with Birthday Mae. I used the same layout as the Sketch Challenge from a couple of months ago. When I cut it out with my Cameo originally, I cut snd assembled two because I liked the layout so much. Easy card! It is birthday month around here, so I will be sharing more cards shortly, I hope...

I am entering this in the Oozak Anything Goes with Pink and Bling challenge and the Paper Issues Fawning Over You Cute challenge.

Flag Wavin' Mae

This is my entry for the Some Odd Girl Blog October Sketch Challenge. Can you tell I love Some Odd Girl Stamps? I didn't have any of them until recently, but now that I've got 'em I am all about their challenges!

I totally CASEd this card. I really loved the look. Oh yeah, the doily is from Bird's Cards - I love her freebies! I have been waiting for a chance to use this one. The banner is a Silhouette shape that came with Studio, I think.

I'm also entering this into the Oozak Blog Die-Cut Challenge. Digital die-cuts count too, right?

Happy World Cardmaking Day!

I love these fairies from Some Odd Girl! I was lucky enough to win them from their blog and I couldn't be happier. They are super fun to color up. I used Copics and Bic Mark-its, as usual. The sentiment is from When the Scrap Hits the Fun, I think(?).  I made this card for my friend, Mara. She collects all things fairy.

I am entering this into a few challenges and giveaways for World Cardmaking Day. Hope you have a wonderfully crafty day!

Some Odd Girl Facebook Page
Paper Issues Facebook Page
Crafty Boots Challenges

Lazy Day Kaylee Gatefold Card

 Some Odd Girl had an awesome Facebook Fun Day yesterday - there were tutorials, flash sale coupon codes, and even a freebie! If you weren't there, don't miss the next one! Anyways, they had two challenges, using fabric and making a gatefold card, so I rolled both into one! I am all about killing two birds with one stone.

It was the first time I tried making a gatefold card - I don't have any thin dies so I had to use my Fiskars ShapeXpress to cut the window. I didn't trust it to do multiple layers at once so I kept the card pretty simple, without additional papers, etc. I was able to just barely fit an embossing folder between the folds to get the Happy Birthday Embossing on the front.

I also tried paper piecing for the first time and I really like how the dress turned out. This card was given at a friend's birthday party last night, so I didn't have time for extra embellishments or to try printing on the fabric like Annette's tutorial suggested. I was at least going to stamp a sentiment on the fabric, but in the end found there wasn't room. So it's CAS (Clean And Simple) again today for me. :) Hope you like it!

Christmas in September?

I have no idea why I'm making Christmas cards in September - I have no plans to give out any handmade ones... But, this challenge tempted me. Doing a clean-and-simple, one-layered card was pretty fun and definitely out of the ordinary for me.

The dove stamp is an old Stampin' Up one. I made a mask of the wing to keep the images from overlapping. Ribbon was packaging scrap ( I virtually never buy ribbon) and I have no idea where I got the sentiment. I used Copic markers C-1 and C-3 to color the dove and left it kinda streaky to mimic feathers.

This card is being entered into the Some Odd Girl/Marker Pop Holiday Hop Challenge.