This text contains over 120 cross stitch greetings card and tag designs to mark any occasion. Ideas and instructions are provided for mounting your work into cards, and even for decorating the card mount to ensure a special and polished finish.

Hand-Stitched Greeting Cards for all Occasions*Create 120 colorful cards for family and friends*Quick, easy and lots of fun to stitch!Four leading cross stitch designers--Claire Crompton, Joan Elliot, Joanne Sanderson and Lesley Teare--have compiled a lively array of 120 cards and tags that can be stitched for any occasion, from welcoming a new baby to celebrating a silver wedding anniversary. An inspirational mix of styles ensures designs to suit everyone, from traditional to quirky, and everything in between. Each of the 40 occasions offers a choice of designs--quick, quicker or quickest--depending how much time the reader has. Every design features clear, easy-to-follow instructions, and a handy quick-start section will help readers create mini-masterpieces in no time flat!

With Cross Stitch Celebrations: Graduation, learn to create personalized graduation announcements, congratulations, and additional keepsakes for education-related accomplishments. Whether you are an absolute beginner in cross stitch or a seasoned pro, Cross Stitch Celebrations: Graduation shows you how to create highly giftable personalized keepsakes for the accomplished students in your life. This step-by-step guide includes all of the basic instruction you need to learn the art of cross stitch. Following a brief introduction to tools and materials and an overview of basic cross stitch techniques, you will be treated to: 30+ charming patterns A range of mix-and-match fonts, border designs, color schemes, and education-themed motifs Techniques on how to compose a DIY design Tips for framing and displaying finished projects The more than 30 patterns include a variety of border designs, alphabets, and color schemes to choose from and combine to make a truly special gift for any educational accomplishment. Just some of the things you can cross stitch are a wall hanging, mortarboard, pennant, and greeting card, complete with a message and themed motifs, such as a trophy, music notes, paint palette, beaker, stethoscope, and more. Whether it is for a graduation, winning a spelling bee, or the first day of kindergarten, you can create the perfect personalized gift for every student in your life. Whether you are new to cross stitch or already skilled in the craft, the Cross Stitch Celebrations series teaches you how to create personalized pieces that celebrate life’s major milestones. Including all of the basics you need to start stitching, and with the ability to mix and match the fonts, border designs, color schemes, and motifs featured inside each book, the possibilities are endless!

With Cross Stitch Celebrations: Bundle of Joy! you can continue the generations-old tradition of stitching a birth announcement and other keepsakes for a new baby. Whether you are completely new to cross stitch or already skilled in the craft, Cross Stitch Celebrations: Bundle of Joy! teaches you how to create highly giftable personalized keepsakes for a new baby. This step-by-step guide includes all of the basics you need to learn the art of cross stitch. Following a brief introduction to tools and materials and an overview of basic cross stitch techniques, you will be treated to: 20+ charming patterns that reflect baby and nursery aesthetics A range of mix-and-match fonts, border designs, color schemes, and baby animal motifs Techniques on how to compose a DIY design Tips for framing and displaying finished projects Baby animals include a bear, bunny, dinosaur, duck, elephant, owl, and a whale, and small motifs include hearts, clouds and moons, flowers, paw prints, and rainbows. Create the perfect personalized gift for every new parent and grandparent in your life. With the ability to mix and match, the possibilities are endless! Whether you are new to cross stitch or already skilled in the craft, the Cross Stitch Celebrations series teaches you how to create personalized pieces that celebrate life’s major milestones. Including all of the basics you need to start stitching, and with the ability to mix and match the fonts, border designs, color schemes, and motifs featured inside each book, the possibilities are endless!

This is a collection of 100 cross stitch card designs to celebrate every occasion, from christenings and Christmas to Mother's Day and moving home.

New babies and birthdays; weddings and anniversaries; graduations, bon voyages, and holidays of every type: don't these special moments deserve greeting cards that are personalized works of art? With your cross-stitch skills and these patterns, it's easy to make cards that friends and family will treasure forever. Celebrate births with a Toy Sampler or whimsical Stork and Baby. Mark important birthdays, from the first to the 90th. Give best wishes for engagements, new jobs or homes, or a speedy recovery. Other cards cheer in the New Year, Christmas, Easter, and Valentine's Day, and there are bouquets of floral patterns. Plus: borders, details, and alphabets for designing your own, and instructions on stitching and mounting the cards. 112 pages (all in color), 9 x 9 1/2.

Contains selected content from the original work CrossStitcher handmade cards, first published in 2012 in the United Kingdom by Future Publishing Limited.

Provides patterns and instructions for special projects for Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Passover, Easter, Mother's and Father's Days, and weddings.

Presents a collection of 100 cross stitch card designs to celebrate various occasions, from christenings and Christmas to Mother's Day and moving home. This work features chapters that showcase eight stitched themed cards, each with stitching instructions, a range of inspirational embellishment ideas and colour charts.