Cracking cards to embroider for Christmas - free tutorial!
Published on October 29, 2020 1 min readAdd an extra special handmade touch to your Christmas cards this year and treat your friends and family to an embroidered Christmas card! These three designs are super easy to make and look amazing. Pick your favorite or make all three!
Materials
- Embroidery needle
- DMC Diamant Grandé
- Colour G3821
- Colour G168
- Mill Hill Glass Beads Size 6 - Options available Matte Fiesta Sunset 10118243
- Groves Unicorn Rainbow Scissors (10cm/4in) 10204317
- DMC Stranded Cotton
- Colour 562
- Colour 955
- Colour 3849
- Colour 704
- Colour 911
- DMC Light Effects
- Colour E966
- A Bradawl or sharp darning needle
- 5x7 Blank Christmas Cards and Envelopes
- Thick piece of card
1
Print and cut out your chosen card design then tape it to the front of one of the card blanks.
2
Open the card and place it on top of the cardboard (to protect your table!) Use your darning needle to make holes in the card, following the template design.
3
Follow the stitch guides written on each template to complete your card.
