Name: Ellie Knol-Groenveld
Lives: In Hoogeveen, in the Netherlands.
Known For:
… difficult question; I think you’d have to ask the followers of my blog. LOL
I think they will mention my use of color, the very ‘own’ style, my preference of nature stamps; I get comments on these issues.
Blog, website or gallery:
http://elliecreahoekje.blogspot.com/
http://ellieatcs.blogspot.com/
Loves to:
…play with paper stamps and color! It’s the most enjoyable craft in the world, for sure!
Loves to create:
… something nice from nothing,
…. collages!
…. with the use of all sorts of media, from gesso to watercolor pencils, from inks to acrylic paints…
Favourite Darkroom Door product:
That’s not a difficult one! The stamps of course!! My number one must be the sets with the butterflies, but I also use the correspondence set a lot… and I just discovered how I LOVE the leaves stamp set as well…they are gorgeous!
Let’s say you’re invited to come into our darkroom for a day. What would you bring with you?
A chain, so you can’t throw me out the next day!
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We are so excited to have Ellie as a guest artist! She creates amazing cards and ATC's and has lots to share with us this week! Let's take a look...

Stamps used:
DDRS040 Art de Fleur Vol 2
DDBS019 Flower Garden Background
Details:
Put different colors of distress inks on your craftsheet, and put the background stamp in it, turn it in the ink about 90 degrees. Mist the stamp just a little bit, and stamp it on your cardstock. Stamp the image of the flower on a seperate piece of cardstock and color it with the same shades of color as used in the background. Cut it out and paperdistress the edges. Stamp the postage stamp and only the text (from the main image) on the background.
Embellish as shown.

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Stamps used:
DDBS019 Flower Garden Background
DDBS005 French Script Background
Details:
Put different colors of distress inks on your craftsheet, and put the background stamp in it, turn it in the ink about 90 degrees. Mist the stamp just a little bit, and stamp it on your cardstock. Use this background to create this card as shown.

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Stamps used:
DDBS005 French Script Background
DDRS091 Wings
Details:
Put some distress inks on your craftsheet, mist it with some water. Put your cardstock in it, and mist it with some water. Make the color run to all sides.
Stamp the butterflies on a seperate piece of cardstock, and cut them out.
Make a ‘quick’ copy of the background, cut it out to create a mask (I sprayed the back of it with some glue-spray, and left it to dry thoroughly first). I used the piece that was left over after cutting it out!
Put the mask onto the background, and stamp the text over it. Remove the mask. Accentuate the edges of the “splash” with some watercolorpencils.
Adhere to card as shown.

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Stamps used:
DDRS040 Art de Fleur Vol 2
DDRS047 Correspondence
Details:
Stamp the flower collage part on a piece of cardstock which has been colored with distress inks. Cut it out, following the squiggly line of it. Paper distress the edges. Color it with some watercolorpencils to accentuate the flowers. Tear masking paper to cover the outer part of the card. Stamp the images and text on the cardstock. Sponge the background. Paint watered-down gesso over the images and text. Remove the mask, make some doodles. Adhere to the card and embellish as shown.

Fabulous techniques!! We have many many more projects to share with you - so make sure you check the blog this week to see more of Ellie's fabulous work!