Craft Focus - Oct/Nov (Issue 63)

68 craft focus be my valentine PERSONALISE A CARD WITH A MESSAGE FOR SOMEONE SPECIAL FMM FunCraft is a well-known and trusted UK brand established for nearly 70 years, and over 99 per cent of its products are manu- factured in the UK. On Valentine’s Day, there’s no lovelier way to say ‘I love you’ than with a personalised card or gift. FMM FunCraft has a range of cutters and textured mats that can be used with clay to create bespoke cards. The cutters have smooth but sharp cutting edges that won’t drag or fray the clay, simply cut out the required design or shape, and allow to dry. Colour can be added to the clay before it’s cut, or once dry dust lightly to achieve the required shade. FMM FunCraft +44 (0) 01442 292 970 sales@fmmfuncraft.com fmmfuncraft.com HEARTS ARE NOT JUST FOR VALENTINE’S DAY – THEY SELL ALL YEAR ROUND! Country Love Crafts sells hearts of all shapes and sizes at Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, birthdays, weddings and even to celebrate the birth of a new baby. “We’re all about paintable shapes and the products used to decorate those shapes,” said Jon Pond from Country Love Crafts. Jon further explained that Country Love Crafts offers a range of heart shapes in various materials including wood, papier-mâché, bisque pottery, polystyrene, transparent acrylic and range of puffy hanging hearts in fabric. The shapes can be painted, embellished or decoupaged. The company’s range of bisque shapes can be decorated with glazes, underglazes and fired in a kiln or they can be painted with acrylics and varnished (although this is only suitable for ornaments, not tableware as acrylics as they aren’t foodsafe). The glass paints from DecoArt can also be used to personalise glassware and decorative papers can be decoupaged to make your mark on almost any craft surface. Country Love Crafts +44 (0)1235 861 700 sales@countrylovecrafts.co.uk countrylovecrafts.com SAY IT WITH STITCHES Mouseloft has a cute design for Valentine’s Day in its range of counted cross-stitch kits. The Meerkat with Rose is part of the Stitchlet for Special Occasions range. The kit comes complete with everything you need to stitch the design. Other kits in the range are suitable for birthdays, new babies, moving home, weddings and many more milestone events. The kits in this range retail at just £2.99. All the designs in the Stitchlets for Special Occasions range fit into the three-fold aperture cards provided, or could be mounted in a 2½in woodgrain flexi- hoop to make more of a gift, which are also stocked by Mouseloft. Point of Sale displays are available. Mouseloft +44 (0)1477 533 566 mice@mouseloft.co.uk mouseloft.co.uk