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

Wonderful birthday card! Flowers for you

I am sure she loves it dianned *4U

This is really quite awesome! I bet she loved it - hope you got some rest from the late night!

Lovely. Hope she frames this.

How beautiful!

lovely, and congratulations with your mothers birthday!!

Absolutely beautiful...know mom will love this.

What a beautiful card Dianne, I am sure your mom will treasure it, hope she had a happy day..*4U

Dianne, I stand in awe... this is beautiful. A+

Absolutely beautiful.

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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by dianned 26 May 2008

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

Stunning - this is really beautiful Dianne. You have a wonderful talent :)

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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by dianned 26 May 2008

(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.freeserver... 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

by mpo14011 26 May 2008

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.

Hi Dianne,
This is an exquisite work of art. Do you have a web site where you sell your designs?
Margie

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by dianned 26 May 2008

I do have a website - http://diannescraftbox.bravehost.... - 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

by shirlener88 27 May 2008

welcome margie, to the 'CUTE' family - I don't remember seing you post before. *4U

Oh Dianne, this is breath takingly beautiful - I love your parchment work, too! She will treasure it - what a lovely card. *4U

Dianne, this is soooo lovely. She will be delighted. Sleep well, knowing you have made something that will touch her heart! Kind regards, Bev

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/i...;pid=53224
link for doily.

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by dianned 26 May 2008

Thank you for the link - I'll go and have a look! Love
Dianne x x x

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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by dianned 26 May 2008

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

Absoluely gorgeous card, Dianne! I'm sure that your mother will treasure it!

absolutely gorgeous...

Beautiful, absolutely lovely Dianned.

Absolutely beautiful. A lovely card indeed. Well done Dianne *4U

Absolutely beautiful. I am just learning to do cards. A group will get together and do Christmas cards. Nice work

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.