"Raven Rising" Poe art piece for Poe Appreciation Day Blog Hop

Hiya Everyone!
Today is Day 2 of our Poe Appreciation Day Blog Hop over at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity!
In celebration I'm re-sharing a Poe project I blogged last week for the start of our January Challenge "Something New" over at Delicious Doodles Challenges.

Unfortunately Inlinkz doesn't allow you to display the Linky in more than one post at a time and applies it to the last post it's shared in...the Blog Hop Roll can be found below in my Day 1 project HERE!

This wicked cool image is Delicious Doodles' Skully Poe Digi Colouring Page. 

I called this piece "Raven Rising"....the Raven is like a Phoenix rising from the ashes of 2016.  He  carries forth the words of Poe into the new year where he will live on eternal as we continue to enjoy his tales of mystery and macabre.

This piece was coloured with Copics with metallic gold Promarker used on the book spines.
I'm going to use this Poesome piece as the cover of a project journal I'm working on.

Thanks for stopping by to see my project today!   Hope you're enjoying the Poe Hop so far...the Blog Hop Roll is below😀
Have a great weekend and Happy Hopping!

 Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

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

"Purple at Christmas" Non-Traditional Christmas project for Delicious Doodles DT!

Hello Everyone!
It's time for our new Challenge over at Delicious Doodles Challenges and this month we challenge you to create Christmas projects either using a non-traditional image or non-traditional colours or you can do both!

Here's my alternative gothic project for your inspiration featuring Delicious Doodles digi stamps, An Emo Christmas and Holly Border.

 I merged the two digi stamps together in Photoshop CS6 and printed out the whole image and then just two of the holly corners, top left and bottom right.  I coloured everything with Copic markers and added white highlights with a white Dylusions paint pen, gold details with a metallic gold gel pen and touches of sparkle with a clear Wink of Stella pen.  I fussy cut out the main image and mounted it onto a black folded card I  made from a sheet of card stock.  I also fussy cut out the two holly pieces and manipulated the leaves to create the 3D embellishments for just the two corners.

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 *

"The Hound of the Baskervilles" a Delicious Doodles DT card!

Howzit Everyone!
YAY!  It's October and the countdown to Halloween is underway mwahahahaha!

This month over at Delicious Doodles it's spooky and dark and our October theme is Halloween!
I went retro horror with my DT project and created an acetate card with The classic Sherlock Holmes tale, The Hound of the Baskervilles.

 
I created this scene card with an acetate front that folds open from the right using the following Delicious Doodles digi stamps:
Call of the Wild, Haunting Moon and A Scottish Castle

I sized and merged the digis in Photoshop CS6 before printing them all out onto Neenah solar white cardstock.  I mainly coloured everything with Prismacolor pencils but Copic markers on the castle, the stonework and the hound as well.

The panels were trimmed and layered onto black cardstock folded in an asymmetrical layout.  I keep a lot of stuff for recycling and upcycling...I might have a little hoarder issue going on but what artist doesn't right LOL ;0)  Anyway, the acetate is actually a piece cut from an embossing folder's packaging and I adhered the acetate to the inside of the front flap and then adhered the Sizzix Hunky Dory die cut letters to the front.

Here's a better look at the cover and inside of the card.

Thanks for stopping by to see my project today!

I've entered this one 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 *