Posts Tagged ‘embroidery’

A Personalised Embroidered Wedding Gift

April 20th, 2011

Marcus and Emma’s wedding on the weekend was beautiful. I’m still on a high from having all my Gibson cousins together, and seeing two people in love get married. Marriage is such an awesome gift, hey!?

I thought I’d take a moment to show you what I made for them as a wedding gift. I embroidered this saying, and then included their names and the date of their wedding below. What do you think?

The saying is “Home is wherever you are…”. It’s meant to be like a husband saying to a wife “Home is wherever YOU are”, but in hindsight it just reads like home is wherever you happen to be at the time… :-/

But anyway, I thought their names and the date was a nice touch. The fabric is glued around the back so this can just hang on the wall ‘as is’! We gave it to them with some of those cool thick white letters (an “M” “&” and “E” for Marcus and Emma).

handmade heart button wedding card

I also quickly put together a little card. This type of card is seriously SUPER easy and you can do it in so many shapes for so many different occasions. As this was a wedding I just used a hot glue gun to make the heart shape and stuck the red buttons in. I dusted it with glitter afterwards, which stuck to the bits of glue that were showing. Easy peasy!

I’d love to know what sort of handmade gifts you’ve made for a wedding. Let me know in the comments!

Tags: button, embroidery, gibson, handmade, marcus&emma, wedding

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Embroidered Buttons…

March 26th, 2010

You may have noticed a button swap badge over on the right —> (if you visit my actual blog, and not just in your reader).

Well, I (finally) finished my buttons, and they’re sent of to my partner in the USA! Kim, my partner asked me to make some Australian themed buttons, and that’s what I tried to do! I’ll give you a little explanation on each button.

Top, left -> right.

Kanagroo. Where I work, there are kanagroos EVERYWEHRE. Our offices are at the Universtiy of the Sunshine Coast and they lazy around in the lawns, and in the school next door.

Uluru. I’ve never been, but would love to visit.

Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge. I hate going to Sydney, BUT it’s where most people think of when they think of Australia, so I put it in…

Bottom, left -> right.

Gumnuts. They are perfect for crafts, or just to sit in a vase! Our house has lots of gumnut trees around us.

Cricket. Before I got married all I knew about cricket was that Australia was really good at it, and that lots of people played it in their backyard. Then I got married and Luke wanted to WATCH it. On the TV. On Boxing Day! Crazy…

The Beach. I live near(ish) to the beach. It’s lovely.

Also, you might remember my little creative challenge- to do something creative every day. Well, I’ve been doing it (almost) every day for a while now, and my tumblr is looking pretty with all the photos of creative stuff. Feel free to have a look!

AND if you haven’t done my little survey yet, there’s still time! I really aprecaite everyone taking the time to do it- it’s given me lots of insight into what you all want and read my blog for!

Tags: beach, buttons, cricket, embroidery, gumnut, kangaroo, sydney, tumblr, uluru

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Every Day

February 15th, 2010

What kind of things do you do every day?
Every day I:
Sleep
Wake Up
Kiss Luke
Eat
Watch TV/Movie
Email
Check my social networks

If you think about it, THESE are the things that make up who I am. Even though they aren’t my passions or my ‘loves’ necessarily (kissing Luke is the exception here!).

All this reflection, and a little post over at Carina’s Craftblog left me thinking I need to make the same resolution that Carina did. I NEED to do something creative

EVERY

SINGLE

DAY

So in order to do this I’m assembling a few embroidery designs that I want to make, as well as always having my pen and sketch book handy. I’ll be posting photos of what I do over at my Talia Carbis Tumblr Blog, as well as some updates here.