Created By Valerie

OMG...Thank you for the "freebies" !!!!! Your merchandising is brilliant...you keep thinking up GREAT ways to "hook" us back to your web-site and thereby keeping us "addicted" to Embroidery Library!!! You must be the most fun place on earth to work at !!!!!! I am a recently retired pharmacist and have fallen in love with embroidery. Being a beginner, I find the projects you display a bit intimidating. They are absolutely gorgeous and certainly something to aspire to, however, the reason that I originally found this media so exciting was to use it to make cards. Paper crafts produced flat cards with little personality. Yes, you could embellish them with do-dads, but, I wanted to make them POP!! As you know, sewing the patterns out on felt requires no stabilizer AND using an embroidered design is something that Hallmark does not offer to the public. (you even offer some verbiage) It's easy-peasy for the novice and very gratifying>>> The "crafter" most likely has paper, rubber stamps, maybe a die cutting machine and they can utilize all that by selecting their own color palate (that matches the papers they already have) AND make outrageous cards with your spectacular artwork!!!! I have had recipients ask me to make them sets of cards for them as Christmas gifts. For your larger designs, I have found it sooooo simple to make my own envelopes and sometimes I make them into an easel type card>>> Oh, I've made towels, however, I need cards for NUMEROUS occasions and I am not inclined to always send a towel. (St. Pat's day was an exception...I made these for everyone !!!)>> Perhaps you have already thought of this felt/card idea and/or tried it. Economics have changed, however, and a lot of us have a huge stash of stuff that we have invested in and are looking for something new to do with it !!!! I think you have an opportunity here and because I love you guys, (thus the green font--think $$$$) I want you to entice those "newbies" (like me) who have been making a