Crafter's Corner

My wife's into decoupage card making, for friends and family birthdays and Christmas.
With the latter she makes nearly 100.

An example.



Some ready for sending. They cost me a fortune in postage as to send, second class now is nearly £1, because of their thickness.

 

I would like to see more here @Sian in Belgium, as I don't look at Facebook.

 

Anything in particular you would like to see more of, @strongylodon ?
Animal-wise, there are dogs, cats, deer, bears, sheep, birds (lots of owls, I love owls!). Some flowers... but I tend to get commissioned to draw animals, rather than plants!

 

@Sian in Belgium, Bears, cats and birds.

 

Badgers

 

Sorry - no badgers (yet!)

 

Some birds

A red kite


Long eared owl


...and again


A little owl


Pair of ducklings


The slow take-off of a heron

 

Beautiful drawings @Sian in Belgium.

And beautiful decoupage @Doghouse Riley. Your wife must have a lot of patience to create the cards.

 

Some cats









...and getting a little bigger!

 

And finally, a couple more bears

 

My wife used to do a lot of knitting when she was younger. For those into knitting, her tension was always impressive and she could knit herself jumpers without using a pattern, in all sorts of different styles. She knitted a lot of jumpers for our two boys, making up her own Fair isle patterns that they liked.

She would sometimes on the way to work on the bus see another woman in the seat in front wearing something she liked, memorise the pattern and make a similar one herself.

Sometimes she'd knit the whole back of something, decide she didn't like it, unravel it and start again!

Now with the price of decent yarn and the availability, she doesn't bother much, but will always make something for a new member of our family, or the new grandchildren of her friends.
Here's a recent example.

 

Beautiful drawings @Sian in Belgium.

 

Thank you, @strongylodon !

(Sad person that I am, I keep coming back to this post of yours, to cheer myself up!!)

 

I disigned this card, it was my first attempt and I wanted to keep it simple.

The inside