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Have you entered all our giveaways?

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SKIL OMT

On CraftGossip, at the moment, we are running lots of giveaways for some fabulous prizes. Look at what all you can win:

— A copy of Microsoft Office 2010 Home and Business edition

— A stunning Nino Bossi Top Zip Hippo Bag

— An Allure salad bowl in white pearl

— SKIL’s new oscillating multi tasker tool

— 3 month subscription to the Cricut Magazine and Cricut Book idea series

— Baby Chick Designs fine art tutu

And a couple more. Make sure you check them all out and get your entry in before they expire!

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Comments

  7. I would love to have Skils oscillating multi tasker tool. I have been drooling over one ever time I go to a home improvement store. All the giveaways are super though.

  8. I always check out the tools section of any store that carries them. I’ve been looking at the multitasking tool for awhile

Have you read?

Cross Stitch Cards for All Occasions

I have never stitched a greeting card, but I kind of like the idea of it. It’s a card and a gift all in one, and hopefully one the recipient will hang onto for years to come. 

This collection of easy and colorful greeting card cross stitch patterns from Susan Bates (via Gathered) are a great place to start if you want to stitch your own greeting cards. 

These text-based designs cover a lot of card-sending events, such as:

  • get well soon
  • happy birthday
  • thank you
  • thinking of you
  • congratulations
  • anniversary
  • new home
  • good luck

The lettering is done in gradients and there are other details like hearts and stars, a house key and a gift, depending on the text. There are full cross stitches and back stitch on all of the cards, and they use 15 colors for the cross stitching and six for the back stitching (and just two colors are used for both, so it’s 19 colors total). 

The designs vary a bit in size but the biggest one is 52 by 67 stitches, which comes out to 3.75 by 4.75 inches or 9.5 by 12 cm when worked on 14 count fabric or 28 count evenweave. The text suggests beads are also used in the patterns but there’s no note of them in the key, so go wild and add some beads if you like. 

Designs are worked on a price of 6 by 8 inch/15 by 20 cm fabric and then mounted to a card with a colorful baking piece of card stock behind it. This is easy to assemble with whatever cardstock greeting cards you have on hand.

You can get the free charts as a PDF from Gathered. 

Have you ever stitched your own greeting cards? I’d love to hear about it, or let me know if these inspire you to try. 

[Photo: Susan Bates via Gathered]