Vintage Ronnie....

Good Morning...

Just a quick post before I shoot out the door to take my mum to an appointment....take a peek over on the Pollycraft blog HERE and see what Paula has been up to.

As a total surprise she has drawn a brand new Ronnie image...made me cry!!

Such a wonderful and thoughtful thing to do.

Thank you so, so much....mwah xxx

Available to purchase from the Pollycraft Shop HERE and will be added to my store later today.

Pollycraft Challenge #88 - Easter...

Good Morning...

Looks like the sun is going to shine again today, we got our table & chairs out yesterday so maybe an afternoon out there for me today...clacking my knitting needles!!! Lol ;-)

It's time for a new challenge over at Pollycraft and the theme chosen by our lovely Sandra is:-

''Easter''

One lucky winner will receive 3 digital images from our fabulous sponsor Secret Crafter.

I have used ''Kiki Hunny Bunny'' from Pollycraft together with My Minds Eye ''Mabel'' papers. 

They are available in my store along with the various flowers, sentiment stamps (Cat's Life Press), pins and various ribbons.

Challenges:-

1 - Craft Challenge / Animals, Pets

2 - Cute Card / Totally Tropical

3 - Digi's With Attitude / Easter

4 - Fussy & Fancy / Card For A Child

5 - Paper Cutz / Use a bunny, lamb, chick or easter egg image

6 - Patties Creations / Easter or Spring

7 - Stamping For The Weekend / Easter

Hugs Emma x

Lucy & An Easter Chick...

Evening all...

Well I am about pooped after we've walked the dog and done some light gardening....I'll be on the sofa with my feet up shortly.  I did a bit of crafting yesterday and had a play with a couple of the latest releases from DigiStamp Boutique.

Here is Music Lucy...the papers are My Mind's Eye Hattie....available in my store along with the flowers, buttons & pearls.  The sentiment is from DigiStamp Boutique.

Challenges:-

1 - Totally Papercrafts / Sketch Below

2 - Card Makin Mamas / Embellish It

3 - Fairy Tale / Happy Birthday

And here is Girl Chick...the papers are My Minds Eye Gertie...in my store along with the heart buttons and twine.

Challenges:-

1 - Digital Tuesday / Easter Parade

2 - Everybodys Art / Easter

3 - I Love Promarkers / Easter

4 - Simon Says Stamp / Spring Colours, Easter

Hugs Emma x

CES Challenges #31 - Monochromatic...

Good Morning

HUGE thanks to all for the lovely comments about our baby news...I now have an excuse for my tummy that is really made mostly of cake and only approx 4cm of baby but I can now stick it out with pride instead of having to hide it!! Lol

Hello to my new followers too...so lovely to have you join me.

It's time for a new challenge over at CES Challenges and the theme this week has been chosen by our lovely Shell which is:-

''Monochromatic''

I have used a Hanglar image for my card...loving these at the moment and been tucked in my stash for far too long.  The papers are a mixture of My Mind's Eye from my store along with the twine, buttons, pearls and Cat's Life Press sentiment stamp.

Hope you all have a fabulous wk end & thanks again.

Hugs Emma x



Very Exciting News...

Good Morning...

I hope you are all well and having a good week.  I've been very 'head' busy and not actually got a lot done, can't seem to concentrate as.......

I've been keeping a secret but just can't any longer...just bursting to tell!!

We are going to be a mummy & daddy for the first time and sooooo excited.

If my dates are correct I am due mid October so no crafty weekend away with the girls for me...just waiting for a scan date to confirm.   Explains me not feeling so good the other week ;-)

I did manage some crafty time and had a play with some long lost Hanglar images...

The papers are Basic Grey Pyrus available in my store along with the various flowers and dew drops.

Challenges:-

1 - Allsorts / Blooming Blossoms

2 - The Crafty Pad / Flowers

3 - ABC / R = Ribbon

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I have used Kaisercraft papers on this one...again the flowers are available in my store together with the pins and pearls.

Challenges:-

1 - Kaboodle Doodles / Lets Get Girly

2 - A Spoon Full Of Sugar / Tons Of Texture

3 - Whoopsi Daisy / It's Springtime

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These papers are MME Hazel...available in my store together with the Prima flowers, Cherry Blossom, Charm and Mini heart buttons.

Challenges:-

1 - Papertake Weekly / Anything Goes Plus Opt Of Something New

2 - The Crazy Challenge / Just Add Flowers

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And here are some snippets from the Papercraft Inspirations magazine....

Crafty Emma's Store features in Issues 84 & 85.

Hugs Emma x

DigiStamp Boutique April Giveaway & New Releases...

Good Morning....

Hope you are all well and the weather is better with you than here.  It's raining and blowing a gail....a day indoors is in order I think!!

I have a few updates to share with you from DigiStamp Boutique....how do you fancy an opportunity to win this cute lil cat called Olivia?

Pop over to the DSB blog for full details...HERE

There are also loads of gorgeous new images ...plus 3 fabulous offers of the month.

You can view them all HERE.

Hugs Emma x

Pollycraft Challenge & A New Release...

Good Morning...

Hope you are all well and had a lovely weekend. 

It's time for a new challenge over at Pollycraft, the theme was chosen by our lovely Kylie and it is:-

''Old/Neglected Stamp or Image''

The new adorable Sings & Slides Set 2 have also been released today...you can purchase them HERE.

A couple of cards I've posted previously using the new images...

Hugs Emma x

CES Challenges #30 - Children...

Good Morning....

I'm running late, just been sorting the challenge post over at CES Challenges....edited it all and published then it didn't show anything I had added.  So I started all over again!!! Ggggrrrrr

HUGE thanks as always for joining us with the challenge...our lovely Sheena has chosen the theme this week which is:-

''Children''

The prize for one lucky winner is a £10 voucher to spend in Crafty Emma's Store.

(Please note P&P not included)

I have used a Hanglar image together with My Mind's Eye 'Gertie' papers...they are available in my store along with the flowers, leaves, Cat's Life Press sentiment stamps and Prima pearls.

Hugs Emma x

Candy Winners & A New Ronnie Charity Image...

Good Morning...

HUGE thanks to all who took part in my fundraising candy and to all the companies who donated the prizes.

Your support and donations are so much appreciated...another £49.00 was raised making a total of £855.50 plus £50 in cheques posted.

I'm sure you are eager to find out who the winners are so here goes...

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

7 30 23 4 2 47 10

Timestamp: 2011-04-01 07:03:38 UTC

£15 Voucher for Crafty Emma's Store - Debs M (7)

Set of Swings & Slides images from Pollycraft - Louise (30)

10 images from DigiStamp Boutique - Sue (23)

£10 Voucher for Teddy Bo - Linda (4)

$10 Voucher for Digi Doodle - Jacky (2)

5 Sweet Pea Downloads - Shell (47)

2 Digi Sets from Bearly Mine - Caroline (10)

Congratulations ladies.....please contact me woodemma9@aol.com and I will arrange for your prizes to be sent to you.

And as an extra thank you for taking part I would like to offer you 10% off any order you place in my shop (exc Gift vouchers, Digital images & Pre-order items)

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I also have a new Ronnie image available in my store as of today.....meet Ronnie Painting, another one of my Dad's hobbies.  He used to go to an art class and enjoyed sketching and working with pastels etc.

Helen over at Ellephantastic contacted me and asked if she could donate an image to help raise funds for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance...so fabulous and HUGE thanks to Helen too.

If you like Ronnie please pop over to my store...priced at £1.50 and ALL proceeds go to the YAA.

Here is a card I made...

Hugs Emma x

**PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR NEW POSTS***Fundraising Candy And A Thank You....

Good Morning

As many of you know I raise funds for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance in memory of my Dad who was tragically killed at work in Sept 09.  With the help of such fabulous people donating my family & I have managed to raise over £800 plus collected over 1000 bra's for their recycling appeal.

Well I'm back with yet again more support from people donating prizes and looking to raise further funds.

HUGE thanks to all who have donated prizes and thank you in advance for taking part.

The line up of prizes I have are...

£15 Voucher plus free P&P - UK only to spend in Crafty Emma's Store

Full Set of Swings & Slides images from Pollycraft

Winners choice of 10 images from DigiStamp Boutique

£10 Voucher to spend at Teddy Bo

$10 Voucher to spend at Digi Doodle

Choice of five Sweet Pea downloads from Crafty Purple Frog

Winners choice of two digital sets from Bearly Mine Designs

All I ask is that you kindly

1 - Make a £1.00 donation to the Air Ambulance appeal for each entry

2 - Spread the word on your blogs with either a post or a pic and a link to this post.

Donations can be made on my Just Giving page...HERE

Once that's done please add you name to the linky below...once for every £1.00 donation you make

The winners will be drawn on the 1st April...entries closes at 8am 1st April.

With many thanks.

Hugs Emma x

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