Em-e designs

Inkurable Stampers: Eyelets

2011-09-26T00:02:00.003+10:00

Well, well well! It's been a while! I came back to post my entry for Sarah's challenge this month over at Inkurable Stampers. The challenge is to usse some of those old eyelets, and, of course, at least one stamp!

For this birthday card I tried a bit of doodling! I used a peice of white card, then stamped (in distress inks) circles in various places which I then doodled around to create balloons. The circle stamp was from an old Maya Road collection called Blossom Circles. I cut the balloon scene into 5 panels, placed it on a light blue piece of PP, with a small border of the darker turqoise/blue cardstock I used for the base.. Some kraft cardstock, twine and a sticker sentiment finished it off, and of course the eyelets set it off.

:) xx

Inkurable Stampers- Paint

2011-03-30T14:15:00.005+11:00

Hello all!

I have my Inkurable Stampers' March entry to show you!

This card was really simple to make: I stamped and embossed the large flower stamp, splotched on various colours of paint, stamped smaller flowers and sentiment, then added some twine to finish it off!
The flowers were from a Kaisercraft set and the sentiment is from Darkroom Doors "all occasions" stamp set.

Thanks for stopping by!

Emily
xx

Scrap-Creations: Anything goes!

2011-03-21T19:23:00.003+11:00

Over at Scrap Creations they are running an anything goes challenge (yes, this means that you can enter any type of card for a chance to win a $3o gift voucher to Stampotique!).

I have chosen to do a bright tri shutter card (using this tutorial from Splitcoast stampers) made from kraft cardstock and papers from October Afternoon's Modern Homemaker (and the yellow from the thrift shop collection). I love october afternoon papers and I think they look great with kraft!

These cards are fun to make because you get so much enjoyment out of opening and closing it every step of the way :P

I used these embellishments:

flowers
felt flowers
buttons
twine
chipboard
stamps (happy birthday from the "all occasions" stamp set by darkroom door and flourish stamps from basic grey and paperartsy)

As you can see this is a fun and bright card, but it is way not as hard as it looks!

Ciao!
Emily
xx

Inkurable Stampers- Bookmarks

2011-02-18T15:15:00.004+11:00

Hey Everyone!

I was very happy with the theme for this month at Inkurable Stampers! You can make any type of bookmark you want so long as you use one stamp!

I made a set of two "puzzle piece" bookmarks for my dad for this challenge. Other then a load of measuring, I stamped ,punched and stitched to make the bookmarks.I used papers from the wanted collection by Cosmo Cricket along with matching cardstock. The stamps were from a few different stamp sets, but the hand is by Cherry pie art stamps and the words are mostly from tim holtz and kaisercraft sets.

These bookmarks are to replace ones made by my brother and I when we were toddlers :)

Emily
xx

Masquerade mask- Finally done!

2011-02-16T14:50:00.005+11:00

Yay!

You may remember about a month ago I mentioned making a mask? Well here it is!

I used:

papier mache
sandpaper
black paint
modge podge
tombo glue
glitter
silver cording
3 ostrich feathers
3 small white feathers
a gold button ;) (alcohol inked silver)
rhinestones
dimensional magic
hot glue gun

It was really fun and I am really happy with the results!

To make it, I started by making a base of papier mache. This was done by doing several layers on a volunteers face :) taking it off to dry, then cutting it to the correct shape and doing more layers. After it was dry, I sanded it so it was nice and smooth. Then it was painted black and modge-podged to make it shiny.
Add some decoration, and taa-daaa!

Do you like it?

Em
xx

CPS Card Sketches- # 203

2011-02-04T11:01:00.008+11:00

Guess what I have to share?

A yellow valentines card! Yes, yellow! Yellow was all that could take up my head when I was thinking of a card to make for this sketch challenge by CPS Card Sketches:

Using this lovely paper from October Afternoon Thrift Shop- Still in a box,
I created this card:

I used the heart from the stampotique welcome door woodblock stamp to make the rim of hearts around the center of the flower and above the black lace. The yellow flowers are a Tim holtz die.

That's all for now!
Em
xxx

Some Sketches

2011-01-29T15:42:00.007+11:00

Helllooo!

I went and searched through my current and last sketchbook for the best designs. Here are the ones I have chosen(apologies i had to scan, tried to make them look as good as i could in photoshop) :

(click for larger image)

The dress in the middle of the bottom row is a masquerade ball costume, which I drew after designing the masquerade mask that I am currently making for school. I will show you the mask when its finished.
Making this mask all started when I saw a black and silver masquerade mask on holidays. I loved it and was reminded that I had to make a mask for art this year. So, after we were back I remembered and set about drawing and looking up anything to do with a masquerade ball. At some point I searched youtube and came across this scene from the phantom the opera (2004). I highly recommend that you watch it! The singing,dancing not to mention the costumes are astounding!

That's all from me for now!
Emily
xxoo

Lets Get Shabby- Weddings

2011-01-27T19:42:00.005+11:00

Hello all!

The Let's get Shabby, criteria for this month is weddings (anything to do with them, e.g bride/groom, flowers, church, flower girls, bridesmaids, dress and etc. I did love). You probably don't know that I actually ADORE all things wedding! I follow three wedding blogs, borrow all the wedding magazines from the library, and I aspire to become a wedding planner :D

This is what I came up with:

Oh, and I found this illustration I did a while back of a little beach hut :)

Hope you like it!
Emily
xx

Inkurable Stampers- One layer wonders

2010-12-12T13:51:00.006+11:00

Wow! this challenge got me procrastinating, but i was thrilled when i finally started. It's a bit like making mail art-just go for it!

I used the stampotique honeycomb background stamp around the edges, clear embossed for a resist effect, with weathered wood and bundled sage to distress it. The feature stamp was this Stampavie Bear & Robin stamp. I used Lead pencil, white chalk pencil, white gel pen and black felt tip to colour it in grayscale. A small christmas greeting from darkroom door finished it.

Have a go at Sarah's challenge blog here.

Emily
xxx

p.s. there may be a few odd looking things, my blog is going through a bit of a revamp ;)

Inkurable Stampers- Shabby Chic Cristmas!

2010-11-30T11:00:00.004+11:00

Aaah! Hurry hurry hurry! Last day to enter the Inkurable Stampers November Challenge!!

These are my christmas cards for my friends (first one shown is the one I am entering)

(click on above pictures for a larger image)

Once again I used my "Oh Joy!" papers (and got to use all the different ones!). The puzzle peices were with sizzix dies, stamped with various christmas stamps and distress inked. The tim holtz music stamp is fast becoming one of my favourites! Twine and cotton tied with a charm around the puzzle peices (each mounted) and Darkroom door christmas wordstrip phrases finished it off.

Thanks for stopping by!

Em
xxx

Lets Get Shabby & a sewing project

2010-11-11T21:15:00.003+11:00

Hey I'm back!

I have had my shabby entry waiting to be posted for a while, but I finally got round to posting it.

As this Christmas card is going to be for my wonderful mum, I used a recessed window as a sort of tribute :) I used some more of my lovely "Oh Joy!" papers from Cosmo Cricket.

The challenge was to use at least three sewing items, including pins. I used pins, ribbon and a safety pin for my 3 items.

I also made a funky door snake out of corduroy- it even had dinosaur spines :P

Emily
xx

Inkurable Stampers October Challenge: Sketch!

2010-10-26T14:26:00.003+11:00

Hey!
I have missed a month on Inkurable stampers, and though it's late, I have put in an entry :)
It is the first of my Christmas cards (:O hasn't the year gone fast!?) and I am going to use the Cosmo Cricket Oh Joy papers (last years christmas range) which we managed to find at an american shop: Inky Impressions. She also has a VERY exciting amount of charms and even illustrates her own stamps!

Anyways, Here is the card I created for Sarah's challenge:

I started off by stamping a stampers anonymous(I'm assuming Tim Holtz) music stamp on my cream card base, which I then distress inked with tea dye. I used some oh joy paper (teared a bit) on the top, then added two green ribbons. I used four small squares with embossed Kaisercraft dear santa stamps, which I inked over in various colours (resist). As the finishing touch, I added "merry christmas" in small black letter stickers above the ribbon.

Em
xxxooo

Happy Bday HAT!

2010-10-07T11:04:00.002+11:00

Recently I went to a crazy mad hatter sleep over party, so as I was feeling creative and inspired when I designed my friends card, this is what I came up with:

:D It took me ages but I finished it and I was very proud :P

This is the technique I used to create the hat: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/boxinabag/ - except I didn't pinch it together at the top and added a lid and a base.

I did as much as I could with the hat before I wrapped it around the box base.

I used:

cardstock
PP
ribbon
wire
brads
flowers
stamps
eyelets
embossing powder
charms
cotton
tearing =D
and some more ribbon, and some more PP, and some more............

I'd love to hear what you think!
Em
xx

Song Bird

2010-09-03T15:35:00.004+10:00

Hey!
Decided to try TWO new things: gothic arches and shabby!
Glad to say I loved them both :)

The arch is for the September challenge(music) over at Let's get shabby :

I used:

cosmo cricket earth love papers
"song bird [fly]" form paper artsy hotpick #1005
bird from tim holtz urban love collection
distress inks(of course)
twine, lace, buttons, ribbon, net ribbon
photocopied scales
the roses were made using brown bazill(with stamps for effect) and white bazill with japanese paper

Hope you like it, and remember to pop on over to Let's get shabby!

Em xx

Inkurable Stampers August

2010-08-30T13:01:00.005+10:00

Well its really late, but I think I'm in time for the INKURABLE STAMPERS august resist challenge.

For this challenge I have made a father's day card:
I have used:

car stamp from a paper artsy stamp set(hotpick#1007)
fired brick and barn door distress inks
versamark
white embossing powder
clear embossing powder
sizzix puzzle piece die #2
white and black cardstock
"unique"-darkroom door letters

Hope you like it!
Em

p.s. in the process of making a shabby gothic arch to see if I like making gothic arches and shabby ;)

Fantastic candy!

2010-08-05T08:11:00.004+10:00

Have a look at this candy!

Enter here: http://www.kelliewinnell.com.au/?p=5239&cpage=2#comment-12726
Ends 16 August.

Inkurable Stampers July challenge!

2010-07-09T16:07:00.005+10:00

Hello!
Here is my entry for Sarah's latest challenge over at Inkurable Stampers:

A close up so you can see the depth in the card.

I started of with some purple basil for the base of the card. I stamped onto white card the "Precious Moments" stamp from stampavie, which I cut out and coloured. I stamped a Tim Holtz bird stamp in black(from lost&found set), and the flowers from the "Sweetest Bug Icons" Heidi Grace set I stamped in peeled paint for some background. I used purple buttons and some cotton for flowers. I put a "hugs & kisses" sentiment from the darkroom door "All Occasions" (VERY useful) set in the middle. I folded the paper(from Bo bunny flutter butter range) in a corner for an added feature.

Thats all from me for now,

Em
xxoo

Sketch Saturday #105

2010-06-04T20:50:00.002+10:00

Hi all!
This is the first time I've entered at Sketch Saturday, and the first time I've done a sketch too!
I did this to match the mail art envelope I entered in Inkurable Stampers last challenge(except this time I wasn't so dainty with the distress inks :D) I don't really have much to say about this one, since it's using moslty the same things as I used on the mail art. But, there is one particular thing, the white bordering is actually a torn strip from a piece of paper, twisted until it looked like that.

Em

XXOO

Jacob's Birthday

2010-05-17T14:36:00.004+10:00

Hello Everyone!
Today was my brothers birthday, and I have two things that I made that I would like to show you:

Em
xxoo

Mailart!

2010-05-13T19:40:00.003+10:00

This months challenge over at Inkurable Stampers was mailart. I found this so fun, and I made three :D
This one was actually the second one I did, but it is the one that I am entering into the challenge.

These were the other two. On all three I followed the same process:

Versamark and clear emboss first stamps.
Distress ink :D
Other Stamps.
Extras(distress stickles, dm, etc.)

They were all pretty simple, but SO FUN to do!

Em-e out!

Passion for crafts blog candy!

2010-05-13T10:38:00.002+10:00

Hi again!I haven't been on blogger much but I saw that Debbie at Passion for Crafts had this HUGE blog candy!

All you have to do is spread the word and link back to her blog, and remember to add your name to the mister linky list.

Em

New blog theme!

2010-05-12T19:40:00.001+10:00

Hey, just a quick post! This is my new blog theme from HotBliggityBlogs, hope you like it!

Apron

2010-05-11T10:57:00.003+10:00

Well here it is. There is two sides, one with a pattern & a pcket, the other one calico.

Pretty simple, all machine sewn.

Em
xxoo
p.s. going to make some mail art for inkurable stampers challenge soon!

Where else would Joseph's coat come from?

2010-05-11T10:35:00.006+10:00

Hello! As you probably have noticed I haven't been on my blog as much as I use to. I will show you my apron in the next post.

The sheep is needle felted, and it is roughly about 2" all round. All the coloured balls I felted hard, which usually I am too impatient to do! All the parts were sewn on(thanks mum :D) He definitely is my favourite felting project so far :)

Em
xxoo

Inkurable Birthday Challenge #3

2010-04-14T18:23:00.004+10:00

Hi all!
Sorry I haven't been posting much, but it's not Christmas and there's not many cards to do :P
It's my amazing Mum's birthday today, and I made her a card which could be entered into the Inkurable Stamp er's Birthday Challenge(#3):

The challenge was to use a technique called spotlighting, which you can find out about here at Sarah's bday challenge #3 post.

It was a pretty simple design, so I don't really know what to say as you can pretty much see exactly what I did :) The stamp is just a mounted stamp, I don't know the brand. The "love you" stamp was from Kaisercraft's "Love" clear stamp collection, and the PP is from the "Kaiser Prarie Lane" collection.

Mum and I made aprons the other day, so I might upload a photo for you :)

Thanks for stopping by,
Em-e

Catch up

2010-02-25T08:07:00.005+11:00

Well i think its been a little too long since I posted a project, so im catching up with a few.

As my first project of the year i did an art title page. It took me ages to work out a design, but i finally got it. I sketched all the tentacles first, then coloured them in with pastel pencils, and gave them a little outline with a normal black pencil. I rubbed out all the smudges in the art letters and outlined them with a thick charcoal border to give them punch. Finally I went around the edges of the page with a bit of brown pastel.

A different view.

I did a bit of fiddling around with this kinda thing. They are suprisingly easy, so i will give you a quick tutorial :)
1. You will need a compass. Draw a full circle the size you want it (keep it in cm).
2. Use the compass point to make holes 1cm apart, horizontally and vertically. You sould be able to see them in the drawing. The holes should be in the circle and out the circle, about the same amount of holes outside the hole as the diameter or radius(I can't remember, so do diameter to be safe :P) of the base circle.
3.make sure you haven't changed the compass size since the base circle. start with one of the holes right next to the center hole. draw with the compass from where it meets with the base circle on one side, to where it meets with the other.
4. Do this with all the holes until your circle looks like mine.

I hope this tut is ok, if it is confusing i will do another one better explained :)

I am about to start on a scrap LO for school(gotta love homeschooling :D ) and i am working on a felting project, and a temari ball with mum, again for school. you can find out about them here.

Thanks for stopping by,
Em
xxoo

wanna win a scene

2010-02-04T08:30:00.001+11:00

Look at this!

Isn't it cute? Post the picture on your blog, with the title wanna win a scene, and post a comment here saying "i wanna win it"

Love Em

Inkurable Stampers Challenge

2010-01-19T11:59:00.004+11:00

Hi everyone!!!
Sorry it's been so long since I last posted.
Sarah at inkurable stampers January challenge is to make a paper art doll. I made a little bride and groom, both about 4inches/10cm tall.

I used the back of bazill cardstock to make stamping and drawing easier and clearer. All of the bride's jewellry is made of Kaisercraft clear rhinestones, and the flowers, and the groom's hair is punched out with a very small flower punch. The brides hair is Ranger distress stickles (vintage photo) and her veil is a small piece of white organza. Both the bride and the groom's outfits are Versamark stamped (darkroom door floral stamp and kaisercraft love clear stamps) and embossed(clear with sparkles on the bride and clear on the groom).

Thanks for stopping by,
Em
XXOO

Felted Butterfly

2009-12-21T19:00:00.003+11:00

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

2009-12-06T20:27:00.003+11:00

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

2009-12-02T14:45:00.006+11:00

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

2009-11-24T15:10:00.007+11:00

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

2009-11-20T13:24:00.004+11:00

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

2009-11-18T14:42:00.001+11:00

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!

2009-11-17T08:05:00.003+11:00

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

2009-11-06T19:08:00.003+11:00

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

2009-11-02T12:41:00.002+11:00

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

2009-10-28T20:15:00.004+11:00

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

2009-10-28T20:02:00.002+11:00

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!)

2009-10-25T15:59:00.005+11:00

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

2009-10-21T07:48:00.005+11:00

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 Pro ject Trailer

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

Love Em XXOO

Glasses!

2009-10-19T16:57:00.005+11:00

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

2009-10-19T16:51:00.002+11:00

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!!

2009-10-04T20:43:00.006+11:00

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

2009-10-01T19:16:00.002+10:00

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

2009-09-23T16:12:00.005+10:00

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....

2009-09-16T16:08:00.005+10:00

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

2009-09-09T18:17:00.006+10:00

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

2009-09-01T20:21:00.006+10:00

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

2009-08-28T09:51:00.006+10:00

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

25th Posts!!!!

2009-08-21T15:20:00.004+10:00

Hi Everyone!
This is the *25th* post of my blog! I want to thankyou for all your encouragement and praise.

Thanks again!

Love Em
XXX

Balinese Mat

2009-08-19T17:31:00.003+10:00

Hey Everyone!
In school I am doing Bali. This is a meditating mat(this one is not to use, just to make as a peice of art) with a Batik design on it, a popular Indonesian way of designs. This is not made in the way Batik is made, but with similar style and pattern.

Photo-
#1. Painted side of mat
#2. Close-up of a part of the design
#3. Back side of mat(yes, it is made of woven folded sheets of newspaper!)

Hope you like it!
Love Em

Waving Dude

2009-08-17T16:33:00.004+10:00

Hey everyone!
This is a little waving guy I made on photoshop, using a tutorial on tutorialqueen.com
Copyright EMS 2009
Hope you like him!
Love Em
p.s. he is open for naming!!!!

Catterfly

2009-08-13T10:51:00.004+10:00

Hey Everyone!
this is a "invention" of mine. It is called a catterfly. It started as a drawing then I made a felted version.

This is the drawing^(click to get a bigger picture)

this is the felted version^
Hope you like them!
Love Em

Felted butterfly

2009-08-02T16:38:00.002+10:00

Hey everyone,

This one is another felted animal- a butterfly

Hope you like it!
Love Em

The Floods:arty and crafty stuff

2009-07-29T16:29:00.006+10:00

Hey Everyone!

Ok this is two more creative things I did for The Floods book.

First is 4 different types of spooky cup-cakes:
(in clockwise order from top left:blood-bomb cakes,hairy cakes, rat tail cakes and mouse ear, crystallised cockroach wings in slime cakes)

I wrote about each in my english book than interpreted what I said for the decorations(eg.the blood-bombs are coloured red -inside and out- and have a lump of jam in the middle)

Next one first needs a bit of explaining. In the flood book #1, the floods had to get rid of their really annoying neighbours, the Dents. Most of them they turned into useful things like fridges and TVs. Today I had to do a quick sketch of each of the Dents then draw what they had become. Next I had to choose one of them and draw it on my wacom. I chose Rambo, the dog, who was black and large and got changed into a sweet little poodle and given to the nice neighbours on the other side of the Floods.

You will probably need to click on that one to see the dogs better.

Love Em

The Floods:arty and crafty stuff

2009-07-29T16:09:00.004+10:00

Hey all!

First I better explain about The Floods books(#1 is my english text at the moment). The Floods is a family of wizards and witches. It is a really-funny-but-a-bit-gross book. Here is the link to the floods part on the authors website: http://www.colinthompson.com/floods/index.htm

So anyway, one of the things I got to do was decorate a bit of the house spooky. I made spiders and things out of pompoms, goggle eyes,hot glue and other things like that. The gate (pic. #3) is a gate that the floods made to try and deter people from entering. I made my replica mostly out of cardboard and paint.

all photos copyright by EMS 2009

In the next post will be two more of my floods creations.
Love Em

New Design

2009-07-25T18:10:00.005+10:00

Hey everyone!
Thanks for all your opinions, I decided on vector flower. I didn't quite like the way on Opt. 1 how the gadgets were the in a column the same size as the posts. I still might change the design again later, but I will stick with this one for a while.

I will work on trying to get something uploaded(a creation).

Love Emmy

New Blog Design

2009-07-23T12:59:00.004+10:00

Hey everyone!
I would like to ask of your opinion for a new blog design! I have 2 narrowed down, and I would like to see what you think. Sorry to any one who has looked at it before, I have changed my two choices(i won't change them again)!!
Opt. 1- Papeles y Colour
Opt. 2- Vector Flower
these are links to the two templates(they are examples).
I would really appreciate your opinions!
Love Emmy

Bride Drawing

2009-07-15T14:21:00.001+10:00

Hey Everyone!

Here is a drawing of a bride I did.

Hope you like it!

Love Em

Felted guinea pig

2009-07-10T19:49:00.004+10:00

Hey Everyone!

this is a guinea pig I felted (same thing as the teddy bears) for english. I also had to write a procedure on how to do it.

Hope you like it!

Love Em

Half Walrus suit drawing

2009-07-03T13:21:00.004+10:00

Hey Everyone!

I did this one a while ago but didn't get round to posting it. I had half a picture of a girl in a walrus suit and had to draw the other half.

Lol! I hope you like it!
Love Em

6th of the 6th

2009-07-01T10:50:00.006+10:00

Here's a bit of fun. Never done one of these before but I can do different. My cousin Naomi His Little Rocker, at tagged me to select the 6th picture in my 6th photo folder and give an insightful, creative and delightfully entertaining description of story behind the photo.

Well our folders have lots of subfolders, so I did the 6th main folder(2008), then the 6th subfolder(July) then the next subfolder(which was dates but we only had taken photos on one day of july so it was the twelfth) and then it was the 6th photo. What a great one!

One Saturday Mum and Dad were planning to take us to the PowerHouse museum in Sydney. We didn't know what we were going to do that day until Jacob said, "How about we go to the powerhouse museum?!". Then mum and dad said,"Well we actually were going to take you there today anyway..." It was so funny and we all laughed and laughed and laughed.

We went into Newcastle and caught the train into sydney because it was the time the pope came-it was like national youth week or something like that- and it was quicker to go by train than car.

The photo is of one of things that they had in the museum. When you touched the glasse a blue bolt would go to were you were touching. Dad made us put our noses up against it and he took a photo of us. I think it was very lucky for me to get this photo for the 6th of the 6th!

Love Em

p.s.I don't really know who else to tag because everyone I know who has blogs have already been tagged!

Guinea pig Drawing

2009-06-27T11:33:00.005+10:00

Hey Everyone!

My art for this week was from my english text. The text had guinea pigs in it so I had to draw a guinea pig. Hope you like it!

Love em

Purple Felted Bear

2009-06-12T10:53:00.004+10:00

Hey everyone!

this is another felted teddy bear, this time with purple.

I hope you like her!

love em

Stroop Test

2009-06-10T19:10:00.007+10:00

Hey!
this is a very cool thing i did in science the other day.
try and read out the colour of the word, not what it says

BLUE RED GREEN ORANGE

YELLOW PURPLE BLACK BROWN

BROWN RED ORANGE BLUE

YELLOW BROWN PURPLE GREEN

RED BLACK BLUE GREEN ORANGE

it's hard, isn't it?!?!?!

now try this one

DOG CAT TABLE DOOR WINDOW PENCIL

GROUND LIGHT RABBIT RADIO TABLE

DOOR CAT DOG WINDOW RABBIT CASE

TABLE PENCIL RABBIT RADIO WINDOW

CASE DOG GROUND TABLE CAT LIGHT

that one is a bit easier.
have fun!!!!

em

Still life-Apples

2009-06-02T13:22:00.003+10:00

Hey everyone!

This one was part of schoolwork. I had to make up my own bowl of fruit(I chose a plate in the end :P) he drawing is on the top and the photo is on the bottom.

Hope you like it!

Desert Cacti Scene

2009-05-25T15:41:00.005+10:00

Hi again!

This is a desert cacti scene with dusty/dirty clouds. I hope you like it!

Love Em

Cube Comparison Drawing

2009-05-25T15:32:00.008+10:00

Hello!

Here is another comparison drawing. This one is of a cube. Once again, wacom tablet one on top, normal on bottom.

Hope you like it!

Love Em

Lego Brick Drawing

2009-05-25T15:22:00.012+10:00

Hey!

This is my comparison of a lego brick drawing, one was done on a wacom tablet(on top)and the other with pencil and paper(on the bottom)

Hope you like them!
Love Em

p.s. In the next post I will do another comparison, with a cube!

Lego Brick Drawing

2009-05-25T08:40:00.009+10:00

Hello!
In the next upload I will put two pictures of a lego brick, one I drew on a wacom tablet and one I drew with pencil on paper.
I hope you like them!
Love Em

Teddy bears

2009-05-18T13:48:00.003+10:00

Hello!

These two teddy bears I made are dry felted. That is when you have wool and special needles with little notches on the sides. When you stab the wool it knots, and the more you knot it, the firmer it gets.

Roses

2009-05-17T20:01:00.005+10:00

Hope you like them!

The one on the left(or on top) is my black and white version of a "DayBreaker" rose and the one on the right(or on the bottom) is my colour version of a "Stainless Steel" rose.

First Upload

2009-05-17T19:51:00.005+10:00

Hey!

This is going to be my first artwork upload. They are two roses, one in colour, one black and white. They were both part of schoolwork. I will put them in the next post.

Love Em

I've got a blog!!!

2009-05-17T17:08:00.003+10:00

Hey everyone!!!
I'm still getting used to blogging, so I might not do everything right. I haven't got any artworks up yet, but I hope to soon.
Love Em