This week’s card is called Christmas bauble and was made by Eileen. This attractive card was made using Free Forum-A-Lines Christmas bauble pattern.

This was the first card entered in the Form-A-Lines forum September/October card making challenge. The cards should be based on the free bauble pattern and can be customised in any way the card maker chooses.

I asked Eileen about the gold stripes and she said “They were a bit of a mistake that turned out OK. After stitching I stamped the snowmen and Santa onto two strips of white card edged with a gold Krylon pen. I then decided to fill in the rest with red stickles but didn’t like the red, so dumped some fine gold glitter over the lot while it was still wet. It ended up looking like ruffled ribbon”.

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A bauble stitching card pattern has been added to the free patterns section of the Form-A-Lines website. The large bauble has an open area where you can add extra decoration of your choice, such as a greeting or a decoupage image.

This bauble pattern is currently being featured in the Form-A-Lines forum gallery card making challenge. Forum membership is required to post pictures. Go to the forum and click the “Join” link to join.

The direct link to the free bauble pattern is www.form-a-lines.com/freepattern05.php

A selection of greeting words have also been added to the free patterns section. They are Happy Birthday, Happy New Year, Happy Christmas and Merry Christmas. These can be added to your greetings card where you require the words. Prick out the words and stitch them using the supplied illustration as a guide.

A cupcake pattern has been added to the Stitching Cards collection. The design features a cupcake with a candle. It makes a great birthday card. It can also be used for congratulations, thank you and other messages by omitting the candle.

The pattern size is 152 mm x 104 mm (6 x 4½ inches).

The cupcake pattern can be found on the following web page:
http://www.stitchingcards.com/product.php/421/cupcake

This week’s card is called Mary’s 75th and was made by Nedlnut. This impressive card was made using Pinbroidery number patterns.

Nedlnut said “The numbers 7 and 5 have been chalked in red”.

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This week’s card is called 100th birthday Easel and was made by Katharine. This imposing card was made using Pinbroidery number patterns.

Katharine said “I used the top of the 0 for the trim on the base, reversing one of them. I stitched in double thread to make it easier for elderly eyes to see it, also used the pearl paper to fill in the numerals for the same reason”.

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This week’s card is called Bird Bath and was made by TeaDrinker. This impressive card was made using the Stitching Cards Bird bath pattern.

TeaDrinker said “It was made with blue, brown, gold, green, antique silver and variegated metallic threads. I decided to colour it in with coloured pencils. It was stitched on a shimmering white card, and mounted onto green, then brown stock card. I added peel-offs”.

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In an independent survey carried out by SafeBuy, 1001 Stitching Cards customers answered yes to the question “Would you recommend us to other people?” Only two said no.

Snapshot of survey data on 17 Aug 2010.

Stitching Cards would like to thank all their customers who took part in the survey. The SafeBuy survey is offered to customers after their order has been delivered so that they can comment on the full buying experience. The survey is part of the SafeBuy Star Rating system.

What is SafeBuy?
The SafeBuy Organisation has completed Stage One of the UK Office of Fair Trading two-stage process towards approval. As part of this process the OFT has agreed the text of the SafeBuy Code of Practice. SafeBuy vets all sites during accreditation and continuously carries out ‘mystery shopper’ exercises and standards checking to ensure that retailers are adhering to the Code.

Six new stitching card patterns have been added to the Pinbroidery website inspired by the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas”. They feature six geese a laying, five gold rings, four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree.

Each design has pricking patterns of two sizes: 144 x 144 mm (5.65 x 5.65 inches) and 152 x 104 mm (6 x 4½ inches). The square pricking pattern has words down each side and the rectangular pattern omits the words.

The patterns are available individually and in a value pack of all six designs.

The Value pack can be found on the following web page:
www.pinbroidery.net/product.php/83/

The individual Christmas word patterns are in the Christmas section at:
www.pinbroidery.net/section.php/8/1/

A six Diwali lamps pattern has been added to the Stitching Cards collection. The design features six lamps and the words Happy Diwali. This is a major festival that is significant in Hinduism, Sikhism, and Jainism, known as the “Festival of Lights”. This year Diwali falls on Friday 5 November 2010 in the English calendar.

The pattern size is 152 mm x 104 mm (6 x 4½ inches).

The six Diwali lamps pattern can be found on the following web page:
http://www.stitchingcards.com/product.php/420/6-diwali-lamps

This week’s card is called 50th Anniversary and was made by Nette. This impressive card was made using the Form-A-Lines Champagne glasses Pattern.

It is stitched on white linen effect card with a gold “Happy Anniversary” sticker.

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