Gothic Valentine Blog Hop 2021: Finale (Day 4) "Love is the Strongest Magic" Gothic card by Leigh!

 Welcome Creative Friends to

LeighSBDesigns' 4th annual

 

Today is the finale of our 4 day annual hop celebrating the darker side of love and romance in LeighSBDesigns style🖤  Thank you everyone for playing and sharing your fabulous dark makes with us!  I’ve been enjoying them each day and today I’ll be hopping back to leave you all some love!  It's not too late to play if you're just joining us today as the linky party closes tonight at 5 'til midnight pacific.  Everyone is welcome to come and join the fun using any stamp company supplies and products.  All the details, hop rules and the linky party are in my main hop post HERE!

Shop the new 2021 Valentine designs through tonight midnight pacific to get 20% off plus all my other Valentine themed designs are on Sale through Feb 28 midnight pacific too!

Check out the sale at LeighSBDesigns Etsy Boutique❤️

I’ve got some fabulous new designs coming very soon for Spring and Easter and a blog hop to celebrate so I hop you’ll join us!  Stay tuned!

Day 4
"Love is the Strongest Magic"
  gothic card by Leigh

My finale make for you today is a gothic scene showing how love truly is the strongest magic...even from beyond the grave🖤

This piece features Heart Tree, No Rest for the Wicked, Raggedy Heart Strings and the Love is the Strongest Magic set.  

 

 

I've conjured up a magical twilight scene of a lone grave beneath a winter tree shrouded in fog.  The engraving on the tombstone says "Love is the Strongest Magic"🖤

 

 

Hanging from the tree above is a dripping broken heart.  From a single drop of blood a magic spell shoots down in a glittering swirl of stars to the grave below where it dramatically brings the lost loved one back to life.

 

 

I designed the scene then printed it out onto mixed media cardstock and trimmed to make a slimline panel.  I used masking fluid to mask the scene and created the magical twilight sky with Faded Jeans, Wilted Violet, Hickory Smoke and Carved Pumpkin Distress Oxide inks and splattered with Distress Oxide Wilted Violet and Distress Brushed Pewter sprays.

 

After removing the mask I applied more fog with Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide ink and a magical glow with Carved Pumpkin Distress Oxide ink over the images.  I darkened the outer edges with Black Soot Distress ink to create more drama then edged the card panel with Spectrum Noir Midas Silver pigment ink.  I coloured the heart with Prismacolor pencils and the bow with a metallic gold gel pen.  I then applied pearlescent yellow Viva Pearl gel to the stars for a magical 3D effect and finished off by mounting the panel onto a folded card base made from black heavy weight cardstock.

 

 

See you again soon for our Spring New Release Hop!

 

 

Thanks for stopping by to see today's featured make!

Happy Hopping!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

"My Dark Valentine" Blog Hop 2019: Day 5 - Three cards by Leigh!

Howzit Creative Friends!

Welcome to the finale of LeighSBDesigns 2nd annual

The "My Dark Valentine" Blog Hop linky party is HERE!

We have been celebrating Valentine's Day in style with my 5 day annual blog hop❤️ Today is the grand finale and I can't wait to see all the new projects to finish off the show, the sharing so far has been amazing, you guys ROCK😘  Don't forget that my Valentine Sale also ends tonight at midnight pacific!

If you're just joining us for the first time today its not too late to play!  This hop is all about DARK and TWISTY Valentines coz our holiday of love has some very dark and sinister origins!  You can read all about it in my Day 1 post!

This is a progressive hop which means it gets bigger as more dark Valentine projects appear in the blog hop linky party in my Day 1 post so stop by daily.  Click on each thumbnail in the linky and leave everyone lots of love as you go❤️  Today is the last day to get projects into the linky, it will close at 5 minutes to midnight pacific.  Then you have an extra 5 days to hop and comment to qualify for the prizes!

Everyone is invited to play!  You can either enter dark Valentine projects in the hop or just enjoy the show!  The hop rules are in my Day 1 post too so click on over and check it all out!

 

"My Dark Valentine" Blog Hop 2019 is proudly sponsored by

 For today's finale I'm sharing 2 new cards you haven't seen plus the Heart Tree card I shared a few days before the hop began in case you haven't seen it yet😉 

Day 5
"Poe Love"
"Love is the Strongest Magic"
 cards by Leigh

First up here's a different look for a Poe themed card for you using Distressed Raven Nevermore, the Poe Love FREEBIE and Raggedy Heart Strings Background😋  Dark and twisty doesn't always have to be gloom and doom!  Here I'm giving Poe some love and used PINK in my creation, shock horror, but it's still grungy and I think the imagery and the "weird for Poe" colour palette works!

I used Nuance pigment powders to create the watercoloured Raggedy Heart Strings Background and watercolour painted the images.  I coloured all the bows and outlined the Raven and Poe text with a metallic gold gel pen then fussy cut them out before matting onto black cardstock and then I fussy cut everything again leaving a very narrow border.  The background was die cut out with a "torn edges" Crafter's Companion die, edged with Black Soot Distress ink then mounted onto a top fold card made from black cardstock.  I then adhered the images to the card with clear 3D tape.

This one is more magical than dark so I'm sharing just for fun to show the same Raggedy Heart Strings Background done in prettier colours and the "Love is the Strongest Magic" sentiment😋

I first shared this magical mixed media card on Feb 9.  It's got a haunting quality that I think still works for a dark Valentine.  I used 3 of my new designs from the 2019 Valentine Collection:  the Heart Tree, the “Love is the Strongest Magic” sentiment, one of the hanging hearts from Raggedy Heart Strings and I also dotted stars from the sentiment around in the sky too.

That's it for my Valentine shares for the hop, I hope you've enjoyed checking them out and will continue to follow us here at LeighSBDesigns and play in our events throughout the rest of the year❤️
  

 Designs from my new 2019 Valentine Collection as well as the 2018 collection are being featured this month and both collections are on sale for the duration of the hop!  The sale ends TONIGHT at midnight pacific!

Are you ready to embrace your dark side?

 Check out the fun video I made for last year's release and the 2018 hop art HERE to help get you in the mood.

Then pop on over to The "My Dark Valentine" Blog Hop linky party HERE😋

Happy hopping, see you again soon, keep a look out for my WINNERS post❤️

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

"My Dark Valentine" Blog Hop 2019: Day 2 - "Love explores the Shadows within our Hearts" card by Val!

Howzit Creative Friends!

Welcome to Day 2 of LeighSBDesigns 2nd annual

The "My Dark Valentine" Blog Hop linky party is HERE!
 
We are celebrating Valentine's Day in style with my annual 5 day blog hop and we're off to a fabulous start already❤️  But this isn't your usual lovey dovey take on the holiday, we like to go DARK and TWISTY coz our holiday of love has some very dark and sinister origins!  You can read all about it in my Day 1 post!

This is a progressive hop which means it gets bigger as more dark Valentine projects appear in the blog hop linky party in my Day 1 post so stop by daily.  Click on each thumbnail in the linky and leave everyone lots of love as you go❤️  You have 5 days to enter projects and then an extra 5 days to hop and comment to qualify for the prizes!

Everyone is invited to play!  You can either enter dark Valentine projects in the hop or just hop and enjoy the show!  The hop rules are in my Day 1 post too so click on over and check it all out!

"My Dark Valentine" Blog Hop 2019 is proudly sponsored by

 You'll see fabulous dark Valentine inspiration here daily featuring designs from my new 2019 Valentine Collection as well as the 2018 collection too!  Both collections are on sale for the duration of the hop so I hope you'll see some must haves to play with😉  I also have a "My Dark Valentine" sentiment FREEBIE for you too, grab it HERE!

Day 2
"Love explores the Shadows within our Hearts"
card by Val

LeighSBDesigner Val created this stunning card with my new designs, the Heart Tree and hearts fussy cut from the Raggedy Heart Strings, and finished it with a dark sentiment from Dark Sentiment Set 2.

Val used the following supplies to create this beauty:

Distress Oxides:  Sapphire, Broken China and Black Soot

Lipstick Red Promarker

Clear Sparkle Overlay Pen

Smooth white cardstock
Black cardstock

Are you ready to embrace your dark side?

 Check out the fun video I made for last year's release and the 2018 hop art HERE to help get you in the mood.

Then pop on over to The "My Dark Valentine" Blog Hop linky party HERE😋

Happy hopping, see you again tomorrow❤️

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

Love is the Strongest Magic - mixed media card by Leigh

Howzit Creative Friends!
For today’s Valentine inspiration I'm sharing a mixed media card I made using 3 of my new designs from the 2019 Valentine Collection:  the Heart Tree, the “Love is the Strongest Magic” sentiment, one of the hanging hearts from Raggedy Heart Strings and I also dotted stars from the sentiment around in the sky too.

The 2019 Valentine Collection!

Shop the newbies at LeighSBDesigns Etsy Boutique, they’re available at special intro prices until Feb 16!  You can get them individually or if you love them all then snap up the BUNDLE😉

Heart Tree is a realistic drawing of a bare tree with branches forming the shape of a heart.  This tree is perfect for your Valentine projects but will also work all year long for any theme and any season!  

Raggedy Heart Strings is a drawing of 4 grungy hearts with drippy points dandling from bow tied strings.  So many possibilities....are they bleeding hearts, weeping hearts or distressed pretty hearts?  Totally up to you! 

You can never have too many background designs for your projects so here's a wonderful collage called Raggedy Heart Strings Background for you to play with too!

"Love is the Strongest Magic" is a fun sentiment and Raggedy Stars Flourish set. 

You get both as 2 separate designs for endless magical creativity!

The last one in the collection is the Tree of Raggedy Hearts!

 This one is a scene of a realistic drawing of a tree branch with 4 raggedy hearts dangling from it.

The meaning behind this scene can be whatever you want it to be....are they true love hearts just waiting to be picked or abandoned, broken and lonely hearts?  You decide!

 Get the Valentine Collection 2019 Bundle if you ❤️ them all😉

 Check out my 2018 Valentine Collection release video to get in the mood for the "My Dark Valentine" Blog Hop and for tons of inspiration you can see last year's blog hop entries HERE😋

Thanks for stopping by to see today's project!
Happy Creating!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN