A little birdie told me...

Today, is day four of my Clarity shares and I really hope you're all enjoying them as much as I enjoy sharing them with you! This card was made using the Snowdrops, Clever Corner and Sentiments stamps. This is such a beautiful stamp set and I love the simplicity of the stamp...and because of that I really just wanted to keep this card as elegant and as simple as possible. And what better way to do that, than to use embossing powders which showcased all the detail and beauty of the image.

 I chose to go with the olive green card for the show but I also made this variation in black and cream, which I absolutely love!!

So, I hope you're all having a fabulous day and I'll be back tomorrow with the final cards that I made for the show. In my opinion, I saved the best for last. Once again, thank you for all your very kind comments and a big hello to all my new followers!

See you tomorrow...

Love Emma

xx

Santa's Lil Helper

Happy Friday everyone!!

It's the end of another busy week and even though I've been playing with lots of Halloween goodies, you can't forget that Christmas is just around the corner. Where did the year go? Have you started your Christmas cards? 

Even though, I've been busy beavering away making all these cards to share with all of you, my own cards for friends and family, are something I haven't even begun to think about...what colour theme shall I do? Traditional or contemporary? Arghhh...at this rate, I'll be making them Christmas Eve!

Anyway, I might not have a clue what I'm doing yet but I do know that I loved working with this fabulous set of acrylic stamps from Kanban. I just adore the style of the reindeer, it's such a fabulous image.

Once again, I've made the card in the style quite distressed looking and used plenty of products from Tim Holtz to achieve it. I die cut some beautiful papers, using the Poinsettia die from Spellbinders and made these handmade flowers that I attached down the side of the card, together with die cut snowflakes. The reindeer was stamped using a Briliance ink pad in Lightening Black onto textured cardstock, which I then distressed around the edges and used the Wild Honey Distress Ink to add some colour.

I hope you all have a fabulous weekend and thank you for stopping by to take a look at my little creation. Your love and comments are always appreciated.

Love Emma

xx

A Kiss From A Rose

Another day and another Halloween card! Hope you're not getting bored yet because I did tell you I was having a blast making all these projects and there are just a couple more to come!! :)

Once again, I've chosen to share something completely different from the last card but to show what a wonderful effect you can achieve by just using papers, embossing folders and rubber stamps. All the products that I've used here are by the genius that is, Tim Holtz. From his Tattered Florals die which I used to make another of my 3D handmade roses, through to the stamps and the cobweb embossing folder. I love dimension and texture on cards and this card is all about that. It's a card to be touched and felt and by choosing fairly simple in colours to work with and using just red, white and black...I think it makes the perfect, spooky card for anyone who wants to thrill and chill on Halloween!!

Happy Wednesday to everyone!

Love Emma

xx

Day Dream Believer...

The sun is shining and spring is in the air ~ it's the perfect Sunday!

And here's another little creation that I've made...

Once again, I used Leanne Ellis' ~ beautiful and by now, one of my much loved and used, 'Dreamer' rubber stamp from Sugar Nellie at Funky Kits. This time, I stamped it up the image in brown and used various shades of pinks, browns and neutral tones to colour it in. The backing papers by K & Company, are the perfect match to compliment the colours that I chose for the main image and they work so well with the ribbons and the gorgeous Petaloo flower, with the little button I popped in the middle. I colourwashed the greetings plaque with a Brilliance Dew Drop ink pad, pearlescent orchid, to give me the right shade of pink and then adhered all these elements to the matts and layers, which I'd already stuck to my card blank. Some of the matts, I had already embossed through the Cuttlebug using the script embossing folder and some of the paper, I tore and then used distress ink on for an aged feel.

Untamed...Part 1

Last year, I came across an illustrator called Suzanne Woolcott and instantly fell in love with her images. So, when I found that these images were available as rubber stamps and papercrafting materials, I was in my element and I don't think it's any secret how much I love Suzanne Woolcott's illustrations and how much I love working with them.  So, this particular card is the first of three that I've made, using the same Gorjuss, "Untamed" image but trying to make each one, just that little bit different.

For this one, I wanted to keep it fairly tonal and of course, that tone is one of my favourite colours...pink! To begin with, I stamped the image onto a piece of white card, that I'd die cut using the large oval scallop die from Spellbinders. I used distress inks around the edge and coloured in the image, using Promarkers and Marvy le Plume watercolour pens. I matted a piece of backing paper onto square cardstock and then layered the stamped image over it. I used Martha Stewart's butterfly stamp and punch, to create all the little butterflies and adhered these onto the card, slightly lifting the wings, to give the look of them, fluttering around. The leaf fronds, using another Martha Stewart punch, were punched from white card stock and then I dragged a Brilliance Dew Drop ink pad over the surface to give me the co-ordinated colour that I wanted and then flittered it with glitter. Finally I added a silk flower in the corner, with a small button in it's centre.

Happy New Year!

I made these menus for a friend's New Year's Eve dinner party that they're having tonight and seeing as it is NYE, I thought it would be appropriate to share them with you. I handpainted these wonderfully, funny little cat images with watercolours and then highlighted some areas with Sakura glitter pens.

For the menu plaque, I wanted to use a specific colour and as always, no matter how much paper or card I have, and believe me, it's a LOT, I can NEVER find the right piece and shade that I need! So, in this instance, I used ink to paper technique and with the help of a Brilliance Dew Drop ink pad in Cosmic Copper, I found the exact colour I wanted.  After stamping the word menu with my alphabet stamps, I added the final touch of little cat paws as these naughty cats scamper across the card, ready to sing their little hearts out and bring in the next decade....

So, as the final hours of 2009 tick down, I just wanted to say...

Wherever you're going and whatever you're doing...

Have fun tonight, be safe

and

 hope you all have a wonderful, happy and peaceful 2010!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!