Darkroom Door Inspiration Card

 

Hello crafty friends! Ericka from Strangely Creative here and today I am continuing the tribute to beautiful Rachel from Darkroom Door. I only had the pleasure of meeting her in person once during Creativation in 2019. She was a lovely person and I had a great time taking one of her creative card classes. Her art and journaling were always an inspiration and I had the pleasure to use a variety of her stamp designs.

 

There are so many amazing Darkroom Door designs and it would be impossible to pick a favorite set but I have always loved the Butterflies Background Stamp. I started with some Lavinia Elements Ink blending with Mermaid, Blue Lagoon, and Violet Chalk.

I used the WOW! Golden Glow Embossing powder and heat embossed it up the beautiful background.

I then added the Part of You sentiment on black to finish my card.

 

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you check out some of the Darkroom Door beautiful stamps.

Topflight Stamps Supplies Used

Classic Forget-Me-Nots

Hi Topflight fans! Today I'm sharing a birthday card that I've made for my mother, whose birthday is next week. Her favorite color is blue, and I thought the beautiful For the Love of Stamps "Forget-Me-Nots" bouquet in the shape of a heart would be perfect.

I stamped the bouquet on Strathmore Bristol Paper and used a couple of yellow and a couple of blue Arteza Real Brush Pens and a water brush to watercolor the flowers. I also stamped extra medium and small flowers and used the same colors to watercolor these but used a Clear Wink of Stella Brush Pen for added shimmer. I fussy cut these extra flowers out and inked the edges with a black marker for a nice finished edge.

For the card front sentiment, I heat embossed the sentiment that says "It's Your Birthday!" using white embossing powder on dark blue card stock and hand cut banner tails on each side. I popped up this sentiment on double sided foam adhesive to give a bit of dimension. Then I added the extra fussy cut flowers on foam dots and positioned them to overlap the banner here and there. As a finishing touch, I also added three 6mm and 4mm Pretty Pink Posh Clear Droplets in to add sparkle, dimension, and the look of fresh dew drops on the card. I matted the card front with a pale blue card stock and then adhered everything to a dark blue card base.

I also created a simple card liner by stamping a Forget-Me-Not branch in the lower left corner of more of the pale blue card stock so that it would coordinate (but not be matchy-matchy) with the card front bouquet. To finish, I stamped an "Enjoy Your Big Day" sentiment in the upper center of the card liner; both sentiments are from the Power Poppy "Party Time" stamp set. 

Thanks for joining me today. If you're interested in any more details about how to make this card, please visit me on my blog HERE.