31 Days of Halloween 2021 Hop+Challenge: Day 17 "Trick or Treat" Candy Bats 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

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

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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 17

"Trick or Treat"

Candy Bats card by Leigh

  

Once Upon a Nightmare....it's midnight in the Furness Forest and the ravenous Candy Bats are flying in a frenzy and if you listen carefully you can hear them chittering beneath the eerily glowing Wicked Moon in the starry sky..."Trick or Treat, give us something good to eat"!

 

For Day 17 of our SPOOKtacular 31 Days of Halloween Hop+Challenge I'm back with a wicked Furness Forestscape card where Candy Bats are hunting featuring digi stamps from my new Once Upon a Nightmare Collection!

 

 I used the faBOOlous Wicked Moon Furness Forestscape and the wicked Candy Bats and Senti set to create my scary forest scene.

Here's a look at the Wicked Moon Forestscape before the Candy Bats swarm through. 

I made my mixed media background using Seedless Preserves and Wilted Violet Distress Oxide sprays and printed out the Wicked Moon Furness Forestscape.  I then splattered the forest scene with white acrylic paint to create a starry midnight sky.  I added detailing to the black trees with a white gel pen and then applied Black Soot Distress Ink to the edges of the purple forest scene panel.

 

I coloured all the Candy Bats in Adobe Fresco and printed out multiple sizes to play with.  I then fussy cut them out and adhered them to my wicked forest scene with black foam tape.  I used the "Trick or Treat" senti, which is one of the two senties included in the Candy Bats and Senti set, and applied Wilted Violet Distress Oxide ink to the edges and matted it onto black cardstock. 

 

 Now for a touch of wicked magic!

 I painted the purple Wicked Moon with glow-in-the-dark acrylic paint for a spooky glowing effect when the lights go out.  FUN right...mwahahaha!

 

 I matted the scary forestscape onto white cardstock and then added it to a folded black card I made from a sheet of heavy weight cardstock.

 Here's a look at my two Candy Bat Furness Forestscapes!

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

Happy Haunting!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN