Day 9: Quoth the Raven Earrings by Barb B

Greetings Bloggers!

Welcome to Day 9 of 31 Days of Halloween!
 I hope everyone is having a spooktacular time feasting greedy eyes on all the DominoART eye candy and finding the Smeared and Smudged Scavenger Hunt pics on all the participating Wicked Blogs!  So just an evil reminder to keep your third eye peeled for the day DominoART hides the Smeared and Smudged Scavenger Hunt pic and you just never know when I'll be hiding a DominoART Treat too!!!

Barb B joins us today to share her menacing Poe inspired altered domino earrings!
Barb is on the Blockheads Design Team with me and I'm so glad that she totally allowed me to twist her arm into doing today's project even though she's never altered a domino before!
Aren't these Quoth the Raven earrings just to die for!!  Fabulous :0)

This is what Barb has to say about her project and you can read her full post on her blog too!

I decided to start (altering dominoes) with earrings.  I made these using plain wooden dominoes.  First I dabbed some Rusty Brown StazOn ink onto the wood.  Then I stamped the ravens onto some thin orange-y colored paper using Jet Black StazOn ink.  I colored in the beak and put just a touch of gold into the eyes with a metallic gold pen.

Next I glued the paper onto the prepared domino.  To give it a more distressed look, I went over the entire surface (except for the ends where the holes are drilled) with Rock Candy Distress Crackle Paint.

Once the paint dried I attached a bead to some gold wire, then thread the wire through the domino.  I reversed the process and thread it back through the other hole in the domino. I attached another bead to the other end of the wire, and pulled it up snug so that no wire ends were sticking out. I gave the loop end of the wire a single twist, then attached the earring bit.

That's all there was to it!  Apart from drying time for the paint - which I left alone and was dry by the time I came back from dinner - the whole project took me about 20 minutes from start to finish.  And now I have some cool, very inexpensive Halloween earrings to wear!

See you tomorrow for Day 10 of 31 Days of Halloween and don't forget to visit all the blogs in the Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween blog hop for the chance to win lots of SAS prizes!!  See Terra's blog if you're late to the freak show!

 Domino Hugs!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

Leigh S-B Designs Blog

Velvet Paw Creations

Day 8: Happy Jack TagART by Paula S-M

Howzit Stamping Friends!

It's Day 8 of DominoART's 31 of Halloween! 

Paula S-M joins us today to share her spooktacular 'Happy Jack' domino embellished TagART!
The background on her tag is wicked cool and the perfect backdrop for her colour popping altered domino! 

Stamp Credits:
October word stamp by Posh Impressions
Spider web from a set by DJ Inkers Inc
Pumpkin stamp - source unknown

Supplies used:
Ancient Page Sienna and Coal Black ink pads
Liquid Gold Opaque Paint Marker
Sharpies : orange, green, light blue
Yellow/orange Boa fiber
Black/silver Eyelash fiber
 Ghost and Witch Embellishments
3 x Skeleton Leaves
 5 x #8 Gold Peel Off numbers

Visit Paula's blog for more eye catching DominoART creations!

See you tomorrow for Day 9 of 31 Days of Halloween and don't forget to visit all the blogs in the Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween blog hop for the chance to win lots of SAS prizes!!  See Terra's blog if you're late to the freak show!
 
Happy Haunting and Domino Hugs!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

Leigh S-B Designs Blog

Velvet Paw Creations

Day 7: Arachnephobes Beware...Spider Domino Bookmark by Pam S

Howzit Stamping Friends!

It's Day 7 of DominoART's 31 of Halloween! 
 I hope everyone is having a shockingly good time so far ;0)

Pam S joins us today with a creepy crawly spider embellished Domino Bookmark!  How wickedly cool is this!!

Halloween Bookmark Supplies Used:
Recycled Dominos (large and small #7)
Ranger Alcohol Inks - Caramel, Butterscotch, Peach Bellini & Copper
StazOn Black Ink
Hampton Art Stamp - "Bow Lines" Flower Design
Sarasota Stamps - Spider Web
Tiny Spider Stamp (unknown manufacturer)
Black Stickles
Metal Bookmark from Hobby Lobby
3D Crystal Lacquer
Recycled Plastic Spider Ring (ring removed)
Recycled Piece of Chain and Jewelry Backing

Using all four colors of Alcohol Inks the dominos were inked on both sides with Butterscotch being the primary color.  The Hampton Art "Bow Lines" stamp was used on the sides of the large domino with StazOn black ink and the spider web was then stamped on the back.  The small domino was stamped with the tiny spider and the adhered to the large domino.  Both dominoes were covered with the 3D Crystal Lacquer, the spider ring was placed on top and allowed to dry.  The spider ring was then accented with black Stickles and the backing attached.  Using the same combination of Alcohol Inks, the metal bookmark was inked and allowed to dry.  Using the recycled chain, the bookmark was attached to the domino.

See you tomorrow for Day 8 of 31 Days of Halloween and don't forget to visit all the blogs in the Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween blog hop for the chance to win lots of SAS prizes!!  See Terra's blog if you're late to the freak show!

Happy Haunting and Domino Hugs!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

Leigh S-B Designs Blog

Velvet Paw Creations

Day 6: Peg Photo Holder - by Leigh S-B aka The Sharpie Domino Queen

Welcome to Day 6 of DominoART's 31 Days of Halloween!

It's my turn to share a project again today and this one is from the lighter side of Halloween and sugary cute to boot!  

This project is performing triple duty coz its my Coterie sample art for the Non-Traditional Halloween Colour Challenge I'm hosting over on the Third Coast Creative Challenge Blog which ends on Oct 10 so there's still plenty of time to enter!  

Its also my Third Coast Creative Coterie design team project being featured today on the Coterie Blog as part of the Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween blog hop!  Phew, talk about squishing 3 cockroaches with one stone ;0)

Of course the star of the freak show is the adorable Halloween Kitty DT-357-L by Third Coast Rubber Stamps.  It's only a portion of the image and you can just see the pumpkin peeking in there at the bottom.  The image was stamped onto the super-sized white domino with Jet Black StazOn ink.  After heat setting I coloured the image with non-traditional Halloween colours which is the challenge I gave everyone on the Third Coast Creative Challenge blog AND I added a twist too.  Everyone is banned from using purple, lime green and orange.  Black is okay but it can't be a dominant colour!  

So I coloured my Halloween Kitty with the following Sharpie markers in my signature 'Sharpie Domino Queen' technique:  Fur:  Slate Grey and Brown, Hat:  Pomegranate, Ocean Blue and Yellow, Cloak:  Rose, Pumpkin:  Yellow, Marigold and Brown,  Background:  Turquoise and Surf, Eyes:  Ocean Blue with metallic silver highlights.  I added yellow Stickles glitter glue to the stars on the hat and cloak for some magical sparkle.  Once dry I applied a coat of Judikins Diamond Glaze to seal the surface and wrapped the edges with a decorative self-adhesive ribbon from Joann's Arts and Crafts.

I found this really cute jumbo wooden peg at Michaels that was just the right colour and size and jazzed it up a bit by embellishing it with the same decorative ribbon at the top on both sides.  Then adhered the altered domino to it with E6000 glue.

It makes the perfect little Halloween gift and can hold a photo or your mail or whatever you feel like really!

See you tomorrow for Day 7 of 31 Days of Halloween and don't forget to visit all the blogs in the Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween blog hop for the chance to win lots of SAS prizes!!  See Terra's blog if you're late to the freak show!

Happy Haunting and Domino Hugs!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

Leigh S-B Designs Blog

Velvet Paw Creations

Day 5: Bat from Hell by Kapree C

Howzit Stamping Friends!

 Welcome to Day 5 of DominoART's 31 Days of Halloween extravaganza!

Kapree joins us again today to share her red hot and spooky as hell Bat Domino Magnet!
This one was a toughy to photograph coz of the UTEE glazed surface.

Supplies used:
Standard white domino
Flying Bat (light small) - CM-281-CC by Third Coast Rubber Stamps
Red Pepper with Silver Mixitive Alcohol Inks
Jet Black StazOn Ink
Versamark Ink
Clear UTEE
Self-adhesive magnet

See you tomorrow for Day 6 of 31 Days of Halloween and don't forget to visit all the blogs in the Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween blog hop for the chance to win lots of SAS prizes!!  See Terra's blog if you're late to the freak show!

Happy Haunting and Domino Hugs!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

Leigh S-B Designs Blog

Velvet Paw Creations

Day 4: Pumpkin Head Cat ATC by Anesha

Howzit Stamping Friends!

 On our 4th Day of Halloween Anesha of the Third Coast Creative Coterie is here to share her Happy Haunting double domino embellished ATC...I dare you to say that fast 3 times LOL!

Now do you think the kitty is just really happy at the thought of all the haunting or has it been possessed by that gleefully evil pumpkin head?!

Stamp credits:
Third Coast Rubber Stamps:  Pumpkin-head Cat (AP-432-C), Happy Haunting (WS-139-A) and Sirius Hobby spiders web.

Materials used:
Copics and Promarkers, watercolour, dominoes, Echo park paper and pigment liner pen.

See you tomorrow for Day 5 of 31 Days of Halloween and don't forget to visit all the blogs in the Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween blog hop for the chance to win lots of SAS prizes!!  See Terra's blog if you're late to the freak show!

Happy Haunting and Domino Hugs!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

Leigh S-B Designs Blog

Velvet Paw Creations

Day 3: Sinister Owl Domino Magnet by Kapree C

Howzit Stamping Friends!

 We are well underway with our spooktacular 31 Days of Halloween extravaganza!

Kapree joins us today on Day 3 to share her very sinister Owl Domino Magnet!

You can just feel the menace in that look the owl is giving us...shiver!

Supplies used:
standard white domino
Owl - part of Owls on fence FA-226-I by Third Coast Rubber Stamps
Lettuce and Rust Alcohol Inks
Jet Black StazOn Ink
Versamark Ink
Clear UTEE
Self-adhesive magnet

See you tomorrow for Day 4 of 31 Days of Halloween and don't forget to visit all the blogs in the Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween blog hop for the chance to win lots of SAS prizes!!  See Terra's blog if you're late to the freak show!

Happy Haunting and Domino Hugs!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

Leigh S-B Designs Blog

Velvet Paw Creations

Day 2: Witch In Flight Domino Necklace by Val S

Howzit Stamping Friends!

It's Day 2 of DominoART's 31 of Halloween!  I hope you enjoyed checking out my ghoulish Tombstone domino card yesterday and have started your creepy blog hop journey with Smeared and Smudged!  If you missed the beginning of all the wicked events going down all month long then read the Oct 1st post for all the gorey details!

Val S joins us today to share her spooktacular 'Witch in Flight' altered domino necklace!  The perfect gown accessory for the annual Witches Ball don't you think ;0)

Val coloured her standard white domino with a metallic silver Sharpie marker to give it a luscious metallic shimmer but unfortunately it was hard to capture with a camera! 

Supplies used:
standard white domino
Witch stamp - Inkaxinkado
StazOn - jet black
Silver sharpie
Black ribbon
Silver bead
Crystal Rhinestone
Judkins Diamond Glaze

Visit Val's blog for more eye catching DominoART creations!

See you tomorrow for Day 3 of 31 Days of Halloween and don't forget to visit all the blogs in the Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween blog hop for the chance to win lots of SAS prizes!!  See Terra's blog if you're late to the freak show!
Happy Haunting and Domino Hugs!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

Leigh S-B Designs Blog

Velvet Paw Creations

Day 1 of 31 Days of Halloween by Leigh S-B - The Sharpie Domino Queen!

'Tis the start of the Haunting Season and Best Witches to you all!

 I'm super excited coz it's Day 1 of our 2nd annual 31 Days of Halloween!
It's going to be a grand spooktacular event with 31 gloriously scary altered domino creations for you to feast your greedy eyes on!

DominoART's Wicked Players list is located in the left hand side bar.  Each Day links directly to the petrifying project so you can browse them all to your hearts content!  The links will be added periodically.

 A huge THANK YOU to our generous sponsors for providing 3 wicked cool prizes!
 
Blockheads Paper Arts
is sponsoring the 
Grand Prize of a $50 Gift Certificate!

and

SkyBluePink
  is sponsoring two 
$13 Gift Certificates 
for the 2nd and 3rd place prizes! 

Cool Stuff for Non-Fancy Prices

 All of DominoART's Wicked Players are in the running for some scary good prizes plus there will be some sneaky prizes provided by me throughout October too!  I might pick a random winner from DominoART's followers or from everyone who visits and leaves a comment each day!  I might hide a DominoART Treat that you have to find...who knows, anything could happen!  If you find the DominoART Treat (you'll know when you see it) then email me asap to be entered into a drawing for the prize!

But the fun doesn't end there, keep reading!

Are you being inspired by all the wicked DominoART eye candy and would like to share your own creations with us?  Then I'd like to invite you to link up your Halloween altered game art in the Readers' Art Gallery!  Add your project URL to the inlinkz collection on the 31 Days of Halloween Readers' Art Gallery page and you never know, I might just award a DominoART Treat to my favourite entry ;0)

You'll have to haunt us all month long to see if you've won any of the prizes up for grabs ;0)

But wait...there's more!

Just in case spooktacular DominoART Eye Candy and Treats galore aren't enough for you, DominoART is taking part as a Wicked Blogger in the 4th annual Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop!  Woohoo!!



You can participate as a Horrifying Hopper or as a Sinister Lurker for the chance to win even more prizes from Smeared and Smudged!  You don't have to be a member of their forum to play either!
Also keep your eyes peeled coz one day when you least expect it DominoART will be hiding their Scavenger Hunt pic for you all to find!  When you see it you must email them to be included in the drawing for that day :0)

The Smeared and Smudged Blog Hop roll is located on DominoART's right hand side bar!  For all the gorey details on how to play in their Blog Hop please visit Terra's blog which is the first one on the list! 

So hop on your broomsticks and join the freak show!

To kick of the wicked good fun here's my spooktacular domino creation for
Day 1 of 31 Days of Halloween!

This project also kicks off Blockheads' October Technique Challenge called
Precious Metals - A Compendium of Leafing Techniques demoed by me!

Enjoy ;0)

 This ghoulish tombstone shaped card features my favourite little Goth Girl rubber stamp!  She is a Blockheads Paper Arts exclusive.  Isn't the photo above suitably creepy with the way the light is catching the metallic silver highlights of her eyes!

 I stamped her onto a regular white domino with Jet Black StazOn ink and coloured with Sharpie markers using my signature 'Sharpie Domino Queen' technique:
Her hair is a combo of Lime Green and Kiwi.  I free hand drew in the plaid design on her dress with Purple, Violet and Stingray and the background is a combo of Banana Clip and Leg Warmer Orange.  Silver and gold metallic details were added with ultra-fine point DecoColor paint pens.  The sides of the domino are wrapped in Red Liner tape with gold Leaf applied.  The surface and sides of the dominoes are sealed with a coat of Judikins Diamond Glaze.

Continue reading to see how I made my Tombstone card!

The following photos demo how to create a plaid design using various widths of double sided tape with gold and silver Leafing applied.  Pop on over to Blockheads and take the Precious Metals challenge for a chance to win even more prizes!  Two prizes are up for grabs via their Blog and Facebook page!  Challenge starts Oct 1 and ends on Oct 21.

1.  Start by adhering strips of tape vertically on a black folded card.

2.  Peel off the paper backing on just one strip, apply the gold Leaf and brush away the excess.  Peel off the next one and so on until you've added gold Leaf to all the strips.  Adhere thinner tape strips along side each gold stripe and apply silver Leaf to each following the same method used on for the gold stripes.

3.  It really helps to keep silver Leaf from sticking to the gold Leaf if you mask each strip of tape with post-it notes as you can see in the photo.  Once all the silver vertical stripes are done lay in the horizontal stripes and apply gold leaf and then add the thinner stripes and apply the silver leaf.

Tips:  Make sure you burnish the Leafing down onto the tape especially along the edges with your finger before brushing away the excess.  You might also discover that the negative spaces between all your leafing is covered by microscopic sparkling bits  which can look really pretty and enhance your project if you're okay with that.  Otherwise just take a small piece of regular sticky tape and 'sticky roll' all the areas to remove the stray bits.

4.  Use Spellbinders largest Nested Tombstone to die cut out the shaped card.  Edge the front of the card and the interior with a gold metallic DecoColor paint pen.

5.  Die cut out a Spellbinders Fancy Label #2 from scrap cardstock and colour the entire piece with a metallic purple Promarker.  Spritz the die cut with Grape Jelly Fireworks Ink Spray for a wonderful purple shimmer (Fireworks are currently on sale over at Blockheads).  Cut the die cut in half and remove the excess so that its big enough to adhere the altered domino to it with craft glue.

6.  Embellish the card with Trick or Treat ribbon from Michaels and adhere the altered domino to the card front with glue dots.  Cut a piece of the same ribbon, knot it in the middle and dove tail cut the ends.  Adhere the 'bow' to the card with a glue dot.

Thank you to everyone for making this event possible!
See you tomorrow for
Day 2 of 31 Days of Halloween!

Happy Haunting and Domino Hugs!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

Leigh S-B Designs Blog

Velvet Paw Creations

Call for players for DominoART's 31 Days of Halloween!

Hello Dominoians!

Something Wicked this Way Comes!
For 31 days throughout October you will be treated to spooktacular DominoART eye candy!
 So who wants to play in our annual DominoART 31 Days of Halloween spooktacular event?

UPDATE
Thank you everyone for coming to play, all the Days are now spoken for :0)
Well, there are a few extra Days that I'm doing, Oct 6, 12 and 28 in particular, so if you really want to play just let me know which Day from those 3 you'd like!  The 1st and 31st are definitely mine though ;0)

DominoART's 31 Days of Halloween 

is proudly sponsored by

Grand Prize - $50 Gift Certificate from

Blockheads Paper Arts
 2nd and 3rd Prize - $13 Gift Certificates from

Cool Stuff for Non-Fancy Prices

~*~
Here's all the info if you dare to join the fun!

Our 31 Days of Halloween event is participating as a Wicked Blogger in the Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween blog hop extravaganza!  Woohoo! 

To qualify for participation please make sure your creations follow their rules:

1. projects MUST be either rubber stamped or use digital stamps that you have then coloured yourself and adhered to the altered domino!
2.  you CAN NOT use any collage sheets that are pre-coloured and pre-printed as the main focus of your projects! 

 I'm looking for readers of the blog, Facebook page and members of the DominoART yahoo group who are interested in creating one or more Halloween themed DominoART creation(s) to be featured here on the DominoART blog and facebook page!  

Everyone is welcome to play regardless of your level of stamping or domino altering experience. 

Within the first week of Nov I will award one Grand Winner with a $50 Blockheads Paper Arts Gift Certificate and 2nd and 3rd place winners will receive SkyBluePink Gift Certificates plus I will also award the Top 3 with a snazzy blog badge!

1.   Email me the Day you'd like to sign-up for with 2 extra alternate days in order of preference.  You can sign-up for more than one day too.

2.  Make your Halloween themed DominoART creation and email me your photo as soon as possible but no later than 2 days before your scheduled Day.

3.  You can use any Dominoes or domino-like game tiles for your creations.  You can incorporate any other game related paraphernalia into your creation like playing cards and puzzle pieces, etc!

4.  You can make cards, tags or ATCs with the altered domino attached or DominoART magnets, jewelry pieces or you can just simply alter/decorate the domino!

5.  You can use any stamping technique or altering method.  Check out all the tutorials and last years 31 Days of Halloween projects for inspiration.

6.  It would be cool if you incorporated the number of your Day into your project but its not required.

7.  Please provide all stamp credits and a materials list with your photo.

8.  You can also provide a summary or step by step instructions on how you made your project if you want to.

 9.  Spread the word and display our DominoART's 31 Days of Halloween blog badge on your blogs!

So who wants to celebrate Halloween DominoART style with me?

Domino Hugs!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

Velvet Paw Creations

LeighSBDesigns Blog