Vintage Sew

My second post of the day...now, this is a first!! :)

I was going to post yesterday but unfortunately the atrocious weather caused me major problems ~ phone lines, electricity and internet problems all contributed to making things just a little tricky but I survived the horrendous winds, which to be honest were quite scary at times and hopefully, everyone is safe and the worst is over.

Before I share today's post, I just wanted to say a big hello to my new followers...*waves*!! I'm so happy to see new faces and hope you enjoy the ride, that is my life!! lol.

I also wanted to say thank you for all the lovely comments that you left on my last post. You all have the knack of making me smile wide and Katina, if I do get that call from Lord Holtz...are you still up for the position of my PA??? LOL!!!

Okey dokey...back to my post and another card that I made for Kuretake to launch their new Kuretake Online shop. I hope you like it....

Once again, this project was all about the gorgeous Basically Bare products and I used one of the canvas hearts from Basically Bare, together with the sewing machine from the Vintage Sew Embellishment set. I painted the chipboard with Eco Green Acrylic paint, then distressed the edges to give a real vintage feel to the card. The buttons are also from Basically Bare, painted and covered with Glossy Accents.

I used Art and Twin Graphic Pens to colour the Tim Holtz stamped image and ribbons and fibres from Kuretake to complete the card.

Right, time for a cuppa before I start the work, work and MORE work!!

I'll be visiting all your blogs later to catch up on what you've been up to!!

Bye for now!

Love Emma

xxx

Box of Treats

Hi everyone ~ and HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all my followers in the USA!!

Hope you're all doing ok and having a lovely Thursday!! Once again, hasn't this week flown? Crikey...it's now only one week to go before I get to open the first window on my advent calendar. Now, I know you might think I'm a little old for one but in my opinion, you're never too old for the things you enjoy and come the 1st December, I've always loved the countdown to Christmas. This year might be a little bit more frantic than others but I'm still going to have fun every single day that I open a window on that calendar.

Thank you for all your lovely comments on my last post and today, I'm following on from that with a matching box using some more of those stunning papers from Kaisercraft, and here it is ~ I hope you like it!!

As in the previous post, the papers are all available from Merly Impressions. Also, if you do love Kaisercraft products as much as I do but you're still looking for some more inspiration, then my lovely friend Chrissy has lots of stunning projects over on the Merly Impressions Blog. Make sure you check it out...

To complete the box, I painted the whole of the outside with Antique Gold acrylic paint and then covered the outside and inside, with some of the Tis The Season papers. I then cut out one of the images of Santa and added a Tim Holtz Fragment piece over it. I attached that to the front of the box, added some Tis The Season Rub Ons on the sides, some seam binding and another of those little rosette stacks with the beer bottle top embellishment.

Finally I added some adhesive pearls on the sides and that's about it!!!

I hope these pictures do all the products justice because it was so hard to photograph all the elements but I think you can just about see everything.

Time for me to bid you farewell for now and I'll be round to visit all your blogs when I collapse in front of the TV tonight!!

Bye for now!

Emma xxx

  

*Edit*

I have noticed that the links to Merly Impressions aren't working at the moment but they are correct, so keep trying and I'm sure everything will be back to normal soon!

The Curious Case of Annabelle Franks...

Hope you all had a lovely weekend ~ I'm still suffering from this lurgy that seems to be going around at the moment and now, it looks as if I've spread the germs and my whole family have come down with it too!! Oops...as you can imagine, I'm not "little miss popular"! Oh dear....

In between sneezing, coughing and spluttering...I am still trying to get all my crafting jobs done but it's not easy but as always, I will get there ~ the fighting spirit of the Williams' will be victorious!!! :)

But in the meantime, here's a little something that I made earlier... "be afraid, be very afraid"!!!!!! LOL.

Once again, the backing papers and chipboard domino die cuts, are all from the 13th Hour collection from Kaisercraft and can be bought from the fab Merly Impressions. The title of this post, is actually from the backing papers. If you look closely you can just see the headline, which sets the scene for what came next.... *spooky*...

I added lots of chipboard die cuts of my own ~ the dress form, gothic boo, bats and 31 are of course, all from "Lord Tim Holtz" and the wings are from a gorgeous Sizzix die that I just couldn't resist. I painted all the chipboard with Eco Green paint. On the wings, I added a layer of PVA glue, let it dry and then painted over it with white paint to give this stunning crackled effect and on the dress form, I overstamped with one of the 13th Hour stamps.

As on previous posts, I made up the 3D rose and dipped it into UTEE.

As a final touch and to complete my artwork, I added a little phial, which I dropped some red pepper alcohol ink into.

So, I hope you liked my spooky little creation!!

For all those who are going to be celebrating Halloween tonight ~ be safe and have fun and for all those who aren't ~ have a lovely evening, whatever you may be doing!

See you soon!

Love Emma

xxx

Spooktacular

Hi everyone and hope you've all had a fabulous start to your week.

It's hard to believe that we are in the final week of October...dark nights are drawing in, the clocks go back at the weekend...eek, Christmas is coming too quickly!! Once Halloween and Bonfire Night is over...it will be the final countdown and at the moment, I am by no means ready!! Can someone tell Santa I might need an extension... lol

Oh well, what's not done this year, will have to remain that way and I'm sure that Christmas will be fabulous with or without the chutney, or the Christmas cake, maturing for six weeks. hehe...

But back to today and of course, it's Halloween next week and I thought it would be nice to count down with some "spooktacular" projects ~ and here's the first, I hope you like it!!

The basic shape of the door hanger is covered in one of the papers from the 13th Hour collection by Kaisercraft, which is available from Merly Impressions. I then die cut some chipboard using a selection of Tim Holtz's Alterations dies, the skull and bats, the leaf and twig and of course the birdcage and wings. I then painted them with black Eco Green acrylic paint. The wings have a coat of PaperArtsy's Fresco Finish Metallic Acrylic Glaze over them to give a shimmery effect.

I added some Glossy Accents and Rock Candy Distress Stickles, to the rose.

As final touches I added some seam binding, a message from one of Tim's stamp sets and a little bird from the 13th Hour chipboard shapes.

Before I go, just to let you know that the Making Cards Christmas Special is out very soon and it's all about a traditional Christmas and there's one or two of my projects in there too!! I even have one on the cover...that's it on the bottom right!! Yay...

Well, I'd better be going but I'll be around later to visit all your blogs and see what you've been up to.

Bye for now and have a lovely evening!

Love Emma

xxx

Confetti

Evening everyone! Hope you are all well and had a lovely Tuesday...

It's just a quick post from me tonight and of course, as promised, it's another share from the Craftwork Cards/CHA samples!! I really didn't realize just how many cards and projects I made until I've started to share them with you but it keeps me busy and in turn, busy always keeps me out of trouble! And in this house, TROUBLE seems to be a word that says 'hello' on a regular basis. lol

This card used some papers from the Confetti collection and I thought they were perfect for a Christmas card. Of course, there's a combination of lots of Spellbinder die cuts on there, together with all that lovely Candi. The chipboard letters were primed with Claudine Hellmuth's, Multi Medium and then painted with some Antique Gold, Eco Green acrylic paint.

All products are available to buy from Craftwork Cards

Thank you for popping by to take a look at what I've been making!

See you tomorrow with another share and hope you all have a lovely evening!

Love Emma

xxx

Building Blocks

Hi everyone...can you believe it's the middle of the week already? The way time's flying, it will be Christmas before we know it.  But it's not here yet and as always, even though we have to start thinking about Christmas early in the crafting world, there's plenty to do before it arrives!!

And one thing that you could do is come and join in with the final Sketch Challenge over on the Craftwork Cards blog. It's your chance to win some fabulous goodies. This weeks sketch is as follows...

And here's my card for the challenge...

As soon, as I saw the sketch...I thought it would be a fabulous idea for making a baby's card and using those little squares as building blocks. I used chipboard letters from We Are Memory Keepers, for the ABC which I painted with Eco Green acrylic paint, before applying Glossy Accents over the top to make them shiny. The papers and die cuts are part of the Little Boy Blue collection at Craftwork Cards and are matted and layered onto Bazzill cardstock. I finally added a couple of buttons and some ribbon.