2012 Christmas cards

Here are this year's Christmas cards.  Unfortunately, due to moving, pregnancy and other generic excuses I only had time to stitch my parents, in-laws and sister's cards.  I was fairly happy with how they turned out, although I wished I had more time to be a bit more careful about the embellishment placements and design.

I was happy with this one.  It's titched on 32 count linen

with beads and a lot of fiddly back-stitching.  I was a 

bit lazy (I like to think I was being environmentally

friendly) and just cut out the Christmas sentiment

from a bought card I received last year!  The same

applies for the following cards...

I had intended to put the 'Ho Ho Ho's' 

at jaunty angles, but annoying I only

achieved this for the centre one, so it 

looks accidental now. Grr. 

I like the tartan effect from the red 

backstich lines in the design.  Luckily I

had some matching tartan style fabric in my

stash to use for the sentiment's background.