My Creative Spirit (Blog Archive)

Well hello my crafty friends.  Long time no speak I know.  Tragedy struck just over three weeks ago, as I was almost at the end of filming my latest on line workshop.  I decided to update the operating system on my lap top overnight and somehow it killed the hard drive.    I decided to have a short break while it went off to the apple hospital to be repaired.  I've felt like a fish out of water without it.  Luckily most of the files and folders have been recovered .......  and with a new hard drive installed I should be back up and running again next week... fingers crossed.   We had a great time on Tuesday at Scotch Lodge Farm.  Isobel had asked me to design a two page layout to celebrate what used to be called Empire Day but is now Commonwealth Day and we spent a very red white and blue day crafting our pages together.  Here's a few pics    Huge thanks ladies for coming along and to Isobel fo...

Morning everyone and a very happy Friday to you.  If you're fund raising for Sports Relief here in the UK have great time. Week 2 of our scrapbooking party ended last eve and we have a new weekly winner to share with you this morning.   Random.org  chose layout No 4  designed by Sarah.  Huge congrats Sarah and big thanks to everyone who entered this week.  Here's Sarahs layout - fab isn't it.   Scrapbooking Party Winner Week 2 by Sarah  Here's the layout by Cathy Lu our winner of Week 1 too. Love it ........  Scrapbooking Party Winner Week 1 by Cathy Lu  This week we have a double sketch for you to chose from.  Out theme for the week is 'Cities'.  Entering is easy, just chose one of the sketches, create your layout and upload it to the linky thing below before midnight on the 24th March GMT.  Our last weekly winner will be announced here on the blog on Friday 25th March along with our overall winner too....

I have my lovely friend Cathy Knight to thank for getting me back into scrapbooking.  It's been a while since I put some pages together but am totally hooked, As you'll know if you call by the blog I've been having fun with the joint scrapbooking party I'm running with Cathy (So much Scrap) and on Monday eve was invited to run a workshop at the Youth Centre with Melanie and her ladies.  We made up the layout I'd prepped for week 1 of our scrapbooking party using papers from the Worlds Fair collection by Graphic 45. Thank you for inviting me along Melanie and ladies many thanks for joining me too. It was great to meet you all and I hope you have fun adding your favourite snapshots to your finished pages.  Here's a few pics:    Melanie bought along her altered Book in a Box kit to show us all too, that she'd altered in papers from the same collection.  Doesn't it look great.  If you'd like to join in our scrapbooking party click ...

A Happy Friday to you.  Thanks to everyone who took part in week 1 of our crafty party.  We both loved your layouts and know oodles of time and thought went into making them.  Our weekly winner  chosen by  Random.org  is No 1 created and uploaded by Cathy Lu from Taiwan.  Congratulations Cathy Lu.  We'll e mail you about your goodies and your name will go forward into our overall draw on 25th March Today we launch another week of scrapbooking fun for you.  The theme is the 'Sea'  To join the party create your layout following the sketch, use any medium/colours, take a picture, upload and share it via the frogy link below before midnight on 17th March GMT.  They'll be another weekly winner announced here on the blog on Friday 18th March.  Cathy and I took the sketch, flipped it on the right and created a double page layout using  papers from the Voyage Beneath the Sea collection by Gra...

Scrapbook Sketch for Week 1 of our Scrapbook Party 4th - 10th March  Morning Everyone, we hope you've been enjoying a crafty week.  Some of you may know that Monday was the start of International Craft month and today we're celebrating International Scrapbooking Day. I'm really excited to be joining up with the fabulously talented Cathy from So Much Scrap and together we are launching a scrapbooking party for you to take part in too.    Over the next three Friday's we'll be sharing a scrapbook sketch with you on our blogs and FB pages and asking you to join in the party, and create your own scrapbook page following the sketch and theme of the week.  As we're both Graphic 45 addicts we chose papers from the Worlds Fair collection and created a double page layout. Taking a page each we worked with different sized papers and colours www.mycreativespirit.co.uk  to create our finished layout that captures the memory of afternoon tea together a...

Just a quick post before heading of for a checkup on the new hip, well old hip now as it's over a year since it was fitted. I can t believe I had it done now.   If you're in need of one I'd highly recommend the op.  It really is a life changer. The new Jan releases from Kaisercraft are now in the shops here in the UK and we were lucky enough to receive them all from Jones Crafts a little while ago to work with, so I thought I'd share my projects with you. The first is a layout using the Art of Life collection.  I thought I'd use Mum and Dads wedding picture for this one as it went really well with the theme of the papers. For the second I used Spring Blossom papers and my favourite ever picture of my sister  and the card is made from the Violet Crush collection. Enjoy the rest of your week and catch up again soon :-) C 

I think every one here would agree that the whole country was gripped by Olympic fever.  We certainly were.  The boys took a trip down to the east end and had a great time watching the athletics. They were  completely wowed by the size of the stadium, and the noise of every one cheering Mo Farah on to win.  Way to go Mo. It's a real rarity these days to get a picture of my little darlings together but here they are feeling the heat of the Olympic flames some 20 metres away from their seats.  A day they will always remember