LeighSBDesigns Art Stamps New Release - Tangled Raven!

Howzit Stamping Friends!
 I'm so thrilled everyone is loving my LeighSBDesigns Art Stamps digi releases so far, still plenty more to go so here's release #3!

Smeared Ink fans will recognize this one from the Autumn's Pencil rubber stamp set I designed for them a few years ago and now I'm super excited to bring you the digis😃

  Today's release is Tangled Raven!

 He can be used all year long but of course he's perfect for your Halloween makes and do you know what's just around the corner?  Half-O-Ween in May of course, YAY, we're nearly half way to October LOL😋

 He's now available at my Etsy Boutique at an introductory release price for the next 3 days so dash on over and grab him while he's on sale😋
 
Here's some of my projects featuring him!

Here he is in a collage with lil Miss Oddleigh Flower all coloured with Copics.

monochromatic Copic colouring with 3D fussy cut wings

another view of the layered wings

This is one of my altered game art pendants using Bendominoes, Sharpies and the rubber version of Tangled Raven which will be available in the future.

 If you're just joining us for the first time today here's the scoop!
We're busy celebrating the launch of my LeighSBDesigns Art Stamps line and there's freebies up for grabs so continue reading!

LeighSBDesigns Art Stamps are available for instant download at my Etsy Boutique and I'm currently offering digi stamps for now and will expand my line into rubber too.

My unique collection of whimsical and quirky original designs are based on my drawings and photography! It will constantly be morphing and expanding as inspiration takes me off on new adventures. I see beauty in everything from cute kitties to creepy skulls and my collection of themes, styles and genres will be sure to appeal to everyone.

Join me as I release a new digi image every 3 days until my Etsy Boutique is stocked with all the designs I'm excited to offer you😊 You will have 3 days to take advantage of my special intro prices until I release the next new image on the 4th day.

GRAND OPENING FREEBIES!

Receive this freebie Steampunk Easter Egg digi when you join my LeighSBDesigns Facebook Fan Group!

Freebie #1 for joining LeighSBDesigns Facebook Fan Group

 Help me spread my grand opening news and receive this cute freebie Easter Bunny digi! Do me the honour of writing a post on your blogs, tell you readers all about LeighSBDesigns Art Stamps and how they too can receive these freebies! Post links to your blog posts in the LeighSBDesigns FB Fan Group and this Easter Bunny is all yours!

Freebie #2 for blogging my news on your blogs!

Get to know me better and check out my new website at LeighSBDesigns.com which is now my online home.  There you will find links to everything as well as Stamping Galleries for all my current and past design team projects, non-DT projects and also some examples of my Fine Art and more. I've got years of art to upload to the Galleries but I've added quite a bit already.  Pop on over and check it out, I hope you'll enjoy checking everything out😉

In case you missed my previous announcement...all my design team blogging is happening over at Velvet Paw Creations so pop on over and follow me there too😊

See you in my LeighSBDesigns FB Fan Group soon and don't forget to come back on Sunday for my next new release! I hope you'll stay and follow me on my new adventure!
Happy Stamping!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

LeighSBDesigns Art Stamps New Release - lil Miss Oddleigh Flower set!

Howzit Stamping Friends!

Thank you everyone for making my launch weekend such a huge success.  I'm thrilled you love my Steampunk Easter Bunny and have been creating with him already, thank you from the bottom of my heart for all your wonderful comments and support😊

I'm now excited to introduce you to lil Miss Oddleigh Flower!  You may have noticed her in some of my badge/banner designs already😋  She's the first in my Oddleigh Family series of whimsical and quirky caricatures.  Oddleigh Flower is holding a flower and comes with a garden of 3 flowers.  This set of 2 digi stamps is so much fun and very versatile, you can use her or the flower garden on their own or build a garden scene and surround her with as many flowers as you want!  She can be coloured in any style and is suitable for any occasion, Mother's Day, Birthday, Friend cards, Just Because and more!

  

I used a bright and bold palette to colour her and used the flower garden twice to create this scene.  I had so much fun designing her and I hope you will love her too!  She's now available in my Etsy Boutique at an introductory release price for the next 3 days!

 

Here's my finished card, for this one I printed out the flower she's holding twice and fussy cut the 2nd to add a 3D element to the scene. 

If you're just joining us for the first time today here's the scoop!  We're busy celebrating the launch of my LeighSBDesigns Art Stamps line and there's freebies up for grabs so continue reading!

LeighSBDesigns Art Stamps are available for instant download at my Etsy Boutique, I'm currently offering digi stamps for now and will expand my line into rubber too.

My unique collection of whimsical and quirky original designs are based on my drawings and photography!  It will constantly be morphing and expanding as inspiration takes me off on new adventures.  I see beauty in everything from cute kitties to creepy skulls and my collection of themes, styles and genres will be sure to appeal to everyone.

Join me as I release a new digi image every 3 days until my Etsy Boutique is stocked with all the designs I'm excited to offer you😊  You will have 3 days to take advantage of my special intro prices until I release the next new image on the 4th day.

This handsome Steampunk Easter Bunny was released on Friday.

GRAND OPENING FREEBIES!

Receive this freebie Steampunk Easter Egg digi when you join my LeighSBDesigns Facebook Fan Group!

Help me spread my grand opening news and receive this cute freebie Easter Bunny digi!  Do me the honour of writing a post on your blogs, tell you readers all about LeighSBDesigns Art Stamps and how they too can receive these freebies!  Post links to your blog posts in the LeighSBDesigns FB Fan Group and this Easter Bunny is all yours!
 

Here's two cards I made featuring this cutie!

On the pink card I cut out the interior of the eggs and added decorative paper to show you how versatile this Bunny is😋

I've been super busy over the last 2 months designing and creating my new website at LeighSBDesigns.com which is now my online home.  There you will find links to everything as well as Stamping Galleries for all my current and past design team projects, non-DT projects and also some examples of my Fine Art and more.  I've got years of art to upload to the Galleries but I've added quite a bit already.  Pop on over and check it out, I hope you'll enjoy browsing and getting to know me better😉

In case you missed my previous announcement...all my design team blogging will now be taking place over at Velvet Paw Creations.com so pop on over and follow me to continue seeing my DT projects.

See you in my LeighSBDesigns FB Fan Group soon and don't forget to come back on Thursday for my next new release!  I hope you'll stay and follow me on my new adventure!

Happy Stamping!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

LeighSBDesigns Art Stamps Grand Opening with Freebies!

Howzit Stamping Friends!

Today is a big day for me, I'm so very excited to announce the grand opening and launch of my new stamp company, LeighSBDesigns Art Stamps🎉

This is a long over due dream come true for me and I'm thrilled it's finally happening!  I hope you will love my designs and will join me on my grand new Creative Adventure😊

LeighSBDesigns Art Stamps are available for instant download at my Etsy Boutique, I'm currently offering digi stamps for now and will expand my line into rubber too.

My unique collection of whimsical and quirky original designs are based on my drawings and photography!  It will constantly be morphing and expanding as inspiration takes me off on new adventures.  I see beauty in everything from cute kitties to creepy skulls and my collection of themes, styles and genres will be sure to appeal to everyone.

Let's get the grand opening celebrations underway!
Join me as I release a new digi image every 3 days until my Etsy Boutique is stocked with all the designs I'm excited to offer you😊  You will have 3 days to take advantage of my special release prices until I release the next new image on the 4th day.

Here's my first release....of course it had to be a Steampunk Easter Bunny, I hope you love him!

 Now coz it's Easter Weekend I've got Easter themed freebies for you!
Receive this freebie Steampunk Easter Egg digi when you join my LeighSBDesigns Facebook Fan Group!

Help me spread my grand opening news and receive this cute freebie Easter Bunny digi!  Do me the honour of writing a post on your blogs, tell you readers all about LeighSBDesigns Art Stamps and how they too can receive these freebies!  Post links to your blog posts in the LeighSBDesigns FB Fan Group and this Easter Bunny is all yours!
 

Here's two cards I made featuring this cutie!

On the pink card I cut out the interior of the eggs and added decorative paper to show you how versatile this Bunny is😋

I've been super busy over the last 2 months designing and creating my new website at LeighSBDesigns.com which is now my online home.  There you will find links to everything as well as Stamping Galleries for all my current and past design team projects, non-DT projects and also some examples of my Fine Art and more.  I've got years of art to upload to the Galleries but I've added quite a bit already.  Pop on over and check it out, I hope you'll enjoy browsing and getting to know me better😉

In case you missed my previous announcement...all my design team blogging will now be taking place over at Velvet Paw Creations.com so pop on over and follow me to continue seeing my DT projects.

See you in my LeighSBDesigns FB Fan Group soon and don't forget to come back on Monday for my next new release!  I hope you'll stay and follow me on my new adventure!

Happy Stamping and have an Egg-Tastic holiday weekend!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

Zombie Alice with a Bow in Her Hair - a Delicious Doodles DT project!

Happy April 1st to you all!
Before I share today's project I've got news about my new blog, Velvet Paw Creations.  Nope this isn't an April Fools prank heheheh, I'm busy doing a complete re-design of my website and my blogs and my new blog now has my Velvet Paw Creations.com URL and will feature the projects I create for the design teams I'm on.  I'm going to do a slow transition so my projects will be shared in both locations for now.  I hope you will all pop on over to my Velvet Paw Creations blog and start following me there now too.  Don't leave this blog though coz I've got a big unveiling and a launch to soon announce and LeighSBDesigns will be the blog for my grand new adventure!  I can't wait to tell you all about it!

Now for today's project share!  It's time for our new challenge over at Delicious Doodles Challenges and April's theme is Ribbons and Flowers.  I could not resist using this GORE-gous ghoul, Angry Zombie Alice, who looks so lovely with a bow in her hair don't you think!  I paired Zombie Alice up with another DD digi, the Rose Corner, which I used twice to create the frame for Alice.

I designed the layout in Photoshop CS6 and printed out onto Neenah Solar White cardstock.  I coloured everything with Copic markers and used drops of rubbing alcohol on the roses and leaves to blur and bleed the colours together to further enhance the grunge vibe I wanted for this piece and then worked some more on the leaves and roses with Copics.  I distressed the edges of the cardstock with Tim's paper distresser tool and used Derwent brown pastel pencil blended with a Dove Blender pen on the background.  I used Dylusions white paint pen on the dots and applied Viva le Pearl Magic White Transparent on top for a touch of dimension and shimmer.  I also applied clear Wink of Stella to her glorious red nails.  I made a bow for her hair and adhered it over the bow that's part of the design with a glue dot and finished off by adding small blue self-adhesive jewels to the flourishes and larger ones on all four corners.  I then matted the panel onto slate "dirty" blue cardstock which I tore to further add to the grunge feel of the piece before adhering everything to a folded card I made from a sheet of black cardstock.  I love the finished piece and that I achieved exactly the look and feel I was going for.

  

Thanks for stopping by to see my project today and don't forget to pop on over to my new blog and start following me there now too!

Happy Stamping and have a great weekend!
Leigh S-B
The Sharpie Domino Queen

"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.

Follow The East Wind for lots of inspiration and the chance win digis when we host our occasional challenges:
 The East Wind Facebook Group

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 *

"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

Follow The East Wind for lots of inspiration and the chance win digis when we host our occasional challenges:
 The East Wind Facebook Group

click the badge to go to The East Wind blog

 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 *

"Morgan Le Fay" Mardi Gras Planner Pages for Delicious Doodles DT!

Howzit Everyone!
 It's time to come and play in our March Challenge over at Delicious Doodles Challenges!  Our theme this month is "Add Something Green" and as I'm still working on my 2017 DT Planner I've just used the colour green for now, I plan to use green cardstock to mount my pages plus some green cardstock pockets too.

 Morgan Le Fay is my focal image for my March spread and I paired this beauty up with the March planner page from Delicious Doodles new "The Colourists Year Planner", a printable PDF colouring book available in the DD Etsy store.  I printed the two pages out onto white cardstock and coloured the designs with Prismacolor pencils.  March is also the month we celebrate Mardi Gras so I went with traditional purple, green and gold.  Her skin is done in shades of green, her eyes, clothes and the flourishes on the planner page are purple and I used metallic gold Prismacolor pencil on her finger nails plus the horse shoes, flower centers and dots on the March page.  I couldn't resist colouring her hair and lips red though and carried the red over into the flowers and shades of cream/burnt umber on the skulls mirror the golden hues.
 

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

 Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I currently design for The East Wind and Delicious Doodles

"Steampunk Queen of Hearts" Mad Hatter's Top Hat - Lost Coast Designs DT

Howzit Everyone!
We're going down the rabbit hole again on another adventure into Wonderland over at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity and this time we've found ourselves in the realm of Steampunk ruled by the Queen of Hearts!  Oh my!  Buckle up coz things are getting steamy as we countdown to Valentine's Day with daily LCDesigner project shares!

Mattel's Ever After High Lizzie Hearts doll

 Come and join the adventure and link up your own Steampunk Wonderland creations in the linky HERE!  You have until midnight PST on February 24th so play with us for the chance to win some LCD/CV rubber!


 
I'm a huge Alice in Wonderland fan so of course I have the Ever After High Wonderland character dolls in my collection.  For my project I made Lizzie Hearts an oversized Mad Hatter's top hat!  Here it is in all it's glory!

photo taken in daylight

 I designed and created the top hat from scratch and used the following supplies to complete it.

Stamps by Lost Coast Designs:  Queen of Hearts, Gears background, card suites cut from the Heart Diamond Spade Club Border, Hearts cut from the Hearts and Curls Border, leaves from the Rose.
Grass Green and Jade Nuance Powders
Tim Holtz Garden Greens dies
Crafter's Companion large Regency embossing folder

Red, black and Neenah Solar White cardstock
 Copic markers
 Playing cards
Silver and Gold Embossing powder
Galaxy Gold Brilliance ink
Black Soot Distress ink
Silver and Gold rub-on creme
Black Tulle
Paper Roses
Brass gears
 
 Here's a closer look at all the details!
 

Thanks for stopping by to see my project today!  Have a great weekend!

Happy Stamping!

 Leigh S-B

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

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

The Promise - Masculine Valentine's card for Lost Coast Designs/Carmen's Veranda DT!

Howzit Everyone!
Valentine's Day is just around the corner and our February Challenge, #33, over at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity is "Lovers"!  Here's my Lost Coast Designs - Carmen's Veranda design team project to inspire you and if you'd like to know more about how I made this card please pop on over to Lost Coaster's Review!

Some find making Valentine's Day cards suitable for the guys a challenge so I've stayed away from the traditional lovey dovey in red and white and have been creating more masculine styled cards.  See my V-Day card I shared on Friday that was the perfect combination of masculine and feminine and today I have another using the same set of masculine decorative papers but this time featuring Gustav Klimt's "The Kiss" by Carmen's Veranda.

I used the following supplies on this one:
 Carmen's Veranda Klimt Kiss
Lost Coast Designs Misc. Words set
Mixed media cardstock
Black cardstock for the mats and folded card
Tuxedo Black Memento Ink
Copics
Metallic gold, silver and copper gel pens
Metallic Green Promarker
Black Soot and Walnut Distress Crayons
Spellbinders mega Deckled rectangle dies
Silver rub-on creme
DCWV decorative papers
Self adhesive black diamonds
Pop dots and Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive

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 *

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 *

Delicious February Planner Pages - Delicious Doodles DT!

Hiya Everyone!
  It's time to come and play in our February Challenge over at Delicious Doodles Challenges!  Our theme this month is completely open but we are challenging you to create something other than a card this month!  So basically all is welcome except cards!  Easy peasy!

I'm busy creating a 2017 DT Planner to keep track of all my DT deadlines, etc.  The cover is that gorgeous Delicious Doodles digi of Edgar Allan Poe I previously shared HERE.

Today I'm showing you my pages for February.  Each page of my planner will be mounted onto larger cardstock pages with additional places for project sketches and pockets etc.
 

I used the 2 February pages from Delicious Doodles new "The Colourists Year Planner" which is a printable PDF colouring book available in the DD Etsy store.  I printed the two pages out onto Neenah Solar White cardstock and coloured the designs with Copics in shades of reds and yellow/greens and black backgrounds to make everything look bold and rich.

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 *