Spring Time in my Garden-5

These are the chrysanthemums I have in my garden. Now since day temperatures are quite high, these are not blooming. 

 This is the button or miniateure mum.

I also have purple ones. I forgot to take a pic before cutting the blooms. 

These plants which have bloomed were cut to almost ground level and left in the pots. Now I have put them all under shade till monsoons arrive. The mother plant will give out many shoots which can be replanted to get the blooms. But it is really difficult to save them during summer. No matter how careful I am, I always loose some of these plants.

Have  to see how the summers will be this year. It is already quite hot here...

Watch out my blog....

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3D Greeting Cards-1

How nice it is if we have lots of time to think and create our arts or crafts? But many a time, I don't have that much luxury. Suddenly a little one comes to me saying, it is his birth day, or my niece tells me that she has to attend a birth day party in next half an hour, so I don't have much time to think, I have to rush around to create something with what I have at hand. It is quite irritating but then do we have a choice?

Here is one attempt at one of the cards I made(Sorry for poor quality of the picture, I was in a hurry).

These days you get so many 3D stickers of different sizes for decorating your walls. I keep in stock some of them. We use it for our niece's school projects.  So I used a bunch of sunflowers and a butterfly. The back ground is cream coloured textured card stock of A4 size folded in half. 

I just stuck them on the card-they are self adhesive. Then the message was written with glitter pens(I don't have a photo of that, as I was in a hurry). Message inside was also hand written with colour pens and glitter pens on a plain white sheet and stuck up. 

VOILA! We had a card in a jiffy, hand made and messages hand written with a personal touch. No one could make out that they were made from a sticker.

TIP:     So when you are in a hurry, and want to make a card in a jiffy;

Keep stock of such stickers, you can use one of them. They can be birthday cards, congratulation cards, thank you cards or get well cards. If you have a printer, you can print the greetings on the card stock before sticking or decorating it. similarly, message can also be printed and stuck inside. If not just write it down. 

So watch out for more......

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StitchXplorations - Satin Stitch

This is again one more attempt at satin stitch from the same sampler done long time back.

The background is unbleached cotton fabric. I have used a shaded cotton thread, 2 strands. I have outline some petals with back stitch to see how it looks. The leaves and stalk, stem have been done in satin stitch.

I have not filled in the center. I think s few french knots would look nice. I will try them.

What do you think?

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