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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

Sunday, February 13, 2022

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

๐Ÿ–ค Happy February Creative Friends ๐Ÿ–ค 
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
 
 
 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 creativities๐Ÿ–ค
 
๐Ÿ–ค๐Ÿ–ค๐Ÿ–ค VALENTINE SALE ๐Ÿ–ค๐Ÿ–ค๐Ÿ–ค
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 Hop๐Ÿ–ค  I’m kicking off the party with my Gothic Gazing Globe with a man’s heart suspended inside๐Ÿ–ค


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”๐Ÿ–ค


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 least๐Ÿ–ค
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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 You can shop for the Spectrum Noir Midas Gold ink pad, Distress Oxide sprays and more at Scrapbook.com using my affiliate link!
๐Ÿ–ค Thanks for supporting LeighSBDesigns Inspiration Blog while shopping for your favourite supplies ๐Ÿ–ค

Happy Creating!
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

Monday, February 26, 2018

Dark Valentine DT Showcase: Dark Handsome Stranger Tag Art by Val!

Hiya Creative Friends!
To get your Monday off to a great start here's today's DT Showcase project by LeighSBDesigner Val!


Val made this handsome tag for our MY DARK VALENTINE blog hop!  Love the colours she used on this one....totally works for a 50 Shades of Grey project too, heheheh๐Ÿ˜œ

Val used Dark Handsome Stranger, the Heart Splatter, Gothic Rose and the "You Stole my Heart" sentiment from the Dark Sentiments 1 set!
 
Supplies used:
Spectrum Noir Colourista markers:  Sandstone and Cerulean
Spectrum Noir GG2
Red embossing pen
Clear embossing powder
Black Micron pen
White gel pen
Black and White fibers
Neenah classic white cardstock
Black cardstock

All the digi stamps featured today are on FLASH SALE until midnight tonight!
Click on the pix to go shopping๐Ÿ˜‹
https://www.etsy.com/listing/578293734/new-dark-sentiments-set-1-set-of-5?ref=shop_home_active_1
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/592081131/new-gothic-rose-dark-valentine?ref=related-8
https://www.etsy.com/listing/592090247/new-heart-splatter-dark-valentine?ref=shop_home_active_8

 If you want to get the entire Dark Valentine Collection or just all of the Dark Sentiments then check out these Bundles, you save a lot of $$$ and you get a FREEBIE with the Dark Sentiments bundle too!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/592341533/bundle-full-set-dark-valentine-2018?ref=shop_home_active_10
https://www.etsy.com/listing/578409064/dark-sentiments-bundle-of-11-sentiments?ref=shop_home_active_9
 
Thanks for stopping by to see Val's project today!
 Keep checking in if you're looking for the blog hop prize winners, I'll be announcing them this week๐Ÿ˜‹ 
Happy Stamping!
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

Saturday, February 24, 2018

Dark Valentine DT Showcase: Dark Handsome Stranger ATC by Nan!

Happy Weekend Creative Friends!
Today I'm showcasing LeighSBDesigner Nan's wonderful, never before seen, dark Valentine ATC featuring designs from the Dark Valentine Collection.


Nan created this wicked cool grungy ATC with Dark Handsome Stranger as the main focal point and paired him up with one of my original quotes from the Dark Sentiments 1 set.

Love
explores the
Shadows
within our
Hearts

Supplies used:
Spectrum Noir Markers:  TN2 and 3, BT5 and IG5
Cardstock
Distress Inks:  Old Paper, Brick Red and Black Soot
Red Acrylic Paint
Nan used an assortment of rubber stamps from her stash to create the grunge background
Tim Holtz die cut Heart
White Gel Pen

Today's featured digi stamps are now on FLASH SALE until midnight pacific tonight!
Click on the pix to go shopping!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/592087377/new-dark-handsome-stranger-dark?ref=shop_home_active_3
https://www.etsy.com/listing/578293734/new-dark-sentiments-set-1-set-of-5?ref=shop_home_active_1

Thanks for stopping by to see Nan's projects today!
Happy Stamping!
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN