Slow Stitching - small fabric collages added to my colourful circles on black fabric

I have decided that these will become potholders so I took some of my sketches and made up some little fabric collages inside my stitched circles.  I made two little cacti in pots and two with tea cups.  I did my best to used my sketches to estimate the size I needed.  I cut the elements from cotton scraps and used regular Elmer's washable glue stick to adhere them to each other and the black backer as I layered them.  I did some research and there are quite a few creatives using regular washable glue sticks for securing their fabric collage elements.  Too easy!!  It simply washes out!!!  I hope to get to start stitching them by the end of the week!!

Therese
 

Cardmaking - large card featuring a wonderful photo of pelicans

What cool photo of a few pelicans just hanging out!!!  I cut the photo off of my 2025 calendar which my sister, Sylvia, gave me last year for Christmas.  I trimmed out a  gray card to fit in my large blue envelope and added three pieces of decorative paper after I had embellished them with paper piercing using my pattern tracing wheel.  I die cut (TH) two borders from brown cardstock, added paper piercing on both edges - one done with the PTW and the other with a push pin.  I mounted this large element to my card front with 3D foam tape.  Therese
 

Cardmaking - beautiful rose photo with rose decorative paper

I have started on the cards I will be needing for the next few weeks as family occasions come up.  

This one is for my sister.  The photo is from our last year's photo calendar which my sister gives us each year for Christmas!!  She does such great photography and so the 4" x 4" photos make such great cards!!!!  

For this card I used a dark rose photo and found rose decorative paper in my stash which worked really well.  I added an embossed strip of gold between the two papers and added a length of knotted yarn before gluing it all down.  Mounted all these elements onto a large dark green card.  

Theres