"Day of the Dead Marigolds...with a twist" - Day 25 of the 31 Days of Halloween Part 2!

Howzit Everyone!
Are you hopping along in the spooktacular annual 31 Days of Halloween blog hop over at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity?  It's Day 25 already and I've got 3 projects on show today so pop on over and join the fun!

I just shared my bonus project, see the Witch dolly I made in the post below this one and now for my main share for Day 25...two stylized Day of the Dead Marigold projects with a twist!  Take a closer look at the petals!!!

Day of the Dead Marigold #1

I created two 3D paper art Day of the Dead Marigolds using Lost Coast Designs new additions to their Carmen's Veranda line of stamps - 2 teenie tiny .75" versions of our 3" sad kitties, Teenie Tabby Cat and Teenie White Cat, plus Lost Coast Designs Doodles Circles from the ATC Doodles set, tiny Sugar Skulls from the Six Mini Skulls set and the stem and leaves are from the long stemmed Rose bud.

 

Both projects are watercoloured with Nuance pigment powders.

Day of the Dead Marigold #2

I also used black Versafine Ink, Black Soot and Dried Marigold Distress Inks and Dylusions Paint Pens.

I'm sharing these in a fun Cat Lovers blog hop over at

Her Peaceful Garden!

 There's daily sponsors and prizes galore!

I've entered DOTD Marigold #1 via LCPtoC and

DOTD Marigold #2 is entered via LeighSBDesigns

 See you over at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity....don't forget our October Challenge "Scary or Weird" is running longer for Halloween with two prizes up for grabs...it closes on Oct 31st so get in your projects for the chance to win LCD/CV spending bucks!

Thanks for stopping by to see my projects today!

Happy Stamping!

 Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

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

Maudlynne's Witch Doll - Day 25 of 31 Days of Halloween Part 1!

Howzit Everyone!
Are you hopping along in the spooktacular annual 31 Days of Halloween blog hop over at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity?  It's Day 25 already and I've got 3 projects on show today so pop on over and join the fun!

This one is an extra little project I made, the other 2 main ones will be in my next post.
 

Isn't she adorbs!

 My 15" Tonner doll, Maudlynne Macabre, is dressed up as a witch for Halloween and I made her a little stuffed Witch dolly using our Carmen's Veranda folkart Witch and Lost Coast Designs new ATC sized Doodles Circles from the ATC Doodles set on the back of the dolly.  I stamped the images on white cotton fabric with black Archival Ink and coloured with Sharpie Stains markers.
 

See you over at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity....don't forget our October Challenge "Scary or Weird" is running longer for Halloween with two prizes up for grabs...it closes on Oct 31st so get in your projects for the chance to win LCD/CV spending bucks!

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 *

"Poe Memoratus in Aeternum" Artist Trading Block - Day 7 of 31 Days of Halloween at LCPtoC!

Howzit Everyone!
Are you hopping along in the spooktacular annual 31 Days of Halloween blog hop?  It's Day 7 already and the Lost Coast LCDesigners are putting on quite a show over at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity!  Come and join the fun!

It's my turn again to share a project today and this time I'm paying homage to Edgar Allan Poe who died on this day in 1849.  I designed an Artist Trading Block in "memoratus in aeternum" to Poe which is Latin for "remembered unto the eternal".

Lost Coast Designs unveiled some fabulous new stamps this month and I couldn't resist using 3 of them along with some of my all time favourites!  The new ones are Gears, Large Perspective Grid and an ATC sized version of our large Doodles Circles.   I also used Bird Bones, Skull Flourish, Raven with Tree Branches and the star of the show is our fangtastic Edgar Allan Poe portrait from  our Carmen's Veranda line.  The "Nevermore" text is also a Carmen's Veranda stamp not up on the site so be sure to inquire about it if you can't resist placing an order.....you know you want to mwahahaha!  Pop on over to Lost Coast Portal to Creativity to see detailed photos of each side of my Poe ATB today!

 Edgar Allan Poe Appreciation Day

Progressive Blog Hop January 19 - 23, 2017!

Calling all fans of Edgar Allan Poe!  Mark your calendars coz we will be hosting our 2nd annual blog hop here at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity on January 19, 2017 at 9am PST.  It is a progressive hop spanning over 5 days. You can join the hop at any time, no need to sign up! You have until 5 to midnight PST on January 23 to join the fun!  Check out our Poe Appreciation Day Blog Hop Page to see this year's hop details to get a better idea of how next year's will work and you can also see all the fabulous 2016 entries there too!  To stay up to date with all our activities follow our Lost Coast Portal to Creativity blog and our DT blog, Lost Coaster's Review, where we share our project tutorials too and also become a member of our Facebook Fan Group as well!  You'll never miss out on our fun activities every again!

Hoping to win an adorbs Susan R mini journal in her 31 DOH Giveaways ;0)

 

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 *

"The Hound of the Baskervilles" a Delicious Doodles DT card!

Howzit Everyone!
YAY!  It's October and the countdown to Halloween is underway mwahahahaha!

This month over at Delicious Doodles it's spooky and dark and our October theme is Halloween!
I went retro horror with my DT project and created an acetate card with The classic Sherlock Holmes tale, The Hound of the Baskervilles.

 
I created this scene card with an acetate front that folds open from the right using the following Delicious Doodles digi stamps:
Call of the Wild, Haunting Moon and A Scottish Castle

I sized and merged the digis in Photoshop CS6 before printing them all out onto Neenah solar white cardstock.  I mainly coloured everything with Prismacolor pencils but Copic markers on the castle, the stonework and the hound as well.

The panels were trimmed and layered onto black cardstock folded in an asymmetrical layout.  I keep a lot of stuff for recycling and upcycling...I might have a little hoarder issue going on but what artist doesn't right LOL ;0)  Anyway, the acetate is actually a piece cut from an embossing folder's packaging and I adhered the acetate to the inside of the front flap and then adhered the Sizzix Hunky Dory die cut letters to the front.

Here's a better look at the cover and inside of the card.

Thanks for stopping by to see my project today!

I've entered this one 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 *

"7 Gates to Purgatory" Day 1 of 31 Days of Halloween project for Lost Coast Designs!

Wooohoooo it's OCTOBER and you know what that means!
 The most anticipated blog hop of the year is finally here and Lost Coast Portal to Creativity is participating as a Wicked Blogger again!  Thanks Terra for hosting again for us this year!
Hop on over and join in the fun, there's lots to do and see all month long!

The votive candle glow represents the Cleansing Fire of Purification

We are also excited to unveil our clawesome NEW STAMPS today over at the Lost Coast Designs store.  Dash on over and add them to your collections!  The LCDesigners will be featuring them all month long and my project today features that coffin skellie, RIP!

TA DAAAAAA!  Our New Stamps to die for!

Day 1 of 31 DAYS of HALLOWEEN!
"7 GATES to PURGATORY"

 I'm kicking off the proceedings today over at LCPtoC with my altered wooden container that was a match made in Heaven Hell to feature our New Release Stamp RIP!

Here it is in all it's colourful crackled glory with skull beads for feet

The geometric sides of the container are actually coffin shaped and it has seven sides so I could not resist the Seven Deadly Sins theme.  All the text was computer generated and coloured with a metallic gold gel pen.  Mark your calendars for October 17th and pop on over to Lost Coaster's Review for more info on how I made my project!  I hope you will join me ;0)

Seven Deadly Sins:  Envy, Gluttony and Lust

Seven Deadly Sins:  Wrath, Sloth, Greed and Pride

Challenge #29 - SCARY or WEIRD

Our monthly challenge for October also started today...a few days early and will end a few days later on Oct 31st!  We're giving everyone lots more time to play with us this month and have TWO PRIZES up for grabs!

Thanks for stopping by to see my project!

I've entered this one on 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 *

"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 *

"Keeper of the Sacred Flame" DT art piece for Delicious Doodles

Howzit Friends!
Our September Challenge over at Delicious Doodles is underway and the theme this month is "Orange and Brown".

I love reading about Pagan symbolism and long lost meanings of things we still do to this day and being inspired by them!  Here's my DT project for the DD challenge, I made an art piece featuring Teri's February Goddess Colouring Page - Imbolc.

 Imbolc has various meanings and traditions depending on the cultures.  I can see where Teri was going with this design when I read about a Pagan holiday with a Celtic connection relating to the Irish goddess Brighid.  She is the keeper of the sacred flame and the guardian of home and hearth.  You honour her with purification and cleaning in preparation for the coming spring...hence our tradition of doing a "Spring Clean" was born.  In addition to fire, she is also a goddess connected to inspiration and creativity!

 I printed this wonderful design out onto Neenah solar white cardstock and went to work with my Copics, Marvy Le Plume alcohol markers and Prismacolor pencils.

 I distressed the edges with Tim's Paper Distresser tool and applied a touch of Tea Dye Distress Ink to the decorative frame.  I mounted the finished piece onto black cardstock, rust brown and then black again.  Now it's ready for framing.

 Thanks for stopping by to see my project today and have a fabulous weekend!

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 *

"Full Moon" - The East Wind DT card!

Happy September to you all!
It's time for a new bi-monthly challenge over at The East Wind and today I'm sharing my DT inspiration card featuring today's new Newsletter Freebie digi called Borum and it will be up in the TEW Etsy store today!  Borum-dal means Full Moon in Korean.

The theme for our Sept 1-10 challenge is SHINE ON

 I love incorporating my photography with my rubber and digi stamping art and knew immediately that I wanted to use one of my 4th of July Fireworks photos for the background of this joyful and whimsical image.  I started out by combining my photo with the digi and also added the sentiment text "SWING like there's no TOMORROW" in Photoshop CS6 and then printed out onto Neenah solar white cardstock.  I coloured the digi image with Prismacolor pencils and added touches of highlights with a white gel pen.  To keep the focus on the carefree "wide open sky" feeling of the piece I didn't add any embellishments and kept the layered mats narrow and simple.  I left a white border when I trimmed down the printout and matted it onto hot pink cardstock and then onto a folded card made from a sheet of black cardstock.

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 *