guest designer at i heart {ippity} - week 4

hello lovely friends!

today is fabulous friday at i heart {ippity} and i have a new project to share with you. this week's creation is a birthday card:

i used the HAPPY BIRTHDAY sentiment  from the AMAZING "fall for you" stamp set. and i used the corners from the same set to create the colourful banner.

if you LOVE this set, you can find it HERE.

thank you for visiting my little space on the net!

hugs 'n smiles,

Emmy

little boy {sketch 268}

hello lovely friends!

it's another week and another AMAZING sketch challenge at scrapbook challenges. this week the sketch was designed from our VERY TALENTED dt member anna white-sharman. 

she will tell you that this is her first sketch, but when you look at it - it is HARD to believe. there are great details and the composition of the elements is just PERFECT!

here is what i came up with:

i used the "little boy" collection from echo park. i just LOVE the bright colours and boyish design of this paper line!

there is a lot of stitching and doodling on this layout, but otherwise it wouldn't be MINE.

the stars pattern is made with bazzil's stitching patterns.

i cut out some of the journalling cards included in the kit. i stitched and stamped them and this is the result:



the alphabet letters are also from the collection kit:

as i said - i did a lot of doodling:

thank you for taking the time to visit my blog! i truly appreciate every scrappy friend!

hugs 'n smiles,

Emmy

back to the 80's {MME}

hello lovely friends,

today i want to share my latest project with you. i made it for the monthly sketch competition from MME. as usual the very TALENTED anam stubbington have created a WONDERFUL sketch for us to follow:

the theme was 'back to..." and here is what i came up with:

i used the lost and found one "union square" paper line, the lost and found two "rosy"clear stamps - that how i created the banner under my ribbon - i've stamped the half doily on some paper leftovers, cut it and embossed the edges.

the lost and found two "rosy" dimensional stickers and inkadinkado "steam punk" clear stamps:

 

the paper stripes are from a journalling card from the tres jolie "brothers" collection {YES! i do have a lot of mme's goodies}

 on the picture me and my good friend alex. i named my layout "back to the 80's", because we were at a "kitch party" - tiger tops, hawaiian shirts, snake print clothes - nothing was more kitchy than the 80's!

i hope you enjoyed my post! i sure had a lot of fun making this layout! and i can't wait for the next challenge at mme!

hugs 'n smiles,

Emmy

cuddly buddly challenge 13: add a BIG number or a letter!

hello lovely friends!

here we go again, it’s a new friday and a new challenge at cuddly buddly! BIG THANKS to the crafters who were able play along last week!

♥♥♥

this week the challenge theme is “add a BIG number or a letter”!

here is some inspiration from me:

i used the picture kitchen studio digi stamp – my purrfect friend

you can find more FANTASTIC examples of our DT on cuddly buddly's blog.

rules for play:

• you may enter as many times as you’d like to each week so long as your project hasn't been submitted to a previous challenge at cuddly buddly.
• you may submit your entry to other challenges across the web.
• you will need to publish your entry on your own blog with a link to the challenge post and also display one or more of cuddly buddly's web buttons from the column on the right.
• link your project to cuddly buddly by submitting your entry using the inlinkz service at the bottom of each challenge blog post.
• entries need to be linked up before 20:00hrs GMT thursday 29th september.

the prize:

a £10 (or £5*) cuddly buddly crafts gift certificate to be spent as the winner/s so choose in the online shop.

* if the winning entrant has not used a cuddly buddly image they will receive a £5 gift certificate.

the winner/s:

one winner will be chosen at random from all of the entries. if there are over thirty entries the DT member who set the theme for the challenge will personally choose a second winner.

the winner/s will be notified by email, announced on the next challenge and listed on the winners page.

so, get your digi's and join the FUN @ cuddly buddly!

hugs 'n smiles,

Emmy

all things cupcakes {limited runs digi's}

hello bloggers!

my sunday post is all about CUPCAKES. if you LOVE cupcakes as much as i do, the you will definitely fall in love with limited runs digi's! there are over 80 different CUPCAKE designs for almost every occasion.

limited runs is also sponsoring the second challenge at colorful creations.

the challenge is to create a CARD or a LAYOUT using a digital or stamped image of a CUPCAKE, sprinkles (BLING or GLITTER) on top of the frosting and SENTIMENT (card) or a TITLE (layout) that includes the word CUPCAKE.

i had the pleasure to work with the "one candle cupcake" digital stamp and here is what i came up with:

i used marinane design papers, white ribbon and stickles glitter glue for the frosting. 

if you are curious how to get the 3-d cupcake effect using a digital stamp, click HERE to view my NEW tutorial.

to enter the colorful creation challenge your creation must be new as of september 15, 2011 and cannot be combined with any other cc challenge.

extra entry earned for using a limited runs image. When uploading your entry you must include the name of the image you used to receive the extra entry.

limited runs will be awarding the randomly chosen winner of this challenge (3) digi images, winner's choice from their online store.

hugs 'n smiles,

Emmy

3-d effect using digital stamps

hello bloggers!

every time when i use a digital image i'm wondering if there is any way to make it pop. i've tried using foam tape, but the result was not exactly what i was looking for... and one day the solution just came to me - it is all about PERCENTAGE!

so, in order to create a 3-d effect using a digital image, here is what you have to do:

1. print your digital image three times, where the 2nd image is 5% smaller than the 1st and the 3rd image is 10 % smaller than the 1st one.

2. colour the three images with the same colours.

 3. cut the images

4. attach the three layers together, using adhesive foam blocks.

 

and here is how i used my 3-d digital stamp to create this lovely card:

i hope this tutorial was useful to YOU!

hugs 'n smiles,

Emmy

guest designer at i heart {ippity} - week 2

hello bloggers!

it's friday again and it's time to share another i heart {ippity} project with you.

i used the WONDERFUL "fall for you" set IPK-120.

if you LOVE this set, you can find it HERE.

i used the ELINE's babies paper pad from marianne design and some petals and pearls from PRIMA marketing.

stay tuned, because there are more {ippity} projects to come!

hugs 'n smiles,

Emmy