Dream A Little Dream...

Hello everyone and happy Friday!!

Just a quick post to let you all know that there is a new challenge started over at the Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog and the theme for this month's challenge is:

ALL THAT GLITTERS IS GOLD

Now, I will admit I'm not a glittery person so this was a tough one for me but I thought and thought and finally decided on gold Cosmic Shimmer spray and gilding flakes and here's a little sneaky peek of what I made and if you click HERE you will be whisked over to the blog to see the tag in full. As always, I hope you like it!

The stamps I used are available HERE from Sarah's shop and I stamped the image onto watercolour card, then coloured it with Distress Marker Pens.

We would love for you to join in with our challenge and if you need some more inspiration, then just head over to Sarah's challenge blog to see all my lovely DT members little works of art!

Okey dokey time for me to go and see if Mr Mojo is visiting and I'll see you all again tomorrow with a Craftwork Cards share!! Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Bye for now and have a fabulous day...love Emma xxx

A Good Night To All...

Hi everyone!!

Now, I don't want to panic anyone and if you don't want a shock ~ please do not click, HERE!! 

Did you click? Are you now panicking as much as I am? How did this happen? LOL. Usually by now, I am so well prepared but I haven't got one single present, no Christmas food, no cards and NO Michael Buble Christmas CD! Eek...this is not good, not good at all...if anyone wants to be Emma's Little Helper, there is a vacancy right here but hurry, time is running out!! hehe...

As you might have guessed, it's been another busy week at Chez Williams' and I'm slowly ticking off some of the jobs but in amongst all the hard work and nose to the grindstone there was one little thing that lit up this girl's face...

☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟☟

Those few little words made Emma, a very happy girl!! It's the little things in life that make me so happy!

So, back to business and I think it's time to share a card...I hope you like it!

These stunning papers that I used on this card are from the Tis The Season collection by Kaisercraft and can all be bought from the fab Merly Impressions. If you still haven't popped over there, then you must, the service is second to none and you will love all the gorgeous products they have to offer.

I layered up a selection of the papers and slightly distressed and tore the edges. Next, I used Tim's "to die for" Evergreen Bough Winter Seasonal Distress Ink on my handmade paper flowers and holly leaves and added a spritz of Cosmic Shimmer over the top. I then combined them with the die cut rosettes, made from some more of the Tis The Season papers and a bottle top embellishment, that I made from an old beer bottle top, some of the decorative paper and a generous covering of Glossy Accents.

Thank you so much for taking the time to come and have a look at my creations and thank you for all the comments that you leave, here and on all the other blogs that I share my work on.

Hope you all have a wonderful evening.

Bye for now.

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

Isn't It A Lovely Day?

Such a beautiful sunny day...the sun is shining through the window onto my craft area and it really helps me plough through all my work! And I really can't wait to show you all the samples that I've been working on for the next Clarity shows...there's some fabulous stamps and I've made lots of cards for you all to see...*fingers crossed* ;)

In the meantime, this was the card that I made for my Mum to give to my Dad on his birthday and yes, it uses some more of those fabulous Graphic 45, Curtain Call papers!! If you haven't notice already...I just, love...love...LOVE these papers!!

When I was growing up and still to this very day, jazz has always been played in my parents house. My Dad is a huge jazz fan and one of his all time favourite singers, is Billie Holliday. So when I originally saw this collection I just knew that I would have to have them...I wasn't sure I would ever want to use them because these are strokable papers...you can't craft with them! These are to look at! lol

But I did bring myself to use them and it took me a while to think of what I wanted to do but then the penny dropped and I just knew that....Billie Holliday + Jazz = vinyl!! So, I made my own vinyl record, complete with sleeve and all out of paper!!! I hope you like it...

Hope you all enjoy the sunshine and once again, I just wanted to thank you, for all your lovely comments on my last post!!!

They make me smile, laugh and I just love sharing my lil creations with you all!!

See you soon!

Love Emma

xxx

All That Jazz

It's a new week and the start of another one that I'm hoping will be full of creation...believe me, with all my pending projects that I'm working on ~ it has to be!!! lol

So, I hope you all had a fabulous weekend and the sun shone on you, wherever you are! My weekend was taken up with a little bit of work on the new Clarity samples for next month's shows and of course, my Dad's birthday.

Which leads me to my card share for today...and here it is, I hope you like it!

When it comes to crafting...my one true love is beautiful papers. I can get lost in some of the designs that are around and I have so many favourite companies to choose from, including My Mind's Eye, Craftwork Cards, Kaisercraft, Anna Griffin and of course, Tim Holtz. But there was one collection that really did blow me away when I saw it and that is the stunning, Curtain Call from my no.1 company at the moment....the wonderful, Graphic 45. They were just the epitome of all that I adore and yes, it was love at first sight!!

But saying that, when a collection is this good, how do you bring yourself to use them? Hmm, it was hard but this was for a special birthday and therefore, I did the dreaded deed and I took a pair of scissors to them. I just hope I did them justice???

The huge hibiscus flower was made using Tim's Tattered Florals die and really it was just me playing and experimenting with my love of making paper flowers. It's is quite a labour intensive process, as I sprayed each layer with Cosmic Shimmer Mists and then built them up to create the bloom but to be honest, there are days when I don't feel like stamping or making a complete card but find making the flowers very cathartic.

So, I really hope that this card was worthy of the build up that I created on Friday, in my last blog post and I hope you will come back to take a look at the second card I made, using more of the papers from Curtain Call.

Hope you all have a fabulous Monday!!

See you soon.

Emma

xxx

By the light of the silvery moon...

Happy Monday everyone and thank you to everyone who commented on my last post. You're comments are always read and I appreciate every single word!

Hope you all had fabulous weekends? Me? Well, still suffering with the after effects of the flu but I did have some excitement yesterday morning... The first of the cards I made as part of the Design Team of Clarity Stamp were finally unveiled and shown on Create and Craft, yesterday. I'm still very shy about sharing my work but the reaction was honestly more than I could ever have dreamed of...I was literally in seventh heaven. From loved ones, friends and the huge twitter brigade that I have come to know and love...all your support and messages meant the absolute world to me! I was very, very humbled and can't thank you all enough. And of course, there is one person who I need to thank more than anyone...and that is the wonderful Barbara Gray. Her work has always inspired me and I am over the moon to be part of her DT.

So, enough about me...let's show you some cards. Over the next few days, I really want to show you all the samples that I made using the stamps. But today, I've chosen to start with this one...which I actually, didn't finish until after the deadline for the show but if I had finished it, it would most definitely, have been there!!

The background of the main image was all done by my own fair hand with the help of some of Tim's Distress Inks and some Cosmic Shimmer powders. Once I'd built up the colour and I was happy with it, I then flicked water over it to give the mottled effect. I then stamped the image using a Versamark ink pad and embossed it with a pearl embossing powder. Finally, I added my handmade paper roses, some ribbon and a greetings message from Craftwork Cards. And voilà...hope you like it!

If you want to buy any of the stamps that were featured in the show, click here

Hope you all have a fabulous week!

Stay warm and cozy!

Love Emma

xxx