Overview
Cross Stitch Greetings Cards has brought together ten of your favourite cross stitch designers to produce a wonderfully varied collection to celebrate all the most important moments in life. There are an incredible 136 greetings cards, tags, and place name cards to choose from, each one an original. The designers bring to the collection their own special styles -- Sue Cook's cuties, Sam Hawkins' magical Santas, and Helen Philipps' contemporary sampler cards. All in all, here is a card collection that you can turn to time and time again, whatever the occasion.Six chapters brim with the most delightful images: friendly teddies welcome a new baby; special birthday cards for friends and family; hearts and flowers for weddings and anniversaries. You'll find cards for special days such as Easter, Thanksgiving or Mother's day, and if you want to say 'good luck,' 'well done' or 'safe journey', there's a chapter packed with cards to send special wishes. For Christmas, everyone's favourite card-giving occasion, there are happy penguins, sweet angels, and jolly Santas just waiting to be stitched. Designs are provided for circular, square, rectangular and shaped card mounts such as arches, Christmas trees and stockings. If you can't find a commercially-available mount to suit your need, there's plenty of helpful advice on cutting your own, as well as decorating plain cards with stamps and lettering. Clear symbol-on-colour charts, comprehensive making up instructions and superb close-up photography will provide you with all you need to start stitching your own personal greetings cards.