Val decorated the "P" letter page with a Poe portrait from the Edgar Allan Poe and Signature set with the Signature used to create the background and Poe centered beautifully inside the Fern Frame! To create the background Val used Wild Honey and Black Soot Distress Oxide inks.
Val decorated her "E" letter page with Oddleigh The Ravenand the Poe Signature with Quill. She coloured the Raven with Tri-Blend markers and added white gel pen details to the quill.
Val then punched binder holes into each page and assembled her POE BOOK with black eyelash fiber.
That now concludes our inspirational makes for our fun new monthly challenge for January, thank you for playing along with us this month! See you very soon for the Winners of our POEtastic 7th annual Edgar Allan Poe Blog Hopand the SNOW or POE Challengeand then join us in February for our next Challenge which starts on the 4th and our annual Gothic Valentine Blog Hop which begins on Feb 13th!
First up here's another page out of Val's POE themed art journal.
To create this handsome page Val used my Poe portrait from the Edgar Allan Poe and Signature set with the Signature used to create the background as well as the label and Poe centered beautifully inside the Fern Frame! To create the background Val used Blueprint Sketch Distress Oxide ink, alcohol markers to colour Poe's skin and a white gel pen for detailing. She then embellished the corners with a Gemini corner die cut from black cardstock and mounted everything onto Hobby Craft Smooth white card and finally onto the black page inside her art journal.
Val used her Silhouette Portrait 3 to cut the Raven Gothic Window, Gothic Raven and Pine Bough elements from black cardstock, Hobby Craft Mixture of Ombré cardstocks and the Pine Bough from white cardstock which she then coloured green with Spectrum Tri-Blend markers and the Gothic Raven's eye and beak pieces with red and orange.
She then completed her easel card with Tim's clear Distress Rock Candy Glitter and an easel stand made from heavy weight black cardstock.
Val's final inspirational piece for today is a handsome 3D Poe Box done in classic black and white!
Val used Hobby Craft Smooth white cardstock to cut the Winter Snowman lace overlay and the matching mat layer from pale blue cardstock on her Silhouette Portrait 3 electronic cutting machine. She then added lots of pretty sparkle to the mat layer with Tim Holtz Distress Clear Rock Candy Glitter and added created fluffy white snowballs with Pinflair Snow Dust and paper pieced the snowman’s hat which she covered in blue flocking. Val coloured the snowman’s eyes, nose and rock button pieces with Sharpie markers and then mounted everything onto blue cardstock and finished with a white folded card. Val printed the Snowman Hugs senti out onto ombré cardstock, fussy cut it out and attached to the card front with a pop dot.
Don't forget you can join the challenge HERE with your SNOW or POE makes or combine the 2 themes together for even more fun!
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January 19th was Edgar Allan Poe's Birthday and as is tradition here at LeighSBDesigns we celebrate with 5 glorious days of all things Poe! Today is the finale but it's never too late to play in our
Everyone is invited to enter Poe inspired makes in our 7th annual Poe Appreciation Blog Hop using any stamp company products as frequently as you choose! The full Hop details, rules and the linky party are all in the MAIN POST! We always have a POEtastic time so tell your friends and celebrate your love of Poe with us and be in the running for some POEtastic prizes too! Please read the Hop Rules before linking up!
The Poe fun doesn't end today coz we also now host a completely separate monthly Challenge! This month's theme is SNOW or POE so do check out the Challenge Main Post for all the details and play along! You're very welcome to play in both events just not with the same makes though FYI😉
To make my POEtastic POE BOOK I started out by resizing the grouped "assembled" set as large as possible in Silhouette Studio so the book was nearly 4 inches tall and I could cut the largest page, the "E" page, out of a sheet of 8.5 x 11" heavy weight black cardstock.
I cut all 3 of the POE letter pages out of Crafter's Companion heavy weight black cardstock using my Silhouette Cameo 4.
I then made mirror images of each letter page and cut them out of the same cardstock. To make each page nice and chunky and sturdy I then glued each page to its mirror version.
I wanted a vintage look with touches of metallic bronze so I cut each of the mat layers out of various patterned cardstocks as well as mirror versions of each mat too. For the "P" page I used a sheet of Tim's Halloween Idea-ology paper and 2 DCWV papers for the "O" and "E" pages.
I applied Bronze Spectrum Noir Midas metallic pigment ink to both sides of each page and all the mats and then adhered the mats to the pages. I then cut the separate POE letters overlays included the SVG Cutz set from Scrapbook.com’s glitter paper and the matching mats from Tim’s copper mirror cardstock.
I adhered the letter overlays to the mats and then adhered each letter to the book pages.
I decided to go with book binding rings for my book so I used my handy dandy Japanese drill to make 3 holes into each letter page. I’ve ordered some black and antique bronze rings so used my silver ones in the meanwhile.
I made pages for my book from black cardstock in different lengths and punched holes in those too.
Here’s the back cover of the book which I decorated with more DCWV paper.
I decided to put past Poe makes inside my book and the page lengths are determined by the size of each make.
Check out my original post for this POEtastic tag above and the post for the Winter Raven tag below!
And that’s a wrap…our 7th annual Poe Appreciation Blog Hop has come to an end, well tonight at 5 minutes to midnight pacific to be precise but you know what I mean 😉 But the Poe fun doesn’t end today coz you can still play in our SNOW or POE Challenge that ends on January 28th! YAY!
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Thanks for stopping by to see today's featured make in our Poe Hop Finale! See you soon for the winners post so stay tuned!
January 19th was Edgar Allan Poe Birthday and as is tradition here at LeighSBDesigns we celebrate with 5 glorious days of all things Poe, the party ends tomorrow but it's never too late to come play in our
Everyone is invited to enter Poe inspired makes in our 7th annual Poe Appreciation Blog Hop using any stamp company products as frequently as you choose! The full Hop details, rules and the linky party are all in the MAIN POST! We always have a POEtastic time so tell your friends and celebrate your love of Poe with us and be in the running for some POEtastic prizes too! Please read the Hop Rules before linking up!
Starting this month we also now host a completely separate monthly Challenge!
This month's theme is SNOW or POE so do check out the Challenge Main Post for all the details and play along! You're very welcome to play in both events just not with the same makes though FYI😉
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Day 4
"Nevermore"
Raven Gothic Window SVG Cutz
Easel Card by Val
For Day 4 of our POEtastic 7th annual Poe Appreciation Blog Hop LeighSBDesiger Val created a POEtastic easel card!
Val used her Silhouette Portrait 3 electronic cutting machine to cut the Raven Gothic Window lace overlay from black cardstock and the mat layers from Hobby Craft Mixture of Ombré Cardstocks and the Pine Bough from green glitter cardstock.
Val then embellished the Raven Gothic Window lace overlay with Tim's clear Distress Rock Candy Glitter applied with a Quickie glue pen and used Blueprint Sketch Distress Oxide ink on the “Nevermore” word. She then completed her card by constructing an easel stand out of black cardstock.
