Edgar Allen Poe Fun

 

So it is no secret that Edgar Allen Poe is one of my Favorite writers and I was inspired to do some projects with him in mind! So I wanted to share them with you!

Close up of my Poe Shrine

Backside of the shrine

I used Gecko Galz Nevermore Junk Journal Kit

The inside of the dream box on the shrine along with a raven feather and some fun roses

And here is the front of the shrine!

This is an altered Composition Book Journal

And another journal inspired by the Raven

Winner of the July Gothic Challenge......... Suze

 

Congrats to our Gothic Challenge Winner Suze  for her amazing design below she has won an Etsy gift certificate worth $25.

We have a new challenge for August and I invite you to join in!

NEW GOTHIC JOURNALS TO WRITE YOUR DARKEST DREAMS IN!

 

Hello to all my followers!

So I have been busy getting my Etsy shop together and doing alot of new gothic books and wanted to share them with all of you. 

If you would like to see more of my works feel free to visit me at 

https://www.etsy.com/shop/fripperiesbutterfly

NEW BOOKS

GOTHIC CHALLENGE WINNER FOR JUNE.............Gail Hutchinson

 

Congrats to Gail for being our June Gothic Image Challenge winner, she won a $25 gift certificate to Scrapbook.com a great way to shop online! We have a new challenge this month and who knows you may be our winner!

Have fun creating spooky things!

Leanne

April Gothic Challenge Winner................Granne

 

Congrats to Granne for being our April Gothic Image Challenge winner, she won a $25 gift certificate to Etsy a great way to shop online! We have a new challenge this month and who knows you may be our winner!

Have fun creating spooky things!

Leanne

MARCH GOTHIC CHALLENGE WINNER.....Kim Rayko

 

Congrats to Kim Rayko for being our March Gothic Image Challenge winner, she won a $25 gift certificate to Retro Cafe one of my favorite altered art shops! We have a new challenge this month and who knows you may be our winner!

Have fun creating spooky things!

Leanne

FEBRUARY GOTHIC CHALLENGE WINNER..........ROBIN

 

I want to thank everyone for taking part in my Gothic Challenge in February....you all did some amazing designs and you made it very hard on our guest judge to pick a winner. 

Help me say congrats to....... ROBIN for her beautiful design. She has won a $25 gift pack woohoo!

We have a brand new challenge this month so I invite you to pop into the page above and check it out.

Have a Hautingly Beautiful Day

Leanne

GOTHIC JOURNALS....Beautiful Spooky

 

So in my opinion there is something beautiful to darkness and all things gothic and I was inspired by the beautiful art tocreate these haunting journals.

GOTHIC IMAGE CHALLENGE WINNER FOR DECEMBER

Welcome to 2021 and our new bushel of challenges.

Our winner for December is Danki for her creepy journal page using the image we provided. Each month we will host a new challenge and all we ask is that you create a design using the image we provide and our winner will win a prize pack worth $25! So come have some spooky fun all year long!

Congrats to you DANKI!!!

NOVEMBER CHALLENGE WINNER.....Cathy Fraily

 

The November challenge is now done and the winner was Cathy Fraily with her amazing project. It is a hauntingly beautiful design! Cathy has won a $25 gift that I will be sending to her. We have another fun challenge this month just head over to the challenge page!

Congrats again Cathy and if you would like to see more of her work head over to her blog at

It's Oddly Appealing

OCTOBER GOTHIC IMAGE CHALLENGE WINNER

 WOW! There were so many amazing designs entered in my Image Challenge. I want to thank my guest judge Caitlyn. After a very hard choice she picked AMANDA as the winning design!

Congrats Amanda you have won a $25 gift pack from one of my favorite shops online woohoo!

Now there is a new image and a new challenge for November and I invite everyone to take part!

Have a great day all!

Leanne

Something Wicked Altered Shrine

 

It is the most wonderful month for all things spooky and gothic so I have been inspired to create some Gothic works of art and here is my latest one a gothic inspired witch shrine.

TOOLS USED

GECKO GALZ

Coven ATC Set

Witch Words Collage Sheet

HOBBY LOBBY

Wooden Shrine (in Christmas area)

Black Flowers

White Cheese Cloth

black gem stick pin

Black acrylic paint

CANVAS CORP

Glimmer Mist in Tin Can

SCRAPBOOK.COM

Distress Stain Spray in Vintage Photo

Viva Pearl Pen in Bronze

Distress Ink Black Soot

MICHAELS

Metalic Flowers

LISA'S ALTERED ART

Halloween Witch Sheet

Sheet no. H31 Wicked Words

ENTERED IN THE FOLLOWING CHALLENGE

Mix It Up Challenge

SOME AMAZING HAPPENINGS THIS MONTH!

 

This month there are some amazing Blog hops going on and I wanted to share them with my followers and peeps! The first one is the annual Gecko Galz Blog hop...if you have never done this one they have all their design team members set up a page and you can grab a free collage sheet on each page and go for a chance to win some fantastic prizes! Here is how to join in their hop;

http://geckogalzscrapbooking.blogspot.com/

The second Hop is the Poisond Apple Exhibit here you can see some amazing designs plus you have a chance to win some incredible prizes. Here is where  you can go for that hop;

https://www.itsoddlyappealing.com/

Hope to see you all there!

Leanne

CONGRATS TO OUR SEPTEMBER CHALLENGE WINNER

 

A Huge Congrats to our September winner KIM RAYKO for her amazing shrine below!

our October challenge is up and running at the page listed above. Just use the image supplied by Gecko Galz and create a gothic inspired project and list it using Mr. Linky. Then on October 30th we will announce the winner here!

Have fun and good luck

Leanne Seed

NEW JOURNALS JUST ADDED

 

Good Afternoon!

Today I have added new products to my Etsy shop and wanted to invite everyone to check them out at

https://www.etsy.com/shop/fripperiesbutterfly

Come check them out and let me know what you think!

JUNK JOURNAL: Day 3

 

Welcome back to my Junk Journal preview. I have done my first book and am sharing a few pages each day. Here is the next pages!

PAGE 4

TOOLS

Gecko Galz Frightful & Delightful ATC Set

kraft mini envelope by Paper Studios

Saying

Brown Ink

Black ink

PAGE 5

JUST FOR YOU

JUNK JOURNAL DAY 2: Witching Hour

 

Welcome back to my Witching Hour Junk Journal, I am having alot of fun creating my first junk journal and here are the next two pages.

PAGE 2

Tools

brown ink

brown flowers by Petaloo

Black bias ribbon

craft card stock

black gothic lace from Hobby Lobby

PAGE 3

TOOLS

Gecko Galz "Witchy Women" Collage sheet

Vintologie overlays

Craft Tags from Hobby Lobby

black ink

brown ink

black Seam Binding Ribbon

TAG

TAG INSERTS

TOOLS

Scallop Circle cut in half 

Red Velvet Ribbon Hobby Lobby

Brown Craft Tags Hobby Looby

Olive coloered Seam Binding ribbon

Black ink

JUNK JOURNAL DAY 1: Witching Hour

 

So I am throwing my hat in the ring and creating a junk Journal. Each day I will feature a page until it is complete. Today is the inside cover and first page, to create this I used a blank field book with dotted pages. I adore the fact the cover looked like wood so I did not want to cover that.

INSIDE COVER

Tools

7 Gypsies journal card

Crop-a-dile

Owl and moon charm Hobby Lobby 

Gecko Galz "Words in the dark" collage set

FIRST PAGE

Products used

Gecko Galz "The Witches Collage Sheet

brown ink

I adhered two pages together to make it thicker and inked the edges with brown. Next I inked the picture edges then placed glue on bottom of image back and the sides and created a pocket.

TAG

Tools

Gecko Galz "Hocus Pocus ATC Set"

Small stripe button Hobby Lobby

Brown ink

Using a template I created this tag to slip into the pocket.

And for your here is the tag to download

Check back tomorrow to see the next part!

Happy Haunting

Leanne