LeighSBDesigns: 8th annual Gothic Valentine Hop 2025 Day 4: "We're All Mad Here" Loveleigh Kitties in Wonderland Gothic Palentine Card by Leigh

Sunday, February 16, 2025

8th annual Gothic Valentine Hop 2025 Day 4: "We're All Mad Here" Loveleigh Kitties in Wonderland Gothic Palentine Card by Leigh

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 in my Day 1 post HERE 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 4

"We're All Mad Here"

Loveleigh Kitties in Wonderland

Gothic Palentine Card

by Leigh

Today is the finale of our 4 day Gothic Valentine CREATivities and I'm back with a PURRtastic Palentine make featuring my new Loveleigh Kitties in Wonderland Collection of quirky cute digi stamp Wonderland characters plus a senti.

I love how adorable the 5 of them look in this collaged group of Wonderland pals I did using the individual images and printed out two sizes of my coloured image in black and white to get the grey scale look. I used the larger print for my Day 1 make and the smaller print for today's Gothic Palentine make.

The Loveleigh Kitties in Wonderland Characters are available in a Bundle and individually:

Alice, Hatter, Queen, Cheshire and Rabbit and the Wonderland Senties and Wonderland Quotes are also available in a Bundle or individually too. The entire collection is so fun as one cohesive set for lots of Wonderland crafting adventures.

"We're All Mad Here" is one of the 7 sayings included in the Wonderland Senties set.

I did a "print and cut" with an offset using my Silhouette Cameo 5 electronic cutting machine to print and fussy cut out the senti.

I used the large circle die included in a new fancy frame die set called Floral Dream by Crafter's Companion to die cut out my cute kitties. I then used the circle 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 circle and the senti which helped tone down the white of the cardstock and give the scene a more Gothic vibe. The only touch of colour in the collaged scene are all the hearts which I coloured with a red glitter gel pen. I also coloured the centers of the senti letters that include the tiny hearts.

The large square die cut panel is also from the Floral Dream by Crafter's Companion die set. I die cut the floral 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 circle shaped mat and the black decorative die cut panel for a touch of distressed elegance. I also embellished all 4 corners with tiny red glitter and gold peel off hearts I've had in my stash forever.

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 used black foam tape to mount the circle panel to the round shaped center of the black panel and the senti to the card, which I matted onto a strip of red glitter card, for some fun dimension.

We hope you've enjoyed our Gothic Valentine CREATities this year! You've still got until 11:55pm pacific tonight to join in our mini Gothic Valentine Hop or you can add your Gothic Valentine makes to our February Challenge by Feb 28th if you've missed the hop!

The details and links for both CREATivities 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 4 day Hop HERE.

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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!