Monday, March 7, 2016

Darkroom Door Photostamp Layout


Hello friends! I hope you had a good weekend! It is Monday again and a new Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Our challenge this month is to make your own background, something that is one of my favourite things to do. Since this is the first Monday of the month we are also featuring a specific company or designer and this month it is Darkroom Door. You don't have to use Darkroom Door products to participate, but don't miss the wonderful inspiration by the team. Darkroom Door has gorgeous rubber stamps and a great variety. Some of my favourites are the Photo Stamps and I decided to use a whole bunch of them on layout.

Layers of ink - Darkroom Door Photo Stamp Layout by Anna-Karin
When I sat down to pick a Photo Stamp to use, I just couldn't make up my mind and I got the idea of turning them into a background for a scrapbooking layout, but using six different stamps. My layout was inspired by the Adventure Quote Stamp at the bottom, since it fit very well with my son and all the fun ideas that he has. Anton recently turned six years old, and at the back of the layout I wrote about the things he likes and don't like and so on. I can hardly believe he is so big already. This photo was taken a while ago, he has grown much taller in the past months and has gone from being one of the shortest in his age group to one of the tallest. 

Layers of ink - Darkroom Door Photo Stamp Layout by Anna-Karin
I started by stamping the Photo Stamps with Jet Black ink on glossy cardstock, since I love the look of these stamps on glossy. They look great on Specialty Stamping Paper too, but I was in the mood for glossy today. This beautiful castle stamp is of the Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany. 

Layers of ink - Darkroom Door Photo Stamp Layout by Anna-Karin
The stamped images were coloured with dye inks, starting with the lightest shades and gradually adding darker colours. If you start with the lightest shade, it is easier to get a good result with the darker colours. I like to use a Colorbox Stylus Tool when colouring these types of images, with oval blender tops. For a tutorial on colouring Photostamps on glossy cardstock, check out this colouring tutorial of mine. That tutorial shows how to colour photo stamps with six different mediums, and on various surfaces.

Layers of ink - Darkroom Door Photo Stamp Layout by Anna-Karin
I just love this Winter Tree stamp. For the narrow areas, such as the tree branches and trunk, I use a Ranger Craft Nib with a Craft Nib holder.

Layers of ink - Darkroom Door Photo Stamp Layout by Anna-Karin
This bike photo, taken in, I believe, Amsterdam, is also stunning and has so much depth. Again, I used a Craft Nib for many areas here. The Robin was also stamped on glossy cardstock and coloured the same way as the images.

Layers of ink - Darkroom Door Photo Stamp Layout by Anna-Karin
After colouring, I added highlights with a white gel pen and mist by dry brushing white pigment ink on the background with a Q-tip. This is Central Park in New York.

Layers of ink - Darkroom Door Photo Stamp Layout by Anna-Karin
This is the Fishing stamp. Even the sentiments were stamped on glossy cardstock. All the glossy paper looks nice on top of the rough watercolour paper. The watercolour background is Prima's 12 x 12 watercolour paper, misted with Distress Spray Stains and, when dry, stamped with the French Script background stamp and Potting Soil ink.

I hope you will join us in our Background challenge. As every week, you have a chance to win a $50 gift voucher from Simon Says Stamp. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.


If you want to, follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram, they post great stuff daily. 




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I hope you will have a creative week and thank you for visiting today!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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22 comments:

  1. Fabulous layout Anna-Karin, the photo of your son is so cute and all the stamped scenes around him are gorgeous! I spent ages looking at all the details and admiring each and every part of it, its altogether very beautiful :-)

    luv
    Lols x x x

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  2. Love the touch of color you added to the photo stamps!

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  3. Those photo stamps are gorgeous. They are now at the top of my wish list! I love how you used so many and the coloring is fantastic.

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  4. Those photo stamps are gorgeous. They are now at the top of my wish list! I love how you used so many and the coloring is fantastic.

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  5. Wow, those are great stamps! I love this kind and wish I had some (I've never tried them before). Your page looks terrific, thanks for the inspiration.

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  6. Anna-Karin, this is an amazing layout! Love that your son is 6, you have the 6 photostamps which you did such an awesome job with - I thought they were old time photos or postcards. You've made them look like old tinted photos, so beautiful!!

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  7. Gorgeous layout! One I'm sure you'll cherish for years to come!


    *mwah*
    Steph
    Simon Says Stamp!

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  8. I love this Anna-Karin! those stamps are fabulous!

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  9. Anna-Karin, those are lovely stamps and you have colored them beautifully! Fabulous layout! Being a bird lover that robin is my favorite and going on my wishlist. Hugs!

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  10. What clever subtle touches you've added to the photos! It really gives them a unique look and adds just the right bit of freshness. And as always, your quote combos made me happy!

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  11. Stunning, this layout is really stunning! these stamps are incredible, you made a perfect use of them! Your adorable picture is the best finishing you could have in this work! BArbara

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  12. OMG! I thought that were pictures you made! I wouldn't think that are stamps! WOW! Amazing project and what a surprise! Great soft coloring as if it's all real! LOVE IT. Hugs, Marzena

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  13. Wow... this is such a gorgeous layout, Anna-Karin. Love all the beautiful details on each images, and the great photo. :)

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  14. What a beautiful layout, Anna-Karin! What a memory treasure that is and your son is adorable! Cathie <3

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  15. what a stunning layout Anna-Karin...now I need to get me some of those gorgeous photo image stamps...hugs kath xxx

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  16. This is such a stunning layout, Anna-Karin! Amazing idea to use stamps as pictures! You have lots of them, I probably couldn't choose either! You've colored them perfectly so they almost look real photo's! Hugs, Sandra

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  17. This is stunning Anna-Karin and I can't believe that those are stamped images, they look so incredibly realistic and make such a incredible background for your layout ~ gorgeous! :)

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  18. I love this Layout -- I keep reading your description but woah, these looks like real photography! your talented never stop to impress me!
    hugs xx Zoey

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  19. I love your blog. It's so inspirational and arty. I have some of the darkroom door stamps but see I'll have to get more.

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