My Creative Spirit (Blog Archive)

Morning everyone, we've woken up to sunshine this morning after a very wet and rainy week here. I've been running an early morning taxi service for Oli as his car is really poorly, and have to say despite my moaning (lol!!) I've enjoyed the early starts to my days. ......  Today I thought I'd share a couple of fun videos on how to make slider cards and create neat magnetic closures for your projects.  I included both ideas in some of my latest projects, we've had fun making them in recent workshops and I finally got round to doing the videos for them yesterday.  Neat Magnetic closures   Here's how to make them  Slider cards to fit your 6 x 4 cut aparts   Here's how to make them Have fun if you make these yourself.  I'm off to host a surprise workshop tomorrow - so exciting :-)  I've got kits and bags to pack up today so will love you and leave you to enjoy your day.  Thanks for calling by and look forward to sh...

Hello my lovelies from an overcast but warm Cornish coastline.  I tootled down country on Friday, stopping off in Cheltenham to see Harry Bean for a catch up and lunch and after a bit of a hiccup and an unplanned trip home (!!!!!) headed down to Bodmin for last weekends workshop.  What a fab time we had.   Julie & Julie thank you both for setting up the unit for us and ladies thank you all so much for joining me for a fun weekend of crafty escapism. How time flies when you're having fun. Here's a few pics of everyone crafting away and our projects projects coming together. Our projects, all available from my website were:  Portrait of a Lady 11" Album and Case  Midnight Masquerade 11" Album and Case  Vintage Hollywood Event Organiser  Botanicabella Album in a Box    Julie altered one of our Planner Kits in Alice in Wonderland fabric - it looked fab    Glynne, Gail and Emma it was great to me...

Well hello again, get me two posts in two days!!!  Before I get caught up in all things retreat over the next couple of days I thought I'd share the last post of the week - (well this side of Saturday) with you and the full project line up for this weekends 'UK Graphic 45' Crafters Retreat.   We're crafting with all of the new collections and a couple of older ones to.  I'm so excited to share the new projects I've designed with you. I'll be creating videos for each project for my You tube channel and all will have project sheets available on the website by mid April.   So here goes:   The 12 x 12 Shadow Box and 11" Presentation Album Made in Portrait of a Lady, Midnight Masquerade and Vintage Hollywood collections this project offers a great way to capture an event and create a keepsake of a Prom, a trip or holiday, birthday, anniversary wedding or other event you've enjoyed.. Each album has six pages for pictures and the centre double...

  Pinch Punch it's the first of the month. Did you get caught up in April foolery this morning? and can you believe it's the first of April.......  I've been a little quite here in blogland for a week or so but have been mad busy behind the scenes designing new projects for the first of my Graphic 45 retreats this year.  Just seven sleeps to go .................. whop whop!!! I"m ready to start sharing the projects we'll be making with you No 1: Midnight Masquerade Book in a Box.  This has been such a popular kit, and looks fab all dolled up in the fabulously rich papers from this gorgeous collection.  Tutorials for all the projects from the retreat will be available to pre-order over on the website with a go live date of 14th April.  Midnight Masquerade Book in a Box PDF Tutorial  Book in a Box Kit  I'm very touched and excited to have been invited to continue as Graphic 45's Grand Ambassador here in the UK for another year and send huge ...