This card is going to my best friend’s step daughter. I made cards for her own children and now that she remarried I have added on 2 cards this year for her step-kids.

I’m not quite sure how old this little girl is, but I was told that Ariel is her favorite character. I was so excited to find this mermaid pattern in a book of small designs.

This design may be small, but it is detailed! The tail alone has 3 different colors. I didn’t go bright red for the hair, but the idea is there of who the mermaid can be. The mouth was supposed to be another french knot, I thought that was weird and tried stitching on a smile instead.

I went simple with this card and decided I wanted to do the frayed edges again, something I haven’t done in a while. Once I learned about interfacing fabric the frayed edge design idea went by the wayside. I did use interfacing fabric on this and still pulled off some ends for the frayed look.

I started with a 3×3-inch piece of blue 14 count Aida, so there wasn’t much side to work with. I also decided to use pink paper for the card base since it’s going to a young girl. The background is a piece of wallpaper that has silver dollars on it. This is a different version of the paper that I used for my husband’s card earlier this year.

I also didn’t place her in the center, but off to the top right a little and angled. I wanted to still show the silver dollars. I mounted the cross stitch to the wallpaper using foam tape. The wallpaper is attached to the cardstock with double sided tape.

Stitching

Started: September 29th
Finished: September 30th

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