I am crazy excited today. Like, jumping up and down squealing kind of excited.
My blogging buddy Ruth from Living Well, Spending Less — you’ve heard me mention her before when she wrote an amazing e-book How to Blog for Profit {Without Selling Your Soul} — emailed me a couple of months ago and asked if I’d like to be involved in her Handmade Holidays series on her blog.
Um, YEAH I would!
So I sat down and tried to think of something sweet that would be easy to make but also a cherished gift.
And this is what I came up with.
Come on. Too cute for words, right?? Even if you have never touched embroidery floss in your life, you can do this. I promise.
So head on over to Living Well, Spending Less to get the full tutorial and see how easy it is to turn your kids’ adorable drawings into permanent works of art!!
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Your embroidery art is so cute.
I have some kid artwork that I want to embroider.
Is the canvas you used the kind that artists use for painting on?
Where did you get your canvas?
I will link back once I finish my project(s).
Hi Susan, thanks so much!! Yes, I got these canvases at Michael’s in the art section. The brand is Artist’s Loft. There are several price points on these, but I just used the least expensive ones. Just make sure you look at the back of the canvas — some of the bigger ones have wooden pieces going across the back to stabilize them, and that obviously makes it a lot harder to embroider around!
Please definitely link back, I’d love to see what you make!! 🙂
I love this idea. I’d seen it done for cross-stitch, but I like your version better. True confession: I’ve had my kids drawings in a folder for almost twenty years waiting for time to cross-stitch them. Yikes!
That is super duper cute! -Marci @ Stone Cottage Adventures