My Creative Spirit (Blog Archive)

Happy Sunday everyone.  I'm just drinking a coffee and enjoying the total peace and quiet in the house after one of the most hectic weeks ever.   Ols and Sophie are now officially home owners, and seem to be settling down in the fab new house, Harry has completed his Landscape Architecture work experience (no more mum la taxi needed), my little Sis is celebrating her 50th Birthday today, Hap Hap Happy Birthday Annie Lou......xx   I hope you have a wonderful day in Clovelly , and we are all just home from a day at the Races - well the Newbury Papercraft Show actually - not a horse in sight. What a great day we all had yesterday.  Sarah and Cathy, thank you sooooo much for all your help, before, during and after the show, and thank you to everyone who came onto the stand, shopped with us and joined me for some crafty demo's during the day. Here's a few pics from the event.  Mr & Mrs Tiger Lily Crafts  The lovely Debra - just browsing lol!!!! ...

Morning everyone, we've woken up to sunshine this morning after a very wet and rainy week here. I've been running an early morning taxi service for Oli as his car is really poorly, and have to say despite my moaning (lol!!) I've enjoyed the early starts to my days. ......  Today I thought I'd share a couple of fun videos on how to make slider cards and create neat magnetic closures for your projects.  I included both ideas in some of my latest projects, we've had fun making them in recent workshops and I finally got round to doing the videos for them yesterday.  Neat Magnetic closures   Here's how to make them  Slider cards to fit your 6 x 4 cut aparts   Here's how to make them Have fun if you make these yourself.  I'm off to host a surprise workshop tomorrow - so exciting :-)  I've got kits and bags to pack up today so will love you and leave you to enjoy your day.  Thanks for calling by and look forward to sh...

I've been updating samples of my products for my show stand and decided to use papers from the Portrait of a Lady collection on some of the boxes from our range. I've gone for a green theme (my all time favourite colour) and coordinated a mix of papers together for different looks on each of the boxes. It's such a pretty collection with so many options for co ordinating colour and designs, I have to admit it took me a while to decide on which papers to put with which and I love how they all work so well together.  A while ago Sophie (the new girlie in the family) asked if I would make beautiful things for her once she had a house to put them in.  Now that's happening I decided to alter the large box (above) into a Memory Box for her.  She loves it and was really touched that I'd added the date of her first date with Oli.  Here's a few more pictures of it taken from various angles: The number stickers were perfect for the date on the front of th...

Hello my lovelies from an overcast but warm Cornish coastline.  I tootled down country on Friday, stopping off in Cheltenham to see Harry Bean for a catch up and lunch and after a bit of a hiccup and an unplanned trip home (!!!!!) headed down to Bodmin for last weekends workshop.  What a fab time we had.   Julie & Julie thank you both for setting up the unit for us and ladies thank you all so much for joining me for a fun weekend of crafty escapism. How time flies when you're having fun. Here's a few pics of everyone crafting away and our projects projects coming together. Our projects, all available from my website were:  Portrait of a Lady 11" Album and Case  Midnight Masquerade 11" Album and Case  Vintage Hollywood Event Organiser  Botanicabella Album in a Box    Julie altered one of our Planner Kits in Alice in Wonderland fabric - it looked fab    Glynne, Gail and Emma it was great to me...

Morning my lovelies, how are you?.  Good I hope on this wet and chilly Monday morning (well it is here) It's been a busy couple of weeks here, we took the shop off to the Craft Show at the Motor Cycle Museum last weekend.  It's the first time we've had a stand there and had a great time demoing our products and meeting lots of peeps too.  Huge thanks to Sarah & Cathy for all their help and support in setting up and running the stand, what a great team :-) and thanks to everyone who called by the stand too.  We'll be back at the show on Saturday 6th September.   Sarah Sunshine on the My Creative Spirit stand - Motor Cycle Museum Sarah & Cathy on the My Creative Spirit stand - Motor Cycle Museum This weekend I was out teaching a Graphic 45 workshop with Wendy (Daisy's Jewels and Crafts) and the lovely ladies and gent who came along too.  We crafted my Curio Cabinet into shape using a variety of Graphic 45 collections and had a who...