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

🖤 Happy February Creative Friends 🖤 

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

 

 

5th annual Gothic Valentine Blog Hop

 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 creativities🖤

 

🖤🖤🖤 VALENTINE SALE 🖤🖤🖤

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 Hop🖤  I’m kicking off the party with my Gothic Gazing Globe with a man’s heart suspended inside🖤

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”🖤

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 least🖤

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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Happy Creating!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

My Dark Valentine Blog Hop Day 3: “Oddleigh Be Mine” card by Leigh!

Happy Valentine’s Day Creative Friends!
Welcome to Day 3 of LeighSBDesigns 3rd annual My Dark Valentine Blog Hop❤️
While we get all lovey dovey today check out how our celebration of love came about, there’s some rather dark and twisty origins you can read about in my 2018 post HERE!

Our annual 5 day blog hop closes Feb 16th at 11:55pm pacific and the Blog Hop linky is at the bottom of my Feb 12 post along with the details on how to play and the Hop Rules!
We’re loving all your creations you’ve shared with us so far...keep those dark Valentines coming❤️
 

My Dark Valentine Blog Hop 2020
is proudly sponsored by

Check out my VALENTINE and DARK VALENTINE COLLECTIONS
Shop my VALENTINE SALE through Feb 16th, sale ends at midnight pacific!

There's also a "My Dark Valentine" sentiment FREEBIE you can snag HERE!

“Oddleigh Be Mine”
card by Leigh

For Day 3 of the hop lil miss Oddleigh Cherished Heart came out to play and I also used my Heart Splatter and put the “Be Mine” sentiment from the Dark Sentiments 2 set inside the heart!

I coloured Oddleigh Cherished Heart with Copics and Prismacolor pencils plus Ranger white gel pen highlights.  Then I fussy cut her out leaving a narrow white border to make her pop against the black background and popped her up even more with black foam tape.

To create the background layers I used Fired Brick, Festive Berries and Wilted Violet Distress Oxide Sprays to make the coloured background.

Then layered Crafter’s Companion black glitter cardstock die cut with Tim’s Falling Hearts on top with black foam tape to pop it off the coloured layer.  I mounted the mats onto a folded card made from a sheet of heavy weight black cardstock.

I printed the “Be Mine” Heart Splatter onto more Distress Oxide Sprayed background, fussy cut it out and then painted the heart with pink Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen.  I used a black fine liner pen to enhance the design and I also painted all Oddleigh’s hearts and her lips with clear sparkle pen.  It looks really sparkly and pretty in real life.  I gave her little heart earring a bit of dimension with red Nuvo crystal drops.

To create the fun 3D embellishment I used Tim’s Heartbeat die and cut out two pieces from red cardstock and adhered them together to make it chunkier, then applied Viva Pearl Transparent Violet 3D gel for more dimension and a subtle shimmer.  I then cut the heartbeat element so I could extend it across the entire bottom edge of the card.

Here’s some photos showing all the fun details.

My hubby is getting this card today for Valentine’s Day 😁

Thanks for stopping by to see today's featured project, I hope I've inspired you to come and join the celebration😘

Happy Hopping!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

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, heheheh😜

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 shopping😋

 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!

 
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 week😋 
Happy Stamping!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

Dark Valentine DT Showcase: Dark Valentine Canvas Art by Val!

Howzit Creative Friends!
Happy Sunday and welcome back for another DT Showcase!
Today I'm sharing 2 fabulous canvas projects LeighSBDesigner Val made for our MY DARK VALENTINE blog hop!  Keep checking in if you're looking for the blog hop prize winners, I'll be announcing them soon😋

On this wonderfully moody small canvas piece Val used both the Scratch Hearts and Skull Roses collage backgrounds.  She cut out a cluster of hearts and a single skull rose and paired them up with the "My Dark Valentine" from the Dark Sentiment 1 set.

Vall added yummy texture to the hearts with clear embossing powder and used Stickles glitter glue around the canvas edges to add a soft sparkly touch to the dark moody piece.  Two silver jewelry pieces are the finishing touch which picks up the touch of silver on the skull and silvery shine in the Stickles glitter beautifully.

 Supplies used:
Small Canvas
Text background (from her stash)
Distress Inks:  Fired Brick and Black Soot
Versamark Ink
Clear Embossing Powder
Ranger Stickles
Silver jewelry embellishments
Silver paint pen
Black silk ribbon

 The 2nd share for today is this wonderful large canvas piece with sentiments from both of the Dark Sentiments sets, 1 and 2, as the main focus.  Val also used the Gothic Rose and the Hearts Splatter which is the heart I featured on the MY DARK VALENTINE Blog Hop badge.   You can also save some $$$ and grab a FREEBIE as well if you get the Dark Sentiments Bundle whick includes set 1 and 2 plus the LOVE text as a freebie!

In this photo you can see the yummy texture Val loves to add to her artwork with clear embossing powder.  She also used Cosmic Shimmer Drops to add 3D elements to the negative spaces of the background and picked up the dots in the hand drawn 'dots and dashes' border along the edges.

Supplies used:
Large canvas
Red embossing pen
Clear embossing powder
Red Sharpie marker used to edge the sentiments
Black Micron pen
Cosmic Shimmer Drops
White and Black cardstock

All the digi stamps featured today are now on FLASH SALE until midnight tonight, except for the Dark Sentiments Bundle which is already discounted and comes with the FREEBIE!

Click on the pix to go shopping😋 

 Thanks for stopping by to see Val's projects today!
Have a great Sunday and as always,
Happy Stamping!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN