Thursday, 3 April 2025

Iris' Card

Although I've not done much papercrafting over the last few weeks as we've been away in our campervan, I have stitched a lot of small designs which will be made into cards.  I always take a few of these small designs away with me for when I want a change from reading a book!

The lovely floral design is from Carolyn's Garden by Serendipity Designs - another of my charity shop finds - and will be a birthday card for my friend Iris.


To make this card I used:
     6" x 6" white hammer card blank
     Carolyn's Meadow 'Iris' cross stitch kit
     Small piece of white aida 
     Extra DMC threads to match colours in kit
     Lawn Fawn 'Outside In Stitched Square Stackables' die
     Snippet of white hammer card

The kit has been started but the stitching didn't look like mine, so I used a small piece of white aida and some extra threads to stitch the design from scratch.  After completing the stitching I mounted the fabric behind a stitched square aperture that had been die cut in the front of a 6" x 6" white hammer card blank.  A piece of the same card was attached inside to cover the back of the stitching.

I am entering the following challenges:
     Ally's Angels - Anything Goes
     As You Like It Challenge - Cute or Floral (I love to make floral cards - whether stamped or stitched - mainly because I love flowers and gardens. - although I do make cute cards for the small people in my family)     
     Beautiful Blossoms - Anything Floral Goes
     Love to Craft - Anything Goes

Kath x

8 comments:

crafty-stamper said...

Beautiful card and love the beautiful cross stitch iris.
Carol x

Pat said...

This is the perfect card for your friend Iris Kath and a really pretty design and stitched beautifully as always. x

Alyson Mayo said...

Gorgeous cross stitched image! Thanks for sharing with us at Beautiful Blossoms :)

Liz said...

Fabulous card Kath, so clean and fresh.
Liz xx

Diane said...

Wow, absolutely gorgeous! I used to take stitching with me while traveling too, so relaxing!

Thank you for joining our challenge at Beautiful Blossoms!
Diane BB DT
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Donna Walls said...

Your stitching is always perfect and such a nice way to pass the time while camping. Thanks for sharing your lovely card with us at The Beautiful Blossoms Challenge.
Donna xx
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Becca Sadler said...

Bless your heart! and your hands for having the patience to stitch the iris design! I love purple irises!!! Thanks for sharing with Ally's Angels #92! -- Becca

Rachel said...

Another beautiful stitching design! Great idea to have little projects like this on hand while traveling! Thanks for joining us at Ally's Angels!