My Creative Spirit (Blog Archive)

Evening Everyone and a very happy Friday to you.  I love the Edwardian feel of the papers in the 'A Ladies Diary' collection and have made many projects with them over the past few years.  Our giveaway this month is an 8 x 8 pad from the collection, one of our ATC Box Kits and a spool of my Signature Black Construction tape so you can assemble the box with it's hinged lid too.  A great little package with lots of creative content.   To be in with a chance to win this months blog candy leave your comment below on this blog post before midnight on 31st October GMT 2018.  As always our winner will be announced here on the blog on 2nd November 2018.   Good luck if you enter, have a great weekend and look forward to sharing more crafty inspiration with you shortly. :-) Cx  www.mycreativespirit.co.uk

Evening everyone, j ust a quick post this eve to launch our September Giveaway. Join me on Friday when I'll be sharing three card ideas using the Botanical Garden stamp set from Altenew.  This month we have one of our uber popular ATC Box Kit, an 8 x 8 Little Women paper pad and a hand rolled spool of my Signature Black Construction Tape up for grabs. As always, to be in with a chance to win  To be in with a chance to win this bundle of craftiness leave your comment below on this post before midnight on 30th September 2018 (BST).  Our winner will be announced here on the blog on 2nd October. Good luck if you enter. Enjoy the next couple of days and hope you can join me on Friday for a very Pretty in Pink post :-) C  www.mycreativespirit.co.uk

Hi Everyone, hope you're enjoying your weekend.  With crafting for Christmas all around us  thought it would great to have a festive themed giveaway this month.  Altered in papers from the Winter Wonderland collection by Graphic 45 this fun little mini album and coordinated case is perfect to hold those festive pics we all like to take and keep.  Included in the kit Black Card   Deep Mini Window Box  Mini Album Cover Set  Hand Rolled spool of my Black Construction Tape  Selection of 6 x 6 Patterns and Solids  How to Make the Mini Album Video  Here's a few more pics to give you ideas for decorating the case and album To be in with a chance to win this fab bundle leave your comment on this blog post before midnight on 31st August (BST) 2018.  Our winner will be announced here on the blog on 1st September.  Good luck. www.mycreativespirit.co.uk Have a fun day what ever you're up to, thanks fo...

Evening everyone, I've been so tied up with prepping the monthly kits I hadn't realised the June Giveaway post didn't go live earlier in the week.  Our giveaway this month is one of my Notelet Box kits and a roll of Black Construction Tape.  As always, to be in with a chance to win just leave your comment on this post before midnight on 30th June (BST).  Our winner will be announced here on the blog on 1st July.  To go with the giveaway I've altered one of the notelet box kits in my favourite papers from the Floral Shoppe collection - Indigo Lilies and Burgundy Blossoms, designed a set of notecards to go inside and put together a video that shows how to assemble the box and make the cards.  The supply list and cutting guide are listed in the video too.  This would make a great hand made gift if you're looking for ideas for Birthday and Christmas ...........  :-) All the products used in the video are also available over on my websit...

5 x 5 Mini Album - altered in French Country papers Helloooooo, I hope I find you well this Sunday afternoon.  It was great to see the snow finally melting away as I tooted out and about this morning. I love the snow but not driving in it.  I did a bit of shopping and called in on Sophie and Oli for a cuppa and the best bacon sandwich I've had in a long time. (Made by Oli lol!!!!).  March Giveaway Our giveaway this month is one Come Away with Me 8 x 8 pad (Vintage Graphic 45) and a 5" album cover and spine set.  March 2018 Giveaway  The picture above shows the album cover set made up in 8 x 8 papers form the French Country collection by Graphic 45, and I've dropped the link to the 'How to' video below if you fancy making one yourself. It's a fun little album that really doesn't take too long to put together. To be in with a chance to win, just leave your comment on this post below before midnight on31st March 2018 (GMT).  Our winner will ...

Happy New Year to you.  Here's to a fantabulous 2018.  Have you set yourself some resolutions?  I've a couple in mind for myself here !!!!!  ................ !! so let's see how we go. Before getting started on my new paper based project I thought I'd create a party themed panel to bring in the New Year. I  chose the Monsters from the Avery Elle Monster stamp set.  I love those little guys, they're so easy to colour with your pens/pencils.  I found a couple I'd already coloured with Zig Watercolour pens in with the stamp set and then coloured a few more with my copics to make up the little group of New Year revellers lol!!!  January Giveaway  This month we're giving away an Altered Double Picture Frame that I've decorated myself in papers from the Midnight Masquerade collection by Graphic 45. Here's a sneak peek.  Our Double Picture Frame kit is also our January 2018 KIT OF THE MONTH  Use promo code JANKOTM at the ch...

Morning everyone, after a fabulous weekend in Scotland and a quick pitstop at home I'm packing up and heading off down to Cornwall for a few days with my sister and the Cornwall Papercraft Show, Lanhydrock Hotel, Bodmin on Saturday. If you're in the area do come along, it's always a great show.  I'll be hosting make and take sessions all day and our shop will be at the show too along with the other exhibitors.  For our giveaway this month we have one of our Stamp/Card Storage Kit and one roll of our uber popular Black Construction Tape up for grabs.  The Stamp Storage kit can hold the widest of stamp plates on the market, patterns, A5 journals and lots more.  A great solution to organising your craft room or maybe somewhere else too.  Here's a few of my finished samples: 1.  Distress inks and Tim Holtz stamps   2. Embossed card, painted. Andy Skinner Embellishments  3.   Graphic 45 papers To be in with a chance to win...

HeIlo my crafty friends, I  thought it would be fun to give away two sets of our new Notelet Box Kit and one roll of our fan dabby dozzy black construction tape this month.  The box has been designed to hold standard A6 sized 6 x 4 cards and envelopes - which we make but can also be bought from your local craft store. They're the perfect size to alter in the smaller paper pads if you're a paper crafter or inks and stamps if your an inky stampy kind of a crafter too.   My sample above was altered slightly before I assembled it.  I used a craft knife to cut the window out of the front panel, dropped a recessed frame into it and then added a fussy cut woodland scene from the flowers, butterflies, bees and 'shrooms. I also added some acetate under the paper on the front to cover the recess and then finished the scene off with a few more elements. I had to add that gorgeous blue egg to the lid too - I love it.   The box makes a great storage place for your ...

omg...... in all the excitement of Harry coming home at the weekend I completely forgot to schedule the November Giveaway post to go live on Friday, so huge apologies if you called by.  Harry has gawn home (had to laugh when he said that) and we're all back to what seems to be normal until next month.  I can't believe how much he'd changed and grown too.  Both bambinos tower over me these days; Fireworks were exploding all around on Saturday - it was a freezing eve but no rain.  Hope you had a great time if you went off to an event or held one yourself.  I've had a real crafty day prepping one of the projects for my retreat next weekend.  Let the countdown begin.   11 sleeps to go ladies .................  until 30 of us meet up at the Holiday Inn Kenilworth for a right old crafty escape.  I'll be sharing one of our Friday projects over the next couple of days...... it just needs a couple of tweeks.  So on to our giveaway...

Happy 1st of the month everyone, can you believe it's only 55 days 'til Christmas!  I thought I'd share another sample from tomorrows shows with you.  I went for an industrial look on this stamp/card storage unit. Once I'd covered it in embossed white card I used shades of green and rusty paints, gold and bronze treasure gold to get a verdigris look and then added some of Andy Skinners industrial elements from Tando to the front section to finish off the overall look.  this unit is great to hold A5 journals or albums too. I made the two in the unit from scratch and both have painted fabric covers. I'm all prepped and ready to head down to the Hochanda Studios in Peterborough tomorrow. So excited to be on with Hannah and Alex and have some gorgeous demos to share with you. Hope you can grab a coffee and join me for an hour or two at 6pm & 9pm:-) Here's how to watch live SKY  663  (24/7)     FREEVIEW  85  (24/7)  ...

A very happy Friday to you.  I had a fun day crafting with some of my kits yesterday and creating new videos for the website and You Tube channel.  I turned the little 'Make Lemonade' card from yesterdays' post into a framed picture using one of my Single Picture Frame kits so it can sit on a desk and raise a smile when things get tough :-) Maybe I should have one on mine lol!!! .......... no there really isn't any room here......... Here's the video on how it came together.   I also made a double frame altered in papers from the new St Nicholas collection by Graphic 45.  I love the traditional colours in this Christmas collection and chose two of the papers for my festive frame.   I got to make a video for this one too and thought the kits would make a great giveaway this month.  So we have two Double  Picture Frame Kits up for grabs.  All you have to do is leave a comment on this post before midnight on 30th September 201...

Morning everyone, I cant believe it's Thursday and the 1st September too.  Time is flying by toooooo fast at the moment.  Have been spending some time with Harry before he heads off to University in a couple of weeks, gathering up supplies for his new home. Just the Ikea run left to do and the I think he'll have everything he needs ....... for the first week at least lol!  We all had a great time over at SirStampalot last Saturday. Thanks Janice for putting on our demo day and huge thanks to everyone who came along to join us.  We had a competition, won by Linda and now have a new ' Box with a View ' kit to add to my range of Alter Me Kits over on the website. Measuring 30 x 30cm this one can be altered in so many different ways. I'll add the video below later so you can see the actual product.  My card at the top of today's post was made for someone who's feeling a bit down at the moment and it really cheered them up yesterday:-)  and those little...

I hope I find you well on this lovely Sunday morning. There's something outside we haven't seen for what seems like an age - the SUN whop! Whop! Got to get out there later ........... I had a great day with Isobel and the ladies at Scotch Lodge Farm in the second of our two Enchanted Forest Album workshops.  Thank you Isobel for your hospitality, egg sandwiches fresh from the funky hens and our scrum diddly umptious cream tea, and ladies a huge thank you for coming along and joining me for a fabulously crafty day.          It was lovely to see how much the chicks had grown ........ they were yellow balls of fluff the last time I was there.     The PDF Tutorial for my Enchanted Forest album is now available from the website - here's the link.   I'll be adding the video link to the full album below a little later today so watch this space :-)      Our giveaway this month is the altered ATC Box and Ban...