Birthday card featuring a little bear with a gift, pastel background paper and little ribbon flags

My youngest grand daughter will be three this month.  I have prepared this card for her birthday!!!  I created a peach card to fit in a large pearly peach envelope from my stash and added a layer of coordinating pastel paper (SU).  I watercoloured the little bear and gift (Cre8tive Hand) to coordinate.  I ran my pattern tracing wheel on each edge to create a line of paper piercing.  I layered it with a pieced layer of peach and green before adding four little coordinating ribbon flags.  I trimmed the top and bottom with scallop decorative scissors and pierced each scallop with a push pin to echo the paper piercing I used on the image.  I added clear glitter to the gift's ribbon and the little butterfly.  A fun card for a little girl turning three!!  Therese
 

Slow Stitching - little ivory tree ornaments

I have been working on these little ivory wool ornaments for a bit.  They are little harder two work than the felted wool because the wool is just a smidge less thick and dense.  It is harder to keep the stitches from showing on the back.  I did several lines of chain stitch on this little tree - one each in variegated pink, green and yellow.  I also did blanket stitch all the way around in ivory thread.  I added a little hanger and added to my god child's Christmas card.  It cost me $1.07 over a regular stamp to mail it off.   So these are not a viable option for little gifts for friends and family that I can send in my cards.  It is good to know so I will see if I can invent some other way to use the little triangles I have cut out before I add any more stitching.  I started one with little snowflakes using variegated blue thread.  I will do some brainstorming over the holidays and see what I can come up with.  Therese