Imagination Is Boundless

Thank you for all the lovely comments on yesterday's post...it's always lovely to hear what you all think of my lil creations and it's nice to know that you think Mr Mojo hasn't gone on holiday...he certainly is making life difficult for me right now but when he does come visiting, he usually comes with a "whoosh" then disappears, just as quickly as he came!! lol.

Anyway, today is the second of the steampunk cards, featuring the Kanban stamps and some more of Tim's Alterations Dies. Hope you like it....

Thank you for popping by to take a look at today's post and I'll be visiting all your blogs later today!

Have a lovely day and hope you all stay dry!

See you tomorrow!

Love Emma xxx

Love Wish Dream

Well, I'm sitting here watching the rain pour down outside and wondering if Spring will ever come?? Hasn't the weather been diabolical and as for droughts and hose pipe bans...hmm!! I suppose the good thing with all this rain is at least the garden is being watered the natural way!!

Anyway, today I'm sharing the first of two cards that I made for a magazine commission but unfortunately, and something that has never happened before...two of us chose to use the same stamps and I was just one day too late and the other person got there before me. But at least now, I can get to share them with all my friends ~ I hope you like them.

The stamps are from Kanban and of course, no card is complete without a Tim Holtz die cut and I thought the weathered clock worked really well with this particular image. I added some Retro Flowers from Craftwork Cards, seam binding and a stamped quote from Lord Tim.

Time for me to do some work even though Mr Mojo is still very much in hiding. He did come out briefly to say hello and crack the whip, yesterday but shot back again quite quickly. Wish me luck for a visit today!!!

See you all soon!

Love Emma xxx

Classy and Fabulous

Good morning friends...hope you all had a lovely weekend! At the moment, these weeks are going by so fast and the weekends seems to disappear in a flash, I only blinked and it was Sunday night!!

Anyway, I've just popped on to share another card using those fabulous papers from the Grace Taylor paper pad, available at QVC. I hope you like it...

Once again, I kept the overall look of the card in the style of shabby chic, adding some die cuts, paper rolls and then stamped one of my favourite quotes from Coco Chanel. To be honest, I think I should've lived in the 1940's or 1950's. I just love everything about that era...for me, this era epitomizes how a woman should be ~ classy and fabulous and do it all with style!!

Right, time for me to go...at the moment, my mojo has gone astray and it doesn't want to be found!! So, wish me luck in looking for it because I have deadlines to meet and nothing to show for them yet!!

Eek...

I'll be round to see all your creations, later today!!

Bye for now and see you soon!

Love Emma xxx

Santa Claus Is Coming...

Hi everyone. Hope you're all having a wonderful week.

I'm just dropping by to let you all know that there's a new challenge starting today over at the Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog and the theme for this fortnight is:

BUTTONS

All we want you to do is use buttons somewhere on your creations and we can't wait to see what you create and if you should need any inspiration, then here's my card that I've made. You can also see all the fab projects over on the blog that the rest of the DT have come up with.

To make this card, I used papers and elements from Sarah's fab Tinseltown CD and made a handmade rose with the papers, added some Baker's Twine around the postcards and popped on a few buttons, some punched holly leaves and finally stamped a message onto the postcards.

So, that's it from me for today and I really hope if you have time to join in, you will ~ it would be lovely to see some familiar faces!

Bye for now!

Love Emma

xxx

Beautiful Birds

Well, today was a bit of a scorcher, wasn't it? And I'm now going to be a typical Brit and say..."I'll be glad when this weather is over"!! hehe I must admit I'm not a "33˚C" girl and today, was just too hot, if it was up to me I'd have snow all year round, just without the disruption it causes!

Anyway, the weather might have been hot but I thought I'd fill you all in on what's been happening here, in Emma's world!!

And first, I wanted to share the cards with you that I made for the June issue of Making Cards Magazine.  Some of you might have seen them but for those who haven't...this is the complete set of "Beautiful Birds". Hope you like them...

And now to what I've been up to this weekend...I had my first batch of home grown strawberries and they were delish!! I'm so proud of these little beauties.

And the rest of my weekend was taken up with, watching Wimbledon and yes, I'm devastated that Andy Roddick went out, a bit of shopping and of course, no shopping expedition is complete without the obligatory coffee and muffin! And then when I got home, I worked on my Craftwork Cards projects. As I might have mentioned once or twice, I'm excited~so, you'll have to forgive me, lol...Craftwork Cards have been invited to be part of a cross promotional partnership with Spellbinders and here is the first of a sneaky peek of what I've been up too. Can you tell what it is yet? This, is just one of my little pieces of creativity, all the others will be revealed very soon ~ just watch this space...

Oh well, I'm off to sit in front of a fan and try and stay cool!!

Hope you're all drinking lots of water and thinking of igloos and ice!

I'll be around to see all your creations and blogs, as soon as my Cuttlebug and I, have stop die cutting every piece of paper and card within an inch of it's life!!

See you soon!

Love Emma

xxx

Burlesque

I know that I say this a LOT but this week has absolutely flown by, hasn't it? I think it's gone quicker than any other week, yet and what a week it's been! The weather was absolutely horrendous here in NW London yesterday...rain, thunder, lightning and MORE rain and even though the garden needed the water, my little strawberry plants took a right old battering and don't even mention the herbs which have been badly bruised and battered by the heavy rain. I think this is a case for Richard Jackson's Flower Power, I hope that will give them the boost they need...

Anyway, enough about my days acting out "The Good Life"...and back to the cards. I hope you like today's share, which was a special card that I made for a friend's birthday.

This is an stamp from Kanban and I have used it in a previous card but I just love her so much and couldn't resist bringing it out again because I thought it would be perfect for my friend.

The image itself is handpainted with a combination of Kuretake's Art & Graphic Pens and Perfect Pearls, mixed with a little water. I added glitter highlights to the feathers on the dress, to give it that va va voom. And finally, to go with this glamorous lady, I made a selection of paper flowers, using Paperartsy's grunge flower die and the Retro Flower punch from EK Success and added them all down the side of the card.

Well, I'd better be going...there is a cup of coffee to drink and lots of crafting to be done.

Hope you all enjoy your long weekend. Have you got anything exciting planned?

See you all next week!

Love Emma

xxx

Keep Calm and Carry On

So, here we are at last...the eve of Kate and William's big day and London is buzzing with excitement about the Royal Wedding!! Will you all be watching? I can't wait to find out what Kate's dress looks like and which designer she chose to make it!! Regent Street and The Mall have the Union Jack flags flying high and it looks absolutely spectacular...this is why I love the city that I live in!! You can take London from the girl but you could never take the girl out of London...lol

And in honour of this Royal occasion, I thought it would be fitting to make a card to celebrate the big day...Kate, this one's for you, just in case you're looking!! hehe... I think the message probably says it all! :)

I really love the shabby chic look incorporating the Union Jack, that is popular in interior design at the moment and thought with this card, it would be nice to recreate that look but with papers, etc...hope you like what I made?

What Did I Use?

Keep Calm and Carry On Stamp: Kirsty Wiseman stamped onto Bazzill Card and embossed

Embossed Dots/Union Jack Backing Card: Kanban

UTEE melted in the Melt Pot and embossed with a Prince of Wales feather stamp

Vintage Ribbon: Creative Expressions (dyed using Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink)

Heart chipboard shape which I covered with gilding flakes

Flowers: Die cut using Tim's Tattered Florals Alterations Die & sprayed with Rich Gold Cosmic Shimmer

Tim Holtz Tissue Tape

and last but not least...the piece de resistance...

A very special button, fit for a King or Queen that I've been saving for a special occasion in my crafty stash and attached to the vintage ribbon bow!

Whatever you might be doing tomorrow, I hope you all have a fabulous time and enjoy the day.

Thanks for stopping by to look at what I make and for all your lovely comments.

See you on Saturday!

Love Emma

xxx

Entered into the Simon Says Stamp and Show Some Buttons Challenge

Flight of Fancy

Here we are, again! The start of a brand new week and the sun is shining, which makes such a lovely change from all this cold, damp weather we've had over the last few months!

So, how was everyone's weekend? Mine was fairly busy but I did manage to get lots of creativity going and this is the first of my shares!

Powder blue and cream is such a winning combination of colours for me...I love them in interior design and I love to wear this combination. So, it would be an absolute sin, not to include them in my work. Hope you like it...

The images are from a stamp set by Kanban and I coloured the using Promarkers. I combined the finished image with some beautiful designer papers from K&Company and once again, I couldn't resist adding my handmade flowers, which I made using a die from PaperArtsy. As a finishing touch, I popped on a sentiment and die cut flourish.

Well, I'd better get back to work...I received the latest collection from Craftwork Cards on Saturday and it is adorable! Check out my blog all week for all my lil creations that I make using these fabulous new items.

Hope you all have a wonderful week and see you tomorrow, with a cute lil bunny rabbit called Warren!! Be warned...you will instantly fall in love with him!!

Love Emma

xxx

La Isla Bonita

Well, today hasn't been the most productive of days...it started well but then the plumber arrived to fix the tap...and from that point on, I haven't known whether to laugh or cry!! It could've been such a simple job but as always, you're completely reliant on the workman and it's turned out to be a nightmare!! Oh well, tomorrow's another day and until then, I shall try to keep smiling!!

In the meantime, the good news is, I've managed to find my mojo that just lately, seems to be escaping me on a regular basis and I did make this card to share with you all...

On this card, I used a combination of Kuretake colouring mediums, including the Zig Art and Graphic Twin pens, their wonderful new Wink of Stella range, which if you look closely at some of these photos, you can just see the beautiful shimmer that they give and were the perfect pen for all the detail on the dress and fan. And last but not least, I've also been trying out their Kurecolor pens. If you love your alcohol pens, Copics or Promarkers and you haven't tried this range from Kuretake...then it is a must because these pens are fabulous and they are already becoming my new favourite crafting item and shh, might even replace my beloved Promarkers!! The main reason that I love them so much is because together with a broad tip on the one end, you also have a very fine tip which is brilliant for detail work!

The stamp is from Kanban and as soon as I saw it, it reminded me Madonna, in her La Isla Bonita video. Oh, how I've always wanted to wear a dress like that!! All the papers that I've used to make the roses and also on the background, are from Craftwork Cards and as a finishing touch I added ribbon and some die cut flourishes.

I hope you like today's share and that you all have a fabulous Wednesday!!

See you soon...

Love Emma

xxx

Showgirl!

Hi everyone and I hope you're all enjoying a sunny Tuesday afternoon...

At the moment, things are a bit slow here at the house of craft...can't seem to find my va-va-voom but that doesn't mean to say that I've not been productive. I'm just...snails pace, slow!!

Saying that, there is something to give me an incentive and get me crafting because last week I was lucky enough to receive this stash of goodies from Kuretake, who I hope to be working with a lot more in the coming months!

But for now, my first project for Kuretake, was to make a couple of cards using the Zig Art and Graphic Pens and what can I say...I was absolutely blown away by the quality of these pens! In the past I've used a LOT of pens in my work including Marvy Le Plume and also, some cheaper watercolour pens which are now relegated to the back of my cupboard somewhere but I really did enjoy working with these...these pens were juicy and so very rich in colour and what I found so amazing about them was the way they blended really well for watercolour washes, which I then applied to my stamped images and of which, you can see on the first card I'm sharing with you, below...

I hope you like it and I thought the image would show off what you can do with these pens, perfectly!! As finishing touches, I added a few flourishes, a handmade paper rose and some fibres from Kuretake.

The other wonderful thing about these fabulous pens is that you can stamp directly to paper with them and that's what I will show you in my next post... Colouring directly onto the stamp and then using this to create colour to an image!

So, I'm now going to have a further play with all the goodies from my stash and also a little pressie that I treated myself to from Lili of the Valley.

Hope you all have a wonderful day

Love Emma

xxx