My Creative Spirit (Blog Archive)

Morning, how's your week going?  Ours started with a weird weather phenomenon as Hurricane Ophelia bought sands in from the Sahara, turning the sun and sky orange.  Very eerie.........   I'm sharing my finished Advent Calendar and a new kit with you today.  It has an oval diorama in the centre that you can build up and alter in so many different ways and two sets of twelve boxes for treats.  As you know I'm a paper girl and altered my sample in papers from the gorgeous Winter Wonderland collection by Graphic 45.  I love the blend of the Christmas colours with the brown in this paper line, and all the imagery you can cut out.   As we do I cut out far more than I ended up using.  Here's a few more pics   If you'd like to make your own Advent Calendar, kits are available via the link below.  Advent Calendar Kit  Black Construction Tape  Our Birthday Bonanza is in full swing over on the website....

Afternoon everyone, I hope you've enjoyed your weekend. I'm excited to be able to share the finished Seasons Album Set with you as promised.  The project took me on a colourful journey through the year as I worked on each of the albums, with birds singing, warm flowers blooming, leaves falling on pumpkins and all the chill that winter brings.  I loved how the designs of the patterned papers and the solids work together to give a really vintage blend of gorgeousness.   Take a peek at the video below to see the full project.  If you've fallen in love with this paper collection and fancy making the album set yourself I've put together a PDF Tutorial and On Line Workshop for the project.  The stand, with it's handy drawer has been designed to hold my Shadow Box sized albums plus a little extra room for four full albums to sit in.  I altered my sample in two 12 x 12 Autumn and one 12 x 12 Autumn Collective sheets from the Seasons collection (...

Hello there and happy Sunday to you.  I'm sharing my latest make here on my blog and You Tube channel today.  The latest Penny's Paper Doll Family collection by G45 took me back to when I was small and fun filled days cutting out the paper dolls that came in the Twinkle comic - my regular weekly read ........ shout if you remember it too:-)  This relatively quick and easy little book to make as a great gift or stocking filler for any little person who loved to dress up paper dolls.   the book has two pockets, magnetic dolls that can be mounted on the pocket fronts and lots of outfits to dress them up in and colour too.    There's enough paper in the pads (I used sheets from the 12 x 12 and the large patterns and solids pad) to make a few of these little books too. If you'd love to make one yourself I've put together a PDF Tutorial to go with the project available from my website via this link .   If you'd like to see the full proje...