31 Days of Halloween 2021 Hop+Challenge Day 29 and Day 5 of the Cat Lovers Hop: Cats Purr in the Darkness - Gothic Nightmare Catcher 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

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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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Today is also Day 5 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 some more pix of my precious boy Neo, the Destroyer of Christmas Trees!

 Curled up with his friends, Cheshire Cat and Hissy.

and perched on top of my Xmas Tree😖

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Before I share my Meow-o-Ween make for today I’m excited to introduce you to LeighSBDesigns Winter 2021 Collection…A Charming Christmas which will launch during the first week of November just in time for our November Hop+Challenge themed “Falling into Winter”! All are welcome using any stamp products so do come and join the festivities❄️

Close your eyes and envision snowflakes swirling in a winter wonderland with shades of white, lavender and frosty blues combined with the rich elegance of pure silver and gold charms decorating winter boughs…this is A Charming Christmas…

 

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Day 29 of 31 DoH Hop+Challenge

Day 5 of the Cat Lovers Hop

 

"Cats Purr in the Darkness"

Gothic Nightmare Catcher

by Leigh

  

Once Upon a Nightmare...

Shadows Whisper

as Bats Fly

Cats Purr in the Darkness

the Wicked Moon Smiles

by Leigh S-B 

Today in celebration of National Cat Day, Day 29 of our SPOOKtacular 31 Days of Halloween Hop+Challenge and Day 5 of the Cat Lovers Hop I'm back with a FURRtastic Gothic Nightmare Catcher featuring Digi Stamps and SVG Cutz from my new Once Upon a Nightmare Collection!  

 

I’ve definitely got wickedly adorable kitties stalking my dreams so I made an elegant Nightmare Catcher in shades of purple, black with touches of gold using my new Gothic Nightmare Catcher SVG Cutz.

 

 

 

I super-sized the Gothic Nightmare Catcher pieces in Silhouette Studio and cut 2 of the spiderweb circles, with one as a mirror image, out of 12" x 12" heavy weight black cardstock, adhered them back to back and then I applied a coat of gold Spectrum Noir sparkle glitter pen to add subtle but dramatic shimmers of gold depending on how the light hits it.  I then cut out lots of bats from the set plus 3 of the Black Cat Silhouettes Layered SVG Cutz to create the long tail.

 

 

I cut mat layers for the Bats, the 3 Cats and the Fleur-de-lis overlay from a sheet of mixed media cardstock I coloured with Wilted Violet and Seedless Preserves Distress Oxide Sprays and Hocus Pocus Distress Mica Stain for some wicked sparkle.

 

 

Of course I put Silhouette glow-in-the-dark sticker paper behind all the eyes of the Bats!  There's also a Candy Bat digi stamp flying around on the hunt for candy...for him I punched tiny holes in his eyes so they too shine wickedly!

 

 

 I decorated the Gothic Nightmare Catcher with a Wicked Moon digi stamp printed out on the GITD sticker paper and he's smiling down upon the Skeleton Cat which I cut from black cardstock and used more of my Distress Oxide coloured paper to cut the mat included in the set.  For Skelly Cat I also cut his eyes out of the GITD sticker paper and did some paper piecing.

 

 

 

 I punched tiny holes in all the pieces and attached them together with tarnished gold filigree jewelry findings and purple crystal beads.  I only had a few jump rings left from Tim's Charm Clips which were the PURRfect colour so I made more jump rings from headpins to match.  I used a purple crystal bead decorated hook for my hanger and dismantled 2 more hooks to make my bead dangles.

 

 

 

 Here's the finished piece glowing prettily in the evening light!

But turn out the lights and.....ooooooo spooky!

 

 

Thank you everyone for visiting us and leaving all your wonderful comments for the Cat Lovers Hop so far!  Val has already been hopping and I will be visiting you all starting today 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…sweet nightmares🎃

Happy Haunting!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN