Forever Blowing Bubbles...

Good morning friends...

Hope you're all having a great week!?! Mine has been another busy one and I've been doing lots of prep for new projects but I think Mr Mojo still wants to be on his Christmas and New Year break and at the moment, he isn't playing nicely!! Oh well, I'm sure if I coax him with treats and copious amounts of coffee, he might come out of hiding and pay me a visit!! *crosses fingers tightly*, lol!!

In the meantime, here's some cards that I made earlier for the Clarity Stamp shows that were on last weekend. As always, I hope you love what I've made...

The first card has a background created using the Gelli Plate and one of Barbara's beautiful stencil designs. After all the work to create this monoprint, I wanted to really showcase the background with this card, and as with all my Clarity samples, I didn't want to overcomplicate the card. So, I added and stamped this wonderful quote from Clarity Stamp onto some card which I die cut into an oval shape and used some natural twine and seam binding. To complete the card I added a small embellishment made from UTEE, melted in the Melt Pot.

And last but by no means least, here are a couple of my other samples from the shows...

So, that's it from me for today and as always, I really appreciate you taking the time to visit me and I'd just like to say a big thank you for all the lovely comments on my last post!! *big smiles*

I'll be back soon but I hope you all have a fab day and bye for now!

Love Emma xxx

Where Flowers Bloom, So Does Hope...

Hello friends...

Thank you so much for all the lovely visits to my last post and for all the fabulous comments that you left, they really do make all the hard work that goes into creating all my pieces, so very worthwhile!!

Today, I'm sharing a couple of my Clarity DT samples using the Chrysanthemum stamps and stencils that Barbara was selling on Create and Craft at the weekend. As always, I really hope you love what I've created with this set...

To begin with I wanted to show you the versatility of the stencil and to show you that if you don't own a Gelli Plate, (which I know a lot of you have told me you don't and you haven't been buying the stencils because you think they're for Gelli Plates only), then don't panic because there is so much more that you can do with a stencil!! For this card, I embossed the stencil as in the previous post and then inked with Distress Inks through the stencil, shading it with different colours to give the look that I wanted. I inked around the edges, aged the card a little then stamped one of my favourite quotes to complete the card before matting and layering it onto kraft card.

For the second card, I used the stamps and as you can see I kept the same colour tones as in the previous card but the overall look is completely different. I stamped the chrysanthemum images five times and coloured each of them in before painstakingly cutting them all out. I then built up the flowers in a cluster and used the new Letterbox stamps to stamp the message.

To complete the card, I embossed the background through an embossing folder and added some seam binding, hand cut leaves and Liquid Pearls accents. 

So, that's it from me for today and as always, I hope I've inspired you with my makes!!

Thank you so much for stopping by and I'm already looking forward to reading all your comments.

Have a lovely day everyone and see you tomorrow with my final Clarity share...

Love Emma xxx

You Raise Me Up....

Hello friends and a big hello to all my new followers! Welcome aboard and I'm really looking forward to getting to know you all and hope you love all my future posts and creations!! :)

It's been a busy weekend for me again and I did try to attempt to start decorating the house and putting the Christmas tree up but...best laid plans and all that ~ it didn't really work out and at the moment, the house resembles the Christmas department at John Lewis, baubles, reindeers and sparkly things everywhere!! So, guess what I'm hoping to do today after a little bit of creative work?? 

...and speaking of creativity, the Barbara Gray fans amongst you will know that yesterday was the last of the TV shows for this year, (can't believe I'm saying that) but today I'm sharing the first of my Clarity DT samples that I made for these shows and as always, I hope you love what I've made!

This card is really all about the stencil......and embossing...and inking...and shading...and colour tones...and a little bit more shading!! All the inking is done using Tim Holtz Distress Inks from Ranger and as for the rest, I let the beautiful image do the talking and as always, with my Clarity samples, I didn't overcomplicate the card.

You can just see from the photos the embossed areas which I achieved by running the stencil through a Grand Calibur. Because of the size of the stencil you will need a larger embossing/die cutting machine and the stencil will not fit through the Big Shot.

So, that's it from me for today and I hope I've inspired you with what I've created.

Thank you so much for stopping by and you know how much I appreciate your comments and visits, especially at this busy time of year!!

I'll be back with another of my Clarity DT shares tomorrow but until then, have a wonderful day!!

Bye for now...love Emma xxx

Rise and Shine...

Good morning friends...

Well, the weather outside is frightful, cold, damp and grey but I hope you are all well and keeping dry and warm!! Today, it's a very quick post from me but I'm here to share the first of my latest DT samples from the Clarity shows that were on Create and Craft at the weekend! As always, I really hope you love them...

The bright orange background to this card was created in exactly the same way by using Distress Stains as the backgrounds that I created for a couple of my Tim Holtz Halloween projects that I featured on my blog last week. I then used the gorgeous Clarity Starburst stencil, which is already a favourite of mine, to create the pattern. The image itself, has my signature skyline and a repeat of the starburst pattern at the bottom all created using Distress Inks. The hard thing was to make sure that both of these patterns lined up perfectly to give one complete round starburst...and after a couple of attempts, yay....it did!!

I stamped the silhouette of the weather vane and cockerel onto the background and added the Rise and Shine message to the centre of the starburst.

So, I really hope you loved sample number one and as always, I really appreciate all your visits and the lovely comments you always leave ~ THANK YOU!!

I'll see you tomorrow with another Clarity share but until then have a wonderful day and if you're off to a Bonfire party tonight...stay safe and have a great time!

Bye for now...love Emma xxx