🖤 Happy January Creative Friends 🖤
Keeping Los Angeles in our thoughts and prayers!
The Santa Ana winds have been strong by me too with a few wildfires pop up close by that have thankfully been put out swiftly as we now brace for another round of the Santa Ana winds! 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!
Today is 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 linky are at the bottom of this post!
Do join us!
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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!
Raven Tree Silhouette
The Raven Tree Silhouette digi stamp is a wonderful winter tree scene with four Ravens perched on the bare branches that extend out from both sides of the trunk. Whether you're a fan of Poe, Ravens and Winter scenery you can do so much with this wonderful design from making cards to home decor!
Raven Tree Slimline Silhouette
The
Raven Tree Slimline Silhouette digi stamp is a wonderful scene of a winter tree with a solitary Raven perched on the bare branches that extend out from one side of the trunk. Whether you're a fan of Poe,
Ravens and Winter scenery you can do so much with this wonderful design
from making slimline cards to home decor!
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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
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"POE"
Raven Tree Slimline Make
by Leigh
I'm kicking off our Poe CREATivities today with a handsome slimline make featuring my new Raven Tree Slimline Silhouette digi stamp, my Poe Portrait digi stamp as well as one of my gorgeous digi decorative papers from the Vintage Grunge Decorative Digi Paper pack.
I designed my slimline make in Photoshop and layered the Raven Tree Slimline Silhouette digi stamp onto the decorative digi paper where I wanted it and also sized the portrait of Poe I needed and layered it off to one side of the decorative paper, on screen, so that I could print all the elements out together on the one sheet of decorative paper.
I trimmed the Raven Tree Slimline Silhouette decorative paper to make an 3.5 x 8.5 slimline background panel then cut mats in various sizes from black cardstock and 2 brown cardstocks with different hues and textures. I adhered the 2 brown mats together with glue, then the decorative background panel to the black mat with glue which I then mounted onto the brown mat stack with black foam tape squares to give the layered panels dimension.
Using one of Scrapbook.com's exclusive nested stitched stamp dies I die cut out the portrait of Poe and kept just the interior rectangle part of his portrait. I then die cut out 4 more of the postage stamp frames from black cardstock and adhered them together to create a nice chunky frame. I adhered the frame to the background panel with glue then adhered Poe's portrait inside the frame.
I got some fun Tim Holtz die sets from my Mom for Christmas and used some of the dies to embellish my slimline make. The spiderweb is from the Vault Fright Night set which I die cut out of black cardstock and adhered it to the top right corner so that part of the web extends out beyond the edge of the panel.
Next I used the Alphanumeric Stretch Lower and Numbers die set to die cut out the letters to spell POE from black cardstock 4 times to create extra chunky letters and the top layer of the letters is cut from a scrumptious brown suede like leather paper by Sizzix.
Also from the Vault Fright Night set I die cut the tombstone scene 3 times from black cardstock to make a nice chunky border element which I adhered along the bottom edge of the slimline panel.
To complete my make I cut a 4 x 9 inch slimline background panel from heavy weight black cardstock and created a simple hinged easel stand for the back with a slight angle to it to allow the make to stand nicely on its own.
I do hope you'll visit us each day and enjoy our Poe makes and be inspired to join in on our mini Poe Hop. All the info and the linky are below!
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Mini Poe Hop
Share this year's mini Poe Hop badge in your sidebars and entry posts!
To join in on our 10th annual Edgar Allan Poe Mini Hop and be in the drawing for the Poe Prize all you need to do is hop all 5 days of LeighSBDesigns Poe makes and leave us some love, all our makes are included in the hop linky for easy hopping!
Play along by adding your own Poe inspired makes at any time over the duration of the mini hop using any stamp company products. Then also hop the Poe entries in the linky that are submitted on the same days you decide to play. The Poe fan with the most entries and comments left wins the Poe Prize to spend at LeighSBDesigns.com, and FYI, the more you play the better the prize will be!
The mini Poe Hop linky below closes January 23rd at 11:55pm pacific.
Please include the following in your blog or social media entry posts:
*The Poe Hop badge with it linked to this main post and the details of the hop.
*Use hashtag: #LeighSBDesignsPoeHop2025
*Add your make to the linky with your name and the date or day your entry is for in the linky description (Leigh Day 1 or Leigh Jan 19th) and we will also hop to you and leave you some love too.
We always have a POEtastic time so do encourage your friends to play too, the more the merrier!
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See my entire Poe Collection
Happy POE Week and Namárië - Go Towards Goodness!
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