it's time!

welcome to the Some Odd Girl Hol-ODD-day Blog Hop!

this is a SPECIAL hop, because we've not only included our Odd Girls, but we've invited Some (wonderfully) Odd Friends to join us as well! if you love Some Odd Girl, you're gonna LOVE what you see today!

hop around all the following blogs and witness the fabby inspiration and creativity from the people who have been showing the love to Some Odd Girl - we are HUMBLED and forever inspired! be sure to leave comments at every stop along the way, because all of these loyal bloggers have a little something to give away! you have to complete the hop in order to be eligible, so your STARTING POINT is the main blog, but if you've ended up here, at The Chronicles of Orange, via ANDREA'S BLOG, then you're well on your way!

sooooooo, in honour of our Hol-ODD-day Hop, i decided to use one of the fun new images, Sign Kaylee, who is PERFECTLY customizable to ANY occasion, including the big ones coming up! there's a bunch of fun Some Odd Girl SENTIMENTS that work great with Sign Kaylee, but i love to make my own sentiments and have an overabundance of tiny alphas (ha! NEVER too many alphas!), so i went that route for my card...
(click to enlarge!)


here's a different view so you can see the fun gold foil spots on the paper:


*see that little star paperclip? yeah, that's from STAPLES, baby! cheap and lots of 'em in a pack!*

so i'm giving away SIGN KAYLEE today to one lucky commenter who completes the entire hop, and if you play your cards right, you might even end up winning a lovely ASSORTMENT of Some Odd Girl images, as we've really mixed it up for you! :)

so leave your comment below, and clickety click along to the next blogger in our lineup today, CORRY!

here's the full order (the DT Odd Girls are bolded in italics):

1. SOME ODD GIRL BLOG http://someoddgirl.blogspot.com/
2. Kimmy http://kimsonksen.blogspot.com/
3. Margie http://ohbumbleismemargie.blogspot.com/
4. Andrea http://andreasscraps.com/
5. Leah (YOU ARE HERE!) http://thechroniclesoforange.blogspot.com/
6. Corry http://fancyfree4ever.blogspot.com
7. Sally http://salsbitsandbobs.blogspot.com
8. Yvonne http://yyam.blogspot.com/
9. Meredith www.meredithscraps.com
10. Tanya http://little-scrapper.blogspot.com/
11. Robin Mc http://stamperextraordinaire.blogspot.com/
12. Jennifer http://jljdesignscraftingblog.blogspot.com/
13. Donna http://donnamundinger-popsicletoes.blogspot.com/
14. Marcie http://cardmakinchaos.blogspot.com/
15. Asa http://www.scraphorse.blogg.se
16. Zarah http://zarischka2.blogspot.com/
17. Tanya http://tanyamsmith.blogspot.com/
18. Mary http://maryjdesigns.blogspot.com
19. Denise http://thecraftyden.blogspot.com
20. Robin F http://bosenberries.blogspot.com/
21. Diana http://designbydiana.blogspot.com/
22. Jan http://scrapnsurprise.blogspot.com
23. Cassie http://thisnthatcass.blogspot.com/
24. Kellie http://www.kelliewinnell.com.au/
25. Kristy http://kitten91303.blogspot.com/

we will be hoppin' (and so can you!) until December 1st at 6 pm EST. the winners will be announced on the aforementioned blogs sometime December 2nd (we're in ALL kinds of different time zones, so please bear with us!), so you should drop back to visit us to see if you were one of the lucky ones! :D

well? what are you waiting for? there's another Odd Friend waiting for you - go on and say hi to CORRY! thanks for hopping with us, and wear your oddness PROUDLY! :D (i sure do!)

FABBY SALES, incentives, and are you feeling ODD?!

first of all, there's a big SALE going on at Some Odd Girl, and if you think Tiny Tia is a little cutie patootie, then GO HERE! Tiny Tia images are ALL 20% off! and if you're thrifty, you might wanna check out the 99 CENT BIN, where there are lots of oldies but goodies (and you can stock up - you deserve a little gift to yourself, dontcha?!). the SENTIMENTS are super cheap, too, and they're so much fun to play with, even if you don't have the mad colouring skillz! ;) (oh, and you STILL get to rack up your Some Odd LOYALTY POINTS, to cash in for more freebies!)

but what i REALLY wanna share is that TOMORROW, starting at 9 am EST, we kick off our fun Hol-Odd-Day BLOG HOP!

we have a lineup of 25 (holy wowza!) loyal crafters who took part, including our Odd Girls (the Some Odd Girl Design Team, that is), and lots of our Odd Friends! you won't wanna miss it - there will be TONS of giveaways, and heaps and gobs of wonderful inspiration!

join us tomorrow! and bring your crayons! :D

a girlie challenge at Charisma! and our newest sponsor!

happy thanksgiving, U.S. friends! and happy thursday to everyone - i'm thrilled to have a day off, but it's been a mad, hectic week here, so i do apologize for the lateness of my post.

WOO HOO! so excited, because this week's Charisma Challenge is LIVE, and it's a good one!

this one's FOR THE GIRLS!

yep, easy peasy! we want to see your girlie creations, and look who's sponsoring! :)

SOME ODD GIRL is our newest sponsor at Charisma, and i couldn't be more pleased, as i am thrilled to be designing for BOTH!

it was lots of fun making this one - i had this GORGEOUS thick green ribbon that my fellow Oddie, Kimmy, sent me when i won a yummy blog candy, and i thought i might try to make some funky grass with it...

whatcha think?


here's a close-up of my two fave digi-gals, Mae (Relax Mae) and Kaylee (Lounging Kaylee), with the oh-so-versatile Tree behind them:


the grass is layered with lots of pop dotty goodness for super dimension, and i can't tell you how much FUN i had making this card!
OH, nearly forgot....


so you can win some free digis from Some Odd Girl, or you can win a beautiful embellie prize pack from Pizzazz Aplenty, or you can win $10 (Canadian funds) to spend at Digis With Atittude! but either way, you should CLICK HERE to see what the rest of the Charisma Gals have done, because i get to design alongside some AMAZINGLY talented ladies! play along with us by next wednesday for your chance to win!

i decided to play along with the new Cute Card Thursday challenge, which is to revisit one of their OLD challenges... i chose "Tree-Mendous", from one of their August challenges this year.

right now, i am waiting for our sweet potatoes to finish baking in the oven, then i'm getting my new scoring board and bringing my holiday papers over to the in-laws' house so i can try to whip some more quick projects out for next saturday's craft fair. i hope that everyone celebrating thanksgiving today is enjoying the day with loved ones, and eating so much food they could pop! :D

'cuz Carlyann says so....

i've got ATTITUDE!
or, at the very least, my BLOG does. ;)



this is a little surprise the lovely Carlyann (the DT queen at Charisma) bestowed upon me on Thursday, and it just warmed my heart! THANK YOU, dollface! i try to keep things light and fresh, and my goofy outlook often shows through my blog posts and interactions with my bloggy friends, so i'm THRILLED to know that someone, somewhere, might be giggling when they read my drivel. :)

Carlyann accused me of being NUTS! is that true? do you think i'm a little off-my-rocker-loco? well i was kinda flattered, to be perfectly honest! :)

anywho... i'm supposed to tell you 3 things about myself that you might not already know, so let's see what i can come up with here.

did you know that.....
i own my dream car? (a Pontiac Vibe - yeah, my dream car is a spunky little CROSSOVER! and her name is Tallulah!)
i have a giant crush on Norman Reedus (The Boondock Saints)
i hate my cell phone! i wish i didn't need the thing, and i hate that sometimes i have to rely on it.

oh, and my job requires me to get up at 5:30 am, and it's nearly 11:30 pm, so it's WAY past my bedtime. 'night! xo

a merry martini to you! and Simon Says USE BUTTONS!

it was time to do some colouring - i'll go a few days without picking up my beloved Prismacolors, then i'll feel guilty and have to show them some tenderness. after a short dry spell, this morning i decided to bust 'em out, and my Merry Martini card was born:


the background was something NEW to me, and also happened because of a big, ugly mistake i'd made. i used Smooch for Bella's hairband, and forgot that the stuff takes FOREVER to dry, so it smudged everywhere! but i'm much happier with the overall card now anyway, so it was a HAPPY accident!

check out the bead/charm action here (i don't often play with stuff like this):


i was partly inspired by the "Just a Fraction" theme last Sunday at 365 Cards (I LOVE THAT BLOG!) - i chopped Bella's feet off to add a spotlight effect
and i'm playing along with the "We Three" challenge at Daring Cardmakers - the three stars

then there's a demand for BUTTONS, and use buttons, i did! i had these two little die-cut trees from a cheapie kit freebie i got last year (it was a bonus with some stuff i'd ordered), and i didn't think i'd EVER use them, because they just weren't my style. then i saw the challenge in the Simon Says Stamp group at Paper Craft Planet, and i finally squoze in a bit of time this morning to put these trees to use.

they wanna see BUTTONS GALORE... and i didn't have very many CAS cards for the craft fair, so it was time. now that i've made these two cards, i think i want to do some others using different colour schemes.


the stars on the treetops? yeah, those are FELT BUTTONS, that i grabbed on clearance at Jo-ann a few months ago. i LOVE them, and it was time to stop hording them. ;)

on a kinda unrelated side note, have you been to the SEI blog? are you a follower there? there's something FUN happening over there in a few of weeks, and i'm really excited! follow them NOW so you don't miss the big event! *giggle*