Fairy Rhymes...

Hello friends...

First of all, I want to say a big hello to all my new followers, thank you for coming aboard and I'll look forward to getting to know you all, please don't be shy and stop by to say hello!!! Secondly, THANK YOU to everyone who left a comment on my last post!! As I mentioned, my blog felt a little lonely and needed to be shown some love but you all came to the rescue and it really did mean a lot to me!!! :)

So, back to today and because I'm working on some new projects at the moment, I'm going to share another of my Making Cards Magazine projects. Some of you might have seen this card project on the cover of the September issue, (back copies available HERE) but for those of you who haven't, and I know there are a few of you who find it difficult to get hold of copies of this magazine, I hope you like it...

This card is 8" x 8" in size and I used the gorgeous Fairy Rhymes collection from Prima Marketing products to create it. The one thing that I will mention is that I was blown away with the quality of the stamps that I used and if you do ever consider buying them, then you won't be sorry because the value for money is fantastic!! The stamped image is coloured with Distress Marker pens and matted onto Fairy Rhymes papers.

I added some cute little paper blooms and made some bunting to complete the card.

So, I hope you'll pop back tomorrow to see the second of my card projects and once again, thank you for all your visits!!! I'm definitely wearing a Cheshire Cat smile at the moment...

Hope you all have a lovely evening and see you tomorrow!

Love Emma xxx

Halloween Horrors ~ Sarah Hurley Challenge

Evening all!!!

Hope you've all had a fabulous day and that you're now relaxing and enjoying the rest of your evening!!

Tomorrow, I'll be back with my final cards from the Clarity shows that were on last weekend and as always, I've saved my favourite card for last!! I'm sure if you watched any of the shows, you'll know exactly which one it is...

But the reason that there's no Clarity card is because today is the start of a brand new challenge over on Sarah Hurley's Challenge Blog and we would love you to all come and join us for "HALLOWEEN HORRORS". 

This challenge is sponsored by DERWENT and the lucky winner will win a prize from Derwent themselves, a set of 24 Coloursoft Pencils (Sarah's favourite colouring pencils!) in a wooden presentation box. The DT have done a fabulous job to inspire you all with their creations and if you're still in need of something to kickstart your mojo...here's what I made ~ I hope you like it!!!

I made a table centrepiece from an old beer bottle and if you look closely, there's actually little witches flying on their broomsticks, all around the neck of the bottle. I used Sarah's papers and the adage ticket, from the Vintage Halloween Digi Kit to create the label, rosettes and tag around the bottle neck, together with lots of different Tim Holtz Alterations die cuts and a Spellbinder one, thrown in for good measure!! I finally added some paper roses on wire stems and some twine around the bottle neck to complete my 'potion bottle"!!!

Thanks for stopping by and for taking the time to look at my little creation.

See you all tomorrow!!

Love Emma

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A Little Work of Art

Happy Friday...and didn't the week fly by again? It's crazy...I blink and there it goes...

But, another day, another card and another image from those fabulous stamps from Kanban. Once again, I wanted to create the feel of an old painting to this card and thought it would lend itself perfectly to the easel style of card. When I look at the items I purchase or am fortunate and lucky enough to be given...I always like to think outside the box! Sometimes, I make these things harder for myself than I probably should but I've always liked to include my inspirations in my card making. And one of those inspirations is art...these images really do lend themselves to be anything you want but for me...they really are like works of art by some wonderful French artist in the 19th Century...and I really hope I've created that feel, here...in my little work of art!

Once again, the image is stamped and coloured with Promarkers for that flawless look that they give. I used some wonderful papers, that I've been keeping for the right moment and they were the absolutely perfect, colour match for this image and I also used Tim Holtz's paper distresser around the edges to give that aged look to the paper. Highlights of Distress Stickles glitter, a Tim Holtz adage ticket, some mulberry paper flowers that I hand tinted by hand with Distress Inks and card candy were all my little finishing touches. And voila... 

Hope you all have a fabulous, relaxing weekend...

Love Emma

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