Candle cross stitch design for Birthday cards

Candle cross stitch design for Birthday cards

Hello everyone

Today I thought I'd share with you all a small design of a candle. This design would be nice for birthday cards of course please feel free to change up the candles colours, maybe pick a colour to compliment the card you have chosen or the favourite colours of the birthday person.

This design is small so can also be used for a gift tag as something a little different to the usual gift tags or for a small envelope to present a gift tag inside.
With it being quick to sew I think I'll see about sewing this design on a few spare scraps of fabric to make some extra cards to sell for charity. :)

For more birthday designs check these designs out:
Presents with stars - Fun and colourful Birthday card cross stitch designs
Small birthday cake design - perfect for cross stitched greeting cards.

For more card sized motifs why not check out these links:

Geometric black and purple cross stitch design
Rainbow coloured Geometric pattern
Wishing well card sized cross stitch design
Question Mark Maze
Cute bird sitting in some bushes
Blue and green sewn bird
Bright orange and yellow summer sun motif
Bunch of colourful balloons
Jesters hat small card sized cross stitch design
Rainbow pencils cross stitch design - Thank you card
Pencil themed Thank you card for Teachers or artists cross stitch design 
Tiny wishing well motifs

Cinema themed motif collection
Tattoo style dragons
New home card motifs
Square flower motif
Small motifs for St Patricks day cross stitch cards
Elemental coasters - simple cross stitch designs

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Small birthday cake design - perfect for cross stitched greeting cards.

Small birthday cake design - perfect for cross stitched greeting cards.

Colour	Where is it used	Anchor Thread numbers	DMC thread numbers
Brown	Main cake colour	363	977
Light pink	Icing	50	957
Dark pink	Candles and backstitch on plate (shown in green on chart for clarity)	29	891
Yellow	Flames on candles	289	307
White	Plate	1	5200

This design was originally drawn in Anchor colours, a conversion table was used to get the DMC colours.

Hello everyone,

Today is a simple design of a small pink birthday cake. This is a design I just grabbed some threads and a tiny scrap of left over Aida and tried to see what I could make. Since the design was meant to be for a birthday card I though a small simple birthday cake would be ideal. 

Heres a pic of the finished design:

The rose was a tiny motif from Donna Kooler's 555 Cross stitch designs for the young at heart. Its a brilliant book by the way if you are ever looking for a new book for your cross stitch designs. 

The heart in the square is in the same book, a small part of a larger design. I changed the colours to match the pink theme. Then added a nice happy birthday sticker match the silver metallic threads. 

Though I really dislike stitching with metallic threads its rather fiddily and the thread likes to split apart as you sew. However you can't deny that the end result is so pretty. 

For a few more designs here are some links:

Birthday Designs

Presents with stars - Fun and colourful Birthday card cross stitch designs

Food designs
Marmite jar

Raspberry ripple ice cream in cup
Ice cream cone with heart decoration
Ice cream double scoop cone - Summer fun cross stitch design bookmark
Kawaii coffee cross stitch design - I love coffee, coffee loves me
Cute coffee - Simple Kawaii cross stitch design
Giant Ice cream sundae with loads of scoops- summer fun cross stitch design

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Birthday cake - card sized cross stitch design

Birthday cake - card sized cross stitch design

Colour	Anchor Thread numbers
Grey	234
Brown	363
Blue	129
Yellow	290
Orange	304

Hello everyone,
I have been wracking my brains this week for the perfect design to stitch for Birthday cards. I wanted something which wasn't too hard to sew but still looked very impressive since I'll have to stitch a few at once for my families Birthdays which fall close together.

However when I got down to designing I just went crazy with half stitches. I mean don't those candles and that fancy cake stand look great? However if you find half stitches a little daunting you can avoid several of them by stitching the candle in one colour and squaring off most of the half stitches in the base (or leaving off the base to stitch just the cake)

The blue icing is a reference to my friends favourite colour so I wanted to include it somewhere on the design I sew for her.However the icing can be swapped out for any colour you think will look nice, White, pink or yellow are quite traditional icing colours but with the range of food colourings available practically any shade of thread would work.

I may have to re-use the cross stitch design for this cake base, perhaps make it a little fancier and add a wedding style cake instead of a birthday cake. Lets see what I can come up with for this :)

Much love and happy stitching
Gemma xx

For more food themed designs here are some links:
Marmite jar

Raspberry ripple ice cream in cup
Ice cream cone with heart decoration
Ice cream double scoop cone - Summer fun cross stitch design bookmark
Kawaii coffee cross stitch design - I love coffee, coffee loves me
Cute coffee - Simple Kawaii cross stitch design

For another Birthday design heres a link:

Presents with stars - Fun and colourful Birthday card cross stitch designs

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Presents with stars - Fun and colourful Birthday card cross stitch designs

Presents with stars - Fun and colourful Birthday card cross stitch designs

Hello everyone,
I have a few birthdays coming up so I thought it would be a great opportunity to come up with a simple cross stitch design for a birthday card. I wanted this one to be in whole stitches only to make them simple to whip up but also so I could change the thread colours about to use up a few odd ends of a skien or to choose colours which I know the lucky recipient will like the best.

I like this colour combination, its rather fun and bright.

 

Heres a nice little present in Green, red and Yellow. I think this colour combination would also make a nice idea for a Christmas card or a nice tag to put on a Christmas present as a keepsake.

I had to try and fit in pink and purple somewhere in this post else my lovely Niece would defiantly ask for one for her sewing. I think she might be trying this one to make for her friends birthday later in the year.

If anyone decides to stitch this one with a new set of colours I'd love to see it, please feel free to pop a link to a photo of your sewing into the comments and I'll take a look.

Anyway Happy Birthday to anyone with a birthday coming up. I hope to be getting a few more Birthday themed cross stitch designs drawn soon since I'll have loads of family birthdays coming up which I will need to sew for.

Much love and happy stitching
Gemma xx

For a few more fun and colourful designs here are some links:

Geometric black and purple cross stitch design
Rainbow coloured Geometric pattern
Pretty circle of Butterflies and Flowers
Wishing well card sized cross stitch design
Primrose Fairy
Question Mark Maze
China blue flower motif
Girl blowing a Dandelion
Cute bird sitting in some bushes
Make a Wish - Dandelion seeds turning into Butterflies
Blue and green sewn bird
Bright orange and yellow summer sun motif
Bunch of colourful balloons

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How to make a Minion Birthday card

How to make a Minion Birthday card

Hello everyone,
This month I made a sweet Birthday card for my friend who is a big fan of the Minions so heres a little tutorial on how to make your own.

What you will need:

Scissors
Glue (I used a glue stick, Ignore the PVA in the picture I took that before I found where I put the glue sticks)
Scrap paper
Black felt tip pen
Grey Felt or paper
A yellow card (hopefully you can get a matching yellow envelope)

Paper in black, white and brown though you may want green if you wish to make a card designed around Bob, to use for his one green eye.
This cute lil' guy:

Step 1:
On your scrap paper draw out a set of circles.
You will need one large circle for the eye, a smaller circle for the iris and an even smaller one for the pupil.
Then a circle which is larger than the eye with another inside for the goggles.
I used several cups to  draw around

Cut these circles out and ensure that they fit onto your card. if they are too big or too small try drawing some more circles on the scrap paper until you feel it is right. This will help you save your coloured paper for the final card.
Renember if you are making a card of a minion with two eyes instead of one the two eyes are generally smaller than one so make the circles smaller for this variation.

Step 2:
Take the ring for the goggles and use it as a template to cut it out of your grey paper or felt. If cutting out of felt it is easier to do so if you pin the paper to the felt to keep it still as you cut.
Then cut out the rest of the circles
The largest in white
The middle one in Brown
The smallest in black.

Step 3:

Take your card and round out the top two corners as shown in the below picture.

Step 4:

Glue the white circle on to the card slightly above half way up.

Step 5:

Next cut two rectangles of black paper. They need to go between the edge of the white circle and the edges of the card when glued on. These represent the band which holds the Minions goggles on.

Step 6:

Glue on your circle of grey paper/ felt, make sure it covers the edges of the white circle and no white peeks out from behind it. 

Step 7:

Glue on your Iris and pupil and allow the glue to dry before the next step.

Step 8:
Now for the fun part, take your black pen and draw on the mouth and hair of your Minion.
It may well be a good excuse to re-watch the Minions movie to work out what expression and hair cut you want to use. :)

Step 9:

Finally don't forget to write inside your card. Here are a few Phrases in Minion language you may find useful for this:

Minion language -> English

Bello -> Hello

Para Tu -> For you

Bi-do -> I'm sorry

Poopeye! -> Goodbye!

Muak Muak Muak -> Kiss Kiss? 

Banana! -> Banana! 

Alternatively try out this fun website for more message ideas: http://minionstranslator.com/

For more Minion themed crafts here are some links:

How to make an evil purple Minion

Upcycle an old Christmas Bauble into a Minion decoration

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