Make a Scene

Hi Guys

Now this is not me making a scene in a physical sense but in my work.  Michelle my lovely teamie on TT's has set the theme this week and it is Make a Scene.

I have chosen to use my brayer again and actually had a happy accident.  I masked off to make the sun and actually went over the edge of the post-it so I had to make the reflection.  I have brayered the sky as I would usually.  I have masked off where the land is with 2 post-its, the top one with its natural edge and another that I have torn on the sticky part and used a sponge dauber to do the grass.

I did the reflection of the sun by just rubbing my dauber in horizontal lines down the page and then brayered the water over the top.  I have stamped and masked my Trendy Trees on the 'land' and 'Bambi' from Forest Friends.  To get the 'reflection' I stamped my image on the back of (smooth side) of my Stamp a ma jig imaging sheet and then placed it on my image where I wanted it ink side down and rubbed the ink onto my image and tadah you have a reflection.

I hope you like and until next time

Happy Crafting

Emma xx

Can you believey

Tuesday Taggers is ONE year old.  Who'd have thought that we would have gotten this far with so many followers and so many crafters joining in with the challenges every week.

As is normal for me I am late in wishing Tuesday Taggers a happy birthday, as I am with most birthdays.

Teri one of the fab design teamies has drawn a fabulous cake image which you can use to do your tag.  We are getting everyone including us teamies to swap tags with another person in order to celebrate.

I have coloured my piccie in with Stampin' Write markers.

Balloons      Pumpkin Pie and Really Rust
Ribbon        Summer Sun
Cake           Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, Creamy Caramel
Plate           Mellow Moss, Sage Shadow

I have used Pumpkin Pie DSP and Chocolate Chip/Whisper White Cardstock.  I used the 'Circle of Friendship' stamp set for the greeting and Chocolate Chip Double stitched grosgrain ribbon to finish it off.

I hope you have fun joining in with this weeks challenge.

I hope you like and until next time

happy crafting

Emma xxx

Tuesday Taggers Step out of your comfort zone

Hi Guys

I am a really bad blogger and haven't posted for a while.  The only excuse I have is that I have been getting some classes together that are coming up soon.  More about those later.

Back to Tuesday Taggers.  Our lovely teamie Sally has challenged us to work out of our comfort zone, so not knowing what to do I consulted my fellow teamies and Michelle suggested that I work with something other than paper.  So I have done just that with the exception of one piece and that was the book page.

I started with the colours that I wanted to use and they were Chocolate Chip and Close to Cocoa, I also used the stamp set Live your Dream.  I had some canvas fabric in my odds and sods bin so I cut some flowers out of the fabric and stiffened the edges of the petal with crystal effects.  Whilst that was drying I painted my canvas with brown reinker and gesso.  I then stuck the book page to the canvas.  When it was dry I took some sellotape and stuck lightly and pulled it off gently so that only the top surface came off.

I stamped around the edges of the canvas with the small flower stamp to add some interest.  Now that the flowers are dry I could colour around the edges and went over them with the very vintage wheel to give some interest to them.  I stuck 4 or 5 together and then stuck them to the canvas.  To finish them off I stuck some buttons in the middle of the flowers.

I hope you like and until next time

Happy crafting

Emma xx

Mini Blog Hop

Hi Guys

In less than a week the SU! mini catty launches and what better way to preview it than us SU! Independent Demonstrators having a blog hop starting here with Carol.

If I have done this right you should have come here from Carol and you will leave here via Pats blog.

My contribution for this blog hop is this....

It is a photo cube made from cd jewel cases (I have seen this on the web, but cannot remember where I have seen it. If somebody knows please can they tell me so I can credit). I have used the back cover of one and clipped it to the front cover of another. The base is made from a piece of cardstock at 8"x8". I have used the new Sweet Pea DSP from the mini. The pieces of card stock I have used as the photo frame are 5 3/4"x5 1/8" scored at 5 1/2" on the 5 3/4" side. Again I have used the Sweet Pea paper. I have also used the My Sweet Pea Stamp set for the stamped flowers in Chocolate Chip. I have stamped with versamark on the backing card. I have used Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Chip and Old Olive card stock.

Not only have we got this blog hop but there are two more happening too, one here and the other one here.

I hope you like and keep looking over the next few days and I will be posting more from the Mini Catty.

Until next time happy crafting

Emma xx

Hi Guys

Today is the birthday of a friend of mine who is in the ACF and because of this, I have made this card for him.

It is yet more punch art. Here is what you need

1 3/4" circle x 1 Old Olive helmet

Large Tag x 2 Old Olive body

Boho Blossoms (small flower) x 4 Basic Black Camouflage

Boho Blossoms (small flower) x 4 Brown Camouflage

1 3/4" Circle x 5 Basic Black Large Camouflage

1 3/4" Circle x 5 Brown Large Camouflage

Word Window x 4 Old Olive Legs and arms

Word Window x 2 Basic Black Boots and belt

1/4" Circle x 1 Creamy Caramel Belt buckle

1 3/8" Circle x 1 Blush Blossom Face

Boho Blossoms (small flower) x 2 Blush Blossom Hands

Black Stampin' Right marker Face

Circle of Friendship Stamped in Stazon

1" x 1 White Stamped on

1 1/4" x 1 Old Olive Matting

1 3/8" x 1 Brown Matting

1 3/4 x 1 Basic Black Matting

I have also inked around the edge with Always Artichoke.

Secondly I have been given an award by the lovely Janet and to accept this award I need to list 10 things that make me happy

1. My darling hubby

2. Zoe my bestest girly friend

3. My friends

4. My nieces and nephew

5. My Family

6. Getting lovely comments about my work on my blog

7. Chocolate in copious amounts

8. Being a member of Tuesday Taggers, Stampin' Up! and Do Crafts because I get to meet loads of lovely people

9. My work because I enjoy my job (who wouldn't enjoy crafting as a job)

10. Doing messy work.

Now I have to nominate 5 people to give this award to

1. Zoe friend and fellow SU! Demo

2. Jo D cos I like her work

3. Pauline (a German SU! Demo)

4. Hels I have only recently found Hels but her work is great

5. Chat Another blog I stalk

I hope you enjoy

Until next time happy crafting

Emma xx

Time ...

... Have you got enough to go look at the wonderful creations at Tuesday Taggers.

Hi Guys

Time for another challenge at Tuesday Taggers and this week the theme is Time. I did wonder what I would do for this but then I remembered I had the 'Sense Of Time' stamp set from Stampin' Up!

I have done something a little bit different for me this week. I have used metal.

Firstly stamp onto metal with Staz-On (you need a permanent ink so it doesn't rub off) and go round the outline of both the full face and also the smaller face at the bottom of the clock. Turn the metal over and place on a soft surface (an old mouse mat will do or a magazine) and start going round in a circular motion with an embossing stylus and the metal will start stretching and you will end up with a 3d part to your clock. I have the filled the recess with crystal effects just so it doesn't get squashed. I did the same for the cogs on the left hand side of the piece.

The card has been inked with Creamy Caramel, Close to Cocoa and Chocolate Chip inks for SU! I inked the whole of the card with Creamy Caramel first. I then went with Close to Cocoa and didn't quite cover the whole of the card leaving the middle bit out. The last colour Chocolate Chip just around the edges. Using the cog stamp I stamped randomly over the piece. I then stuck the two metal pieces on (when the Crystal Effects was dry) and then stamped the quote stamp in a couple of places.

Well guys that is it for now, don't forget to go and check out the rest of the gang at Tuesday Taggers.

Until next time happy crafting

Emma xx

Tuesday Taggers Love is all around

Hi Guys

Tuesday Taggers are on a quest for all things LOVEly to take us to Valentines day. The DT have surpassed themselves yet again and produced some fantastic work.

This week I have made an easel box. I have done it in Close to Cocoa and Creamy Caramel. I used the Heart to Heart punch and the Love you much stamp set from SU!

I hope you like it. Don't forget to pop over to Tuesday Taggers to see what the rest of the team have done.

Until next time

Happy crafting

Emma

As promised a crafty post (a day late, sorry).  This one was made for the Mojomonday challenge.

I have used all brown tones for this card

 

I have used 

Very Vanilla for card base

paper from the spiced cider designer series paper

Chocolate Chip card stock

Close to Cocoa card stock

Caramel Gingham ribbon

Garden Whimsy Stamp set

Chocolate Chip ink pad

Signo White Gel Pen

I cut two pieces of designer paper and inked around the edges with Chocolate chip ink using a dauber.  I stuck these on with snail adhesive.  

I then cut a piece of Chocolate chip and a piece of Close to Cocoa slightly smaller.   I punched the edge of the Close to Cocoa with the Scallop Edge punch.  

I have doodled around the edge of the Close to Cocoa card and then put the gingham ribbon across the card, and stuck it on to the Chocolate Chip card.  I have also used the ladybird from the Garden Whimsy stamp set in Chocolate Chip ink on the Close to Cocoa card.  

I stamped the butterfly in Chocolate Chip ink on Very Vanilla card stock and cut out.  I then placed this on the card with dimensionals to make it stand of  the card.