The Impossible Is Often The Untried...

Hello friends...

Hope you've all had a great week and looking forward to a good weekend...

I'm sure most of you all tuned into the Craftwork Cards launch shows over on Create and Craft on Wednesday and I just wanted to say a big congratulations to the wonderful and super talented Julie Hickey, who did an amazing job, as always demonstrating all the gorgeous new products that they had on the show. I can't wait to get my hands on some of the kits, I already have a million and one ideas buzzing around in my head...it's definitely going to be busy here at Chez Williams'...

...but before all those new ideas and trying to make space in the craft room for the new goodies, here's something I made earlier and I really hope you like it!!

This little box canvas is covered in Distress Paints before I piled on all the elements. I added Tim Holtz Tissue Tape around the edges of the canvas and used Sizzix/Tim Holtz die cuts, one of my favourite Tim Holtz quotes which I stamped on a mini canvas that I made myself, lots of Idea-ology, some Junkyard Findings from Finnabair and finally, some Petaloo flowers, which I covered with more Distress Paints.

For the little feet, I attached some bottle tops and applied Treasure Gold to highlight the raised areas of GrungePaste which I applied through a stencil. 

So, I hope you love what I've made today and thanks so much for your visit and for leaving all the lovely comments that you always write!!

Have a fab weekend and take care!

Bye for now...love Emma xxx

Remember This...

Hi everyone!!

Hope you're all having a fabulous weekend, so far and fingers crossed that there is a little bit of sunshine where you are! The weather has been truly awful this last week but today, the sun has been  making an on/off appearance and I even saw a little bit of a blue sky!!

Anyway, I'm back today with another of my makes using the fab Check In Collection from Kaisercraft which is available to buy, along with so many other gorgeous goodies from Merly Impressions.

For this particular piece I decided to get a bit inky and make another layout using elements from the collection, including the acetate shapes, the printed tickets, rub on's and the collectables die cuts!!

If you want to read more about how I created this layout and what I used then please click HERE!!

Thank you so much for taking the time to have a look at my inky layout and I really hope you liked it!!

Have a fabulous weekend and when I get to eventually sit down later this evening, I will be visiting you all to say hello!!

See you soon and bye for now!

Love Emma xxx

Blue Christmas Countdown ~ Day Four

Ooo, I'm getting excited now...Christmas is only days away and I love this time of year!! The bustling shops, the Christmas songs and all the wonderful smells of Christmas food being cooked and wafting through the house.

I'm still keeping to my promise of my Christmas countdown all this week, which was adventurous but hey ho, I never make life easy on myself!!! LOL.

So, time for day four and today's post...I hope you like it!

This card was just one of the many samples that I've made since I joined the team at QVC and was made using the Ranger Core'dinations Distress Pad. I added some more Tim Holtz products to complete the card and as the finishing touch, added a huge floral, die cut from music paper and some seam binding.

Hope you all have a lovely day and I'll be round to visit all your blogs, later!!

Time to head to the kitchen and do some more baking!!

See you tomorrow and thanks for popping by to take a look at what I've made!

Love Emma xxx

Christmas Countdown ~ Day One

Morning everyone!!

Hope you all had a lovely weekend!!

Well, here we are...the final countdown, only six days to go until Christmas Day!! My preparation is slowly coming together and after finishing a big magazine project at the weekend, I can now finally relax and think...IT"S CHRISTMAS!!

This week, my adventurous plan is to post every day and have a little Christmas countdown here on the blog!! Lol, hmm, I know...I really don't make life easy for myself and I know that this is a busy time for everyone but I hope you'll be able to pop along to see all my Christmas makes and samples that have been keeping me so busy over the last few months...

...and here's my first share and my favourite ~ I made this over the weekend and I really hope you like it!!

I'd just like to say a big thank you, to the lovely Paula at Which Craft? for these fabulous crackers...as soon as they landed on my doorstep, I was so excited by them because they were something really different to work with and it was so nice to be able to spend a couple of hours doing something for myself, something that was totally ~ me!!!

Once again, and as you can probably see ~ there's a lot of Tim Holtz products going on here, grungepaper, die cuts, tissue tape, etc....etc....etc!! I must admit to get that deer standing proud, all on his own free will, was a real patience tester but it was so worth it in the end!! The designer papers are from My Mind's Eye and the decorative pin, from The Ribbon Girl.

So, that's the first of my Christmas countdown posts...and if all goes to plan, I'll be back tomorrow with another one!

Hope you all have a lovely week.

Bye for now.

Love Emma xxx

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Charisma Cardz Challenges ~ Last Min Xmas Makes

Fashion Statement

Hello again!

So far, it's actually quite a nice day here in London. It's chilly but there's a few rays of autumnal sun and I've actually managed to get some washing out on the line and, best of all ~ it's drying!!

Anyway, yesterday I hinted at something exciting happening over at Kuretake and I can now reveal exactly what that is...it's the new Kuretake Shop.

You can now buy all your gorgeous Kuretake products direct from the shop and it gets better because they are also distributors for the fab Basically Bare! How cool is that?

Over the last month, the DT have been busy working away with these products and today, I'm showing you just one of the items that I made ~ I hope you like it!!

For this project, I made my own shadow box and combined the Basically Bare items, together with Kuretake products for the finished creation.

I used Tim's Tissue Tape around the edge of the box and coloured it with Art and Graphic Twin Pens. The background on the inside of the box is all coloured with a wash of ink from the pens and then using them directly onto the stamp and stamping the image and quote, which is from a set of stamps by Wendy Vecchi.

On the dress, I used Fabricolor pens to create the little polka dots, together with some lace from my own crafty stash! The ribbons and fibres, all come from Kuretake too!!

Keep watching this space and all the other DT members blogs, for lots more ideas, (including a few tutorials from some of us), of what you can do with these fab products and don't forget to check out the shop!!!

Enjoy the rest of your day!

See you tomorrow!

Love Emma

xxx

P.S. Don't forget about the Craftwork Cards Blog Candy ~ all the details are in the post below!

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)

Keep Calm and Carry On

So, here we are at last...the eve of Kate and William's big day and London is buzzing with excitement about the Royal Wedding!! Will you all be watching? I can't wait to find out what Kate's dress looks like and which designer she chose to make it!! Regent Street and The Mall have the Union Jack flags flying high and it looks absolutely spectacular...this is why I love the city that I live in!! You can take London from the girl but you could never take the girl out of London...lol

And in honour of this Royal occasion, I thought it would be fitting to make a card to celebrate the big day...Kate, this one's for you, just in case you're looking!! hehe... I think the message probably says it all! :)

I really love the shabby chic look incorporating the Union Jack, that is popular in interior design at the moment and thought with this card, it would be nice to recreate that look but with papers, etc...hope you like what I made?

What Did I Use?

Keep Calm and Carry On Stamp: Kirsty Wiseman stamped onto Bazzill Card and embossed

Embossed Dots/Union Jack Backing Card: Kanban

UTEE melted in the Melt Pot and embossed with a Prince of Wales feather stamp

Vintage Ribbon: Creative Expressions (dyed using Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink)

Heart chipboard shape which I covered with gilding flakes

Flowers: Die cut using Tim's Tattered Florals Alterations Die & sprayed with Rich Gold Cosmic Shimmer

Tim Holtz Tissue Tape

and last but not least...the piece de resistance...

A very special button, fit for a King or Queen that I've been saving for a special occasion in my crafty stash and attached to the vintage ribbon bow!

Whatever you might be doing tomorrow, I hope you all have a fabulous time and enjoy the day.

Thanks for stopping by to look at what I make and for all your lovely comments.

See you on Saturday!

Love Emma

xxx

Entered into the Simon Says Stamp and Show Some Buttons Challenge