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. 

Hij is bij je!

Ook in het nieuwe jaar!

...achtergrond is met Pearl ex op een zwarte ondergrond gemaakt. 

Ik maakte deze achtergrond al in 2010, met de cornstarch techniek. 

Hier zie je de blogpost ervan. 

Tekst is van de 'Geloof Hoop en Liefde' sheet van Inkerbell Stamps. 

Tutorial with heat embossing...

...for Katzelkraft.
Have you seen ?? there's a new challenge at Katzelkraft!

The challenge for August is EMBOSSING (any type). 

Come join in the fun!

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This is my inspiration tutorial: 

1. Create a background by spraying with a custom-made pearlspray from Colorwash and Pearl-ex (or any other dye ink based spray)

 2.Stamp the main image with a black pigment ink (and also on a piece of post-it note paper). 

Heat emboss it with black embossing powder.

Mask it with the cut-out from the post-it paper. Stamp the script with the same pigment ink, and heat emboss with black embossing powder too. 

Clean the oval - as it's glossy paper (and the ink is a dye ink), you will be able to get it white again. 

3. Color the image with the same pearl spray that has been used for making the background. 

 4. Add a piece of tranparent tape. 

Add some mesh. As I couldn't adhere it with glue, 

I decided to adhere it with the heat tool; it melts a little bit when heated.  

Adhere it to the card.  

A close-up:

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I am entering this in the challenge on 

1. Artistic Stamper - anything

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STAMPS USED: (click on picture)

A Camelia, the " star " of flowers!

The yellow is a fluid perfect pearls... couldn't capture it nicely with the camera!

That flower stamp has been in my stash for a loooong time, it's been one of my first stamps!

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I used the following Magenta products :   

Camelia stamp

Star stamp

 Irish Blessing Quote stamp (background stamping)

A TAG !

I just LOVE these stamps from UNITY!

...and creating a tag for a challenge is piece of a cake! After all the stamping and sponging I covered it with beeswax, stamped in the (heated) beeswax, and rubbed some perfect pearls on it to accentuate the structure in the beeswax.

 

  

I am entering this in the following challenges:

1. Simon Says Stamp and Show - a tag!

2. Simon says stamp - anything goes!

STAMPS USED:

Unity stamps - 'Beach Cottage Collection' from Iron Orchid designs

(HE)art journal 2012 challenge - March - Beeswax

I made this for :

1. HEart Journal 2012, for March, which mainly is about stamping in UTEE, but here I used beeswax. ! 

 I made this heart first (before the one in the previous post), and at that time chose to use beeswax instead of  UTEE.  After I'd finished this, I decided to also give it a try with UTEE. I actually love both ways.

(HE)art journal 2012 challenge - February

 

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I am also entering this in the following challenges

1. HEart Journal 2012, for February , we were to use clay to get some texture!

2.  on My Mojo Monthly, on the LA-DE-DAH blog!

3. The Stamp Man challenge - 'Colors of spring'. 

4. The Creavil challenge - 'It is getting colourful'.

TAGS, TAGS, tags, tags..... YES, tag nr. 14!

I loved making this one.. ..

On this tag I worked with beeswax. I heated the beeswax a little and then stamped in it, to get some structure!

 

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See the glimmer? That's perfect pearls rubbed into the beeswax to

accentuate the structure where I stamped in it . 

I also added some pearls to the dragonflies... gold and blue. 

A HAPPY and crafty New Year !!


I am entering this in the Gingersnap Creations challenge - wax

STAMPS USED:   

Katzelkraft sheets:

wings ktz31                                                                                             arbres hiver ktz59         

Challenge Simon Says Stamp and Show - Anything Goes!

I certainly LOVE this stamp! ... or should I say : these stamps!?

 STAMPS USED: 

Chickens collage - Crafty Individuals

Fence - Stamp Camp

ATC gemaakt voor een ruil / An ATC for a swap

Flower ATC's!

 

  

  

  

  

Gemaakt voor Willy met de spray starch techniek.

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ATC's I made for Willy, with the spray starch technique.

Cornstarch techniek / technique

  

  

 

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Cornstarch techniek / technique

 

 

Cornstarch techniek

  

 Deze achtergrondjes ga ik de komende dagen gebruiken; het is gemaakt met de cornstarch techniek. We gebruiken deze techniek op de Stempel-ATC groep deze maand.  Ik had dit nog nooit eerder gedaan.

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I am going to use these backgrounds for the next few days. It's been made with the cornstarch technique.We use this technique on the Stempel-ATC group this month. It's been new to me.