My Creative Spirit (Blog Archive)

What a great time to stock up on some fabulous paper lines and save at the same time.  There's 20% off all Stamperia and Scrapmir 12 x 12 and 8 x 8 pads paper pads until 31st August. (while stock lasts)  Whether you're looking for paper to craft with for a Birthday, new arrival, Christmas or family heritage we're sure you'll find something to suit all your needs.  Click here  to start shopping and enter paper2020 at the checkout to receive 20% off Scrapmir and Stamperia paper pads in your basket.  Happy crafting:-) C www.mycreativespirit.co.uk

Hi everyone, happy Friday.  I can't believe it's already the second Friday of the month and have a feeling this year is going to fly by. I'm always getting asked if I have favourites amongst the projects I design so I took a look back at my 2019 creations and put together my Top Five to share with you, along with links to the project video and related products too.  Before I share them here's a bit of blurb about my approach to the design process. Paper Sale - Jan 2020 Papers are an essential part of the projects I design.  We've got great savings on selected paper lines over on the website this month.   Click here  to browse.  A bit of blurb ........   As a maker myself I'm always very conscious of the cost of crafting, and in my world the cost of the gorgeous designer papers we all have to buy, stoke and stash. With that in mind I try to create projects that make you want to use those papers and turn them into gorgeous pro...

 .   .  Hi everyone, Happy New Year. I hope you enjoyed your festivities and managed to get some 'you time' to craft over the holidays too. With the boys doing their own things this year I headed down country to Falmouth, Cornwall to spend Christmas and the tweenie week with my lovey little sis.  We walked along a very blustery Maenporth beach on Christmas Day, entertained friends and enjoyed a lot of quality time together which was extra special in so many ways. Oli and his new girlfriend stayed at a hotel in Falmouth after Christmas too so we got to meet up some 270 miles from home lol!! Ahead of tomorrows post when I'll be sharing my Top 5 projects of 2019 pick up a bargain or two in our January paper sale.  We've got some great savings on the lines below:     Stamperia - 20% off   Make a Wish collection Grand Hotel collection   Cosmos collection    Alchemy collectio...

Hi Everyone, today I'm sharing two fabulously festive gift ideas with you.   If, like me you love making and giving hand made sweets and treats as gifts at Christmas you'll love these two boxes of delights.   Our Petit Four Box kit holds one layer of hand made goodies, or bought ones if you wanted to add a hand made touch to the packaging.  Altered here in papers from the Christmas Night collection by Scrapmir and full of hand made marzipan fruits.  It takes a couple of 12 x 12 sheets of paper to decorate the box, which is assembled using our Signature Black Construction Tape.   The embellishments were die cut from an old Sixxix Bigz die, silver stars by Tonic and a flair and chipboard piece from the paper collection.  If you'd like to know how to make the marzipan fruits click on the vide below.  They're so easy and inexpensive too.    Our deep mini window box doubles up as a box for a mini album, which you may h...

Hi everyone, thanks for calling by.  Today I'm sharing two new Christmas Paper collections with you, new in from Scrapmir along with some simple card ideas.  Our first collection is Nordic Spirits.  With a gorgeous mix of rustic browns, ice blue/greens, reds, snow flakes and pine cones the collection has a wonderfully rustic feel to it. There are 10 double-sided 190gsm sheets in the paper pack, which comes in both 12 x 12 and 8 x 8, and additional chipboard elements, epoxy stickers and flairs to add detail and dimension to your projects.  Here's a few card ideas from this collection a video walkthrough of both paper collections and card ideas for the second of our Christmas collections too.  I've used kraft card blanks for the base of my cards from this collection along with opera red mirror card to add a little shine.  For this card I took one small and one large out sentiment from the collection, mounted both on red card (the...

Hi everyone, if you're a lover of all things Alice I'm sure you'll love today's post.  The paper collection is by Scrapmir, is called 'Time to Dream' and although not new out on the market, it was a collection I hadn't seen until a couple of months ago. We just had to get it in to share with you all.  I thought the colours in the collection were really unique and all the characters we know and love are just as we know them from the Alice books by Lewis Caroll.  There are single sheets of cards; one of red roses, one of white roses and a whole sheet of cut apart with quotes from the stories on too.    The paper packs come in a set of 10 sheets, in 12 x 12 and 8 x 8 size, and are 190gsm. There's also die cut pieces (39), chipboard pieces (18) and the cutest 8 x 8 envelope sheet to cut up to make into envelopes and pockets. I used both paper sizes to decorate our Book Box and Mini Album Set and then added layers of chipboard and die cut pieces t...

Morning everyone, I hope you've enjoyed your week and are looking forward to a well earned break over the weekend.  Let's hope the sun shines on us all. I've been up in the craft room having a great time making some fabulous samples for todays product launch: the A5 and A6 Notebook Holder sets and bundles. If you're a list maker, a planner, a lover of anything notebookish, looking for makes for a stall at a fete/charity fundraiser, running a class or looking for present or stocking filler ideas I think you'll love our latest release. The single Notebook Holder Cover sets, cut from 3mm MDF are available in A5 and A6 sizes. Assembled using our Signature Black Construction tape the sturdy cover can be decorated in any choice of medium and holds two standard sized A5 or A6 notebooks.   We've put together a selection of bundle options in both sizes too.  Each bundle includes one Notebook Holder Cover Set, two notebooks, black cord elastic, one 5m ...