10th Edgar Allan Poe CREATivities: "Conspiracy of Ravens" Raven Tree Silhouette make by Leigh

🖤 Happy January Creative Friends 🖤

 

The Santa Ana winds are back and we have a few new wildfires close by!  Please keep Southern California in your thoughts and consider donating to the various organizations supporting the people and animals in need like the American Red Cross and Humane Society of the US.

 

 

Happy Birthday Edgar Allan Poe!

January 19th was Edgar Allan Poe's Birthday and National Poe Appreciation Day!

In LeighSBDesigns style we are celebrating our love for Poe with our 10th annual 5 day POE Party!  Our CREATivities include POEtastic inspirational makes, a brand new Raven themed digi stamp release plus our mini Poe Hop where you are all invited to share your own Poe inspired makes too!  The Poe Hop info and the linky are in my Day 1 post HERE!

It's never too late to join the fun!

 

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Raven Tree Silhouettes

Digi Stamps Release

 

 

In celebration of Poe's Birthday I've got two new Raven themed digi stamps for you that are totally POEtastic for all your Poe inspired makes as well as your Winter themed makes too!

 

Shop the release sale through January 23rd at LeighSBDesigns.com and add both of these Raven designs to your digi stamp collections!

 

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My entire Edgar Allan Poe Collection is also on sale for the duration of our Poe party through January 23 midnight pacific!

Check out my past release videos below to see my Poe collection of digi stamps, decorative digi papers and SVG Cutz for electronic cutting machines!

 

POE LOVE FREEBIE 

 I also have a FREEBIE for you called Poe Love which you can get HERE!

 

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"Conspiracy of Ravens"

Raven Tree Slimline Make

by Leigh

 

I'm back today with a handsome frame-able make featuring my new Raven Tree Silhouette digi stamp, Poe Portrait digi stamp, a saying from my Conspiracy of Ravens digi set and one of my gorgeous digi decorative papers from the Vintage Grunge Decorative Digi Paper pack.

 

 

I designed the layout of my make in Photoshop by first layering the Poe Portrait digi stamp onto the decorative digi paper and adjusting the size so his head filled most of the panel.

 

 

 

 I then removed all the white areas in the Poe Portrait to allow the beauty of the decorative paper to show through.

 

 

 

  Next I reduced the opacity to fade the portrait and then added the Raven Tree Silhouette digi stamp on top.

 

 

 

 I adjusted the placement so Poe's eyes eerily peer out at us between the branches.

 

I printed out the collage, trimmed the panel to the size I wanted, distressed the edges with Black Soot Distress Ink then mounted it onto a black mat cut 1/8 inch larger.  Next I cut a larger panel from a light brown cardstock that picked up on the lighter shades in the decorative paper and distressed the edges with Bronze Spectrum Noir Midas pigment ink.  I then mounted the brown mat onto a black mat.

 

 

 I mounted the layered main panel onto the background mat stack with black foam tape strips for some fun dimension.  I then embellished the two top corners with black faceted jewels.

 

 

 

The "Conspiracy of Ravens" saying is one of the two sayings included in my Conspiracy of Ravens digi set.  I changed the colour of the text in Photoshop from black to white and added the black background and printed it out in a various sizes so I could pick which one worked best and the rest went in my stash for future makes.  I then mounted the saying onto 5 layers of black cardstock to create a nice chunky piece.  

 

 

 Next I trimmed and tore a piece of corrugated cardboard at an angle in the opposite direction to the slope of Poe's shoulders.   I distressed the edges and ridges with a bit of Black Soot Distress ink and adhered it the panel with glue.

 

 

 To complete my handsome Poe make I adhered the saying in place with a strip of black foam tape to give it even more dimension then added two black buttons on both sides of the saying to frame it.

 

Thanks for stopping by to see my inspirational Poe make today!

January 23rd is the last day to play in our mini Poe Hop, see all the deets and the linky HERE!

 

 

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Quick reminder that our January Challenge is also in full swing!

Play there with your WINTER Wonderland or Anything Goes makes!

FYI, Poe makes are welcome there too but must be different to your Poe Hop makes!

 

 

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See my entire Poe Collection

Happy POE Week and Namárië!

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