Some Sketches

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) :

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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

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

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!

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)

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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