Hannah Stone

Hannah Stone Sharing the everyday magic – from cosy life snapshots to my love of journaling, scrapbooking & memory keeping with Pebble Paper Scissors.

Creativity, gratitude & the little moments that make life beautiful. ✨📚✂️

This is my August cover, shared over from Pebble Paper Scissors where all my craft content lives now.Creating these cove...
04/09/2026

This is my August cover, shared over from Pebble Paper Scissors where all my craft content lives now.

Creating these covers each month has become one of my favourite parts of keeping this journal. I choose a theme, gather the pieces that feel right together, and tuck little snippets of story into the background text, the sort of thing only I will ever really notice. To anyone else it’s texture. To me, it’s a tapestry.

What I love most is knowing I can come back to this page in years to come and understand exactly what was happening and how I felt at the time, without ever having had to put it into words. Some seasons are easier felt than written, and this feels like a gentler way of holding onto them.

If you’d like to see more of the making, you’ll find me over on Pebble Paper Scissors these days.

Both my babies, off to school.Today was the youngest’s turn - his very first day, and the excitement on his face said it...
03/09/2026

Both my babies, off to school.

Today was the youngest’s turn - his very first day, and the excitement on his face said it all. Watching him stand there next to his big brother, matching uniforms, arms round each other for the photo… something about that pulled at my heart in a way I wasn’t quite ready for.

They’re growing up so fast. Too fast, if I’m honest. But watching them today, so proud, so ready, so completely unfazed by the enormity of it all — I couldn’t have been prouder of the two of them.

Go make friends. Go have an adventure. I’ll be here, waiting to hear all about it later x

21/08/2026

A clean and simple card, start to finish.

This one's all about blending - August's colour combo from Lisa Horton Crafts, Straw Hat, Rustic Coral through to Loganberry, using a separate brush for each shade to keep the finish nice and even. From there it's trimming, scoring, a detailed die cut layered over the background, and a stamped sentiment raised on foam to finish it off.

There's something properly meditative about sitting down with card and ink for an afternoon — simple steps, but such a striking result.

More tutorials like this one live over on Pebble Paper Scissors, if you fancy following along.

Items used;
Lisa Horton Crafts Cloud 9 Inks, Straw Hat, Rustic Coral, Loganberry
LHC Perfect Posies Main Die Set
LHC More Fabulous Fonts Stamp & Die Set
LHC Pro Blend Brushes
LHC Ish Card
LHC Rotating Platform, Scoreboard and Trimmer

There's something about a beach once the tide has properly gone out. All that sand left glistening, and no idea what's b...
19/08/2026

There's something about a beach once the tide has properly gone out. All that sand left glistening, and no idea what's been uncovered until you go and have a look.

We spent hours out there, digging, exploring, getting properly wet and sandy in the way only a good beach afternoon allows. But funnily enough, when I asked the boys at bedtime what their favourite bit of the whole day had been, they both said the exact same thing without even pausing to think - jumping in the water. Not the treasure, not the rocks, just the simple joy of splashing about.

It's a good reminder, isn't it? All that time spent thinking about what might make a day special, and in the end, it's usually the simplest bit that sticks.

Do your children ever surprise you with what they pick out as the best part of a day? I'd love to know what yours would say.

15/08/2026

Some of you have known me since my mixed media days - maybe sat across a craft table from me, or perhaps you caught me demonstrating crafts on the shopping channels years back. If that's you, this one's for you.

I still make. In fact, craft has never really left me - it just moved over to Pebble Paper Scissors where I share my mixed media and papercraft projects these days. A few of you have asked to see more of that side of things again, so I thought it was about time I brought a bit of it back here too.

This is the video tutorial for my mixed media William Morris tag. I shared the finished piece during the launch of the Inspired by William Morris collection from Lisa Horton Crafts, and I had several requests to film how it actually comes together - so here it is. Grab a cup of tea, this is a proper process one!

I started with the largest MDF tag from the LHC assortment, covered it with one of the free William Morris paper downloads, then sanded the edges back to distress them. A little Cadence Hybrid Acrylic in Taffy brayered over the top, with a few splatters, gives that lovely worn, mixed media feel.

The flowers and leaves are all cut ahead of time from ink-blended backgrounds made with the Inspired by William Morris Cloud 9 inks, I like to spend an afternoon inking and cutting so I've always got a stash ready to play with.

Then comes the part I love most: layering. I always trial the design before I stick anything down, building outwards from the focal flower from the Larkspur Foliage die set, and only tacking thecentres of bases of the petals and leaves so I can keep tucking new pieces underneath as I go. A sentiment strip made with the Sea Flowers dies, a splatter of water to react with the inks, a touch more Taffy acrylic paint to tie it all together, and a tiny bow to finish.

If you've missed seeing this side of me, come and find me over on Pebble Paper Scissors, that's home for all my craft tutorials now, and I'd love to have you there.

I'd love to know; are you a make-your-embellishments-in-advance crafter like me, or do you prefer to cut as you go? Tell me in the comments.

Turning 40 called for something a little different, so we booked ourselves a treehouse for a few days. Twenty minutes fr...
12/08/2026

Turning 40 called for something a little different, so we booked ourselves a treehouse for a few days. Twenty minutes from the seaside, tucked right on the edge of a lake, with a beautiful old willow trailing over the decking.

It turned out to be exactly what we needed. I don't think I've ever felt more relaxed on a birthday, if I'm honest. No big fuss, no huge plans, just somewhere quiet and beautiful to mark the occasion with the people I love most.

Forty doesn't feel so bad when it looks like this.

What's your idea of the perfect way to mark a milestone birthday? I'd love to hear how you'd spend it.

There's something about an unexpected parcel on the doorstep, isn't there? Before you've even opened it, you just know i...
08/08/2026

There's something about an unexpected parcel on the doorstep, isn't there? Before you've even opened it, you just know it's going to be something lovely.

This one turned out to be the sweetest surprise - a beautiful Roald Dahl rose from David Austin, sent by a dear friend who knows exactly the way to my heart. Those warm apricot tones, that gorgeous full bloom... I honestly couldn't stop looking at it once it was out of the box.

Morph had to inspect the delivery himself, obviously - somewhere between sniffing the roses and falling completely in love with the cardboard box, he gave his official seal of approval.

It's already gone into the garden, and I can't wait to watch it settle in and flourish over the coming months. Gifts like this one really do stay with you.

To the friend who sent it - thank you. You know exactly how much this meant.

Do you have a friend who always seems to know just the right gift to send? I'd love to hear about it.

I can't believe our Disneyland Paris trip was a month ago now! I'll be honest - I like Disney but I didn't really get t...
02/08/2026

I can't believe our Disneyland Paris trip was a month ago now! I'll be honest - I like Disney but I didn't really get the whole Disney hype.

Then we took the boys, and it all made sense.

Watching them take it in was honestly the best part of the whole trip. Doody was completely in awe every time we met a character, properly wide-eyed, like he couldn't believe it was real. Roo was fearless from the second we arrived, straight onto every fast ride going, no hesitation whatsoever. And then, after being so reluctant - completely out of nowhere, Doody found the courage to try his very first rollercoaster. He came off Big Thunder Mountain absolutely buzzing - bouncing off the walls, talking a mile a minute. I think I was more emotional about it than he was!!

In the middle of all that chaos, we managed a rare five minutes to ourselves too. The boys were off with grandparents for an hour, and we found ourselves wandering into the new Frozen world just as the light started to soften. It's easy to forget, in the middle of snacks and queues and "are we nearly there yet," that you're on a trip together as well - not just parents on duty, but a couple who quite like each other's company. So we stopped and took a photo, and remembered we were a team long before we were mum and dad.

And then there's that castle. We managed to time our trip to miss the worst of the heatwave but the water refill stations still became an absolute must. I couldn't have done this trip without my wheelchair, if I'm honest. It made the difference between properly enjoying the day and running on empty by lunchtime. The park itself was really accessible and the staff couldn't have been more accommodating, we hit a couple of snags with the hotel and keeping the chair charged, but reception sorted us out both times without any fuss.

Even the shows were spectacular, though I spent most of them watching the boys watch the show rather than the show itself. Tales of Magic was a particular favourite, the way the buildings along Main Street transformed too still doesn't feel real.

It didn't even feel especially busy, which is saying something. There's so much we didn't get to, so we'll definitely be back.

Turns out the magic was never really about the castle. It's about watching the little ones discover it, catching a quiet moment with the person you're building it all with, and finding a way to enjoy it all even when your body needs a bit more help getting there.

Has taking your children somewhere ever made you fall in love with it all over again? Or if accessibility is something you think about when planning trips, I'm happy to share what worked for us.

Today marks ten years since I was diagnosed with PoTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome).Ten years. I honestly ...
26/07/2026

Today marks ten years since I was diagnosed with PoTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome).

Ten years. I honestly can't believe how much life has happened in between.

I wanted to take a proper look back, not because chronic illness fits neatly into a before and after story, but because when I actually trace the last decade - I'm proud of what I see. The travelling I did before any of this started, the operation that changed everything, leaving my job to build something of my own, running a 5k when I'd been told not to expect much from my body, meeting the love of my life, getting married, having two babies, building a business - a whole family and life built alongside a body that doesn't always cooperate.

If your journey with a chronic condition looks completely different to mine, that's exactly as it should be. There's no single way to do this, and no two journeys look the same.

Right now, life looks a bit harder again. Balancing a young family alongside PoTS has been tougher than it's been in years, and I'm trying to give myself grace for that rather than measure myself against who I used to be. Ten years on feels like the right moment to get back to basics to remember what helped me find that good place a few years after diagnosis, and see what we can rebuild from there.

Grateful for how far we've come. And gently, steadily, working on where we go next.

If you're managing a chronic condition of your own, I'd love to hear how your journey has looked. We're always stronger sharing these stories than keeping them quiet.

Tomorrow, I’m popping along to the Craft De-Stash Sale at Crowland Methodist Church, Reform Street (Sat 11th July, 10am–...
10/07/2026

Tomorrow, I’m popping along to the Craft De-Stash Sale at Crowland Methodist Church, Reform Street (Sat 11th July, 10am–2pm) with a table full of goodies that need a new home stamp sets, die sets, cardstock and lots more besides.
If you’re local, come and say hello! It’s £1 entry and there’ll be refreshments too, so make a morning of it.
Would genuinely love to see some friendly faces there.
📍 Crowland Methodist Church, Reform Street, Crowland
🕙 Sat 11th July, 10am–2pm

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