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

Day 12 of 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop: Magical Halloween card by Val!

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

Happy Saturday 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!  We're nearing the end of week two of our spooktacular 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop already and WOOHOO, I've got the first winner of the month to announce!  Read on to find out how YOU can be in the running for the weekly Wicked Blogger prizes🎃

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Winner of the Week One Wicked Blogger Prize
sponsored by Stampendous
is
🎃🎃🎃 TINK 🎃🎃🎃

 Congrats Tink, you've won a Surprise Prize from Stampendous🎃
Please email me at LeighSBDesigns at Cox dot net or send me a Facebook message to claim your prize by Oct 15!  Unclaimed prizes return to the prize stash to be won at the end of the hop!

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Attention Wicked Bloggers
👻 When you add your links to the linky party please put the Day number and your name in the thumbnail description, that helps me keep track immensely while I'm tallying up! THX🎃

👻 Don't forget that in order to play in the hop (and qualify for the prizes) you must hop and comment on ALL the blogs on the days you do play!  That's only fair to your fellow Wicked Bloggers!

👻 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🎃

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 inspirational card by LeighSBDesigner Val!

🎃Day 12 of 31 Days of Halloween 2019🎃

Val created a mystical scene for you today full of the magic and wonder of Halloween!

Val used the Sage Silhouette Faerie from the Faeries Enchanted Garden Collection, Stars Flourish from the Love is the Strongest Magic set and the Happy Halloween sentiment is from my "Autumn's Pencil" Rubber Stamp set sold by Smeared Ink (no longer in business).  All the images except the sentiments are now available as single digi stamps in the Tangled section and the Halloween section at LeighSBDesign Etsy BOOtique!  Let me know in the comments if you'd like me to make the sentiments available again....you can see the original rubber set HERE😉

Val created this magical card with the following supplies:
Promarkers:  Gold, Rose Pink and Cerise

Distress Oxide Inks:  Black Soot, Spun Sugar, Wild Honey, Sky Blue and Picked Raspberry 

Silver Ice Ranger Stickles

Moon stencil (source unknown)

Trees stencil from a craft magazine

Imagination Crafts Detailed Sparkle White Shimmer

Smooth white cardstock

Black cardstock

Sage and Hazel Silhouette Faeries set and the Love is the Strongest Magic set are on FLASH SALE until midnight tonight pacific!

Have you seen my creepy Quirkleighs CarnEvil Collection release video yet?🎃

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

"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 3 - Two Valentine cards by Leigh!

Happy Valentine's Day Creative Friends!

Welcome to Day 3 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❤️  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!  I'm loving all the creativity shared so far, thanks for joining in the fun and leaving everyone lots of love already❤️

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

Day 3
"Love is the Strongest Magic"
"Be My Valentine"
cards by Leigh

 Happy Valentine's Day to you all❤️
Today I'm sharing 2 cards...the one I made for the hop plus the card I made for my hubby😉

My card for the hop is inspired by Beauty and the Beast🌹
With the use of rose imagery and a moody colour palette I've portrayed their tale that's as old as time and full of romance and magic🌹  I'm pleased with how it turned out and hope you like it too😉

To represent the glass jar the rose is kept in I used clear acetate for the front of my card and I kept the decoration restricted to just the left hand side as the dramatic interior of the card completes the story.

I decorated the acetate front with my Copic coloured and fussy cut Gothic Rose.

 The card front is also embellished with Recollections paper roses and die cut leaf flourishes by Cherry Lynn.

The inside is decorated with my new Raggedy Heart Strings Background which I coloured with Distress Oxide inks,  Nuance powder and silver gel pen.  The thorn swirl die cut is by Crafter's Companion and I mounted it onto another Nuance watercolour panel done in pale pinks which I then grunged up with clear Rocky Candy Distress Crackle Paint and black Antiquing Gel.  My "Love is the Strongest Magic" sentiment is cut out with a Docrafts leaf die and coloured with Copics to match my Gothic Rose. 

 

 

This is the Valentine card I gave my hubby today😉   I used my new Raggedy Heart Strings and Raggedy Heart Strings Background plus square and rectangle "torn paper dies" by Crafter's Companion to cut the panels.  The background panel is coloured with Distress Oxides and the focal image watercoloured with Nuance pigment powders and gold gel pen.  Both panels were edged with Black Soot Distress Ink and mounted on black cardstock edged with Galaxy Gold Brilliance Ink and then mounted onto a red folded card.

 

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 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!
 

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 Magic - tag art by Val!

Howzit Creative Friends!
For today’s Valentine inspiration I'm sharing a wonderful magical tag made by LeighSBDesigner Val using my new “Love is the Strongest Magic” Sentiment and Raggedy Stars Flourish set❤️

Supplies used:

Distress Oxide Inks:  Pickled Raspberry, Broken China and Mermaid Lagoon

Tonic frame die

Promarkes:  Rose Red and Canary 

Clear Sparkle Pen

Black and White Fiber

Smooth white cardstock

Black cardstock

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

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