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Monday, October 28, 2024

Day 28 of 31 Days of Halloween 2024: "Fright Night" Bizarre Beasties Card by Val

🎃 Happy October Creative Friends 🎃

Welcome to Day 28 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 4th week of our SPOOKtivities already and 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 on the same day but to allow for our busy lives you do have 3 days to complete your hopping and commenting!

🎃 Please 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 28 of 31 Days of Halloween

"Fright Night"

Bizarre Beasties

Card by Val

LeighSBDesigner Val is back for Day 28 of our 31 Days of Halloween SPOOKtivities with a creeptastic card featuring digi stamps from the SPOOKtember 2017 Halloween Collection and the SPOOKtember 2018 Halloween Collection and designer paper from the This is Halloween 2023 Collection.

Bizarre Beasties is the star of Val's creeptastic card today!

Val combined Bizarre Beasties and the "Fright Night"senti (from Vampire Balleigh Monster set) together and printed them onto white cardstock. She then coloured the trio of Beasties with Promarkers and a white gel pen. She then splattered the background with Cosmic Shimmer Chic Aubergine.

For the mat layer she printed out the purple "31 Days of Halloween" designer paper from the 31 Days of Halloween Decorative Digi Paper pack and adhered the Bizarre Beasties panel to it with glue.

To complete her creeptastic card she made another splattered mat layer with Cosmic Shimmer Chic Aubergine and then adhered everything to a white side fold card which she edged with Black Soot Distress ink.

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, we're in the final stretch now but it's never too late to join the fun! Check out all the SPOOKtacular makes linked up already then 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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Christmas is Coming!
I'll be releasing my new Christmas Collection just in time for our festive creativities to begin after Halloween so stay tuned and do join us!

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Shop the CAToWeen 2024 Halloween Collection!
CAToWeen is included in the Halloween Sale which ends Oct 31 midnight pacific!

Happy Haunting!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

Sunday, October 27, 2024

Day 27 of 31 Days of Halloween 2024: "CAToWeen by Candlelight" Book Panel by Leigh

🎃 Happy October Creative Friends 🎃

Welcome to Day 27 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 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! It's never too late to play so 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 nearing the end of the 4th week of our SPOOKtivities and 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 on the same day but to allow for our busy lives you do have 3 days to complete your hopping and commenting!

🎃 Please 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 getting my entire catalogue of fabulous Digi Stamps, Decorative Digi Papers and SVG Cutz for electronic cutting machines up at LeighSBDesigns.com. I'm busy 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 27 of 31 Days of Halloween

"CAToWeen by Candlelight"

Book Panel by Leigh

I'm back for Day 27 of our 31 Days of Halloween SPOOKtivities with a PURRtastic Slimline book panel featuring a Loveleigh Kitty and matching senti from my new CAToWeen 2024 Loveleigh Kitties Halloween Collection and my wicked awesome FUNdamental Foundations Slimline Coffins Nesting SVG Cutz set for electronic cutting machines. Plus, that purple bottle is decorated with one of my stunning Apothecary Labels included in the Furness Forest Apothecary Labels Set #1 from the Shadows Rising 2022 Collection.

Check everything out and more in my Halloween Sale!

CAToWeen Loveleigh Kitty is the star of today's make!

CAToWeen by candlelight is a spooky sight!

She's so cute and tiny and her giant shadow is pretty wicked!

"Boo Hiss"... she purrs in the darkness!

I coloured tiny CAToWeen digitally in Adobe Fresco, printed her in all her colourful glory and fussy cut the little cutie out with scissors leaving a narrow white border that makes her pop nicely against the backgrounds.

To make CAToWeen's shadow I completely coloured in the image with a black Copic leaving just the whites of her spooky eyes.

For lots of magical sparkle that makes the kitties dance in the candlelight I painted tiny CAToWeen's witch hat and all the pumpkins with an orange Spectrum Noir glitter brush pen and the rest of her with a clear glitter brush pen.

I painted CAToWeen's shadow with a Spectrum Noir black glitter brush pen for lots of wicked sparkle. The sparkle on the tiny kitty is very pretty in real life but ever so hard to capture in photos but her shadow is really sparkly here so you get the idea of how sparkly tiny CAToWeen really is too!

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. I used a batty patterned paper for the background panel and cut it 1/8 inch smaller. I then edged it with Spectrum Noir Midas Bronze 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 stacked background and cut them out with my Silhouette Cameo 5 electronic cutting machine.

I cut the largest coffin from purple glitter card, the middle coffin from black cardstock and the top coffin from a whimsical Halloween themed patterned paper. I then edged the top coffin panel and the black mat with Spectrum Noir Midas Bronze pigment ink for more distressed metallic elegance and adhered them to the purple glitter card. I then mounted the coffin stack to the book panel with black foam tape for some fun dimension.

Next I adhered the shadow kitty to the coffin stack with glue and then got to work on the senti.

The "Boo Hiss" senti is from the Catoween Senties set of 4 kitty themed Halloween sentiments.

I opened the sentiment in Silhouette Studio and added an offset. I used the "print and cut" feature to first print the senti with my printer onto white cardstock and then fussy cut it out with my Silhouette Cameo 5. I coloured the senti with Seedless Preserves and Villainous Purple Distress Ink applied with a blender brush and adhered it in place with glue.

I then adhered tiny CAToWeen kitty in place with foam tape for even more fun dimension.

These two faBOOlous Tim Holtz Candlelight die cuts are casting the wicked shadow of CAToWeen. I cut out all the colorize elements from adhesive backed Sizzix textured cardstock and edged everything with Black Soot Distress Ink.

Once the candles were assembled I painted the flames with a yellow Spectrum Noir glitter brush pen and applied Crystal Stickles glitter to the waxy drips plus a touch of bronze pigment ink along the bottom edges. Once dry I adhered them together then added them to book panel with a double layer of foam tape to account for the multi-level background.

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 and it's never too late to join the fun! 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!