Felted Butterfly

Hi everyone!
Sorry it's been so long since I last posted. Here is a felted butterfly:



This time the antennae are made from wire, not thread.

Love Em

Lime tart Challenge

Hey everyone,

This is my Lime tart challenge for this fortnight. I started with Cosmos Cricket christmas papers, but i wanted to use buttons too, and was inspired by some really nice wooden buttons. So here is what came out of it:


I distressed the edges of the paper(what paper I do not know, it came from the brown/orange scraps box :P) and Versamarked a Kimbelery Poloson clear stamp from the flourishes pack. I then used stitching to make baubles of the wood/wood-coloured buttons. And last but not least the text, printed out, distressed and inked.


Love Em
xxoo

Christmas/December Blog background

Hi everyone!
This is my December/Christmas background. Even though I don't have a white christmas, I still love using snowflakes :D
Tell me what you think!

Whiff of Joy Stamp & a couple of photos

Hi everyone!

I was very excited yesterday because my very first Whiff of Joy stamp came in the mail! Hooray!
I bought the "Wee and Reindeer" stamp from the new Whiff of Joy designer, Norma Fickel

Here it is on plain paper, embossed:

Coloured with pencils:
Coloured with Dove Blender pen and Tombow pens:

Which one do you like best?


These were just about the only photos that I took that turned out today, but hey, better than none!They are of our cat Millie. Even though she wasn't impressed about me annoying her when she was trying to sleep :D




LOL!


Love Em

Desktop Backgrounds

Hi all!
Here are those desktop backgrounds I promised! They are both in the same style as the other streetscape in a previous post.

The screen sizes are 1280x800.

Love Em
XXOO

Lime tart Challenge

Hi everyone!

This fortnight the Lime Tart Challenge is to use:

BLACK WHITE & ONE OTHER COLOUR(in my case I used gold)

here it is!
Love EM
XXOO

Inkurable Stampers Challenge- Twinchie!

Hi Everyone!

Sorry for delay in posts, there will be a few though as well after this, things have joined a waiting list!

Well for this post im going to do my Inkurable Stampers challenge. This month you have to make a Twinchie, a 2"x2" piece of art. There are also inchies(you guessed it, 1"x1"), rinchies (circular inchies) and many more which Sarah at inkurable stampers showed us all the other ones in this post.
Oh, and you have to make a card or a box or whatever you want for the Twinchie to go on. Forget something else! It had to have a Christmas theme.


Anyway, here is mine!




Here is mine, on a simple card.

Love Em.

P.S. SNEAK PEEK! another challenge entry and more desktop backgrounds coming!

Desktop Backgrounds and a photo

Hi everyone,
Here are some desktop backgrounds I made. This first one was done in photoshop.
Click to see full size to put in on your desktop

And this one I did for school, art in english(or english in art if you look at it the other way, :D). I made it in photoshop using my wacom.
The book is Amelia Dee and the Peacock Lamp and Amelia live in a big green house on Marburg St. This is my interpretation of the description given in the book.

We went to Speers Point yesterday and took some photos. Some galahs were there and this is the best snap I took! The first one is just as I took it, the 2nd one cropped.
Apologies for post length!


Love EM
xxoo
p.s. if you have to stretch the backgrounds to fit your screen, put it on the center setting rather than the stretch setting and put the background colour on white

November(AAAGH!!!!:P) Blog Background

Hi guys!
November has come fast (so fast I forgot to put the background up yesterday!) and its time for a new background. This one is back to the traditional Em-e Design colours and style, pink, green, blue with a brown background.
What do you think?

Love Em
XOXO

Lime Tart Zest Blog Recipe Challenge

Hi everyone!
This is a Christmas card I made for Lime Tart's Recipe Challenge.
I had to use:

• buttons (check, the tree)
• rubons (check, the word "joy")
• stitching (check, around the brown square)

Hope you like it!
Love Em

Inkurable Stampers Challenge

Hi Everyone!
I have made a pizza box for the Inkurable Stampers October challenge. Well, not quite a pizza box. It looks like a pizza box and opens like a pizza box, and even smells like a pizza box(just joking :P), but it is sized for a CD and its case. Here is the tutorial (I used different dimensions so it would be the size for a CD).



Hope you like it!
Love Em

iPod case(finally!)

Hi Everyone!

This time I truly AM going to show you the iPod Case I made! Using the sewing machine, this great tutorial and some lovely fabric from CJ's Patchworks I created this:



The iPod goes in and then you fold the top over and slide it through the ribbon and put the earphone in through the whole in the bottom. There is felt on the inside to protect the iPod.

Love Em

Uniform Project

Hi guys!



Not quite up to the ipod case yet, but it will be soon! I wanted to tell you all about The Uniform Project. A lady called Sheena is wearing one dress for 1 year, to earn money for Indian kids to go to school. And she dosen't wear the dress the same way each day, she adds accessories so everyday its different! She started May the 1st, so she will finish on April 30.

Here you can see the website and flick through the dailies or look at a whole month:
The Uniform Project Daily
And here is a video to better explain it all:
Uniform Project Trailer


^some dailies so you get the idea, click to see larger

Love Em XXOO

Glasses!

Hi Everyone!

Got back from Boggabilla on Saturday, excited knowing that I would get glasses soon!
So here are a couple of photos with them off and on with a blue headband I made (which can be turned out either way) with the sewing machine.What do you think?

Next post I will show you an ipod case I also made with the sewing machine.
Love Em
XXOO

Lime tart Challenge

Hi all,
This is for Zest Blog's challenge. Put the blinkie and a link from your blog to win a kit.
Love Em

Teddy bears!!

Hi everyone!

Following as I mentioned in the previous post, here are the felted teddies!

The first one I made for one of our gift boxes for operation christmas child. Also if you look over at my Mum's blog, Made by Fee, and browse through the September and August archives, you will find some things about and for Operation Christmas Child.



This one I made for my friend Alex's birthday. She likes blue and loves pandas and she also loves Tatty Teddy's Blue Nose Friends(she also loves teddy bears just like me :D). Mum picked up a Binky (the panda blue nose) and I made a little friend for it(which we dubbed Bunky:D). You can also see the beautiful gift box Mum made for it here.



Hope you like them!
Love Em
XXOOXXOOXX
p.s.Don't forget daylight savings is on!:P:P:P :D:D:D

New blog background

Hey everyone!

It's October! The year has gone so fast!

Something different for the background...tell me what you think!
I made it using my wacom and photoshop(of course!).

Love Em
Sneak Peak: Some felted teddies coming soon!

A big big post

Hey everyone!

Got dust everywhere??? Here it started orange then variated from brown to yellow-brown to hazy to dusty and all over again. Its mostly stopped here, but it is still very windy. I hear the orange dust has made it up to QLD!!! Our fence is brown and a spiderweb on the fly-screen door has gone orange!!!

Anyway, because I am doing China in HSIE, I have made Chinese New Year Decorations.


Chinese lanterns



Fireworks using glitter and some creative shots from Jacob!

(yuck! just went outside, the pool is green is has loads of grass and blown things, the outdoor furniture has got dust all over it and the fence is brown :{ )



Ok, now couple of paintings (not chinese ones)

Next one I painted over a previous painting I did and re-did it :D


Sorry for any inconvenience about page size, and I still have two more things to upload later :P!

Love Em
XXOO

Got a question? Just ask Question Guy....

Meet Question Guy. He was born on Wednesday the 16 of Spetember, 2009. His large blue head developed first, then his left eye, then the right. His skinny little body started with the left side of his neck, then the left arm to the large left hand, then down all the way to the left foot, then the right. The right arm was then made, then the right hand. His right side of his neck joined it together and so..............meet Question Guy.

Love Em

Chinese Garden Photos

Hey Everyone!
A few weeks ago we went to Sydney. I went for the Chinese gardens(HSIE, and english text is a book called Dragonkeeper, about a girl in the Hyn Dynasty who.....), and Jacob went for the Rocks, because his english text is Playing Beatie Bow. Jacob got carried away taking photos at the Chinese gardens, but not long before we had to leave I knew I could not leave without taking a photo of one thing(which turned into three on the way).





If you have been noticing a trend, be prepared for a few more posts in the next week!
Love Em

A purple dragon

Hey Everyone!
Well yes, you did hear it right. I have finished making a dragon-a purple one. Her name is Mandy. She has got felt eyes, buttons on her bottom, fancy stiching across her green belly and beautiful silky blue wings.


Here she is hanging up on the wall by thumbtacks(don't fret, the wall is not painted yet!:D). It's a new month, and a new blog background! Hope you like it!
Love you all, Em

Text Effects in Photoshop

Hi Everyone,
Yesterday I did a few typography things in photoshop.
Here they are.



Light: a glowing lightbulb on the dot of the "i"
Love: a big red heart instead of an "o"
Tracks: tracks through the word and the background
Water: rippled text that looks like wavy water

Soon I will finish making a dragon!!! Check back soon!!!!

Love Em
p.s. every text effect is a separate image, click to see full size