All Kinds of Love In This World...

"There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice." ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

Good morning friends and hope you had a lovely bank holiday...

Thank you to all my new followers from yesterday's post and I just wanted to say welcome to my blog and hope you'll enjoy all my future posts as you join me on my journey...

Today, I wanted to share the first of two cards that I made for Making Cards Magazine. This set was featured in the September issue of the magazine and if you want to read all about how I created the cards, then you can get back issues of the magazine HERE.

I adore everything about Art Deco including the fashion and the architecture and I hope that I've captured the feel of that wonderful era with these cards that were inspired by The Great Gatsby. The stamp set that I used is the 1920's Ladies Plate from The Artistic Stamper and the stunning papers are from My Mind's Eye. I coloured the images with Distress Marker Pens.

 The Art Deco emblem that I used at the top of the card, was hand drawn by moi and there were templates available in the magazine. To complete the card, I added some fluffy feathers which after hunting high and low, I found in John Lewis and some flowers from Prima Marketing!!

 

So, that's it from me for today and I'm going to be taking it a little easier over the next couple of days and rest a little, as I have a very important date on Thursday with a very special man!! *deep breath*...I'm going to the Tim Holtz workshop....*squeals*!!! It's going to be a huge day for me but I am looking forward to it so much and I promised myself since day one when I found out Tim and Mario were coming to the UK that I would get there even if it kills me...lol!!!

I'll be back tomorrow with my second card from this set but until then...bye for now and have a wonderful day!!

Love Emma xxx

The Edwardian Lady

As promised, here is the second of my Vintage Ladies projects that I made using the fabulous images from The Crafthouse Press.

For this project, my inspirations came from The Diary of an Edwardian Lady. I wanted to try and recreate the feeling of a keepsake card from the Edwardian era and the style of a concertina card was perfect for this. I made the concertina card by sticking two A6 cards together in the middle and then I added some organza ribbon and tied it around the whole card. Then I covered each of the sections with backing papers. Once again, for this card I used papers from one of my favourite papercraft companies ~ K & Company. They do some fabulous vintage style papers and whenever I make cards from a bygone era, I will always use their papers and products. Once I'd chosen the papers it was just a matter of layering them up to give the collage effect that I needed.

To re-create the "old-world" feel to the card, I used distress inks on the edges of all the papers and on the front of the card, I even curled the paper around a cocktail stick, on one of the corners, so it gave the impression that it was aged. I added the main decoupaged image to the front of the card and added touches of glitter to highlight the flowers in her hair. To complete the card, I stamped images onto the inside folds, I added a stamped greetings plaque and then as the pièce de résistance I found these wonderful feathers from John Lewis and knew that they would make the most exquisite finishing touch to the card. And here it is...the completed card in all it's glory! I hope you like it...

Anyway, hope everyone has a fabulous Sunday and as for me....I think today is a staying in day...it's perfect weather to craft and watch TV and even though the weather isn't the sunshine we were promised today, I only have to look out of my window and into the garden to see the gorgeous cherry blossom on the trees, which makes me think "spring" Here are some photos and took yesterday and to see more click here for my Flickr page).