Day 4 Gothic Valentine Blog Hop with LeighSBDesigns ❤️‍🔥

The 7th Annual Gothic Blog Hop presented by LeighSBDesigns is happening now and all the details and linky party can be found here!  While trying to clean out multiple craft areas I found this little skeleton guy who was just too cute!  So I had to make him a nice place to hang out on to celebrate the blog hop!

I used the wreath elements from the Spring Wildflowers Make a Wreath SVG Cutz Mega Kit and inked the edges with seedless preserves.  Next I did a print and cut of a black and red doily from Pixabay and layered the bottom layer of the wreath adding foam dots to pop the twig layer on top.  I gathered a bit of gold metallic fabric and glued to the back of the doily.  I added bits of foliage cut out of black from the kit and glued behind the red ribbon I added.  This mega kit contains so many awesome flowers and a wonderful box plus a bunny wreath!  I kept this kind of low key for the gothic feel!   Not finding my glue gun 😞 I attached the Skelly on some of the same ribbon.  This FaBOOlous fellow is smiling and so happy to be in the blog hop!  Happy hopping ❤️‍🔥

Day 3 Gothic Valentine Blog Hop with LeighSBDesigns!

Day 3 of the Gothic Valentine Blog Hop presented by LeighSBDesigns has arrived! I am definitely at that age where I enjoy so many things from my youth so fondly!  The Addams Family show was always a favorite of mine when black and white television was a normal thing!  So take it away Gomez and Morticia! 💘

 

This marvelous quote is on a digital paper from the Grunge Hearts Decorative Digi Paper Pack from LeighSBDesigns printed out on glossy photo paper.  Too shiny for good photos but oh so pretty 🤩 

Then I framed it with the awesome Once Upon a Starry Night SVG Cutz (I couldn’t find either of these designs in the new store but Leigh or Val can let us know in the comments 💕) design also by LeighSBDesigns! After layering them up I attached some blue lights with a battery pack.  You can faintly see them with the light box light on.

Hard to tell but this is with the photo box light off!  The stars that have the lights directly behind them are glowing so gorgeously!  So lots of shine from the glossy photo paper and the blue twinkle lights!  Blue wasn’t my first choice but it seems they were my only choice so I embraced them!  All the details and linky party can be found HERE 🎆

Day 1 of the Gothic Valentine Blog Hop w/LeighSBDesigns

 The 7th annual Gothic Valentine Blog Hop presented by LeighSBDesigns starts today!  Check out the details and linky party can be found HERE!

My thoughts always go to Edgar Allan Poe when I think of gothic romance because poor Poe had such a rocky path to love.  He also wrote such deep feelings into his poetry (yep, I caught the pun as I was typing it 😉) and well, just totally gothic I guess!  This line from his POEm (did it unintentionally to start with but couldn’t resist it when I realized it again!) Annabel Lee always gets me so of course I had to use it.  The gorgeous background image is by RedHeadsRule on Pixabay.  I added the text and the Poe digi stamp (Edgar Allan Poe Portrait and Signature) by our darling hostess Leigh at LeighSBDesigns!  Really simple but perfect a perfect addition to my Poe card box!

Monday Greetings February 5th!

Today starts a brand new challenge at Monday Greetings at The Outlawz Challenges!  Our required greeting is Anything Goes (easey peasey, right?) with an optional twist to add a heart!

This little PURRfect kitty is one of the Loveleigh Kitties Collection by LeighSBDesigns!  We have had a new kitty or two! each month of 2024 with lots more promised to come!  Also a fabulous Santa Puss this past December!  This beauty is Love Hearts Kitty and I colored her up in Procreate and made my marble paper in Procreate, also!  Fussy cut and made for a mini slimline card adjusted up an inch to make the dimensions 3 1/2 by 7 inches!  It is delicate just like the sweet kitty!  I used a sentie from the Kitty Geisha Doll and Sentiment Set also by LeighSBDesigns!  Remember our greeting is Anything Goes with an optional twist to add a heart!    There is also a Love is in the Air or Anything Goes Challenge #26 at LeighSBDesigns!  💖.   So this Loveleigh kitty is going to join that meowy fun challenge, too! 

 

Creative Inspiration Challenges for February with LeighSBDesigns!

I have a new obsession and it is the Loveleigh Kitties Collection by our PURR-fect sponsor this month LeighSBDesigns!   Brand new kitty releases all through 2024 are coming our way!  YAY!😻

This month's fabulous kitty is Love Hearts Kitty Slimline Digi Stamp!  She is so so cute with her bows and love-leigh whiskers! :)  I colored her with Copics and Spectrum Noir markers then fussy cut leaving a white border.  My card is one I cut out on my own and I have seen similar ones and I am sure they have a name but I do not remember what it is!  So after cutting out the pink base I used some pretty marbled paper and cut the top layers.  I inked all the edges with Distress Ink abandoned coral and stamp the sentiment (freebie from a magazine) in the same ink adding some gold gel pen hearts here and there!  Now it's your turn to dazzle us out of the February gloom with your projects!  We can't wait to see them at Creative Inspiration Challenges #11!

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!