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