Day 13 of 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop: Quirkleighs CarnEvil Carved Skelly Cat card by Leigh!

🎃Welcome Creative Friends to LeighSBDesigns 9th annual 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop🎃

Happy Sunday to you all!
If you're joining us for the first time today we are busy celebrating the arrival of October and counting down to Halloween in style with LeighSBDesigns 9th annual 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop!  We're nearly at the end of week 2 already and what a spooktacular time we're having!  I'm loving all your creeptastic projects and appreciate all the love you're leaving the Wicked Bloggers each day ❤️

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Attention Wicked Bloggers and Sinister Stalkers
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👻 While tallying up the first week of posts and comments I found a few posts meant for the hop but are missing from the linky!  I left comments on them to let you know you forgot to add them!

👻 There's also a few missing comments where you look like you skipped a blog or two while hopping so you might want to double check and see if you missed any posts from Day 1 through Day 7!

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Every day of October you will see inspirational eye candy shared here by me and Val as well as all the spooktacular creations shared by YOU, the Wicked Bloggers, in the Blog Hop Linky Party located at the bottom of my DAY 1 POST🎃  Plus, all the LeighSBDesigns digis art stamps featured every day are on FLASH SALE so you can take advantage of some creeptastic sales throughout October🎃

Everyone is invited to join in on the spooktivities!
My Blog Hops are always stress free with a few simple rules to ensure YOU have a wicked good time and qualify for the prizes too🎃 

You can play either as a WICKED BLOGGER by linking up your new and old, cute or creepy Halloween projects and hopping along or be a SINISTER STALKER and simply creep around all the blogs in the Blog Hop Linky Party HERE and leave lots of love in your wake🎃

I've got PRIZES to give away so you'd be crazy not to join in on the spooktivities🎃
Full details on how to play and the hop rules are in my DAY 1 POST!
Please make sure you read over the rules so you can play and qualify for the prizes!

🎃31 DAYS of HALLOWEEN BLOG HOP SPONSORS🎃

 I'm delighted to have these creeptastic sponsors ready to hand out Halloween Treats!
A huge THANK YOU to them for supporting LeighSBDesigns spooktivities again this year!
 

This year I've got weekly Wicked Blogger Prizes generously sponsored by Stampendous for you to win!!!!  All you have to do to qualify is link up a NEW project each week and follow the Hop Rules!  The more days you play each week the better your odds at winning the weekly Wicked Blogger prize🎃  Everyone also has the chance to win spooktacular prizes generously sponsored by

 

Now for today's creeptastic creation by Me!
 

🎃Day 13 of 31 Days of Halloween 2019🎃 
The Quirkleighs CarnEvil Collection
Carved Skelly Cat

 You're all standing dazed in the empty field and looking bewildered at the stack of ominous carved pumpkins where the Quirleighs CarnEvil stood!  

Next to the pumpkins sits a very strange cat wickedly grinning!

The Carved Skelly Cat purrs....
" Til Next Time "
....as he stalks off into thin air!

 The Quirkleighs CarnEvil vanished as mysteriously as it appeared!

Beware!
Your town could be next! 

You won't be able to resist buying a ticket from the Puppet Master!
mwahahahahahaha!

I printed the Carved Skelly Cat from the Quirkleighs CarnEvil Collection out twice and coloured them with Copics with white Prismacolor pencil highlights.   I fussy cut the entire image on one of the prints and then just the head, neck, shoulder blades and front legs on the 2nd.  I added Judikins Diamond glaze to his eyes and his lil heart shaped nose and then eye highlights with a white Dylusions paint pen.

 For the card base I made a tall and thin folded card from a sheet of matt black Crafter's Companion cardstock.  Then I created the bootiful "sun rise" sky background with mixed media cardstock sprayed with Mustard Seed, Worn Lipstick, Candied Apple and Seedless Preserves Distress Oxide Sprays.

 The moon is low in the sky at this early hour so I used Hero Arts Cloudy Moon die to cut a moon into my background.  I then inlaid the moon die cut from another background I made using Mustard Seed, Ground Espresso, Seedless Preserves, Salty Ocean and Blueprint Sketch Distress Oxide Sprays and some dimensional white shimmer to the clouds with a Ice White Viva Pearl Pen.   I stamped the tiny bat from Stampendous onto the moon with black pigment ink.

 To creep up the scene even more I applied the Grime pattern (Tim's layering stencil) with Black Soot Distress Ink around the edges of the entire background panel.  Then added Tim's clear Rock Candy Distress Crackle Paint to all the edges and the tiny stamped bat.  For the sentiment I replicated the look of Tim's Quote Chips I used on my Quirkleighs CarnEvil decor pieces.  The sentiment by Stampendous is stamped and embossed in white embossing powder onto CC black cardstock.  To make it nice and chunky I layered it up onto a few more pieces of the same cardstock then finished the edges of the sentiment and the edges of the folded base card with Midas Spectrum Noir metallic gold pigment ink.

I then die cut out one of Tim's Wildflower Stems #2, greenery from Tim's mini Holiday Greens and grass from Lawn Fawn.  The grass got a clear Rock Candy Distress Crackle paint coat and I added sparkle to the flower and greenery with an Onyx Black Spectrum Noir sparkle pen.

 

I applied Spectrum Noir Inca Gold gilding wax to the crackled background panel edges and the grass and mounted the background panel onto the card base with foam tape and glued the grass to the bottom of the panel then added the sentiment.  I tucked the full Skelly Cat print behind the grass and adhered him to the background but left his ears free so I could bend them forward.  I then mounted the top layer of the fussy cut Skelly Cat with black pop dots for extra dimension.  I then completed my scene with the flower and greenery.

 FLASH SALE 

The Quirkleighs CarnEvil Collection bundle and the Carved Skelly Cat by himself are on sale until midnight pacific tonight!

 

Check out my creepy Quirkleighs CarnEvil Collection release video🎃

Round up your all Beasties and join the spooktivities👻
Play in the hop by linking up your Halloween projects in the Blog Hop Linky Party HERE!

Entered this project in SUYP challenge #47 Meowloween
 

Happy Haunting!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

Day 9 of 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop: The Quirkleighs CarnEvil Grimm Reaper Coffin mixed media decor by Leigh!

🎃Welcome Creative Friends to LeighSBDesigns 9th annual 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop🎃

Woohoo, the most spooktacular month is finally here and we're counting down to Halloween in style!  We're now in week two of our spooktacular 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop and I will soon announce the winner of the Week One Wicked Blogger Prize sponsored by Stampendous!  Read on to find out how YOU can be in the running for week 2🎃

Every day of October you will see inspirational eye candy shared here by me and Val as well as all the spooktacular creations shared by YOU, the Wicked Bloggers, in the Blog Hop Linky Party located at the bottom of my DAY 1 POST🎃  Plus, all the LeighSBDesigns digis art stamps featured every day are on FLASH SALE so you can take advantage of some creeptastic sales throughout October🎃

Thank you everyone for all the faBOOlous creations you've shared so far and all the love you're leaving as you hop along, what a treat week one has been and I'm so delighted you're all creeping out to play🎃

Everyone is invited to join in on the spooktivities!
My Blog Hops are always stress free with a few simple rules to ensure YOU have a wicked good time and qualify for the prizes too🎃 

You can play either as a WICKED BLOGGER by linking up your new and old, cute or creepy Halloween projects and hopping along or be a SINISTER STALKER and simply creep around all the blogs in the Blog Hop Linky Party HERE and leave lots of love in your wake🎃

I've got PRIZES to give away so you'd be crazy not to join in on the spooktivities🎃
Full details on how to play and the hop rules are in my DAY 1 POST!
Please make sure you read over the rules so you can play and qualify for the prizes!

🎃31 DAYS of HALLOWEEN BLOG HOP SPONSORS🎃

 I'm delighted to have these creeptastic sponsors ready to hand out Halloween Treats!
A huge THANK YOU to them for supporting LeighSBDesigns spooktivities again this year!
 

This year I've got weekly Wicked Blogger Prizes generously sponsored by Stampendous for you to win!!!!  All you have to do to qualify is link up a NEW project each week and follow the Hop Rules!  The more days you play each week the better your odds at winning the weekly Wicked Blogger prize🎃  Everyone also has the chance to win spooktacular prizes generously sponsored by

 

Now for today's creeptastic creation by Me!

🎃Day 9 of 31 Days of Halloween 2019🎃 
The Quirkleighs CarnEvil Grimm Reaper Coffin mixed media decor!

 You feel in your bones that the end of the Quirkleighs CarnEvil draws near when the Grimm Reaper appears!
 

 You quiver in fear as you stare into his intense eyes!

Helplessly you feel his stare penetrate the darkest corners of your heart as he slowly devours your soul!  

I coloured The Quirkleighs CarnEvil Grimm Reaper with Copics and used a white Prismacolor pencil for highlights and added metallic gold gel pen details.

 I completely fussy cut him out including the wooden staff of his creepy scythe which I gave dimension and strength to with Judikins Diamond glaze, I also added glaze to the skull adorning his top hat.  I treated his wicked blade with Tim's clear Rock Candy Distress Crackle Paint for even more dramatic effect!

 

Today's mixed media decor is a wooden vignette coffin which I altered using the same theme and techniques as my wonky houses...all of which I prepped first with a coat of Black Soot Distress Stain.  The upper panel represents the Big Top tent which I created with Mustard Seed, Ground Espresso and Black Soot Distress Oxide Sprays.  I then added the big top stripes using Tim's large Rays stencil and Candied Apple Distress Oxide Ink.  I used a Crafter's Companion Decorative Edge die to cut the bottom edge of the decorative background panel and a black Sheena heavy weight cardstock panel to create the Big Top tent frill.  The bottom decorative background panel is from Tim's Halloween Idea-ology Paper Stash.  I then grunged up both panels with Black Soot Distress Ink.

I also added some stenciling to the top panel with Tim's Decayed stencil and Black Soot Distress Ink.  I then applied clear Rock Candy Distress Crackle paint lightly tinted with black Dylusions paint to the top panel using the Decayed stencil and the Grime stencil on the bottom panel.
 

I applied Midas Gold Spectrum Noir metallic pigment ink to the edges of all the panels and then adhered the Skull and Crossbones panel and the black panel to the coffin and used foam tape to pop the top panel off of the black panel.
 

I made decorative panels for the sides and top of the coffin using mixed media cardstock, Mustard Seed, Candied Apple and Frayed Burlap Distress Oxide Sprays and the faBOOlous large Pumpkin Spooks rubber stamp by Stampendous stamped in black pigment ink.  I finished off all the panel edges with Midas Gold Spectrum Noir metallic pigment ink before adhering them to the coffin.

Have you realized yet that the pumpkins are a view of the Quirkleighs CarnEvil captive audience? and
YOU ARE THE PUMPKINS!
GASP....mwahahaha!

 The wooden base for this one is a turned piece made for me by my father-in-law who is no longer with us!  I painted it black and then applied Pebeo Spectrum Noir gold gilding wax to the base and all the edges of the coffin for even more grungy gold bling including Tim's fun Idea-ology Quote Chip which I cut to fit the width of the decor piece.  "Collector of Curiosities" was a fitting quote for him as the collector of souls!

 Quotes from Tim's Halloween Clipping Stickers were also perfect for this piece.  I added "The End" to one of Tim's Cryptic gravestones and "her trustful eyes looking straight into his" to the top panel.  I tinted all the clippings with Black Soot Distress Ink and applied clear Rock Candy Distress Crackle paint to grunge them up and I also added crackle to 2 of Tim's Bat Crazy bats too.  I adhered the gravestone and two of Tim's Skull Fragments to the top of the coffin as a "finial" and added touches of gold gilding wax to them.  I completed this piece by adding the Quirleighs CarnEvil Grimm Reaper to the scene with black pop dots.

 
I'm having so much fun creating these dramatic mixed media decor pieces!

The Quirkleighs CarnEvil Grimm Reaper is on FLASH SALE until midnight pacific tonight!

Check out my creepy Quirkleighs CarnEvil Collection release video🎃

Round up your all Beasties and join the spooktivities👻
Play in the hop by linking up your Halloween projects in the Blog Hop Linky Party HERE!
 

Happy Haunting!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

Day 7 of 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop: Quirkleighs CarnEvil Marionette mixed media decor by Leigh!

🎃Welcome Creative Friends to LeighSBDesigns 9th annual 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop🎃

Woohoo, the most spooktacular month is finally here and we're counting down to Halloween in style!
Val and I are sharing inspirational eye candy here daily and plus all the spooktacular creations shared by YOU, our Wicked Bloggers, in the Blog Hop Linky Party located at the bottom of my DAY 1 POST🎃 

  Thank you for joining in on the spooktvities!!!!  I'm loving all your creeptastic creations shared so far and all the love you're leaving while you hop🎃

Everyone is invited to join in on the spooktivities!
My Blog Hops are always stress free with a few simple rules to ensure YOU have a wicked good time playing while qualifying for the prizes too🎃 

You can play either as a WICKED BLOGGER by linking up your new and old, cute or creepy Halloween projects and hopping along or be a SINISTER STALKER and simply creep around all the blogs in the Blog Hop Linky Party HERE and leave lots of love in your wake🎃

I've got PRIZES to give away so you'd be crazy not to join in on the spooktivities🎃
Full details on how to play and the hop rules are in my DAY 1 POST!
Please make sure you read over the rules so you can play and qualify for the prizes! 

🎃31 DAYS of HALLOWEEN BLOG HOP SPONSORS🎃

 I'm delighted to have these creeptastic sponsors ready to hand out Halloween Treats!
A huge THANK YOU to them for supporting LeighSBDesigns spooktivities again this year!
 

This year I've got weekly Wicked Blogger Prizes generously sponsored by Stampendous for you to win!!!!  All you have to do to qualify is link up a NEW project each week and follow the Hop Rules!  The more days you play each week the better your odds at winning the weekly Wicked Blogger prize🎃  Everyone also has the chance to win spooktacular prizes generously sponsored by

 

Now for today's creeptastic creation by Me!

🎃Day 7 of 31 Days of Halloween 2019🎃

Quirkleighs CarnEvil Marionette mixed media decor! 

 Against your will you laugh with delight...

...as the beautiful porcelain Marionette performs her deadly dance!
 

 

Spellbound by The Puppet Master the once human girl dances forever in the Quirkleighs CarnEvil!

 I coloured The Quirkleighs CarnEvil Marionette with Copics and used a white Prismacolor pencil for highlights and added metallic gold details with a gel pen.

 I then completely fussy cut her out including all her hair ringlets!  She is pretty small so it took some time, patience and really good detail scissors!  I applied Judikins Diamond glaze to her fragile hair to enhance it and protect it.

Tim's zombie hand from the Cryptic Idea-ology set was sooooo perfect for my Marionette wonky house decor.  It was too long for my piece so I sawed the resin hand off at the wrist.

I tied metallic gold thread to the resin fingers and punched tiny holes into my Marionette's hands and feet, fed the threads through and secured the ends with tiny clear glue dots.  I did all of this after she was adhered into place on the wonky house.  

 

The decorative background papers on this one are from Tim's Idea-ology Worn Wallpaper and Abandoned paper pad.  I did subtle stenciling over the worn wallpaper with Worn Lipstick and Fired Brick Distress Oxide inks and Tim's large Rays layering stencil and then grunged up both decorative paper panels with Black Soot Distress Ink.  I then applied Distress Rock Candy Crackle Paint over the inked rays through the Rays stencil.

For the bottom panel I applied the Distress Rock Candy Crackle Paint with a palette knife around the edges and followed some of the vertical lines in the pattern too.  I used a Crafter's Companion Decorative Edge die to cut the bottom edge of the decorative background panel and a black Sheena heavy weight cardstock panel to create a Big Top tent frill.  I applied Midas Gold Spectrum Noir metallic pigment ink to the edges of all the panels and then adhered the black panel to the wonky house and used foam tape to pop the wallpaper panel off of the black panel.

I made decorative panels for the sides of the wonky house using mixed media cardstock, Mustard Seed, Worn Lipstick, Seedless Preserves and Frayed Burlap Distress Oxide Sprays and the faBOOlous large Pumpkin Spooks rubber stamp by Stampendous stamped in black pigment ink.  I finished off all the panel edges with Midas Gold Spectrum Noir metallic pigment ink before adhering them to the wonky house.

 The wooden base for this one is an Artist's Loft piece from Michaels which I painted black.  I then applied Pebeo gold gilding wax to the base and all the edges of the wonky house for even more grungy gold bling including Tim's fun Idea-ology Quote Chip which I cut to fit the width of the decor piece.  "She was Spellbound" couldn't have been more perfect for my project!  I then used black pop dots layered up to get extra height and adhered The Marionette in place and attached all her gold threads.  I'm having so much fun creating these dramatic dimensional scenes!

The Quirkleighs CarnEvil Marionette is on FLASH SALE until midnight pacific tonight!

Check out my creepy Quirkleighs CarnEvil Collection release video🎃

Round up your all Beasties and join the spooktivities👻
Play in the hop by linking up your Halloween projects in the Blog Hop Linky Party HERE!
 

Happy Haunting!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN