A DEVOTED Knutsford husband has set up a website to showcase his wife’s ‘beautiful’ artwork after she had a life-changing stroke.

Adrian Rees, 69, of Warren Close created Kards2Keep.co.uk to help his wife, Lynn, 69, display and sell her handmade cards.

Lynn began making cards after she suffered major heart failure while the couple were living in New Zealand, which resulted in a stroke leaving her disabled.

After the couple moved back to the UK in 2010, Lynn began making the cards from various materials, despite not being creative before the incident.

“Adrian is very good at doing all this for me, I wouldn’t have a clue where to start with the website,” she said. “I’m enjoying making the cards, it’s good therapy. As long as I can keep doing it, it will keep me alive.”

Adrian and Lynn moved over to New Zealand in 2009 after their son married a girl and emigrated. After visiting for a holiday the pair decided to pack up their lives and move over to with him, but just weeks after arriving Lynn suffered a major heart attack.

Adrian said: “She died twice, before and after having surgery. She was in hospital for six months and when she eventually came out she wanted to come home. She’s been making cards ever since we got back

“The idea of the website isn’t to make money, it’s just to cover the costs for all the materials. She will spend a day making a card, one day she will spend on one card and the next day she is working on an idea which is totally different.

“It absorbs her, and without that she can’t concentrate on much else. We have more than 400 cards, which if it takes a day to do each, that’s a lot of work.

“I thought a website would be a great to show them off.”

The website, which has only been up and running for just over a week, is a working progress and Adrian is continuing to add images of the cards day-by-day.

“We have already been inundated with requests,” he added.

To view the cards visit Kards2Keep.co.uk

The prices range from 75p to £2.50.