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It's my mother's birthday tomorrow (well actually, today - it's 1.45 a.m.!) and I have just finished mounting the embroidery I did for her as a birthday card. The surround to the embroidery is parchment - usually I do piercing/gridwork too, but I decided that if it was too ornate it would detract from the embroidery so I just did embossed butterflies and flowers with a bit of cutwork to complement the main design. I had to print the backround card lilac as I didn't have any the right colour. Now I'm off to bed! Love Dianne x x x
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What a beautiful card, I am sure your mother will be thrilled to receive this.Would have been my mothers 96 today, but sadly we lost her 15 years ago. I still wish her a Happy Birthday each year.
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Absolutely beautiful. I am just learning to do cards. A group will get together and do Christmas cards. Nice work
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Absolutely beautiful. A lovely card indeed. Well done Dianne *4U
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Absoluely gorgeous card, Dianne! I'm sure that your mother will treasure it!
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wow, you best get to bed at 1:45 am, I love the card and flowers upon your waking in the morning
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Didn't get much sleep - the wind got up in the night and I was woken at 6.45 a.m. by tree branches tapping at my bedroom window! Ah well, gives me more time to try stitching out my newest design! :-) Love
Dianne x x x
Dianne x x x
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This is beautiful and the freestanding doily that diannahawkins did is in two sizes and one fits 4x4 hoop.
love your card though.
http://www.oregonpatchworks.com/items.php?did=161&pid=53224
link for doily.
love your card though.
http://www.oregonpatchworks.com/items.php?did=161&pid=53224
link for doily.
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Thank you for the link - I'll go and have a look! Love
Dianne x x x
Dianne x x x
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Dianne, this is soooo lovely. She will be delighted. Sleep well, knowing you have made something that will touch her heart! Kind regards, Bev
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shirlener88
26 May 2008
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Oh Dianne, this is breath takingly beautiful - I love your parchment work, too! She will treasure it - what a lovely card. *4U
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margiepeart
26 May 2008
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Hi Dianne,
This is an exquisite work of art. Do you have a web site where you sell your designs?
Margie
This is an exquisite work of art. Do you have a web site where you sell your designs?
Margie
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I do have a website - http://diannescraftbox.bravehost.com - and my designs are all free. There are only a few embroidery design downloads on there so far, I'm just learning to digitise so you get to try them out for me! :-) Love
Dianne x x x
Dianne x x x
welcome margie, to the 'CUTE' family - I don't remember seing you post before. *4U
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That is exquisite.Just had a look at your web page.BOY, ARE YOU CLEVER AND CREATIVE! How do you come up with all those ideas?Flower for you.
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(Just got back from Mum's - she loved the card!) Thank you for the compliments; the artistic bit is a God-given gift, it's purely hereditary : take a look at http://diannes-gallery.freeservers.com/ and you will see what I mean. As for transalating it into creativity and craft work, that is just imagination, time and trial and error - and my big secret is giving housework low priority ... :-) I don't need much of an excuse to abandon the cleaning!
Love
Dianne x x x
Love
Dianne x x x
I agree with you about the housework. A bit of a waste of time that is- you only have to do it again next time!
I read somewhere- Sewing forever, housework whenever.
I read somewhere- Sewing forever, housework whenever.
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Stunning - this is really beautiful Dianne. You have a wonderful talent :)
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WOW ... WOW ... that is absolutely beautiful and words can't really express. I bet mom was left with mouth open with surprise and delight. The parchment: is that simply parchment paper? and you actually did the cutwork and butterflies on it??? thanks for sharing ... and a ton of ****4u and MOM
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Yes, just ordinary crafters' translucent parchment paper. I drew the design on with white pencil then embossed it on the reverse and finally cut it out. Took me ages but I think it was worth it :-) LOve
Dianne x x x
Dianne x x x
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What a beautiful card Dianne, I am sure your mom will treasure it, hope she had a happy day..*4U
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dlonnahawkins
27 May 2008
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This is really quite awesome! I bet she loved it - hope you got some rest from the late night!
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