Imagine the joy of receiving a handmade card adorned with intricate sewing and stitching details. As you explore the 11+ creative ideas presented by Heather Holbrook, you’ll uncover a treasure trove of inspiration to elevate your card-making skills. The added bonus? Freebies to enhance your crafting experience!
Join me in unraveling the magic of combining fabric, thread, and paper to create personalized and heartfelt cards. Craft Gossip always manages to capture the essence of crafting, and this post is no exception. Get ready to infuse your handmade cards with a touch of love and creativity!
Lawn Fawn has quite a few great products made for sewing on cards. I love this die cut hoop, you can add a circle stitching die in the center to cross stitch on. Find two FREE bee themed patterns on the Lawn Fawn blog.
I love adding special touches to my handmade cards, something a more than just ink and cardstock, like sewing. Adding sewing and stitching to your cards adds texture and color, it can be simple like sewing around the edges or be the focus of the design. You can use a sewing machine or stitch by hand, you can lay down simple stitches or add intricate embroidery, knots and cross stitch patterns. There’s also lots of paper crafting products on the market like dies that punch the stitching holes for you to make adding sewing easier. I’ve gathered up a wonderful bunch of handmade card ideas that include sewing to help inspire you to give it a try yourself. Also be on the look out for a few FREE patterns you can download and try!
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Spellbinders is another company that has a lot of terrific stitching dies! Jennifer McGuire used several to create a few amazing cards. She’s posted a very detailed video tutorial showing the basics and more detailed techniques for sewing with these dies, it’s perfect if you’re a newbie. Click here to check it out.
The geometric sewn pattern on this card is the star of the design. I love the beautiful rainbow of stitched colors used! All the card needs is a metallic die cut sentiment to finish it off. I spotted this card on Pocket Full of Happiness on Instagram.
Julia created a FREE digital stamp that you can download, color and add sewing over the lines. It’s a large design that can be cut into pieces to create several cards. She added pretty watercolors to her cards and mounted them on Kraft cardstock with sentiment strips. She’s sharing a tutorial showing how to free-motion stitch with a sewing machine on the Stitches by Julia blog.
This card uses a small 1/2 circle sewing die many times all over the background creating a unique pattern. It’s cross stitched in a pretty color pallet with a stamped and heat embossed sentiment over top. Visit the Studio Katia blog for more info.
This card has amazing handmade embellishments with stitching over top of felt triangles with fun details at the tops to create super fun party hats for a birthday card. There’s also a stamped sentiment in matching colors and a few sequins scattered around. Visit the Ellen Hutson blog for more info.
This sweet stitched heart card is perfect for Valentine’s Day or an Anniversary. The black and gold borders add a nice elegant touch! Visit the Got Joy Creations blog for a closer look.
This card didn’t use any special dies, Nichole used a piercing tool and foam mat to create holes in the cardstock around the stamped star. This fun technique can be used with so many different stamps! Watch her video tutorial over on the Papertrey Ink blog.
Channin used a beautiful butterfly sewing die for this pretty card. Notice how she used the same thread colors as the paper color stripes for a wonderfully coordinated card design. Visit the Waffle Flower blog for more info.
If you’re new to stitching these FREE printable cards are just the thing. Print them out, the sentiments are included and then follow the simple designs. There’s a video tutorial to help you along the way over at A Visual Merriment.
And lastly here’s another card that doesn’t use a die. The map was stamped in a light ink, pierced and sewed using different bright colors for each continent. Learn more on the Neat and Tangled blog.
I hope these terrific card ideas have provided inspiration and excitement to try adding some sewing and stitching to your next hand made cards!
-Heather
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