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Greeting Cards - Combining Fabric and Cardstock

Some machine embroidery designs are not suitable for stitching onto cardstock, but that shouldn't stop you from creating magical greetings with your embroidery. Discover how to create your own one-of-a-kind greeting cards by first stitching onto fabric, and then attaching to cardstock. Our step-by-step project instructions will show you two different methods for creating your own!

Supplies


Supplies Needed for the Framed Embroidery Card:

- 65 lb. Cardstock
- Craft knife
- Cutting mat
- School glue
- Scissors
- Ruler
- Bone folder
- Quilter's ruler
- Pencil
- Tailor's chalk or temporary marking tool
- Embroidered design
- White craft glue

Supplies Needed for the Sewn Embroidery Card:

- 65 lb. Cardstock
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Ruler
- Temporary spray adhesive
- Bone folder
- Small scissors
- Iron
- Pressing cloth
- Ironing board
- Air erase pen or temporary marking tool
- Embroidered design
- White craft glue

Designs featured in this tutorial include:

M29357, To the Moon and Back
M19646, Beautiful Wildflower Stems

Products Used


  • Beautiful Wildflower Stems (Sku: ESP56561-1)
  • To the Moon and Back (Sku: ESP59564-1)

Steps To Complete

Embroidery designs created to fit a 4"x4" hoop are easy to turn into personalized greeting cards. This tutorial will show how to make two different cards.

The first card is framed with a window cut out of the cardstock, allowing the embroidery to show through. The second is a sewn card where the embroidery design is first stitched onto fabric, then sewn onto the front of the card. The framed embroidery card steps will be first. To make the Sewn Embroidery card, skip ahead.

For the framed card, the embroidery design needs to be smaller than 3" x 5."  The fabric piece needs to be larger than 3" x 5" with roughly an extra inch along each edge. In this demonstration, we used the 4x4 size of the design "To the Moon and Back" (M29357).

To make the framed embroidery card, draw a 7" tall by 10" wide rectangle on a piece of 65lb cardstock.

Cut the 7" x 10" rectangle out of the cardstock.

Match up the short (7") sides, and fold the paper in half so that it is now 7" tall and 5" wide. Press the fold with a bone folder to make a clean, crisp edge.