My Happy Scrap Space: Darkroom Door DT

Hi all!!

I am back today with a set of cards I created for Darkroom Door featuring the brand new Small Glass Dome Eclectic Stamp.

There are so many Darkroom Door stamps that will fit inside this glass dome. The fun is going through your stamps and trying different things. I chose to put plant specimens inside mine. I then added some poor, confused butterflies trying to get to the plants. :-)

To make these cards I first stamped the Splatter Background Stamp onto a piece of smooth white cardstock cropped to fit my card front. I used Ranger Seafarer Archival Ink to stamp it and then fried with a heat gun. Next I pressed my Speckled Egg Distress Oxide ink pad onto a heat resistant craft sheet and spritzed with water. I swiped the stamped piece through the ink and set aside to dry. Once dry I ruled a line across the piece using a waterproof black pen to create somewhere for the dome to sit. I then coloured it with some watercolour paint. I inked the edges of the piece and added it to my card front.

Next I stamped the Small Glass Dome onto another piece of smooth white cardstock using Jet Black Archival Ink. I also stamped the dome onto a piece of printer paper to create a mask. To create the mask I just cut out the glass area of the stamped image. I then placed this over the image stamped on the cardstock and lined it up so that only the glass area of the dome was exposed. I applied the Splatter Background Stamp over this using a lighter blue (Sky Blue) Archival Ink. I used an ink blending tool to add a little Weathered Wood Distress Ink to the glass area. I coloured the base of the dome using some brown watercolour paint. Once dry, I stamped a small branch from the Bold Blossoms Rubber Stamp Set.

Once the ink and paint were all completely dry, I applied a layer of Distress Embossing Ink to the glass area of the dome and heat set with ultra thick clear embossing powder. I repeated this step for a lovely smooth glass like finish. I added the dome to the card front using 3D foam. To finish I stamped some butterflies from the Butterflies Rubber Stamp Set and a sentiment using the word stamps in the You Are Everything Rubber Stamp Set and added to the card.

Here are a couple more cards I created using the same techniques.