Cross-Stitched Roses with The Greetery

 

Hi There!  Today I’m playing with some pretty products from The Greetery.  The stencil is called Rose Tapestry which I’ve ink-blended in coral and bright green shades.  Next I paired it with the Aida Cloth Texture Plate, it really gives you the sense of cross-stitch fabric.  

Funny enough, I didn’t feel like my Big Shot gave the paper enough texture, so I lined up the texture plate again, sure that I had it perfectly set, and it “hopped” the cutting a bit - but ironically I don’t mind it.  Somehow the tiny double dots are really sweet!  

For the sentiment and little embroidery hoop I used the Hoopla Mini Dies, the Hoopla Mini Inserts and Mum’s the Word stamps and dies.  With a little iridescent cording and enamel dots, it’s ready for a Birthday!

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Cross-Stitched Roses with The Greetery

Mush-room for Gratitude with The Greetery

 

Hello and Happy Tuesday evening!  I don’t know where you are but we are getting a few extra days of Summery weather this Autumn and it’s a delight to enjoy.  However, my creative hands are much more interested in all the Fall colours and textures.  Today I have a card created with The Greetery’s Botanicuts Toadstool Garden dies.   I began by cutting out the toadstools in a variety of warm colours along with some grass with a retired die from The Cat’s Pajamas.  

After assembling the toadstools, I added some Copic marker accets to increase the dimension on the fungi, and placed it all on a Lemongrass background which I ran through The Greetery’s Pierced Plaid Pierce Plate.  My goodness, does that ever give you beautiful texture!  I created an “interior frame” with a stencil and white ink, and also incorporated a cross-stitch frame with The Greetery’s Hoopla Oval Die, outlining some of the woodgrain details in the frame with a Copic marker.  

The sentiment is from The Greetery’s Thankful Heart Stamp and Stencil set.  And just to balance the design I added in a wood veneer butterfly which I added some colour to with ink, Copics and a white gel pen.  It’s definitely feeling Fall!  

Thanks for joining me today! 

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Mush-room for Gratitude with The Greetery

Stitching Saturday Delphinium

 

After a bit of a break, I’m back today with another stitching Saturday design.  This time it’s some towering delphinium just like I have starting to bloom in my flower beds.  This bluey-purple shade are my favourite!  I loosely followed a pattern I found on the web, using The Stamp Market’s adorable Embroidery Hoop dies.  

The blue cardstock is run through Simon Say’s Stamp’s Pincushion Plate Wafer Die, to coordinate with the holes of the cross stitch die.  Then I added in a frame of green 1/4 inch Quick Strips from The Stamp Market.  

The foiled sentiment is a really pretty one also from The Stamp Market called Best Wishes Foil Plate.  

It makes for a sweet little Summer thank you note!  

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Stitching Saturday Delphinium

Stitching Saturday - Spring Flowers

 

Hello!  Popping in late on this Saturday with another stitching card I worked on this week.  It’s not often I stitch a full panel, but this was an easy design to work with!  This seemed to me like a perfect Spring palette to work with.  So, despite that we’ve had snow all day, I’m designing for full on Spring.  

The main stitching die is from MFT, and then I’ve incorporated Rounded and Braided Rectangle Dies from Pinkfresh Studios in Vellum as a base for these pretty die cut flowers from Concord & 9th called Build a Bloom.   Rounded corners throughout the layers mirror the pretty vellum die.  

Then, to finish it off and to coordinate with the bits of metallic silver stitching in the design (vertical stitches), I’ve added some silver foiling with Spellbinders Yana’s Sentiments Hot Foil Plate.  

Thanks for joining me for another bit of stitching! 

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Stitching Saturday - Spring Flowers

Stitching Saturday - Baby Birdie

 

Hi Everyone! I’ve got a new stitching card today using a number of products from Spellbinders, with a baby theme that is really darling.  I started with Spellbinder's  Stitching Petal Diamond Background and a pretty color palette of floss and then added this adorable Little Chickadee die in coordinating colours to the floss.  

I think this sweet little bird really makes the card shine.  It’s perfect as a baby welcome accent!  The foiled sentiment comes from the Mini Everyday Sentiments Glimmer and it’s layered over a section of vellum to give softness. 

Lots of fun colour to stitch with!  

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Stitching Saturday - Baby Birdie

Stitching Saturday - Rosy Glow

Hello, happy Saturday!  It’s been a few weeks since I’ve done any stitching and I was missing it a bit, so I pulled out an old pattern from the web and revamped it a bit for the size of my die.  I have learned that I am not actually a good cross-stitcher, in that I’m terrible at following the pattern 100%!  Either I’m not counting properly (o brother), or I’m improvising something.  Probably not best practises for an actual cross stitching person :)  It still works for me though!  

This pretty rose looks so spring-like in golden tones of apricot and orange!  The sentiment die is my new favourite from Concord & 9th, Short and Sweet Dies. I love it’s petite size and sweet script.  I stacked it in a few layers, and added the vellum background to set it apart from the stitching.  

Such a pretty one, even with my creative improvisation!  

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Stitching Saturday - Rosy Glow