How to Understand Embroidery Cards
You can embellish cards with embroidery stitches to create customized designs. Understanding how to embroider cards is as simple as knowing how to embroider on cloth, with one key exception. Embroidering cards works best if the designs are simple outlines rather than intricate patterns. You can adapt most any fabric embroidery design to work on cardstock if you remove flourishes and just keep the outline.
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Things You'll Need
- Embroidery pattern
- Cardstock
- Painter's tape
- Felt
- Needle
- Embroidery floss
- Tape
- Paper glue
Instructions
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Select an embroidery pattern to make your card. Determine which embroidery stitches will work best on the various parts of the pattern. For example, a backstitch is a simple stitch that will work well with most embroidery card pattern outlines. It's simple to do and works to make curves or straight lines. If your pattern includes flower petals or other separated sections, a lazy daisy stitch will work. Understand which stitches you plan to use before you begin to embroider your card.
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Tape the design onto your cardstock with painter's tape. Painter's tape removes easily and will not harm the paper.
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Place the card on top of a section of felt or other soft fabric. Punch holes with a needle along the outline of your design based on the stitch you plan to use. For example, in the sections of your pattern where you plan to use a backstitch, space the holes 1/8 inch apart. A lazy daisy stitch needs a hole punched at the top and the bottom of the outline. Make sure that your needle makes a hole through the pattern and the cardstock. Remove the design from the cardstock.
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Thread your embroidery needle with thick embroidery floss. Do not knot the floss; tape the end to the back of your cardstock instead. Create your embroidery design by inserting the needle from the back to the front of the cardstock. Stitch along the pattern, using the perforations you created in step 3.
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Glue another piece of cardstock on the back of your embroidered card to cover the tape and the back of the stitches.
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