Happy New Year - Oddleigh Elf card by Leigh!

Happy New Year Creative Friends!

Today is the last day to add the Oddleigh New Year Elf and Fireworks set to your collections!  The SALE on this cutie ends tonight at midnight pacific!

 

❄️ Oddleigh New Year ❄️

card by Leigh

I printed the Oddleigh New Year Elf and Fireworks scene out onto mixed media cardstock then had lots of fun painting her with aqua pencils.  I used a metallic gold gel pen on her party hat tassels and the Happy New Year senti on her sign.  For lots of pretty sparkle I added crystal Stickles to her party hat tassles, snowflakes and the hat rim as well as the snowflake on her dress.

 

 

I then painted the background and fireworks with Spectrum Noir Sparkle glitter brush pens.

The glitter has an encrusted texture to it and super sparkly in real life.  I also added crystal Stickles to the Fireworks for even more sparkle. 

 

 

To get the effect of bursts of fireworks light mixed in with snowfall I created a mottled distressed look by splashing the background with water and removing paint with paper towel.  I then added white snowflake speckles with a white Dylusions paint pen and splattered the entire scene with Tarnished Brass Distress Spray Stain.  I then edged the panel with Spectrum Noir Midas gold pigment ink and matted it onto black cardstock and then mounted everything onto a panel of Distress Oxide Sprayed background cardstock I'd previously made and had in my stash.  I then completed the card by edging the Distress Oxide panel with Black Soot Distress Ink.  

 

Oddleigh New Year Elf and Fireworks set is on SALE through Sunday midnight pacific!

 

 

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Happy Oddleigh New Year! card by Val

Happy New Year Creative Friends!

May 2021 bring you much love and joy and crossing fingers it turns out a lot better than the last one🤞

 

❄️ Oddleigh New Year ❄️

card by Val

LeighSBDesigner Val's New Year inspiration for you today is a beautiful card featuring the Oddleigh New Year Elf and Fireworks set🥳

 

Val used the following supplies to create her PURRfect card!

 
Oddleigh New Year Elf and Fireworks set is on SALE through Sunday midnight pacific!

 

Spectrum Noir Tri-blends, Bamboo, 

Mint Blue, Gold, Brown

Spectrum Noir Glitters, 

Raspberry, Fiery Red, Silver 

Hobby Craft Pastels Glitter Card

Smooth white card 

Distress Oxide, Concord

 

Get ready for our next fun blog hop!

Our annual Edgar Allan Poe Appreciation Hop begins on Poe's birthday, January 19!

 

 

Check out my STAMPtember 2020 Collection!

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

Stay Safe and Happy Creating!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

Tutorial Tuesdays: Oddleigh Birthday Celebrations Accordion Book by Nan!

Hiya Creative Friends!
We're celebrating LeighSBDesigns 1st Birthday this month🎉  Enter the Birthday Card Contest using the provided FREEBIE for the chance to win one of 3 prizes sponsored by LeighSBDesigns, Simply B Stamps and Ike's Art!  Check out all the Birthday Celebrations HERE!  The contest ends on April 22nd, you don't want to miss it😋

PLUS, if you're a LeighSBDesigns Etsy Boutique customer already then check your Etsy Conversation inboxes, you all have received Birthday pressies🎉

The Oddleighs are having a wonderful time celebrating our 1st birthday🎉
Just look at this fabulous mixed media accordion fold book created by LeighSBDesigner Nan for today's Tutorial Tuesday segment🎉
  

1.  Create an accordion fold book from cardstock with panels that each measure 5" x 5" and add a 1/2 an inch flap on both ends.

2.  Decorate the panels with assorted stamps inked with your favorite colors.

3.  Apply soft body or craft acrylic paint with an old credit card over to each panel and let it dry.

4.  Apply white acrylic paint or gesso over Step 3 and let it dry.

5. Print out all the Oddleigh Girls, the Oddleigh Cherished Heart border, Oddleigh Flower's flowers and the Fireworks that come with both the Oddleigh July 4th and New Year sets and the Birthday Card Contest FREEBIE and color everything with markers and colored pencils.  Fussy cut all the images, except the FREEBIE, and adhere them to the book panels.

6.   Ink up the panel edges with your favorite ink pads or use acrylic paint applied with a sponge.

7.  Cut 4 pieces of cardstock measuring 7" x 7" for the front and back covers plus 2 panels of the same size from a cereal box.

8.  Emboss the front and back cardstock covers and then glue them to the cereal box panels to make the book covers nice and sturdy.

9.  Apply glue to the 1/2 inch flaps on the ends of the accordion book and attach the front and back covers.  To give the book a nice finished look cover the other side of the cereal box panels with the last 2 pieces of cardstock and hide the glued flaps.

10.  Attach 2 pieces of ribbon to the front cover of the book.  Leave enough ribbon loose on the ends to be able to wrap around the book and tie with knots or bows to keep the book closed.  Then finish off by attaching the FREEBIE image to the front cover with foam tape.

Undo the bow and enjoy the Oddleigh party🎉

Party Hats Pack

Oddleigh Flower set

Oddleigh Cherished Heart set

Oddleigh July  4th set

Oddleigh New Year Elf and Fireworks set

Supplies used

TouchNew alcohol markers

Spectrum Noir markers

Cardstock

Gesso

Assorted background stamps

Green Stickles

Tombow Glue

White gel pen

Thanks for stopping by to see Nan's tutorial today now pop on over and check out all the fun Birthday Celebrations, grab the FREEBIE and enter the contest🎉

Happy Stamping!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

Tutorial Tuesdays: Oddleigh New Year Elf Art Journal Page by Nan!

Hello creative friends!
Welcome to today's Tutorial Tuesday segment with LeighSBDesigner Nan featuring lil miss Oddleigh New Year Elf and Fireworks!
Our fun new Oddleigh set is on Flash Sale for today only, sale ends at midnight pacific time!
Enjoy😋

 Hi, Nan here with some New Years fun featuring Oddleigh New Year Elf and Fireworks!  I love playing with these Oddleigh characters because they can be used in so many ways!  I didn't use the fireworks on this one as I wanted my project to have an all year long message!

I always talk about using the leftover paint on my acrylic palette and thought I would show you two of my palette papers and how colorful they are...almost backgrounds as they are but would be much too bumpy as the paint dried so I brayer the paint onto some cardstock to get a smoother surface.
 

I always keep some stencils and embossing powder and texture paste handy to mix with the paint and dab on several different cardstock papers I have in various stages.  This is a Tim Holtz's stencil that gave me the idea for my project.
 

This is a page I had called finished months ago and had waiting in my trusty old pizza box...great for misting, and generally getting messy without ruining the whole room!  The numbers and Oddleigh New Year Elf made me think how we live by calendar dates and clocks so much that we miss the beauty that we pass each day!

I printed Oddleigh New Year Elf onto white cardstock suitable for alcohol and coloured her up with Spectrum Noir Markers and markers found at Tuesday Morning that are amazing.  Sadly half of the two boxes they had left had dried up so they let me combine the two to make a set, YAY, brush nibs RULE!
 

I fussy cut her out then decided to back her with another piece of stamped and gelatoed paper!  I then matted her onto a blue shimmer cardstock panel to make her pop nicely against the background.
 

I created the sentiment that I wanted for the journal page in Photoshop and printed it out onto white cardstock, cut out the text and inked them in Mermaid Lagoon Distress Ink.
 

 Here's the finished art journal page with lil miss Oddleigh New Year Elf.  I completed her by inking around her with both a black and white Pitt Big Brush markers to make her pop a bit!

 

I have made a resolution to paint a picture everyday as a challenge to myself to continue my exploration in developing my own style and I wanted my art journal pages to reflect more of the things I need to be reminded of and this message was perfect and something that all of us can benefit from doing😀

 I hope you enjoyed seeing my process and my finished art journal page!

 Thanks for stopping by to see my project today!
Happy Stamping!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

Tutorial Tuesdays: New Year projects by Val!

Happy 2018 to you all🎉
Val here to share 2 New Year themed projects I made using our new release for 2018, lil miss Oddleigh New Year and Fireworks set and the Party Hats pack🎉
Both sets are on sale at 25% off until midnight pacific on Jan 5th😋

To make my Oddleigh New Year Elves card I started out by adding the blue background to the images in my Serif Craftaritst2 software by using the png file formats that come with the set.   I printed out the scene onto Neenah white cardstock and trimmed to keep a white border.  I then printed the smaller Elf and fussy cut her out.  I also printed out the hats separately and fussy cut those too.  The hat with spots is from the Party Hats pack.  

The images are coloured with Spectrum Noir Sandstone and various Sakura Pens with Ranger Stickles glitter glue applied to the fireworks and the pompom on the smaller elf.  I used Cosmic Shimmer Drops to add the fun snow drops to the background.  I then used a black Micron Pen around the edges of the blue background to create a frame and mounted the panel onto a folded card made from black cardstock. 

 My second project is a tag featuring the fun new Party Hats pack and the "Happy New Year sign" is from the Oddleigh New Year Elf set.

 I resized the "sign" in Serif Craftartist2 and printed it and the hats onto Neenah white cardstock, fussy cut and coloured using Sakura Pens.  I made my own tags from white and black cardstocks with the black one a bit larger than the white one.  I then coloured the white tag with Wild Honey Distress Oxide ink applied with an ink blending foam tool.  I then adhered the images to the tag, embellished the background with Cosmic Shimmer black drops and finished everything off with silk ribbon in black and gold.

 

lil miss Oddeigh New Year Elf

Party Hats pack

  

Materials used:

Neenha White cardstock
Black cardstock
Sakura Pens
Wild Honey Distress Oxide ink
Cosmic Shimmer Drops - white and black
Ranger Stickles glitter glue
Serif craftartist2
PVA glue

Silk Ribbon

Don't forget about the New Release Sale!

 lil miss Oddleigh New Year Elf and Party Hats pack are 25% off thru Jan 5th and ends at midnight pacific!

 Thanks for stopping by to Val's projects today!

Happy Stamping!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

Happy New Year card by Leigh and Christmas digi Winner!

🎉HAPPY NEW YEAR🎉
I wish you all peace, good health and happiness for 2018 and always😘
I'm so very excited to share all my new designs this year and look forward to all the creative fun we are going to have😊

🎉Congratulations to Vivian Foo, you are the winner of a digi of your choice from my 2017 Christmas Collection🎉  Please email me (LeighSBDesigns @ cox. net) or send me a Facebook message to claim your prize😋

Here's the card I made featuring my newest design, lil miss Oddleigh New Year Elf.
  I created a magical scene of her enjoying the New Year fireworks while snow falls gently around her.

She's coloured with Copics with metallic gold gel pen details.   The background was done with Prismacolor pencils blended with Mona Lisa paint thinner.  The fireworks are coloured with Copics and then layers of Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens in metallic gold and silver were added to create the bursting fireworks effect with additional sparkle added with yellow Studio G and Diamond Stickles glitter glue. 

Dylusions White Linen paint was splattered randomly to give the look of falling snow.  The coloured panel was matted onto black and red cardstocks before being adhered to a folded card made from white cardstock.  To complete the card I added the large snowflake button that I decorated with red Nuvo Crystal Drops and Icicle Stickles glitter glue.

 

lil miss Oddleigh New Year Elf as well as my new Party Hats pack are currently on sale, enjoy 25% off thru Jan 5th 2018 midnight pacific!

Plus the LeighSBDesigns Etsy Boutique storewide CHRISTMAS SALE ends tonight at midnight pacific!  Everything is 25%!

lil miss Oddeigh New Year Elf

 lil miss Oddleigh New Year Elf comes with Fireworks as a separate digi so you can build your own New Year scenes!

Party Hats pack

The Party Hats pack consists of 4 party hats, 3 are decorated with circles, stripes and flowers and the 4th is blank so you can customize it to match any theme.  Party Hats pack is versatile and a fun accessories set to go with my LeighSBDesigns line and other stamps in your collections!  I'm sure you will use them all year long😋

Thanks for visiting with us today!
Have a fabulous and safe New Year!
Happy Stamping!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

LeighSBDesigns New Year Release: Oddleigh New Year Elf and Party Hats pack!

Seasons Greetings to you all🎄
I hope Santa was really good to you all this year🎅  2018 is just days away and I'd like to take a moment to wish you all peace, good health and happiness in the New Year and always😘

THANK YOU so much for your support of LeighSBDesigns this year!  I'm so very excited for 2018 and can't wait to share all my new designs, it's going to be an awesome year😊  I'm kicking off the new releases already with today's New Year and Party themed sets!  

Say hello to my new lil miss Oddeigh New Year Elf and the Party Hats pack😋
Both of these newbies are on sale, enjoy 25% off thru Jan 5th 2018 midnight pacific!

 lil miss Oddleigh New Year Elf comes with Fireworks as a separate digi so you can build your own New Year scenes!

The Party Hats pack consists of 4 party hats, 3 are decorated with circles, stripes and flowers and the 4th is blank so you can customize it to match any theme.  Party Hats pack is versatile and a fun accessories set to go with my LeighSBDesigns line and other stamps in your collections!  I'm sure you will use them all year long😋

The Party Hat with Circles is gender neutral and super versatile

The Party Hat with Flowers is perfect for your feminine projects

 My Christmas Sale is underway, head on over to LeighSBDesigns Etsy Boutique and enjoy 25% off storewide until Jan 1st, and today's release sale ends Jan 5th!  Happy shopping😋

Thanks for visiting with us today!
Have a fabulous and safe New Year!
Happy Stamping!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN