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Friday, February 16, 2024

7th annual Gothic Valentine Hop 2024: Day 4 "Master and Servant" Loveleigh Kitties Slimline Card by Leigh

Happy LOVEuary Creative Friends
 
Welcome to Day 4 and finale of our 7th annual Gothic Valentine celebration and Hop!
Enjoy our inspirational Gothic romance themed makes shared here daily from Feb 13th to the 16th and you can play along with us too by entering your Gothic romance makes in the hop linky party using any stamp products!  All the info and the linky are in the MAIN POST!
 
 

Day 4
"Master and Servant"
Loveleigh Kitty Slimline Card
by Leigh


For Day 4 and the finale of our 7th annual Gothic Valentine celebration I've got a Gothic slimline card that plays with the theme of who is the boss in our kitty relationships...well, Cats of course, LOL!  My make features the Love Hearts Kitty from my new Loveleigh Kitties "The Love Cats" mini collection, Dark Handsome Stranger and my Valentine themed Decorative Digi Papers.

 
To make my Gothic slimline card I first printed out the Love Hearts Kitty and coloured her up with Copics and Prismacolor pencils in shades of grey to black with red hearts.  To make her pop nicely against the background I fussy cut her out leaving a narrow white border, layered her onto black cardstock and fussy cut out again leaving a narrow black border.

 
Next I combined Dark Handsome Stranger with the "Gothic Heart" digi paper from my "Grunge Hearts" Decorative Digi paper pack in Photoshop prior to printing.  I then used a die from Anna Griffin's Gothic 3D Concentric Frame Die set to make the fancy Gothic arch panel and left the bottom edge straight.  I then applied metallic gold gilding wax to the combined embossed and die cut edges.
 
 
For the slimline card I cut a folded card base from black cardstock, a slightly smaller mat layer from a sheet of Tim Holtz Halloween Backdrop papers and for the top panel I printed out my "Gothic Hearts" slimline digi paper from the "Valentine" Slimline Decorative Digi Paper pack.  I then used a Crafter's Companion Page Edge die to cut a fancy edge into the top and bottom of the panel.  I finished off the panels and base card with Spectrum Noir Midas gold pigment ink applied to all the edges.

 
The lace borders are die cut from black cardstock with a Tim Holtz Crochet die.  I then adhered all the elements to the card with wet glue.  I made the "Master and Servant" saying with my vintage Dymo label maker and trimmed down the words.  I then made them into chunkier pieces by adhering the words to two layers of deep red cardstock from my scraps.

 
For some fun dimension I adhered Love Hearts Kitty to the right hand side of the card with black foam tape.
 
 
The finishing touch is the red and gold heart charm which I attached to the card front with a tiny red rhinestone brad.
 
 
❤ Love Hearts Kitty makes a PURRtastic Valentine card, is PURRfect for everyone who loves cats and easily works for any occasion too just by switching out the sentiment and colours
 

 
 
 
 
 
Play in our LeighSBDesigns Inspirational Challenge "Love Is In The Air" that now also accepts your Anything Goes makes too, pop on over and play along!
 
 
 
Collect all the Loveleigh Kitties in this fun whimsical collection! 
 

The Love Cats Bundle
Bundle is only available at LeighSBDesigns.com and includes
Love Hearts Kitty slimline digi stamp
Pretty Kitty slimline digi stamp
Cats Add Love Senti set of 2 digi stamps
 



Thanks for visiting with us today, don't forget you can still get in on the Gothic Valentine Hop fun, the linky closes tonight at 11:55pm pacific!

Happy Creating!
 
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Gothic Valentine Blog Hop - Day 2: "Love is the Strongest Magic" - Slimline Flipbook by Val

❤️ Happy Valentine's Day Creative Friends ❤️
 
We're busy celebrating the month of Love with 2 fun creativties for you to play in plus the release of my new Valentine 2023 Collection!  Our February Challenge #14 Queen of Hearts is in full swing and now we're on Day 2 of our 6th annual Gothic Valentine Blog Hop!
 


Welcome to LeighSBDesigns 6th annual Gothic Valentine Blog Hop where we celebrate 4 fabulous days of love themed makes inspired by Gothic and Victorian tales of dark romance, the seductive world of vampires, forbidden love, tragic love, classic monster love stories, the torment of betrayal and broken hearts and the sorrow of love lost on a backdrop of luxurious fabrics like black lace and red velvet.  Now bring your interpretation of Gothic romance to our Gothic Valentine Blog Hop and create whatever your dark heart desires!
 
See the Main Hop Post for all the details and the linky!
  
Day 2
"Love is the Strongest Magic"
Slimline Flipbook
by Val
 
LeighSBDesigner Val's Gothic Valentine Hop inspiration for you today is a gorgeous slimline flipbook featuring designs from my new Valentine 2023 Collection, Valentine 2019 Collection, Dark Valentine 2018 Collection plus my "My Dark Valentine" sentiment Freebie and the Valentine Senties set which is a prize up for grabs this hop๐Ÿ˜‰


Val used all 4 of the wonderful paper designs included in the "Valentine" Slimline Decorative Digi Paper Pack to decorate the pages of her slimline flipbook along with black and white cardstocks to make the pages.  She punched holes along the top edge of each page and secured them together with pretty variegated boa fiber.


Val decorated the front page with the "You Make My Heart Beat" horizontal sentiment from the "You Make My Heart Beat" Digi Stamp set and the "Love is the Strongest Magic" sentiment from the Love is the Strongest Magic set.


This page has the stacked senti from the "You Make My Heart Beat" Digi Stamp set and the " I Love You" senti above plus the "Be Mine" and the "Hugs and Kisses" senties below are all from the Valentine Senti set which is a prize up for grabs for this hop!


The last page features the "You Stole my Heart" senti from the Dark Sentiments #1 set and "My Dark Valentine" senti is a FREEBIE you can grab HERE!
 
 
Shop the designs used today and more in the new Valentine 2023 Collection special release sale through February 16 plus the Valentine Sale on now through Feb 28th.
Sales end at midnight pacific! 
 

 
❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
 

My new Valentine 2023 Collection of Digi stamps, SVG Cutz (for electronic cutting machines) and Digi Decorative Paper Packs is a wonderful selection of love themed designs perfect for all kinds of makes from sweet to Gothic Valentines, Wedding, Anniversary, Alice in Wonderland, Halloween or whatever your heart desires!

 

 
❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
 
Wishing you all a wonderful Valentine's Day!
Thanks for visiting with us today, see you tomorrow for Day 3!

Happy Hopping!
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

Monday, February 13, 2023

Gothic Valentine Blog Hop - Day 1: "Love is in the Eye of the Beholder" - Gothic Easel Card by Leigh

❤️ Happy February Creative Friends ❤️
 
We're busy celebrating the month of Love with 2 fun creativties for you to play in plus the release of my new Valentine 2023 Collection!  Our February Challenge #14 Queen of Hearts is in full swing and now it's time to play in our 6th annual Gothic Valentine Blog Hop!
 


Welcome to LeighSBDesigns 6th annual Gothic Valentine Blog Hop where we celebrate 4 fabulous days of love themed makes inspired by Gothic and Victorian tales of dark romance, the seductive world of vampires, forbidden love, tragic love, classic monster love stories, the torment of betrayal and broken hearts and the sorrow of love lost on a backdrop of luxurious fabrics like black lace and red velvet.  Now bring your interpretation of Gothic romance to our Gothic Valentine Blog Hop and create whatever your dark heart desires!
 
See the Main Hop Post for all the details and the linky!
  
Day 1
"Love is in the Eye of the Beholder"
Gothic Easel Card by Leigh
 
I'm kicking off the fun today with a handsome easel card featuring designs from my new Valentine 2023 Collection, the Valentine 2018 Collection plus my "My Dark Valentine" sentiment Freebie.
   
 
 The handsome stranger gazes piercingly into the eyes of his beloved through the bewitching lens of the love potion amulet.
 
 
To make my Gothic easel card I first constructed the card base from black cardstock and printed out two of the beautiful "Gothic Heart" designs from the "Grunge Hearts" 5 x 7 inch Decorative Digi Paper Pack to use as the backgrounds for the front and base panels of the card.
 
 
In Silhouette Studio I first printed out the "Heart Confetti" paper design from the "Valentine" Slimline Decorative Digi Paper Pack and then over printed the Dark Handsome Stranger and the "My Dark Valentine" sentiment Freebie onto the decorative paper and used my Silhouette Cameo 4 to fussy cut them out along with shadow mat layers cut from black cardstock.  For the sentiment I cut multiple shadow mats which I then stacked to create a nice chunky sentiment embellishment.
 
 
 Next I cut out all the layers of the rectangle “heart and arrows” design included in the "Queen of Hearts" SVG Cutz set;  the overlay design from black cardstock, the shadow layer from dark red cardstock and all the hearts from gold mirror cardstock.
 
 
I framed the Dark Handsome Stranger's eye with the smallest of the amulets in the Love Potion Amulet SVG Cutz Set.  I cut the overlay from gold mirror cardstock and multiples of the shadow layer out of black cardstock which I stacked together to create the nice chunky embellishment.
 
 
I added even more dimension to the card by mounting the Dark Handsome Stranger to the card front with black foam tape.
 
 
I decorated the base of the easel card with the sentiment and die cuts in black cardstock.  I used a Grand Flourish Crafter’s Companion die which I cut up to frame the sentiment and two Tim Holtz lace dies.  I added a strip of gold mirror card behind the top edge of the larger lace which then acts as the stopper for the easel card.  For the finishing touch I added 3 more of my gold hearts along the bottom edge of the card.  I think the gold touches are so luxurious against the deep reds and black and I just love how my easel card turned out.  I hope my Gothic Valentine has inspired you to come and join the hop, see the Main Hop Post for all the details and the linky!
See you tomorrow for Day 2!
 
 
Shop the designs used today and more in the new Valentine 2023 Collection special release sale through February 16 plus the Valentine Sale on now through Feb 28th.
Sales end at midnight pacific!
 
 

  
❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
 

My new Valentine 2023 Collection of Digi stamps, SVG Cutz (for electronic cutting machines) and Digi Decorative Paper Packs is a wonderful selection of love themed designs perfect for all kinds of makes from sweet to Gothic Valentines, Wedding, Anniversary, Alice in Wonderland, Halloween or whatever your heart desires!

 

 
❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
 
Thanks for visiting with us today๐Ÿ˜‰
See you tomorrow for Day 2!
Happy Hopping!
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN