"Friends" - The East Wind DT inspiration for today's new release!

Howzit Friends!
Today's new release over at The East Wind is this lovely Aurora digi called 'Take care of my cat'.
I just adore cats and enjoyed creating this piece immensely!

 I printed the digi onto Neenah solar white cardstock twitce, first the full image and then just her left arm, a portion of the cat and her right hand.  I coloured her with the following Copics:  E0000, 00, 01, 02, 15, W0, Y15, 17, 38, YR04, B000, 00, 01 and 02 and added touches of white gel pen for highlights and metallic gold gel pen on her two buttons.  I fussy cut out her arm and kitty and then layered it onto the main image with pop dots just along the and the cat and adhered her sleeve in place with Scotch Quick Dry adhesive to create an angled 3D effect.  I used brown Derwent pastel blended with a Dove Blender pen on the background, rounded the corners with a Marvy corner rounder punch and applied Black Soot Distress Ink on the panel edges.  I then cut a mats from green cardstock and a decorative paw print paper and used the corner punch on just the DP.  I created a decorative dove tailed strip from a piece of the green cardstock cut off and added faux stitching details to all the panels with a white Dylusions paint pen.  I die cut out the word "Friends" using a Sizzix Easy Peasy alpha die strip and added Copic 'fur' for a touch of fun detail.  Everything was then adhered with tape to a white folded card made from a sheet of cardstock and the letters adhered in place with Scotch Quick Dry adhesive.

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Happy Stamping!

 Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for * The East Wind * Delicious Doodles *

"Venus X" - The East Wind DT inspiration for our new release

Howzit Friends!
Today's new release over at The East Wind is this lovely Lucy Loo digi called "X".  The Lucy Loo line is my favourite coz of the dark and edgy vibe of this character so I couldn't resist using the Monster High character, Venus McFlytrap, as my inspiration for her.

 I printed out the design onto Neenah solar white cardstock and coloured her with the following Copics:  YG00, 03, 06, G28, B01, 23, 24, 26, RV10, 13, 17 and Marvy Le Plume CG892, 894 and 895.  I also added touches of white Prismacolour pencil and white gel pen for highlights. 
I then fussy cut her out entirely and layered her onto the floral decorative paper with pop dots just along the right hand side to create an angled 3D effect.  The left side is adhered with Crafter's Companion adhesive tape.  To further enhance the edgy vibe of the piece I tore up some black corrugated cardstock, drybrushed it with white acrylic paint and adhered it to the left side with tape.  I then mounted everything onto a white folded card I made from a sheet of cardstock.  To complete the piece I cut out one of the flowers and adhered it to her hair with a pop dot and applied clear Wink of Stella to the flower and the "X" on her t-shirt for a touch of sparkle.

My Muse for this piece, Mattel's Monster High doll

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 Thanks for stopping by to see my project today!

Happy Stamping!

 Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for * The East Wind * Delicious Doodles *

VALENTINE - The East Wind DT

Howzit Everyone!

Some big changes have happened over at The East Wind!  We are concentrating more on promoting Unky's fabulous new release images and only hosting a couple of Challenges this year.  Today we have a Challenge for February to kick off our new schedule and the theme is Love and Romance!
 

Everyone needs ideas for making more masculine Valentine's Day cards for the guys so here's my design team project for the challenge, a masculine card featuring this lovely digi called Aurora "Be My Valentine".  I printed her out onto Neenah solar white cardstock, coloured with Copics and added white Dylusion paint pen highlights.  I fussy cut her out and adhered her to the layered panels with Scotch Quick Dry adhesive which were adhered to the folded card with pop dots.  I made the folded card from a sheet of black cardstock and also decorated the inside of the card with more of the stripe decorative paper.
 

I juxtaposed the lovely feminine image with the use of masculine black, white and gray decorative paper combined with metal alphabet paper clip embellishments to spell out the word "Valentine" plus 2 self adhesive black diamonds.  It's the perfect combination of a masculine card with a feminine focal point. 
 

 Come and enter our February challenge for the chance to win gorgeous The East Wind digis and join us over in our The East Wind Facebook Group too!

 Thanks for stopping by to see my project today!

Happy Stamping!

 Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for * Lost Coast Designs * Carmen's Veranda * The East Wind * Delicious Doodles *

"Ride the Leaf" Inspirational project for The East Wind DT!

Happy New Year Everyone!
How many of you have declared your New Year resolutions already?   How about instead of saying you're turning over a new leaf this year and actually take that leaf and RIDE it into the New Year with a calm mind full of confidence and determination to succeed at everything you put your mind to in 2017!  Yeah!  Let's do this😉

UPDATE

Some changes are being made over at The East Wind so there isn't a January Challenge!  Stay tuned for more updates!

It's time for our first challenge of the year over at The East Wind and the theme for #70 is Anything Goes.  

Here's my inspirational project to get the new year rolling featuring our January Newsletter freebie digi called "Calm Mind" MAC0341.  I designed the layout in Photoshop CS6 and added some leaf flourishes taken from another TEW digi called, "Aurora, Kingdom of Kitties"

  
I printed out the design on Neenah solar white cardstock and coloured with Copics.
More project details to come ;0)

Come and join the fun at The East Wind...we have 2 blog challenges every month and fun challenges on on our TEW Facebook Group too!

Thanks for stopping by to see my project today!

Happy Stamping!

 Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for * Lost Coast Designs * Carmen's Veranda * The East Wind * Delicious Doodles *

"Lucy Loo's Canadian Winter" TagART for The East Wind DT!

Happy Holidays!
It's time for our last challenge of the year over at The East Wind and the theme for #69 is Tag...You're It!  For this one you can add a tag to a project or create a stand alone tag or a gift tag...you get the idea!

 Here's my DT inspiration project featuring the gorgeous new TEW digi called Lucy Loo "Canadian Winter" With Background (MAC0350), there is also a version without the tree background HERE!

I used a standard sized white shipping tag for the base of my TagART project and then sized and cropped Lucy Loo in Photoshop CS6 to fit.  I printed her out twice and fussy cut out and trimmed the one print out to be the base and the other I fussy cut out just part of Lucy Loo for the 3D layer.  I then got to work on the shipping tag and embossed it with a snowflake design (Die'sire Embossalicious Christmas Elegance embossing folder).  I applied a wash of blue watercolour to the tag and then applied white Dylusions paint to the embossed snowflakes.  Once dry I applied Frosted Lace Stickles Glitter glue for some subtle shimmer.  While that dried I coloured both digi images with Copics and added ultra violet glitter glue (Studio G) and clear Wink of Stella for lots of yummy sparkle and shimmer.  I then adhered the base image to the tag with Scotch Quick Dry adhesive and punched 2 half circle notches in the lower part of the tag, wrapped lavender/white butchers twine around the tag and attached a silver metal snowflake charm.  I then adhered the Lucy Loo cut out to the tag with pop dots.  I finished off by edging the entire tag with more ultra violet glitter, added butcher's twine to the top and embellished with 3 Memory Box snowflake die cuts which I blinged up with Diamond Stickles glitter glue.

 I just adore Unky's Lucy Loo line, she's so beautiful and I thoroughly enjoyed creating this tag!

  
Come and join the fun at The East Wind...we have 2 blog challenges every month and fun challenges on on our TEW Facebook Group too!

Thanks for stopping by to see my project today!

Happy Stamping!

 Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for * Lost Coast Designs * Carmen's Veranda * The East Wind * Delicious Doodles *

"Meowy Christmas" card for The East Wind DT!

Howzit Friends!
It's time for our new blog challenge over at The East Wind!  Here's my DT inspiration project for Challenge #68 Meowy Christmas.  Meowy Christmas has become an East Wind tradition and Unky created this new stocking kitty called "Meowy Christmas #2" for our December Newsletter freebie digi!  So totally cute!  I couldn't resist creating this Christmas card for my nephew😃

I'm entering this one in SUYP's Furrything Goes challenge!

 I flipped and adjusted the size of the image in Photoshop CS6 and printed kitty out on Neenah Solar White cardstock.  I then coloured the entire image with Copics and added highlights with a white Dylusions paint pen.  I used an embossing folder to add subtle embossed snowflakes to the surrounding background which I then treated with a watercolour effect done with blue Faber-Castel Pitt Pastel and Walnut Stain Distress Crayon and a watercolour brush.

I then made a folded card from red cardstock and adhered the image to it with Scotch Quick Dry adhesive.  Then I got down to adding lots of dimension with Inkssentials Matt Accents on the light's wire, Judikins Diamond Glaze on the lights and kitty's eyes and nose, Stickles Diamond Glitter glue on the white stocking fur and the outside edge of the entire card and clear of Wink of Stella on kitty's bow, the paw prints on the stocking, the candy cand, star and the subtle background snowflakes.

Of course the card needed a sentiment so I die cut out the letters from blue cardstock using Sizzix Easy Peasy Alphabet dies, coloured the inside of the letters with white Dylusions paint pen and lots of glitter glue action!

  
Come and join the fun at The East Wind...we have 2 blog challenges every month and fun challenges on on our TEW Facebook Group too!

Thanks for stopping by to see my project today!

Happy Stamping!

 Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for * Lost Coast Designs * Carmen's Veranda * The East Wind * Delicious Doodles *

"Alice in the Looking Glass" The East Wind DT

Howzit Friends!
It's time for our 2nd blog challenge over at The East Wind!  Here's my DT inspiration project for Challenge #67 Oh So Shapely.  The challenge is to create a shaped project or use a shapely image and I created this piece called "Alice in the Looking Glass" using a faux tarnished mirror technique.

I used The East Wind digi stamp called Aurora - Mirrorina and adjusted the size of the image in Photoshop CS6 to perfectly fit the largest of the elongated oval Spellbinders die.  I printed her out on regular printer paper and coloured her with Copics with white Dylusions paint pen highlights. 

I then die cut out the image and applied two coats of Judikins Diamond Glaze.  Once dry I wet the back of the image and gently rubbed away the paper to create the decal and let it completely dry.  To create the faux tarnished mirror effect I then adhered the decal to tin foil (aluminum foil) and trimmed away the excess. 

To create my standing mirror project I then die cut out a scalloped elongated oval (Spellbinders) from black cardstock and matted the "mirror" to it.  For a touch of elegance and shimmer I painted the black scalloped edges with clear Wink of Stella and embellished the frame edge with black diamonds.  The gems came on a self adhesive strip but I wanted to create my own pattern of alternating sizes so I removed them from the strip and adhered each one in place with Scotch Quick Dry adhesive and filled in the gaps with Inkssentials Black Enamel Accents.  I then adhered the piece to a black wooden base and completed my project with paper roses adhered along the bottom edge.

  
Come and join the fun at The East Wind...we have 2 blog challenges every month and fun challenges on on our TEW Facebook Group too!

Thanks for stopping by to see my project today!

Happy Stamping!

 Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for * Lost Coast Designs * Carmen's Veranda * The East Wind * Delicious Doodles *

"Treasured Memories of Chrismtases Past" project for The East Wind DT!

Howzit Friends!
Christmas is coming YAY!  Christmas is my all time favourite holiday, with Halloween close behind, and I have so many treasured memories of my family singing Christmas carols while we decorated our home and our treasured Christmas Tree with treasured decorations.  So my project created for our new Challenge over at The East Wind - #66 Give Thanks for the Memories has extra meaning for me personally and our theme this month is to give thanks for our precious memories for Alzheimers Awareness month!

 As always, the first challenge of the month features The East Wind newsletter freebie and this month's is this lovely digi called Trimming the Tree!  I used the image twice, with one flipped, so I could create the scene of my precious sister and I decorating our Christmas Tree.  The images are coloured with Copics with white Dylusions paint pen highlights, adhered to red cardstock for extra stability (and to decorate the reverse too) and fussy cut out.  I then embossed a red cardstock with the snowflake design (Die'sire Embossalicious Christmas Elegance) and die cut out a center step card.

I applied white acrylic paint to the embossed design using a drybrush technique and added decorative Christmas trim to the center of the design and embellished it with a metal bow...looks like a large Christmas present doesn't it!  I coloured the laser cut "Sisters" word with a metallic gold paint pen and adhered it to the card with Scotch Quick Dry adhesive and also adhered the images in palce with Quick Dry and pop dots.  I hand wrote the sentiment with a black Sharpie marker and cut out the words.  To complete my card I added Diamond Stickles glitter glue to the fluffy areas of the Santa Hats and touches of clear Wink of Stella to the Christmas ornaments and stars.

  

Come and join the fun at The East Wind...we have 2 blog challenges every month and fun challenges on on our TEW Facebook Group too!

Thanks for stopping by to see my project today!

Happy Stamping!

 Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for * Lost Coast Designs * Carmen's Veranda * The East Wind * Delicious Doodles *

"Sad Sally Coffin Box" altered box for The East Wind DT!

Howzit Friends!

 It's time for our 2nd Challenge for October over at The East Wind!  The theme for Challenge #65 is "Bump in the Night" and we're looking for projects that incorporate embossing!
 

 The East Wind is also currently participating in a special Halloween blog hop, Oct 13 through to Oct 31st called "Trick or Treat around the Blogs".  The hop is hosted by the sponsors of the Markers! Papers! Digis Facebook group.  All participating companies have fun "Tricks" or "Treats" in store for you!  Join the fun by hopping to each blog and see what Trick or Treat fun you can get up to!

All the deets and the blog hop roll is HERE!

 The East Wind has a Treat for you, our new "Halloween Hop" digi called Thorns and Roses is only a $1 during the event!  I couldn't resist using her for my DT inspiration project for our new Challenge!

 I have a cute little resin goth Tonner doll called Sad Sally and TEW digi reminded me of her so I decided to make her a coffin 'display and storage' box with this awesome black coffin trinket box I got in the "deals" aisle of Target...happy dance...and turned it into this beauty!
 

 I started out by creating a template of the coffin box front and elongated the digi and sized it to fit in Photoshop CS6 and printed out the whole design once and then two prints of just the roses.  I coloured the entire image and all the roses, including the 2 additional prints, with Copic markers except for her face and body which was done in Prismacolor pencils.  I also used black Prismacolor pencil to add more shading and shadows to the Copic coloured areas as well.  I then cut out the design in the shape of the coffin and fussy cut out all the rose pieces.  I then embossed 2 sheets of red cardstock with the large Craftwell letter/A4 sized embossing folder called Regency and ran them through my eBosser machine.  I dismantled the coffin box and used the box pieces themselves to trace out each panel onto the embossed cardstock.  I then cut out all the pieces, glued them to the box and re-assembled it.  Then I applied Black Soot Distress Ink to enhance the embossed design and give it that gorgeous dark red colour.  I completed the outside of the box by adhering the design to the front and layered up all the roses with pop dots. 

 For the comfort of my little Sad Sally I added a beautiful yellow satin fabric to the interior.

Sad Sally loves her new box.

Is that a glimmer of a smile I see?  Hard to tell coz she's such a sad lil ghoul.

  

Come and join the fun at The East Wind...we have 2 blog challenges every month and fun challenges on on our TEW Facebook Group too!

Thanks for stopping by to see my project today!

Happy Stamping!

 Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for * Lost Coast Designs * Carmen's Veranda * The East Wind * Delicious Doodles *

"Stay Sassy! Stay Strong!" Breast Cancer Awareness month with The EastWind!

Howzit Friends!
 It's time for our new bi-monthly challenge over at The East Wind and today I'm sharing my DT inspiration project featuring October's Newsletter Freebie!

The theme for Challenge #64 is "In The Pink" for Breast Cancer Awareness month!

  Way too many of us have been effected by Breast Cancer either directly or have supported family members and friends as they've battled through it!  I'm proud to say I'm a 15 year Breast Cancer survivor myself and I'm so grateful for the support of my loving family and friends!
THANK YOU!!!

I created this Notepad with the inspirational message to all our Sisters to STAY SASSY and STAY STRONG! and Fight Like a Girl!

I printed the image out onto Neenah solar white cardstock and coloured her hair with Copic markers and the rest of the image with Prismacolor pencils with additional shading and shadows added to the hair with Prismacolor pencils too.  I outlined the entire image with a black Copic fine liner leaving a narrow white border between the line and the image to make her really pop.  I then fussy cut her out and trimmed off some of the image on the right to fit the notepad cover I made.

The cover was easy to make.  I used heavy weight white cardstock and used the notepad as a template.  I cut the cardstock .25 inches larger than the notepad and selected a more subtle and feminine decorative paper to contrast with the bold and bright digi image and covered the outside and the inside.  Before adhering the DP to the inside I sandwiched in the two ribbon pieces.

I then decorated the cover with two decorative corner accents die cut from black cardstock (Sizzix Corner Accent die) and the text which I designed in Photoshop CS6 and matted on black cardstock.  I finished it over with a few random dimensional drops of black Inkssentials Enamel Accents.

  

Come and join the fun at The East Wind...we have 2 blog challenges every month and fun challenges on on our TEW Facebook Group too!

Thanks for stopping by to see my project today!

I've entered her in these challenges:

Happy Stamping!

 Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for * Lost Coast Designs * Carmen's Veranda * The East Wind * Delicious Doodles * Rick St Dennis EDT *

"First Sight" 3D paper art - The East Wind New Release!

Howzit Friends!

Today I'm sharing a 3D paper art project featuring The East Wind's new release digi called "Aurora's First Sight"!  Isn't she lovely!  She'll be up in the Etsy store later today.

Here she is ready for framing in a shadow box.  The flowers are fussy cut out and layered to create a 3D garden.  Some flowers have 2 layers and others have 3.

A closer look at Aurora.

 I printed the image out 3 times onto Neenah solar white cardstock and then fussy cut out all the sections I wanted to layer.  The digi is coloured with Prismacolor pencils and the background is done with a Derwent pastel pencil blended with a Dove blender pen.

Above is a closer look at the flowers and below the photo gives you a better idea of the dimension.  I also added shimmery transparent dimensional drops to the tendrils, flower centers and the background corners with a Viva Pearl pen in magic transparent white.  I layered the finished piece first on black cardstock, then pink and then another sheet of black and now she's ready to be framed.
 

Come and join the fun at The East Wind...we have 2 blog challenges every month and fun challenges on on our TEW Facebook Group too!

Thanks for stopping by to see my project today!
Now for some challenges
Ooh La La Creations - Anything Goes
Let's Colour Saturday - Anything Hand Coloured
Just Keep on Creating - Anything Goes 

 Inspiration Destination #89 Always Anything Goes 
Crafting from the Heart - Always Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion - Always Anything Goes 
Artistic Inspirations Anything Goes

Happy Stamping!

 Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for * Lost Coast Designs * Carmen's Veranda * The East Wind * Delicious Doodles *

"Happy Vacation" Kinetic Card for The East Wind DT!

Howzit Everyone!
Our 2nd challenge for the month of September began today over at The East Wind Challenge blog.
Challenge #63 theme is "I Like to Move it, Move it" and I designed this fun kinetic card featuring TEW digi called Vacation.

Isn't she cute!  She's so very happy to be going on vacation she can't stand still.
 Here's a little video clip showing the swinging movement of the girl holding her suitcase.

The photos below show the various back and forth positions of the movement too.

I also used one of The East Wind's background digis for my scene called Into the Woods

In Photoshop CS6 I enlarged the background digi quite a bit and then added the digi girl layer.  I erased the parts of the image that I didn't need and also drew in the missing parts of her skirt that would be revealed by the swinging action of her arms.  I then created an additional layer of the girl and erased everything except the areas I needed for the moving part of the image.  I also needed to draw in her hair on her left side.  I then printed everything out on Neenah solar white cardstock and coloured her with Copics and Prismacolor pencils.  I added  subtle colour to the background with Derwent Pastel pencils blended with a Dove blender pen.  I fussy cut out the girl, determined her placement and made a tiny hole in the background panel.  I then adhered a tiny brad to the girl and secured her to the background panel.  I matted the image onto black cardstock and then a folded card made from white cardstock.  I then completed my card with paper flowers and pearlescent green self adhesive pearls.

Here's a closer look at her, isn't she sweet!

Come and join the fun at The East Wind...we have 2 blog challenges every month and fun challenges on on our TEW Facebook Group too!

Thanks for stopping by to see my project today!

Now for some challenges
Ooh La La Creations - Anything Goes
Let's Colour Saturday - Anything Hand Coloured
Just Keep on Creating - Anything Goes 

 Inspiration Destination #89 Always Anything Goes 
Crafting from the Heart - Always Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion - Always Anything Goes 
Artistic Inspirations Anything Goes
Happy Stamping!

 Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for * Lost Coast Designs * Carmen's Veranda * The East Wind * Delicious Doodles *

"Once Upon A Tail" - Comic Strip for The East Wind

Happy Sunday!
Today I'm sharing a Comic Strip project for a Storybook Critters challenge going on over at Markers! Papers! Digis! Facebook group for the month of September.  A whole bunch of companies are sponsoring $1 digis for the challenge and The East Wind is one of the sponsors.  Unky created this fun cat and dog digi called Storybook Animals and it will be a $1 until Sept 30th so grab it quick and join the fun.

I had blast creating my little comic strip story.  I designed the comic strip cells in Photoshop CS6 and then added the digi parts and text.  I printed the comic strip out onto a full sheet of Neenah solar white cardstock and coloured it with Copics.  Here's a closer look at each scene.

Come and join the fun at The East Wind...we have 2 blog challenges every month and fun challenges on on our TEW Facebook Group too!

Thanks for stopping by to see my project today!

I've entered this one in
Just Keep on Creating - Anything Goes 

Happy Stamping!

 Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for * Lost Coast Designs * Carmen's Veranda * The East Wind * Delicious Doodles *