Pale Little Dandelion

Another flying visit from me, as I'm just finishing off a top secret project and I've been so engrossed in getting it all done, that I totally forgot that I hadn't posted these final samples from the Clarity shows, as promised. So here they are and I really hope you like them.

I think this stamp has to be one of my favourites that I've worked with since joining the Clarity DT. There's something so serene and beautiful about the image and as I've said before with many of my previous Clarity samples...I wanted to keep this card quite clean in it's style, so that stamps spoke for themselves, and you could see the beauty of them.

On this card, I used one of the corner stamps and coloured the tiny detail with Promarkers. Once again, I let the stamps do the talking and I just thought this would be the most beautiful card for Mother's Day.

So, that's about it from me and my Clarity samples for this month...I hope you've enjoyed them all and you liked the diversity of the stamps that I had to work with. I've loved reading all your comments and it's so nice that this collection has bought me so many new friends and followers.

Hope you all have a wonderful evening.

Bye for now and see you very soon!

Love Emma xxx

Tim Holtz ~ 12 Tags of 2012 ~ March

Hope you're all having a lovely, relaxing Sunday. At the moment, I'm planning my diary for the next month and a little sense of panic has just washed over me! lol...yes, it's that full and seeing as I've only got one pair of hands, I have a feeling that there might be times when there doesn't feel like there's enough hours in the day!!! Eek....

Anyway, before the onslaught begins, (*still panicking*), I decided to join in with Lord Tim's 12 Tags of 2012 and I hope you like my tag...

I hadn't got all the products that Tim used on his tag, so I improvised slightly and I was really happy with the result. The background to the tag was run through the Big Shot with a Texture Fade and then I dragged a DI over the top of it to create the feel of woodgrain. I made my mosaic butterflies as per Tim's instructions but used brass embossing powder on them, dulled down with Stazon. I attached the stamped message and added one of my handmade flowers, which I created using the Sizzix Alterations Mini Tattered Florals Die. Finally, I added some seam binding dyed with Weathered Wood Distress Stain.

So, that's about it from me for today. I hope you all enjoyed watching Barbara and Clarity Stamps, on Create & Craft today...I'll be back tomorrow, and all next week with some of the samples that I made for the show.

See you all then and hope you have a lovely Sunday. Bye for now...

Love Emma xxx

Vintage Blooms

Happy Wednesday, everyone!

Another quickie post from me today...lots of things to do and so little time! In fact, just think of headless chickens and you'll know what life at Chez Williams' is like, at the moment! LOL.

Anyway, whilst I try and find some calm amongst the storm...I thought I'd show you another couple of the samples that I made for the Craftwork Cards, QVC shows using the fab Shabby Vintage collection of products. I hope you like them...

Time for me to fly and head back to the pile of paper, inks and die cuts that I seem to be disappearing under!

I'll be around to see all your blogs later tonight and thanks for popping by to see my latest post.

See you soon and bye for now!

Love Emma xxx

Sarah Hurley Challenge ~ Giving Thanks

Hi everyone!!

Just to let you all know that it's that time already ... it's time for a new challenge over on the Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog and this fortnight, it's all about:

GIVING THANKS / THANK YOU

If you click HERE you will see all the fab creations and lots of wonderful inspiration from the rest of the DT, including this card that I made, using some of the gorgeous papers from Sarah's Tinseltown cd, together with some Tim Holtz dies. I hope you like it!!

I really hope you can join in with the challenge and we can't wait to see what you make!

Sarah also has some very exciting news to share with you all and if you missed her announcement, you can read all about it HERE!!

Bye for now!

Love Emma

xxx

Friends Are Like Flowers

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend. It's been a bit of a hectic day in the world of Emma, which is why I'm a bit late posting this. I've actually worked all day long but at the end of it...I don't seem to have anything to show!! My mojo seemed to disappear into a cup of coffee first thing this morning and since then, I haven't been able to find it... lol But tomorrow is another day and hopefully, with a sprinkle of fairy dust...my mojo will return! My Mum has also been unwell again today and I've had to step in to look after her...Florence Nightingale had to make a comeback!

But in between all of this, I did manage to make this card over the weekend and I hope you like it...

The flower image is from a set of stamps called Hippy Chick by Kaisercraft and I am so in love with their products at the moment. Their products are absolutely gorgeous and fabulous quality...if you haven't tried them out, you must!!

I used Kuretake's Kurecolor pens to colour in the image, which is stamped on Craftwork Cards, textured digital cardstock and can be bought here. Now, I love my Promarkers, couldn't do without them and you all know that I use them a lot in my work but what I love about these particular pens from Kuretake, is that like the wonderful Promarkers they are twin tipped but unlike Promarkers, with these you have one tip that is so fine and wonderful for detail work. They also blend really well and have a great range of colours. And of course, you can use them in conjunction with Promarker pens...

I matted the image on co-ordinating papers and then die cut some black butterflies, using Tim's Mini Butterfly Movers & Shapers die. Then to add some colour to the these, I used Kuretake's Chalk Writer pens which are perfect for using on black card as they still show the true colour of the pen and look fabulous. As a final touch, I doodled a series of dots to give the look of the butterfly flight patterns and stamped a message using a stamp from Creative Expressions.

Well, I hope you all have a wonderful evening and hopefully, I'll get around to visiting all your blogs tonight to comment on your wonderful creations!!

See you soon and as always, thank you for all the lovely comments on last weeks Clarity posts. You've made me laugh and smile and it's all of my blogging buddies comments that make me realise that all the hard work is worth it!! Thank you, everyone!!

Love Emma

xxx