Slow Stitching - trees and apples

I prepped some slow stitching squares yesterday.  I cut some blue backgrounds and added green trees with little brown stems.  Yes, I did forget to add one to the top left until I started picking them up. I dug out the scraps and cut one for it.  

I also worked on some squares with apples.  I had prepped the squares - white with the grey strip when I brougth home some fabric scraps a while back and had decided to put apples on them.  I found a pattern on line, printed it the right size and then cut it out.  I traced it onto the back of the red fabric scraps and cut them out.  I hand cut the leaves and will add the stem with embroidery when I stitch them up.  

I am looking forward to getting started on these!!  Therese

 

Care Bear quilt with a bit of slow stitching

We have been busy with family and so I have decided to have a day of fun and am quilting!!!  I discovered a while back that I have several quilt tops that were sitting in my box that had not been finished with batting and backing.  So that is where I am starting - a little CareBear quilt top (35" x 45.5").  I did the other part of this fabric a while back and this piece has been sitting since then.  I added a thin cotton batting and then a great white and yellow plaid backing to finish off this cute little quilt.  I decided to tie it instead of quilting it by machine to that added a bit of slow stitching to my morning!!  I used yellow crochet thread to tie it which coordinated very nicely.  They are so cute!!  I am glad to have finished this happy little quilt which will bless a little one once it is donated to the Linus Project.  

Therese

 

Birthday card with a large beautiful cake, fun papers and punched borders

A card for one of my granddaughters!!!  She is growing up and I decided that she needed a card that was a bit more sophisticated this year.  I chose this wonderful cake digital from FLYCLIPART and added a greeting before laser printing it.  I trimmed it out of the sheet, cut the edges with scalloped decorative scissors and the paper pierced each scallop.  I added an embossed frame inside of that using my score tool. I chose a dark pink card, added a harlequin background and then a strip of fun shoe paper with daisy borders in a coordinating pink.  Worked out really well!!!  Therese
 

All occasion collage cards with corrugated backgrounds and layered collage elements

I made these two cards a few days ago.  I started with two pieces of dark brown corrugated paper - chocolate?? - and assembled a few collage elements from my desk, stash and a box from the shelf marked "Clipart" which had not seen the light of day for quite a while.  I brushed a bit of gesso on the corrugated paper and then added a bit of colour.  Once it was dry I found this paper doily on my desk and added a bit of colour to it as well.  The two ivory embossed strips were also found on my desk.  I dug the two fabric pieces from a scrap bin in my craft room and then I went looking for the paper flowers.  I coloured the turquoise one with watercolour to coordinate with the fabric. I found the collage elements - bird and cage, love/bird, friendship, two girls - in the clipart box.  I have no idea as to the origin of these pieces but they worked really well with my pieces.   I added the strips of ivory, the paper doily, the fabric, the paper flower and then the collage elements before adhering these large elements to my large kraft cards.    Therese

 

Mother's Day card featuring a layered flower, ribbon and a waxed floral background

 For this card I started with the bright and bold background which I created a while back.  I placed the textured wall paper on a foil covered griddle and drew these fun flowers using wax crayons.  The effect is really wonderful as the wax melts and blends beautifully.  I added a blue pink ribbon to the background before adhering it to my large purple card.  I found the green envelope in my stash and created the flower using the Bloom Beauty (SX) die.  I cut two of the large shapes  - bright pink and wine - and one of each of the two smaller ones - purple and yellow.  I added a sparkly purple brad to hold them all together along with a piece of cardstock.  It was then very easy to insert the cardstock into the envelope and get the flower to stay in place.  I mounted the envelope to my card front with 3D foam tape and then inserted my silver embossed vellum greeting with torn edges just below and adhered with a small piece of double sided tape behind the words over the ribbon.    Therese

Rainbow quilt with crumb squares

This quilt top has been sitting in a box waiting to be combined with its batting and backing for a little bit.  I really enjoy making crumb squares and for this one I made dark and light versions of all six of the rainbow colours.  It makes the little scraps disappear fairly quickly and mostly evenly when you take some out of each bag!!  

My batting is thin cotton and the backing is a medium weight cotton twill in aqua which worked well with the colours in this quilt top.  I used a rainbow thread and a wavy decorative stitch to do the rows of quilting along both edges of the horizontal seams. I have learned to go back and forth instead of always starting on the same side to keep the quilt balanced as it is easy to get things shifting in the direction of your lines of stitching.  

I used a bright and fun striped fabric for the binding with a much smaller version of the same wavy decorative stitch!!  Therese

 

Mother's day card featuring a large floral basket, ribbon and a layered greeting

Mother's Day is around the corner and I am late getting my cards out!!!!

This one has a fun circle background (SU) to which I added a brown ribbon diagonally before adhering it to my green card front.  I slipped the beautiful floral bouquet image (reused card front) below the ribbon after adding four rows of paper piercing with my pattern tracing wheel.  I added a short piece of coordinating ribbon to the brown one and then added the layered scalloped circle greeting over it.  

Therese

 

Mother's day card featuring a foiled leaf die cut, ribbon and a bold waxed background

I used this fun background which I created a while back with textured wallpaper int which I melted wax crayons!  So fun!!  I ran a wavy cutter over the right hand side and added the blue pink ribbon before adhering it to my green card front.  I ran my pattern tracing wheel to the right of the edge to add a row of paper piercing.  I found the green leafy die cut in my stash and added purple foil to the back before layering it onto bright pink.  I added it to my card using 3D foam tape.  I stamped the greeting (SU) onto vellum and silver embossed it.  I tore the edges and used double sided tape to adhere it to the bottom of my leaf element and then added two little purple rhinestones to each side using white glue.  I added a dot of white glue below each of them to adhere the greeting to my card.  Worked very well and pretty much invisible after they were dry!!  Therese