A Joyous Easter...

Hello everyone!! Hope you're all had a fabulous week and now, ready to enjoy the weekend!!

I'm just dropping by today with a quick post and to say a big hello to everyone, let you know I'm still here and to say thank you for all your messages and comments on my last post.

So, I'm sure that no-one can fail to notice that, despite the weather ~ Easter is nearly upon us and way back at the beginning of the year I was asked by Sizzix if I would like to work on a set of Easter projects! Well, of course I said...YES and today, I can start revealing the first of those projects. There will be more to come over the coming days but if you would like to find out how I made these projects and have a little sneaky peek of what else I made...then just click HERE!!

For this set of projects, I was asked if I could create them using gorgeous pastel shades and of course, some fabulous Sizzix dies, including some designed by Tim Holtz and Paula Pascual. The colour choice they showed me, reminded me of Sugared Almonds and as soon as I was told which colours they wanted me to use...I headed over to Inspire Me Papers and I chose and put together this wonderful pastel collection of their stunning card and papers...

So, I really hope that I've inspired you to create some Easter projects of your own and I hope you will pop back over the coming days to see what else I created!!

Until then...have a fabulous weekend ~ bye for now!

Love Emma xxx

A Flying Flower....

The butterfly is a flying flower,
The flower a tethered butterfly.
~Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun

Good morning everyone!!

Isn't it just lovely to see some sunshine at last?? I know that it's meant to be turning colder towards the end of the week but it's so good to finally see a bright day and let the sun shine into the rooms!!

Thank you to everyone who came and said hello on my last post and for all your lovely comments. Also a big hello to my new followers...hope you enjoy the journey, as Tim would say and welcome aboard!! I'll look forward to getting to know you...

As you all know, I'm still not running on full speed at the moment and unfortunately on top of the pleurisy, I was given the news that I've also got cracked ribs!! I don't do things by halves do I????? As I said to my best friend, I like to make a statement when I do something...lol!!

So, when I heard that news, I needed to cheer myself up and what better way than to buy some lush Distress Paints!! As yet, I can't play with them but I can look at them, and stroke them....and look at them again in pure admiration!! Lol!!!

So, enough waffling and time to share another little DT project that I made for Barbara and Clarity Stamp, before the blip in my schedule! As always, I hope you like it...

As with some of my previous samples for Barbara, I like to showcase the stamp designs and I thought this was a perfect way to do that!! I thought it would be perfect to create the look of an old artefact... something that you would find in a museum and I hope I have captured that!

The butterfly is stamped onto a Mica Tile and then coloured with Distress Markers and attached to a piece of card which I aged with Distress Inks and tore around the edges.

 I placed the tile on an embossed background and then used the petal stamps in a completely different way to my previous card and used them to create a decorative border.

 

So, I hope this has inspired you to used your stamps in a different way and I'm already looking forward to hearing all your comments!!

Hope you all have a wonderful day and I'll be back soon with another lil creation from Chez Williams'!!

Bye for now...love Emma xxx

Dreaming of a white Christmas...

Another weekend has come and gone and even though I had a great one, I'm now coming back down to earth with a bump and a cold, which in the life and times of a very busy crafter...isn't the greatest of timing but...the show must go on!!

So, today is going to be a quick share and then, on strict orders from someone who knows who they are, I'm going to rest!!

And here is the card that I want to show you all today...

I actually came across the shape of this card by accident. I love trying to create new shapes and I was just  messing around with pieces of card and card blanks and all of a sudden, this happened and I love it. Hope you do too...

So, what did I use to make this card?

Snowman Window Stamp: Imagination Crafts

Message stamp: Kanban

Snowflakes and Label Dies: Spellbinders
Snowflake Embossing folder: Cuttlebug

Punches:  Martha Stewart PATP snowflake

Colouring Mediums: Promarkers
Backing Paper: Die Cut With A View
Inks: Memento/Versamark

Glitter: Stickles

Ribbon and button to complete the card!

I'm now going to snuggle up on the sofa and take it easy for the rest of the night...
Thanks for stopping by...see you again soon!
Love Emma
xxx