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Kick-off the New Year in crafting bliss. Michaels is giving four lucky do-it-yourself devotees each a $1,000 Michaels gift card to create his or her dream craft closet.
Don’t know where to get started with your crafting closet? The winners will get expert advice from TLC Craft Wars judge, Jo Pearson. Winners will also receive a personal shopping appointment at a local Michaels store.
To enter, visit the Michael’s Facebook page here from now until January 28, 2013.
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:
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]
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I desperately need better organization. Help!
I Love Michaels,I shop there often, Right now I’m crafting out of a room the size of a closet,will be moving into a larger room soon and could really use this. It’s to cold to go out to the wood shop to work.So I’ll be holding my breath and crossing my toes that I win.
Please note everyone. Michael’s is hosting this giveaway on their Facebook page, not CraftGossip! The link to Michael’s facebook page is included in the post above.
I enjoy Michael’s as a one stop crafting, do it yourself store.
Oh what blessing it would be to have actual organized craft supplies.
I love shopping at micheals and a chance to organize so I can shop more is wonderful.
i love michaels i go there first and i have been going there for around 30yrs or more.
What a dream this would be!
I love to go to Micheal’s. Its an all day adventure (30+ miles take daughter in law lunch too) That store has just about everything