Tea Time with Gram

How bout another Urban Threads embroidery machine along with a quilted project - a mug mat to hold your cup of coffee/tea while crafting!!!! This is a super quick easy project to make not only for yourself but also as a gift!!!

RECIPE:

• back of mug mat and batting was cut to 6 x 8 inches
• teapot square was cut to 4.5 x 4.5 inches
• bottom piece was cut to 4 x 4.5 inches
• side panel was cut 2 x 8 inches
• pieces are assembled before the embroidery is done
•  Quilting Teapot finished size measures 4-inches and was made using my Brother Embroidery machine in a 4-inch hoop using Sulky Embroidery Thread which was quilted into the mug mat with the batting as my stabilizer
• diagonal quilting is done on the pieces other than the tea pot along with stitch-in-the ditch for the piecing areas
• binding is added to finish my mug mat

Today would have been my grandmother's birthday. Gram had raised me and what I wouldn't do to sit and have another cup of tea with her. Happy Birthday Gram - thank you for watching over me.

I thank you for stopping by and visiting today. I appreciate and love reading your comments . . is your comment the next one I read??? 

Much love, hugs, and friendship

Lynne 

Make-UP!!!!!

I had such fun yesterday showing you something I created from my embroidery machine, I just had to do it again. Today's project is a cosmetic mirror for a dear friend for her birthday using another embroidery design from Urban Threads. She does the Renaissance Fairs complete in authentic attire. I thought how purrfect would this be for her to put in her little purse to refresh her make-up. 

RECIPE:

• Fleur Mirror Cover (Lace) finished size measures 3.5-inches and was made using my Brother Embroidery machine in a 4-inch hoop using Sulky Embroidery Thread and water dissolve-able stabilizer which hi-lights the light and airy design. This is sewn in two pieces which is then sewn together to make lovely accent for any fine lady's purse!

I hope you enjoy Pat as your belated birthday gift!!

I thank you for stopping by and visiting today. I appreciate and love reading your comments . . is your comment the next one I read??? 

Much love, hugs, and friendship

Lynne 

my mirror cover has been entered in the following challenges:
 Anything But a Card: Goes in #Cr8time for Week One of Anything but a Card Challenge #37 

Soaring Bird

Let's showcase something a little different today. It's a free-standing bird which I made with my embroidery machine using a great design from Urban Threads. If you have an embroidery machine, this is one place, you most definitely want to check out . . . . 

RECIPE:

• Soaring Bird finished size measures 5-inches and was made using my Brother Embroidery machine in a 4-inch hoop using Sulky Embroidery Thread and water dissolve-able stabilizer which hi-lights the light and airy design. Wings are separate with a blue heart brad to connect the wings for motion

This was made for a dear friend of mine for her birthday.

I thank you for stopping by and visiting today. I appreciate and love reading your comments . . is your comment the next one I read??? 

Much love, hugs, and friendship

Lynne 

my bird has been entered in the following challenges:
 Anything But a Card: Goes in #Cr8time for Week One of Anything but a Card Challenge #37 

I looked up "remarkable" in the dictionary . . . .

I'm still at the cabin. My boyfriend has a cabin in Pymatuning. I've learned how to fish, somewhat,caught a couple along with lots of seaweed and lily pads. Today, it's raining with some thunder and lightning - thus no fishing!!! I thought I would share another card with you today.

Create with TLC has a new set called In the Dictionary Word Art which inspired me to make a few cards one of which I'm sharing with you today:

RECIPE:

• card was cut 6 x 12 inches using card stock which was then folded in half using Martha Stewart Score Board (what would I ever do without that in my life???)
• first background paper was cut 5.75 x 5.75 inches from my scraps with the second paper of roses was cut 5.5 x 5.5 inches. 
• Create with TLC Garden Girl with Hat Vintage, was from one of  Create with TLC A Vintage Collection that she offers from time to time. She was colored with Prisma Colored Pencils and gel pens and chalked around the edges
• "I looked up "remarkable" in the dictionary and there you were" was chalked around the edges
• Butterfly is from Darice and is 3-dimensional
• fence was cut from Cricut Ornamental Iron 2 Cartridge, which I think has become one of my new favorite go-to-cartridges which was only glued on the one side that you can open the garden gate

Just to show you that it wasn't a fish tale, this is me and my big catch - expect to see some scrapbook pages in my blog's future!!!!

I thank you for stopping by and visiting today. I appreciate and love reading your comments . . is your comment the next one I read??? 

Much love, hugs, and friendship

Lynne 

this card has been entered in the following challenges:
 Chalk-Ah-Lot Cafe Challenge #62 
Crafting by Designs Anything Goes Challenge

I looked up "Handsome" in the Dictionary . . . . .

I am sew far behind in blogging - I've made many amazing cards to share and since I came to the cabin for the weekend, thought I would share some of these cards with you . . . .

Create with TLC has a new set called In the Dictionary Word Art which inspired me to make a few cards one of which I'm sharing with you today:

RECIPE:

• card was cut 4.25 x 9 inches using Recollection card stock which was then folded in half using Martha Stewart Score Board (what would I ever do without that in my life???)
• background paper was from my stash with lipstick - isn't that great??
• True Love Vintage is from Create with TLC, which had been a previous freebie, which reminds me of a steamy romance novel cover. This has been colored using my Prisma Colored Pencils and gel pens
• sentiment, I looked up "handsome" in the dictionary and there you were" was chalked around the edges
• white pearls were added to her ears (what prim and proper lady doesn't wear her pearls) along with some "bling" for her necklace which I'm sure he had purchased for her as a "make-up" gift!!! Ok, imaginations stop rolling away here!

I thank you for stopping by and visiting today. I appreciate and love reading your comments . . is your comment the next one I read??? 

Much love, hugs, and friendship

Lynne 

this card has been entered in the following challenges: 
 Chalk-Ah-Lot Cafe Challenge #62
Crafting by Designs Anything Goes Challenge

Happy 50th Anniversary!

Bob's Aunt and Uncle just celebrated their 50th Anniversary!!! What a milestone! As for me, I have issues with being married beyond 7 years for some odd reason. Ok, there are reasons but this is not the time or the place. This is the time to celebrate his aunt and uncle for which I created a 50th Anniversary card with a little help from Create with TLC, Cricut Ornamental Iron 2 Cartridge, and an internet search for an appropriate verse for the inside!

RECIPE:

• card was cut 6 x 12 inches using DCWV Le Creme which was then folded in half using Martha Stewart Score Board (what would I ever do without that in my life???)
• background paper was from DCWV Royal Garden and cut 5.5 x 5.5 inches 
• Cricut Ornamental Iron 2 Cartridge page 53 Lace 1 was cut 2.5 inches using Black Recollections with Lace 1 Shadow using Ivory Recollections 
• 50 was cut using Cricut Ornament Iron 2 Cartridge cut at 1 inch
• Darice metallic gold ribbon was added and tied in a bow
• sentiment, There's no limit to how much joy you are wished today, was chalked around the edges 
• Queen & Co Sunflower Pearls were added
• inside sentiment was found on the internet, author anonymous, was cut, chalked, and placed on a pieces of 5 x 5 inch DCWV Royal Garden

I have always said that one day, I would like to try the cards that are suggested in the front of the Cricut Cartridge Manuals. WELL, this idea was from that very concept!!!! Hope you enjoy!

I thank you for stopping by and visiting today. I appreciate and love reading your comments . . is your comment the next one I read??? 

Much love, hugs, and friendship

Lynne 

this card has been entered in the following challenges:
 Crafting by Designs Month-Long Anything Goes Challenge #1 July
 C.R.A.F.T. Challenge #266 - 3rd of July - Anniversary/Wedding