Happy February Creative Friends
Welcome to our 8th annual Gothic Valentine CREATivities where we celebrate with inspirational makes for 4 fabulous days! You can join the fun by playing along in our Gothic Valentine mini Hop with your own Gothic Valentine makes too, the info and linky are here in this post below my Day 1 make plus there's a link to some FREEBIES you can play along with too!
On Feb 1st I launched my Loveleigh Kitties in Wonderland Collection, they are so quirky cute and you have to see the release HERE if you missed it! You'll be seeing the new collection in action throughout Gothic Valentine and beyond!
Our February Challenge #38 Alice in Wonderland and Anything Goes is also in full swing too so you've got lots to enjoy and get involved in this month!
Do join us! 
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Day 1
"Loveleigh Kitties in Wonderland"
Gothic Valentine Card
by Leigh
I'm kicking off our Gothic Valentine CREATivities today with a PURRtastic Valentine make featuring my new Loveleigh Kitties in Wonderland Collection of quirky cute digi stamp Wonderland characters.
I love how adorable the 5 of them look in this collaged group scene and printed out my coloured image in black and white for today's Gothic Valentine make.
The Loveleigh Kitties in Wonderland Characters are available in a Bundle and individually:
Alice, Hatter, Queen, Cheshire and Rabbit. 
I used a large heart shaped die from a new die set called Beautiful Butterfly by Crafter's Companion to die cut out my cute kitties.
I then used the heart die as a stencil to make a matching mat layer
that's just slightly larger than the die cut. I traced the shape onto
deep red cardstock and cut the mat out with scissors.
I applied Black Soot Distress Ink to the edges of the die cut heart which also helped tone down the white of the cardstock and give the scene a more Gothic vibe.
The only colour I added to the image scene is the pretty deep red Nuvo dimensional drops which I applied to all the hearts in the image.
The large square die cut panel is also from the Beautiful Butterfly by Crafter's Companion die set. I die cut the panel from black cardstock and adhered it to a mat layer I cut from a beautiful deep red glitter cardstock. I then applied Spectrum Noir Midas Gold pigment ink directly to the red heart
shaped mat and the black decorative die cut panel for a touch of
distressed elegance. I embellished all 4 corners with little flourish pieces that came out of the black die cut panel and applied the red Nuvo drops to them to create the 3D elements.
I made a 5.5 x 5.5 inch top fold card from linen textured deep red cardstock and mounted the square black decorative panel, with the red glitter mat attached, onto the folded card. I then mounted the heart panel to the heart shaped center of the black panel with black foam tape for some fun dimension.
To complete my card I made a little red bow from silk ribbon and tucked it in above the heart. I then embellished the bow center with a little black die cut flower, you'll see where that came from in my next make, and added a tiny red glitter heart edged in metallic gold to the flower center.
I do hope you'll visit us each day and enjoy our Gothic Valentine makes and be inspired to join in on our mini Gothic Valentine Hop. All the info and the linky are below!
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8th annual Gothic Valentine Hop
To join in on our 8th annual Gothic Valentine CREATivities for the chance to win this year's Prize you can play in our mini hop linky below. All you need to do is hop all 4 days of LeighSBDesigns Gothic Valentine makes and leave us some love. All our makes are included in the hop linky for easy hopping!
Play along by adding your own Gothic Valentine inspired makes at any time over the duration of the mini hop using any stamp company products. Then also hop the other entries in the linky that are submitted on the same days you decide to play. The Valentine fan with the most entries and comments left wins the Prize to spend at LeighSBDesigns.com, and FYI, the more you play the better the prize will be!
The Gothic Valentine mini Hop linky below closes Feb 16th at 11:55pm pacific.
Please include the following in your blog or social media entry posts:
*The Gothic Valentine Hop badge with it linked to this main post and the details of the hop.
*Use hashtag: #LeighSBDesignsGothicValentineHop2025
*Add your make to the linky with your name and the date or day your entry is for in the linky description (for example: Leigh Day 1 or Leigh Feb 13) and we will also hop to you and leave you some love too.
We always have a fabulous time so do encourage your friends to play too, the more the merrier!
February Challenge
Come play in our February Challenge with your Alice in Wonderland makes as well as whatever else you're creating this month as our Challenge also takes Anything Goes!
Do come and get crafty with us!
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See the New Releases!
Thanks for stopping by to see today's fabulous inspiration!
Happy Creating
and
Namárië - Go Towards Goodness!
THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN
Awesome card, so beautiful love it ❤️🖤🩶🤍
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