It feels like all, or most of, my crafting at the moment is from kits. All-in-one kits, where all I need to supply is a pair of scissors to cut some ribbon.

To be fair, crafting I don’t have to think too much about was one of the things I was aiming for this summer. The kits are making me try designs I wouldn’t normally think of, with ephemera and embellishments I also don’t normally think to use, like ribbons.

But I have made all the cards a bit faster than I anticipated, and now am left with no card kits to make. I started with three this month. I’ll have to think of something else now. Another way of easy crafting.

Kits work, don’t get me wrong, and I’ll continue collecting them (it’s one way of collecting ink pads; you just have to be careful not to duplicate colours), but clearly they don’t last long.

But ready-made die-cut images and sentiment-labels, or maybe label-punches, may be the way forward. At least until I can organise a Crafting Corner downstairs with space for my Cuttlebug (or the Sew Crafty mini die-cutter which started this whole thing). Although, really, that’s just being fancy: a decent pair of paper scissors is all you really need, and a steady hand for delicate cutting. Perhaps one of those exciting craft pen-knives with a moving tip – I forget what they call themselves, which is one reason why I haven’t yet added one to my Sharp Tools Jar.

I sometimes think about adding a Scan’n’Cut to my arsenal, partly so I don’t have to worry about matching dies, but also because I’m not very good at cutting an even border around my stamped images. And then I wonder if I can justify such an expensive pair of scissors, because, let’s face it, that’s what it would be. I suppose I might investigate its other uses, but it would, primarily, just be a fancy pair of scissors. With a large footprint, too. And I only have a small crafting space.

Perhaps a resumption of the decluttering will uncover forgotten space or easy-crafting supplies.