100,000 Visitor GIVE AWAY!

                                                               100,000 visitor GIVEAWAY!

I'm celebrating the upcoming 100,00th hit on my blog with a stamp give away and there's two chances to win!All you have to do to win one of these lovely stamps is "like" my page on Facebook, share the post there with your friends, and comment when you're done. If you're not already a follower of my blog, follow me here, comment on this post when you're done, and you're entered for *another* chance to win! I'll be doing a random number drawing when I get to 100,000 views, hurry up, and tell your friends! If you already like/follow, just share and comment, so I know you're interested. ((nods))

MiC Mirror Post: Angel In The Clouds

Hi everyone, it's Aeryn! Right now we're having an exciting colouring challenge on our Make it Crafty Facebook Page, it's all about backgrounds! There's three fun levels of the challenge, but the middle level is to create clouds in your background. Here, I used Sweet Angel and put her up in the sky! You have until the 30th of June to enter your projects to the Make it Crafty Facebook fan page and possibly win a $15 gift card to the Make it Crafty store! So get out your colouring tools, stretch out that creativity, and show us what cool backgrounds you can create!

Stay Crafty!

Copics Used:
Skin: E04/11/21/00/000
Hair: E59/39/99/97/21
Dress: G28, YG67/17/23/01
Clouds: C00/1/2/3, B000/0000
Halo: Y26/18/15/11/000

Odd Idol 4 - The Loser

Well, this is it. It wasn't good enough, creative enough or something to get the votes of people. I dunno. It was my best work, but that's not good enough so there you have it. I never, ever thought I could win, but top 5 would have been nice. To at least make it into the last round. I drew all the non-Some Odd Girl elements. I felt it would be cheating to use another company's stamps. So anything but the SOG characters is all mine. I used my Cricut too, and SCAL, to cut the letters. If you click "view image" it's much bigger and cooler.

You can see who won here: http://www.someoddgirlblog.com/2013/06/and-then-there-were-five-odd-idol-continues/

MiC Mirror Post: Treasure These Moments

 Hello everyone, Aeryn here! We're having a little challenge over on the Make it Crafty Facebook Page for colouring brown hair and I thought I'd give you some inspiration. I paired up Tiny Lena with the Forest Floor digi stamp to create this little scene. I hope you like it and that you'll come join in the challenge. There's something for every level of colouring so break out your MiC images and give it a try! Stay crafty!

 Here are the markers I used on this image for you. ;)

Here Be Dragons

WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME I WENT OVER A WEEK WITHOUT POSTING?!

I swear to you, I have been busy! First off, I got my Cricut working with my SCAL2 again, set it up on the desktop, and I cut out this little polaroid frame. Then, of course, I had to fill it, so I stamped this cute little Lawn Fawn dragon in there and created a scene around him. I'm planning on ACTUALLY MAILING it and giving it to a friend of mine. I also managed to use some washi, a wood veneer, AND some buttons on this project. I mean, WTG me, right?!

Continuing on the dragon kick, I wanted to explore not doing two-tone, but going with the idea that the scales would become darker if the light were blocked. I used this image by Simply B Stamps and figured it's a girl dragon so I gave her teal/pink. I wish I'd chosen a lighter pink, but I think I captured the idea that the dragon's scales are darker where the girl is blocking the light and where the dragon is bending. I *think* the light source is from the front? Seems to match most of the parts of the dragon, anyhow, and some of the girl. For this card I also used my Cricut and SCAL2 to cut out the heart frame. It was a free SVG file. It took a bit to get it to cut perfectly around the digitally stamped image, but it was worth it for the effect. I didn't include the Kraft paper that I'm in love with right now cos I wanted the card to look more feminine and subtle.

I did this last one last night. I wanted to experiment with the idea that the dragon is reacting to the light by changing colour. He *would* be a solid colour, probably red, but the light is making his scales reflect and change. So we figure the light source is in the upper right corner of the image, shining down at an angle on them. It's not perfect, cos I'm still working on light source, but mostly the dragon changes to a lighter colour where the light is hitting him. We're also assuming that the fur of his outfit is some sort of dirty wool. Like form an alpaca or mountain sheep, so it's not white, it's more of a dirty khaki. For this card I just kept him simple, a little stamped sentiment on a ticket, lots of manly Kraft, and I dug into my 6x6 papers. I also made my own enamel dots. I dotted out Glossy Accents onto an acetate sheet the day before, let it dry, and then coloured the few dots to order, matching the yellow, orange, and red of the image.

Anyway, I hope you like my dragons! I'm working on the other six images from the Simply B Stamps release just cos they're super fun, so I'll have those up for you soon. Well, I'll have them eventually....