9th annual Edgar Allan Poe Hop: Day 2 - Poe Gothic Arch Window SVG Cutz Slimline Card by Val

❤ Happy January Creative Friends ❤

 

Welcome to Day 2 of our 9th annual Edgar Allan Poe Birthday Celebrations!

We are celebrating Edgar Allan Poe's Birthday and National Poe Appreciation Day and our 9th year hosting our Poe Party!  Everyone is invited to the 5 day celebration, all the deets and the linky are in the MAIN POST!

Welcome to our 9th Edgar Allan Poe celebration!

Enjoy our daily inspirational Poe makes shared here from January 19th to the 23rd and you can also join the fun by playing along in the 5 day hop linky party using any stamp products!

 

All the deets and the linky are in the MAIN POST!

Please remember that this is a Hop and you are expected to hop and comment on all the entries in the linky on the same days you play, including the MAIN POST.  Please play fair, be respectful of your fellow makers, leave nice comments and enjoy the show!

 

Shop the POE SALE through Jan 23 11:55pm pacific!

 

 My Edgar Allan Poe Collection is now only available at LeighSBDesigns new store!

Loveleigh Kitty Edgar Allan Poe Puss is also available in my Etsy store for a limited time!

Day 2

Poe Gothic Arch Window

SVG Cutz Slimline Card

by Val

❤ Happy Birthday Edgar Allan Poe ❤

How did you celebrate Poe's birthday yesterday?  I've been celebrating already and just finished watching The Fall of the House of Usher mini series and last night I re-watched John Cusack's movie, The Raven❤

 

Now for our Day 2 inspiration brought to you by Val!

 

 

Val created a POEtastic slimline card featuring my brand new Edgar Allan POE Puss digi stamp, the Raven Gothic Window SVG Cutz from the Edgar Allan Poe 2022 SVG Cutz Collection and Decorative Digi Papers from the Edgar Allan Poe 2023 Collection!

 

 She printed out Edgar Allan POE Puss and coloured him up with Promarkers and fussy cut him out with scissors.  Next she printed out papers from the "Classic Poe" Vintage Grunge Digi Paper and Vintage Grunge Digi Paper packs and used them to make the slimline card and the background of the gothic window, which was cut with a mat layer included in the Raven Gothic Window SVG Cutz set,  She then cut the intricate Raven Gothic Window overlay out of black cardstock using her Silhouette Portrait 3 electronic cutting machine and adhered all the elements together to create her handsome slimline card which she then embellished with white gel pen and Sakura pen details.

 

We hope our makes so far have inspired you join the fun! 

All the deets and the linky are in the MAIN POST!

 

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Shop at Etsy store for a limited time!

 

 Raven Gothic Window SVG Cutz

 

"Classic Poe" Vintage Grunge Digi Paper Pack

 

Vintage Grunge Digi Paper Pack

 

 

 

Thanks for visiting with us today, see you tomorrow for Day 3!

Happy Creating!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

5th annual Gothic Valentine Blog Hop 2022: Day 4 Finale "A Tale as Old as Time" Gothic Rose 3D Window Vignette by Leigh!

🖤 Happy Gothic Valentine Creative Friends 🖤 

We are busy celebrating the month of love with 2 fun creativties❤️

Our month long Let Love Bloom Challenge is in full swing where you can submit your sweet and lighter makes but if lovey dovey isn't quite your thing you can totally enter your darker makes there too AND if you really love to indulge your dark and twisty side then you’ll enjoy our 5th annual

  

 

5th annual Gothic Valentine Blog Hop

 Gothic Valentine conjures tales of dark romance, black lace, ruby red velvet, the seductive world of vampires, forbidden love, tragic love, monster love stories, the torment of broken hearts, betrayal and the sorrow of love lost.  You get to interpret all of the above in our Gothic Valentine Blog Hop and create whatever your dark heart desires!

Our Gothic Valentine Blog Hop is open to everyone far and wide using any stamp company products!  Enter your dark romance inspired makes in the Gothic Valentine Blog Hop linky party by 5 minutes til midnight pacific on Feb 16!  The Hop linky, details and updated Rules on how to play are in the MAIN POST so please read everything before linking up!

Come play and hop along with us for 4 dark and twisty days full of fabulous inspiration and the chance to win a wicked prize or two coz the more people that play the better the prizes so round up your friends and encourage them to join the creativities🖤

 

🖤🖤🖤 VALENTINE SALE 🖤🖤🖤

LeighSBDesigns’ romance themed Digi Stamps and more are on sale for the duration of the hop at LeighSBDesigns Boutique!

 

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Day 4 Finale

“A Tale as Old as Time”

Gothic Rose 3D Window Vignette

by Leigh

 

Welcome to Day 4 and the finale of our dark romantic 5th annual Gothic Valentine Blog Hop🖤

 

 

Tale as old as time...Song as old as rhyme...

Beauty and the Beast

 

 

For my finale make today I created a Gothic vignette of a scene from Beauty and the Beast🖤

 

 

I used my Raven Gothic Window SVG Cutz set to make a 3D corner vignette of the Beast's castle.

 

 

The Raven Gothic Window SVG Cutz set comes with a detailed lace overlay and 4 mat layers.  I designed the base structure of the corner vignette in Silhouette Studio using the 2nd mat layer then made a mirror image of the base, so I could glue them back to back to make the structure nice and sturdy, and cut both of out of heavy weight black cardstock using my Silhouette Cameo 4.  I then cut four of the 1st mat layer from textured grey cardstock with 2 also as mirror images.  Then I cut 4 of the detailed lace overlay from black cardstock with 2 as mirror images.  I then assembled the vignette by layering up all the cut elements on both sides of the Gothic Windows then glued the base to form the 3D corner vignette.  The cobblestone floor is a Crafter's Companion die which I fussy cut after die cutting to fit the vignette base.  The die has a mat layer which I coloured with Tea Dye and Frayed Burlap Distress Oxide sprays and the cobblestone overlay was cut from black cardstock.

 

 

I coloured my Gothic Rose with Copics, fussy cut it out leaving a narrow white halo and then glued it to clear acetate to give the delicate rose a nice sturdy structure and fussy cut it out again.  I added dew drops with a Viva Pearl magic transparent 3D gel pen.

 

 

The Wicked Moon smiles down upon the enchanted Rose outside the window.  I coloured the moon with Tea Dye, Fired Brick and Black Soot Distress Oxide inks, mounted it onto Crafter's Companion black glitter card and fussy cut it out.  I glued only a tiny piece of the side of the moon to the Gothic Window and creased it to bend away from the window to give a free floating effect.

 

The Bat is from the Gothic Nightmare Catcher SVG Cutz set and I attached it to the outside of the window by only a portion of a wing so it looks like it's flying freely outside the window.

 

 

I made a little leaf element to display my Love is the Strongest Magic senti using a Docrafts die and coloured it with Copics to match the Rose and embellished it with a Cheery Lynn leaf flourish die cut from black cardstock.

 

This senti embellishment isn't attached so it can be placed anywhere around the vignette.

I decorated the vignette base with Recollections red paper roses and climbing vines using more Cheery Lynn leaf flourishes.  I them completed the vignette by adhering the Gothic Rose in place with a tab made of clear acetate so it looks like its standing on its own in the scene.  I painted the back of the Gothic Rose with black glitter glue and covered the acetate tab in glitter to camouflage it and then attached the tab to the corner of the vignette so it can viewed from any angle.

 

And that wraps up this year's Gothic Valentine Blog Hop!  Thank you everyone for joining in and sharing your gorgeous makes with us over the last 4 days🖤

 

 You still have until 5 minutes to midnight pacific tonight to get in your makes and then stay tuned for the Winner post!  Also don't forget you can still play in our "Let Love Bloom" Challenge which ends on Feb 25th. 

 

Shop for the SVG Cutz and Digi Stamps used today and more in the Valentine Sale which also ends tonight at midnight pacific!

 

 

 

 

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Thanks for hopping in to see today’s Hop inspiration, see you tomorrow for the finale!

Happy Creating!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

Challenge #1 SNOW or POE: POE BOOK - Make-a-Book SVG Cutz by Val!

❄️ Happy 2022 Creative Friends ❄️ 

Today is the last day of our first challenge of 2022 so get in your

Challenge #1 SNOW or POE (or both) makes HERE by 5 til midnight pacific tonight!

 

 

"POE BOOK"

Make-a-Book SVG Cutz

by Val

For the finale of our January 2022 Challenge #1 SNOW or POE LeighSBDesigner Val is here with her totally POEtastic POE BOOK featuring designs from my collection of Poe themed digi stamps and my new Edgar Allan Poe SVG Cutz 2022 release!

To create her handsome POE BOOK Val used her Silhouette Portrait 3 to cut out all the elements included in the POE Book Make-a-Book SVG Cutz set and the wonderful "O" from the "POE" Raven and Classic Font Word SVG Cutz set.

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.

The "O" letter page is decorated with Distressed Raven Nevermore and the "O" from the "POE" Raven and Classic Font Word SVG Cutz set.

Val decorated her "E" letter page with Oddleigh The Raven and 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 Hop and the SNOW or POE Challenge and 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!

Happy Creating!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN

Challenge #1 SNOW or POE: 3 Poe makes by Val!

❄️ Happy 2022 Creative Friends ❄️ 

Our first challenge of 2022 ends tomorrow but there's still time to come and play in

Challenge #1 SNOW or POE (or both) HERE!

 

 

LeighSBDesigner Val is here today with a ton of inspirational makes for the 2nd to last day of our January Challenge #1 SNOW or POE featuring designs from my collection of Poe themed digi stamps and my new Edgar Allan Poe SVG Cutz 2022 release!

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. 

For her second make Val created another gorgeous Raven Gothic Window easel card and this one is embellished with Pine Bough greenery from my Christmas Tree Charms Lace SVG Cutz set and the magnificent Gothic Raven SVG Cutz set.

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!

 

This handsome box features designs from my collection of Poe themed digi stamps.

Ode to Poe

Poe Gnome

Distressed Raven Nevermore

Raven and Poe Signature with Quill

Don't forget tomorrow is the last day to join the SNOW or POE Challenge!

 

 Happy Creating!

THE SHARPIE DOMINO QUEEN