LeighSBDesigns New Release and Birthday Card Contest reminder...last day to enter!

Happy Earth Day Creative Friends🌎
I've got 2 new beautiful designs for you today in honour of Earth Day but first a reminder about my Birthday Card Contest...

We're celebrating LeighSBDesigns 1st Birthday Celebrations this month with a Birthday Card Contest using the FREEBIE I drew for the occasion!  TODAY is the last day to get in your entries so pop on over to the Birthday Celebrations post and check out all the details!  Submit your entries before midnight pacific TONIGHT for the chance to win prizes sponsored by LeighSBDesigns, Simply B Stamps and Ike’s Art🎉

Now for today's two fabulous new releases🌎

Introducing KITTY CUDDLES, a realistic art drawing of a mommy cat with her kitten🐱
 A must for cat lovers and PURRfect for celebrating Earth Day, Spring, Mother's Day and whatever else your heart desires.

Introducing DAISY BEE, a realistic art drawing of a bee on a bed of daisies🐝
This beautiful nature themed design is also perfect for Earth Day, Spring, Mother's Day and so much more🌸

Both designs are now available at LeighSBDesigns Etsy Boutique at a special intro price good thru April 28! 

Please note this sale can't be combined with other discounts! 

Have a fabulous day and enjoy this beautiful planet of ours, she's the only home we've got so please help take better care of her🌎❤️

Thanks for visiting and as always, Happy Stamping!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

"Spring Fever in Wonderland" - Lost Coast Portal to Creativity Spring Event!

Howzit Everyone!
YAY...Spring is finally here...for some of us anyway, I hope everyone still getting bombarded with snow is hanging in there!  We're celebrating Spring and the upcoming appearance of the Easter Bunny with a Flora and Fluffy Tails event over at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity today, come and join the fun and enter your Flower and/or Bunny themed projects by midnight PST on April 3rd!

  We have lots of flower themed stamps available including our newest ones over on our New Images page at Lost Coast Designs!  You are welcome to use stamps from ANY company on your projects but if you use any of our Lost Coast Designs and/or Carmen's Veranda stamps then your entry will be counted twice in the prize drawing for a

$15 spending spree at Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda

Here's my project for the event, a Wonderlandian themed card using Lost Coast Designs stamps
 Doodle Flowers, Rabbit, Cat Face, Hatter, Rabbit with Watch set, Franco Face and Rustic Alphabet set

The Queen of Hearts has Spring Fever with flowers and bunnies on the brain ;0)
I stamped the Franco Face twice with Tuxedo Black Memento ink and used one as the base and the 2nd for the 'brain' stamping.  I stamped the bunnies 1st with black Memento, masked with Pebeo Drawing Gum and then stamped the Doodle Flowers.  Everything was coloured with Prismacolor pencils and then the 'brain' area was fussy cut out and layered on top of the base for a touch of dimension.  I wanted a Tim Burton-esque Queen of Hearts so I drew a heart on her lips, gave her blue eyeshadow and a jeweled sticker heart instead of a beauty spot.

For the floral background I inked up the Doodle Flowers stamp with Dandelion, Cantaloupe and Potter's Clay Memento ink, fussy cut out leaving a narrow border and layered that onto a sheet of black cardstock embossed with a bubbles Cuttlebug embossing folder.  The embossing folder was used twice to create the size I needed.  The corners are punched with a Marvy decorative corner punch.  The words "Spring Fever" were stamped with Lady Bug Memento ink, cut out and edged with black Sharpie and the card completed with a blue satin ribbon and bow.  Everything was adhered and mounted onto a folded card made from white cardstock with Scotch Quick Dry adhesive.

Thank you for stopping by to see my project and I hope I've inspired you to come and play in our Flora and Fluffy Tails event over at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity!

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for * Lost Coast Designs * Carmen's Veranda * Rick St Dennis EDT * Forever Dark *

Finale of our Lost Coast Designs New Stamp Showcase - Watercoloured Floral cards

Howzit Friends!

I've been having a blast with my fellow Lost Coast Designs DT members over on our Lost Coast Portal to Creativity Blog for the last 2 weeks showing off our new Lost Coast Designs stamps with a "New Stamps Showcase" event!  We hope you have enjoyed and been inspired by our projects every day!  If you've missed the fun then pop on over and start on Day 1 and also check out our NEW IMAGES at Lost Coast Designs, they are so freaking awesome you're going to want them all!

We are giving away one of our new stamps!  Visit and comment on all the New Stamp Showcase posts from January 18 through to today and let us know what you think of our featured projects.  Readers who comment every day of the event and then tell us today which new stamp is their favourite will be entered into a random draw to win their fave new stamp!!!!
I will announce the winner on Wednesday, Feb 3rd, so you've got time to catch up!  

For the finale today I'm sharing a trio of single stemmed floral cards. 
I used the following new Lost Coast Designs stamps:
Open Rose, Tulip, Doodle Flowers and Misc Words as well as the Little Diamonds background.

I made 3 fussy cut floral cards, 2 tall and skinny plus 1 small gift card, using the Distress Inks watercolour technique.  The flowers were stamped on watercolour paper with black Versafine ink and coloured with Fired Brick, Peeled Paint, Forest Moss and Mustard Seed Distress Inks. 

I made the tall and skinny folded card bases from white cardstock and stamped those with the Doodle Flowers in Mustard Seed DI.  I then cut away the entire right hand side of all 3 cards.

Transform them with single "word" sentiments!
 The photo below shows them closed with the diamond stamped interiors now visible in the cut outs making the front and insides all part of the overall design.  I used Sage VersaMagic ink to stamp the interiors but first I stamped onto scrap paper to remove some ink for a more distressed effect.

Thanks for visiting with me today, now don't forget to pop by all the New Stamps Showcase posts starting from the January 18 post and leave us lots of love for the chance to win your fave new stamp!
Are you ready?  GO! ;0)

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for Rick St Dennis EDT * Lost Coast Designs * Carmen's Veranda * Forever Dark *