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Guest Artist: Irene Tan Part 4

Today we have some more beautiful projects by Guest Artist Irene Tan! The projects that she has shared with us over the past week have been nothing short of amazing!! So many details and innovative ways on using our rubber stamps... and wait until you see what she has in store for us today! A complete mini book with so many little details, please take some time to look over all of the photos, it really is a visual feast!

Lille Mini Book:

Darkroom Door Stamps used: Stone Background Stamp, Tick Tock, Leaves, Keys

Other Supplies: Acrylic Products: Clear Scraps; Pattern Papers and Stickers: 7 Dots Studio; Inks: Ranger Ink, Tsukineko; Chipboard: Dusty Attic; Flowers: Petaloo; Others: Making Memories acrylic paint, Ranger Gesso, May Arts ribbon, Advantus Corp metal embellishment, Beacon adhesives.

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Cherish Today Tag:

Darkroom Door Stamps used: Stone Background, Keys, Wings
Montage: Venetian

Other supplies: Acrylic Products: Clear Scraps; Pattern Paper: Prima; Inks: Ranger Inks, Tsukineko; Chipboard: Dusty Attic; Flowers: Dusty Attic; Others: ribbon, brads, Beacon and other adhesives.

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Wheresoever You Go:

Darkroom Door Stamps used: Buttons Background, Tick Tock, Wings
Montage: Venetian

Other supplies: Acrylic Card: Clear Scraps; Pattern Papers: Prima; Inks: Ranger Inks, Tsukineko; Others: burlap, twine, button, Ranger Glossy Accent, Beacon and othe adhesive.

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We'd like to say a HUUUUGE thank you to Irene for sharing her artwork with us and being one of our Guest Artists! It's been such a pleasure to have her here on the blog! If you'd like to see more of Irene's work, you can see it on her blog here.

Guest Artist: Angella Peardon Part 3

We have been so honoured to have Angella as a Guest Artist with us this week. It's been so much fun sharing all of her amazing projects and ideas. Today Angella is sharing an amazing project using the Croco paints and a few Darkroom Door stamps... check it out:

 

The cage has been covered in White Croco.

Here's another project that Angella has created using Maya Road chipboard, along with Darkroom Door stamps.

Words from the Mail Art stamp set:

The French Script Background is stamped into the paint:

Really stunning projects!

We'd like to say a HUGE thank you to Angella for being a Guest Artist this week and for sharing all her talents and ideas with us! Please make sure you follow Angella's blog to keep up with what she's up to. Angella will be teaching at the Scrapbook Expo in June using some of the Viva Decor paints, so be sure to check out the class schedule when it becomes available!

Guest Artist: Angella Peardon Part 2

We have more fabulous projects by Guest Artist Angella Peardon for you today...

Fashionable Cart:

Supplies: Fashionable Rubber Stamps

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Surf Layout:

Details from Angella:
Made the backgound using gesso, Ferro Iron & Precious Metal Colour silver and a light blue chalk ink.

The drift wood was made using a heavier coat of Ferro Iron.
Here's a photo of the drift wood close up....

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Croco house calendar:

Details from Angella:
This is a project using Scrapmatts chipboard to create a calendar. I've used Viva Decor Croco Crackle paint for the roof.... A bit different - firstly covered roof with buttons then put the crackle paint over the top ....

Beautiful projects and great ideas! Thanks so much to Angella for sharing these with us! We have a couple of projects to share with you again tomorrow, so please drop by!

Guest Artist: Angella Peardon

Name: Angella Peardon
 
Zodiac Sign: Cancer
 
Lives:  Toowoomba, QLD Australia
 
Known For: altered items!

Loves to: Create, read, catch up with friends, but most of all spending time with my family.

Loves to create: anything as long as I can play, love all different things.. more different textures and products the better! I think I will be still creating at 100

Blog: http://4ft9inchcreator.typepad.com/my_weblog/

Favourite Darkroom Door product: everything but if I really had to pick: Stamps  and viva decor products.
 
Let’s say you’re invited to come into our darkroom for a day. What would you bring with you? oh.... It would be like entering a candy store, so most definately credit card, a very large suitcase.
and time so Rachel and I could sit and play for hours, I know I could learn heaps from Rachel! (and I could learn a lot from you too Angella! - Rachel)

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We are so excited to have Angella as a Guest Artist here at Darkroom Door this week! I've always been a huge fan of Angella's artwork - her ideas and talent are amazing. She has a lot of projects to share with us this week... Let's take a look at the first one...

Paris Notebook:

Supplies: Paris Filmstrips, Paris Wordstrips

Background done with precious metal colour 'Silver Red'
Ferro Iron, Gesso and some tim holtz distress ink weathered wood

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Country Cottage Card:

Supplies: Country Cottage Photo Stamp

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Photobooth Charms:

Supplies: Photobooth images, Paris Wordstrips

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Love Birds Card:

Supplies: Love Birds Rubber Stamps

Aren't all these projects just divine! We have loads more in store for you, make sure you check back tomorrow to see what else she's created!

Guest Artist: Jane Clark Part 2

Welcome to day 2 of our Guest Artist feature with Jane Clark! Thanks you for leaving comments on yesterdays post showing Jane's Seaside Accordion album, I know Jane would have appreciated them! We have some more fabulous artwork to share with you today... let's take a look:

Stamps used: Steampunk, Correspondence

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Stamps used: Love Birds

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Stamps used: Love Birds, Correspondence

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Stamps used: Love Birds

Jane has also created an altered book:

Stamps used: Wilderness Vol 1, Love Birds, Correspondence

 I love the variety of techniques Jane uses in her cards and the combinations of embellishments to compliment each project. We'd like to say a HUGE thank you to Jane for being our Guest Artist for this week - it has been an absolute pleasure showing off her projects!

If you'd like to see more of Jane's work, please check out her blog or pick up a copy of Cardmaking, Stamping & Papercraft magazine where she has a regular article in there each month along with various cards throughout each issue.

Thanks again Jane!

Guest Artist: Jane Clark

Name: Jane Clark AKA Miss Jane
 
Zodiac Sign: Virgo
 
Lives: For cardmaking oh and my family he he!! (Jane actually lives in Sydney, Australia)
 
Known For: Being the Technical Editor of ‘Cardmaking, Stamping & Papercraft’ for the last five years, this requires a regular technique article called ‘The Classroom’. I also have cards frequently published for this magazine and for ‘Handmade’.  Plus I do numerous teaching jigs at camps, shops and papercraft expos.

Blog: janescreativejourney.blogspot.com

Loves to: Catch up with friends and family, gardening, bush walking and travelling
 
Loves to create: Anything papercraft, be it cards, altered objects or dare I say scrapbook, well I try!

Favourite Darkroom Door product: The stamps, my favourites are the Trees and both the Wilderness sets.
 
Let’s say you’re invited to come into our darkroom for a day. What would you bring with you? A cuppa, chocolate and the biggest grin on my face!

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We are so excited to have Jane as a Guest Artist here at Darkroom Door this week! We've always admired her cards in 'Cardmaking Stamping & Papercraft' magazine and knew work magic with some Darkroom Door stamps - and we were right! She blew us away with her amazing project! Let's take a look at the first one...

Seaside Accordion Album:

Supplies used:
Rubber Stamps: Seashells, Under The Sea
Wordstrips: Seaside
Accordion Book with Tin

Isn't this book amazing! Thanks so much for sharing this with us Jane!

Jane has also created a number of cards to share with you, so please check back tomorrow to see what else she's created!

Guest Artist: Louise Nelson Part 4

We have two layouts from Louise to share with you today which wraps up her Guest Artist feature with us for this week. These two layouts are amazing... check out all of the texture in this first one...

Materials Used:
DDPB003 Photobooth - Friends & Lovers
DDWS016 Paris Vol. 2 - Word Strips
DDWS005 Viva La Flora - Word Strips
DDRS017 Friendship Flowers Rubber Stamps

From Louise: I've never used images of unknown people on my layouts before, so I thought it would be a fun challenge for me to scrap a layout around an image of people who I didn't know!
The images of couples and friends that are included in this Photobooth line are just perfect for mixed media arty projects!
To coordinate the photobooth image with my background scene, I inked the sides of the image with Tea Dye Distress ink. The word strips have been treated with the same mists that I used on the background.

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Perfect Day

Materials Used:
DDWS017 Seaside - Wordstrips
DDMN010 Art de Fleur - Montage

From Louise: I was a little disappointed that this layout didn't photograph as well as I would have liked as it was one of my favourites. I just loved the Art de Fleur montage as it contained a photo of a Fuchsia.
Both my mother and father enjoyed growing these flowers. I've used the montage flower image as a photo matt as well as a feature element next to the word strip title.

We'd like to say a HUGE thank you to Louise for sharing her artwork with us this week! It's been so inspiring getting a peek into your art world :)

Please remember to pop over to Louise's blog to see more of her fabulous art!! And don't forget to leave a comment here, we all love to read them! Thanks so much!

Guest Artist: Louise Nelson Part 3

Woo Hoo! How exciting that we have so many layouts to share with you this week by our amazing Guest Artist Louise Nelson! Here is today's inspiration...

Reflections

Materials Used:
DDWS014 Art de Fleur - Word Strips
VDPM904 Viva Precious Metal Colour - Copper
VDFE901 Viva Ferro Metal Effect Colour - Silver

From Louise: I just loved the Viva Decor products so much! So much so that I thought I would combine 2 of the products to get both texture and colour.
I first applied the Ferro to get the fabulous gritty texture and then to get the copper colour painted it with the copper precious metal colour paint.
You will notice from one of the close up photos that I have coordinated the word strip to the background by treating it with the same black grey mist.

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Life Journey

Materials Used:
DDAS001 White Alpha Strips
DDWS001 Venetian - Word Strips
TIM19541 Distress Ink Pad - Black Soot
TIM21643 Distress Embossing Ink Pad
DDPS001 Little Door Photo Stamp

From Louise: To create the background on this layout I used one of my all time favourite embossing techniques. It is a very random embossing of the textured tissue paper that has been adhered onto the background.
To tie this in with the stamped doorway image, I used the same black embossing powder. This stamp was just perfect for this photo of me outside an old warehouse in the Port Adelaide district.
To complete the title I used both the Alpha and word strips.

Ohh, look at all those textures! Yummy!!

We have a couple more layouts to share with you tomorrow, so please check back to see Louise's final Guest Artist post! You don't want to miss it!!! :)

Guest Artist: Louise Nelson Part 2

We have some more fabulous projects to share with you today by the very talented Louise Nelson!

Timeless Moments

Materials used:
DDWS016 Paris Vol. 2 - Word Strips
DDWS008 Prague Vol. 2 - Word Strips
DDBS002 Plaid - Background Stamp

From Louise: From one of the close up photos you can see that I created some subtle visual texture to the layout background, using the Plaid background stamp and Tim Holtz embossing powder.
The word strips provide a perfect description of the sentiment I was feeling when these photos were taken at my Godson's engagement party.

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Love Moments

DDWS016 Paris Vol. 2 - Word Strips
VDFE0901 Ferro - Steel
TIM19541 Distress Ink Pad - Black Soot

From Louise: Whilst the photo on this layout isn't of good quality, I still love to scrap it over and over as it is one of the very few that I have of my father and I.
To set the scene for the photo, I used the fabulous Viva Ferro steel paint to embellish the chipboard butterflies. Then heavily inked around the edges of the layout with the black soot Distress Ink.
To complete the layout I used simple word strips to describe my feelings about creating this particular layout.

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You're Special

DDWS002 Full Bloom - Word strips
DDA4007 Pink Gerberas 12up - A4 Pearlescent Paper

From Louise: For this particular layout featuring a photo of myself and my friend Natalie, I've used the beautiful pearlescent Pink Gerbera paper.
I cut out some Gerbera flowers, attached them straight on to the background and then artfully applied distressed gauze on and around the Gerbera images. I used a simple glue stick to adhere both the patterned paper and the gauze.

Gorgeous!! I am sure you are all loving Louise's layouts as much as I am!! We still have lots more to share with you... so please drop by again tomorrow!! In the meantime, please leave a comment for Louise, I am sure she would appreciate it :)

Guest Artist: Louise Nelson

Name: Louise Nelson
 
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio
 
Lives: Evandale, South Australia
 
Known For: Have absolutely no idea LOL, .....oh I just thought, maybe for using useless bits of crap that most people would throw away on my layouts LOL

Blog: http://louise-justloolabelle.blogspot.com/

Loves to: 'Keep it real'
 
Loves to create: whatever flows :)

Favourite Darkroom Door product: Ummmmmmmmm sheesh I think I have a soft spot for the stamps and the paints
 
Let’s say you’re invited to come into our darkroom for a day. What would you bring with you? The intent to stay and not leave :) :) :)

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We are so excited to have Louise as a Guest Artist here at Darkroom Door this week! I've always loved her arty layouts!! Let's take a look at her projects...

Explore

Materials used:
DDWS006 Wilderness - Word Strips
DDWS008 Prague Vol. 2 - Word Strips
DDMN006 Wilderness Montage
DDS017 Friendship Flowers Rubber Stamps
TIM19541 - Distress Ink Pad - Black Soot

From Louise: I so loved the words of advice in this stamp, so much so I thought that it would have been the sort of thing I would have loved to have been told as I was growing up!
With that in mind I created a layout using shocking/rude baby photo of myself in the nude on a rug :) :) :) LOL.
To set the scene for the photo and the stamped words I also used the Wilderness photo montage images, which have been inked around the images to make them stand out from the background.
The word strips from the Wilderness and Prague range were a perfect complement to the words of the stamp.

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Friendship

DDRS018 Trees Rubber Stamps
TIM20333 Distress Ink Pad - Peeled Paint

From Louise: I just love love Love stamps that are of flora and fauna, this set including the tress especially is a favourite from the Darkroom Door range.
I've used the stamp to subtle effect on the painted back ground. To highlight the tree stamp image, I've coloured a chipboard tree to coordinate with the stamped image and layered it over top.

Isn't Louise's style just divine! I love all of the texture!

We have more layouts to share with you tomorrow, so please check back to see what else Louise has created!