It was great to meet you all at the Olympia show.

A big ‘thank you’ from the Inspire Me Papers team to everyone who created a beautiful flower to help us with our ‘Britain’s Biggest Birthday Card’ challenge.

We'll be putting together a few of the photographs and stories from all the wonderful people that we met over the next few posts

As you can see, it was a bloomin’ success!

We got chatting to Rosemary at the show and she told us why crafting is so close to her heart. Rosemary is a Grandma to eight grand daughters, with another Grandchild on the way.

As all her grandchildren and family are living in America and card making is their very own beautiful way of keeping in touch. As well as making a special card for every occasion Rosemary also makes all her grand daughters dresses, knits all their jumpers, and makes all their quilts.

Rosemary and her husband Robert said that making cards brings lots of happiness and smiles into their house everyday. We hope that Rosemary, Robert and all their grand children always share the love and happiness that making and sending a hand made card brings.

Here a just a few photo’s of all you lovely papercrafter’s who we met at the show.

The Arty Crafternoon

We say a big Inspire Me Papers 'Hello' to Angela, Alex, Sharon and Christine from the 'Arty Crafternoon'. Who took a trip to the show from their ladies craft club at St. Peters' Church, Ipswich.

We look forward to hearing from you all soon!

My Mum & Me
“We had had a wonderful day out together!”

Inspire Me Papers and Envelopes!

Megan had travelled to the show in search of the perfect wedding envelope for her hand designed wedding invitations.

She had only walked by the Inspire Me Papers stand to say how lovely the flowers looked. At this point we were knee deep in fabulous flowers for the record challenge – and in need of some help!

Look no further! Megan traded an afternoon with the Inspire Me Paper team
for two hundred envelopes for all her invitations. We all wish Megan all the happiness for the 27th July this year when she gets married.

Who knows you may even see her as a new member of the 'Inspire Me' team.

It was very inspiring to see all the wonderful flowers you made for Britain's Biggest Card Challenge. It’s amazing how paper can give you such an insight into someone’s life, from the colours you use to the fabrics and embellishments that you decorate with. Every one of them was full of personality – all as unique and wonderful as each other!

Here’s a small selection of your entries.

We met Kim Francis and her daughter Roxanne at the Stitch and Craft Show at Olympia. Kim runs a boys brigade and Roxanne is in the New Malden Girls Brigade. Both Kim and Roxanne love card making and paper crafting, and try to encourage anything that involves scrapbooking and cool card making.

Roxanne said ‘everyone deserves to be inspired’. Which gave us the idea of asking Kim to have an ‘Inspire Me Papers’ day at the 5th Kingston and Merton Boys Brigade. So we sent some of our Inspiration packs and this is what happened.

So much concentration, so much choice
The boys were really impressed with all the colours and textures and soon set about making cards for Easter. “We used paper, punches and glue to create some really great cards for them to take home for their families”, said Kim. As you can see from the photos no two cards are the same and the boys had great fun making them.

Happy Easter from us all!

Don’t forget if you are being creative this Easter with paper send us your photos so we can feature them in this blog. Those we publish will receive a free Inspiration Pack. Please send them to inspireme at inspiremepapers.co.uk