My Creative Spirit (Blog Archive)

Morning everyone, and Happy St Patricks Day.  May the luck of the Irish be with you to be sure!   We had a great time down at the Cornwall Papercraft Show last weekend. Thank you to all who came along to the show and joined me for my make and take sessions.  Here's a few pics from a few of the sessions and the link to the How to make video if you'd like to make one of these little books yourself.  Julie S thank you for all your help on the stand during the day.  I'm really excited to be sharing my Off to the Races album over on the Graphic 45 blog today along with a fab album by Lena altered in the gorgeous Natures Sketchbook papers. Do click here and visit the blog to see our makes and loads more creative inspiration too. A great share this week to celebrate the Cheltenham Festival and St Patricks Day too.  I love the colours in this collection and as always there are lot's of colour combinations running through the pads to suit our...

  Hellloooooo, sadly the eeeby geebies got the better of me this week after filming so I'm a little later than panned sharing the last of this weeks easy to make albums So here it is, a fun little 8" x 5" album, perfect to add a picture under each pocket on the pages. The structure is made from card/cardstock and is just the right size to alter in papers from the smaller pads we have in our hoards:-)    My Ambassador box arrived direct from Graphic 45 on Tuesday. Thank you Diane, Charee and Aimee for all the gorgeous new collections.  Each one is absolutely stunning.  Much as I wanted to get creating I could only bring myself to cut into three papers from the Midnight Masquerade collection to use on this little album. I found a pad of An Eerie Tale patterns and solids and used the purple and orange papers on the inside pages.  The colours from both collections work so well together. I had to add a few feathers to finish off the masks on the front cove...

After noon everyone, just a quick post from me today to wish my lovely, life long friend Sarah a very Happy !@££$$%%£@! Birthday.  We've known each other for, can you believe over 50 years ......! So looking forward to our girly catch up tomorrow eve.  Five of us are getting together; if you add up all our ages they total almost the same number as there are days in a year - give or take a month lol!!! Can you believe it. I've also got a new album to share with you.  Altered in papers from the Off to the Races collection the finished album measures approx 8 1/2" square and 2 3/4" deep, has four interactive pages, Claireeeee style with room for loads of your favourite pics and can be made in or out of its boxed cover.  The boxed cover does make it a nifty way to keep all the pages neat and store the album too. Dimensions on how to make the box are included in the PDF Tutorial or you can use our 'Box It' kit.  The collection has a horsey theme running thro...

Happy Friday to you and roll on the weekend :-) I've had a lovely week celebrating my birthday and creating this weekends double workshop project from those gorgeous 'Off to the Races' collection by G45.  I was down by Cheltenham Race Course last night and Harry tells me he's got himself a job and is off to work at Ascot Race Course tomorrow. Not sure he'll get time for a flutter on the 'orses though!  I have happy memories of going to the races with my Grandma when I was small, she loved a flutter on the horses and the dogs too.  From the papers I didn't use I created this really simple montage, mounting the figures on foam pads for a 3D effect and think it may be the cover of a scrapbook............ am musing over some ideas.   After what panned out to be a fun but ridiculously hectic week I'm off down to Scotch Lodge Farm tomorrow for day one of our two day Graphic 45 'Be Lucky' album workshop. Looking forward to seeing you there bright ...

Hi de Hi my loverlies, how are you this grey and chilly morning.  Autumn is slowly taking hold here, the nights seem to be closing in and Halloween is creeping up on us. On a positive the clocks go back on Saturday eve here and we get an extra hour to snooze on Sunday morning before leaping into action :-).   I'm off to Scotch Lodge Farm this weekend to host a two day G45 workshop.  We have a new album to create altered in papers from the delightful Off to the Races collection by Graphic 45. I'm loving the colours in the collection, they seem to fit the season too with the rich oranges, warm browns, olive greens and subtle blues.  They also go with past collections which is great if you want to create bespoke projects or use up those left over papers on new projects. Or maybe we just like to stash those to look at and stroke lol!!!   The album sits inside it's own case (our 'Box It' kit) has some fun interactive pages, large pull outs and oodles of room fo...