Saturday, February 28, 2009

Blessed


I feel so blessed to be working with so many caring people. It is amazing the amount of donations we receive, cards we receive and volunteers' commitment to helping our brain cancer friends! Here is a card from Julie; she hand stitched the saying on this and other cards she sent for our SLT friends. THANKS for all you do for SLT!

4 comments:

Linda Thomas said...

I love this stitching! If anyone knows how it is done, I would love to hear about it!

Anonymous said...

Wow that was a beautiful card.. hope she tells us how she stitches it... hand or machine ..our volunteers are so creative.. love mom/marie

Anonymous said...

Hi everyone - thanks for the kind comments on the design of my card - I _love_ to create and it's been so rewarding doing cards for Send Love Today - here's how I do the stitching:

-- I either print, write, stamp (just in a light colored ink like gold) or stencil the words on the front of the card
-- I then use DMC floss (2 strands) and basically just use the needle to poke holes and hand-stitch along the wording
-- try to keep the stitch length fairly small
-- once the stitching is done, I then cover the back of my work (ie. on the back side of the front flap) with the same cardstock used for the card itself - this way, it covers up the back stitching and you can't tell anything is different - I just carefully glue the edges and trim any overage

You can create all kinds of cards using various sayings, floss colours, etc - sky's the limit so have fun with it !!

Julie - Avant-Carde

Anonymous said...

Thanks Julie for sharing with us! I will have to try this!