Lucky Star

It seems ages since I was here last...where does the time go? Hope you're all having a great weekend and that the sun is shining. Of course, today is the first Sunday of the month and that means that Barbara has been on Create and Craft showing all the new (and old) Clarity Stamps that she has to offer. I'm sure some of you have watched but for those that didn't, as always...I'll be showing all my samples that I made for the shows, here on my blog throughout the week.

And this is the first of my samples, featuring the "Peace On Earth" set of stamps, which I believe are still available to buy.

I didn't actually see this card amongst the samples today, which was a shame because I worked so hard on it, cutting out all those little pieces and colouring each section bit by bit. But that's the nice thing about being able to share these samples with you...you get to see what others didn't! lol

The actual image itself was coloured using Promarkers and I built up each section to make a decoupaged star, adding Glossy Accents to give a raised, glazed look to the final image. I added some of those beautiful flourishes, that I keep talking about and just love, love, love...from Spellbinders (can you tell how much I love them? lol) and some stars, that I die cut using one of the dies from the Spellbinders Snowflake set. All this work was added to a piece of card that I embossed using a Tim Holtz embossing folder and as the final touch, I stamped the Peace On Earth message, using a Versamark ink pad and embossed with gold embossing powder. I hope you like it....

Well, I'm off to see what I can find in the freezer for tonight's dinner. I think it will be a good, old fashioned Sunday roast.

I'll be back tomorrow with the second of my shares from the shows and can't wait for you all to see them!

See you soon and thank you to everyone who left a comment on my last post...I've passed all your well wishes onto my Dad, who now thinks he's famous in the craft world ~ hehe...and he thanks you all!!

Love Emma

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Beauty Queen

Hi everyone!!

I know, I know, lol...humble apologies because I promised this post yesterday but due to an eye infection, an horrendously busy schedule, my Mum not being very well and last but not least, an old neck injury raising it's ugly head~do you think I can be forgiven? Plus, on top of all this, I think my mojo has gone missing. I've looked for it everywhere and after sitting at my desk all day yesterday, trying to do some DT work...at six o'clock last night, I still hadn't come up with a thing!! Sometimes, these mojo's can be such pests and why do they always go missing at the most inconvenient of times? Grrrr

Anyway, enough about me and the fact that I sound like a walking medical encyclopaedia...hehe

Here's the card that I wanted to share with you all, yesterday...hope you like it?

This was another of the cards that I made for the Kuretake shows, last week and features, this beautiful stamp from Clarity. Every bit of this image is handpainted using a combination of Wink of Stella and Art and Graphic Twin pens.

The flourishes are die cut using my new Spellbinders flourishes die...I have a sneaky suspicion that you'll be seeing a lot of these on cards over the coming month...I love them!! And of course, it wouldn't be one of my cards without the finishing touch of some handmade paper roses.

So, I hope you're all having a great week and hopefully, I'll be back tomorrow with another card!!

Thank you to everyone who takes the time to leave a comment and a big hello to any new followers!

I appreciate you all so much!

See you soon!

Love Emma

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It's All Perspective

Another Bank Holiday weekend has come and gone and I hope you all enjoyed your long weekend and you saw some blue skies and sunshine!

So, as I look at my diary for this week, it's already starting to look like "one of those" ker-razy weeks for me. I'm going to be as busy as a little bee, lots of crafting to be done, fingers to get inky, paper to be cut, shaped and stuck and all this will culminate with my birthday on Friday. Shh, don't tell anyone but I'll be 21 again...

But before any of that happens, here's todays card that I wanted to share with you all...

As you've probably noticed, it's the same stamp and same watercolour technique as in my previous post and I did actually make this card at the same time but I decided to go with the other one for the challenge. Saying that I do love the colours on this one, which were a mixture of Jenni Bowlin's ink pads and together with a Tim Holtz quote, they just work so well with this particular image. I used K & Company papers on the background, added a tattered banner and adage ticket and finally...last but never least, I made a handmade flower using the Spellbinders Peony Nestabilities.

Well, I'd better go and do some work but before I go, thank you for all your lovely comments on the last card and I can't wait to hear what you think of this one!

Ta~Ta for now and see you soon!

Love Emma

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Around The World

Wow, it's Thursday already? Where do these weeks go? One minute, it's Monday and we're looking forward to a new week and before you know it, we're at Wednesday and waiting for the weekend!! Dare I say it...it'll be time to start Christmas cards soon. I know that I'm starting to think about them for my projects in Making Cards Magazine because you have to work so far in advance but it's going to be strange making Christmas cards whilst the sun's shining! Eek...

But back to today and some more cards from the Clarity shows...hope you like them!

The first card is the beautiful image of Nerfertiti and the Sphinx. When I was at school, I remember studying Egyptology and loved every minute of it. It used to fascinate me and I've spent many days roaming around the British Museum looking at the wonderful artifacts from this magical time in history! So when these stamps arrived, I knew exactly what I wanted to do with them...

The hieroglyphics backing papers are from The Crafthouse Press and I've had them for a while but never used them before but always knew that they would come in handy, one day! I wanted to use the rich colours of lapis and gold to compliment the stamped image, which was coloured in using Promarkers. I tore some textured paper to give the look of papyrus and finally made a lotus flower, using Tim's Tattered Florals die and some white pearlescent papers.

For my next card, which unfortunately was sitting at the bottom of the pile of samples and even though I was willing the presenter to stop talking and pick it up, it didn't get a showing due to the stamp set selling out. But as usual, you get to see it here...

I used the Eiffel Tower stamp, together with the Postcard set of stamps, to make this one and really just wanted to create the look of vintage ephemera, complete with a seal of UTEE enamel, which I'd melted down in the Melt Pot and then stamped into, with the Eiffel Tower image. The flourishes are of course from Tim's Elegant Flourish die and the papers are once again, some that I had in my crafty stash, from The Crafthouse Press.

So, tomorrow is the final two cards and I hope I haven't bored you with all these samples but I just love sharing my work with you and hopefully, inspiring you to make your own creations using Clarity Stamps.

Thank you all for your comments and thank you to Tam for your very kind words on my last post...it was a very sweet thing to say and meant a lot to me! Also, I wanted to say thank you for all your well wishes about my shoulder...it's still no better but I'm now taking medication for it and also have a hot water bottle strapped permanently to my arm, so fingers crossed that some of the movement will come back and soon!!

See you tomorrow with the final share...

Love Emma

xxx