🖤 Happy Gothic Valentine 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
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🖤
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LeighSBDesigns’ romance themed Digi Stamps and more are on sale for the duration of the hop at LeighSBDesigns Boutique!
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Day 4 Finale
“A Tale as Old as Time”
Gothic Rose 3D Window Vignette
by Leigh
Welcome to Day 4 and the finale of our dark romantic 5th annual Gothic Valentine Blog Hop🖤
Tale as old as time...Song as old as rhyme...
Beauty and the Beast
For my finale make today I created a Gothic vignette of a scene from Beauty and the Beast🖤
I used my Raven Gothic Window SVG Cutz set to make a 3D corner vignette of the Beast's castle.
The Raven Gothic Window SVG Cutz set comes with a detailed lace overlay and 4 mat layers. I designed the base structure of the corner vignette in Silhouette Studio using the 2nd mat layer then made a mirror image of the base, so I could glue them back to back to make the structure nice and sturdy, and cut both of out of heavy weight black cardstock using my Silhouette Cameo 4. I then cut four of the 1st mat layer from textured grey cardstock with 2 also as mirror images. Then I cut 4 of the detailed lace overlay from black cardstock with 2 as mirror images. I then assembled the vignette by layering up all the cut elements on both sides of the Gothic Windows then glued the base to form the 3D corner vignette. The cobblestone floor is a Crafter's Companion die which I fussy cut after die cutting to fit the vignette base. The die has a mat layer which I coloured with Tea Dye and Frayed Burlap Distress Oxide sprays and the cobblestone overlay was cut from black cardstock.
I coloured my Gothic Rose with Copics, fussy cut it out leaving a narrow white halo and then glued it to clear acetate to give the delicate rose a nice sturdy structure and fussy cut it out again. I added dew drops with a Viva Pearl magic transparent 3D gel pen.
The Wicked Moon smiles down upon the enchanted Rose outside the window. I coloured the moon with Tea Dye, Fired Brick and Black Soot Distress Oxide inks, mounted it onto Crafter's Companion black glitter card and fussy cut it out. I glued only a tiny piece of the side of the moon to the Gothic Window and creased it to bend away from the window to give a free floating effect.
The Bat is from the Gothic Nightmare Catcher SVG Cutz set and I attached it to the outside of the window by only a portion of a wing so it looks like it's flying freely outside the window.
This senti embellishment isn't attached so it can be placed anywhere around the vignette.
I decorated the vignette base with Recollections red paper roses and climbing vines using more Cheery Lynn leaf flourishes. I them completed the vignette by adhering the Gothic Rose in place with a tab made of clear acetate so it looks like its standing on its own in the scene. I painted the back of the Gothic Rose with black glitter glue and covered the acetate tab in glitter to camouflage it and then attached the tab to the corner of the vignette so it can viewed from any angle.
And that wraps up this year's Gothic Valentine Blog Hop! Thank you everyone for joining in and sharing your gorgeous makes with us over the last 4 days🖤
You still have until 5 minutes to midnight pacific tonight to get in your makes and then stay tuned for the Winner post! Also don't forget you can still play in our "Let Love Bloom" Challenge which ends on Feb 25th.
Shop for the SVG Cutz and Digi Stamps used today and more in the Valentine Sale which also ends tonight at midnight pacific!
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Thanks for hopping in to see today’s Hop inspiration, see you tomorrow for the finale!
Happy Creating!
