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Home -> Embroidery Projects Home -> Making Valentine Postcards
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Valentine Card with "Valentine Greetings" Heart Design
This Valentine's Day project was done to show one way of using "Valentine Greetings" designs collection. These design are
unusual, because they have been digitized especially for making embroidered greetings. These designs don't include heavy
fills at all. Only lightweight running stitches that are friendly for using on paper. All the colorful parts you see on
designs from this set are appliqué patches, inserted in a special way we've developed. To get the idea, please go through
this page. It will explain everything in detail, and show step-by-step photos. Have fun!
Of course, these Valentine designs are also good for clothes, and can be used with fabric. More projects and ideas will be included inside the set, so you'll get them with your designs,
after ordering.
And here's a photo of ready postcard:
REQUIRED SUPPLIES & TOOLS
* Make sure that your printer is functioning properly. You'll need it for printing design template.
STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS
Open "Valentine Greetings" designs set on your PC, locate “Hearts” design, open it's corresponding PDF template using Acrobat
Reader, and print it out. Such template is included with each design in this set, and is called "designname_template.pdf".
In case you don't have Adobe Acrobat Reader software installed on your PC - you may download it for free from
Adobe site, here: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
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1. Cut out the templates you've just printed. One template
should include the design image, and the second one - a picture of heart appliqué, like this photo shows ->
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2. Cut out the heart, using regular scissors. You may throw the cutout heart to trash right away.
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3. Take the red card stock, and draw a heart on it, using a pencil and heart template you've just created. Then, cut out the heart according to outlines.
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4. Take the champagne color card stock for postcard body, double fold it and cut the excess, to make it's size perfect for your greeting card. Of course
the front part should be large enough for the design. Mark the middle of each side of your postcard front, using a pencil and a ruler.
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5. Take the template with cutout heart, and position it over the greeting body, exactly according to center marks. Center marks on template and on greeting
should meet. Draw outline of the heart on greeting body, and remove the template. You won't need it any more.
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6. Now, as you can see, you can easily position the cutout red card stock heart over the card body, exactly in the correct place, over the pencil
outline. Glue the heart over the outlines using temporary adhesive spray, and let it dry for a few minutes.
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7. Carefully hoop a piece of medium or heavy weight cutaway backing, find the middles on each side of your
hoop, and mark the backing like our photo shows ->
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8. Spray a small amount of temporary adhesive spray over the hooped backing, insert the hoop into embroidery
machine and attach the greeting card front (with the red heart) over the backing, exactly in the middle, according to center marks.
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9. Embroider the design. This is fast, as these designs include very little stitches. When finished, just take out the
hoop, cut away the backing, and glue a nice paper cover inside the greeting, to cover the stabilizer and back side of embroidery.
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Card is ready!
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If you'd like to get Valentine Greetings designs and embroidery supplies used in this project - please visit these links:
Valentine Greetings embroidery designs set
Cutaway stabilizer
Temporary Spray Adhesive 17-ounces can
Polyester Embroidery thread
Metallic Thread
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