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Happy Monday, everyone and I hope you all had a fabulous weekend!

I also want to say a big hello to my new followers...it's always great to see new faces and I can't wait to hear your thoughts on my creations! Don't be shy..say hello, I can't wait to see your comments!!

And talking of my creations, here is today's share.

I don't think it could escape anyone's notice over the last couple of weeks, that the crafting guru and all round craft god, Tim Holtz was visiting the UK. And whilst, I didn't manage to attend any of his workshops *sigh* ...I was so inspired by his visit, that I thought it was time to break open my new set of stamps and see what I could come up with...I hope you like it!!

Now, anyone who visits this blog on a regular basis, will know how much I love to make paper flowers but over the weekend, I thought I'd try something a bit different, get out the Melt Pot and see what I could come up with...and I'm really quite chuffed with my first effort. Ta~dah...I present my enamelled tattered floral! lol

The background of the main stamped image is made using exactly the same technique, with the Big and Juicy inkpad, as I used on my last post but it shows how different it can look each time you do it. Even if you wanted to, you would never be able to achieve the same look twice! All the images are handstamped using various elements from all Tim's stamps and as a finishing touch I added the flourishes and die cut leaves!

I'd better be going, I'm currently working on the next batch of samples for the Clarity Shows on Create and Craft and if you get a chance to tune in, you must...there's some fabulous stamps available to buy!

Hope you all have a fab week and I'll be round to all your blogs to comment on your lovely cards, asap!

See you soon,

love Emma

xxx

Entered in The Stamp Man Challenge Blog ~ Curls and Swirls

Just like chocolate...

It's Thursday already...can you believe it!?! I've been taking it fairly easy this week...but you can never stop a crafter from crafting and this is a card I've made using the Melting Pot. By, the way...don't worry, I haven't forgotten all the Gorjuss cards that I want to show you all...they will all be finding their way onto the blog over the next few weeks! I just thought I'd interject with something a little bit different though!! :)

I knew that when I finally got a Melting Pot, I would love it but I didn't realise just how much....it's fabulous!! This particular technique was done by melting down the Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel, together with some Utee Flex. The Utee is added to give the enamel some flexibility...without it, you might find the enamel is very brittle and can break. Once it was all melted in the pot, I then just trickled out the molten enamel onto a craft sheet, to form a pattern and left it to harden. It's as easy as that!

But when I looked at it, in it's hardened state, the first thing that it reminded me of was some delicious, glossy good enough to eat, drizzled chocolate and that's why I wanted to make up a card in these dark chocolatey colours! So, to make up my card, I ran some white cardstock through the Cuttlebug, using the Spellbinders Impressibilities Stencil, which I inked up with a Versamark ink pad. This left me with a debossed image on the card! I then brushed over some perfect pearls to leave this beautiful shimmery effect to the debossing. Once that was done, I matted and layered my different textures of papers and cardstock, added some ribbon and finally adhered my piece of melt art to my final matt, which leaves you with this very simple but extremely elegant greeting card!

Have a fabulous Thursday and watch this space for some more Gorjuss cards!!!

Emma

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