Watercolour Bookmark For an 8 Yr Old

So I’ve finally finished the handmade bookmark for my son.  Yay!  He was really pleased with it and is already enjoying using it.

Here’s what it looks like now that it’s finished:

I suggested that he choose his own ribbon and he chose one that had ‘with love’ printed on it  I decided to laminate it in the hopes that it would last a bit longer and not get bent and broken too quickly but my son assures me that he knows how much work I put into it and that he will look after it.  I won’t hold it against him if he can’t though as it will give me an excuse to make another one for him!

Custom Handmade Christmas Cards

In the lead up to Christmas my sister-in-law kindly asked me to make her some custom greeting cards to send to friends and family.  I was so grateful and relieved.  Relieved I guess because it meant that she was happy with the ones I did for her the year before

She said she didn’t mind if I produced the same designs but I thought I’d do some that were similar and some that were a bit different.  What I liked most about this order was using decorative papers, colours that were not strictly traditional and using a lot of collaged elements. There were five designs with three cards of each design – fifteen cards in all.  Here they are:

She was pleased when she received them so good result!  I hope whoever she sent them to, like them too