Love....Bites!!

The start of another week and I hope you all had a fabulous weekend and enjoyed World Card Making Day on Saturday. Today's card is another of my Halloween projects and this one is in stark contrast to my last post. I don't think I could've done more opposite if I'd have tried.

 I absolutely LOVE this image from Kraftin Kimmie and every time I see it...it brings a smile to my face!! I decided to use traditional Halloween colours for this card and as you can see from the photos, I also used a new style of card blank. This is one step on from the easel card that we all know and love and is called a tent card and I think it's wonderful to showcase all our little works of art that we take so much time over.

The image itself is stamped in Memento ink and coloured with Promarkers. I matted and layered with papers from Papermania and die cut the bats using my Spellbinders Bat Shapeabilities Dies. As finishing touches, I used satin ribbons and a beautiful mulberry flower from Wild Orchid, then stamped a tag with the "love bites' sentiment.

 

 

So, I hope you love the second of my Halloween projects and believe me, there are plenty more on their way, including some that contain...chocolate!!

Hope you all have a wonderful crafty week!

Love Emma

xx

In The Deep Midwinter...

Today, I've been told is officially the first day of Autumn but just when I thought it was safe to pull on my boots and put away the Birkenstocks, the sun has made a return and here in London, it's been so hot, that it's actually hard to believe that it is Autumn and that, Halloween and Guy Fawkes night is just around the corner.

So far, it's definitely been one of those weeks for me...I literally haven't stopped and tomorrow is going to be another busy day. In the meantime, I literally have 10 cards and lots of Halloween projects all ready and lined up on the table...just needing an afternoon where I can shut myself away and craft!!

But in between the chaos, I did manage to make this card that I'm sharing today and it's another of those, where I just couldn't resist buying these stamps. They come from Clarity Stamps and if you ever have the chance to catch the wonderful Barbara Gray at work, you must. She is amazing and creates some of the most stunning cards. I just hope that I've managed to do her stamps justice.

So, inspired by Barbara and with these fabulous stamps, I decided to make a Christmas card, that wasn't obviously traditional but still had a gorgeous Christmas feel to it and except for the backing papers and ribbon, everything that you see on this card, is handmade...from using the stamps and building up colour onto the card with distress inks to die cutting the snowflakes.

So, I hear you ask...how did I make it? Firstly, I used Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink, and gradually built up the colour to give a soft diffused look to the card and if you look hard enough, you might be able to see a little moon peeking out of the main image. I created this by punching a circle from a Post-It note, adhering it to the card and then when you have inked the paper, remove the punched circle and you're left with the image of the moon. I then stamped the tree and bird images, in black Archival Ink, before using Distress Stickles to give a glistening effect of snow. The snowflakes are die cut using a Spellbinders Shapeablities Die.

So, I hope you all like the card and enjoy the rest of your week....

Thanks for stopping by to take a look,

love Emma

xx

Walking in a Winter Wonderland

Thank you to everyone who gave me such fabulous feedback about my "Umbrella Emma" card. Every comment means so much to me and as I've said before, I really do appreciate you coming and taking a look at all my little creations and hope you have as much fun looking at them, as I do making them! And because of that wonderful feedback, I was inspired to make this card I'm sharing with you today.

This actually brings together all my favourite things in one card...winter, snow, Christmas and Gorjuss...what more could a girl want!! 

I made this card, in exactly the same way as Umbrella Emma, but instead of using silver gemstones for the rain effect, I used a combination of white adhesive gemstones and pearls to create the snow effect. The "Snowman" decoupage comes from the new Winter Gorjuss Collection from The Crafthouse Press and I am just the luckiest person to get to work with these illustrations and decoupage packs. I really can't rate them highly enough and they are an absolute pleasure to work with. They just keep getting better and better....

I wanted to create a really snowy look and feel to this card and to achieve that, I embossed some white pearlescent card, using the Snowflakes embossing folder from Cuttlebug and I also, die cut some snowflakes using a Spellbinders Shapeabilities Snowflake Wonder dies, which are beautiful. With added additions of Stickles glitter glue and Martha Stewart punches, I think I managed to create my own little winter wonderland card.

Hope you all have a wonderful Thursday!

Love Emma

xx