My Creative Spirit (Blog Archive)

Morning everyone, its a right wet one here, not good for our Bank Holiday weekend and who left the washing out yesterday!!!!   Apologies for being a couple of days late announcing the winner of this months giveaway  and Thank you to everyone who left comments on the post.  Loved reading through them all.   Random.org  has chosen no 136 as our winner of the month;   skidwalker 29 April 2015 at 12:34 Love the beautiful box! All of your creations are so well-done and imaginative. Thanks for sharing them with us! Congratulations.  Would you e mail me your address to mycreativespirituk@gmail.comso I can get your kit off in the post to you.  Our May giveaway will go live here on the blog on  Tuesday so do call by and leave a comment to be in the draw.  I thought It would be a good idea to buy an I pad mini earlier in the week for a number of reasons and its provide to be really useful but, I needed to update...

Brrrr!! it was a frosty frozen start to the day when I took Ols to work this morning but the clouds have cleared and the sun is out so things are looking promising for a really nice day.  It's that time of year when all of us fair weather gardeners get outside and start tidying and planting.  I thought I d' alter one of my This N' That boxes to keep my seeds, string and planter labels in but I think Harry had nabbed it.  Its full of golf balls lol!!  I've gone for green, yellow and red papers from the Home Sweet Home collection by Graphic 45 and love how all the papers work together.   Here's a few more pics  Have you been watching Poldark? I can't believe we're up to episode 3 and I haven't mentioned it.  I remember watching it with Mum back in the 70's and loved it then. I'm loving the remake and am now totally hooked on it second time around.  For those of you reading from outside of the UK the series is based on the ...

I had a bit if a crafty clear out yesterday when I came in from the garden, and with stamps and pens on the table and paper just in from the car I sat down, chilled and did a bit of colouring.  I haven't domne any for ages, am a bit rusty but really enjoyed myself.  I love these stamps, Cling 3 from the Home Sweet Home collection by Graphic 45.  Just perfect for making cards for garden lovers and cooks.  You get a seed packet with the set too, and each of the veg and phlox stamps can be interchanged in the centre.  Clever eh!!  It's amazing what you find when you have a sort out, and what you'd forgotten you've got too. My heads full of ideas again and the to do list has grown at least a foot lol!!!.  Anyway, must get off the PC and on with the things I mustn't forget to do today.  Enjoy your day and catch up again soon :-)  www.mycreativespirit.co .uk

Mother Goose Altered Clock by Joyce English Helllooo there and happy Sunday to you.  I'm just home after two fabulously crafty days with Janet, Karen, Sue and all the lovely ladies at Birds in the Barn.  We were constructing and altering recipe boxes with the gorgeous Home Sweet Home papers by  Graphic 45 . Two classes over two days, lots of laughs, oodles of tea and coffee and cake, and of course lots of crafting too. Janet, huge thanks for inviting me down to your shop and Karen thank you for the delicious egg sandwiches (no one makes them quite like Karen) and the amazing cakes, including the one to take home........  yum yum, my favourite.  It was lovely to see everyone again, and meet some new crafters too. Joyce popped into the shop while we were crafting away and showed us her amazing altered clock (above).  It was lovely to meet you Joyce. Happy Birthday Karen too for yesterday, I hope you enjoyed Lord of the Dance and did Michael tap...

Happy Sunday to you.  I was up early, the sun was shining so I ran the towels through the washing machine hung them out on the line, a first for this year and blow me now its pouring with rain.  Whats that all about!!!..   We have a fun day of crafty gorgeousness to share with you over on the Graphic 45 blog  today, including my Home Sweet Home recipe box.  Made for CHA back in January this was a perfect project for these gorgeously bright home themed papers.  We're always spoilt with imaginary in a Graphic 45 collection and in this one we have the most amazing vegetables to cut out and layer up.  Fabulous for home and garden themed projects    Working with just two sheets of each of the eight papers in the collection I went for blues and reds for this project and then added cut out detail on the lid, sides and on each of the dividers in the box.  Here's a few more pics; The recipe box/photo box is av...