Welcome to LeighSBDesigns 6th annual Edgar Allan Poe Appreciation Blog Hop in celebration of the Master of Macabre's birthday, January 19th!
Today is Day 4 of our annual 5 day hop!
Everyone is invited to enter Poe inspired makes in the Blog Hop Linky
Party located on the main post HERE using any stamp company products! You'll find the full details and Rules
on how to play there too! We always have a POEtastic time so tell your friends and celebrate your
love of Poe with us and be in the running for a prize from LeighSBDesigns Art Stamps😉
"Oddleigh Poe"
Compendium of makes by Leigh and Val
Today I'm sharing some past Poe makes of mine and LeighSBDesigner Val's featuring the Oddleigh Poe collection of fun and quirky designs.
Val thanks you all for your well wishes❤️ She's improving each day but still very weak and in bed still.
Welcome to LeighSBDesigns 6th annual Edgar Allan Poe Appreciation Blog Hop in celebration of the Master of Macabre's birthday, January 19th!
Today is Day 2 of our annual 5 day hop!
Everyone is invited to enter Poe inspired makes in the Blog Hop Linky
Party located on the main post HERE using any stamp company products! You'll find the full details and Rules
on how to play there too! We always have a POEtastic time so tell your friends and celebrate your
love of Poe with us and be in the running for a prize from LeighSBDesigns Art Stamps😉
"Ode to Poe"
Compendium of makes by Val
Today I'm sharing some past Poe makes of LeighSBDesigner Val's with you because she's currently fighting the nasty COVID 19 virus😞 She's doing okay but it's hit her hard so please keep her in your thoughts and prayers😘
Howzit Creative Friends!
We're now on Day 5 of my 4th annual Poe Appreciation Day Blog Hop in celebration of Edgar Allan Poe's birthday. We're having so much fun and I'm loving all the POEtastic art you've been sharing so far and can't wait to see what today brings😊 It's not too late to join the party, all the Blog Hop details are below today's featured projects and the Poe Blog Hop linky is in my Day 1 - January 19th post! You have until 5 minutes to midnight tonight to get your Poe projects into the linky and then you have 5 extra days to hop and comment on all the projects. Check it all out and then come and hop with us for the chance to win fabulous prizes sponsored by
Sadly this means today is also the last day of the Poe hop, boo hiss! We wait so long for this hop to come around and then it's over way too quickly but thankfully Mr Poe blessed us with a body of work that can sustain as all year long! There's so much inspiration to be drawn from his stories and poems and guess what's coming up that's totally POEfect, that's right, my 2nd My Dark Valentine blog hop is creeping up fast and I'm sure Mr Poe will make an appearance. Mark your calendars and get ready to explore the dark side of love again in February😉 Grab the badge and spread the word!
For our finale inspiration today I'm sharing a few of our quirky Oddleigh Poe past projects created by moi, Val and Nan! For even more inspiration check out the POE-tastic art shared in the past 3 hops HERE! Enjoy😉
I also have a FREEBIE for you called Poe Love, you can grab it HERE! You might want to use it in the upcoming My Dark Valentine Blog Hop...just saying, heheheheh!
We hope you enjoyed seeing today's collection of past Poes and are ready to join the fun if you haven't already😉
How to Play in the Poe Appreciation Day Blog Hop
The 5 day blog hop began Jan 19th on the official Poe Appreciation Day and ends on the 23rd at 5 minutes to midnight pacific. This is a progressive hop which means it gets bigger each day as more Poe fans link up their Poe projects in the blog hop linky party HERE so stop by daily to enjoy all the new POE-tastic art! You have 5 days to enter projects but a total of 10 days to hop all the entries and comment! Everyone is invited to enter their projects or just hop and enjoy 5 days of all things Poe so spread the news far and wide and celebrate your love of Poe with us! There's prizes up for grabs too!
*No sign-up required!
*Enter your Poe inspired projects in the Blog Hop linky party - permalinks only please which means the actual URL where your project is located and not just your blog home page!
*The Blog Hop linky closes Jan 23 at 5 minutes to midnight.
*Please include the Poe blog hop badge and the details of the hop with a link to the Jan 19 post in all your posts!
*Enter 1 project on 1 day or play the entire 5 days...totally up to you!
*New and old projects welcome - re-share old projects in new posts!
*All art is welcome and you may use rubber and digi stamps from any company!
*Social media link-ups are welcome if you don't have a blog - just make sure your post is public and you include the hop details in your photo description! Use hashtag: #LeighSBDesignsPoeBlogHop2019
*Have fun, enjoy the art on show and leave lots of love as you hop along!
*Everyone will have a total of 10 days to hop and comment (5 extra days to visit everyone).
*Please follow the above rules in order to play and qualify for the prizes!
Blog Hop Etiquette!
Blog hops are about sharing your art and also enjoying the art shared by the other players so please hop and leave lots of love! Everyone appreciates receiving comments on their projects so please don't just link up and then vanish! Play fair, be respectful of your fellow artists and leave nice comments!
Thanks for stopping by to see today's projects, see you again soon! Don't forget to keep an eye out for my Poe Blog Hop winners announcement, you wouldn't want to miss that!
Welcome to the finale of LeighSBDesigns 1st MY DARK VALENTINE Blog Hop❤️
Firstly I'd like to express my sorrow over the terrible Florida shootings, I'm sending my love, thoughts and prayers to everyone involved❤️
We're now on the last day of our fabulous 5 day blog hop! A big THANK YOU and round of applause to everyone for an amazing show of Dark Valentines and to everyone who hopped and left love for everyone! Your wonderful comments are very much appreciated😘
Everyone playing has had a fabulous time so let's make it a date shall we! See you for My Dark Valentine Blog Hop 2019, mark your calendars so you don't forget! All the deets will be available 24/7 on the MY DARK VALENTINE BLOG HOP page! Woohoo😜
The fun isn't over until 5 to midnight tonight though! You can still get in a project or 2 before the deadlline and if you haven't had chance to hop yet then you have until Feb 20th to do your rounds and leave lots of love on all the entries! I will announce the prize winners soon after so don't stray far and miss it😋
I hope you've enjoyed seeing the wonderful inspiration we share here and
have become a follower! I will be continuing the love fest until the
end of Feb with DT showcase posts featuring all the wonderful projects
Val shared on her own blog for the hop and fabulous projects
to share by Nan that you haven't seen yet plus there's new tutorials coming😀 There will be a new release in March so keep
your eyes peeled for that and then our next big event will be in April
to celebrate LeighSBDesigns first birthday🎉 Can you believe it will be
one year already so get ready to put your party hats on, Woohoo🎉
In
the middle of all this excitement I need to do a massive spring clean
of my studio and will be purging lots of rubber and anything else I can
bare to part with! I'll be listing everything here on my Leigh's Studio Spring Clean Sales page and I have created a Facebook group for it too so you might want to join that if you'd like instant notifications when I add stuff!
If you are just joining us for the first time today then here's the scoop! We've been celebrating Valentine's Day in style with a 5 day progressive blog hop but we've gone DARK and TWISTY and the creepier the better! Our holiday of love has a very dark past with an assortment of sinister origins which I mentioned in my Day 1 post HERE! Hop over for a read and then embrace your dark side, enjoy the show and join in too! The Blog Hop Roll is at the bottom of this post and also up on the hop page, just click on each thumbnail in the Inlinkz collection to hop and leave your love for each blogger.❤️
Want to play too?
It is super easy to participate! Think dark romance, gothic romance, bloody Valentine or go even kinkier if you so desire, all dark art is welcome! Link up before 5 to midnight tonight!
You can use images from any company and even old projects are welcome as long as you re-blog them in new posts and include a link to this blog, all the hop details and Blog Hop Roll!
Be nice and play fair by hopping and commenting too!
Everything you need to know plus instructions on how to add the Blog Hop Roll to your posts is provided on the MY DARK VALENTINE BLOG HOP page!
There's PRIZES up for grabs plus a FREEBIE!
If you haven't snagged the freebie yet then hurry coz it vanishes after midnight tonight!
See the Day 1 post for details and grab the freebie😋
Day 5 "Portraits in a Locket" altered art by Leigh
For today's finale I'm sharing an amazing discovery that was made in the Oddleighverse!
An antique locket was discovered in Oddleigh Poe's old home in Baltimore and inside a tinted portrait photo was found of Poe and a mystery lady. They look like they were so much in love and such a quaint sentiment is inscribed down the center...."You Stole my Heart"....awww, at least Oddleigh Poe seemed happy during these mystery years❤️
I altered a large wooden heart and to give the illusion that it's a little jewelry locket I added an over sized gold chain.
The Oddleighs, Gothic Rose and the sentiment are coloured with Copics. The Scratch Hearts background is coloured with Derwent pastels blended with a Dove Blender pen. The collaged panel, which I did in Photoshop and printed onto Neenah cardstock, was adhered to the wooden heart after I stained it with Black Soot Distress Stain. I applied Black Soot Distress Ink to the edges to blend the panel into the wood. The coloured panel was then sealed first with a matte varnish and then aged with brown antiquing varnish.
Tim Holtz Distress Paint clear Rock Candy was applied to the edges and the resulting cracks enhanced with gold rub on cream to give the effect that the vintage photo is cracking and peeling. I then embellished the heart point with a single Tim Holtz Idea-ology resin red rose. In the photo below you can see the wooden heart also has distressed gold leaf sides.
The Oddleigh Poe and lil miss Oddleigh Cherished Heart are on FLASH SALE until midnight tonight plus the entire Dark Valentine Collection including the cute Teddy Wreath and Love text release sale ends at midnight tonight too so dash on over to LeighSBDesigns Etsy Boutique!
There's also 2 Bundles to help you save $$$ if you can't decide which Dark Valentine digis you want. The bundles are not included in the release sale as they're discounted already and available 24/7. I hope you see something you love and use it to play in the hop😋
Check out my launch video and see the release post HERE!
Click on the following pix to go shopping for the images used on today's project!
Thanks for stopping by to see my project today!
Happy hopping!
Hiya Creative Friends!
Today is the last of our Poe Appreciation DT Showcase, I hope you've enjoyed having a closer look at the projects my fabulous design team ladies, Val and Nan, made for our annual Poe Appreciation Day Blog Hop!
If you missed the fun then you can still hop and enjoy all the POEtastic projects shared. The 2018, 2017 and 2016 Poe Blog Hop Collections, as well as info on the upcoming Poe 2019 hop, are on the Poe Page so click on over for a look! I'm still tallying up all the comments by the bloggers and the hoppers and will announce the Winners of my two Poe Prizes soon😋
Today I'm sharing the final two wonderful pages from LeighSBDesigner Nan's POE Fat Book she made for the hop!
Nan's POEtastic 4th page features the Raven from the Oddleigh Poe and Raven set. This time he stands alone atop a quote from the classic poem, Alone, which Nan typed up in a wonderful font. My Oddleigh Raven has a Mona Lisa smile....he likes to keep you wondering what he's thinking😋 Nan coloured him with Spectrum Noir markers and she used decorative 6 x 6 paper from the same paper pad for the background. She inked the pages and stamped various stamps from assorted companies with Black Soot, Fired Brick and Gathered Twigs Distress Inks and embellished with a wonderful vinyl lace she picked up in Japan.
Nan's POEtastic 6th page features the Master of Macabre and his signature from my classic E.A. Poe Portrait and Signature set. Nan chose to only colour his eyes and tie to achieve a vintage look for this page and used Spectrum Noir IBI3 and GG2 markers. Keeping the continuity of style going she used more decorative paper for the background from the same 6 x 6 paper pad as her previous pages. She stamped the text RIP from her Halloween stamp stash in a gorgeous font with permanent black ink and framed it with a wonderful tiny gothic frame. She typed up a quote about art and edged that, the page and the signature panel with Black Soot Distress Ink and finished the page with more vinyl lace she found in Japan.
And there you have it...a great page for the last of the Poe shares....for now that is, you'll be seeing Poe popping up again throughout the year I'm sure....one can never have too much Poe😋
All of the digis featured today are now on FLASH SALE until midnight tonight (pacific).
Click on the pics to go shopping!
Coming next is our My Dark Valentine Blog Hop, Feb 12-16, with a brand new Dark Valentine collection, those will be released this week! We're going to have so much fun getting all dark and twisty in February! You can read all about the hop on the My Dark Valentine Blog Hop page!
I hope you'll join us😋
Thanks for stopping by to see Nan's project today!
Welcome to my 3rd annual Poe Appreciation Day Blog Hop!
It's Day 4 already of our 5 day blog hop in honor of Edgar Allan Poe's birthday which was on the 19th🎉 What a POEtastic time we're having, so many wonderful projects have been shared! If you're just joining us then start your hopping on my Day 1 post HERE!
This is a progressive hop with Poe inspired projects joining the fun every day as more Poe fans link up and share the Blog Hop roll on their own blogs! EVERYONE is invited to take part or just hop so come join the fun and celebrate your love of all things Poe with us! It is super easy to participate, you can play every day or just one day and link up anytime with no need to sign-up! Anything goes, use any images from any company and all kinds of art is welcome including old ones, even the ones previously shared in the last 2 hops are welcome this year! Only blogs that include links to LeighSBDesigns Inspiration Blog and the Blog Hop Roll in the posts can play! If you're a fan of Poe here's your excuse to make some Poe-tastic art! All the info you need is up on the POE PAGE!
The Poe Blog Hop Roll is at the bottom of today's post and it's on the Poe Page HERE too! Just click on all the thumbnails in the collection to hop all the blogs playing!
I have a birthday gift for everyone too which I used on my project today, here's some "POE LOVE" for you❤️ I'd appreciate it if you'd all go and favourite LeighSBDesigns Etsy Boutique and join my LeighSBDesigns Facebook Fan Group😋 Click the pic to go to LeighSBDesigns' website to download the freebie. Its up for a limited time and will disappear on January 24th! Please don't pin or share, send your friends here instead to grab it for themselves😋
Day 4 "Oddleigh Poe's Birthday Party" Pop-up Card by Leigh
My Oddleigh girls are smitten with Mr Poe and thrilled to have such a distinguished gentleman join the family. They excitedly planned his surprise party and pulled out all the stops. At first Mr Poe wasn't too sure about the Party Hat they promptly put on his head but he's now having a splendid time!
Here's a closer look at the tiny folk! They're all 2.5 inches tall and 1 inch wide. They're fussy cut out twice, once leaving a white border around each image and again to leave the narrow black border after matting on black cardstock. This both strengthens the tiny cut outs and also makes them pop nicely against the background.
Here's a closer look at all the box card panels. Oddleigh Raven Nevermore and The Raven decorate the side flaps, Poe Love which is the Hop Freebie is on the front flap. The Oddleigh girls put up the Happy Birthday banner behind them to make Poe feel at home! It decorates the back panel and features the Raven from the Oddleigh Poe and Raven set.
I used Copics to colour all the images and brown Derwent Pastel pencil blended with a Dove Blender pen on the panel backgrounds. The images, the panels and the box card are blinged up with Star Dust Stickles glitter and clear Wink of Stella which you can't really see in the photos but the entire project is very sparkly in real life!
The Oddleigh girls made sure to use black everywhere and decorated with black upside down twirly streamers and a spikey upside down icicles die cut border to make Poe feel at home. The pop-up box card is a Lawn Fawn die.
Check out my Poe Collection launch video and my release post to see the entire collection I designed to celebrate my 3rd Poe Hop! I'm so pleased you love them and have been using them in the hop already😉
All Poe Collection digis are on sale for 30% off thru Jan 23rd, sale ends at midnight pacific!
The 2 Oddleigh girls and the Party Hat Pack are now FLASH SALE for 25% off until midnight TONIGHT pacific time! Click on the pix to go shopping!
Are you ready to join the fun? Then all the info you need is up on the POE PAGE plus the last 2 Poe Blog Hop collections are there too for even more Poe inspiration! Come and celebrate your love of Poe and win a prize too!
POE BLOG HOP PRIZES
I'm giving away 2 prizes:
A Blogger Prize will be awarded randomly to one blog playing and a Commenter Prize will be awarded randomly to one visitor commenting.
To qualify for the prizes EVERYONE, including the bloggers, must comment on ALL projects shared in the hop!
