Bonjour

Hello everyone!!

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Lo and behold, I actually managed to find a little time to myself yesterday morning and I definitely made the most of it. I enjoyed this beautiful Spring sunshine we're having at the moment and sat in a cafe with an extra strong coffee (just how I like it), reading the newspaper and watching the world go by...it was heavenly!!

Today, I was back to the craftroom and started work on a new set of projects for a magazine commission. It's always a challenge at the beginning of any new creations, as you never know what they'll turn out like, it always looks different in my head to what finally appears on card but I've got a lovely set of papers and stamps and I'm looking forward to working on this set!

In the meantime, I thought I'd share a previous commission that I did for the February issue of Making Cards Magazine, using some gorgeous papers from Kaisercraft which are all available at the wonderful Merly Impressions. I hope you like them...

The theme for this set was...LOVE and the Bonjour collection of papers are just exquisite. I think these are definitely some of my favourite papers and of course, that's not because I am biased towards anything with Paris on!! lol.

So, I hope I managed to show you all the details on these cards, because there was quite a lot and I wanted to make this set really special and very opulent, as a very big thank you to Chrissy, who very kindly lets me play with all these gorgeous Kaisercraft products!! I'm a very lucky girl...thanks Chrissy!! xx

Before I go, I wanted to say another thank you to Zoe, who gave me this award at the weekend!!

You're an absolute star, Zo and your continued love and support is always appreciated! xx

Okey dokey, time for me to go...there's a chicken in a slow cooker that needs tending to and it's smells divine!!

I'll be round to see all your creations, later tonight and thanks for all your comments on my Artistic Stamper post from Saturday!!

See you soon and bye for now!

Love Emma xxx

A Blog Award from a Special Friend

It always a lovely surprise to be given an award and this was absolutely no exception when I was told I had been given this award by the lovely Stephanie-Emma, who I've got to know through twitter ... thank you, Steph!!

So the rules are that I have to mention the person who gave me the award (see above), tell you 7 things about me, give the award to 7 other blogs and let the bloggers know.

So here we go:

Firstly, seven things about me:

1. My style icon is Audrey Hepburn. I love her classic, elegant sophistication. I adore Breakfast At Tiffany's and never tire of sitting down on a Saturday afternoon, curled up on the sofa watching it.

2. I'm a music-holic. I think I was bought up on music from when I was in the womb and my parents always had music playing in the house. Even as a 6 month old baby, I used to shuffle along the floor, from one side of the room to the other, to Resurrection Shuffle. And music still plays a huge part in my life, there is always something playing on the iPod, from Lady Gaga to Frank Sinatra and of course, I'm crazy, yes CRAZY about Duran Duran. Always have been...always will be! I've seen them in concert 17 times, been in love with Simon Le Bon since I don't know when and my favourite song of all time is Ordinary World.

3. I collect Butler and Wilson jewellery.

4. One day, when I win the lottery I want to buy myself the Andy Warhol ~ Chanel silkscreen ... well a girl can dream, right? And until then...I'll be happy with my little print that sits on the wall!

5. I once packed my little suitcase, complete with the all important item...my teddy and decided to leave home at the tender age of 5. I lasted in the big world for about 5 minutes before returning to the welcoming arms of my Mum.

6. I'm a perfectionist...in my opinion and especially with my work...nothing is right, until it's 110% RIGHT!!!!

7. My favourite TV programmes, at the moment, are Glee and Desperate Housewives.

Now all I need to do is pass on this award to seven other worthy bloggers and this has been the most difficult thing to do...because I visit and comment on so many wonderful blogs and to choose just seven people to award this to...impossible!!

But my final selection was based on the number of visits and comments. And these amazing and wonderful blog buddies are the ones who have visited my blog the most and continually left me the most wonderful comments. I couldn't do this without you and all your blogs continue to amaze and inspire me, every day!

Lynda

Katina

Lisa

Liz

Kaz

Vicky

Avril

Hope you're having a fabulous week and enjoy the blogs that I've chosen!!

See you tomorrow and I haven't forgotten that I promised to show you some more of the cards using Craftwork Cards ~ Project of the Month, Fruit Scoop!!

Hope you liked the ones that I showed you, yesterday!

Love Emma

xx