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Paper Stitched Cards

     We decided to teach the girls how to make hand-stitched homemade cards one month.  Click HEREfor an excellent online demonstration of how to begin making stitched cards.

     Below, you'll see some directions I wrote up for a very simple type of card stitching, using numerous strands of embroidery floss:

     Slightly more complex patterns for card stitching can be found HERE.  Most of them are copyrighted, so I'm not able to post most of the ones that I have on my computer.  However, just use the above link in this paragraph to find some free patterns you can download for your own use.

     If you don't own a paper-piercing tool (found typically at fabric and craft stores), you may also use a larger safety pin, or a small-to-medium-sized sewing needle.

You may click on the photos below to go to their copyrighted website pages that allows you to download one free PDF copy of how to make that type of stitched card:

Here are some photos of my daughters' cards that they made. 
These were all made using free instructions we found on the internet: