5th annual Gothic Valentine Blog Hop 2022: Day 1 "You Stole my Heart" Gothic Gazing Globe 3D Ornament Stand by Leigh!

🖤 Happy February Creative Friends 🖤 

We are busy celebrating the month of love with 2 fun creativties❤️

Our month long Let Love Bloom Challenge is in full swing where you can submit your sweet and lighter makes but if lovey dovey isn't quite your thing you can totally enter your darker makes there too AND if you really love to indulge your dark and twisty side then you’ll enjoy our 5th annual

 

 

5th annual Gothic Valentine Blog Hop

 Gothic Valentine conjures tales of dark romance, black lace, ruby red velvet, the seductive world of vampires, forbidden love, tragic love, monster love stories, the torment of broken hearts, betrayal and the sorrow of love lost.  You get to interpret all of the above in our Gothic Valentine Blog Hop and create whatever your dark heart desires!

Our Gothic Valentine Blog Hop is open to everyone far and wide using any stamp company products!  Enter your dark romance inspired makes in the Gothic Valentine Blog Hop linky party by 5 minutes til midnight pacific on Feb 16!  The Hop linky, details and updated Rules on how to play are in the MAIN POST so please read everything before linking up!

Come play and hop along with us for 4 dark and twisty days full of fabulous inspiration and the chance to win a wicked prize or two coz the more people that play the better the prizes so round up your friends and encourage them to join the creativities🖤

 

🖤🖤🖤 VALENTINE SALE 🖤🖤🖤

LeighSBDesigns’ romance themed Digi Stamps and more are on sale for the duration of the hop at LeighSBDesigns Boutique!

 

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Day 1

“You Stole my Heart”

Gothic Gazing Globe

3D Ornament Stand

by Leigh

 

Welcome to Day 1 of our wickedly fabulous 5th annual Gothic Valentine Blog Hop🖤  I’m kicking off the party with my Gothic Gazing Globe with a man’s heart suspended inside🖤

One of my all time favorite TV series is “Once Upon a Time”.  The clever way they weaved all the fairytales into one intricate web of delightful magic was brilliant.  I was particularly fond of the Evil Queen, Regina and her magnificent wardrobe!  I loved how Snow White’s Evil Queen merged with Alice’s Queen of Hearts so my Gothic Valentine make is inspired by her wicked penchant for ripping out living hearts and keeping them trapped!

I used my Gothic Gazing Globe SVG Cutz set to create this wicked 3D ornament stand.

Suspended inside the gothic gazing globe is the living “Heart Splatter” of the “Dark Handsome Stranger” with the terrible tale of his torment told on the back of the heart where it reads “You Stole my Heart”🖤

I cut 6 of the Gothic Gazing Globe panels from black cardstock using my Silhouette Cameo 4 and trimmed away the Jack o’ Lantern base design from each.  I then made grunge cardstock with Walnut Stain and Fired Brick Distress Oxide sprays, printed out two panels of my Skull Roses Collage then cut 6 of the base mat layer included in the Gothic Gazing Globe set.

I pre-folded all the panels and mats then glued the mats in place and assembled the Gothic Gazing Globe one panel at a time leaving the last panel open.

I then printed out the Dark Handsome Stranger onto the Distress Oxide cardstock and used the Heart Splatter digi stamp as a cut file to cut out 2 of the heart ornaments which I then glued together with fishing line sandwiched inside.

I coloured the back of the ornament black then painted it with a Spectrum Noir Macaroon Sparkle brush pen for a shimmery deep red sparkle.  I printed the dark senti digi stamp onto white cardstock and cut it out with an offset then I painted it and the front facing Fleur-de-Lis finial with the sparkle pen too.  I then edged the heart and the senti with Spectrum Noir Midas gold pigment ink.

I completed the Gothic Gazing Globe ornament stand by gluing the fishing line hanger inside the Fleur-de-Lis finial and then glued the final panel pieces of the stand together.  What makes this 3D stand even more awesome is that it folds flat for storage and mailing!

To end this macabre tale on a happy note…the Evil Queen repented and gave the Dark Handsome Stranger his heart back and they lived happily ever after…well, in this story at least🖤

The End!

Check out the rest of the 2018 Dark Valentine Collection in this video!

 

Thanks for hopping in to see today’s Hop inspiration, see you tomorrow!

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