Day 19 - Q is for Quaint and Quirky

It's time for the 12th Annual Month of Holiday Cards Challenge at Beccy's Place.

You can read the rules HERE or head over to Beccy's Challenges and enter HERE.

Day 19 - Q

Beccy's inspiration is a Santa wearing a beautiful quilted coat card HERE  

My "Q" is for Quaint and Quirky,

hand embroidered Christmas Trees with seed bead ornaments.

The embroidered Christmas Tree design is a cut file sized to make a 4 ¼” x 5 ½” card.  I trimmed the card base in Silhouette Studio so that the embroidered panel made a 4 ¼” x 5 ½” card front and I could hide the threads at the back.  I cut the panels from 300gsm smooth white cardstock using my Silhouette Cameo.  Using my new-to-me Collapsible Eye Needle I threaded yellow embroidery thread to make the star and **carefully** followed the threading steps in the guide on the tutorial, joining the dots from 1 to 10. 

**carefully** because I now understand why the delicate needles come in packs of four!

... the twisted wires are so fine and delicate ... and bendable too!

Next came the brown thread, following the dots 1-to-12.

Next came the green thread and seed beads,

carefully following the dots from 1-to-44.

What fiddly, frustrating fun, definitely far from "Q" for Quick!

I popped the embroidered card panel with foam dots on scarlet red cardstock, giving it a 1/8” border, then adhered the panel to a 5” x 6 ¼” card base that I made from the same heavy white cardstock as the embroidered panel.

   

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INGREDIENTS

Embroidered Cards – free cut file - Design #676

– Embroidered Cards in the Jennifer Maker Library

This embroidered tree card design was part of a set of four cards in the Jennifer Maker “Maker Academy Weekend” earlier this month, November 2024.  You can access the free cut file by clicking on the link in the Embroider Cards tutorial blog post or by logging in to the Jennifer Maker Library and scrolling down to design #676.  The library is password protected and you need a password to access the free files.  The password is supplied when you subscribe to Jennifer’s site and is included at the bottom of every email you receive from her.  To subscribe to the free library, either complete the form HERE or via the link in the Embroider Cards tutorial blog post.  PS - you're safe when you subscribe, you will not get spammed with a gazillion emails.

embroidery thread - yellow, green and brown

Collapsible Eye Needle - to embroider the card and thread the beads

assorted seed beads - to decorate the tree

300gsm smooth white cardstock - for embroider panel & card base

scarlet red cardstock - to mat the embroidered panel

foam dots - to pop the embroidered panel
Helmar 450 Quick Dry liquid adhesive – to glue the layers

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I have entered my card in the

12th Annual Month of Holiday Cards Challenge at Beccy's Place Challenges