Thursday, January 19, 2017

Poe Appreciation Day

In 2016 the Mayor of Baltimore declared Edgar Allan Poe's Birthday, January 19th as an official city- wide Poe Appreciation Day. At the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity we thought we'd join the fun with a 5-day progressive blog hop.


Here is my card for the hop, featuring one of the new and fabulous stamps released today, this a new zentangle raven from Lost Coast Designs, dressed smartly in his hat and heading to the party : 


The raven is stamped and coloured with copics, then I fussy cut him and added a hat with a pom pom. 

The background is made using nuance powders and the new zentangle feathers stamps

To get the effect above I sprinkled some different colours of  nuance powders onto my craft mat, spritzed it with water and then stamped into it and onto the water colour paper. I love the colour variations. Water soluble powders are so versatile. I lightly sponged the outside of the card with black ink.

The words 'Its a Party!' are from the Party Words set.

I hope you are enjoying the hop, and perhaps feel inspired to add your own creation :)

Read more about the bop, and the new release from Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda :



Thanks for stopping by, Nikki x

8 comments:

  1. I MUST get some of these zentangled ravens!

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  2. So happy to see some color for the old guy's birthday! :) He deserves a little happy time! Love the background!

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  3. Such a fun and funky take on a Poe project...no gloom here that's for sure! Fab background to showcase our new Mom Raven!

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  4. I love the jaunty hat you gave my Raving Raven design. Just what it needed!

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  5. Gorgeous background. And the black of the raven and sentiment work together so nicely against it. <3

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  6. Such a festive creation! Love that tiny party hat!

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  7. Those new birdies are just awesome, and love your party take on the Poe theme.

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  8. This is AWESOME! And what a cool blog hop! LOVE it!

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