Steampunk Spells...

Hello friends...

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend and for all those who watched Downton Abbey last night...ooo, did you love it as much as me?? I can't wait for the next episode!! Other than my weekend TV-fest, I've been beavering away at Chez Williams' and over that last couple of weeks, I've got plenty of new projects that I can show you very soon...so, watch this space!! And of course, today is the start of Tim Holtz's Creative Chemistry 102 which I'm so excited about. I've already had a quick look at Day 1 and what we have in store for us throughout the week and I definitely can't wait to get started!!

But in the meantime, I wanted to share a special little project that I've been working on using the gorgeous Steampunk Spells papers from one of my favourite companies, Graphic 45. There's a lot of work in this piece, so...that means one thing and one thing only, lots of piccies to browse through!! Right, without further ado, I hope you enjoy my Steampunk Spells dressing table...

I always forget to photograph my projects in their early stages and this one would have been perfect to show you from scratch but I will tell you this started life as a chocolate box from Tesco, which I cut the front off to give me a drawer section, stuck the top of the box to the bottom of the box, covered it all in scrunched up tissue paper to add texture, added a chipboard top and bottom, cotton spool legs and then painted the whole thing black!

You'd think that was the hard part done but no, I needed to make a drawer to fit in the box and to get those measurements perfect wasn't easy!! But after a lot of turning the air blue, it finally worked and ta-dah...I had my basic little drawer unit.

Now, all I needed to do was add lots of gorgeous halloween bits and pieces and for that part, I'll leave it to my photos to do the talking...but I think you'll spot some fab Idea-ology pieces, a few Sizzix die cuts and all mixed up with a few other goodies from Steampunk Spells!!

The one thing that I couldn't pick up very well on camera was the liquid pouring out of the little vial but I think you can just about see it in the photo above.

Well, I really hope you loved this piece as much as I loved making it. I just wish you could see it all in person because there is just so much detail that maybe the photos can't do justice!!

Thank you all for visiting today and I can't wait to read all your comments. See you soon with another little creation and hope you all have a fabulous evening!

Bye for now...love Emma xxx

Memories...

Good morning everyone, and a big hello to all my new followers!! I'm really looking forward to getting to know you!!

Well, after years of talking about it today is the big day and the Olympics have finally arrived... There's one thing that I do know...I won't be going anywhere near London over the next couple of weeks, and as for a tube, those are bad enough any time of the year let alone when a huge event like this is happening and the city will be packed to the rafters with tourists!!!

Anyway, if you're not interested in the Olympics and you have some crafty time on your hands, a new challenge has started over on the Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog.

 The lovely Clare has picked the theme of:

ALTER SOMETHING

...and we would love it if you could come and join us with this challenge and there's lots of inspiration from the team over on the blog. Here is my piece for the challenge...another of those little photo memory boxes, made using paper and embellishments from Sarah's Say Cheese Digi Kit, which can be bought HERE!

I printed out my bits and pieces to create this box onto paper, card and acetate and then added some ribbon and pins to complete it.

Okey dokey, lots to do and deadlines to meet...so, time for me to go!!

I'll be back soon with another share and also, be dropping by your blogs to see all your lovely creations!!

See you soon and bye for now!

Love Emma xxx 

The Sewing Room

Hello everyone! Hope you all had a lovely, relaxing weekend...

I can't believe that we're already in the second week of November and someone actually told me over the weekend, it's only 50 sleeps until Christmas!!! Eek, I haven't even thought about Christmas, which is VERY rare for lil ol' organised me. I really do think that this year, and I apologise now for what you are about to hear and please forgive me but I think my friends might be receiving, *put your hands over your ears for this next bit ~ lol*...shop bought cards!!! I know, it's a sin but I can't see a gap in my schedule to even think about making them, let alone actually getting down to making them. Ho hum, it's a good job I love what I do, isn't it?!? hehe...

Anyway, I am determined to do some Christmas shopping soon and I will get down to all the Christmas baking, that's a quintessential part of my run up to the big day and a must do in our house. Santa doesn't know how good he's got it with all his little elves helping him...maybe I could borrow one or two.... *thinks* LOL

Now, back to today and my share... I hope you like it!!

By now, I hope that some of you have visited the newly launched Kuretake Shop and had a browse around. Isn't it fab? As I mentioned before, all the DT have been busy over the last couple of months using Basically Bare products from the shop and this is another of my pieces that I made ~ The Sewing Room Door Hanger.

If you haven't ever seen Basically Bare, then it's well worth checking out ~ it's fab and not just for altered art, it's for all types of craft!! If you have bought some, let me know, I'd love to see what you make.

Everything that I used to make this door hanger, excluding the backing paper is available from Kuretake.

Thanks for dropping by and taking a look at my little creation. I really do appreciate all your comments and each and every one of them make me smile, including the lovely Maggie's comment about one of my projects not having any handmade flowers...hehe, I do make some cards without flowers, not many but just a few!!

See you soon everyone and have a wonderful day!!

Love Emma

xxx

Fashion Statement

Hello again!

So far, it's actually quite a nice day here in London. It's chilly but there's a few rays of autumnal sun and I've actually managed to get some washing out on the line and, best of all ~ it's drying!!

Anyway, yesterday I hinted at something exciting happening over at Kuretake and I can now reveal exactly what that is...it's the new Kuretake Shop.

You can now buy all your gorgeous Kuretake products direct from the shop and it gets better because they are also distributors for the fab Basically Bare! How cool is that?

Over the last month, the DT have been busy working away with these products and today, I'm showing you just one of the items that I made ~ I hope you like it!!

For this project, I made my own shadow box and combined the Basically Bare items, together with Kuretake products for the finished creation.

I used Tim's Tissue Tape around the edge of the box and coloured it with Art and Graphic Twin Pens. The background on the inside of the box is all coloured with a wash of ink from the pens and then using them directly onto the stamp and stamping the image and quote, which is from a set of stamps by Wendy Vecchi.

On the dress, I used Fabricolor pens to create the little polka dots, together with some lace from my own crafty stash! The ribbons and fibres, all come from Kuretake too!!

Keep watching this space and all the other DT members blogs, for lots more ideas, (including a few tutorials from some of us), of what you can do with these fab products and don't forget to check out the shop!!!

Enjoy the rest of your day!

See you tomorrow!

Love Emma

xxx

P.S. Don't forget about the Craftwork Cards Blog Candy ~ all the details are in the post below!