31 Days of Halloween 2021 Hop+Challenge Day 25 and Day 1 of the Cat Lovers Hop: "I Was Normal 3 Cats Ago " Meow-o-Ween Z-Fold Card 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

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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 1 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!

Before I share my kitty make for today say hello to my precious boy Neo, the Destroyer of Christmas Trees!  Neo is my male ruddy Abyssinian and so named coz he’s the One (Matrix fan here)…I’d wanted an Abby for 25 years and got all emotional when I finally got him❤️

 

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Day 25 of 31 DoH Hop+Challenge

Day 1 of the Cat Lovers Hop

 

"I Was Normal 3 Cats Ago"

Cat Mushroom Hillside Z-Fold Card

by Leigh

  

Once Upon a Nightmare....it's midnight in the enchanted Furness Forest and the Wicked Witch is busy picking mushrooms for her Poison Apple recipe while her kitties, Jinx, Salem and Hex play amongst the mushrooms on the magical hillside...”how did I get here?” she whispered to herself, “I was normal before I adopted these 3 adorable cats, but…are they PURRevil?  I’m making poisoned apples in the middle of the night so I think something wicked must have happened to me” she sighed!

 

 

For Day 25 of our SPOOKtacular 31 Days of Halloween Hop+Challenge and Day 1 of the Cat Lovers Hop I'm back with a FURRbulous Z-Fold card featuring digi stamps and SVG Cutz from my new Once Upon a Nightmare Collection!

  

I used my new Mushroom Hillside Z Fold 3D Card "Colourize It" SVG Cutz to set the scene for my cat themed Z-fold card.

 

 

Jinx, Salem and Hex kitties are from my new Black Cat Silhouettes Layered SVG Cutz set.

The glamorous witch is from my new Wicked Witch and Hissy Cat Silhouettes Layered SVG Cutz set. 

 

 

The two kitty themed senties, "PURRevil" and "I Was Normal 3 Cats Ago" are included in my new Black Cats and Senti digi stamp set and the wicked dripping border is my new Poison Drips Border Layered SVG Cutz.

 

 

 I cut the Mushroom Hillside Z Fold 3D Card "Colourize It" SVG Cutz Z-fold base out of black heavy weight cardstock and the top layer mushroom pieces for both sides of the Z-fold card from a sheet of mixed media cardstock I coloured with Fossilized Amber, Candied Apple and a touch of Wilted Violet Distress Oxide sprays and the mat layer pieces from dove gray cardstock.  Then adhered all the mushroom pieces to the card and edged them with Black Soot Distress ink.

 

 

I cut out all the kitty silhouettes and the Wicked Witch silhouette from black cardstock and then cut mirror images of each and adhered them back to back to make chunkier elements.  Before adhering the kitty with the eye cut outs I added glow-in-the-dark Silhouette sticker paper to the eyes for a wicked magical glow.  I then applied metallic silver Spectrum Noir Midas pigment ink to the edges of all the silhouettes and silver Spectrum Noir gilding wax to the edges of the black Z-fold card for a touch of reflected moon glow.

 

 

For the Poison Drips Border Layered SVG Cutz pieces I made a Distress Oxide spray cardstock with Squeezed Lemonade, Candied Apple, Peeled Paint and Jack-o-Lantern Distress Mica Stain and cut out 3 borders and edged them Black Soot Distress ink.

  

The 2 senties I used are included in my new Black Cats and Senti digi stamp set.  I printed them via Silhouette Studio and cut them out with an offset and grunged them up with Black Soot Distress ink.  All LeighSBDesigns SVG Cutz are designed in Silhouette Studio and include SVG and Silhouette Studio file formats and I use a Silhouette Cameo 4 to do all my cutting.

 

Of course my scene had to have some glow-in-the-dark magic!

 

 I couldn’t resist sharing a photo of the spooktacular shadow my scene cast…how PURRfectly wicked!

  

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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