Edgar Allan Poe Appreciation Mini Blog Hop LeighSBDesigns

 We are preparing for a solid week of freezing temperatures with possible icy roads which here in the South an icy patch makes us all demolition derby drivers!   So preparations must be made today!  Lots of hot cocoa and sweets maybe a King Cake or two to see us through!   Believe it or not I’m posting at 7:30 am today! 😱.  I’m a huge fan of the movie “The Raven” with John Cusack portraying Edgar Allan Poe.  Today’s project is an homage to that film and all Poe films that have come before!   Also more importantly LeighSBDesigns is hosting the 11th Annual Edgar Allan Poe Appreciation Mini Blog Hop for 2026 right now through the 23rd!  Thanks, Leigh and Val ❤️❤️❣️

I made my movie poster with some grabs of some old films and “The Raven” with ultra cutie John Cusack.  I made a digital stamp from a scene in the movie and using Procreate I colored it up with watercolors and some acrylic brush strokes.  I added that as a top layer and it all rests on a beautiful she of digital paper by LeighSBDesigns Classic Poe Grunge Digi Paper Pack that has 6 papers!   I wanted the Raven on the paper to have a prominent place but I under estimated the other pieces but there is a wonderful Raven hiding back there!

Come join in the fun at LeighSBDesigns Edgar Allan Poe Appreciation Mini Blog Hop and check out the gorgeous Gilded Raven two new designs released just for the hop and on sale till the 23rd, the last day of the hop!

Here’s the Digi stamp for you to play with if you wanna grab it!

Edgar Allan Poe Appreciation Mini Blog Hop

 Yesterday we celebrated Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday and Appreciation Day!   Of course we are still celebrating both events and our POEtastic LeighSBDesigns is hosting the 11th annual Edgar Allan Poe Appreciation 2026 Mini Blog Hop today through the 23rd!  

Not only hosting a fabulous party but with two new Poe releases out today!  The Gilded Raven and The Gilded Raven Ornate Bird Stamp Digi Sets have two senties (each set has a different font) are totally gorgeous!

 

My project is made digitally using The Gilded Raven  , coloring with colored pencils a festive multicolor raven and a digital paper from Creative Fabrica.   Wet glue and no cutting apparatus but my scissors on hand give this an “authentic “ old timey appearance!

 Come join the mini blog hop at LeighSBDesigns!  

           

Edgar Allan Poe Appreciation mini Blog Hop 2026

It’s Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday and Appreciation Day!   Of course LeighSBDesigns is hosting the 11th annual Edgar Allan Poe Appreciation 2026 Mini Blog Hop today through the 23rd!  

Not only hosting a fabulous party but with two new Poe releases out today!  The Gilded Raven and The Gilded Raven Ornate Bird Stamp Digi Sets have two senties (each set has a different font) are totally gorgeous!

 

My project is made digitally using The Gilded Raven (black silhouette version) and a digital paper from Creative Fabrica. 

 Come join the mini blog hop at LeighSBDesigns!  

           

Winter at LeighSBDesigns! ❄️☃️

 LeighSBDesigns has another fab-brrrr-lous new collection to cozy up to this winter!   

I must say it again; this is another all time favorite of mine!  These designs are majestic and perfect with some gnome fun, too!   My first playtime with this collection was with Winter Cardinal!  I have so many cardinals prancing and zooming around my place to my extreme delight!   I’m constantly trying to get clear photos of them so I can paint them in acrylics.   They, however, have a different plan going on!  Staying still until I fumble to get my phone out then flying majestically away!  Leigh’s gorgeous Winter Cardinal is very agreeably and lovely to work with!

Noel gave me a start up set of Ohuhu alcohol markers and I am smitten with them!  The Honolulu B series  have a lovely brush tip along with a fine tip.  They are really juicy (it will take me a bit to get used to that) and blend without much effort at all!  Long way around to say I colored up the image with markers and the colored pencils to lighten some areas and gel pen for some winter frostiness!   I used papers from Creative Fabrica and the sentie is from Leigh’s A Charming Christmas Compendium of Festive Sayings!

So slip and slide on over to LeighSBDesigns Inspiration Blog and enter in the January Winter or Anything Goes Challenge!

There’s always something going on over there and January 19th will kick off the 11th annual Edgar Allan Poe Mini Hop!   Keep an eye out for all the POE-tastic details!

Creative Inspirations Challenge 🎉

 It’s a brand new year for us to play at Creative Inspiration Challenges and we are just absolutely delighted to have you with us!  As always the theme is Anything Goes!  I had the pleasure of slowing down a bit and coloring up a beautiful image by SheepSki Designs.  I used my colored pencils and a couple of photos from Pixabay by vwonko, tonrico and Teamwork (sentiment) for inspiration.

I layered up my finished colored image on Kraft paper with a gorgeous digital paper by MH Creation House at Creative Fabrica.  I hope everyone had wonderful holiday celebrations!  Take a breather now and get some crafty goodness going and enter Creative Inspiration Challenges in January!   Belated Merry Christmas and a fantastic New Year!

15th Annual 31 DOH Blog Hop Presented by LeighSBDesigns!

 It time!  Happy 31 Days of Halloween!   This is the 15th 31 DOH blog hop hosted by our FaBOOlous LeighSBDesigns!   Look HERE for the main post for all the details and Linky party 🎉🎃

My day one project is a BOOtiful love story featuring two little ghosts I whipped up!  If you want to grab them I am adding them below.   I did everything in Procreate and layered on some digital paper that I will link up later.

Enjoy!

October Creative Inspiration Challenges with LeighSBDesigns!

Here we go into Halloween 2025, all you ghouls!   Our sponsor this month is our darling girl, LeighSBDesigns!  What a SPOOKtacular new collection she has created for this Halloween!  

Check it out HERE 🎃 

I had a play with the Wicked Tea Time Tea Cup Stack and Tag!

I used markers to color these hauntingly FaBOOlous teacups and fussy cut before adding to the papers I created in Procreate.  The stamped sentiment was from a dollar bin from long ago! 👻.  Now come on and scare up some projects for us to take a gander at and remember Creative Inspiration Challenges is always Anything Goes!

I’m linking this to LeighSBDesigns 15th Annual 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop 👽