Monday, September 7, 2009

My first stitched card!!

I finally made a stitched card. I have envied all the beautiful stitched cards made by the DT at Card Patterns....and I am a huge fan of Yvonne’s hand stitching on her layouts.......I did try hand stitching some time back, but found it too time consuming and it made my fingers really sore.....so I gave up on that....I do not have a sewing machine so never gave stitching on my cards a serious thought....until yesterday when I discovered a long lost hand sewing machine at home!! It took some getting used to, it can only do the basic stitch; the thread tension has to be perfect otherwise all the stitches will come off at even a slight tug.......but this will do for me until I get a real sewing machine........I modified this week's sketch a bit.......
Here is a closer look at the stitching, I need some more practice, it is difficult to guide the machine along a straight line and the thread was breaking often too......anyway I love the random border effect it created.......
I inked the edges of the lowest layer of the foam flower........
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7 comments:

  1. I love this card.. nd u no wats da best thing bout it?.. u just dun get to know if ur nt used to it as u just made urself luk like a pro wid sum uneven stitching! :)

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  2. Great job on the stitching Juhi! This is a beautiful card!

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  3. That's a lovely card Juhi! Very interesting effect with the stitching.

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  4. Nice effort Juhi to try something new...keep it up!

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  5. Juhi this is just divine! The stitching adds so much great texture to your card. I need to try that!

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  6. I have that same sewing machine! I couldn't bare to give up on one of my cards after it skipped stitches and wobbled all over the place but I loved it in the end. Yours came out terrific too!
    Thanks so much for playing along with the Card Patterns sketch this week! I'm thrilled to be the sponsor and just posted my own card for the sketch on my blog :)

    http://allamericanstampers.blogspot.com/2009/09/winter-color-trends.html

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  7. Very pretty card Juhi..ur creativity is scaling new heights every day :)

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