Two Hearts Beat As One....

Hello friends,

...and Happy Valentine's Day!!

Today, I'm sharing my tag inspired by Tim Holtz's wonderful February 12 Tags of 2014 and what better day to share the love!! As always, I hope you love it...

I varied my tag slightly to the original version, which can be seen here but I did use the same quote, just because I love everything about it from the typeface to the actual quote itself, I couldn't have thought of using any other. Also, because I still don't own that amazing embossing powder that Tim uses, I decided to use Perfect Pearls and a Perfect Medium ink pad to create my chalkboard effect and I was so pleased with how it turned out!!

Hope you all have a fabulous day with your loved ones and maybe, even get a special treat or two!!

See you all soon and let's hope that with the next storm front hitting the UK, we all have a safe weekend!!

Bye for now...love Emma xxx

12 Tags of 2013 ~ November

Good morning friends...

Hope you're all having a fabulous week so far and you're enjoying this gorgeous sunshine that we have at the moment.

I'm sure all of you know how much fun I've had joining in with Tim Holtz's 12 Tags of 2013 and every month, I've loved all the inspiration that Tim has given and this month is no exception. I loved Tim's chalkboard technique on Creative Chemistry 102 and I've got some of that gorgeous embossing powder on my ever growing list of "must haves" but until I get some of that precious powder, I had to think of a way around it and still get the overall chalkboard effect and, I did!! A Versamark ink pad, Perfect Pearls and chalk and ta~dah...here is my entry for the November 12 Tag of 2013 and as always, there's lots of photos to see all the detail and I hope you love my tag!

I didn't have any black tags so die cut my own using Tim's Tag die from Sizzix. The "A Joyful Christmas" stamp that I used is from the Joyful Song stamp set. I created the poinsettias, using Tim's Tattered Poinsettia die from Sizzix and added some holly leaves from the Holly and Branch die. All the die cuts are coloured with Distress Inks and given a spritzing of Perfect Pearls Biscotti Mist. I added some Craftwork Cards Candi to the centres and some rusty wire coils to complete the card.

To complete the tag, I added some cream seam binding and attached some pearls using an Idea-ology pin.

So, that's it from me for today and if you haven't tried out Tim's chalkboard technique, then you must...it is fabulous and creates such a cool effect!!

Thank you so much for stopping by and I'll see you soon with another share.

Bye for  now...love Emma xxx

p.s. Don't forget that the lovely and very talented Julie Hickey is on Ideal World and Create and Craft throughout today with the fabulous Craftwork Cards Pick Of The Day...it's definitely not to be missed!!!!

Moonlight In Paris...

Hello friends...

It's official...I'm melting!! As a non-sunworshipper, I can honestly say ~ it's too darn hot and I don't know about you but I'm ready to book a holiday to the North Pole!! Lol!! What is kind of surreal is that all week, as I'm sweating for England, I've actually been making Christmas cards!! Oh the life of a crafter is a strange one indeed... :)

So, enough waffling from me and time to share my latest post...

This is a DT card project that I made for the recent Clarity Take Two shows on Create and Craft with the lovely Maria Simms and it actually features one of my favourite stamps from Clarity. This stamp was the first stamp that I ever saw by Barbara and I just thought it was such a beautiful image but for some reason I never bought it. So, when it landed in my postbox, I was jumping for joy that I finally had it in my little hands and after all these years of wanting it, I hope I did it justice and as always, I hope you love it...

The background is created with Distress Inks and the image was actually painted with Perfect Pearls to give a beautiful shimmer to the dress but it was really hard to pick up on the camera, so you'll have to take my word for that...lol! ;)

 

Right time for me to fly and create some more snowflakes and think about ice, snow and Frosty the Snowman! Thank you so much for stopping by and visiting and I must apologise for my lack of visits to you all! There is a good reason and I will fill you in on what's been happening here at Chez Williams' but for now...I can't thank you enough for supporting me and my work!

See you all soon and bye for now!

Love Emma xxx

Chasing Rainbows...

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Hello everyone and a very big welcome to all my new followers who joined my blog, yesterday!! It's always lovely to see new faces, read all your lovely comments and don't be frightened to say hello, because I can't wait to start to get to know you all and I promise I don't bite!!! :)

Thank you to everyone who left a comment either here, on Twitter or on Facebook, about my little "French" shadowbox, which I shared with you all yesterday...I was so pleased with it and it was so nice to know that you loved it, as much as I loved making it!

Today, I'm sharing the first of my Clarity Stamp DT samples that I made for the TV shows on Create and Craft at the weekend. As always, I hope you like them all...

So, here we go...sample no. 1!!

The tag background is made with Distress Paints and I also coloured the ribbon with the paints. If you click on the photo above, to make it larger, you'll also see that I attached a safety pin and some beads to the ribbon.

I created this tag using a combination of stamps from the show ~ the Clarity Characters and the Happy Words set.

The flowers are of course, die cut using Tim's Tattered Florals die and spritzed with Dylusions Ink Sprays and then spritzed again with some Perfect Pearls Mists.

Well, that's it from me for today...I've spent the afternoon organising magazine projects, that should keep me busy for the next four months, so now I think I deserve a cuppa and a chocolate chip cookie!! All this organisation and sourcing new and exciting products can wear a girl out...lol!!

See you tomorrow with some more Clarity shares but until then...bye for now!

Love Emma xxx

Close Your Eyes...

Morning everyone!!

...and thank you so much for all your lovely comments on my previous blog post and a big hello to Lavender Rose and welcome to my blog!! Really glad you found me and I hope you enjoy all my crafty antics and stories from Chez Williams... :)

Today, I'm sharing another of my samples that I made for Barbara, for the Clarity shows at the weekend and as always, I hope you like it...

What you probably can't see on these pictures is, I painted all the shells using Perfect Pearls to give them the look of real shells that shimmer in the sunshine!!

I also thought the colour combination was just perfect against the backdrop of the kraft card, which I love using at the moment!!

So, that's it from me for today and I'll be back tomorrow with my first Artistic Stamper post of the month and some more Clarity samples to follow!!

Thank you for dropping by today and looking forward to reading all your comments on this post!

See you soon and bye for now,

love Emma xxx

P.S. I just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who left me a message ahead of my consultant appointment yesterday ~ there's going to be more tests to come and I'm not quite out the woods yet but I'm staying positive and I know this is just a very inconvenient blip in my schedule!! Lol!!

Peace On Earth...

It's a flying visit from me this morning but I just wanted to say hello...

Yesterday, I spent a lovely day in London, at Liberty, with two of my very good friends. The weather was absolutely diabolical, which was such a shame, but we stayed huddled up in the cafe drinking Baileys Coffee, having a mince pie and chatting, which made the time fly. Before I left, I took photos of all the gorgeous Christmas lights in Regent Street and Carnaby Street and then started the journey home!! Unfortunately, due to a couple of incidents on the tube it took me longer than anticipated but I finally got in around 7:00, collapsed into the chair and stayed there for the rest of the night but it was a wonderful day and it's definitely put me in the festive mood!!

Today, I'm sharing some more cards that I made for Making Cards Magazine and these ones appeared way back in October. Of course, the stamps I used to create these are by Clarity Stamp and I painted the window scenes using Perfect Pearls by Ranger to give the look of stained glass! As always, I hope you like them...

The backgrounds to both of these cards are created using alcohol ink on mirri card.

Okey dokey, I'd better fly as I've got lots to do and commissions to make...it never stops here at Chez Williams', I can see that I'll be making cards whilst eating my Christmas dinner at this rate!! lol!!

Hope you all have a fabulous weekend and enjoy your Christmas preparations!

See you all soon and bye for now!

Love Emma xxx

A Touch of Pink....

Hello everyone!!

Hope you've all had a fabulous day and you're staying warm!! I must admit, I was slightly envious of everyone who had snow, yesterday...we didn't even see a flake fall from the sky, here in NW London! I was so disappointed but saying that, it is absolutely f...f...f...freezing!! Which isn't helped by the return of the gas men, trying to fix the problems with the new boiler, who have a fixation with leaving the front door open!!! Why??? Why can't you close it behind you???? *sigh*...I bet he leaves the toilet seat up too!! lol!!

Anyway, I'm back to share the penultimate makes from my Clarity Stamp samples and as always...I hope you like them! You've all been so kind with your comments on all my other cards and it really does make all the effort that I put into these samples to show off Barbara's fab stamps...so worthwhile!!

This one screamed out to me that it needed to be kept monochrome but then, I thought...hmm, it really does need a third colour and so, I added this touch of pink and it just bought the card to life!!

Up close to see the heat embossed detail and hopefully, the shimmer of the Perfect Pearls.

This card was for In The Classroom with Barbara...and it uses four different stamps to create the scene.

I didn't want to stamp the images in black because it just seemed to heavy, so...I chose a dark brown and then added neutral colours to create the background.

So, that's it from me for today and I hope I've inspired you all to have a go with Barbara's stamps. Tomorrow, I'm off to the hairdressers but when I get back...I'll be sharing my last sample for this month, and for this year!! Eek....

See you all tomorrow...bye for now and stay warm!

Love Emma xxx

House of the Rising Sun...

It's a very quick hello, goodbye from me today and I just wanted to say a very big thank you for all your visits, yesterday and all your very kind comments!

Today, I'm sharing the third card from my Clarity samples and as always, when I create any of my samples for Barbara, I always try to make sure that the artwork does the talking. I don't want to over embellish any of these samples, just concentrate on the stamps that I'm given but always create a card that carries through the feel of the subject of those stamp kits.

...and this card was no exception to that rule. The stamps were all individual stamps that I then created a scene with and I matted and layered the background to create an oriental feel to the card. The only embellishment that I added were the tiny square jewels in the corners and some embossing down the side of the image. As always, I hope you like this card.

I can't wait to read all your comments and thank you so much for stopping by and taking the time to look, at this particularly busy period!

See you tomorrow with some more shares...bye for now!

Love Emma xxx