The Enchanted Garden Collection: Mushroom Cottage mixed media painting by Leigh!

Howzit Creative Friends!
Today I'm sharing my 4th mixed media painting, this one features the Mushroom Cottage with Hazel Silhouette Faeire from my brand new release, The Enchanted Garden Collection😊 Don't forget the release sale ends TONIGHT at midnight pacific!

Mushroom Cottage is a delightful tall mushroom fairy house surrounded by fantasy flowers, mushrooms and tall magical trees with tiny fireflies twinkling in the twilight sky and a bee buzzing around the large flower.  This set comes with 4 versions of Hazel the Silhouette Faerie, you can see her right facing version in this magical scene.

To create this painting I watercoloured the background with Wilted Violet, Pickled Raspberry, Bundled Sage and Forest Moss Distress Oxides.  The images are done with a combination of watercolour paint and aqua pencils and then the entire design enhanced with Prismacolor pencils.  I also used a white gel pen to add details and highlights too.

The Enchanted Garden Collection is available as a complete bundle and individually.  You can also get the full set of Faeries on their own too!  Shop The Enchanted Garden Collection at LeighSBDesigns Etsy Boutique and enjoy the new release sale good through midnight pacific on July 22nd!

The Enchanted Garden Collection Bundle includes 16 separate instant downloadable digi stamps:  Cobblestone Cottage, Windflower Cottage, Mushroom Cottage, Treestump Cottage and 2 sets of Silhouette Faeries.  I've included 4 versions of each Faerie for you to populate your Faerie Village with!  Left and right facing faeries with transparent wings that will allow you to see your digi added backgrounds through them as well as faeries with opaque wings so you can colour them separately after printing out your scenes too.

 In my Enchanted Garden you will find the quaint Cobblestone Cottage.
This set includes 4 versions of the Hazel Silhouette Faerie!

 The beautiful Windflower Cottage set also includes 4 versions of the Hazel Silhouette Faerie!

 The charming Treestump Cottage set includes 4 versions of the Sage Silhouette Faerie!

 The delightful Mushroom Cottage set also includes 4 versions of the Sage Silhouette Faerie!

You can also get all the Silhouette Faeries on their own too😉

Don't forget the release sale will end at tonight at midnight pacific!

Thanks for stopping by to see today's featured project😀

Happy Creating!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

The Enchanted Garden Collection: Treestump Cottage mixed media painting by Leigh!

Howzit Creative Friends!
Today I'm sharing my 3rd mixed media painting and this one features the Treestump Cottage with Sage the Silhouette Faerie from my brand new release, The Enchanted Garden Collection😊 Don't forget the release sale will end at midnight pacific on July 22nd!

Treestump Cottage is so charming with twin pine cone roofs surrounded by fantasy flowers and tall magical trees with tiny fireflies twinkling in the twilight sky.  This set comes with 4 versions of Sage the Silhouette Faerie, you can see her right facing version in this magical scene.

To create this painting I watercoloured the background with Wilted Violet, Peacock Feathers, Bundled Sage and Forest Moss Distress Oxides.  The images are done with a combination of watercolour paint and aqua pencils and then the entire design enhanced with Prismacolor pencils.  I also used a white gel pen to add details and highlights too.

The Enchanted Garden Collection is available as a complete bundle and individually.  You can also get the full set of Faeries on their own too!  Shop The Enchanted Garden Collection at LeighSBDesigns Etsy Boutique and enjoy the new release sale good through midnight pacific on July 22nd!

The Enchanted Garden Collection Bundle includes 16 separate instant downloadable digi stamps:  Cobblestone Cottage, Windflower Cottage, Mushroom Cottage, Treestump Cottage and 2 sets of Silhouette Faeries.  I've included 4 versions of each Faerie for you to populate your Faerie Village with!  Left and right facing faeries with transparent wings that will allow you to see your digi added backgrounds through them as well as faeries with opaque wings so you can colour them separately after printing out your scenes too.

 In my Enchanted Garden you will find the quaint Cobblestone Cottage.
This set includes 4 versions of the Hazel Silhouette Faerie!

 The beautiful Windflower Cottage set also includes 4 versions of the Hazel Silhouette Faerie!

 The charming Treestump Cottage set includes 4 versions of the Sage Silhouette Faerie!

 The delightful Mushroom Cottage set also includes 4 versions of the Sage Silhouette Faerie!

You can also get all the Silhouette Faeries on their own too😉

Stop by each day to see lots of magical inspiration featuring my enchanting new designs and don't forget the release sale will end at midnight pacific on July 22nd!

Thanks for stopping by to see today's featured project😀

Happy Creating!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

LeighSBDesigns New Release: The Enchanted Garden Collection!

Howzit Creative Friends!
Do you believe in fairies?  Join me now on a warm summer evening stroll through my garden to catch a glimpse of a most enchanting sight😉

I’m so excited to release The Enchanted Garden Collection today🎉
The Collection includes 4 magical fairy cottages full of whimsical charm surrounded by fantasy flowers, tall magical trees, twinkling fireflies, honey bees and 2 beautiful silhouette faeries called Sage and Hazel.  Each Enchanted Cottage set includes a beautiful Silhouette Faerie and each Faerie comes in 4 versions, a left and right facing pair with transparent wings and a pair with opaque wings.
Join us each day this week to see lots of magical inspiration featuring my enchanting new designs!

The Enchanted Garden Collection is available as a complete bundle as well as individually.  You can also get the full set of Faeries on their own too!  Shop The Enchanted Garden Collection at LeighSBDesigns Etsy Boutique and enjoy the new release sale good through July 22nd!   The release Sale will end at midnight pacific so I hope you fall in love with my new collection and will be creating your own magical faerie scenes in no time!

The Enchanted Cottages will also make fabulous houses for my Oddleigh characters too!
Happy shopping😉

The Enchanted Garden Collection Bundle includes 16 separate files as instant downloadable digi stamps:  Cobblestone Cottage, Windflower Cottage, Mushroom Cottage, Treestump Cottage and 2 sets of Silhouette Faeries.  I've included 4 versions of each Faerie for you to populate your Faerie Village with!  Left and right facing faeries with transparent wings that will allow you to see your digi added backgrounds through them as well as faeries with opaque wings so you can colour them separately after printing out your scenes too.

 In my Enchanted Garden you will find the quaint Cobblestone Cottage.
This set includes 4 versions of the Hazel Silhouette Faerie!

 The beautiful Windflower Cottage set also includes 4 versions of the Hazel Silhouette Faerie!

 The charming Treestump Cottage set includes 4 versions of the Sage Silhouette Faerie!

 The delightful Mushroom Cottage set also includes 4 versions of the Sage Silhouette Faerie!

You can also get all the Silhouette Faeries on their own too😉

Stop by each day to see lots of magical inspiration featuring my enchanting new designs and don't forget the release sale will end at midnight pacific on July 22nd!

Thanks for stopping by to see today's news release😀

Happy Creating!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

"Here cometh the Night" Forever Dark Challenge DT project #2

Howzit Friends!
Our August Challenge over at Forever Dark Challenges started on Tuesday!
We have THREE fabulous sponsors this month, what a pleasure to create with their images! 

Today I'm sharing another one of my 100% digi projects.  This time I combined Poppyseed Graphics - Reach for the Stars digi stamp with one of my altered skyscape photographs of clouds.
I just adore fairies!

...here cometh the Night...

click for a closer look

I do all my digi designing and colouring in Photoshop CS6 and thoroughly enjoy combining digi stamps with my own photography which is always a blast to alter for inclusion in my art.

Check out my 1st DT project for August HERE if you missed it!

I hope I've inspired you to pop on over to Forever Dark and join the fun!

A big THANK YOU to our sponsors!

Oddball Art

Poppyseed Graphics

 Rosey Hearts

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

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"The Architect Fairy" Fancy Fold Card - Spotlight on Lost Coast Designs Rubber Stamps!

Hello Everyone!

I'm featuring Lost Coast Designs Rubber Stamps this week!  I had so much fun creating this first project, "The Architect Fairy".  It's a fancy fold card with the beautiful Winged Girl image as the main focal point!  I also used the Tree Branch Background stamp to create the stunning nature background for the back and inside of my card.

I stamped the images with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and coloured the entire card with Marvy Le Plume Permanent markers.  I used Strathmore Bristol cardstock for the fairy panels to give the card more strength and weight and made the card base from Neenah Solar White cardstock.

Cut the Neenah cardstock to the height of the Winged Girl image and make a gate-fold card base with the overlapping front flaps the same width as the image.   Stamp the Winged Girl image twice and trim the panels down into rectangles, run them through a Xyron to add permanent adhesive and adhere them to the front flaps of the card base.

Stamp the Tree Branch background on the inside middle panel and also on all the back panels.

Colour the Winged Girl image with Marvy Le Plume Permanents which are very similar to Copic markers.  I used the following colours on the Winged Girl:
Body:  OR821, 823 and R815, Hair:  E858 and 859, Dress:  R812 and 815, Wings:  R812, 815, BV733, 736 and B707, Architecture:  AG 871, 873 and G673, Arch Background:  B707, 708 and BV736.
 On the Tree Branch background:
G673, BV733 with AG871 over the entire background to tone down the colours.

Tip:  I also used the thicker cardstock for the fairy panels to ensure the colouring didn't bleed through and ruin the colouring on the other side and vice versa!  But I wasn't concerned about that happening on the middle panel because I just used the colours in the same places and it didn't mess up the effect.  I also didn't want to double up the cardstock on the middle panel because it would have made it harder to do all the cut outs which I did next.

Once everything was cut out I embellished the wings with glitter glue.  I finished off the card wtih some flower embellishments adhered to the front panel with glue dots.  I really couldn't decide if I wanted the flowers or not so I took some photos with and without them so you can decide what look you prefer ;0)

In these next photos I also wanted to show you how versatile this fancy fold card really is!