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I don't know about you, but my view of Mother's Day cards, any cards, is changing. I want the sentiment to work harder; I like the materials to be ...

Embroidery needles at the ready? Let the heartwarming sentiment-making commence! Make Valentine's Day handmade this year and create a sophisticated...

Make admiring other people's pressed flower frames a thing of the past and be the one with inspirational one-of-a-kind pressed flower artwork on yo...

Take up embroidery as a form of craft therapy! Explore the powerful healing benefits that come from creating beautiful pieces of art to soothe the ...

Darning this piece of pressed flower art has kept me absorbed in creativity these past few evenings. Traditionally used to mend and repair worn-ou...

How To Frame Embroidered Art I will talk through one way of framing embroidery pictures using an A3-sized paper embroidery as an example. The first...

Mixing leaves and hand embroidery stitches were where my current embroidery designs began. Leaf art is a medium that has been growing in popularit...

Working turkey stitch into paper needs to be adapted so that you don't pierce the holes too close together & tear the paper.  When I first tr...

Embroidering into paper cards can be traced back to pin-pricking paper in the 1700s. Still, when the Victorians invented perforated technology, pa...

Piercing paper and stitching it with wool or thread is an excellent way of getting creative. If this is your first time trying it, here is the ult...

If you wanted to put a vintage colour palette together where would you start?  Where would you look to for colour palette ideas and inspiration?  L...

We choose our favourite hand crafted Christmas gifts inspired by the humble and generous spirits of the sisters in Little Women. The March sisters...