My Creative Spirit (Blog Archive)

Morning everyone, inspired by my trip to the beach and a workshop booking for a layout class with Melanie and her ladies I found an old photo of Harry and me on the beach above and created this fun layout for us to make later this month.   Supplies for the project  One x Turtle Time 12 x 12  One Floating Florals 12 x 12  One Sun Kissed 12 x 12 One sheet orange Sun Kissed Patterns and Solids One 12 x 12 sheet of black cardstock Micro Beads and glitter in co ordinating colours (I used yellow WOW glitter and Stix2 Micro Beads)  Scissors for fussy cutting  Black card for photo mounts and mounting cut outs   Vintage Photo Distress Ink Pen for inking paper edges  Double sided tape  Tacky glue  Glossy Accents  Foam Pads   Use the turtle side of Turtle Time as your base paper. Trim the floating Floral paper to 10 1/2" square. Cut a piece of black card stock to 12 5/8" square and mat t...

It's all go here designing samples for the Graphic 45 shows on Create and Craft TV later in the week.  There's lot's of bundles on offer across five fabulous collections in the Birthday Shows and lots for me to chose from for the set samples.  It's been a while since I've designed a layout so I thought I'd put one or two together for the boys and then they can go in their scrapbook albums I'm building up for them. I don t know about you but I like to build the design around the photo, so after a real rummage through lots of old ones of the boys I found an Oliver action shot. Ols was always a little boy on a mission and the colours and wording in the Artisan Style papers were just perfect for his layout.  I  kept it simple and used a chipboard phrase embossed with black embossing powder to title the page. I went for a baby picture of Harry, I think he was only a could of weeks old here and built his layout with the Precious Memories papers.  ...

  First we need to announce the winner of the March Giveaway.  Thank you for all your comments.  126 in all and I loved reading though them.    Random.Org  has selected comment  Taking out deleted, duplicated and a couple of spam comments No 98 was left by Sandra NZ.  Congratulations Sandra.  Please mail me your address to mycreativespirituk@gmail.com  and I'll get your goodies of to you.  I was very touched recently to be asked, by the very talented Sally Elve Butler if I'd put together a few layouts using her papers for the Crafting Times stand at the  'Who Do You Think You Are Show, at the NEC, Birmingham next month.  Of course I said yes.   I'd first come across Sally's Titanic paper collection at Ally Pally a couple of years ago and dithering about came home without buying them.  I searched the net but never managed to find them, and then just happened across a large black binder when I taught ...

By the Sea Layout - Graphic 45  Happy Bank Holiday Monday to you all. I hope you're having a great day if you're on holiday.  I was until they started knocking down the fence next door lol!!!  What a racket.  Its a big day today over on the Graphic 45 blog today with the announcement of the new Design Team and Ambassadors.  I'm absolutely honoured to have been asked to be one of the three new Ambassadors,  It's an invite only one year contract and I join Laura Denison (USA) and Jane Tregenza (Aus) on this new venture.  Thank you Charee Diane Amie and the team and everyone who supports me through my blog, You Tube channel and comes along to my workshops and retreats around the country.  I'm very touched and honoured too.   Here's the link to the G45 blog where you can see all the finalists and their amazing entries along with the totally amazing sneak peeks of the new Halloween Collection - An Eerie Tale, its absolutely gorgeous. ...

Botanical Tea Layout - Graphic 45 It's that time of year again, the DT call for G45 is on, so if you're applying I wish you all the best. It really is the most wonderful team to be a part of.  There are some gorgeous collections to be creative with but I think the Botanical Tea has to be one of my favourites ever.  It's just so pretty with so many beautiful images to work with.  I used just a couple of papers for this layout, and a Cor'donations paper  to frame the picture.  Picking out the blossoms to match the ones that were climbing up the quaint cottage we came across in Helston as we started out walk around the river estuary. We did have a well deserved cup of tea when we'd finished our walk at the picturesque church cafe that overlooks the estury after our walk too.  There are more layouts over on the G45 blog by Susan and Anne, if you'd like to head over there to take a peek just  Click here  . Just before I go ther...

Happy Friday everyone It was layout day yesterday over at Pink Tulip .  Loads of fun had by all cutting into G45 papers :-)  Lovely to see you again ladies.  Sheila, Tracie and Ang did a fab job in prepping for the day and keeping us going too, with stamping, inking, punching, cutting out and of course the all important tea making :-)  Here's a few pics of everyone hard at it lol!!  and a few more of the ladies and their gorgeous layouts :-)  We were all surprised at how well every ones photos went with the colours of the papers.   I love them all ladies, your photos held so many memories.    The Upstairs Downstairs Girls at Pink Tulip  Enjoy your weekend, thanks for calling by and catch up again soon.