Handmade by Emma

Hello and happy Wednesday. Today I am sharing an anniversary card. I like to have a few of each card theme in stock in case one is needed at the last minute. Here is one that is quite fancy and frilly but it has lots of little details if you look closely. To begin I actually made all the flowers. The pink ones are made from pearlised card. I cut two layers of a flower die for each one. To give them their shape I wet each layer and shaped each petal by gentle scrunching it around a pen to give it a curved shaped. Once dry I added a little distress oxide to the edges of each petal and then glued them together. The smaller foam flowers were cut out of a different die, inked on the edges again and then heated on an iron to make them curl. I added a few stamens then glued them together again. I then die cut all the card layers and inked some of the edges again in the same worn lipstick distress oxide. I did some partial stamping across the two white layers using an Alten...

Hello, today I am sharing this greenhouse card that I made over the weekend. I had this idea after buying a cute Sizzix die set called Garden Shed. I used them, plus a couple of extra garden themed dies from my stash,  to decorate the inside . I created the front of the card from a piece of 12 x 6 inch white card which I scored at 3 and 9 inches to create a gatefold card. I then cut of the two top corners to create the roof.   I then sketched, using a pencil and a ruler, where I wanted to cut out all the panels to create window frames. I decided I wanted to add a bit of texture to the front panels, so I ran them through a wooden texture embossing folder. Then, using a cutting mat, I carefully cut out all panels with a craft knife and a ruler. I actually ended up breaking my craft knife I was crafting so hard! After all the panels were removed, I had a delicate frame. I attached some acetate to the back of each of the two doors and the greenhouse really started t...

Today I am sharing a galaxy themed card, inspired by some beautiful multi-toned stamped flowers that I had seen on Instagram. I recently bought a galaxy themed paper pad from The Works, so decided that rather than paint the flowers by hand I would stamp and emboss them onto the paper pad itself! The stamp set is peony bloom by tonic studios. After this I added a little dimension to the flowers with some mica and metallic watercolours and some shading with coloured pencils. I added a flower centre using Dovecraft pearl effects in gold to the largest flower. For the leaves I used a Sizzix die set called floral layers cut in a shade of gold mirror card and a matt metallic gold card. The background was done with splatters of gold mica and metallic watercolours on black card. I went around the edge with my gold ink pad.  Finally the sentiment was partly cut out of purple mirror card with some small Trimcraft alphabet dies, and the second part was printed out on m...