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Tag Archives: cards

Creating Christmas cards

12/11/201416/03/2020
Three Christmas cards with Christmas trees on the front

We’ve made a start on the Christmas crafts now with Jessica making her first Christmas cards. We often use some of Jessica’s paintings as backgrounds for card making and this time we used them to create a Christmas tree on the card. I cut out a Christmas tree shape from a painting where she’d used… Read More

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Mini Creations – Card making

09/09/201430/04/2016

Over the summer, we have been combining Jessica’s love of painting, drawing and sticking and making lots of cards for various occasions. We usually start with cutting up one of Jessica’s many paintings to provide a background which Jessica then sticks on to a pre-folded card. Then Mummy selects some stickers and/or foam shapes for… Read More

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Word of the Week – Creativity

25/07/201421/05/2015

It’s been a fun week this week and I have been enjoying embracing my: Grandma very kindly agreed to babysit so I could go to a craft morning as part of a friend’s birthday celebrations. I was very excited about this, firstly because I love craft sessions but also because it was my very first… Read More

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Mini Creations – Painting

09/07/201414/07/2018
Jessica's painting of Sophie

With a rainy afternoon stopping us from going out and playing in the garden, it seemed a good moment to get the craft box out and do some painting instead.   Jessica chose three colours – red, green and blue and a chunky brush and sponge.   It is interesting to see how she changes… Read More

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Making birthday cards

25/06/201431/05/2018
The finished birthday card for Godmummy Katy

Jessica loves sticking and helping to make birthday cards. It was Godmummy Katy’s birthday recently and so we got the card, stickers and colouring pencils out for Jessica to help Mummy make a birthday card.     Jessica had a square of cardboard and various different stickers. She enjoyed arranging them on the card and… Read More

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I'm Louise, mummy of three - Jessica, forever six, who was born with half a heart and lives on in mine; and heart-healthy Sophie (born 2013) and Thomas (born 2018). I blog about living with grief after child loss, crafts, days out and the little moments of family life.

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