Name: Sephi Kemp
Zodiac sign: Aries
Lives: Newcastle, NSW Australia
Known for: My mad love of buttons, an ever-growing stamp collection, and a fierce reluctance to throw anything (no matter how small!) away.
Blog: Night Owl Designs http://nightowldesigns.blogspot.com
Loves to: Watch all of my favourite TV shows on DVD, read, rattle the branches of my family tree, and create, create, create!
Loves to create: Anything “old world”. I love experimenting with tags, artist trading cards and canvases.
Favourite Darkroom Door product: I adore the Robot collection and I’m also very fond of the Photobooth ladies.
Have you ever been in a darkroom? Yes, I studied photography for four years at high school. I remember wrecking my school uniform with the chemicals. Good times!
Let’s say you’ve been invited to come into our darkroom for a day. What would you bring with you? All of my rolls of undeveloped film from the 80s and 90s. Hmmmmm, wonder what’s on them? LOL
Are you afraid of the dark? Oh no. I’m definitely a night owl, hence the name!
Here's the first of Sephi's projects...
Heartfelt Happiness:
Materials
• Stamps: Darkroom Door #DDRS017 Friendship Flowers
• Paper: Darkroom Door #DDPP008 Blush, #DDPP007 Meadow
• Ink: StazOn Jet Black
• Card: Bazzill Forget Me Not
• Glass ladybird
• Acetate
• Acrylic paints
• Pink ribbon
• Silver brads
• Brayer
• Double-sided tape
Method
1. Stamp three flowers from the Friendship Flowers set on acetate using Jet Black ink.
2. Lay a larger sheet of acetate over the stamped piece.
3. Apply acrylic paints to the acetate – green for the stems, and pink, yellow and blue for the flowers.
4. Spray with water and lay Blush paper face down on the wet acetate. Use a brayer to ensure an even transfer. Peel the paper away and set aside to dry.
5. Lay the stamped acetate over the Blush paper so the images are aligned. Secure with a few pieces of double-sided tape and silver brads. Trim away the excess paper and swipe the edges of the acetate with the Jet Black inkpad. Layer on Meadow paper.
6. Knot pink ribbon around the design and stamp “Heartfelt Happiness” on Meadow paper. Trim to size and affix as shown in the photograph.
7. Adhere a glass ladybird to the acetate and mount the entire piece on Forget Me Not card.
Scatter Seeds of Happiness:
Materials
• Stamps: Darkroom Door #DDRS017 Friendship Flowers
• Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Black Soot; Versamark
• Card: Bazzill Prince Charming, Lava
• Kasier deep yellow rhinestones
• Lime green grosgrain ribbon
• Hole punch
• Double-sided tape
Method
1. Cut a tag from Prince Charming cardstock and stamp the “Scatter Seeds of Happiness” quote from the Friendship Flowers set using Black Soot ink.
2. When the ink has dried, stamp two flowers of your choice from the Friendship Flowers set over the text using Versamark ink.
3. Layer the tag on Lava card and punch a hole through the centre top of the tag.
4. Knot green grosgrain ribbon through the hole and affix three yellow rhinestones to the tag to finish.
How gorgeous are these cards!!! Great work Sephi!
We'll be showing more of Sephi's work tomorrow, so please drop by!
