Zodiac sign: Virgo
Lives: Narre Warren North, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia
Known for: Having way too much on my plate (and I’m not just talking daily schedule either LOL)
Blog: www.thetamarisk.blogspot.com
Loves to:
Drink Coke and eat chocolate (I know, I know. Diabetes awaits…..)
Loves to create: Cards and other little things to give away
Favourite Darkroom Door product: This is the hardest question ever! I love it all. If I had to pick just one, it would be the Montage sheets. Any of them. Or any of the rubber stamps. The filmstrips are awesome too.
Nope – too hard. Can’t pick just one! (Now I’m sounding like a Gemini, aren’t I?)
Let’s say you’ve been invited to come into our darkroom for a day. What would you bring with you? Coke and Chocolate. To share. And my autograph book and camera to record the occasion.
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We're so pleased to have Teresa as our Guest Artist for February!! Teresa will be sharing projects with us between now and the end of Feb, so we look forward to sharing them with you! Here's her first project...
Tag Book:
(gorgeous already huh! Wait til you see the rest!)
Darkroom Door Supplies:
Size 4 white tags
Distress Ink – Antique Linen
Rubber stamps – Trees, Wilderness Vol 2, Little Door Photo Stamp, Enjoy Life
Wilderness Montage
Wilderness twigs
Other Supplies:
StazOn Ink – Timber Brown
Versa Magic Ink – Onyx Black
Various trims – ric rac, crochet lace, velvet, pom-pom, cotton string
Pages from an old book
Muslin
I love making these cute little books, especially when I get a bunch of new stamps and I want to give them a run. There’s lots of machine stitching involved, but if you don’t have a machine you can hand stitch, and if you don’t hand stitch....well, you’ll just go through a lot of glue.
I sponged 12 tags with the Antique Linen Distress Ink to give them that beautiful tea-dyed colour, then stamped all the images onto each tag. I glued all the embellishments on, and decided on which tags would go back-to-back.
I sandwiched a scrap of muslin between the first pair of tags with glue, and when the glue dried, I stitched around them leaving about a 2-3mm border. I left about 1cm of muslin between each pair of tags so that the pages can fold over each other. You might need more or less according to how bulky your embellishments end up being.
Wow - Thanks Teresa!! We LOVE this!!! Can't wait to show off the rest of your creations this month :)
