The Stitched card
Posted: January 15, 2026 Filed under: My Favorite Things, Stitching | Tags: Mixed Media, My Favorite Things 8 Comments
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.
Heather Telford 
WOW Heather….what a lot of work! I love to stitch on my cards but I use dies that cut the holes and design in….like the Spellbinders stitching dies, etc.
Paper Hugs,
Jan Castle
Thank you, Jan, it was a lot of work but being able to do a bit now and again it didn’t become a chore.
I can imagine that stitching on paper is challenging, Heather! Beautiful results make it worth the effort!
So cute! I love it! And I have some of this paper too!
As always, thank you for taking the time to post, I really appreciate it!
Thank you so much, Donata.
Gorgeous stitching on your card, Heather. It adds so much to the design, along with dimension. I can imagine it took a while to do this, but so worth it! xx
The flowers look fantastic with the added stitching using this beautiful patterned paper Heather, and what a great idea to add the fusible webbing to the back of it to give it more strength and not something I woud have thought to do but it works brilliantly….a gorgeous card. x
Oh wow… it is amazing you stitched on those patterns. Beautiful card!