Day 1 of 31 Days of Halloween: Spooky is the Word by Leigh!

 Welcome to

 I ❤️ Halloween so much I've been hosting 31 days of spooktacular projects for about 15 years now, long before blogs and Facebook even existed, all the way back to the fabulous days of my DominoART yahoo group in fact!  I'm thrilled to be hosting again this year and invite everyone to join the spooktivities👻

🎃This is a progressive blog hop which means new projects will appear daily in the Blog Hop linky party located at the bottom of my daily posts!  It's always so much fun to enjoy the spooktacular art on show and see who can survive all 31 days!

🎃The hop is easy going with NO sign-up required!
🎃All art welcome, creepy and cute and all stamp companies welcome too!
🎃It's totally up to you to show how devoted you are to this most spooktacular time of year👻

🎃Be a Wicked Blogger and enter a project just once or daily, any time from Oct 1st until 5 mins to midnight pacific on Oct 31st, then hop and comment too!

🎃Or be a Sinister Stalker and just enjoy the show by stalking all projects shared throughout the month and leave lots of love along the way!  Easy!

For the Hop Rules and more info on How to Play please visit the
31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop page!

WARNING!  Monsters ignoring the rules will be vanquished from the hop!
 

😈COMMENTS😈
🎃To be fair to my generous sponsors EVERYONE needs to hop and comment to be eligible for prizes so I want to see lots of sharing and commenting going on👻

🎃Don't be a party pooper by entering projects and then not bother to enjoy what the other Wicked Bloggers are sharing!  Be NICE, hop and comment too, it IS the whole point of a blog hop after all!

 🎃If a project is not your cup of tea you can say so but please be nice about it, I'm sure you can find something positive to say!  NO rude and unkind comments and absolutely NO unsolicited negative critiquing!  If the artist asks for opinions please keep them positive!

🎃Do you dare to share or will you hide in fear?

Round up your ghoulfriends and mansters and join the spooktivities👻 

🎃HALLOWEEN TREATS🎃

I'm thrilled to have spooktacular prizes generously provided by my sponsors to giveaway❤️

A huge THANK YOU to

Stampendous is sponsoring FOUR Andy Skinner stamp sets!
They're also celebrating 31 DOH, hop to their blog for more ghoulish goodies!

Ike is sponsoring her Zombie Pet Shop 1 set!

Alyce is sponsoring TWO $15 vouchers for her online colouring classes!

Betty is sponsoring a $12 gift certificate (value of 3 digis) to her store!

and of course, moi!

I'm going to be handing out surprise Halloween Treats along the way to keep you on your toes😈

SPOOKY is the Word!
by Leigh

I'm kicking off the spooktivities with an altered 3D wooden word that says SPOOKY featuring my new designs from the "The Truth is Out There Somewhere" Sci-fi Collection👻

 

"The Truth is Out There Somewhere" is inspired by my all time favourite TV show, The X-Files, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in September.  I've been an X-Phile since day 1 and had an absolute blast creating these characters👽

 

Special Agent Foxy is so handsome and cool and Special Agent Boston Terrier is super cute!  Why a Boston Terrier you ask, well.. I named my dog Scully of course👻

I found the perfect wood Halloween decor word at Target coz in the show Mulder's nickname is Spooky Mulder!  I used Prismacolor pencils and a white Dylusions paint pen to create the Space background and the characters are coloured with Copics.

Neo loves to inspect all my projects😻

Go shopping for these fabulous new designs by clicking on the badges below!
As usual, featured designs will be on 25% off FLASH SALE until midnight pacific tonight so grab them while they're hot😋

Get all 5 designs in the "The Truth is Out There Somewhere" bundle and save!

Use the red and white embossed label style Red Tape Snippets to compliment your sci-fi and Halloween projects or use the whole sheet to create backgrounds!  Either way you'll find many uses for the word snippets👽  

 

Sit back and enjoy my Halloween 2018 Collection release video😋 

Thanks for stopping by to see today's featured project!
Now it's your turn, link up your projects in the Blog Hop linky party and hop the entries!
Don't be vanquished into oblivion, read the Hop Rules!

Entered into
Stampedous' 31 Days of Halloween

An InLinkz Link-up

Happy Hopping!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

Poe Appreciation Day Blog Hop Day 1: Ode to Poe - Altered Cube by Leigh!

Welcome to LeighSBDesigns 3rd annual Poe Appreciation Day Blog Hop!
Five glorious days of POE starts NOW!

my Edgar Allan Poe Living Dead Doll is here to enjoy his party!

The most POE-ful time of the year is finally here, my annual 5 day long celebration of Edgar Allan Poe's birthday which is today, Happy Birthday Mr Poe🎉

My 3rd Poe Appreciation Day Blog Hop begins today and ends on the 23rd.  This is a progressive hop that spans 5 days with Poe inspired projects joining the fun every day as more Poe fans link up and share the Blog Hop roll on their own blogs!  Only blogs that include links to LeighSBDesigns Inspiration Blog and the Blog Hop Roll in the posts can play!  Let's see how viral we can go, spread the news far and wide!  EVERYONE is invited to take part or just hop so come join the fun and celebrate your love of all things Poe with us! 

The Poe Blog Hop Roll is below at the bottom of my post and it's on the Poe Page HERE too!

I have a birthday gift for everyone too, here's some "POE LOVE" for you❤️
I'd appreciate it if you'd all go and favourite LeighSBDesigns Etsy Boutique and join my LeighSBDesigns Facebook Fan Group😋

 Click the pic to go to LeighSBDesigns' website to download the freebie.  It will be up for a limited time and will disappear on January 24th!  Please don't pin or share, send your friends here instead to grab it for themselves😋

UPDATE:  The FREEBIE offer is now closed but you can still add this fun Poe tribute design to your collections.  The digi is now available in my LeighSBDesigns Etsy Boutique😋

It is super easy to participate!

You can play every day or just one day and link up anytime during the 5 days with no need to sign-up!  Anything goes, use any images from any company and all kinds of art is welcome including old ones, even the ones previously shared in the last 2 hops are welcome this year!  If you're a fan of Poe here's your excuse to make some Poe-tastic art!

To celebrate my 3rd Poe Hop I've designed my first LeighSBDesigns Poe Collection!

The collection is on sale at special release prices thru Jan 23rd.

Check out my launch video and my release post, I hope you love them😉

POE BLOG HOP PRIZES

I'm giving away 2 prizes:

A Blogger Prize will be awarded randomly to one blog playing and a Commenter Prize will be awarded randomly to one visitor.

 To qualify for the prizes EVERYONE, including the bloggers, must comment on ALL projects shared in the hop!

Each prize is one LeighSBDesigns digi of your choice.

PLUS, if you use one of my new Poe digis your entry will count as 2!

Blog Hop Etiquette!  I want to regain the hop camaraderie we used to enjoy in the good old days so with that in mind I ask that all Blog Hop participants actually hop and comment themselves too!  You expect people to come to your blog to see and comment on your projects so please be nice and do the same in return!  It's only fair and the point of a Blog Hop after all!  Everyone will have a total of 10 days to hop and see all the fabulous Poe art so you will have plenty of time PLUS it qualifies you for the prize too!  Winners will be announced soon after!

For the full hop details, instructions on how to play and to see the previous Poe Blog Hop collections please click HERE!

Get the HTML codes HERE!

Day 1
"Ode to Poe"
altered wood cube by Leigh

To kick off the Poe Show I altered a wooden 3.5 inch cube and decorated it with collaged images from my new Poe Collection.

Here's a look at all 6 sides!

I used the following designs from my Poe Collection, click on each pic to go shopping!

All Poe digis are on sale for 30% off thru Jan 23rd, sale ends at midnight pacific!

set of 2 digis

Supplies used:  3.5" wooden block, wooden ball finial, Black Soot and Pumice Stone Distress Inks, silver Promarker and DecoColor liquid silver paint pen, silver and black acrylic paint, matte varnish, white and black cardstock, Tim Holtz Idea-ology Foundations feet and metal decorative corners.

See you tomorrow, happy hopping🎉
Happy Stamping!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

An InLinkz Link-up

"Sad Sally Coffin Box" altered box for The East Wind DT!

Howzit Friends!

 It's time for our 2nd Challenge for October over at The East Wind!  The theme for Challenge #65 is "Bump in the Night" and we're looking for projects that incorporate embossing!
 

 The East Wind is also currently participating in a special Halloween blog hop, Oct 13 through to Oct 31st called "Trick or Treat around the Blogs".  The hop is hosted by the sponsors of the Markers! Papers! Digis Facebook group.  All participating companies have fun "Tricks" or "Treats" in store for you!  Join the fun by hopping to each blog and see what Trick or Treat fun you can get up to!

All the deets and the blog hop roll is HERE!

 The East Wind has a Treat for you, our new "Halloween Hop" digi called Thorns and Roses is only a $1 during the event!  I couldn't resist using her for my DT inspiration project for our new Challenge!

 I have a cute little resin goth Tonner doll called Sad Sally and TEW digi reminded me of her so I decided to make her a coffin 'display and storage' box with this awesome black coffin trinket box I got in the "deals" aisle of Target...happy dance...and turned it into this beauty!
 

 I started out by creating a template of the coffin box front and elongated the digi and sized it to fit in Photoshop CS6 and printed out the whole design once and then two prints of just the roses.  I coloured the entire image and all the roses, including the 2 additional prints, with Copic markers except for her face and body which was done in Prismacolor pencils.  I also used black Prismacolor pencil to add more shading and shadows to the Copic coloured areas as well.  I then cut out the design in the shape of the coffin and fussy cut out all the rose pieces.  I then embossed 2 sheets of red cardstock with the large Craftwell letter/A4 sized embossing folder called Regency and ran them through my eBosser machine.  I dismantled the coffin box and used the box pieces themselves to trace out each panel onto the embossed cardstock.  I then cut out all the pieces, glued them to the box and re-assembled it.  Then I applied Black Soot Distress Ink to enhance the embossed design and give it that gorgeous dark red colour.  I completed the outside of the box by adhering the design to the front and layered up all the roses with pop dots. 

 For the comfort of my little Sad Sally I added a beautiful yellow satin fabric to the interior.

Sad Sally loves her new box.

Is that a glimmer of a smile I see?  Hard to tell coz she's such a sad lil ghoul.

  

Come and join the fun at The East Wind...we have 2 blog challenges every month and fun challenges on on our TEW Facebook Group too!

Thanks for stopping by to see my project today!

Happy Stamping!

 Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for * Lost Coast Designs * Carmen's Veranda * The East Wind * Delicious Doodles *

"7 Gates to Purgatory" Day 1 of 31 Days of Halloween project for Lost Coast Designs!

Wooohoooo it's OCTOBER and you know what that means!
 The most anticipated blog hop of the year is finally here and Lost Coast Portal to Creativity is participating as a Wicked Blogger again!  Thanks Terra for hosting again for us this year!
Hop on over and join in the fun, there's lots to do and see all month long!

The votive candle glow represents the Cleansing Fire of Purification

We are also excited to unveil our clawesome NEW STAMPS today over at the Lost Coast Designs store.  Dash on over and add them to your collections!  The LCDesigners will be featuring them all month long and my project today features that coffin skellie, RIP!

TA DAAAAAA!  Our New Stamps to die for!

Day 1 of 31 DAYS of HALLOWEEN!
"7 GATES to PURGATORY"

 I'm kicking off the proceedings today over at LCPtoC with my altered wooden container that was a match made in Heaven Hell to feature our New Release Stamp RIP!

Here it is in all it's colourful crackled glory with skull beads for feet

The geometric sides of the container are actually coffin shaped and it has seven sides so I could not resist the Seven Deadly Sins theme.  All the text was computer generated and coloured with a metallic gold gel pen.  Mark your calendars for October 17th and pop on over to Lost Coaster's Review for more info on how I made my project!  I hope you will join me ;0)

Seven Deadly Sins:  Envy, Gluttony and Lust

Seven Deadly Sins:  Wrath, Sloth, Greed and Pride

Challenge #29 - SCARY or WEIRD

Our monthly challenge for October also started today...a few days early and will end a few days later on Oct 31st!  We're giving everyone lots more time to play with us this month and have TWO PRIZES up for grabs!

Thanks for stopping by to see my project!

I've entered this one on these challenges:


Happy Stamping!

 Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for * Lost Coast Designs * Carmen's Veranda * The East Wind * Delicious Doodles *

"Boo!" said Poe to the Raven - The Count Down to Halloween has begun!

Howzit Friends!
YAY! It's October and the countdown to Halloween has begun!
I'm hosting my 5th annual DominoART Scarefest again this year and playing as a Wicked Blogger in the massive 7th annual Smeared Ink 31 Days of Halloween too!  See my next post.

This year I also organized that we, the Lost Coast Designs DT, would also participate as a Wicked Blogger on our Lost Coast Portal to Creativity - event and challenge blog!
Pop on over and stay to play coz there's tons of prizes up for grabs!

Here's my Day 1 project
"Boo!" said Poe to the Raven

I used the following stamps:
Carmen's Veranda
Edgar Allan Poe
Nevermore (not currently on the site so ask about it)
ATC Birds in Trees

Lost Coast Designs
Raven with Tree Branches
Feathered Bird
3 Birds (one of them)
Vertical ABC border
Tall Trees
Pencil Tops Border

I found the wooden Boo set at Target and could not resist altering them!
I started out by painting them with black acrylic paint and while they dried I typed up the poem "The Raven" by Poe in Photoshop CS6, sized to fit the wooden shapes then printed out 3 copies.  I laid each shape onto a copy and traced the shape, cut it out and ran each piece through my Xyron to add permanent adhesive.  I then had a blast stamping up each piece.  The images are all stamped with onyx black Verafine ink with some overlapping and some masking going on.  I adhered each panel to the wooden pieces and completed them with Tea Dye and Black Soot Distress Inks applied with a Tim Holtz ink applicator.

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for Smeared Ink * Lost Coast Designs * Altered Eclectic Challenges *Forever Dark

Grandmaster Altered Pencil Holder!

Howzit Everyone!
 It's my turn today to share some DT inspiration over on our Smudgy Antics challenge blog.

I've had this very versatile Tombow 'store display' marker holder in my studio for many years.  I'm calling it a pencil holder for want of a better word but I use it daily for various purposes like to stand projects in while they dry or carry some coloured pencils or markers to my desk.  I've been wanting to do 'something' to pretty it up and I finally did it, haha!    It's also the perfect compliment to my 2015 daily planner I altered earlier this year! 

this is what it looked like with sides all open

I used all of the stunning chess piece Smeared Ink digis called Grandmaster and the chess board background I previously designed to create the panels for each side in Photoshop CS6 before printing them out.  Each panel was trimmed and run through my Xyron to add permanent adhesive and then layered onto black cardstock and trimmed again.  I applied Fired Brick and Black Soot Distress Inks with a foam ink applicator tool and adhered each panel to the plastic holder with permanent adhesive tape.  I added the harlequin diamond washi tape to all the corner edges and the top edges and the measuring tape to the bottom edges to neaten and complete the overall look.  I'm very pleased with how my "new" handy gadget turned out!

 There's approximately 8 days left to play in Smudgy Antics current 'always anything goes' challenge so I hope I've inspired you to come and join us!

Something wicked is coming to DominoART starting May 1st!  Join me for 15 Days of Terror over on my DominoART blog where we celebrate Half-O-Ween in May!  I feature altered game art created by my TERROR-ific Players every 2nd day all May long and I'd love to feature YOUR scary altered game art so sign up now!

 PLUS, we're celebrating DominoART's 13th Birthday with an altered game art doll contest that I've been hosting since 2002, the search for DominoART's Next Top Mascot, the Dominique Doll contest.

 Click on the event banners for details on all the fun events going on!

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for Smeared Ink * Lost Coast Designs * Altered Eclectic Challenges *About Art Accents