2026 Slow Stitching Project - Page 13 - G1

I am following K3N Cloth Tales' slow stitching project for 2026.  A to Z times 2.

This week's prompt from K3N was Grid.  I stitched my grid on the outer rim in black thread.

I then filled in the lines with green thread in both directions. Some came from the ORTs tin, nice to get rid of a few of those.

I then chose 2 shades of Grey to fill in the spaces with whatever I liked.  Stars, diamonds, running stitch, crosses, circles, flowers, leaves, rectangles, and French Knots.

I am happy with the low key look of this page.

Christmas Card Challenge - May - Red / Sleigh

It's time for a Christmas card.  The challenge was red / sleigh.  I decided I did not want to go with the traditional Santa Sleigh. 

After doing an internet search I decided on a vintage Christmas card.  I downloaded a few and finally decided on this one.  It's a bit retro with a red sleigh filled with brightly wrapped gifts and a skinny tree in the back there.  The colors are red, true blue, silver grey and white.  I sized the image to the ratio I wanted and printed 4 per half sheet.  I layered it onto a true blue from the Nautical collection leaving a narrow border.  I then layered it onto a piece of red again leaving a narrow border. I printed the red greeting onto a grey card in the bottom right hand corner.  I added a silver satin ribbon on the left hand side and taped the ends to the inside of the card.  I adhered the sleigh accent to to the top left hand corner with 3D foam tape. 

SU Book Party Thank Yous

The box arrived today!!  New toys to play with.

These are the cards I made for the ladies who placed an order at my Stampin Up Book Party a couple weeks back. Here's the make and take tags we made.

This is Kiwi Kiss card stock onto which I added a layer of white.  I then selected a sheet of designer paper from the Good Morning Sunshine (retired) set.  I cut the paper into 1" strips and placed three across the tall card.  I used the greeting from the Eventful Year set and color printed it in Kiwi Kiss with a black border.  I then cut them out with the rectangular framelit from the Apothecary set.  I attached the greeting with 2 tiny black brads.  Wrapped a length of black 1/4"grosgrain ribbon below the greeting and taped to the back of the white layer.  Added a short length and knotted it and trimmed the ends.  I trimmed the strips of DSP at a slant by hand with scissors. This layer was then adhered to the card front.

Card - Color Challenge

I made this card for Crazy for Cards - Color Challenge.  I started with a yellow card, I added a navy blue background layer embossed with Cuttlebug Polka Dots embossing folder.  I cut a pink label cut with a Apothecary Framelit.  I cut a white rectangle with a QuicKutz die.  I stamped the greeting from the SU! Sincere Salutations in navy and rubbed the edges with the ink pad.  I mounted the greeting with 3D foam tape.  I used 2 navy brads to hold the label in place. I punched the one edge of the green strip with the SU! Eyelet border punch.  I slipped the green strip under the pink label and aligned it with the left edge of the label.

Christmas Card Stack - Glitter Joy

 I used a Wild Wasabi green card onto which I mounted a frame cut with the Sizzix Frame die from a holly decorative paper.  The glitter is Wine Red bought at a local scrapbook store.  It's really nice stuff.  The "Joy" die cut was created with a Sizzix die.  I punched three 1/4" circles from the glitter scraps to put on the right hand side of the frame which repeats the red circles in the decorative paper.  The exclamation mark was hand cut from the scraps.

Bottom:  On this card I used ivory cardstock and applied Always Artichoke around the edges of the frame to help define the edges against the light card stock.  On this one I just punched another three 1/4" circles.