Rachel Greig

Countdown to Christmas!

We've been counting down to Christmas on the Darkroom Door blog! Each day we've been sharing Christmas projects to hopefully inspire you and get us all into the Christmas spirit!

Here's a couple of projects I've created:

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Here's my segment from the Scrap It TV Christmas Special:

I hope you're all enjoying the festive season!!

New Darkroom Door products

We've released a whole new range of products with Darkroom Door recently... it has certainly been keeping me busy! Here's what's new:

Check out these big honkin' backgrounds! Our new Background Stamps are 155mm x 110mm which completely covers an A6 card front with ease! That means you can create amazing backgrounds in just one step! Woo hoo!!!

The new Photo Stamps are created exclusively from my photographs. Finely detailed, they can be used with inked backgrounds, coloured with markers, stamped onto textiles and so much more! Each stamp measures: 118mm x 80mm.

The new Pearlescent papers include pretty pink and purple butterflies that little girls (and big girls) will love. Our new Gerbera 12up's are so versatile! Each image can be used individually, or use several images together to create a variety of cards and projects. Suitable for party invitations, greeting cards, scrapbook layouts and more! I'm really enjoying these new papers!

We also have some new Notepads! Suitable for journal blocks for scrapbook layouts, inserts for greeting cards, notes for your teachers, friends and family. Great stocking fillers for Christmas too!

Check out the Darkroom Door website and blog for all the details and samples with these new goodies!!!

Yuletide Alcohol Ink Class

It's going to be a merry Christmas this year!!! I'm teaching a Yuletide Alcohol Inks class at Erina Scrapbook Store on Wednesday 4th November from 7pm-9pm. We'll use the new Darkroom Door Yuletide rubber stamps and Adirondack Alcohol inks - which will make one very merry Santa!

If you'd like to book in, please call the store to secure your place: 02 4365 0770.

Hope to see you there!

Scrap It TV - Crayon Resist Stamping

Here's the final segment that I filmed for Series 2 of Scrap It TV which is shown on the Aurora Foxtel Channel 183 here in Australia. I love sharing the techniques with you, just not too keen on seeing or hearing myself up on the big screen! Although my kids loved this one - they were pretty excited to see themselves on TV! So that was fun :)

This segment shows the Crayon Resist Technique. I love this technique!!! I've shared some Crayon resist projects on here before and many of you have wondered how you achieve that look. So here's a demo... You can see the full segment here:

Supplies used:
Rubber Stamps: Garden Greetings
Inkpads: Adirondack Caramel, Raisin, Meadow; Archival Jet Black

Hope you enjoy!

Last week I filmed a new segment which will be aired sometime in November. I'll keep you informed as soon as I know the date it will be shown.

Scrap It TV - Tinting Photochips

A few months ago I filmed a few segments for Scrap It TV which is shown on the Aurora Foxtel Channel 183 here in Australia. (I posted about the filming here). The new series of Scrap It TV has now started screening... it's on Thursday nights @ 7.30pm on the Aurora Channel.

One of the segments I shot was about Tinting Photochips. Tony (the exec producer of the series) gave me permission to put the segments up on the web to help spread the word about it! You can see the first one here:

Supplies used:
Photochips: Viva La Flora
Wordstrips: Viva La Flora
Marvy Le Plume II Pens

This technique works really well with any of the Darkroom Door black & white images: Venetian, Music, Viva La Flora and Prague. You can tint the Photochips, Filmstrips, Montage and the Wordstrips using the Marvy Le Plume II pens, and your own black and white photos can also be tinted this way!

Hope you enjoy!

New Darkroom Door Collections!

I've been busy again creating new product for Darkroom Door! Here are the new collections:

The Prague Collection, Yuletide Collection and Essentials 4 Collection can be viewed on the Darkroom Door website here. Full details of each product are listed along with sample ideas on how they can be used.

We are also hosting Ten days of Giveaways on the Darkroom Door blog starting today! So if you'd like to be in the running to win some of these goodies, jump over there to be a part of the action!

Also - just wanted to say thanks for your kind comments and emails about my Grandma (see previous post). She really was a wonderful woman, and your sympathy and support has been really touching. I loved hearing stories about your Grandma's too - they really are amazing women!

Video: Photochips & Filmstrips Demo

A couple of weeks ago Darkroom Door exhibited in the trade section of the Paperific Craft Expo in Melbourne. While I was there, I did some demo's for a couple of the retailers: Little Bits and Dragonfly Crafts. At the Little Bits booth, Teresa filmed some of the demo's that I was doing using the Photochips and Filmstrips. Teresa did such a great job (thanks Teresa!!)

I have to be honest, I'm pretty uncomfortable in front of a camera. I know, I know, since when am I shy, but when I know a camera is filming, I get pretty nervous. But hope you enjoy it, and hopefully it might give you some ideas to spark your own creativity with Photochips and Filmstrips. I do have more ideas, so will do a proper 'studio' film one of these days. In the meantime, enjoy the hustle and bustle of Paperific!

Oh - and you'll see me writing a note for a lady named Trish. She bought one of our stamp sets at the show and asked me to sign the inside of the tin! how cool! (hi Trish if you're reading!!!)

Thanks for watching!

If you want to see it in high-quality, click on the YouTube logo and it will take you to the YouTube site. Then click on 'watch in high quality' under the video screen.

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Darkroom Door is open!

Great news! Darkroom Door's website is finally up and running... with more than just a teaser this time! Already a few of you have stumbled across it and have left comments on the Darkroom Door blog :) Yay! And there's a giveaway! It's always fun to kick things off with free stuff!  Check out the DD blog for all the details...

It has been fun giving you a few sneak peeks and teasers along the way... (and boy, what a journey it has been for us here behind the door!) but it's going to be far more fun sharing complete projects and ideas now!

So stop reading here... jump on over to the Darkroom Door website and unlock the artist within!

Here's to a long and creative journey...

Take yourself on a journey

Look here ----> Darkroom Door

Enjoy...

(and it's only days away now...apparently!)

Sneak Peek #2

From Darkroom Door. Let me know if you want to see more!