Darkroom Door "African Trees" Birthday Card

Once again, I am back after a few days away and decided I needed to get a wiggle on and get a card made for next Monday. As you can see from the photo below, the first attempt didn't go to plan as I forgot to use acetate to stamp the reflections, so had to start again! 

It just goes to show that it doesn't matter how experienced you are, mistakes are still made.  I did try to rescue the top half of the card, by cutting it in half.  It didn't look right so it got binned.

So to make this card, I used the Sweet Poppy "Aperture Circle Stencil" over a piece of square white card, held into place with a piece of low tack tape.

Within the circle I used the following Element Inks in the order typed (so lighter first, finishing in the darker shade):  Sundance, Russet Orange, Confetti, Emperor Red and Mulberry.

Keeping the stencil in position, I lay a piece of low tack tape slightly about the central line.

Using the tree and giraffe from the Backroom Door "African Trees" stamp set, I stamped the tree image in Versafine Clair "Morning Mist" grey ink on to a piece of acetate.  I then pressed the inked image on the acetate below the line of tape.  I repeated the process for the other tree and for the giraffe.

Removing the tape along the middle of the card, I then stamped the trees and the giraffe slightly higher than where the central line of tape had been, using Versafine Clair "Nocturne" ink.

Using a torn piece of copy paper and a finger dabber with Versafine Clair "Nocturne" black ink, I created the landscape, making the area at the bottom lighter (where the land would be reflected).

I added a touch of extra pink and yellow to the sky using Van Goch Pastel Pencils.

Using Versafine Clair "Morning Mist" grey ink and a sentiment from the Lawn Fawn "Simply Sentiments" stamp set, I stamped the Happy Birthday, then mounted the card on to red card and then a white card blank.

Week 6 - 52 Week Mini Art Card / Tag Challenge 2019

The prompt for Week 6 is "Wild Animals".

For my tag, I decided to go for more of an African theme of wild animals.  I started by making a coloured background of Distress Oxide Ink  in  Fossilised Amber, Carved Pumpkin and Spiced Marmalade.

Using an animal print stencil by Sweet Poppy, I coloured in the central panel of the tag using a Distress Ink in "Rusty Hinge" colour.  Using a striped animal print stencil, also by Sweet Poppy, I masked off the middle area and coloured in the stripes using a Distress ink in the shade of "Ground Espresso".  I then inked the edges of the tag in both dark red and black ink.

I stamped the sentiment (Darkroom Door Wild Africa Vol 1 stamp set) in Versafine "Black Onyx" ink.  I then stamped the trees and the giraffe images in the same ink, these are part of a Darkroom Door Set called "African Trees".

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Male Birthday Card

I find making cards for males quite difficult, especially if they don't have a hobby, but this card developed nicely.

I used a blend of three colours of Distress Inks through a masked off circle.  The birds, tree and giraffes are all from  a Darkroom Door stamp set called "African Trees".  The sentiment is from a Papertrey Ink stamp set called "Stylish Sentiments", all stamped in Versafine "Black Onyx".

I mounted it on a Kraft card blank.

Baby Girl Gift Tag

I've used various shades of Distress Oxides to create the coloured background for this tag.

I stamped the central image using a Stampendous wood mounted block (V061 Baby Romper Block 2004).  I used a Lavinia Stamps star clear pound stamp to stamp the multiple stars in the background.

I then added the daisy border using a Stamper's Anonymous "Ornate Trims" stamp. The other text is using Darkroom Door Stamps from their "Hello Baby, Vol 1".  I finally added some sticky back pearl gems for the romper buttons.

Darkroom Door Retirement Card

After 41 years working for the same company, my Brother retires this week.

For this card, I created a background of Distress Oxides.  I used Darkroom Door stamps from two of their sets "Wild Africa Vol 1" and "African Trees" stamped in Versafine Ink.

Week 23 - 52 Week Mini Art Card / Tag Challenge 2018

The prompt for Week 23 is "Favourite Past-time".

I have several favourite past times, but one that has been with me, from a very young age is reading books, it's my way of escaping.  Therefore, I have reflected that in my tag for this week.

I started off with a sheet pulled from an old hymn book with lots of text on it.  I then used several shades of Distress Oxides to colour the sheet, allowing the original text to show through.  Once dry, I used a Stamper's Anonymous typewriter stamp from their "Mini Blueprint" set.  For the books and the reading sentiment, I used a Darkroom Door stamp their "Bookworm" set.  

I die cut the letters for "word" and found a section of a decorative circular lattice die cut in my off-cut box and stuck that on to fill some of the gaps.

Week 21 - 52 Week Mini Art Card / Tag Challenge 2018

So we're nearling the half way point of this annual challenge.  

The prompt for Week 21 is "Go Wild".  This can be interpreted in many ways, I have gone for an Africa theme.

I used a blend of Tim Holtz Distress inks to create the background for this tag.  I've used Versafine ink on Darkroom Door stamps from their set called "African Trees".

I used some bright pink card stamped with a Darkroom Door  Zebra background stamp using Versafine ink.  I added a white border using a white Signo pen.  The Zebras are from another Darkroom Door Set called "Wild Africa Vol 1", cut out and layerd to the base.

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