Thursday, May 04, 2023

Slow Stitching - Fancy hand stitched floral elements


 Over the course of our sorting of fabric for the GrammaLink  Africa Fabric Sale I came across a scrap of shimmery fabric that had been discarded because of it was in pieces and not appropriate for the sale that contained these wonderful flowers along with a few more designs.  I thought they would do well as focal elements for cards so I saved off a few of the scraps and have cut out the flowers with some borders so I could layer them with the horsehair interfacing which I will lay over some embossed brown cardstock backgrounds which will be added to card fronts.  Not sure what colour of cards yet.  I used coordinating embroidery floss to stitch the flowers to the horsehair and will then just use double sided tape to secure them to the embossed backgrounds.  Will post the cards when they are finally finished.  Therese