My Creative Spirit (Blog Archive)

 It's been weeks in the planning but today Sheila (left) and her team opened the doors for the first, but I'm sure not the last Grand Crafting Weekend and the shop was heaving.  Mark, Visible Image ran two classes on how to make the stunning card below with the new Revolution stamp set and across the way we made Botanical Tea themed gift caddies using my new kits. Hazel Eaton was demoing how to make more stunning cards using the Visible Image stamps too.  and Hazel Eaton was demoing with Visible Image stamps  There's more crafty fun on tomorrow too.  Roy, Mr Candy Box Crafts will be teaching the Tarmac Technique, a Karen Clare (The Clock Lady) technique in his class from 0am - 3pm and Michelle Johnson will be sharing her hints and tips in store too.  There's one or two places left so, if you fancy coming along and joining in the fun send a Face Book message to Pink Tulip to book your place. I'm going to join the class too and learn this ...

Happy Friday everyone, hope you've had a good week.  I thought the sunshine was too good to last.  We're back to rain again here! Oli and a friend headed off on a last  minute .com holiday in Tenerife earlier this week and has called a couple of times to let me know how great the weather is.  Come back sunshine, missing you already.    I've been running up some new samples and a couple of gifts this week with the latest G45 papers.  I've used the Botanical Tea papers this time to alter this notelet box I've made as a gift, and have started to fill it up with notelets and envelopes made from the patterns and solids papers that compliment the collection   I'm loving my envelope punch board the girls at SirStampalot persuaded me to buy.  Envelopes are so easy to make with it to fit any sized card you want.  I had to add one of the easy to make ribbons inside the box too.  I love them :-)  I'm at P...

Janice from Sirstampalot getting crafty :-)  I had a wonderful weekend with Janice and Andy at  Sirstampalot  in Peterborough . Saturday was demo day with lots of Clare style tips to share with all the lovely ladies and gents who came along.   Sunday was workshop day.  We used the Botanical Tea papers for our project.  Huge thanks to Janice and Andy for their hospitality and to all the lovely ladies and gents for coming along and making the two days such great fun.  I'll be back in September for another demo day and workshop and really looking forward to it.  I did come home with one or two new Ciao markers, just a few Molly Blooms stamps and an Envelope Punch Board that I can t wait to try out.  the girls had made some amazing things with theirs.   Here's a few pics of everyone getting crafty. Enjoy your day, thanks for calling by and look forward to catching up again soon :-) C 

A Simple Botanical Tea Card for a Friend     Happy Friday eve, hope the post finds you well and ready to enjoy your weekend.  I thought I'd share this last minute.com card Harry asked me to make for him the other night, as he disappeared up to bed.  You really don 't need to use loads of paper to make a quick and pretty card.  This one was made from three Botanical Tea 12 x 12 papers.  I'm definitely a stripe girl, and love the cream and brown ones in this collection.  They work really well with all the other papers and flora and fauna elements too. Emma loved it.  If you're in the Peterborough area do come along to Sir Stampalot .  I'm there with Janice for a Demo day tomorrow, and then again on sunday to run a class for her and her lovely crafters.   I'm so excited.  I've been shopping on the net with Janice for quite a while. We finally met at the Trade show last last month and now I'm going to be able t...