Cumbria Jigsaw Puzzle Designs

You may have already read about my range of Cumbria and Lake District jigsaw puzzles and a brief explanation of how jigsaws came about in an earlier post I wrote. Well, since writing that I have continually added to my collection of puzzles and here's my latest 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle: 'Hearts'.

Like all of the jigsaws I offer, it's my own design and photograph. For this one, I used more than a hundred colourful clay heart decorations which I carefully arranged for the photo. My jigsaws are all 1000pc puzzles so being larger than 500 piece puzzles I needed that many hearts to create the design. Each heart is handmade of clay which when set then has a beautiful, colourful design decoupaged onto it's surface. The art of decoupage is thought to pre-date the 12th century. From the French word meaning 'cutting out', it is the art of the art of cutting and pasting a paper cutout onto a surface to create the effect of painting. Every heart is completely hand made from start to finish and measures around 5cm in size.

I love this jigsaw puzzle design for the variety of colours it contains. When imagining the design, I made sure that some of the decoupage patterns would be similar (although not quite the same) on several different hearts so completing the jigsaw puzzle will be a satisfying challenge.
If you or someone you know loves jigsaw puzzles, I am sure this one will be enjoyable.

I can also create small, personalised jigsaws for you using your own photo, and I explain how it works here.

View my full range of jigsaw puzzle designs.

If you would like to see the hearts and other hand made clay gifts, check out the cornucopiaclay.com website.