9 Days Later…..

 

Hello All! I’m so sorry that it took me over a week to announce who our Strange Skin Blog Hop winner is!! (Life likes to get all kinds of stupid sometimes…you understand…right?!)

Cutting to the chase, our winner for the hop is

Jenn Borjeson

Congratulations Jenn!! Here are the digis you have won:

Our Bee from the “Buggin’ Out” Collection

and

Ruthie, the bad ass from our “Heartbreakers Gang” Collection!

We hope you enjoy making cool things with these two, and please please please send us links so we can see what you do with em!! (That goes for anyone and everyone that works with our digis! We love to see all the cool things you guys do!)

I just wanted to take a minute to tell all the girls in the hop that I am so grateful that you all played along! I know that it was kind of last minute, but you girls all turned it out! You did amazing projects, and I love you all for helping us get the word out there about our digis! I can’t thank you all enough! 

I want to give a special thanks to my amazing sister, Alison! Without her, we wouldn’t even be making digis, let alone having these cool hops! I love you so much, and you are totally the best big sister anyone could ever have! (and she’s so pretty and talented too! hehehehe)

If you didn’t get to check it out yesterday, wonder on over to Forever Night Challenges Blog and see what the girls did! We sponsored them this week, and they made some cool things with our lock and key collections! There is a prize from us for checking out their blogs and commenting, so all I’ve got to say is, “What are you waiting for?! Go look at some great projects and get a chance so win more of our super cool digis!!!”

Alright, I think that’s all for now folks! I’m gonna go hit the hay! (It is 3:36am, and I think Jorge is missing me as his snuggle buddy!) Thank you all for checking out the hop, and I hope to see more of you again soon! Maybe another great hop with be in the near future…you never know! :0)

Strange Skin Digi Release Blog Hop

Well hello all!

I am happy to announce to you that Jorge and I have released 4 brand new sets of digital stamps today!!  You can go check ‘em out and buy ‘em at our etsy.com store! The link for it is here –-> www.strangeskinart.etsy.com

Our personal website isn’t working correctly, so the only way you can buy them right now is on etsy.com.  Anyway, on to the digis! Like I said we have 4 new collections (a total of 19 new images) for you to craft with!!  Here they are!

“Buggin’ Out”

“Sweet Treats”

"Wonderland Souvenirs"

and last but not least, a collection by Jorge called

“Heartbreakers Gang”

On top of these digi sets that we released, some of our good friends are doing a hop today just for us!! My fabulous sister Alison organized the whole thing! There are 9 ladies that participated in the hop, and they used our new digis to make some great projects! To check them out you can follow the blog list below, or just hop through everyone’s blog starting with Alison! (I suggest you hop, it’s way more fun!!)

Alison

Kelli

Lady Brayton

Jane

Alex

Cheryl

Black Dragon

Sara

Ike

If you go through the whole hop and leave a message on everyone’s blog you will be entered to WIN 2 OF OUR NEW DIGIS!! All you have to do is leave comments and you get free digis! Good deal right?!

 

On top of all this fun, today is the last day of our digi sale at our etsy shop! We currently have a sale on all of our old digis for 50% OFF! That’s right, all the digis we have (except for these 4 new collections) are HALF OFF! Get ‘em while they are on sale, because come tomorrow they will be back to regular price!!

Thank you so much for checking out my blog! Make sure you check out all the blogs included in the hop, and don’t forget to buy some new and old digis at our etsy shop! Have a great day everyone, happy crafting! :0)

Double Vision?

Hey Everyone! Sorry I haven't posted in a little while, I have been so very busy with so many projects!! I am hoping to share some of that stuff with you, but we can discuss that on a later date! On to the news at hand!!

Today we have a challenge over at The Burtonesque Dolls! The other dolls and I have made projects using twin images! Everyone did things a little differently, and I am no exception! I decided to forget about color, forget about different mediums, and well, forget about a project! What I decided to do was to make a drawing that incorporated one of the heart digis from my Strange Skin digi collections! Check it!

I wanted to do something a little strange and just a touch...for lack of a better word.....fetish-ness....is that even a word?! Hahaha! Anyway, I really kinda like the way the girls turned out, and I am kind of thinking of making a set of digis based off of them.  What do you think?!  Here is a closer look at just the girls:

If you like the heart that I used, and you would like to use it yourself, you can go over to www.strangeskin.com and get one of your own! If you haven't been the the Dolls blog to check out all the other girls projects, visit http://theburtonesquedolls.blogspot.com/ 

I hope you guys enjoyed my take on the whole twin challenge, and I hope you come back again soon to see what kind of trouble I've gotten myself into! Have an awesome day everyone, and Happy Crafting! <3

Celebrating A Little Nightmare Before Halloween!

Hello All!! So hopefully you have been visiting me and the other Burtonesque Dolls to see the new releases from Simply Betty Stamps.  If you haven’t been, what have you been doing instead?! What’s more important than this!? Goodness!! hehe

Today I would like to help welcome to the stamping world Ellanore!!!

Now she doesn’t usually dress up like Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas, but this occasion was special! Along with the release of these stamps, we needed to do a challenge today.  The challenge was to take Ellanore and dress her up like one of Burtons leading ladies.  I chose Sally, cause well, Sally is great!!

I used this really great, super skinny ball point pen and drew in the stitches and patterns all over her.  I also used the pen to draw the Jack in the background. 

I colored her in with colored pencils.  I never use colored pencils, but I think that they worked out pretty well for this project!!

Who’s your favorite Burton leading lady? Maybe next time you have a project you need to make, you can Burton-ize it too!

Make sure to check out http://theburtonesquedolls.blogspot.com/ to see all the other Dolls projects, and make sure you go and buy these stamps at Simply Betty Stamps on Friday!!

Hope you all have a wonderful day today and happy crafting!

Belladonna is here!

So, it’s day number two of the Simply Betty Stamps preview for the new Burton Weenies!! You met JackJack yesterday, so now it’s time for you to meet Belladonna! Give her a wave!

For my project I knew I needed to put feathers around her, because her hair reminds me so much of these cool feathers that I have.

I decided to paint her with gouache in shades of magenta and purple. (That’s the same magenta I usually dye my hair! teehee!) I then took a green tin box that has been waiting to be glammed up, and I attached the feathers and Belladonna.

I have been storing these feathers in a boring plastic bag, but thanks to Belladonna, I now have a cool tin box to keep ‘em in!!

I hope that you guys are in love with her, and will come back again tomorrow to see what other weenies we have in store!

Make sure you take a look at all the other Dolls projects at http://theburtonesquedolls.blogspot.com/

Have a great day guys and happy crafting!!

Welcome to the world, Burton Weenies!

Hi everyone! I am excited to tell you all about the new line coming out from Simply Betty Stamps called The Burton Weenie! Myself and the other Burtonesque Dolls will be putting up a new project every day this week to preview Betty’s newest characters. The first character we are introducing you to is JackJack! Say Hello!!

My first project with him is a simple little card that used a close up cropped version of the original image. I painted him in using gouache.

His hair has varying shades of brown and some streaks of purple in there, cause he’s a cool dude! His sweatshirt is painted in blues and purples, and his clippies are red with some Stickles on top.

The rest of the card has Stickles on random parts of the paper to make the bubble design stick out a little more. I wrote the sentiment out by hand, cut out a little red heart, and covered it in Stickles and Glossy Accents.

Who doesn’t love a pretty boy?! Hehehehe If you love JackJack, you will love all the other Burton Weenies too!! Wanna buy ‘em? Well you are in luck, because they will be available on www.simplybettystamps.com on Friday!!

Make sure you go check out http://theburtonesquedolls.blogspot.com/ to see all the projects the other lovely dolls made with JackJack, and definitely come back every day this week to see all the other weenies!

Thanks for checking this out, have an awesome day, and happy crafting!

Skull Appreciation Day Blog Hop Winners!

Hello Crafty People! I am so sorry I’m a little behind on picking the 3 winners of our Strange Skin Digis! I didn’t realize what date I should have picked you guys!!

Before I announce the winners, I would just like to shout a big “THANK YOU!!!” to everyone that looked at my blog and commented on it! Your kind words are so appreciated!! It really inspires me to do even more cool stuff!! I will be putting the skull necklace up on etsy.com, hopefully by the weekend, and I will also be making a square potholder and putting it up there too (as suggested by you lovely ladies)! I will let you all know if and when I get some aprons made! I am more than willing to take special orders if you want something specific.  Just let me know!

Ok, on with the prizes! So are you know from last week I said that I will be choosing 3 winners at random to win their choice of any 2 Strange Skin Digis.  This does exclude the Zombie Attack!! Collection, but there are plenty of other goulish delights you can choose from!!

And the winners are……

DonnaMundinger

Susan’s Crafty Chaos

and

Scrappy Rat

Congrats ladies!!  Please send an email to me at pamelajbowman@hotmail.com with the 2 digis of your choice! I hope everyone had fun with the hop! Please come visit again soon! Bye!! <3