LeighSBDesigns: 31 Days of Halloween 2021 Hop+Challenge: Day 23 "The Moon Made Me Do It" Card by Leigh!

Saturday, October 23, 2021

31 Days of Halloween 2021 Hop+Challenge: Day 23 "The Moon Made Me Do It" 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

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

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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Day 23

"The Moon Made Me Do It"

Card by Leigh

Once Upon a Nightmare....the Wicked Moon cast an eerie glow upon Furness Forest putting everything it touched into a trance....spellbound the little girl clutched her balloon and floated up into the starry night...drawn to the whispering Moon…

For Day 23 of our SPOOKtacular 31 Days of Halloween Hop+Challenge I'm back with a spellbinding card featuring digi stamps and SVG Cutz from my new Once Upon a Nightmare Collection!

The Wicked Moon is causing mischief in the Furness Forest Winter Treescape and the little Balloon Girl from the Come Little Children and Saying set is caught in its wicked spell.

I created and coloured my scene in Adobe Fresco with an Apple Pencil on my iPad, then added stars with a white Dylusions paint pen after I printed it out.

In Silhouette Studio I made the top cut layer of my new Once Upon a Starry Night Layered SVG Cutz a bit larger and sized the digital painting to fit and then cut just the overlay out of black cardstock using my Silhouette Cameo 4.

Also caught in the spell of the Wicked Moon is Jinx the kitty from my new Black Cat Silhouettes Layered SVG Cutz set which I cut out of another one of my Distress Oxide sprayed papers. This one was done with Squeezed Lemonade, Candied Apple and Speckled Egg. I then edged the cat with Black Soot Distress Ink.

Gleefully watching the scene unfold from the shadows is my stack of Jack o' Lanterns Layered Lace SVG Cut.

I cut the lace overlay of this wicked trio of pumpkins from black cardstock and the base mat layer from a piece of my painted scene which gives a disappearing “Cheshire Cat” like quality to them which fits in with the weirdness of the scene quite nicely. I then cut the overlay again from my Oxide paper for a bit of paper piecing to give the Jack o’ Lanterns their wicked glowing faces. I edged all the cuts with Black Soot Distress Ink…even the teeny tiny triangle eyes.

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

I used some scraps of the spooktacular Silhouette GITD sticker paper and backed all the Star cut outs with it! Ooooo...the glow is so electric! Love it!

The perfect saying for my scene is included in the faBOOlous A Wicked Compendium of Halloween Sayings. I printed it and cut it out with an offset and made a shadow mat layer which I cut from

black cardstock. I applied Black Soot Distress Ink to the edge of the senti and then used a clear Spectrum Noir glitter sparkle pen on the the shadow layer, the kitty, the Jack o’ Lanterns, the Balloon Girl and the Moon for lots of magical shimmer!

I then edged the whole panel with metallic silver Spectrum Noir Midas pigment ink and mounted it onto a folded card base I made from black heavy weight cardstock. I then adhered the kitty, senti and Jack o’ Lanterns to the card with black foam tape.