Happy Monday to you. If you’re reading this in Australia, Happy Monday. 🙂
I’m so happy to be sharing this card with you today. My dear friend Michelle Lupton invited me to play along with her “Challenge Me a Christmas Card” series this year, and assigned me “cross stitch”. I feel like I should warn you. I don’t cross stitch. I have only embroidered twice. So, my take on this cross stitch theme is me making an X with embroidery floss. That works, right? And I believe this card should be categorized as part of the impressionist genre of art. Ha!
I used the Paper Smooches Cross Stitch die on a piece of silvery grey felt. I then used embroidery floss and a needle to stitch some ornament shapes onto the felt. After I’d completed a few ornaments, I used the same color floss to create some small spots of color along the background, and then filled in the blank space with some warm grey floss. Did this take hours, why, yes it did. What makes you ask? The good news is that I got caught up on some craft videos while I was stitching away.
To create the silver frame I used two Stitched Rectangle dies from Lawn Fawn. I laid them out on my craft mat so that they were properly aligned and taped them together, on the back side. Then I ran that through my die cut machine with this awesome metallic kraft card stock from Tim Holtz. I thought the frame was the perfect way to feature this stitched “embellishment” on my card front. To get that piece of felt onto the card front, I backed it with some scrap paper, for stability, then adhered to the card front directly. The frame has foam adhesive around the outside edge to get it to the proper height over the stitched piece.
For the sentiment I die cut the awesome Concord & 9th Merry die four times. Once from red cardstock and three times from white. I stacked those on top of each other for more dimension. I don’t think I’ll ever tire of stacking sentiment die cuts together. I searched through my stash and found the most wonderful Christmas stamp on this Simon Says Stamp Stained Glass Greetings stamp set. I love the font. I used some Ranger Matte Medium to get that die to stick to the framed silver cardstock, and then some foam adhesive and matte medium on the sentiment strip.
Make sure to go see what Michelle has made. She assured me she also has no cross stitch experience, so that means it’s probably perfect. 🙂
Supplies:
 Stained Glass GreetingsSSS |
 Large Stitched RectanglesEH | SSS |
 MerryC9 |
 Cross Stitch DieEH | SSS |
 VersaMark PadEH | SSS |
 Hero Arts WhiteEH | SSS | HA |
 Tim Holtz Metallic Kraft PaperSSS | AZ |
 Black Card StockSSS |
 Bamboo FeltET |
 Be Creative Tape, 1/2″EH | SSS |
 Multi MediumEH | SSS |
 Foam TapeEH | SSS | AZ |
 Embossing GunEH | SSS |
 ScissorsSSS | AZ |
 Stamp ShammyEH | SSS |
 Mini MISTIEH | SSS |
 Powder ToolEH | SSS |
 Craft SheetEH | SSS |
 TweezersEH | SSS |
 Paper TrimmerEH | SSS |
For two people who do not cross stitch, I think we both did remarkably well!! Your card is wonderful! Thanks so much for taking up this challenge with me!
Thanks for having me. I love yours too. Glad we survived the needles. I only stabbed myself twice. 🙂
Lisa, I love this card. I have cross-stitched in the past, but not any more. I love the stacked “merry”and the metallic frame. I returned last weekend from 3-weeks in Australia and New Zealand and had to smile when you wished your viewers in Australia a happy Tuesday. Nice memories of wonderful happy people! Have a great day!
I have many friends in Australia, and New Zealand, and have been to both places, Australia a few times. It’s a lovely place and I’m so glad you got to go. Thanks for the comment.
it’s so fun to see all the cards in Michelle’s challenge – love your interpretation, Lisa!!
Wow, this looks amazing. Popped over from Michelle’s blog. I like your take on the challenge. Happy no fingers were permanently marred from the experience. 🙂 Yes, stitching takes time, but the results are wonderful.
I love how it turned out Lisa! And for someone who doesn’t cross-stitch I’m quite impressed…my attempts at cross-stitching end when I can’t get the thread untangled from the beginning! 😉