Edgar Allan Poe Blog Hop with LeighSBDesigns Day 3, 4 and 5

Hello Poe fans and fellow blog hoppers!  Thanks to LeighSBDesigns for another fantastic hop!  Today is catch up day for me and I apologize for the inconvenience 🥺 

This is my Hinged Card Box (Dreaming Tree) all decorated ( including two postcards inside) with papers from the following designs by LeighSBDesigns:

Classic Poe Decorative Digi Paper Pack, Vintage Grunge Decorative Digi Paper Pack,  Romancing Poe Collage Set,  Raven Digi Stamp,  Ode to Poe Collage,  Distressed Raven Nevermore

All the details and linky party for the 9th Annual Edgar Allan Poe Blog Hop presented by LeighSBDesigns can be found here!

Edgar Allan Poe Blog Hop with LeighSBDesigns, Day 2

At first glance this will not look much like a Poe approved project but it is and will be more so tomorrow!  For today this Hinged Card Box SVG by Dreaming Tree has the feather quill pen which makes me think of Poe!  Tomorrow I hope to have its other features ready but time just swallowed me up today and this is what I have!

 

I have used a digital paper from the Vintage Grunge Digi Paper Pack by LeighSBDesigns along with some 12 x 12 papers from my stash.  All the details and linky party for the 9th Annual Edgar Allan Poe Blog Hop presented by LeighSBDesigns can be found here!

Edgar Allan Poe Blog Hop with LeighSBDesigns!

🎉Happy Birthday, Mr. Poe!🥳  I can't believe it is that time of the year again but I am always glad to see the Edgar Allan Poe Blog Hop presented by LeighSBDesigns come around!  It's so fun to create around Edgar Allan Poe with friends!  Sharing and blog hopping are such inspirations to me!

This totally stunning dapper kitty is a brand new release by our hostess and POE-tastic friend, Leigh aka LeighSBDesigns!  He is the second release in the PURRfect Loveleigh Kitties Collection and his name is Edgar Allan POE Puss! 😻  He is colored up with Copics and Spectrum Noir markers with white gel pen accents and a sparkly acrylic gold tail, buttons and raven eye!  His majestic splendor called for a dramatic opening scene for my blog hop this year so my card had to become his stage!   The card is a curtain fold pattern following the tutorial at Butterfly Challenge!  I made it work on a slimline card base made from three of the amazing papers from the Vintage Grunge Digi Paper Pack from the 2023 Edgar Allan Poe releases by Leigh!  The curtain was also from the same digi paper pack!  Just a heads up here:  all of LeighSBDesigns Poe designs are on SALE through January 23rd!  I printed out the sentie from the Romancing Poe Collage Set after coloring the background in Procreate and popped it up on a purple popsicle stick I found in my distress ink box!  Speaking of my ink box, I used vintage photo Distress Ink to ink all edges involved in this production!  Then I added some glitter bits for the bottom corners and the center of the curtain!  The only thing missing from this production is my tiny Poe!  This is the second year he has been missing! 😢  I have the whole family on the lookout for him so I am hopeful he will make an appearance before the finale of the blog hop!  Check out all the details of the blog hop and the linky to enter here at the 9th Annual Edgar Allan Poe Blog Hop Main Post presented by LeighSBDesigns!

January 7th Sunday Songs and Rhymes Challenge with The Outlawz!

 Our inspiration poem is New Beginnings by Christoper Westra at Sunday Songs and Rhymes this time! 

I was inspired by the line “Fresh start everyday” and found the most perfect image to make a digital postcard with!

This amazing rooster is from the Gecko Galz “Southwest Style” free page on their blog under the FREE PAGES section!  I absolutely love this fellow and he reminds me of new mornings, fresh starts and new beginnings!  I made my postcard in Procreate and used this awesome quote from Dr. Suess decorating the background of it with a matching purple and popping some pink mountain-y shapes from my brush sets.  I can’t wait to print these out on some postcard blanks I have because I really do love these!  Make sure you tell us what inspired you from the poem when you show us your creations!  Happy  New Year 🎊🎈🎆 

 

Anything Goes in a Card Free Zone at The Outlawz Challenges!

Brand new year and brand new challenges at The Outlawz Challenges!   At Anything Goes in a Card Free Zone we are starting off with the always fun and easy theme of Anything Goes!  Yay!  This works for me because Santa did not leave any updates to my mojo!  But that led me to my project today!

I started my art journal and prompts for 2024 notebook!  The image is a gorgeous one from the Gecko Galz blog here  and is for their monthly Card Challenge.  I had some packs of plain kraft cover notebooks and I printed the image (after adding the title in Procreate) on kraft cardstock.  I lost of some of the vibrant colors doing that but I didn't want a lot of white cardstock glaring around the image on my cover 😉.  It was one of those decisions that I have hated and loved all afternoon long!  But right now I am just excited to add some mood boards and prompts and sketches in this notebook for a production and crafty new year!  We hope to see you at The Outlawz Anything Goes in a Card Free Zone for January real soon!

 

February Festive Fridays at The Outlawz Challenges!

 `Our themes to choose from this time at The Outlawz Festive Fridays are:

Christmas, Love is in the Air, Fun in the Snow and Something New! 

I love Christmas year round so of course I am not tired of Christmas the first week of January!  After a November visit to Japan back in 2016 I discovered a brand new Christmas tradition for my family!  Christmas Cakes start appearing in late November in Japan and are a kinda shortcake layers with delicious cream icing in top and in between the layers with gorgeous red strawberries as big as a plums sliced and layered.  The top is decorated with whole strawberries and often a Santa pick decoration!  In Japan they taste so good and mine, well, not nearly as good but kinda tasty!  

I found this delightful pack with images of desserts and pretty papers that were free from Cardmaking and Paper Crafting magazine (when I tried to link these I kept getting that the site was not there but they do still have a site that has some free images and papers)  So with some Procreate magic I added my Merry Christmas sentiment to the cake and layered the image on to two of the papers then added the Christmas in Japan sentie to finish it.  I am still working on my digital scrapbook of our trips to Japan and this will work perfectly with photos of me and Noah stuffing our faces with delicious treats and this type of cake (more than once or twice!).  So pick the theme you want to create around and come see us at The Outlawz Festive Fridays Challenge for January!

Creative Inspiration Challenges for January with All Dressed Up!

A huge thanks to All Dressed Up for sponsoring our January challenge at Creative Inspiration Challenges!  I had great wintery fun with the super cute Sledging Pup!

I created a box pop up card (I haven't a clue what it is really called 😋 ) but it was fun trying to work out the base!  I used a digital paper from LeighSBDesigns Pastel Blizzard Decorative Digi Paper Pack as my matte layer.  I colored up the Sledging Pup with Copics and Spectrum Noir markers, printed him out and fussy cut.  The "snowy" trees he is zipping by I randomly cut so they are a wee bit wonky, cut out, inked with white ink and added some puffy 3D paint in silver for the snowy branches.  The sentiment is also by Leigh from her A Charming Christmas Compendium of Festive Sayings.  Now off you go on your sleighs and skis and whatnots through the snow and get busy on your own creation for Creative Inspiration Challenges for January!

The Outlawz Progressive/Freebie Challenge for January ☃️

 Thanks to The Outlawz Cara for sponsoring the challenge this month and a big thanks to all who are starting their 2024 year with us at all of our Outlawz Challenges!   The oh so lovely image we all get to play with this month is a delightful snowman by our creative Cara! ☃️

I colored up this Frosty in Procreate using a digital paper from another friend of our challenges, LeighSBDesigns!  You can find the marvelous snow falling beauties in the Pastel Blizzard Decorative Digi Paper Pack released in the new Poinsettia and Holly 2023 Christmas Collection!  I layered my colored up Frosty on the Pastel Blizzard paper then added the sentiment all in Procreate ❄️.  We really want to see what you have created with your snowman at the Outlawz Progressive/Freebie Challenge for January!