Beaded Christmas Cards

they are still not complete but hopefully by Friday they will all be finished, trimmed and mounted on some mat boards as that is when I leave Joann’s.   Here are the  first 8 and I have another 2 finished upstairs. Several are at the half way stage so achieving another 6 in that time, doesn’t seem impossible.

This was done entirely in bead and sequins leaving just the shepherd from the original fabric design.

With this one I decided to do only the edges in sequins and use the “o” from the word Noel as a halo which I satin stitched (badly). At the top of the halo, I used a metal finding from a pot luck bag I got from Firestone mountains and in the middle of that I attached a heart shaped stone.

This one I kept simple with star sequins and satin stitch.

Here I beaded around the edge, satin stitched the halo and then I added star sequins to the sky.

Part of the problem of using this fabric design was the inclusion in the back of one letter  from “Noel” in each scene.  Here it was the letter “N” .  As you can see I satin stitched a good part of the back ground, leaving some of the sky visible . I then added sequins to the edge and stitched the star at the top.  I have no idea what stitched that would called, as I just followed the star shape around until it was finished.

This one I decided to keep very simple.  Around the edge I used transparent gold beads (no 15) with twisted gold bugle beads.  In the middle I used a gold plated finding from my bag o’ goodies top by a single red fabric rose

By this point, I was beginning to realise I need to find a quicker way of filling the background.  My sewing machine has a few basic embroidery stitches on it.  This is one of them.  I had never tried to do machine embroidery before and I was quite pleased with the result.  The border is edged by one line of  size 6 gold filled red beads.  The star is from my stash of goodies and the rays are size 11 or 15 white and gold seed beads.

Last but not least the first card I started with, very simple with red beads (size 6) around the border and blue beads for the sky.  The tree is made in satin stitch from  cotton yarn.

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