Stitching on Paper

 This is a terrible picture - sorry.  I was in a rush.  

In the image are stitched paper light bulbs and the gold sockets.  This is my first attempt at stitching on paper.  The bulbs were cut using Stitched String Lights Etched Dies from Spellbinders.  I cut them from foiled paper so they would be shiny, and then I stitched them using DMC gold thread.  I did this on a trip to and from Pittsburgh - they were a car craft. 

Soon, I'll assemble them on what I imagine will be two Christmas cards using the cord die that comes with the set. 

Do I like stitching on paper? Well, it was a little fiddley.  The sockets are very small. The thread was slick - it had no gripping power on the paper, and the road was rough. I'm not sure this project was a good test of whether I like this kind of crafting or not.

Looking forward to creating the cards, though.

Christmas Tags

For many Christmases, we have been using hand-made tags on our gifts.  Steve, the boys, and my mom always return their tags to me, and I use them again and again.  Still, I do run out of them eventually, so every few years, I make more.  This year I added 22 more to our tin of tags (the image is missing one)  I'll be happy about it next Christmas.

Watercolor Christmas Cards

At the end of last year, I participated in an Online Card Class called Simply Watercolor Christmas.  It was lead by Kristina Werner, and it was great.  Many of our cards this year were projects I made from this class. Here are five of my favorites.  The pictures aren't great - I took them at night right before we addresses and signed cards to send them out.  Maybe next year, the images will be better!

 

Christmas Cards

I was a little more rushed this year creating our Christmas cards, but I did finish them.  The totals were:

• Cards for friends and family - 50
• Cards for Steve, Grant and Josh - 3
• Cards for Steve's work group - 6
• Cards for a friend to send - 4
• Cards for the church's scholarship students - 6

So that's a total of 69 Christmas cards.  I've loaded pictures of them on Flickr, and you can see them at this link.

 

Speaking of numbers, I keep track of the cards I sent, just for fun.  In 2015, it was a total of 384.  It doesn't seem like that many.

Christmas Cards

I have done some knitting lately, but haven't posted about it.  I will, even though it will be late.  I like having all of the projects in one place.

In the meantime, I've been card making.  I decided that I wanted to see if I could make our Christmas cards this year.  I kept it fun by playing with supplies (it should be fun, shouldn't it!?), working on several different designs.  When the time came to replicate them, I just made 4-6 of each one. 

We needed about 60 cards, and I had great fun making them.  The designs are saved on Flickr.  For those who are interested, go take a look.  I apologize that they are scans, but I haven't brought my love of photography together yet with card making.