Crafty happenings

Hey all! 

Just a little post today to show you all what I managed to make yesterday. I didn't plan to have a crafty day, however it just happened. I made some beautiful items too.

These were my "using up" tags. I had plain tags and left over Christmas paper so these beauties were made. Hopefully I'll remember to use these next year! 

These are the first pair of earrings I've made using my mallet, steel block and new book. These are gorgeous and I loved making bohemian jewellery! What do you think? 

This is the gorgeous card kit I bought with my Christmas money. For a spare half an hour I thought I'd give this a go. It's a gorgeous card kit for an autumn birthday. To be put away maybe.

Thank you for reading today.

Emma P

Spreading the Cheer

Happy Christmas everyone! 

Hope you all had a lovely day yesterday, I know I did and received some lovely goodies from Santa. Today I'm going to take a short 5 mins to show you all the crafty goodies I received from the big man.

These are the lovely card goodies I bought today (I love the sales!!) with Christmas money. These include rub ons, brads, stamps and card kits. All to add to my stash of corse.

Fimo items! As some of you may remember I used fimo during my final project at London and asked my parents for items to continue at home. I received 3 packs of fimo, fimo tools, fimo glue for silver leaf and fimo varnish. I can't wait to get my hands on these! 

Jewellery will always be a part of my creative journey and you all will be seeing more of it soon! The bohemian book was from my sister (a style I will be dabbing into more and more), the hammer and steel block from my boyfriend. New designs coming soon! Watch this space.

And finally some more card making items. These are the ever famous spectrum noir pens by crafters companion. Unfortunately this range is discontinuing but the newer range is just as good. Great for colouring in and shading stamped images. The embossing tool has been on my wanted list for ages! I have to admit, what have I done without it! I tested it earlier and yes it is noisy, but creates beautiful out comes. Below is what I created (excuse the picture lighting, it was getting rather dark!).

I hope you all got everything you wanted from Santa! 

Emma P 

Evening all

Good evening everyone! 

I hope your all having a lovely weekend, I've had a fantastic one. Yesterday unfortunately I was working but got to finish early :D My weekend of relaxation then started. I've watched movies, eaten chocolate, seen my boyfriend and made things! My clear out session is still in progress too.

Today my sister, boyfriend and I all pitched in to make a gingerbread house. My sister is in competition with her friends to make the best so here is our entry! I must admit I ate a lot of icing today. Do you like it? 

(Yes that's my boyfriend hiding behind the house!)

I also decided that seen as this Christmas I don't have a new dress to wear on the big day, I needed to make myself a piece of jewellery. I made a batch of resin pendants when I tried resin a few months back and decided to use this flowery pendant for Christmas. Add a few charms and some suede cord and you have a cute little necklace.

I hope your weekend ends great! 

Emma P

The Shabby Tea Room Week #197

Hey all! 

It's that time of the week again! It's shabby tea room time. I look forward to this time every week, let's see what I had to play with this week.

The Shabby Tea Room:

(http://theshabbytearoom.blogspot.co.uk)

This weeks photo was beautiful. Here it is:

We had to make a card or papercraft item using red, white, gingham and/or gingerbread. Well you know how much I like my gingerbread theme this year so this was a diddle for me! 

I came up with this design:

I liked this design so much I've already used the card for my work friends! Fingers crossed for me everyone.

Thanks for reading today.

Emma P

The Shabby Tea Room entry- #196

Hey everyone! 

It's that time of the week again. It's my Shabby Tea Room entry time. This week I found it perticularly difficult as I stopped making Christmas card making a while a go but I carried on and made this beauty! 

This is the shabby tea room link for this week, why not join in?

(http://theshabbytearoom.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/week-196-noel.html?m=1)

This week we had to make a card or project inspired the picture (pictured above) AND include polka dots and 

buttons. This is what I created. Quite honestly, I love this design! 

Thank you all for reading. Wish me good luck! 

Emma P

Just a quick hello!

Hey all! 

I've actually got the night shift today at work so it's a quick post from me today. I've just been sat in front of the tv (friends of course ;)) making more Christmas cards for my family. So I thought I'd show you today 5 of my favourite Christmas cards I've made this year.

The last one was a kit but I loved making it! These are all still for sale, please contact me if you are interested in any.

Thank you for reading today! 

Emma P

Little card update!

Hey all! 

Seen as I have my final show tonight, I thought I'd do a small post on the recent cards I have made.

This card was made with a kit from the recent papercraft inspirations magazine. I loved the cute theme of the gingerbread kit that I made all 5 designs! 

I love this card! Inspired by the wonderful Nichol Magourik (http://nicholmagouirk.typepad.com), I decided to try out her wonderful method of glitter backgrounds! So easy to do, check out her blog! 

This is the latest card made for a work mate. It's her sons 30th birthday and he LOVES fish. I decided to make this design for her. I love the simplicity of the design and It works so well! 

Thank you for checking out my cards today! 

Emma