Looking for stocking fillers this Christmas? Introducing our new Notepads. Suitable for journal blocks for scrapbook layouts, inserts for greeting cards, notes for your teachers, friends and family. Perfect gifts for Christmas!
Size: 147mm x 105mm. 50 sheets. 80gsm.
DDNP001 Floral, DDNP002 Pink Butterflies, DDNP003 Tree of Life and DDNP004 Wildflowers.
We have received such a great response to our new Background Stamps, Photo Stamps & Pearlescent Papers that we released only last week! It has been so busy here that I haven't had a chance to blog - although I have so much to blog about! I just wanted to pop in here to say that we're alive, orders are shipping to stores, some stores will already have their stock of our new products on their shelves, and to also share a card.
I needed to make a card in like only one minute for our 16 yr old nephew. We were unexpectedly racing out the door to visit them and it was a good chance to give him his birthday card and present. But the card - I hadn't done the card!!!! I had one minute. No point picking out paper and layering or doing anything too fancy. Quick, quick, quick, what's an idea that a 16 yr old boy would like? I always go to the Robot stamp sets for the boys... can't go wrong no matter what age they are. Here's what I did:
I grabbed the Robot Vol 1 stamp set, and stamped the three different robots in different Archival inks (Grape, Teal, Crimson). Then stamped the speech bubble, and then the quote inside.
So there's no layering, no fancy edges, nothing. Just a simple, quick card, and yet I think it conveys the message just as well!
Thanks again for your feedback and response to our new products! I'm working on some more samples to share with you, so will be back to share those soon!
Introducing Photo Stamps:
Our new Photo Stamps are created exclusively from Rachel's photographs. Perfectly detailed, they can be used with inked backgrounds, coloured with markers, stamped onto textiles and so much more! Each stamp measures: 118mm x 80mm.
Sold as an unmounted red rubber stamp in clear hangsell packaging.
DDPS001 Little Door, DDPS002 Roses,
DDPS003 Country Cottage, DDPS004 Venetian Gondolas
Introducing Background Stamps:
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!!!
Sold as an unmounted red rubber stamp in clear hangsell packaging.
DDBS001 Star, DDBS002 Plaid, DDBS003 Floral, DDBS004 Dots
New Pearlescent Papers:
Our new Pearlescent papers will delight many! Pretty pink and purple butterfiles 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!
DDA4005 Pink Butterflies, DDA4006 Purple Butterflies,
DDA4007 Gerberas 12up, DDA4008 Yellow/White Gerberas 12up
Stamp Positioner & New Background Stamping Block:
The Background Stamping block is designed to be used with our new Background Stamps. Hand-polished with hourglass edges for easy handling. Size: 160mm x 115mm
The Stamp Positioner will help you stamp images exactly where you want
them! Create straight borders, design scenes, stamp letters, and use
them for two-step stamping techniques with our two-step stamp designs!
DDSP001 Stamp Positioner Kit, DDSB006 Background Stamping Block
All new products are available now! Click here for a full list of our current stockists.
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As you know, we've hosted quite a few swaps over the past year or so, and some the participants have even included a handmade thank you card for us using some Darkroom Door products! A thank you card is certainly not required, but wow, we are honored that they've taken the time to create one for us, and we have LOVED seeing the different creations! I wanted to share them with you... so here's a few photos:
Clockwise from top left: Sandra de Marchi (Full Bloom Vol 1), Robyn Wood (Prague Vol 1), Vicky Fernando (Full Bloom Vol 1), Sarah Schwerin (Butterflies).
Clockwise from top left: Robyn Wood (Wildflowers Vol 1), Sandra de Marchi (Ornate Elements), Jenene Evans (Viva La Flora Montage). Isn't that small card the cutest thing you've ever seen?
Left: Sandra de Marchi (Full Bloom Vol 1). Right: Rachel Clarke (Full Bloom Vol 2 & Wildflowers).
Thank you so much ladies!! Just hosting the swap is reward enough, but we really appreciate the time and effort you've put into these cards and will treasure them!
Here's a couple of ATC's I created this week:
Supplies:
Darkroom Door Venetian Vol 2 Rubber stamps (Map background)
Darkroom Door Venetian Vol 2 Filmstrip
Darkroom Door Venetian Wordstrip
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Sprocket, Arrow & Brad
Supplies:
Darkroom Door Viva La Flora Vol 2 Rubber stamps
Darkroom Door Viva La Flora Wordstrips
Tim Holtz Idea-oligy Mini Clip
Adirondack Inkpad Mountain Lake
Thanks for looking!
- Rachel
Jill has been busy again... and this project blew me away! Check it out:
Supplies:
Darkroom Door Wilderness Montage
Darkroom Door Wilderness Filmstrips & Wordstrip
Tags
Muslin, ribbons, buttons, old papers...
Jill says:
I made this to celebrate the freedom and exhilaration of glorious nature!!! All of the Filmstrips were heavily distressed using Distress Inks and soaking in water. When they were dry, I further sanded them to give them even more of a weathered look. I adore them!
Starting by layering distressed (hmmm...am seeing a pattern here lol!) tags, I have machine stitched layers of tags and photos then chose some of the gorgeous wordstrips that inspire me to see the beauty in nature.
I have then dyed some muslin (dyed again with Distress Inks) and randomly stitched layers of muslin, flowers, leftover papers and ribbons, each toned in earthy colours.
To finish off I have added vintage buttons and then hand stitched glass beads and moss coloured thread.
Isn't this divine!!! I just want to run my fingers gently over the top to feel all that exquisite texture!
Thanks Jill!!!
Cardmaking Stamping & Papercraft magazine recently featured an article showing a set of 4 Christmas postcards I created using the Christmas Reindeer rubber stamp set! Here's a photo from the article:
The article is in Vol 15 No 5. I've used the Christmas Reindeer, Ornate Elements and Melody stamp sets.
Here's some images of each postcard:
The back of the postcards look like this:
Ready for you to write your Christmas message!
And did you know there's only 68 sleeps until Christmas!?
The challenge on Wednesday Stamper this week is 'Keys'. I pulled out the Doors stamp set to create a quick ATC:
The background on the tag was created with Distress Inks, then sponged Sepia ink around the edges. Stamped the key and quote then assembled the ATC.
- Rachel
Zodiac sign: Gemini
Lives: Brisbane
Known for: Hmmmm.... jury's still out on that one.
Blog: jillgg.typepad.com
Loves to:
Laugh, stay home and make art, take photos, be with my family and friends, eat chocolate!
Loves to create: Anything and everything! I love to find treasures and turn them into pieces of art!
Favourite Darkroom Door product: Wow - tough questions. The entire Prague collection is divine...I could actually eat it! I also adored the photochips and the filmstrips.
Let’s say you’ve been invited to come into our darkroom for a day. What would you bring with you? Distress Inks, Embossing powders, burly young men (or vampires?) to hold Rachel back while I cleared the place LOL!
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Very funny Jilly! Just bring Edward Cullen and you can have whatever you want :)
We're so excited to have Jill as our Guest Artist! Her work is so detailed, textural, inked up.... just wait till you see the projects she has to show! Here is the first one:
Wall Hangy Thingy (even love her names!)
Supplies:
Darkroom Door Prague Photochips
Darkroom Door Prague Wordstrips
Darkroom Door Essentials 4 Collection Enjoy Life Rubber Stamps
7 Gypsies Patterned paper
Ranger Distress Inks
Ranger Embossing Powder
Calico
Muslin
Vintage Buttons
Wooden skewers
String
Here's some instructions from Jill:
How delicious is this project?!!! My jaw hit the floor when I first saw this... absolutely adore it! Thanks so much Jill for sharing your talents with us!!
We'll be sharing more of Jill's projects over the next couple of weeks... so stay tuned!
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