Darkroom Door DT - This Happened

 Hello Darkroom Door fans!

Today I have a couple of journal spreads to share with you created for Darkroom Door and featuring the brand new This Happened Small Stamp.

I really love the size and versatility of this stamp. You can choose to stamp the whole stamp onto cardstock and cut out the quotes as you need them. I stamped the whole stamp several times onto a sheet of smooth white cardstock. Actually I filled the whole sheet for instant quotes to cut out later. Or you can cut the stamp into individual sentiments to stamp onto projects as required.

For my projects today, I have cut the stamp apart into individual sentiments and stamped them as headings for future pages in my journal.

I have decorated the edges of my pages using Darkroom Door Small Stencils with Distress Inks and various stamps to suit the theme.

I stamped the sentiments using Ranger Jet Black Archival Ink and doodled around them using a fine black pen.

I love the effect of layering the stencils starting with the background and then the leaves. A good tip is to start with the lightest colour first.

Darkroom Door products used:

DDSM018 This Happened Small Stamp

DDRS205 Buzzing Bees Rubber Stamp Set

DDRS113 Vintage Office Rubber Stamp Set

DDSS046 Tropical Leaves Small Stencil

DDSS045 Tall Flowers Small Stencil

DDSS039 Sun Small Stencil

DDSS024 Diamonds Small Stencil

DDSS016 Arty Circles Small Stencil

RANGER Archival Ink Jet Black

TIM HOLTZ Distress Ink:

- Broken China

- Dried Marigold

- Lucky Clover

- Picked Raspberry

- Twisted Citron

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. You can find all of the NEW products over HERE.

Cheers

Belinda

Darkroom Door DT - Small Glass Dome

 Hi all!!

I am back today with a set of cards I created for Darkroom Door featuring the brand new Small Glass Dome Eclectic Stamp.

There are so many Darkroom Door stamps that will fit inside this glass dome. The fun is going through your stamps and trying different things. I chose to put plant specimens inside mine. I then added some poor, confused butterflies trying to get to the plants. :-)

To make these cards I first stamped the Splatter Background Stamp onto a piece of smooth white cardstock cropped to fit my card front. I used Ranger Seafarer Archival Ink to stamp it and then fried with a heat gun. Next I pressed my Speckled Egg Distress Oxide ink pad onto a heat resistant craft sheet and spritzed with water. I swiped the stamped piece through the ink and set aside to dry. Once dry I ruled a line across the piece using a waterproof black pen to create somewhere for the dome to sit. I then coloured it with some watercolour paint. I inked the edges of the piece and added it to my card front.

Next I stamped the Small Glass Dome onto another piece of smooth white cardstock using Jet Black Archival Ink. I also stamped the dome onto a piece of printer paper to create a mask. To create the mask I just cut out the glass area of the stamped image. I then placed this over the image stamped on the cardstock and lined it up so that only the glass area of the dome was exposed. I applied the Splatter Background Stamp over this using a lighter blue (Sky Blue) Archival Ink. I used an ink blending tool to add a little Weathered Wood Distress Ink to the glass area. I coloured the base of the dome using some brown watercolour paint. Once dry, I stamped a small branch from the Bold Blossoms Rubber Stamp Set.

Once the ink and paint were all completely dry, I applied a layer of Distress Embossing Ink to the glass area of the dome and heat set with ultra thick clear embossing powder. I repeated this step for a lovely smooth glass like finish. I added the dome to the card front using 3D foam. To finish I stamped some butterflies from the Butterflies Rubber Stamp Set and a sentiment using the word stamps in the You Are Everything Rubber Stamp Set and added to the card.

Here are a couple more cards I created using the same techniques.

Darkroom Door products used:

DDES055 Small Glass Dome Eclectic Stamp

DDRS217 You Are Everything Rubber Stamp Set

DDRS099 Foliage Rubber Stamp Set

DDRS081 Bold Blossoms Rubber Stamp Set

DDRS025 Butterflies Rubber Stamp Set

DDBS009 Splatter Background Stamp

RANGER Archival Ink:

- Jet Black

- Seafarer

- Sky Blue

TIM HOLTZ Distress Ink Weathered Wood

TIM HOLTZ Distress Oxide Speckled Egg

TIM HOLTZ Distress Embossing Ink

ultra thick embossing powder clear

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. You can check out all of the new products over HERE.

Cheers

Belinda

Darkroom Door DT - Scribble Daisy

 Hello!!

Today I have a couple of cards created for Darkroom Door to share with you featuring the gorgeous new Scribble Daisy Eclectic Stamp.

For my projects today I have paired the Scribble Daisy stamp with the new Terracotta Pot Eclectic Stamp.

For my first card I stamped three scribble daisies onto hot pressed (smooth) watercolour paper using RANGER Jet Black Archival Ink. I dried the ink with a heat gun and then coloured the flowers using watercolour paints. I let the first application of paint dry and then added more intense colour in the centre. Once this layer was dry, I added and indigo watercolour paint to the flower centre. Once the flowers were completely dry I used a fine white Posca Pen (acrylic paint pen) to add dots in the centre.

I stamped some stems and a leaf using the Scribble Flowers Rubber Stamp Set as well as the Terracotta Pot on the watercolour paper with the same ink. Once the ink was dry, I painted the images using watercolour paints. I used a paintbrush to add watercolour paint to parts of the Spanish Tiles Background Stamp and applied to a piece of smooth white cardstock cut to size. I dried the background with a heat gun, doodled around the edge with a black pen and added to my card front.

I cut a slit in the terracotta pot to look like a mound of dirt and coloured accordingly just with a texta. Then I assembled all of the elements to create a pot of flowers. I added to the card front using 3d foam for added dimension.

I finished off the card with a sentiment from the Enjoy Today Small Stamp.

Here's another card I created in the same way.

This time when I added the watercolour paint in the centre, I used a skewer to drag out the colour into lines.

I stamped up some extras because these flowers will make awesome collage fodder for future projects and because they are just so fun to colour. You can experiment with different colours, mediums and patterns to create so many varieties of flowers.

Darkroom Door products used:

DDES058 Scribble Daisy Eclectic Stamp

DDES057 Terracotta Pot Eclectic Stamp

DDSM017 Enjoy Today Small Stamp

DDRS226 Scribble Flowers Rubber Stamp Set

DDBS066 Spanish Tiles Background Stamp

RANGER Archival Ink Jet Black

Thanks for stopping by the blog today. You can check out all of the new products over HERE.

Cheers

Belinda

Darkroom Door DT - Overlapping Blocks

 Hello Darkroom Door fans!!

Today I am sharing a couple of cards I created for Darkroom Door featuring the brand new Overlapping Blocks Background Stamp.

Now as soon as I saw this awesome background stamp it gave me 70's vibes. So cool!! So groovy!! Those shapes are just calling out to be coloured in. So I googled 70's colour palettes and coloured my stamped images accordingly.

For both of my cards, I applied the Overlapping Blocks Background Stamp on smooth white cardstock using Ranger Archival Ink in Jet Black. I dried the ink with a heat gun to ensure it wouldn't smudge and muddy up my colouring. I then chose coloured pencils to match the colour scheme and coloured all of the shapes. So easy and so fun!

I fussy cut a lady from the front of a sewing pattern and coloured her in to match. I stamped the Vinyl Record Eclectic Stamp and coloured that too. I also stamped some music notes from the Melody Rubber Stamp Set and some circles from the Simply Circles Rubber Stamp Set.

I coloured the circles then added everything to my card front along with some messy thread. The sentiment is from the brand new This Happened Small Stamp.

Here's my second card created in exactly the same way but featuring the VW Beetle Photo Stamp and Ransom Alphabet Rubber Stamp Set for the sentiment.

Darkroom Door products used:

DDBS081 Overlapping Blocks Background Stamp

DDSM018 This Happened Small Stamp

DDPS040 VW Beetle Photo Stamp

DDES011 Vinyl Record Eclectic Stamp

DDRS232 Ransom Alphabet Rubber Stamp Set

DDRS071 Simply Circles Rubber Stamp Set

DDRS011 Melody Rubber Stamp Set

RANGER Archival Ink Jet Black

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. I hope you love this background stamp as much as I do and are ready to make your own groovy projects. 

Cheers

Belinda

Darkroom Door DT - Eyes

 Hello Darkroom Door fans!

Today I have a couple of art journal spreads to share with you created for Darkroom Door and featuring the brand new Eyes Rubber Stamp Set.

How cool is this set?!!! They are a fantastic starting point to help you sketch a face which is what I have done in my art journal.

For my first art journal spread, I wanted to road test the small eyes in the set. I simply stamped three sets of eyes using Ranger Jet Black Archival Ink in my Dylusions Square Ledger Creative Journal. Then I sketched faces, bodies and hair around the eyes. I absolutely love how easy the eye stamps made it to sketch a face and they took away the worry of drawing wonky eyes.

Next I coloured my 'girls' with watercolour paint adding some shading around the face. The paper in this journal is not specifically designed for watercolour but it held up really well. Once I had all of my paint applied, I set it aside to dry.

Once the pages were dry, I added in some finer details and shading with coloured pencils and acrylic paint pens.

Next I added some stencilling using a few different Darkroom Door stencils and white gesso. You can find the details of all the stencils I used below in the product list.

I finished the spread by adding the fabulous Friends Quote Stamp and a sentiment from the new This Happened Small Stamp.

Darkroom Door products used:

DDRS235 Eyes Rubber Stamp Set

DDSM018 This Happened Small Stamp

DDQS010 Friends Quote Stamp

DDLS008 Starry Night Large Stencil

DDLS002 Circles Large Stencil

DDSS036 Grunge Borders Small Stencil

DDSS024 Diamonds Small Stencil

DDSS013 Sunshine Small Stencil

DDSS012 Starry Night Small Stencil

RANGER Archival Ink Jet Black

DYLUSIONS Creative Journal Square Ledger

Next up I went for an even more whimsical feel with a single face. This time I used one of the large sets of eyes in the stamp set.

This spread was painted using acrylic paints and details added using acrylic paint pens and coloured pencils. Once I had finished painting the face, I stamped the eyes onto a strip of paper cut from another page in the same journal and stuck down on the page.

I applied the Diamonds Stencil in the large and small sizes to the background using a grey acrylic paint and stamped the Harlequin Texture Stamp on there too using Jet Black Ranger Archival Ink.

I finished the pages with a quote stamp and some sentiments as well as randomly stamped stars.

Darkroom Door products used:

DDRS235 Eyes Rubber Stamp Set

DDRS156 Stars Rubber Stamp Set

DDRS114 Everyday Life Rubber Stamp Set

DDSM018 This Happened Small Stamp

DDQS038 Crazy Enough Quote Stamp

DDTS006 Harlequin Texture Stamp

DDLS012 Diamonds Large Stencil

DDSS024 Diamonds Small Stencil

RANGER Archival Ink Jet Black

DYLUSIONS Creative Journal Square Ledger

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today. You can check out all of the fabulous new products over HERE.

Cheers

Belinda

Darkroom Door DT - 'Girl Power' Tag Book

 Hello!

I am back today with another project for Darkroom Door featuring the NEW RELEASE Notepaper Frame Stamp. This time I created a 'Girl Power' Tag Book featuring this stamp and much more.

'Girl Power' Tag Book

DDFR038 Notepaper Frame Stamp

DDSE019 Sweary Affirmations Sentiment Stamp

DDRS232 Ransom Alphabet Rubber Stamp Set

DDRS225 Small Sketched Alphabet Rubber Stamp Set

DDRS220 Spread Your Wings Rubber Stamp Set

DDRS211 Lots of Labels Rubber Stamp Set

DDRS081 Bold Blossoms Rubber Stamp Set

DDRS047 Correspondence Rubber Stamp Set

DDRS026 Alphabet Medley Rubber Stamp Set

DDRS025 Butterflies Rubber Stamp Set

DDCL002 Elegant Ladies Collage Sheets

RANGER Archival Ink:

- Jet Black

- Magenta Hue

- Olive

- Plum

- Seafarer

- Tree Branch

TIM HOLTZ Distress Ink Old Paper

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. Check out all of the fabulous NEW RELEASES over HERE.

Cheers

Belinda