Cross Stitch card

 

Make a lovely greeting card from a small cross-stitch

I do many crafts , so this week I thought I'd show you how you could make a greeting card from a small cross stitch. 

I downloaded the pattern online and as it had no back stitch in it, the cross stitch was quite quick to do. The hedgehogs measure 7 cm by 3 cm but you can use any smallish cross stitch and just adjust the aperture that you cut. This blog isn't really to show you how this particular card was made but instead to give you an idea how you can mount your own cross stitches.

If you don't do cross stitch, the same principle of this card could be used to frame a picture on a piece of fabric or maybe even a pressed flower 

Follow the below link to find out how the card was made
You will need

• Hedgehog cross stitch (I used a pattern that I found online here)
• An oval nesting die measuring about 9 cm by 6 cm
• Brown and white card
• Hedgehog patterned paper (I used a piece from 'Little Fawn and Friends' 12x12 scrapbooking paper by Nina Stajner)
• A7 white base card
• Happy Anniversary greeting stamp
• Versamark Ink pad
• White embossing powder (I used Wow! opaque bright white super fine embossing powder)
• Red heart brad
• Glue, double sided tape and double sided foam pads
• Rounded corner punch
• Stitched Scalloped Borders by Lawn Fawn
• Heatgun

1. Cut a piece of hedgehog patterned paper to 12 cm wide by 16 . 5 cm tall. Using the corner rounding punch, round the corners on the right side of the hedgehog paper. Glue it to the base card so that the left hand side of the paper meets the left hand side of the base card


2. Cut a piece of brown card to 10 cm tall by 12 cm wide. Use the largest scalloped border die to cut a scalloped top to the brown card. Also use the rounded corner punch to round the bottom right corner. Cut the oval die centrally out of the brown card
   
   
   


3. On the back, put double sided tape around the edge of the oval aperture. Stick your cross-stitch centrally so it shows through the front of the cut out oval. Trim off any excess cross-stitch fabric that extends beyond the edges of the brown card
   
   
   
   
   
   


4. Cut a piece of white card measuring 11.5 cm wide by 8 cm tall. Stick this to the back of the brown card. This gives your cross-stitch a good white background and the patterned paper cannot then be seen through it when stuck to your card (If you have used coloured cross-stitch fabric you may wish to use a matching coloured piece of card rather than a white piece)
   
   
   
   
   
   


5. Stick the brown card with your hedgehog cross-stitch to the lower half of your base card using double sided foam pads


6. Cut a strip of brown card large enough to hold your greeting stamp. I used the scalloped border die to cut a curved end to the greeting strip.


7. Stamp your greeting onto this strip using versamark ink pad. Cover the ink with embossing powder and knock off the excess. Use a paintbrush to clear any surplus powder. Use your heatgun over the lettering to melt the powder.
   
   
   
   
   
   


8. Add the heart brad to the lefthand side of the greeting and then stick the greeting strip to the top of your greeting card with double sided foam pads, so the left hand side lines up with the lefthand side of the card