The finished boxes!

Hey everyone, 

So I finished my boxes and I'm glad to say the girls loved them! I also loved them :) everyone who has seen these has told me they would do well so who knows, maybe they'd be on my etsy store soon! 

Beautiful little boxes. I'm hoping they can use them for the jewellery we have to wear at work. 

Emma p

Progress report!

Hey everyone! 

Sorry I've done it again. I've been so busy playing about with my new items that I haven't given you a progress report. However don't tell me off straight away as I took photos during the making process of my boxes. So here they are.

1) paint boxes bright red- use acrylic. 

2) stipple through a mask of desired design onto boxes. I used a free magazine mask and Sparkle medium from imagination crafts in candy floss and diamond. Beautiful pastes but hell to clean.

3) Then when all is dry, time to decorate. These lovely boxes are for some gorgeous girls of mine, so out came the flowers, butterflies and ribbons. I used silicon glue as this holds longer. 

Of corse when they are all dry, I'll pop the lids on and take a nice photo outside for you all. Popped on newspaper doesn't stand out very well! 

Also in my progress report is how my commission is going on. I recently got a commission for 150 wedding invitations in an ivory and claret red design. We figured the design out together and worked out a cost. Now is the making part! I've received the card and ribbon but waiting on the sliders at the moment. Last night I spent the evening cutting the ribbon to 20cm each. 150 of them! Today will be cutting the card to size once I have bought a gulliotine (it will be a life saver).

Have a lovely day everyone! 

Emma P 

Competition time!

Hey everyone! 

Sorry I've been AWOL! I've been trying to be fitter hence no time to post. But I assure you, I have been making some beauties and commissions have been coming in. 

However today I thought I would share this little competition from a favourite blogger of mine! I've followed Jenny since reading about her in Papercraft Inspirations Magazine, she always has gorgeous inspiration and amazing competitions!

 (http://jfroog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/candy-time.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:%20designByJenny%20(.Design%20by%20Jenny) this is her blog link! 

This is her current competition! 

All of these pieces are just like my latest style and colouring is so me at the moment! I hope I win this! I also recognise the sweet bag from the magazine. 

Good luck everyone! 

Emma P 

Mothers Day Sale

Hey everyone! 

Today's post will only be short, just want to let you all know that as of Wednesday I will be having a sale on my etsy page (and promoted on my Facebook page) for my Mother's Day cards. I will reduce the cards by 25% and delivery will be speedy as always. That means you will have the awesome cards for a saving! 

Here are my links and a few pictures to remind you! 

Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CraftinEm

Facebook: http://Facebook.com/BeautifulBeadsNow

Twitter: @BeautifulBeads1

 

Much loves all!

Emma P

The Shabby Tea Room- week #206

Hey all!

Just a little entry post this evening as I've got a majorly bad headache. I decided to make my shabby tea room entry without a sketch today and I loved how it came out. This is the picture we were given.

Link: http://theshabbytearoom.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/week-209-spring-is-near.html

We needed to make a card featuring baby blue, spring flowers and birds. Of course my designs being the way they are, it was perfect for me! I created this simple, yet elegant card.

Etsy: to be added soon.

Emma P

MojoMonday 336 AND news :)

Hey everyone! 

I hope you've had an amazing week, sorry I've not been around much! I've been here, there and everywhere. First I'll tell you all my news! As you all know I've been try to see if I have a place in the crafting market and it seems I do! I've sold my first card on etsy and it's just been sent off to its new owner today! I've never been happier! I was dancing around the room and even ran down to my parents! Since then I have sold another, both Mother's Day cards.

Now I've made you all happy and warm inside, who would like to see a card? Here's the MojoMonday sketch we had this week, I knew what I would do as soon as I saw it! 

I had a lovely circle card topper from HunkyDory Crafts that was perfect for this card! So of course with Mothers Day coming up, another Mother's Day card was created. Include ribbon, twine and flowers and there you go! Here it is.

Etsy link: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/182528851/handmade-circle-flower-and-butterfly?

Enjoy your day all!

Emma P

3D works- gift bags

Hey all, 

This is my second post for today! Just another quick one showcasing a little 3D gift bag I made from a papercraft magazine I collect. It goes with a shoe 3D card made by Jenny (http://jfroog.blogspot.co.uk), i will be making the shoe card soon too. However I changed the basics of the design but kept the colour (purple). Here's my git bag.

I don't understand why the lighting gave the bag black edges, but it does show the bag size quite well. It fits a small bag of sweets inside. I already have a recipient in mind for this, a lovely lady who is leaving my work place soon. She will love this. My bag is decorated with gems, flowers, rub one, ribbon and paper. The tag is a personal message to my lovely colleague, very best wishes. 

Pop around soon for more 3D work of mine, I'm enjoying it more and more! 

Emma P

Never forget about the freebies

Hey all,

I think I've got my mojo back now as last night I altered another cute box and this morning I made cards! All because of my new Alex draws I got from my parents yesterday. It was a total surprise as I had decided to buy it for myself for my birthday in July, however they came back from ikea with a huge box for me.

Anyways back to the box! Here is my altered box from last night:

This darling little box didn't take long to make. It was originally a Thorntons box which I obviously ate the chocolates way too quickly! I looked at the box and thought this would be awesome altered. I added paper (from my sort out), Tim Holtz ink, flowers and gems. Mostly this was an idea for me to get used to altering items. I have another tin to alter now! Ideas ideas! 

As my title today says, never forget the freebies! I had got some amazing freebies from Papercraft Inspirations magazine which I had forgotten about and found yesterday. I decided to have a go making the beautiful cards from the magazine and it was just the inspiration I needed. Here they are, I only added flowers and a few chipboard pieces to the kit.

Unfortunately they didn't come with envelopes so I need to make some to go with these. Unless I donate them to someone.

By the way do you like my card backdrop? I think it shows my cards off.

Emma P

New cards... Valentines!

Hey all!

I've made a really gorgeous card that I really need to show you all. Of course I'm on the valentines band wagon now, but I really wanted to give this one a post of my own. So here it is! 

"I love moo" really would like a home this valentines day. Do you love someone who would love to giggle to this card? I made this using a new embossing board (it came today and I had to try it out) and some new cardstock. Cows came to my mind straight away.
EDIT: This card is now on Etsy! Take a Peak: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/179571682/dry-embossed-cow-themed-valentinesi-love?ref=listing-shop-header-2

I've also made another cute card which I want to give a little mention...

I hope you've enjoyed my post today! See you soon.

Emma P

Just a quick one!

Hey all! 

I've actually given myself a weekend off from making and blogging so this post will be my last until Monday! But here's a little update on the cards I made from the Papercraft Inspirations free gift. 

The lovely gift this time consisted of cake stamps and beautiful papers. The free gifts from the magazine are always great quality however this time I wasn't too keen. This was until I used them! Here are my cards.

This was the first one. I really just followed the photo of inspiration in the magazine but I felt that this wasn't my style. So I carried on to make these...

Thank you for reading everyone! See you on Monday.

Emma P

Shabby Tea room entry!

Hey everyone,

This is my first ever shabby tea room entry and I love the inspiration picture! If you haven't heard of it, The Shabby Tea Room (theshabbytearoom.blogspot.co.uk) is a weekly post competition where you are given a picture which you have to make a card or papercraft project inspired by it. You are also given a piece you have to add into it (like this weeks item was "have to include a tag"). 

This is this weeks project:

http://theshabbytearoom.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/week-195-terrific-tags.html?m=1

Here is the card I made inspired by the picture. I included patterned papers, the tag of course, wooden vaneers, ribbon and flowers. Of course I couldn't forget the gems! 

Thank you for reading! 

Emma P