Spring Blog Hop 2021: Day 14 Spring Equinox painting by Leigh!

🌼🐰🌼 Happy first day of Spring Creative Friends 🌼🐰

Welcome to Day 14 of LeighSBDesigns' Spring Blog Hop in celebration of the season and the release of chapter 1 of my new Spring 2021 Collection!

 

 Get creative and come and hop with us March 7 through March 31st!

All the hop details and the rules are in the main hop post HERE!

 

 

🌼🐰🌼 SPRING SALE 🌼🐰🌼

 

Check out LeighSBDesigns Etsy Boutique Spring Sale on now through March 31st midnight pacific!

Plus check out my brand new Spring 2021 Collection which is on special release sale through March 12 midnight pacific!  You'll see them all in action during this hop!  It gives me the warm and fuzzies to see my digi stamps being used so I hope you'll find lots of designs to add to your collections and will come and join in on the Spring festivities this month🥰 

 

 

Day 14
"Spring Equinox"
 painting by Leigh

 

My Spring Blog Hop inspiration for you today is a digital painting of my new Spring Equinox design in celebration of the first day of Spring here in the northern hemisphere today🌼   

🌼🐰🌼 Shop for this beauty and more in the Spring Sale 🌼🐰🌼

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

Happy Creating!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

Edgar Allan Poe Appreciation Blog Hop 2021: Day 1 Poe Gnome Painting by Leigh!

Welcome to LeighSBDesigns 6th annual Edgar Allan Poe Appreciation Blog Hop in celebration of the Master of Macabre's birthday!

Today is Poe's birthday and Day 1 of our annual 5 day hop!

Everyone is invited to enter Poe inspired makes in the Blog Hop Linky Party located on the main post HERE using any stamp company products!  You'll find the full details and Rules on how to play there too!  We always have a POEtastic time so tell your friends and celebrate your love of Poe with us and be in the running for a prize from LeighSBDesigns Art Stamps😉
 

 

"Poe Gnome"

digital painting by Leigh

 

I'm kicking off the hop today with a POEtastic digital painting of Poe Gnome in a magical forest scene.

Poe Gnome is enjoying his birthday sitting in the forest pondering his next masterpiece with the help of his pet Raven.

 

 

🥳Shop the Poe Appreciation Sale at LeighSBDesigns Etsy Boutique through Jan 23rd🥳

 

 

 

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

I hope you'll come and join in on the blog hop fun!
Happy Hopping!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

Forever Dark Poinsettias!

Howzit Everyone!
Today is also the start of our new challenge over on our Forever Dark Challenge blog!
Challenge #7 is Anything Goes so come and enter your "DARK" projects for the chance to win a prize from our clawesome sponsor this month, IKE'S ART!

I had the absolute pleasure of creating with Ike's Poinsettia Fairy and made this mixed media Creepmas card for your inspiration!

 I started out by printing her onto Neenah solar white cardstock and coloured her with Copics.  Of course I had to go dark with this one and had fun giving her a wintery skin tone, red eyes and black poinsettias!  Once she was complete I scanned her and finished the digi card in Photoshop CS6 by creating the foggy background, the oval frame and repeating the poinsettias along the bottom edge.

Thanks for stopping by and hope to see you over at Forever Dark!

Happy Holidays and Merry Creepmas!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for Smeared Ink * Lost Coast Designs * Carmen's Veranda * Forever Dark * Altered Eclectic Challenges *About Art Accents

Gimme Candy - Forever Dark DT project

Howzit Everyone!
 It's time for a new challenge over at Forever Dark Challenges!
As always it's anything goes as long as it is "DARK" whether it be light hearted, creepy cute or down right scary, all are welcome!

Our fabulous sponsor this month is

I had fun creating with Pop culture zombie girl!

This is another full on digital art piece created in Photoshop CS6 and Paper 53.
I started out by colouring the zombie girl on my iPad using a stylus and an awesome drawing application called Paper 53.  I had an absolute blast working on this piece although it took many many hours to complete.  Many people think it's faster and easier to create and colour digis in Photoshop but that's an incorrect assumption.  It actually takes way longer, images can take many hours and even days to colour before even getting to project assembly.  Once I was happy with my zombie I then moved over to Photoshop and completed my project with the addition of the text and background layers.

Challenges entered
Dream in Darkness
A Step in the Dark Facebook Challenge
 

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for Smeared Ink * Lost Coast Designs * Carmen's Veranda * Forever Dark * Altered Eclectics

"Nothing to Wear for Halloween" digi art for Smeared Ink DT!

Howzit Everyone!
It's not too late to get in your entries over at Smudgy Antics for our October challenge!
I've got 2 DT projects to share, here's the first one.

I went full on digital for this one in Photoshop CS6 using Smeared Ink's Rusalka digi image.  She's in quite a tizz with herself and was overheard muttering "It's nearly Halloween and I've got nothing to wear!"

See you over at Smudgy Antics where are challenges are always dark, always Anything Goes and now with the re-opening of the store...always Smeared Ink images only!

Challenges entered:
Dream in Darkness
Create and Inspire

Ike's World

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for Smeared Ink * Lost Coast Designs * Forever Dark * Altered Eclectic Challenges *About Art Accents

Vaguely Goth digi art - Forever Dark DT!

Howzit Everyone!
There's still time to enter our October challenge over at Forever Dark Challenges!
As always it's anything goes as long as it is "DARK" whether it be light hearted, creepy cute or down right sinister, all are welcome!

Our fabulous sponsor this month is

I used Ike's GOREgous Vaguely Goth girl for my digi creation!

This is another full on digital art piece but this time I did not use my precious Photoshop CS6.  I created this one on my iPad using an awesome drawing application called Paper 53.  I had an absolute blast working on this piece although it took many many hours to complete working with a stylus and a limited drawing application when compared to using Photoshop and a Wacom tablet.

Challenges entered:

Ike's World - Halloween

My project made Top 3 in Ike's Art Challenges, YAY :0)

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for Smeared Ink * Lost Coast Designs * Forever Dark Challenges * Altered Eclectic Challenges *About Art Accents

"Pretty in Pink" Dark digi art for Smudgy Antics!

Good morning, I hope you all had a fabulous weekend!

We're now entering week 4 of our current Smudgy Antics challenge!  Here's my DT inspiration project using the "twist" part of this month's anything goes challenge which is use only 3 colours!  I'm also featuring the Smeared Ink digi image "Toxic Ballerinas" which is the digi prize for one lucky winner this month, plus there's also a SI real rubber stamp up for grabs to so pop on over and join the fun!

My project is completely digital and the ballerinas have been added to the photo of a very surreal looking long corridor I took on a cruise ship!  I worked in shades of pink, red and grey.  The movie "The Shining" is my inspiration for this piece!

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for Smeared Ink * Lost Coast Designs * Forever Dark Challenges * Altered Eclectic Challenges *About Art Accents

The Other Side of Fear - Digital Art for Smudgy Antics!

Hello Friends!
It's my turn to share some Smeared and Smudged aka Smeared Ink DT inspiration today for our current Smudgy Antics "Anything Goes" Challenge!  We're now entering week 4 so hurry on over and enter to be in the running for the prize of a Smeared Ink digi as well as a Smeared Ink rubber stamp!

Here's my digital art featuring the Smeared Ink digi prize, one of the Other Side of Fear ladies, plus wings from one of the Heart Wings digis and the sentiment is also from the Other Side of Fear set.  Everything was done in Photoshop CS6.

Don't forget that DominoART's current challenge RAVENS ends on Wednesday so hurry and get in your Raven themed altered game art of any kind!

I've entered this one into
Haunted Design House May Challenge

 Thanks for stopping by and have a fabulous weekend!

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for Smeared Ink * Lost Coast Designs * Forever Dark * Altered Eclectic Challenges *About Art Accents

"MAMA" movie inspired digi creation for Smeared Ink!

Happy St. Patrick's Day Everyone!

Today I'm sharing a Smeared Ink Design Team digi creation which I also designed for the current Smeared and Smudged Forum "Oh the Horror" challenge.  This month is "Clean Grunge" inspired by the movie trailer for "Mama".  That's one spooky looking movie and I hope you like what I came up with ;0)

For this one I used Smeared Ink's "Specimen Jar Man" for the background and one of the butterlies for my "moth" and the girl is "Beyond".
All the colouring and digi designing was done in Photoshop CS6.

Come and join the fun over at the Smeared and Smudged Forum, membership is free and there's lots of things to do and see and prizes to win :0)
 

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for Smeared Ink * Lost Coast Designs * About Art Accents

"REDRUM" Smeared Ink Design Team Blog Hop #2

Howzit Everyone!
Today is our 2nd Smeared Ink Design Team "one day" blog hop!  So sit back and enjoy the awesome art created by my fabulous teamies!

For this hop I came up with the theme REDRUM!
Perfectly fitting for our Bloody Valentine February don't you think ;0)

Of course you all know that REDRUM is from Stephen King's "The Shining".  I'm a huge King fan and love the book and the movie was damn scary so I created this digi piece using the Twins from Smeared Ink's Toxic Ballerinas and the background is an altered photo I took of the eerie corridor on the Star Princess cruise ship in December last year!  I just LOVE that it looks just like those creepy corridors in the movies that stretch on forever!  I even changed the cabin number on the wall that you can just see behind the left ballerina to #217 and added the blood dripping down the walls!  I included the word REDRUM and the reflection MURDER and made the text look like they're on fire!  I love how it all turned out, it's so scary!  All my digi colouring and image manipulation was done in Photoshop CS6.

Closer look at the coloured toxic ballerinas

Now hop on over and see what my SI teamies picked as their favourite images :0)


Black Dragon
Fiona
Shell
Leigh - You're here
Kapree
Shoni
Ike
Rocio

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for Smeared Ink * Lost Coast Designs * About Art Accents

"Door of Her Soul" Keyhole series for Smeared Ink DT!

Howzit Everyone!
Happy Monday, I hope you all had a great weekend!
Today I'm sharing one of my Smeared Ink Design Team creations which is another one in my "Keyhole Art" series.

click on the photo to enlarge it!

This year I'm inspired to create a series of "Keyhole Art" using digitally altered photos of vintage door keyholes combined with digi or stamped images that give you a peek into a strange world beyond.   My piece for today has you peering through a keyhole that eerily looks like a face with two black eyes where you'll catch a of glimpse of something fearful happening beyond!  Eeeek!

For this one I used Smeared Ink's "It Could Be" girl digi image, the hearts all down the right side are one of their Poe Boy digi papers and also the heart with the text is one of their discontinued Heart Wings digis sans the wings (now available only as rubber in their Rubber Club).
All the colouring and digi designing was done in Photoshop CS6.
 

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for Smeared Ink * Lost Coast Designs * About Art Accents

Day 3: Bloody Valentine Blog Hop with Smeared & Smudged!

Welcome back Everyone!
It's Day 3 and the finale of our annual Bloody Valentine Blog Hop hosted by the Smeared and Smudged forum!  Thank you so much for hopping with me and leaving me all your wonderful comments, I truly appreciate them all and I've really enjoyed stopping by to see all your amazing art over the last 3 days too!

I've been having loads of fun creating with Smeared Ink's new digi set called The Keepers and today I used the Second Keeper, here's a closer look at her.

I used another Smeared Ink's digi paper from the Poe Boy pack for the background.  Then I worked with the digi image in Photoshop CS6.  I coloured her and played with various effects and added a lot of burning, dodging and erasing, etc.  The image was layered over the background and this time I also used one of the sentiments from The Keepers set!  I did more manual manipulation, colouring and shading and repeated the fun ghost effect with the number thirteen this time for Feb 13 ;0)

I've got another project for you to see over at DominoART which is your next stop on the hop, enjoy ;0)

SMEARED AND SMUDGED BLOODY VALENTINE BLOG HOP ROLL
Shell
Sue The Nanny
Susan
Julia
Black Dragon
Kristy
Maureen
Fiona
Leigh - U R HERE!
DominoART
Airless Chambers
Ike's World @ Quoth The Raven
Ike's World Challenges
Wendy
Shoni
Ike
Left Of Center Creative Challenges
Lisa
Violent Kitty
Lady Brayton
Samara

See you again next year, Bloody Valentine 2015 will be here before we know it...eeeek :0)

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for Smeared Ink * Lost Coast Designs * About Art Accents

Day 2: Bloody Valentine Blog Hop with Smeared & Smudged!

Howzit Everyone!
Welcome to Day 2 of our annual Bloody Valentine Blog Hop hosted by the Smeared and Smudged forum!  I appreciate all the comments you left for me yesterday and I enjoyed seeing all your fabulous dark and twisty art :0)

I'm currently enjoying playing with Smeared Ink's new digi set called The Keepers and today I used the Fifth Keeper, here's a closer look at her.

I started off by combining two of Smeared Ink's digi papers from the Poe Boy pack for the background...the Raven/Skull and the Red Feathers.  The digi image was coloured in Photoshop CS6 with a lot of effects applied.  The image was layered over the background and I did more manual manipulation, colouring and shading, etc.  I repeated the fun ghost effect with the number twelve this time for Feb 12 ;0)

Thanks for stopping by!  Your next stop on the hop is my other blog, DominoART, enjoy ;0)

SMEARED AND SMUDGED BLOODY VALENTINE BLOG HOP ROLL
Shell
Sue The Nanny
Susan
Julia
Black Dragon
Kristy
Maureen
Fiona
Leigh - U R HERE!
DominoART
Airless Chambers
Ike's World @ Quoth The Raven
Ike's World Challenges
Wendy
Shoni
Ike
Left Of Center Creative Challenges
Lisa
Violent Kitty
Lady Brayton
Samara

See you again tomorrow :0)

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for Smeared Ink * Lost Coast Designs * About Art Accents

Day 1: Bloody Valentine Blog Hop with Smeared & Smudged!

Howzit Everyone!
For the next 3 days we at the Smeared and Smudged forum are getting down right dark and twisty with our annual Bloody Valentine Blog Hop!  You probably arrived here from my teamie, Fiona, if not then start your hop at the beginning...the blog roll is below!

While I've been in the middle of a MAJOR art study clean out and tidy up I've been happily designing and creating in my Photoshop CS6 and here's my first digi project for the hop which is also one of my Smeared Ink design team projects for this week.

 Smeared Ink recently released a new gorgeous digi set called The Keepers and I used the First Keeper for today's project, here's a closer look at her.

The middle image and the Bloody Valentine sentiment are also SI digis from the Bloody Valentine set.  I started off with one of Smeared Ink's digi papers from the Slasher pack for the background.  I coloured the digi images in Photoshop and erased the backgrounds, added various effects filters and a lot of manual manipulation, colouring and shading, etc and and layered them both over the background.  I also created a fun ghost effect with the number eleven, which is a significant number that keeps coming up in my family AND is also for Feb 11, of course ;0)

Thanks for stopping by, your next stop on the hop is my other blog, DominoART, enjoy ;0)

SMEARED AND SMUDGED BLOODY VALENTINE BLOG HOP ROLL
Shell
Sue The Nanny
Susan
Julia
Black Dragon
Kristy
Maureen
Fiona
Leigh - U R HERE!
DominoART
Airless Chambers
Ike's World @ Quoth The Raven
Ike's World Challenges
Wendy
Shoni
Ike
Left Of Center Creative Challenges
Lisa
Violent Kitty
Lady Brayton
Samara

See you again tomorrow :0)

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for Smeared Ink * Lost Coast Designs * About Art Accents

"The Veil Parts" Smeared Ink Design Team Blog Hop #1

Howzit Everyone!
Today is our 1st Smeared Ink Design Team "one day" blog hop!  Now that the Smudgy Antics challenge blog has moved from blogger to our Smeared and Smudged forum we thought you'd still like to see our design team creations all in one place!   So we're now going to showcase our creations in a monthly design team blog hop that will take place near the end of each month and the next one will be February 24!

For this hop we're featuring our "favourite Smeared Ink images" and I must say that is was a toughie coz Smeared Ink has so many images that qualify but I managed to narrow it down to their digi image called "The Valkyries".  It is a hauntingly beautiful image and this is what I created with it.

In case you didn't know Valkyries are from Norse mythology and in Old Norse "valkyrja" means "chooser of the slain" and they decide which soldiers die in battle and which live.  I coloured the image and created my digi art in Photoshop CS6 and combined it with one of Smeared Ink's newest digi papers of trees covered in snow from the End of Year paper pack and a vintage photo of the soldiers which I found on the internet.

  My piece depicts 3 Valkyries parting the veil between their world and ours and peering down at soldiers who are unaware that their fate lies in the Valkyries hands.  Here's a closer look at the details.

Now hop on over and see what my SI teamies picked as their favourite images :0)


Black Dragon
Fiona
Shell
Leigh - You're here
Kapree
Shoni
Ike
Rocio

Today is also the beginning of new a Smeared and Smudged adventure!   It's a new year and we want to help you KICKSTART YOUR ART! What better way to experiment with new techniques and ideas than creating your very own ART JOURNAL for 2014!  Here's the deets on how you can kickstart your art.

The Smeared and Smudged Art Journal Every Day DT are so excited to be hosting our very first week-long journal challenge extravaganza! Each morning, for seven days, we will post a journal prompt or technique for challenge participants. The participants will have until midnight to post their journal page for that day's challenge. The daily winner will be announced the next morning along with the new journal challenge. Daily prizes will vary from gift certificates to coupons to free digis.

The fun thing about it is, at the end of the seven days we will be drawing for a grand prize! In order to qualify, participants must have posted entries in all seven journal challenges.
We look forward to this week long fun fest, and we hope you can play along!!!
Join us Monday, January 27th at
http://moresmearedink.blogspot.com

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for Smeared Ink * Lost Coast Designs * About Art Accents

"White Nights Goth Fairy" Smeared and Smudged Rock n Rolla Challenge

Hiya Everyone!
Today I'm sharing a digi creation that was inspired by the current Rock n Rolla challenge over at the Smeared and Smudged forum!  In case you all didn't know, the forum is a great community of artists and we've got lots of fun challenges going on every single month with prizes up for grabs.  You have to be a member of the forum but it's free so come and play with us ;0)

 So back to the Rock n Rolla challenge......you are challenged to focus on finding inspiration from music videos! It's fun and makes you think out of the box.  Each month a link to a video is provided and you find something in the video that inspires you and you make a project based on that.

January's CHALLENGE:
Oh Land - White Nights

 I was inspired by the all white fairy/angel part at the beginning of the video and then the white and black geometrics about half way through.  I used one of Smeared Ink's Goth Fairies and coloured her in subtle pastel shades in Photoshop.  I erased the interior white areas on the fairy's wings and underlaid the digital images of the white feathers.  For the background I used SI's light "Checkered" digi paper from the Zombie Killa 12 x 12 paper pack and added the white decorative lines and finished with beveling and drop shadows to the fairy and wings to give her more dimension.  That really was loads of fun, it looks very Art Deco-esque ;0)

Here's a closer look at her!

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Stamping!

 THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for Smeared Ink * Lost Coast Designs * About Art Accents