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How to Embroider a Greeting Card

comments (10) March 15th, 2011

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Diane Gilleland, contributor

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With a little pre-planning, you can embroider a design on a piece of sturdy cardstock.

Metallic threads are fun to stitch onto paper.

The secret to greeting card embroidery is pre-punching the holes for your needle to pass through.

With a little pre-planning, you can embroider a design on a piece of sturdy cardstock.

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Bring the needle up through the hole at the top of the petal, and position that loop so your needle is sticking through it, as shown.

Finish the stitch by passing the needle back through the same hole. This creates a stitch that anchors the loop.

Pull the needle all the way through, gently pulling that loop so that it tightens lightly around the needle. Then, pass the needle back through the same hole again, as shown, to complete the stitch.

When you're done stitching, the back of your work will look like this. Cover it up by gluing on some decorative paper or another blank card.

Here's the back of the finished card. Wow, this needs covering up! You can glue a piece of scrapbook paper over it, or even take a second blank card and glue it to the inside of this one.

That's all there is to it! Happy Stitching!

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Comments (10)

Criativa writes: Olá.
Que belo trabalho.
Obrigada.

Posted: 4:47 am on August 13th

littledeer302 writes: littledeer302. i love your creation i am going to try it thanks diana.
Posted: 12:22 pm on June 15th

CreativeG writes: This is simply beautiful and you've explained it very well. I know what I'll doing this weekend :).

Posted: 1:04 am on April 1st

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Posted: 9:16 am on March 18th

paperrain writes: I'm working on the design for all my holiday cards as soon as I get home tonight. Fabulous. I'll post photos when I've finished one. Thanks for another cool tutorial. We need a book of your tutorials!
Posted: 11:12 am on September 10th

VSC writes: This is awesome, but I wish I would have known about it back before I did this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/crgw/2244913919/in/set-72157603798402531/
Posted: 8:32 pm on June 24th

digibudi writes: I totally love this! I think I'm gonna use this idea for my yearly summertime indoor pick-nick at my apartment. Great stuff Diane! I registered for this cool site because of you :)
Posted: 10:55 am on June 20th

Average_Jane_Crafter writes: This is fantastic! I love that you've shown how to modify the design to work for what you are doing, and the card with samples of floss is genius. You ROCK! :)
Posted: 11:37 am on June 19th

crafty_gal writes: Diane, your directions are the bomb! I've really wanted to try this out and you've just given me the confidence to give it a go!
Posted: 10:09 pm on June 18th