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

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