Thank you card featuring a polka dot background, a little bear (digital) and some bling

My grandchildren sent along some of their creations in a long envelope a few weeks ago. I was so pleased to receive their little gifts that I sent them a thank you card!!!  

I started with a #8 envelope and created a pink card to fit inside.  I pieced the red polka dot paper with a strip of coordinating pink floral to create my background.  I found the little bear (Crea8tive Hands - digital) in my image stash. I watercoloured it to coordinate with my background, distressed its edges and mounted it with 3D foam tape to the top portion of my card.  I found the greeting in my stash, trimmed it to size and then added two little rhinestone blings once it was adhered to my card.  

I have put their art up in the kitchen/dining room so I will see it everyday!!

Therese

 

Slow Stitching - third little house on my panel

I have been slowly working on my Slow Stitching project featuring little houses.  I finished the second house in May and the project has been off and on for the last four months.  I have really enjoyed the process of getting the little houses done.  I stitched along the lines in the roof.  The stitches barely show but it worked well to securely attach it to the background.  I added stitching to the rest of the house using thread that coordinated with the colour of the part and in the end stitched the windows with orange thread which stands out a bit.  I really like how bright the windows and the door are.  It was fun to make a wonky door and add windows to it with thread.  

Therese
 

Christmas cards featuring a decorative paper with strips of images, a large greeting and some faux stitching

I made six cards using these large greetings from Mom Junction. I laser printed the greetings, trimmed them to size and then watercoloured them.  Once they were dry I added glitter using a clear glitter gel pen on several parts of the image and used a black permanent marker to add faux stitching to the edges.   The backgrounds were trimmed from one sheet of 12"x 12" which my sister donated to me during her downsizing.  I mounted the background to a coordinating card front and added the greetings using 3D foam tape to finish off my cards.  I added single panel inserts with appropriate greeting inside.

Therese