Surprise!!!

Hi everyone, and a big hello to all my new followers!! Welcome to my crazy life....

Eek, where has this week gone? I think I'm so busy trying to catch up with everything after Christmas and New Year, that time has disappeared on me again!! As for that new year resolution and trying to find some "me~time"...that went through the window straightaway!!

Anyway, I'm just dropping by to show you all another of the magazine projects that I made for Making Cards Magazine, last year. Some of you probably saw it on the cover and if you want a back copy of the issue for full instructions of how to make these cards, then click HERE!

In the meantime, here are the cards in all their glory...as always, I hope you like them!

Set of two pop out surprise boxes.

I used 12" x 12" Echo Park double sided papers to create the folded shadow box.

The shadow box open ~ I used the Sizzix/Tim Holtz Movers and Shapers Die to create my word LOVE

...and the second card features the Sizzix/Tim Holtz WISH Movers and Shapers Die

The decorative band to hold the WISH box together

The decorative band to hold the LOVE box together, featuring the Tim Holtz Rosette Strip Die from Sizzix

 

The papers were from Echo Park.

So, I hope you're inspired by today's post and I'll look forward to hearing all your comments, letting me know what you think!

Okey dokey, Diet Coke break is officially over and no attractive man has appeared out of nowhere, so...time for me to get back to the craft room and start work again!!

See you all soon with another little creation from the House of Chez Williams!!

Bye for now...Love Emma xxx

A Special Delivery...

Just a quick post to say hello to you all and to thank everyone, especially my new followers *waves* for all your lovely comments on my last post. You all know how much I appreciate them and even though I am a bad blogger lately and don't always get around to visiting as much as I would like...it's lovely to know I have such great blogging buddies out there!!!

As promised, here it the third and final card from my Bunting With A Difference card set that I made for Making Cards Magazine. I hope these cards have inspired you all to have a play with different ideas and I would love to hear about any cards you create based around my creations!

 As in the previous cards ~ products used are from Graphic 45 and Sizzix

I hope you all have a fabulous weekend, whatever you have planned and I will see you next week!!

Bye for now...love Emma xxx

Draw Back Your Bow...

Well, once again the weekend has flown by and apart from our car breaking down yesterday, it was a relatively uneventful and quiet time...maybe, this is just the calm before another crafty storm?? hee hee...

I hope you all had lovely weekends and a big hello to all my new followers who joined my little blog over the weekend. It's always great to see new faces and please, come and say hello...I'm really looking forward to getting to know you all really well.

So, I'm sure the romantic amongst us haven't forgotten that tomorrow is Valentine's Day and I hope you like what I've made for this occasion.

Some of you might remember my Christmas cracker project and I thought it would be nice to use these fabulous "Paula's Crackers" from Which Craft?, to make a series of them for all the special occasions this year. So, ta-dah...I proudly present my Valentine's Day Cracker.

Of course, all the die cuts that I used to make this project are from Lord Tim Holtz and I just spent the afternoon, inking them, moulding, embossing...the list goes on, until I got exactly the look I wanted and believe me, it took a long time to get that cupid to stand of it's own free will. LOL. I used the Tim Holtz music score stamp and stamped onto some card and then layered that onto the sides of the cracker.

Right, it's time for me to go...things to do and lists to try and tick off!

Thank you for stopping by to take a look at what I've made today and I will be coming round to see all your blogs, asap!!

See you soon and bye for now.

Love Emma xxx

Entered in the following challenges:

The Stamp Man ~ Texture

Simon Says Stamp and Show ~ Anything Goes

Grungy Monday 36 ~ Who Loves Ya, Baby sponsored by Simon Says Stamp

Baby, It's Cold Outside...

Well, it's Thursday already and I'm not sure who it is that keeps stealing time but I really wish they wouldn't...I need all the minutes I can get, at the moment!! lol.

I hope that everyone is well and that you're now making some sort of headway in your Christmas preparations!! I'm managing to slowly work through the "to-do" list but unfortunately, due to my crazy work schedule, there was one thing that I didn't manage to do and that was to make my own Christmas cards. I just want to apologise now to everyone who might have been expecting something handmade ~ I did try but time was never on my side...so, next year, I'm starting in January!! lol.

However, I did manage to make one card...a special card for my parents and this is it...I hope you like it!!

As you can all see, there's lots of Tim Holtz goodies been used to make this...the Kraft Resist Paper Stack, Tattered Florals die, Tattered Pine Cones die, Winter Wonder die, stamps, Texture Fades, Movers and Shapers, Rock Candy Distress Stickles...*takes a breath*...oh my, the list goes on but as you all know by now, I do love my Timmie products and seeing as I wasn't able to join in with the 12 Tags of Christmas this year, I thought I'd see how many products I can cram onto one card instead!! heehee...

In fact, I think the only products that aren't Tim Holtz, are the beautiful red fibres that I used on the snowman's scarf, which are from Kuretake and some adhesive pearls, to highlight the centres of the snowflake.

So, that's it from me for today...I hope you all have the most wonderful evening and I'll be around later to see all your blogs!!

Bye for now!

Love Emma

xxx

Entered in the following challenges:

Joanna Sheen ~ Christmas Wishes

Papillons

Hi everyone...just thought I'd drop by to share the card that I made for the Less Is More Butterfly challenge. After weeks of thinking "this will be the week I'll join in", I finally had a gap in my schedule and wonders will never cease...I actually managed to get around to finishing the card before the deadline was over!! And to be honest, how could I not make a card using butterflies. I've made so many in the past, it would be wrong not to!! hehe... I hope you like my first contribution.

Of course, this card uses more of Timmie's fabulous products. The butterflies are die cut from Grungepaper, which I then used Distress Inks on and stamped over the top. The background is made using a few splatters of Distress Stain, which I then let run over the card and finally, overstamped with the script from the Papillons stamp set.

So, I hope you all enjoy the rest of your day and I'll look forward to visiting as many other entries in the challenge, as I can. That's if Blogger lets me leave comments...at the moment, I am having a few difficulties. Not sure if anyone else is? But as soon as I can, I will be around!

See you soon.

Love Emma

xxx

Flying High

Happy Thursday and just a quickie post from me today! I'm running around doing a 1000 things at once and at the end of the day, probably achieving an absolute, big fat ZERO!!! lol

But Take That is playing on the stereo at the moment, Michael Buble is cued and the sun is shining so, all is good in the world of Emma!!

In the meantime, I thought you might like to see what I made, yesterday...I think some of you might have seen the work in progress on my WOYWW post but here is the finished piece. Hope you like it...

I made the frame card myself, with lots of measuring, scoring and folding but it's all worth it for the finished piece. lol Then using lots of Tim's products...Distress Stains, embossing folders, Tissue Tape, dies and stamps, I created this card. The flowers are made using an EK Success Retro Flower punch, coloured with Distress Ink and then spritzed with Perfect Pearls and they just turned out the perfect shade of Tiffany turquoise. I couldn't have asked for a better colour as the finishing touch to my project.

Hope you all have a wonderful day and that the sun is shining where you are.

See you soon

Love Emma

xxx

Entered in the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp and Show ~ Anything Goes!

Make It Monday ~ MMM #36

Papertake Weekly  ~Fancy A Punch?

Moving Along With The Times: Challenge 98 - Two 'B's (My card shows...blossoms, birdcage, bird and butterflies)