Shabby Chic ~ My Second Guest Designer Piece for Sam Poole's Creative Studios

Hello friends!!

Hope you all had a fabulous weekend and for those of you who love it, I hope you enjoyed the sunshine and for the ones like me, who melt and hibernate...I hope you all survived!! Lol!!

As you all know from my previous post, I was over the moon to be asked by the very lovely Sam Poole to be her Guest Designer. I shared the first piece that I created for Sam, with you all on Saturday and thank you so much for all your very kind comments. If you did miss it, then just scroll down and click on the links. Today, I'm sharing my second piece, which accompanies the first to make a lovely little desk set. If you click HERE, you will be whisked over to Sam's blog to see this piece in full!

So, as always I hope you like it and I can't wait to read all your comments!

Have a great week everyone and I'll see you soon!

Bye for now...love Emma xxx

Thrilled to be Guest Designer for Sam Poole's Creative Studios...

Hello everyone and happy weekend!!

Today, I am thrilled to say that I have been invited by the very lovely and extremely talented Sam Poole to be her Guest Designer for Sam Poole's Creative Studios. I was so honoured when Sam asked me to create some projects using her latest release of stamps ~ Shabby Chic and here is a sneaky peek of my first project using these fabulous designs. If you'd like to see more of this project, then just click HERE!

As always, I really hope you love what I've created and I can't wait to read all your comments, either here or over on Sam's blog.

Don't forget to pop back on Monday, when I will be sharing my second project for Sam and in the meantime, have a fabulous weekend and if you're a sun worshipper enjoy the weather and if not, then I hope you can find a cool shady spot...lol!

Have a great weekend and be safe in the sun!

Love Emma xxx

Classy and Fabulous

Good morning friends...hope you all had a lovely weekend! At the moment, these weeks are going by so fast and the weekends seems to disappear in a flash, I only blinked and it was Sunday night!!

Anyway, I've just popped on to share another card using those fabulous papers from the Grace Taylor paper pad, available at QVC. I hope you like it...

Once again, I kept the overall look of the card in the style of shabby chic, adding some die cuts, paper rolls and then stamped one of my favourite quotes from Coco Chanel. To be honest, I think I should've lived in the 1940's or 1950's. I just love everything about that era...for me, this era epitomizes how a woman should be ~ classy and fabulous and do it all with style!!

Right, time for me to go...at the moment, my mojo has gone astray and it doesn't want to be found!! So, wish me luck in looking for it because I have deadlines to meet and nothing to show for them yet!!

Eek...

I'll be round to see all your creations, later today!!

Bye for now and see you soon!

Love Emma xxx

Fashion Statement

Good morning everyone!

Hope you're all looking forward to the weekend and have something nice planned. Me? I'm hoping to pop along to The Big Stamp and Scrapbooking Show at Ally Pally just for a flying visit, then it's my Dad's big 70...shh, don't tell him I told you!! So, I plan on spoiling him rotten and celebrating his day in style!!

Today is the start of a new challenge over on the Sarah Hurley Challenge Blog and it's all about...

CIRCLES

and here's my interpretation of the challenge, a scissor storage holder...I hope you like it!!

If you click HERE, you will be able to get all the details of the challenge and see what the rest of the wonderful creations that the team have made!! We hope you will join us with this challenge and look forward to seeing what you make!!

To make this, I used papers from Sarah's Easter Digi Kit, painted an old ribbon spool, wrapped twine around it and then decorated it with buttons, handmade flowers and seam binding.

So, it's that time of the day when I'd better think about what I need to do, organise myself and then, go and make another cup of strong coffee to get me through it!! lol.

See you tomorrow and hope you all have happy weekends!!

Love Emma xxx

Waiting...

Another weekend has flown by and I don't know about you but even though it's been a lovely day, today...there's definitely a feel of Autumn in the air. Yesterday, as I was driving along, there were leaves being blown from the trees and a very watery sunshine...if I didn't know, I would think we were in mid-September rather than August. 

Anyway, I'm not sure where August has actually gone and except for one post, I know I was M.I.A. last week but I promise, I have been making lots and lots of cards! The living room and dining room have now been taken over and resemble John Lewis' greetings card department!! I can't wait to show you what I've been up to but until I can, I'm having to sit on my little hands and tease you with the fact that...there's some lovely things coming this way soon!! So, watch this space... hehe!

But for now, here's a card I can show you and another one using those lovely Gorjuss stamps...I hope you like it!

The one thing I always tend to do with these images, is not make them cute and I love the fact that these stunning little girls can lend themselves to a bit of distressing and shabby chic!

Once again, I made one of my "famous trademark" HUGE flowers and used that stripey paper, which I think is fab!! I also added some rosettes, vintage ribbon and a Spellbinders die cut to complete the card.

The image was painted with Art and Graphic Twin pens from Kuretake.

I'll be around later to comment on all your lovely creations, after I've tidied up the crafty bombsite that used to be a family home! lol

Thanks for stopping by to take a look at what I made. See you soon and hope you all had a lovely weekend!!

Love Emma

xxx