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Shelly Williams was one of the lucky winners from our Ten Days of Giveaways in March and has shared some projects she created with her prize!! This card was created using the Wilderness Vol 2 Stamp Set:
And here's a layout created with the Photography stamp set:
Wonderful projects Shelly - thanks for sharing them with us!
Supplies:
Darkroom Door: Viva La Flora Vol 2 Rubber Stamps (dandelion stamp)
Tim Holtz: Word Tag, hinge clip, mini fastener
Ranger: Alcohol inks, Archival Jet Black ink
Other: old text book paper, twine
In the current May 2009 issue of Craft Stamper (UK) magazine Rachel Jackson has created the most stunning cards with our Venetian Vol 1 stamp set. It's an article about using watercolours to colour stamped images, and oh my gosh - the results are just amazing!!!
It's a UK mag, so those on that side of the world will have no problems finding it. However for those down under... I've emailed the local distributor to see where it may be sold, but I haven't from them yet. I'll edit this post as soon as they respond.
This week we received a wonderful card and ATC from Tracey Strong in Western Australia. Tracey was the winner of the Artist rubber stamp set from our Ten Days of Giveaways competition in March :) She made a thank you card and an ATC for us from the Artist set:
This is her card. She's used the splatter stamp from the Artist stamp set for the background and an image from the Wilderness Montage. I love the combination of blue and brown. Looks fantastic!
Here's her ATC using the 9 square art stamp :)
Thanks so much Tracey - it really made our day!!!
Happy Easter to everyone also - we hope you have a wonderful day!
Guess what - In May I'll be heading over to Kuala Lumpur to teach an art retreat for Scrap-N-Crop! Registrations are now open, so check out all the details here. There's also another blurb on their blog here :) It's been a few years since I have been in Asia, and while I've been either side to Singapore and Thailand, this will be my first time in Malaysia, so I'm really really looking forward to it! Can't wait to share this experience with you all!
Well we're home from the SIA Trade Show that was held in Sydney this week... and it was awesome! We had such a great time catching up with our current and new customers and showing off our new collections. Thank you to everyone who stopped by the booth, took our classes or did our make and takes. It was a LOT of fun!!
We shot a little video which Stew will finish soon. I was also asked to do a small segment for the scrapbooking show (Channel 72 I think?) on Foxtel. It will air sometime around August. Just enough time for me to get over the slip ups I did!! LOL.
I want to thank our guest artists whose projects were shown on the booth. They really made the booth look fabulous!! We also showed some of the cards and ATC's from the swaps we have hosted - and everyone loved looking through those also. Many people are now keen to participate in some of the swaps - so that will be great!
And of course I took a *few* photos of the booth... you can see the entire gallery here.
Inkurable Stampers are celebrating their first birthday this month!! And the theme for April is to create something in orange, black and white (the Inkurable colours!) This is what Sarah Schwerin created as a challenge sample to get everyone inspired:
Is this not the most adorable thing you've ever seen? Sarah has used our Butterflies stamp set to create all the butterlfies, and the Wildflowers stamp set for the quote. Check out the detail and depth of the butterflies:
So jump on over to the Inkurable Stampers blog to check out the details of this months challenge! Happy Birthday from us here at Darkroom Door!!!
PS: We're home from SIA... we had no internet access while we were away, and there's LOADS of photos to go through, so will update again soon with all the news and pics from the show!!!
