Happy Mother's Day (for last week!)

Hello!!

I had a cross stitch I'd been working on here and there for ages.....I decided to set myself the target of finishing it for Mother's Day.....just about managed that give or take a week hehe!!

Here is the finished article...it is stitched on an Aida panel on a towel. The pattern in from a book called The Ultimate Cross Stitch Companion.

I was supposed to do some extra French knots but I managed two, and I think I've finally got my head around them though for future patterns....hehe!

Here are the cards I made as well one for my mom and one for Lee's mom.

This one is some Tim Holtz paper with the butterflies on which I stuck down some alphabet masks...tim holtz again! I then sprayed the paper with Dylusions in yellow/orange and then removed the masks. I cut it out with a spellbinders dye and used walnut stain around the edge. I got a couple of chipboard shapes and coloured them possibly with distress stain I can't actually remember! I then used some distress stickles on them as well. I used a grass stencil at the bottom with some paint and then I also added a flower which I inked a little and a couple of ready made bees.

This one I had some new sparkle mediums and a stencil so I used three colours on black glossy card and it worked pretty well and I managed not to get them too intermingled as it just did each colour at the same time as I'm too impatient to wait for them to dry. I then cut it into a circle and stuck it on a card and added some picked raspberry distress ink and a greeting.

Father's Day

So in celebration of all that is caravan I made my dad a caravan survival kit and matching caravan card hehe!!

This was the label for the "survival kit" which was made with the Zoophabet stamp set by Penny Black and coloured with Promarkers - I remembered for once to limit my pallet rather than just going crazy; and as usual a little distressing around the edge.

This was a little cross stitch kit from Mouseloft, haven't done any cross stitch in a while so makes a change! Also I stamped on the Happy Father's Day only I've lost my apostrophe S and so I had to hand write it on d'oh!

Here are some Christmas cards from a couple of years ago......quite a bit of UTEE and Chipboard shapes.....and a cross stitch at the bottom.....and peel offs hehe!!

Here are some cross stitch things I have made in the past.......above is a little Mario on a t-shirt......I used soluble canvas to do that which is pretty good!
These are some invites I made for a pirate party with some little cross stitch piraty things.....

 This was what I made for my mom and dad's Ruby wedding.......must be the largest cross stitch I've started and actually finished.....it's now in a frame but I don't seem to have a picture of that.....It was a kit from Cinnamon Cat

 This was a bag I stitched with butterflies on......

Definitely need to get round to some more cross stitch...

Thought I would post some old stuff I have made....so I have got a record to look back on...

 This was a Valentines day card from a couple of years ago....a cross stitch......the design was out of a magazine....