I’ve been playing with my shape punches and shrink plastic whilst thinking about Mother’s Day. This is the result – a profile cameo on shrink plastic.

A Christmas Surprise for my niece! A Doll Sleeping Bag and Pillow for her 18 inch doll. The first photo shows the size next to my Fiskars scissors.

I love making my own fabric flowers, you can produce them so inexpensively. Neutral fabrics, like Calico’s and Burlap’s (like sacking) are fun to use, but die cut Burlap seems to fray really badly. I found my T!m Holtz Tattered Florals die cut really beautiful Burlap flowers that promptly fell apart when I tried to shape them, Burlap is an extremely loosely woven fabric.I ...

These were made using a melt pot and embossing powders of various colours.

I made some embellishments using my melt pots. The Rose and the heart simply use melted embossing powders. Not really my style but a bit of fun trying something new.

Good Morning Fiskarettes!

If any of you are into quilting, I found this great little tutorial all about making Half-square Triangles in quick time and with ease.

My pre-schooler wanted to try sewing this week and make a little teddy. I quickly made a pattern using some of my paper crafting tools and it was so successful I thought I’d share with you how to make one.

What you need: * Two circle punches (one large and one small) and one oval punch. My punches are the squeeze punches from Fiskars. * scrap card-stock * sticky ...

Really had fun with this and very simple to make. Eskimo man uses 3 socks, Squirrel uses 2 soxks and the one that has red eyes uses just one sock. To stuff them we just used an old synthetic cushion inner. Simple stitch through to make whatever character you want – because they are wool and padded you do not need to be great at sewing as stitches are easily hidden. As i have all boys i am always trying to find crafts ...

I belong to FOSS – Friends of Southglos Strays – and have recently been making some warm coats for some of the dogs they take – my 2 dogs are from them and make great models!

I really enjoy crafting. Here are two sock dolls that I made and would like to post to my gallery. Their names are Boris and Doris, they were great fun to make.

Crafty tip: You don’t need a sewing machine to be able to make a sock doll and they are easier than ...