Spellbinders Butterfly gift box

I decorated this little gift box for one of my daughter's friends:

This was really quite quick to make with Spellbinders dies and JustRite stamps - I think the colours make it even more delicious!

All the details can be found on the DownUnder Direct Inspiration blog.

Enjoy the weekend!

New Jolly Santa stamp from Darkroom Door

Meet Jolly Santa:

Here's the sample I made:

I stamped the image onto acetate, then coloured the reverse with Copic markers. I then melted the edges of the acetate a little with my heat gun (making this card a little challenging to photograph!).  I mounted this onto some 7Gypsies patterned paper - I love that the newsprint shows right through the image. The words come from the Christmas Reindeer set.

I can see this guy getting a bit of a workout as the year hurtles toward Christmas! Thanks for stopping by today.

Darkroom Door Edwardian Ladies

So very very vintage! Check out this card I made using the new Edwardian Ladies stamp from Darkroom Door:

It looks like an ad out of an old French newspaper.  I have coloured the ladies' dresses with my Old Paper Distress Marker. The frame itself is just divine - here I have added some liquid pearls, and I'm sure it's going to come in handy around other vintage images too.
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Spellbinders Peacock Feather Card

Love the starkness of white on a rich dark colour:

The intricacy of the Spellbinders dies, together with Bazzill Cardstock and JustRite Stamps sentiment....simple but effective :)

The full materials list can be found on the DownUnderDirect Inspiration Blog.

Thanks for looking!

New Shadow 3-Up Frame Stamp from Darkroom Door

I found the new shadow stamps from Darkroom Door a little more awesome than I first thought! Don't you love it when that happens?

The Shadow 3-Up Frame Stamp gave me a fantastic opportunity to play around with Distress Inks. Here I have swiped some yellow and green inks strategically over the rubber, so that it looks like sunset over some mountains. I then stamped a couple of the flowers from the Carved Flowers set in black Archival ink.

On this second card, I used some green and purple ink, putting more purple toward the bottom and then spritzed the rubber very lightly to get the colours to blend just a little before stamping. I then added the word and some hearts from the Whimsical Words set.

I'm really looking forward to further exploring the possibilities with this stamp!

New release Darkroom Door Film Frame

Love this new frame stamp from Darkroom Door - it's an awesome film frame, and is fantastic for framing photographs (or important parts of photos!).

 

 

Here I have used it to frame a photochip of a couple from the Venetian collection:

 

 

I stamped the film frame onto some acetate, which made it a breeze to position it onto the card. It's such a romantic image, exactly what I needed for an anniversary card.

 

Thanks for stopping by today!

 

Moustache Cards in Cardmaking, Stamping and Papercraft

I had fun making a couple of moustache cards that appear in the latest issue of Cardmaking, Stamping and Papercraft:

 

Click on the pic below to get to the magazine website:

Thanks for looking!