Design Team Project #1 by Astrid

Hello everyone and a very happy day to you. Today I am sharing my first project for this month using the absolutely wonderful Darkroom Door London Collection. With this project I am using Volume 2. I LOVE Darkroom Door stamps in any case, but this particular collection must be one of my all time favourites.

I decided to make a wall hanging using a little canvas board from my stash.

I started by covering the canvas board with some collage papers attaching them with Claudine Hellmuth Multi Medium Matte. Next I put a thin wash of watery Gesso over it, mixed with a tiny bit of Paintdabber in Coffee. This was to blend the papers together a bit. When that was dry I added some texture paste with a bit more of the dabber through a stencil to add some texture

Time for some stamping. I chose various of my background stamps including some of the wonderful Kaisercraft stamps that Snazzys stocks, in various places onto my background with Black Archival Ink. I also chose 3 of the stamps from the London Collection and stamped them in a mix of Black and Coffee Archival Ink and then fussy cut them. I added them to my canvas together with a computer generated title, and then felt it needed some more texture, so I decided to add some Distress Crackle Paint. I only have very few colours so I chose Distressed Linen, but when it was dry didn't like it. So out came the Gesso again to colour over it. The final steps to finish the canvas were to ink right around the edges with Distress Ink in Frayed Burlap, followed by some chalk ink in dark brown. I also shaded around all the main stamped images to make them pop a bit more with a charcoal pencil and added a bit of shadow with vintage photo and a few high light with a white pencil. I added a chain and some Tim Holtz Tassles and that was it. Hope you like it and don't forget, if you want to be in with a chance to win a set of these wonderful stamps, leave a comment HERE.

I will be back with one more project later on in the week, - until then, stay crafty!

DT Project #2 by Minxy : Featuring:

DARKROOM DOOR: London set Vol 1

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Hi snazzy folks, sorry for my delayed posting of this project, 

I got a little sidetracked as I have just adopted 2 kitties from out local shelter.

If your a kitty lover and wanna see them hop over to my blog.

So on to my project:

I went with the Piccadilly Circus image as my main focus, stamping it in black archival on a pre stamped distressed union jack. 

To highlight the image I glossy accented the stamped image.

Next I used my versafine satin red inkpad to stamp a london bus, and the cut out and mounted both pieces on some black card. I then mounted this to a kraft coloured card,

I finished with a Tim Holtz word band that I brushed with some white acrylic paint to make the message pop, and attached with some screwtop brads.

Just shows that with the same products you can get 2 totally different looks {see Gillian's 3rd project card Here}

Thanks for stopping by, don't forget there is still lots more inspiration to come with Astrid and and Hels first DT projects.

DT Project #1 by Minxy : Featuring

DARKROOM DOOR: London set Vol 1

TANDO CREATIVE: lazercut board 'London Set'
Dylusions Ink Spray

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Hiya snazzy peeps, Hope you've all enjoyed the projects so far this month, There is still plenty more where that came from, Starting with this string of bunting.

Yep I've gone the good old fashioned patriotic route for my project.

I first cut 5 triangles from an old cotton pillowcase, I left 1 white and then sprayed the others with London Blue and Postbox Red Dylusions sprays. Once they were dry I stamped each piece with images from the DD london 1 stamp set, in black archival ink.

Next I coloured some of the Tando london board shapes with copic markers. I then attached the shapes to the bottom of the butting with a wet glue, 1 per flag.
Then it was just a case of punching holes in the tops and adding eyelets, and then tying together with ribbon.
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I'll be back later in the week with my second project, hope to see you then.
Stay Inky

Design Team Project #2 featuring Darkroom Door London 2 stamp set (by Lesley)

Hello again All,

I said I'd be back later in the week with another project and I am ........... by the skin of my teeth, lol!  I'm afraid it's been one of those weeks but never mind, make it I did and this time I've made a little triple hanging frame (Snazzys have loads of fabulous alterables).

I started by separating the three little frames and then covered them with black Gesso. I followed this with adding some texture paste which I stamped into with one of the little stamps from the Darkroom Door London 2 set (spritz stamp with water first and clean immediately after stamping).  It doesn't really matter which one as it was only for the texure.  I left this to dry before repainting the whole lot with Black acrylic paint and leaving to dry once more.  I then dusted the textured areas with Perfect Pearls.

I stamped the largest stamp from the London 2 set using Onyx Black Versafine ink onto cream card twice and then selected three areas from the image to cut out and place into the frames. 

Again using the Versafine ink I stamped the little street sign and a bird from the 7 Gypsies Lille set onto cream card and embossed with clear embossing powder, cut them out and adhered to the frames.  Finally I painted some cream acrylic paint across an Ideology Wordband, wiping it off whilst still wet so that it just went into the characters but it shows up much better irl.  I then attached it to the frame with some of the clear Stix 2 dimensional strip.

Well, that's it from me for this month folks but we still have plenty of lovely projects and inspiration to come from Nicky, Astrid and Hels so do pop back regularly to see their fabulous work.

I'd like to add that it's great to see so many lovely folk leaving a message on Gillian's first post this month!  If you haven't done so already, pop back HERE and leave a little comment to be added to the random draw to win a set of lovely Darkroom Door stamps and a Versafine ink cube..

See you all again soon and thanks for visiting.

Hugs

Lesley  Xx

Design Team Project #1 featuring Darkroom Door London 2 stamps (by Lesley)

Hello Again,

Wow, the months are surely whizzing by again this year don't you think!  June already and what do you think to the brilliant news that Hels is joining our team?  Following on from Gillian's fab projects last week it's my turn to showcase the beautifully detailed Darkroom Door London 2 stamps.  For my first project this week I've chosen to design a card.  

I deliberately kept this really simple to show the fabulous detail and quality of these lovely stamps.  All the images were stamped in either Versafine Satin Red or Archival Cobalt.

On the two images stamped in Archival Cobalt I picked out just a few details with a waterbrush and Barn Door Distress Stain and the buttons from my stash were stitched onto the card.

I matted and layered the images onto co-ordinating cardstock before attaching them to the card and then held my breath, lol, while stamping the London definition and the taxi images directly onto the card.

Don't forget, if you would like to be in the end of month draw to win a set of these gorgeous stamps plus a Versafine Satin Red cube go here to leave a comment ............. but leave me one here first............ please ;-).

I'll be back later in the week with another project so hope you can pay us another visit.

Hugs

Lesley  Xx

Design Team Project #3 ....

 Good morning everyone, I'm back with my final project using the Darkroom Door London Collection stamp set and yes it's another card this time with a vintage feel to reflect the main stamp image.

 I started by layering a sheet of printed newspaper imagery from the Kaisercraft Black & White Timeless Paper Pad to 6x6 Kraft cardstock, which was then swiped over with Distress Ink (Vintage Photo), the edges have been distressed using the Tim Holtz Tonic Paper Distresser and then edged with Archival Ink (Coffee).

 To adhere the centre piece, the strip along the bottom & the Ideaology Word Band I have used my new fav 3d product .. Stix2 Clear Foam On A Roll (available from Snazzy's).

For the centre panel I used Manilla cardstock which has been inked with Vintage Photo, then spritzed with water, again it has been distressed at the edges and inked as above.

Lesley is up next (Monday) with her projects for the month, if you would like to be in with a chance of winning either Vol 1 or Vol 2 from this collection, please leave a comment HERE.

TFL x

Design Team Project #2 ....

Good morning everyone Gillian here,  today I'm back sharing a quick & simple card using the gorgeous Darkroom Door London Collection Vol 1 & 2, some 6x6 white cardstock, Versafine Ink (Satin Red), Archival Ink (Jet Black), the background paper is from the Kaisercraft Black & White Timeless 6 1/2 Paper Pad.

 I love the "Sketch" like appearance of the Big Ben image to which I have simply stamped three times, masking off part of the stamp each time to give the appearance of the iconic landmark fading into the distance.

I will be back later in the week with one final project. To be in with a chance of winning either Vol 1 or Vol 2 from the London Collection, stop by and leave a comment HERE.

TFL x