DT Project 2 Darkroom Door London Plate 2 by Astrid

Good morning everyone and welcome to the Snazzys DT blog.

I’m sure that by now you will know how much the DT love the Darkroom Door London stamp sets. If you are a regular here you will have seen some amazing projects already over the last few weeks. Remember, you can win the set of your choice by leaving a comment on Gillian’s first post here

For my second project, using the stamps I decided to do a kind of mini lay out that could either stand by itself or be used as a cover for a London travel journal.

I started by stamping the Westminster Abbey stamp first on a piece of smooth white card and then on a mask created from a post it note. As you can see I also punched out a circle mask as I wanted it to look as if the moon was rising behind the building.

Next I sponged Weathered Wood Distress Ink all around it and then removed the masks.

I then used a water brush and some more of the distress ink to add some shadows and just a bit of an indication of buildings in the distance. I then used this stamped piece as the focus of my lay out for which I used my favourite Prima Almanac Collection, both papers and elements. We show cased these a couple of months ago and they belong to my all time favourites!!

The final stage was to embellish the lay out still with some roses and black pearl swirls from my stash.

Well I hope you enjoyed my second project. I just know you will all want to come back next Monday when the wonderful Hels Sheridan will show us her first post for Snazzys

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