MY DARK VALENTINE BLOG HOP Day 5 finale: Broken Hearts accordion book!

Hiya Creative Friends!
We're now on Day 5 finale of the MY DARK VALENTINE Blog Hop I'm hosting over on my LeighSBDesigns Inspiration Blog!  It's been a fabulous 5 days of hopping with a creeptastic showing of Dark Valentines!  Thank you everyone for playing, hopping and leaving lots of love, your comments are very much appreciated😘 

 Don't dispair, you haven't missed out if you want to play or just hop!  No need sign-up, just link up your projects by the deadline tonight at 5 to midnight.  You've also got until Feb 20 to enjoy the show by hopping and leaving lots of love on all the entries, sharing and hopping is what it's all about after all!  Prize winners will be announced soon after so become a follower of LeighSBDesigns Inspiration Blog!

Even old projects are welcome as long as they're re-blogged in new posts and you include all the hop details, a link to LeighSBDesigns Inspiration Blog and the Blog Hop Roll.  Everything you need to know and full instructions are up on the MY DARK VALENTINE Blog Hop page!

The Blog Hop Roll is above at the top of my blog and at the bottom of this post.
Click on the thumbnails to hop each blog!

I'm sharing some of my old faves on this blog and today I'm sharing a macabre love story accordion book I made in 2017 as a member of the Joggles DT.  Click HERE to see my original post.

I paired up the Ghoulish Portraits collage sheet with a poem by Leo Christopher that seemed tailor made for my project!

"Broken Hearts"

…an old photo album bound in black ribbon was found in the attic…you are drawn by the feeling of sadness that seeps from between the pages…you untie the ribbon and read the words on the cover and are drawn deeper into the tale as you turn each page and become lost in their sorrow… 

The covers:  I split the poem in half, the front tells the story from the woman's point of view and the back tells the man's.

She’ll cry tonight
one more time
hoping it’s the last
&
I’ll lay beside her
a thousand miles apart
shedding the same tears
knowing it’s not.
by Leo Christopher

She sits alone
nothing to soothe her pain
not even sweet bird song

Her thoughts betray her
and dwell on the day
her Love broke her Heart

Her Love
tearing out her Heart
haunts her
she wept as
he crept away
never to return

He believed he was happy
Free to pursue his Dreams
But alas not
Doomed to wander alone

as Her face
haunts him &
her Tears of
Love Destroyed
rain upon his
Broken Heart

Here’s a tissue and a nice cup of tea…you’ll feel better once you see how much fun I had making this book over at Joggles ;0)

On my original post you'll also find my affiliate links for all the products I used which you can get from Joggles at 15% off retail every day!
Thank you for supporting me while you save $$$ too😜

Thanks for stopping by to see my project and for hopping with us!
Happy Stamping!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for The East Wind, Delicious Doodles and Joggles

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MY DARK VALENTINE BLOG HOP Day 4: Queen of Hearts

Howzit Stamping Friends!
Before I share my project for today I'd like to express my sympathies to everyone impacted by the Florida shootings, my thoughts and prayers are with you all😢

We're now on Day 4 of the MY DARK VALENTINE Blog Hop I'm hosting over on my LeighSBDesigns Inspiration Blog!  It's a 5 day hop ending at 5 to midnight on Feb 16th so there's still time to come and join the fun.  There's no need to sign up, you can play each of the remaining days or just one day, totally up to you or just enjoy the show by hopping and leaving lots of love on all the entries, sharing and hopping is what it's all about after all!

Even old projects are welcome as long as they're re-blogged in new posts and you include all the hop details, a link to LeighSBDesigns Inspiration Blog and the Blog Hop Roll.  Everything you need to know and full instructions are up on the MY DARK VALENTINE Blog Hop page!

The Blog Hop Roll is above at the top of my blog and at the bottom of this post.
Click on the thumbnails to hop each blog throughout the week!

I'm sharing some of my old faves on this blog and today I'm re-sharing this card featuring my absolute favorite Ike's Art digi, the fabulously wicked Queen of Hearts!  I had the pleasure of being a guest designer for Ike with this card back in August 2017!

I love making tall and skinny cards and love doing fancy cut outs and combined both on this card.

I coloured this dark and twisty version of the Queen of Hearts in Paper 53 with a stylus on my ipad.  I then printed her out onto Neenah Solar white cardstock and added the background with brown Derwent Pastel pencil blended with a Dove blender pen.

 
I trimmed down the panel and folded the cardstock in half to create the tall thin card.  I then fussy cut out the right hand side.  To complete the card I adhered black cardstock inside and trimmed it down leaving a 1/4 inch border on the top, bottom and right hand side but didn't leave a border around the fussy cut section.  To balance the card I finished it by applying Black Soot Distress Ink to the fold down the left side.

 
I couldn't resist re-sharing this photo of Neo checking it out it again too😋

 Thanks for stopping by to see my project today!

Happy Hopping!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for The East Wind, Delicious Doodles and Joggles

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MY DARK VALENTINE BLOG HOP Day 3: The Keeper's - Digital art

Happy Dark Valentine's Day!
We're now on Day of the MY DARK VALENTINE Blog Hop I'm hosting over on my LeighSBDesigns Inspiration Blog!  It's a 5 day hop ending at 5 to midnight on Feb 16th so there's still plenty of time to come and join the fun.  There's no need to sign up, you can play each of the remaining days or just one day, totally up to you or just enjoy the show by hopping and leaving lots of love on all the entries, sharing and hopping is what it's all about after all!

Even old projects are welcome as long as they're re-blogged in new posts and you include all the hop details, a link to LeighSBDesigns Inspiration Blog and the Blog Hop Roll.  Everything you need to know and full instructions are up on the MY DARK VALENTINE Blog Hop page!

The Blog Hop Roll is above at the top of my blog and at the bottom of this post.
Click on the thumbnails to hop each blog throughout the week!

I'm sharing some of my old faves on this blog and today I'm sharing 3 full on digital projects I created for Smeared Ink's 3 day Bloody Valentine hop back in 2014.  Click on each day to see my original posts.

This old hop took place Feb 11, 12 and 13 so I incorporated the numbers into each creation.

  

Day 1 - Feb 11

The Keeper's is the name of the digi set from the now closed Smeared Ink.  

Day 2 - Feb 12 I used the Fifth Keeper plus lots of other Smeared Ink digis and papers.

 

Day 3 - Feb 13 I used the Second Keeper.

Thanks for stopping by to see my projects!
Happy Hopping!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for The East Wind, Delicious Doodles and Joggles

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MY DARK VALENTINE BLOG HOP Day 2: Love Sick Domino Grumpie Horde!

Howzit Creative Friends!
It's time to romance your dark side, come and play in or just hop the MY DARK VALENTINE Blog Hop that I'm hosting over on my LeighSBDesigns Inspiration Blog!  It's a 5 day hop ending at 5 to midnight on Feb 16th.  No need to sign up, play all 5 days or just 1 day, totally up to you but please still hop and leave love on all the entries, sharing and hopping is what it's all about after all!

Even old projects are welcome as long as they're re-blogged in new posts and include all the hop details, a link to LeighSBDesigns Inspiration Blog and the Blog Hop Roll.  Everything you need to know and full instructions are up on the MY DARK VALENTINE Blog Hop page!

The Blog Hop Roll is above at the top of my blog and at the bottom of this post.
Click on the thumbnails to hop each blog throughout the week!

I'm sharing some of my old faves on this blog and the Grumpies are running amok today!  This time I'm sharing my altered domino Love Sick Grumpie Horde from 2015!  You can see my original post HERE!

Watch out, there's a love sick Grumpie Horde creeping up on us in the dark!!!  

Eeeek RUN!
 

Wanna Balloon?

 In 2015 one love sick grumpie broke away from the horde and dashed over to the Smudgy Antics challenge blog where it was my turn to give a daily dose of Smeared Ink DT inspiration!  He's still Love Sick over there if you want to take a peek!

Love Sick Grumpie hiding out at Smudgy Antics!

Chaos reigned that day as another one darted over to my DominoART blog!  His mission was to entice you into joining my DominoART challenge, the theme was HEARTS + Any Game Goes!  He's still hanging out over there if you'd like a better look at the Love Hurts grumpie too ;0)
 

Love Hurts Grumpie hiding out at DominoART!

 Thankfully two grumpies stayed behind!  Here's a better look at these two cuties!

I used super-sized white dominoes to create my balloon toting horde which feature Smeared Ink's Love Lil Grumpies rubber stamp set.  The balloons I drew myself and the text on each one is also from the Love set!

Stalker and Love Me Grumpies

The dominoes are all coloured with various Sharpie markers using my signature Sharpie Domino Queen technique.
 

Thanks for stopping by to see my 2nd share of the day!
Happy Hopping!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for The East Wind, Delicious Doodles and Joggles

An InLinkz Link-up

MY DARK VALENTINE BLOG HOP Day 2: Love Me or Die...your choice!

Howzit Creative Friends!
It's time to romance your dark side, come and play in or just hop the MY DARK VALENTINE Blog Hop that I'm hosting over on my LeighSBDesigns Inspiration Blog!  It's a 5 day hop ending at 5 to midnight on Feb 16th.  No need to sign up, play all 5 days or just 1 day, totally up to you but please still hop and leave love on all the entries, sharing and hopping is what it's all about after all!

Even old projects are welcome as long as they're re-blogged in new posts and include all the hop details, a link to LeighSBDesigns Inspiration Blog and the Blog Hop Roll.  Everything you need to know and full instructions are up on the MY DARK VALENTINE Blog Hop page!

The Blog Hop Roll is above at the top of my blog and at the bottom of this post.
Click on the thumbnails to hop each blog throughout the week!

I'm sharing some of my old faves on this blog and today I've got a card from 2015 with an ultimatum.  Do you think they've got a "stalker" card section at Target?  I don't think you'll need to dial 911 with this one, who can resist this cute lovable lil Grumpie offering his heart and a pretty rose balloon ;0)  You can see my original post HERE!

Love me...or Die...Your Choice!

The background with the rose is from my rubber stamp set I designed for Smeared Ink, who are sadly no longer in business, and is now available as a digi in my LeighSBDesigns Etsy Boutique called the Tangled Rose Collage!  The message inside the card says you have a choice in the matter, but you don't really coz who can resist that cutie!

see, you've totally got a choice, nothing to worry about!

Thanks for stopping by to see my project!
Happy Hopping!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for The East Wind, Delicious Doodles and Joggles

An InLinkz Link-up

MY DARK VALENTINE BLOG HOP Day 1: Bloody Valentine Book!

Howzit Creative Friends!
It's time to romance your dark side and play or just hop the MY DARK VALENTINE Blog Hop that I'm hosting over on my LeighSBDesigns Inspiration Blog!  It's a 5 day hop ending at 5 to midnight on Feb 16th.  No need to sign up, play all 5 days or just 1 day, totally up to you but please still hop and leave love on all the entries, sharing and hopping is what it's all about after all!

Even old projects are welcome as long as they're re-blogged in new posts and include all the hop details, a link to LeighSBDesigns Inspiration Blog and the Blog Hop Roll.  Everything you need to know and full instructions are up on the MY DARK VALENTINE Blog Hop page!

The Blog Hop Roll is above at the top of my blog and at the bottom of this post.
Click on the thumbnails to hop each blog throughout the week!

I'm sharing some of my old faves on this blog for the hop starting with this book I made for the Smeared and Smudge Bloody Valentine hop in 2013!

Page One - Broken Love, Shattered Heart

See my original post HERE!

Page Two - Obsession
See original post HERE!

 Page Three - Burning Angel
See the original post HERE!



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

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for The East Wind, Delicious Doodles and Joggles

An InLinkz Link-up

Bloody Valentine - a Delicious Doodles DT project

Howzit Creative Friends!
We're getting dark and twisty over at Delicious Doodles this month with our February challenge theme, Bloody Valentine❤️

My DT inspiration card features the voluptuous Rosie.  She's looking ever so wicked lying in a bed of roses American Pie style.  I used a Red Chameleon marker to colour all the roses and then the rest of the design is done in various shades of gray and red Copic markers.

I distressed the panel edges with Tim's paper distresser tool, layered onto a black cardstock mat.  I made a white folded card made from heavy weight cardstock and coloured a narrow border around the front of the card with gray Copic marker to match the leaves and then added the black and red silk ribbon before adhering the panels to the card with permanent adhesive tape.  I added the bow with a glue dot and then dribbled black 3D Inkssentials Glossy Accents along the top edge to give the effect of dripping blood.

If dark, twisty and gothic romance is your thing then come and join me on my LeighSBDesigns Inspiration Blog February 12-16 for my first My Dark Valentine Blog Hop.  All the hop info is up on the event page HERE!  No need to sign-up, you just show up when you want and play as much as you want and even old projects are welcome as long as they're re-shared in new posts and you mention the hop and include the Blog Hop Roll in your posts!  The format will be the same as my popular Poe Appreciation Day Blog Hop so check those out on the Poe Page to get a better idea of how the Feb hop will work!  It couldn't be easier to join and it's going to be so much fun so come and play with us and have a fabulous Valentine.  I will even have a brand new LeighSBDesigns release with a gothic theme out very soon too😋

Thanks for stopping by to see my project today!

Happy Stamping!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

I design for The East Wind, Delicious Doodles and Joggles