The Stitched card

I decided to try something new. I’ve done hand embroidery before, but not on cards. I’ve stitched on cards before but with a sewing machine. This panel was my practice for another project but as you can imagine it takes a while to hand embroider on cardstock so I turned it into a card despite the mistakes I made.

The patterned paper is from a paper pad; it had a bit of weight but I ironed fusible interfacing to the back to make it stiffer and less likely to tear. I used machine embroidery thread in a double strand but I think I will try some hand embroidery thread because it might be a bit thicker and show up a little more.

I used the patterns on the flowers as my guide for stitching. I didn’t stitch on every flower or on every part of a flower. I used French knots (some a bit rough!), daisy stitch and plenty of simple straight stitches covering lines on the patterned paper. The sentiment is from the MFT Birdie Brown greetings galore set.