My Creative Spirit (Blog Archive)

I've been out and about this week and joined Isobel and some of her customers at her fabulous farm shop to host a a G45 workshop.  We made a zig zag album from the new Typography collection,  and had lots of fun mixing and matching the collection to create bespoke albums that were all equally gorgeous but distinctly different. Amazing when you all start off with the same pad of paper in front of you.  Thank you Isobel and ladies for making the day a great success. There's a few pics below.  If you're in the Earls Barton area, Northampton way do visit the farm shop.  Whether your after crafting or cake decorating supplies, tasty home produce, or home decor items it's all there. Isobel is also an amazing crafter, and her craft room is full of the most amazing inspiration.  She runs lots of classes including heritage scrapbooking.  Here's the link to her blog and more info on the address, shop and classes.  Isobel from Scotch Lodge Far...

Hi all  This collection is just gorgeous to work with and was just perfect for this project.  The bright colours blend so well together what ever you're making and give stunning results. G45 are having fun exploring ideas with this new collection over on their blog today as we approach the season for the giving of hand made gifts.  Click here to go over and take a look at Alberto's amazing altered suitcase and mini album and more pics of my notelet box.  The MDF box is one of the new flat pack kits from Candy Box Crafts and is available from Pink Tulip Creations Ltd .  The "Inspire" sentiment is also by Candy Box Craft.  All the black embellishments were embossed with Stamendous black embossing enamel. there are a couple of G45 metal embellishments and one fabulous steampunk button from a bag full I received from Darren at Jones Crafts.   I'll be taking the notebox back to Sheila and Tracey for them to display in the shop afte...

Prima Doll Tag with Clare Charvill  Don't you just love the Prima Doll stamps. There are so many ways to decorate them and so many different stamps to chose from too.  I had fun designing the tag above for the make and take sessions I'm hosting with Ali and Ian on their stand at the Hobbycraft show at the NEC next month.   If your planning a trip why not call by the Ali-Craft stand when you arrive, say hi and book a place on one of the sessions.  They're running on the hour from 10am.   Look forward to seeing you :-) C 

With October upon us  we had to have a Halloween themed blog challenge this month over on the Ali-Craft blog .  Just click the link to go over to the blog, check out the entry info and see the other DT members crafty designs made for the challenge.   I was given Graphic 45 as my medium for the month and made an easel card  in traditional Halloween colours from 12 x 12 and 8 x 8 Steampunk Spells papers, black card and a hint of glitter.  Theres so many elements to cut out of this paper collection it was hard to keep to just a few, but I managed it :-) ........ just........!  Good luck if you enter the blog challenge and happy crafting:-) C 

Did you know it was World Card-Making Day on Saturday.  Graphic 45 are celebrating early today with some fun ideas.   Click the link here to take a look at Nicholas gorgeous Mother Goose card, Arlenes bright Bohemian Bazzar birthday card and a Seampunk Spells on from me with a tutorial to go with it. If you're having a card making day on Saturday have loads of fun :-) C

Happy Sunday to you all, can you believe its the last one in September.  Times flying too fast.  I had a fabulous day with Sue and Tom aka Suzicraft and Mr Splodgeaway yesterday and all the lovely ladies and gent who came along to our G45 workshop. Thanks both for organising the workshop and to everyone for coming along and being so creative.    Enjoy your Sunday and I'll catch up again in the week with some new posts and whats new in our shop for October :-) 

Hi peeps  If you've visited the G45 blog this week you'll know we have a fall themed blog hop running. We all received some of the fabulous products from   Petallo and Xyron  in our last DT boxes and have been beavering away on Fall themed home decor projects using flowers, adhesives and Graphic 45 papers.  Click the links above to go over to Petallo and Xron web sites and then just click the blog link to see the projects that have been showcased so far this week.  There's one more day of crafty creativeness tomorrow too.  My project is an altered MDF chocolate basket from Pink Tulip Creations  decorated with papers from Happy Hauntings collection (2012 release) by Graphic 45.  The flowers are from the Darjeeling collection and these and the leaves are all by Petallo.  The project is held together with Xyron adhesives although you can't see them they are doing a great job holing everything together. There are more pics and supp...

Scrapbook Magic Graphic 45 Workshop I just wanted to share some pics from the fabulous Graphic 45 crafters workshop we all had with the lovely Margaret at  Scrapbook Magic  in Mullion this week.  It was really great to meet up with all the ladies who came along and thank you all for making the day loads of fun fun and a huge success.   Huge thanks to Margaret for arranging it all too.  Amazingly we did manage to get some crafting in around the amazing refreshments Margaret had laid on for us all from the cafe at  Mullion Meadows .  Cakes to die for just kept arriving through the door to tempt us away from our fussy cutting, but we battled through temptation (well not all of us!! ) and did get our Steampunk Spells Zig Zag albums made.  Here's some pics of every one crafting away at the most southerly Graphic 45 workshop held in the UK.  and this is a flat version of the Zig Zag album we made: Steampunk Spells ...

12 Days of Christmas Tag I know its a little early to be thinking about Christmas, but with the release of the new 12 Days of Christmas collection Graphic 45 are getting into Christmas early with some festive tag ideas by DT members Romy, Maria and myself.  If you've seen the papers in this collection I'm sure you'll agree they are truly gorgeous and just perfect for crafting and home decor projects for the festive season.  The tags are all made using the new Tag Album Staples. Click here and visit the  Graphic 45 blog to see all of todays projects and enter the fabulous giveaway offer. :-) C

Happy Birthday Diane Just a quick post this morning to wish Diane Shultz, Graphic 45's founder and CEO a very happy birthday today.  Have a great day Diane. The card was made from some of the amazing goodies that arrived from Diane and G45 yesterday.  I went for a card with clean lines to show case the beautiful embellishments by Petaloo, Spellbinders and Ginasdesigns.  Holding it all together is Xyron products.    Supply List  Typeography 8 x 8 papers  Typography Cling Stamps  Stickers from Bird Song and French Country  Staples black trim  Petaloo Flower Xyron glue dots and tape Ginadesigns cog doily  Spellbinders Labels 10 Black and cream card  Inks: Vintage Photo distress and Adirondak Red Pepper  Have a great wekeend all :-) C x

French Country Folio Album   Hi every one The weekends upon us again and I think winter is too.  Its gone sooooo cold here in the UK.  I was hoping for an indian summer or at least a half decent September but it doesn't look like that's happening this week!!.   Thank you to all of you who left a comment on the September Giveaway blog post.  I crunched all the names into  Random Name Picker.com and w e've got our first winner on Friday 13th!!!  Congratulations Vittoria .   If you could mail your address over to me at mycreativespirituk@gmail.com I'll get your gift in the post to you.   Talking about gifts in the post  my DT Box of Graphic 45 goodies arrived on the doorstep this morning.  Hats off to the lady postman who carried it from the van. It weighed a tonne, must be all that g45 goodness Kelly packed in along with all the products.  Thank you Kelly. Here's a quick vid I did as I was unpacking it.  H...

Mother Goose Pencil Case  I'm not sure where the last year has gone but here we are in September again, another school year and chilly mornings to look forward too.   A while ago we (the G45 DT members) were tasked with making a back to school project for the blog.  If you've been following along you'll have seen some amazing projects and lots of upcycling ideas.  I decided to get creative with some off cuts of chipboard and the bright and cheery Mother Goose papers.     I wasn't quite sure what would come out of the pile of bits and pieces on the table when I started but was really pleased with this practical pencil case.  I kept is minimal so it could be dropped into a school bag and carried around quite easily. To see more projects and for details on how to make my pencil case click the link here to the Graphic 45 blog.  There's one day left to leave a comment on the "In it to win it" blog post.  just click the link below, leave...