31 Days of Halloween 2021 Hop+Challenge Day 27 and Day 3 of the Cat Lovers Hop: Meow-o-Ween Gothic Gazing Globe 3D Stand by Leigh!

Happy October Creative Friends🎃

It’s here, LeighSBDesigns most anticipated 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop is finally here with a twist this year...I'm excited to announce we now have a monthly challenge too so creep on in and countdown to Halloween in LeighSBDesigns style🎃

 

 

Woohoo, October is the most SPOOKTACULAR time of the year and I’m thrilled to be back with our 11th annual 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop where we gleefully countdown to October 31st in SPOOKtacular style and this year there's a new twist for even more wicked good fun!

 

 

I'm excited to announce that LeighSBDesigns will now be hosting monthly Hop+Challenges🎉

Stress free creative fun designed to inspire and bring makers together is the name of the game so our annual hops plus the monthly hops we've had a blast hosting to help keep our creative spirits up throughout the pandemic are all merging into one big creative Hop+Challenge party where, as usual, YOU choose when and how often YOU play starting with 31 Days of Halloween!  There are 3 ways to play and LeighSBDesigns has proudly partnered up with some fabulous companies to sponsor prizes for you to win plus all winners are invited to Guest Design in future Hop+Challenges too🎉

 

🎃 31 Days of Halloween Hop+Challenge 🎃

Put your love of Halloween and crafty stamina to the test and play as often as you want as a Wicked Blogger and hop along admiring all the faBOOlous makes shared throughout the month while leaving lots of love on the makes linked up on the same days you choose to play to qualify for the Sponsored Hop Prizes

OR

If your crafty time is limited you can still join the spooktivities by playing in the Challenge part of the fun with no hopping required!  There's 2 tiers to the Challenge:

Enter the monthly Challenge with makes using LeighSBDesigns digi stamps or SVG Cutz to qualify for the LeighSBDesigns Challenge Prize

OR

Enter makes using any stamp company products to win a Top 3 badge plus a generous discount coupon to spend at LeighSBDesigns Etsy BOOtique!

There's only ONE Hop+Challenge linky party and the info and easy peasy rules are in the MAIN POST! 

Please read them over before linking up your Halloween makes!

 

Shop LeighSBDesigns SPOOKtacular Etsy BOOtique Sale for some scary good deals through Oct 31 midnight pacific!

 

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Today is also Day 3 of the FURRbulous CAT LOVERS HOP hosted by Janis over at Her Peaceful Garden and LeighSBDesigns is proudly sponsoring LOTS of clawesome prizes again this year!  Join the fun FUR a whisker licking good time and the chance to win FURRbulous prizes!  FUR all the guidelines, FAQs and details on the prizes LeighSBDesigns is sponsoring click HERE!

 

 As you all know we are totally moggy about cats here at LeighSBDesigns Arts Stamps and they appear frequently in our makes but every year for the CAT LOVERS HOP kitty cats totally take over our annual 31 Days of Halloween so grab the catnip and enjoy our Meow-o-Ween makes through Oct 30!

 

PLUS, in addition to our HALLOWEEN SALE you can now shop LeighSBDesigns CAT SALE through Oct 31 midnight pacific too fur PURR PURR PURRect deals!

Here's another photo of my precious boy Neo, the Destroyer of Christmas Trees!

Neo is a male ruddy Abyssinian and so named coz he’s the One (Matrix fan here) coz it took me 25 years to get him❤️

 

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Day 27 of 31 DoH Hop+Challenge

Day 3 of the Cat Lovers Hop

 

"Meow-o-Ween"

Gothic Gazing Globe 3D Stand

by Leigh

  

Once Upon a Nightmare...the enchanted Furness Forest is alive with the creatures of the night as Salem stalks amongst the ferns and mushrooms, his eerily glowing eyes piercing the darnkness!

 

 
For Day 27 of our SPOOKtacular 31 Days of Halloween Hop+Challenge and Day 3 of the Cat Lovers Hop I'm back with a FURRtastic Gothic Gazing Globe 3D Stand with a Cat silhouette ornament featuring SVG Cutz from my new Once Upon a Nightmare Collection!

 

 

I welded the Gothic Gazing Globe Stand 3D SVG Cutz with my gorgeous new Furness Forest Faerie Ring Layered SVG Cutz and cut out 4 of the stand elements, 2 are mirror images, out of heavy weight black cardstock using my Silhouette Cameo 4.  I trimmed away a mushroom and two tress from each piece to make more space for my hanging cat ornament.

 

 

I cut four of the stand mat layers from a sheet of mixed media cardstock I coloured with Squeezed Lemonade, Fossilized Amber, Peeled Paint Distress Oxide Sprays and Jack-o-Lantern Distress Mica Stain for some luscious wicked sparkle.

 

 

I adhered the stand mats to the backs of the 4 stand panels and coloured just the grinning mouths and wicked eyes of the pumpkins with a reddish orange Spectrum Noir sparkle paint pen for a touch of shimmer.

 

 From black cardstock I cut the large Salem silhouette kitty that has eye cut outs from my new Black Cat Silhouettes Layered SVG Cutz set twice with one as a mirror image.  

 

 

I love magical light effects so of course I put Silhouette glow-in-the-dark sticker paper behind the eyes of both cats and then adhered them back to back with fishing line sandwiched between to create the hanging ornament.

 

I then folded all the Gothic Gazing Globe stand pieces along the fold lines and carefully adhered each side to the next taking my time to line things up one side at time.

 

  

I placed the Cat ornament in the center and adhered the fishing line between the Fleur-de-lis topper before adhering the last side together.

 

The Gothic Gazing Globe Stand 3D SVG Cutz is an amazing 3D paper art piece but it's super versatile too coz it folds flat making it a different Meow-o-Ween card PURRfect for mailing! 

 

 

Check out the Gothic Gazing Globe Luminary I made for Day 1 of 31 Days of Halloween that has fairy lights in the base and a Wicked Moon digi stamp ornament!

 

 

There's a little video of it too! 

  

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 Shop the Once Upon a Nightmare digi stamps and SVG Cutz used today and more in the Halloween Sale and the new CAT SALE on now through Oct 31st!

 

Check out this year's "Once Upon a Nightmare" Digi Stamp and SVG Cutz Halloween Collection!

 

I've entered this one into Show Us Your Pussycats #71 - Ike's Art is a sponsor of our 31 Days of Halloween Hop+Challenge🥰

 

Thanks for creeping in to see today's SPOOKtacular make, see you tomorrow🎃

Happy Haunting!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN