My Creative Spirit (Blog Archive)

Morning everyone, hope you're enjoying your weekend.  Larger than expected volumes of orders on the website have kept me away from crafting for the past couple of weeks which is why I've been really quiet on here and FB. A 48 hour day would really help at the mo!!!!!  I did head off to Norwich on Friday for a very short but fun stay with friends and then drove on to Mundesley early doors yesterday morning to host a workshop at the Create with Mates crafting event. Thanks Tina for organising the event and huge thanks ladies for coming along and joining me for the day.   We altered Pencil Case kits and made mini albums to go inside them, all decorated in papers from the Maser Detective Collection by Graphic 45  .  Here's a few pics from the day.  An early morning stroll in Mundesley, Norfolk  Anne and Pam Jacky's Book of workshops - love it  and our project: What a great time we had :-)   There's j...

Morning everyone, hope your week's going well.  We had a great workshop on Saturday altering  our little ATC Boxes and making mini albums to go in them all decorated in those delicious papers from the Master Detective collection by G45.  Sue, thank you for arranging the workshop and inviting me over to host the class, snd ladies that you so much for joining me for the day.  Have fun using your projects.  Loved our time together :-) and look forward to doing it all over again at the next workshop at Box of Delights. Definitely a stroke and drool moment going on before cutting into those papers :-)  Here's a few pics of the inside of the mini album - what a cutie it was :-)  We were crafting at 'Box of Delights', in Northampton.  I had no idea it was Sam's shop - we haven't seen each other for over three years.  What a fab shop she has, full of goodies that we need, definitely worth a visit.  Here...

Afternoon my lovely crafty friends.  Friday is here and the weekend is just around the corner.  I've been overwhelmed with the response to the reveal of my Grand Ambassador project yesterday.  Thank you so much for all the comments left on social media and sent via e mail.  You're all too kind.  Lots of Compendium of Games Box kits have been pre-ordered too :-)  You'll love making your project if you've ordered one.  I'm heading over Northampton way in the morning to host a Graphic 45 workshop for my lovely friend Sue.  We've gone for the Master Detective collection again (I love these papers) and will be bringing ATC Boxes to life with the gorgeous papers, and making a mini album inside too.  Looking forward to seeing you there if you're coming along. You may have noticed from the title of this little post that our  20% off Summer Sale   starts on Sunday.   There's no better time to grab yourself a bargain o...

Hello my lovely crafty friends.  You'll probably know I've been crafting with Graphic 45 papers since I started my You Tube Channel back in Jan 2011, and am just as much an addict now as I was back then - maybe more lol!!!  Over the years I've designed and shared over 1500 Graphic 45 projects though my YT channel, blog, Craft TV and workshops and must have cut up thousands of those gorgeous papers we really only like to stroke and stash. Sharing creativity and inspiring others to be creative is a very special gift that I get a huge amount of pleasure and reward from, and  to have been invited to be the face of Graphic 45 here in the UK again for the fourth year is really the icing on the cake.  Thank you Diane, Charee and Amie - I'm really looking forward to sharing more of my inspiration and Graphic 45 products with lovely crafters over the coming year. I'd also like to thank everyone who follows me here on the blog and on You Tube. I really value your suppo...

Happy Monday everyone.  Get me, two posts in two days lol!!!  I must be on a roll. They've been a while in the planning but I'm really pleased to be able to share the first of two new album boxes with you today.  If you're an avid follower and maker of my album projects you may have noticed that I have two standard sizes for the larger albums I make. Size 1.  a square 8 1/4" x 8 1/4" designed to fit the gorgeous 8 x 8 Graphic 45 papers,  and  Size 2.  a taller/wider one measuring 9 1/2" x 7 1/2" that suits larger G45 paper pads I love to design with.  After oodles of requests for a box that fit's both album sizes, they are finally here, well the square one is! I'll share the other one with you shortly. Coordinated with the pre cut album cover kit the decorated album and box would make a beautiful keepsake album for a special event in your life.  My samples below have been altered in papers from the Portrait of a Lady collection....

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!!!! ...

Pinch Punch it's the first of the month......... can you believe it....... another month gone and one month nearer to Christmas!!!!   I had a great time last weekend running evening make and take sessions at the Dare to Create event on Coventry. Huge thanks Di for inviting me along, Tony and Karen for all your help and ladies for joining me for some late night crafting. It was great to see you all - we definitely had a ball ........................ Di & Tony - Tando Creative Ltd    and here's how we made them A6  Notebook Cover Kit  Black Construction Tape It's been another mad week here with very little crafting done, and nothing actually finished. trying to work around early morning pick ups for Oli, taxiing Harry to and from his work experience placement at a Landscape Architects firm, shopping for dresses with Sophie and a last minute dot com rush to take Oli to get a suit yesterday morning - 3 hours before the wedding the...