Month: May 2025

Receive,Remake, Regift

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Being a crafter makes it hard to dispose of greetings cards received so I feel obliged to remake them and hand them on. I feel if I add embellishments and effort it isn’t cheating on the home made card making ‘rules’.

This one received for the Channel Islands liberation day (ending 5 years of occupation in WWII) won’t be handed on until next May 9 th but I enjoyed remaking it now.

Card front cut apart then mounted on a card base once the white brads were put in to the bunting line. Googly eyes stuck on and dots of Nuevo drops added to the flowers and a piece of embroidery thread tied around the spine.

Harder than it looks

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The finished card

Just clear some bits from my desk I thought but it turned into a long session to produce just one card…

The card base was cut to fit a donated envelope. The green backing paper scrap was just about big enough for the die cut frame and square.

The green stems are heat embossed, the ribbon bow donated but needed the (donated) jewels to cover a mark. The buttons (from my jar) needed some thread tying through them then a die cut vellum flower to back them.

So nothing purchased and yes the desk was cleared…

Sea glass greetings

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How to use the sea glass I collect on my daily beach walks with the dog…

Just a few little shards of sea smoothed glass have become greetings cards when combined with watercolour backgrounds, fine liner detail, heat embossed greeting and mounted on card blanks.

My obvious lack of drawing finesse is minimised by keeping these cards clean and simple, using watercolour card and leaving lots of white space.

Olio recipe rescues

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I love the challenge of rescuing food on olio and creating delicious dishes with abandoned ingredients.

There is often surplus bread so we regularly have bread and butter pudding with lemon curd (Mary berry recipe) or simple marmalade made from olio rescue lemons and oranges.

Currently a batch of carrot soup is being frozen using olio supplies and bags of chopped veg are waiting their turn for ‘souping’ later.

Grapes can be a challenge to use up but frozen they make great ice cubes and pickled grapes are a new addition to our salads.

Thank you olio for making us use and save unloved food.