🎃 Happy October Creative Friends 🎃
Welcome to Day 9 of
October is the most SPOOKTACULAR
time of the year and we are thrilled to be back with our 14th annual 31 Days of Halloween SPOOKtivities to get you in the Halloween spirit!
We are here to fright and delight you for 31 days straight so stop by daily to see our faBOOlous Halloween, Falloween and Day of the Dead themed makes and countdown to October 31st with us in LeighsBDesigns style!
🎃 Halloween Haunt Hop Reminder 🎃
We're now in the 2nd week of our SPOOKtivities so here's a quick FYI update!
🎃 Please
don't forget to hop and comment on the entries linked up on the same days you play.
Try and leave some love on the same day but to allow for our busy lives
you do have 3 days after linking up to complete your hopping
and commenting! Late and no comments isn't fun for everyone playing and not in the spirit of our Halloween Haunt Hop!
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also keep checking your blog's spam and moderation folders under Comments in
your blog dashboard to ensure there's no hop comments needing to be
published!
We want
to see what you're cooking up in your crafty cauldrons this month too
and invite you to join in on the SPOOKtivities as a Wicked Maker in our 14th annual 31 Days of Halloween Haunt Hop! Gather your crafty friends and play along with your own Halloween makes, see the Main Hop Post for all the Hop details and linky! Join us for some wicked good fun using any company products for all 31 days, if you dare, or play anytime throughout October for the chance to win some wicked LeighSBDesigns prizes! Go grab your Wicked Maker badge and haunt the hop with us!
Shop my new CAToWeen 2024 Halloween Collection and more in the Halloween Sale on thru Oct 31st midnight pacific!
I'm still busy getting my entire catalogue of fabulous Digi
Stamps, Decorative Digi Papers and SVG Cutz for electronic cutting
machines up at LeighSBDesigns.com. I'm adding the rest of my magical Once Upon a Nightmare Collection right now so keep an eye on the Re-Release Sale-bration section to see what's been re-released so far. They are also included in the Halloween Sale!
The Countdown is underway!
Day 9 of 31 Days of Halloween
"Spells and Potions"
Apothecary Bottles
Slimline Book Panel
by Leigh
I'm back for Day 9 of our 31 Days of Halloween SPOOKtivities with my
PURRtastic Slimline book panel featuring a Loveleigh
Kitty and matching senti from my new CAToWeen 2024 Loveleigh Kitties Halloween Collection Plus, you might have noticed already that the purple bottle is decorated
with one of my stunning Apothercary Labels included in the Furness Forest Apothecary Labels Set #1 from the Shadows Rising 2022 Collection. Check those out and more in my Halloween Sale too!
Delve into the magical world of apothecary healing with these beautiful glass vessels filled with mystery and wonder!
I
coloured my beautiful apothecary bottles digitally in Adobe Fresco, printed them out in all their magical colour and fussy cut them with scissors leaving a narrow white border that makes them pop nicely against the background
paper.
For a touch of magic I applied Distress Glow in the Dark paste to the large moons on both bottles as well as a few areas on the Spells bottle. Looks like calcified deposits have formed on the outside of the bottles. I also applied Crystal Stickles glitter to all the stars, dots and highlight areas for lots of magical sparkle.
The glow-in-the-dark effect adds such a magical touch to the scene!
My
31 Days of Halloween makes are going in a book I'm making so I first made a slimline 4" x 9" book panel from heavy weight black
cardstock. Then to create the background for my Apothecary scene I cut a panel 1/8 inch smaller from a 12 x 12 sheet of Crafter's Companion Vintage Halloween cardstock. I then edged it with Spectrum Noir Midas Gold pigment ink for a touch of
distressed metallic elegance and adhered it to
the black panel with glue.
Next I die cut 4 Crafter's Companion Vintage Halloween Spiderweb Corners from black cardstock with a full sheet of double sided adhesive applied to the back and adhered them in place. I then applied more Spectrum Noir Midas Gold pigment ink to just the outer edges of all 4 corner die cuts.
I
then had a magical time creating my Apothecary scene of SPOOKtacular die cut shelves filled with lots of apothecary jars, a cauldron, a skull and bones cut from various scraps of cardstock. The shelves are actually scraps left over from the background used on my Dia De Los Muertos make, totally looks like wood don't you think!
All the apothecary elements are from the Crafter's Companion Vintage Halloween Witch's Potions die set. I also die cut multiples of everything from black cardstock and layered up all the pieces to create nice chunky pieces in various heights. I then applied Black Soot Distress Ink and Spectrum Noir Midas Gold pigment ink to the edges of all the die cuts.
I adhered the two shelves holding my large apothecary bottles to the slimline panel with black foam tape and the rest directly to the background to create levels of dimension. I also used foam tape on my Spells and Potions Apothecary Bottles, the skull and the cauldron and adhered the various jars in place with glue. I then applied Crystal Glitter glue to all the die cut elements to give them a crusty magical sparkle.
To complete my make I used the "Spooky Season" sentie included in the Halloween Senties set of 2 more traditional Halloween digi stamp sentiments from my kitty themed CAToWeen Halloween Collection.
I opened the sentiment in Silhouette Studio and added an offset. I used the "print and cut" feature to first print the senti with my printer onto white cardstock and then fussy cut it out with my Silhouette Cameo 5. Next I applied Black Soot Distress Ink and Spectrum Noir Midas Gold pigment ink to the edges to give it a ghostly shadow, a hint of metallic shine as well as tone down the stark white of the cardstock. I then adhered it in place with glue.
We
hope our 31 Days of Halloween SPOOKtivities are inspiring you to start
your own Halloween crafting, do come and share them with us in our 14th annual 31 Days of Halloween Hop, there's lots of spooktacular makes linked up already! Gather your crafty friends and play along as a Wicked Maker in our Haunt Hop Linky Party, see the Main Hop Post for all the Hop details and linky!
All LeighSBDesigns makes are also linked in the Haunt Hop Linky Party too for easy hopping! Do come join the fun 🎃
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Don't forget to check out my new CAToWeen 2024 Halloween Collection and shop the Halloween Sale thru Oct 31st midnight pacific!
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Play along with your Anything Goes makes or be inspired by our optional CAToWeen theme in this month's challenge!
You're welcome to play in our annual 31 Days of Halloween Hop and the October Challenge SPOOKtivities with different makes! Please note...to play as a Wicked Maker in the Hop you do need to hop and comment! All the Haunt Hop details are in the Main Hop Post!
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Christmas is Coming!
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CAToWeen is included in the Halloween Sale which ends Oct 31 midnight pacific!
Happy Creating!
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN
Just fabulous Leigh. Thanks for explaining all the details! Happy Haunting!
ReplyDeleteSpooktacular Leigh 🧡💜🖤🎃
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