Name: Lindsay Mason
Lives: I live in a village in Lancashire, England, not far from where I was born. After years of city life it's so peaceful that I wake up every morning and pinch myself!
Known For: Designing stamps for British company Personal Impressions, demonstrating stamping and inky techniques all over the UK and designing projects for craft magazines. Hopefully known for having a good sense of humour too!
Blog: http://lindsaymason.blogspot.com
Loves to: Inspire confidence in people to have a go at things that they are nervous of trying. Create pages in my Art journal. Make people laugh - or smile at least! Nature watch and potter in my garden.
Loves to create: A mess.....no, seriously, that's just an unfortunate by product of my creativity! I really enjoy starting with a blank piece of card and creating something from nothing. I love working on Art Journal pages where I can combine various mediums as well as drawing and painting and where there are no rules.
Favourite Darkroom Door product: I am a massive fan of DD stamps, the sets in particular. They always give perfect results and the images work so well together and for many techniques. I also love the Montage sheets, filmstrips and wordstrips. They are often just the finishing touch that I need and really easy to work with and to alter.
Let’s say you’re invited to come into our darkroom for a day. What would you bring with you? A big smile, wide open eyes to take everything in, a big bottle of water and a fan to keep me cool but not my camera....I'd ask Rachel to take photos for me and email them to me when I got home!
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We are so excited to have Lindsay as a guest artist! I have known Lindsay for a few years now as we always demo on the same booth at the UK Hobby, Stitch & Craft show. We were also a part of the Stamping All Stars program on UK QVC TV together (wayyyy too much fun!). Read about that here. Lindsay has become a really great friend and I always look forward to seeing her each year and to check out her latest creations! Lindsay designs her own stamps too (see above) and yet she still finds the time to demo and have fun with our Darkroom Door stamps. She even used DD stamps for the front cover of her book:
I'm so grateful to Lindsay for sharing her artwork here with us this week! Let's check out what she's created...
Box of Time
This was inspired by the DDRS078 Tick Tock stamp set. I thought it would be fun to use all, or most of the images in one project.
I started by cutting a large cross from cream Bazzill textured card - ie a square with rectangles extended from each side. I scored and creased along each line, then smudged Frayed Burlap Distress ink over the card on both sides.
I cut panels to fit all the sides, both inside and out, then covered these with white card that I wrapped around the panels to give a padded effect. Each panel was stamped with a selection of the stamps using Coffee Archival ink and I applied areas of the Mesh background stamp DDBS016 using my fingers, as opposed to an acrylic block - this way I could just add small areas of texture. I then blended Vintage Photo Distress ink around the edges before attaching the panels to the outer box sides. The inside panels were done in the same way but I used Tea Dye for the edges and omitted the Mesh. A square panel stamped with Mesh covers the box base.
The lid was formed from a slightly larger square with 2 cms flaps on each side which, once coloured as before, I folded down and secured with hand dyed ribbon which was secured with Red Line tape. A slim strip of inked card applied over the ribbon just helps to keep everything extra secure.
I added another padded and stamped square to the lid and added a Tim Holtz Timepiece and Game Spinner using a brad.
I next stamped several images from the set onto white card, cutting each
out individually and sticking some back to back, edging them with
smudged ink. I used Glossy Accents (and little tabs of card when
necessary) to attach the different images and words to the inside base
of the box, taking time ('scuse the pun!) to check they weren't too tall
and that they looked alright from different angles.
It's a fun to
make project of a simple box that opens out when the lid is lifted to
reveal the surprise centrepiece. I kept my colours very muted and
monochromatic but it could be done in more dramatic tones for a very
different effect.
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Next up we have a card and tag set:
Art de Fleur Card & Tag
Another of my favourite stamp sets is the Art De Fleur Vol 2 DDRS040 with its postcard images with delicately shaded flowers.
The card was formed from a sheet from one of Tim Holtz's Kraft Resist stashes. I stamped the floral panel onto gloss card using permanent black ink, then softly blended Marvy Le Plume pens over the image.
I tore some of the edges of the panel, applied a glue stick over the torn areas and dipped into silver embossing powder to give random silvery areas. I matted the panel onto layers of card and tied a hand dyed ribbon down one side.
The tag features the second floral postcard which I added to some dotty
paper overlaid onto the tag. The velvet leaves are coloured with alcohol
inks and I used natural twine to add an extra texture.
Using
gloss card allows the Le Plume pens to glide smoothly across the surface
to create a seamless look which really works woth the fine detailing of
these images.
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And now something for the boys...
Steampunk set
This Steampunk themed trio of cards and wall art were featured in a recent issue of the UK magazine Crafts Beautiful.
I used a mixture of images from the DDRS068 Steampunk set (which has an amazing twenty one stamps in it!) as well as die cut gears and Idealogy metal items to create the look.
The wall art was made using the tray from a large box of matches which I set into a piece of shaped mount card to create the recess.
The two vintage gentlemen are, I think, my favourite images in this set, and I love the delicate detailing on the balloon.
Don't you just love what Lindsday has created? Fantastic projects!! A big thanks to Linsday for sharing them with us! We have lots more to share with you for the rest of this week, so I hope you'll join us again tomorrow to see what else Lindsay has in store for us!
