🎃 Happy October Creative Friends 🎃
Welcome to Day 17 of
October is the most SPOOKTACULAR
time of the year and we are thrilled to be back with our 14th annual 31 Days of Halloween SPOOKtivities to get you in the Halloween spirit!
We are here to fright and delight you for 31 days straight so stop by daily to see our faBOOlous Halloween, Falloween and Day of the Dead themed makes and countdown to October 31st with us in LeighsBDesigns style!
We want
to see what you're cooking up in your crafty cauldrons this month too
and invite you to join in on the SPOOKtivities as a Wicked Maker in our 14th annual 31 Days of Halloween Haunt Hop! Gather your crafty friends and play along with your own Halloween makes, see the Main Hop Post for all the Hop details and linky! Join us for some wicked good fun using any company products for all 31 days, if you dare, or play anytime throughout October for the chance to win some wicked LeighSBDesigns prizes! Go grab your Wicked Maker badge and haunt the hop with us!
🎃 Halloween Haunt Hop Reminder 🎃
🎃We're now in the 3rd week of our SPOOKtivities so here's a quickie reminder to please hop and comment on the entries linked up on the same days you play.
Try and leave some love the same day but to allow for our busy lives
you do have 3 days after adding your entries to complete your hopping
and commenting!
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also keep checking your blog's spam and moderation folders under Comments in
your blog dashboard to ensure there's no hop comments needing to be
published!
Shop my new CAToWeen 2024 Halloween Collection and more in the Halloween Sale on thru Oct 31st midnight pacific!
I'm still busy getting my entire catalogue of fabulous Digi
Stamps, Decorative Digi Papers and SVG Cutz for electronic cutting
machines up at LeighSBDesigns.com. I'm adding the rest of my magical Once Upon a Nightmare Collection right now so keep an eye on the Re-Release Sale-bration section to see what's been re-released so far. They are also included in the Halloween Sale!
Day 17 of 31 Days of Halloween
"Once Upon a Nightmare"
Slimline Book Panel
by Leigh
I'm back for Day 17 of our 31 Days of Halloween SPOOKtivities with a bewitching slimline book panel featuring digi stamps and SVG Cutz from my magical Once Upon a Nightmare Collection, which I'm currently busy adding to my new store at LeighSBDesigns.com so keep an eye on the Re-Release Sale-bration section to see what's been re-released so far!
My book panel also features the SPOOKtacular FUNdamental Foundations Slimline Coffins Nesting SVG Cutz
set for electronic cutting machines.
Check everything out and more in my Halloween Sale too!
The drop dead gorgeous Wicked Witch Robed Hand with the bewitching Poison Apple steal the show on today's slimline book panel.
I
combined both digi stamps in Photoshop then digitally coloured it in Adobe Fresco. I then printed out the coloured image twice and fussy cut them with scissors.
From the 2nd print I cut out just the leaf, the Witch's hand and all of the sleeve to the right of the shadow and adhered them over the first print with black foam tape to create dimension and also to enhance the effect that her hand is emerging from the darkness of her robe.
For
lots of magical sparkle and shine I applied Diamond Stickles glitter to her robe, the poison apple and the leaf and applied Glossy Accents to the apple's twig and her finger nails.
My
31 Days of Halloween makes are going in a book I'm making so I first
made a slimline 4" x 9" book panel from heavy weight black
cardstock. For the background panel I used a sheet of Crafter's Companion Halloween cardstock with a spiderweb and autumn leaf design and cut it 1/8 inch smaller than the black panel.
I then edged it with Spectrum Noir Midas Copper pigment ink for a touch of
distressed metallic elegance and adhered it to
the black panel with glue.
For the mat and layered Coffin panels I used my SPOOKtacular FUNdamental Foundations Slimline Coffins Nesting SVG Cutz
set for electronic cutting machines. The set includes 7 concentric
slimline coffin mats and layers for making slimline cards, tags and
more!
I
used the 3 largest coffin SVG Cutz to create my mat and layered coffin
background and cut them out with my Silhouette Cameo 5 electronic
cutting machine. I
used the largest coffin SVG Cutz to create my coffin
background panel cut from Crafter's Companion orange glitter card. The middle coffin is cut from black cardstock and the top coffin panel from patterned cardstock I used on the slimline background panel which I also edged with Spectrum Noir Midas Copper pigment ink.
For lots of fun dimension I adhered the orange glitter coffin mat layer to the slimline book panel with foam tape. I then adhered the black mat and the top coffin panel to the orange glitter layer with glue.
Next I cut 2 of my wicked awesome Poison Drips Border SVG Cutz, which also works for blood and paint drips too, out of my stash of Distress Oxide Ink and Copper Mica Stain mixed media background papers I made previously.
I then trimmed them to fit the top and bottom edges of the top coffin panel.
For lots of wicked oozy shine I coated both borders with Glossy Accents and the applied Spectrum Noir Midas Copper pigment ink to just the straight edges. I then adhered the top border in place with foam tape for more fun dimension and the bottom one with glue.
Next I adhered the Wicked Witch hand to the book panel with a combination of black foam tape and glue to allow for all the layered height differences.
The "Once Upon a Nightmare" senti is from my faBOOlous A Wicked Compendium of 41 Halloween Sayings that is a must have set for every fan of Halloween!
I printed the sentiment out on to another sheet of my Distress Oxide and mica stained mixed media cardstock and fussy cut it out with an offset with my Silhouette Cameo 5. I then applied Black Soot Distress Ink to the edges and adhered it in place with both foam tape and glue.
Every Witch needs her familiar companion and you can see hers peeking out from the behind the coffin panels on the right.
The kitty is from my PURRtastic Black Cat Silhouettes SVG Cutz set of 4 Cats which I cut from black cardstock with my Silhouette Cameo 5 then painted with a black Spectrum Noir glitter brush pen.
I then decorated the bottom left corner of the slimline book panel with a tiny Crafter's Companion spiderweb die cut corner, from the Happy Howl-ween die set, cut from black cardstock with double sided adhesive applied to the back for easy adhering.
I completed today's slimline book panel with lots of tiny die cut black bats from the Tim Holtz Mixed Media Halloween Elements die set which I adhered in place with glue then bent up all their wings for even more scrumptious dimension.
I'm loving the wonderful 3D effect of the Wicked Witch Hand trying to bewitch you with her poisoned apple! Do you dare take it?
We
hope our 31 Days of Halloween SPOOKtivities are inspiring you to do your own Halloween crafting this month, do come and share them with us in our 14th annual 31 Days of Halloween Hop, there's lots of spooktacular makes linked up already! Gather your crafty friends and play along as a Wicked Maker in our Haunt Hop Linky Party, see the Main Hop Post for all the Hop details and linky!
All LeighSBDesigns makes are also linked in the Haunt Hop Linky Party too for easy hopping! Do come join the fun 🎃
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Don't forget to check out my new CAToWeen 2024 Halloween Collection and shop the Halloween Sale thru Oct 31st midnight pacific!
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Play along with your Anything Goes makes or be inspired by our optional CAToWeen theme in this month's challenge!
You're welcome to play in our annual 31 Days of Halloween Hop and the October Challenge SPOOKtivities with different makes! Please note...to play as a Wicked Maker in the Hop you do need to hop and comment! All the Haunt Hop details are in the Main Hop Post!
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Christmas is Coming!
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CAToWeen is included in the Halloween Sale which ends Oct 31 midnight pacific!
Happy Creating!
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN
