3 May 2019

Cuteness Alert!

What's better than an adorable, artistic teddy bear!


As soon as I saw this image I knew I'd have to add the stamp to my collection.  
He's a bear after my own heart, I adore working with coloured pencils too!


I enjoyed adding the distressed wall and weeds, it helped set the scene for his little Birthday message.

It felt good to get inky again 😀

Happy Colouring

1 May 2019

I'm back with some stitching

Well hello there, long time, no see!

Let's get things up and running again with a couple of my cross stitch projects.

Here is the first one:


My husband's birthday card, which was created using the Paper Smooches Cross Stitch Square die on Neenah Desert Storm 100lb.
I used Scheepjes Catona wool instead of embroidery thread.


Some of you may remember I have a box of cute little 10g balls in a huge range of colours which are perfect when the stitching/crafting bug hits me.
The design was inspired by a tartan pattern created by Jennifer McGuire, I just changed it a little and used shades of green, Peter's favourite colour!

The sentiment is a die by Neat & Tangled - I cut it out in bottle green card and made it nice and shiny with Glossy Accents.  The shadow was simply cut from good old fashioned tracing paper.

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Next up is something that took considerably longer to stitch, days longer in fact!


I started with Altenew's Cross-Stitch Canvas on 110lb Neenah Classic Crest.  Have any of you tried this die?  It basically gives you a 14 count canvas which enables you to create more detailed designs.

The holes are tiny so I found I had to swap from a 26 to a finer 28 needle.  This normally wouldn't have been a problem but those size 28 needles are really delicate and I managed to break two whilst creating this card!

Added to the fact that I cannot use normal silver needles.......something in my skin attacks the coating and within a few hours of use I've destroyed the needle!  Thankfully if you do this to your needles too I have a solution for you - gold plated needles.  I found some really good ones at The Cross Stitch Guild - they survive the battering they get from me (until I used them with cardboard that is)

Anyway, broken needles aside, I thoroughly enjoyed being able to create something with far more detail and will certainly use this die again.

Thanks for dropping by today, I will be back soon with my latest colouring projects.