NEW product Darkroom Door - Catch of the day..

Surprise: new product released at Darkroom Door... 
more surprising is that Darkroom Door is back in business, now from the UK. 

One of the newest release: CATCH OF THE DAY - 
 DDRS257

All the additional stamping is done with stamps from the DDRS047 Correspondence Set




A postage stamps folder, with faux postage stamps on the inside.
I adhered a torn piece of a gelliprint as a backdrop for the fussycut fish, and added script. 

I stamped different stamps from the set to fill in the postage stamps and used part of the same gelliprint as a backdrop. The images were colored with watercolor pencils. 

The stamps were stamped onto a colored background, and additional color added with watercolor pencils. 
A white acrylic marker around the images makes them pop more.   

The background of this card started off as part of a gelliprint from my stash, on which I used punchinella to create texture in the paint on the gelliplate.

I added melted beeswax with a brush to the edges of the card. 

I used a heattool to melt the beeswax in areas (as it cools down quite fast) and stamped into the melted beeswax straight away with the "1,2,3,4, once I caught a fish alive ..." text. Repeat this step until you are happy with the embossed look.

Apply perfect pearls gold, silver, red to the surface, which will enhance the effect of the stamping into the beeswax. 

The lobster was stamped onto additional cardstock, and fussycut.

Another faux stamps project, now adhered to a card, which I used the postage stamp die to as well, to make it seem punched out of the colored card. 

The stamps were stamped onto a colored background, and additional color added with watercolor pencils to make them pop more. Extra white around the images was done with a presicion point applicator filled with white acrylic paint from Golden. 

New product Darkroom Door - Love of Cats

 DDRS258 Love of cats



On both of these cards the cats were stamped onto a colored background with a black ink, and decolored the stamped images with bleach. I masked the front cat to be able to stamp the second cat, and masked both stamped images to stamp the script in the background. 

Make masks of all cats to begin with from sticky paper. Then stamp all the cats in a row.. mask the front cat and stamp a second one, repeat as shown. I added color and white with watercolor pencils to all cats to make them pop.
The edge is torn, and highlighted edges are done with sponging distress inks to it. 

Two tags. Basically made in the same way as the first two cards, but on these I used white heat embossing in the background. Mask needed of course ... 

Darkroom Door - challenge for September 3

I am entering this in the challenge on :

1. Darkroom Door September challenge - DDRS025 butterflies. 

Three Butterflies on a colorful background, stamped with a dark red stamping ink. 
Bleach takes the color away from within the stamped images. 
Extra color and white added to make the butterflies pop. 
White and colored splatters added in the background. 
Postage stamps and script added in the background, the stamped images were masked first. 

Darkroom Door - challenge for September 2

I am entering this in the challenge on :

1. Darkroom Door September challenge - DDRS025 butterflies.  



A butterfly on a colorful background, stamped with black stamping ink. 
Bleach takes the color away from within the stamped image. 
Extra color and white added to make the butterflies pop. 
White splatters added in the background. 
Postage stamps and script added in the background, the stamped image was masked first. I heat embossed the script in the background in white. 

Any questions about the techniques? Please ask in a comment ! I'll get back to you!

Darkroom Door - challenge for September

I am entering this in the challenge on :

1. Darkroom Door September challenge - DDRS025 butterflies. 

 

3 Butterflies on a colorful background, stamped with a dark red stamping ink. 
Bleach takes the color away from within the stamped images. 
Extra color and white added to make the butterflies pop. 
White and red splatters added in the background. 
Postage stamps and script added in the background, the stamped images were masked first.