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

In Memoriam Rachel Greig from Darkroom Door Stamps

  Hi Everyone,

Cornelia here today. This week we are remembering Rachel Greig from Darkroom Door on the Topflight blog. She recently passed away, battling pancreatic cancer. She is a huge loss for the stamping community. She was incredibly talented, inspirational and kind. Sending my sympathies to her family.

I recently added this wonderful stamp set to my collection. It's called Twisted Tree. I started making the background first, cutting a stencil with a generic circle die. Brushed the center with Forest Moss distress ink and Shahara Elements ink. Brushed around the circle in black, using the cut out as mask. Stamped the tree and the birds and bats. Used acrylic ink with a thin brush to add some white highlights. Stamped and heat embossed the sentiments onto black cardstock and added them. I also added "SPOOKY" with Versamark, although it does not come out well in the photo. 

I hope you liked this. Thanks for visiting. 

See you next week with more Topflight Stamps inspiration.

And here are the stamp supplies I used: 

Twisted Tree, Blender Brushes

Versafine Clair, Elements ink Sahara

DarkRoom Door Stamps - Rachel Greig

 Hello Carfty Friends, Mary Key here and today along with my teammates are showcasing Darkroom Door Stamps in honor of Rachel Greig, red rubber stamps. I have made a card using Textured Map Stamp and also Vintage Planes.

For my background, I used watercolor paper and some distress inks and oxide. I then stamped with Textured Map Stamp all over and then used some WOW embossing powder for the outline of my watercolor paper for texture. I then stamped Vintage Planes with black ink on vellum and tore the sides and then used Tsukineko - Versafine Onyx Black ink for the word and completed my card using white cardstock.

Thank you for stopping by and keep creating!

Topflight Stamps Supplies Used:

Darkroom Door - Texure Map

Darkroom Door - Vintage Planes

Tsukineko - Versafine Onyx Black

Be Creative

It's Tuesday so you've got Kathi here to share a project with you. This week my teammates and I are showcasing Darkroom Door's wonderful projects. Rachel Greig was the muse behind Darkroom Door. She was a photographer, an artist, a visionary, and a genuinely kind strong woman. Sadly, she recently passed away. In honor of her life and her legacy, Topflight Stamps is hosting a challenge on social media. 

Here's the information about this special event from the most recent Topflight Stamps Newsletter:

"We will be having a fun social media challenge to celebrate Darkroom Door Stamps and Stencils and honoring the life of Rachel Grieg. She would love nothing more than to have so many new projects created using the products she created.

To enter the challenge, just create a project using at least one Darkroom Door product. Post it to the Topflight Stamps Design Gallery on Facebook and/or post it on your Instagram feed and use the hashtag #TFSDDC. I'm looking forward to seeing all the amazing things that will be created. I encourage you all to be on the lookout and leave positive comments on these projects. Let's all spread some kindness in memory of Rachel.

The prize for this challenge is a huge package of Darkroom Door stamps with a retail value of over $200!!! To be eligible to win, post your project any day in September and be sure to use the hashtag #TFSDDC. A winner will be chosen at random on October 1 and announced shortly thereafter. The more projects you post the better your chances of winning! I think this is going to be really fun!"

Here's my card using the Pen and Ink Cling Rubber Stamp Set, the Spanish Tiles Cling Background Rubber Stamp, and the "Be Creative" sentiment from the Make Art Cling Sentiment Strip Rubber Stamp.

The pen, from the Pen and Ink Cling Rubber Stamp Set , was stamped using Copic-friendly ink meant for no-lines coloring onto white cardstock and onto sticker paper. The sticker paper version was fussy-cut and layered atop its counterpart as a mask. 

The lidded ink bottle, from the Pen and Ink Cling Rubber Stamp Set, was stamped with black Copic-friendly ink onto the image panel and onto sticker paper, which was adhered atop its counterpart. Two other bottles from the set were positioned on either side of the center bottle, then stamped onto the image panel and onto sticker paper. The sticker paper versions were placed over their counterparts as masked.

A ruler was placed horizontally across the image panel covering the bottom part of the bottles and the pen. Mermaid Elements Ink by Lavinia Stamps and greener aqua Distress ink were brushed over the masks and the ruler onto the image panel to add a colored background.

The ruler was moved to cover the top part of the image panel and a Copic friendly tan ink was brushed over the bottom parts of the masked images and the ruler onto the base of the image panel.

The masks were lifted and the images were colored with Copic markers. White gel pen was added to the bottles as a highlight. The inage panel was die-cut with the one of the dies from the Card Passe Partout Rectangle Essential Die Set by Studio Light, which left a piece of inked cardstock to use for the sentiment.

Mermaid Elements Ink by Lavinia Stamps was brushed over a piece of white cardstock. Warm Breeze VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko was used to ink the The Spanish Tiles Cling Background Rubber Stamp, which was then stamped onto the Mermaid-inked cardstock to create the background layer. This was slightly trimmed, then edged with  Warm Breeze VersaFine Clair Ink .

Warm Breeze VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko was brushed over a piece of plain cardstock cut .25" larger than the image panel die-cut and a 6.25" x 4.25" textured white card to create perfectly matching layers.

Post-It Notes were used to cover the sentiments surrounding "Be Creative" on the Make Art Cling Sentiment Strip Rubber Stamp, Warm Breeze VersaFine Clair Ink was used to ink the sentiment, the Post-It Notes were removed, and the sentiment was stamped onto the scrap of leftover inked cardstock mentioned above. 

Framed Sentiment Dies were used to cut the sentiment and a piece of textured white cardstock that had been inked with Warm Breeze VersaFine Clair Ink.

The layers were assembled as shown above to complete the card.

Please pop over to my blog, Kat's Tales of Stamping, for more concise instructions and complete supply lists.

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Pen and Ink Cling Rubber Stamp Set  by Darkroom Door

Spanish Tiles Cling Background Rubber Stamp by Darkroom Door

Make Art Cling Sentiment Strip Rubber Stamp by Darkroom Door

Card Passe Partout Rectangle Essential Die Set by Studio Light

Mermaid Elements Ink by Lavinia Stamps

Warm Breeze VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Thanks for visiting today! I hope that you participate in our Darkroom Door event!

Rachel Grieg of Darkroom door - memorial tribute. Inspire Beauty

Hi everyone MEL PILLING here. This week we are celebrating the lovely Rachel Grieg of Darkroom Door, a creative, talented and inspirational woman who was a huge part of our community. She leaves behind her a legacy of beautiful work, and will remain an inspiration to all of us. Thank you, Rachel.

All the stamping was done using Versafine Clair inks .  I began by stamping the bottle in Morning Mist . I then coloured it with watercolour markers in pale blue and grey. I stamped the various flowers using, Purple delight , Shady Lane , Monarch , Golden Meadow, Cheerful and Fallen leaves .  I then added similar coloured pencil crayons to give dimension.  I splattered Elements Inks with a Fan brush .  I used Emperor red  and Mulberry   I then added the sentiment.  Finally, I added some liquid pearls to the flower heads for dimension, then added some bees for …well who doesn’t love bees in flowers? 

RACHEL GRIEG-DARKROOM DOOR STAMPS USED

You Are Everything

Bottles

Journey

VISIBLE IMAGE STAMPS USED

Bee Happy

We are so lucky to have had this talented, creative woman in our community, bless her on the next part of her journey.

Thank you for joining me today on the Topflight Stamps blog.

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Missing you

 Hello! Alanna here and I'm excited to share with you these cards featuring stamps from both Hobby Arts and Lavinia. Scroll to the bottom of this post to see how you can save 15% on your purchases. 

To get started for these cards, I took the round image from the awesome Shadow Stamps set from Hobby Arts and stamped it onto a piece of white card stock that was trimmed down to be around 3x5 inches. I then stamped the beautiful Bron fairy image from Lavinia directly over top of the previous stamping. A small sentiment from the Basic Wishes set from Studio Light. I added each of these panels with foam tape onto some cream A2 notecards.

If you missed my post two weeks ago, I used the Shadow Stamps and Basic Wishes set on those cards as well. Click here for that post.

Find all the products I used on my cards linked below in the Topflight Stamps store.

And don't forget that Donna is running a Labor Day sale going on now through Tuesday, September 5th. It's a great time to get stocked up on your crafty goodies!

Crafty hugs! ~ Alanna

Lavinia Fall Sunset Journal Page

 

Happy September friends! Ericka from Strangely Creative here and today I am playing along with the DT team and creating a fall scene. It's a bit hard to get into the fall theme when its still 104 degrees Fahrenheit here in TX but I am trying lol. I created a background using alcohol inks and then took out my Lavinia Stamps to create a fun scene.

 

I stamped the Lavina set Mae in Versafine Clair Nocturn ink and highlighted portions with a white gel pen. I also stamped the Lavinia Mystic Swirl, Lilium, and Floral Wreath stamps around my journal page. I had portions of my page that were a little sticky from the alcohol ink, so I added some left over foil and some shiny accents.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful cool weekend!

Topflight Stamps Supplies Used