The more expensive commercially produced greetings cards usually have an extra folded sheet of paper inside with a printed message or verse. In card making circles this is known as an insert. An attractive insert can add a touch of luxury to your card…

Cards featured here must have been posted in either the Stitching Cards forum gallery or the Forum-A-Lines forum gallery. The card should be based on a Stitching Cards pattern or a Form-A-Lines pattern.

This week’s card is “art nouveau rose” made by Jasu…

Beading needles tend to be much thinner than embroidery needles. The main requirement is that they go through the beads that you are using with room for the thread as well…

When it comes to choosing a needle for paper embroidery it is really a matter of what works best for you. If you have a range of needles in your sewing box then the best thing is to try them to find which one you like best…

Cards featured here must have been posted in either the Stitching Cards forum gallery or the Forum-A-Lines forum gallery. The card should be based on a Stitching Cards pattern or a Form-A-Lines pattern.

This week’s card is “beaded butterfly” made by Lady Di…

Recently a Stitching Cards customer contacted me to say that she had been told by her post office that International Reply Coupons (IRCs) were no longer available. This is a typical response from post office staff who do not know what IRCs are, or do not want the bother of ordering them…

This Christmas bauble pattern is easy to stitch as most of the work comprises of stem stitch. The downloadable pattern includes instructions for stem stitch…

Cards featured here must have been posted in either the Stitching Cards forum gallery or the Forum-A-Lines forum gallery. The card should be based on a Stitching Cards pattern or a Form-A-Lines pattern.

This week’s card is “pink beaded flower card” made by jojo.mary…

Handmade Christmas cards can be traced back to fifteenth century Germany where cards with religious pictures were exchanged as Christmas gifts. The custom of sending Christmas cards by post started in Victorian England with the advent of the penny post…

Stitched leaves often employ a fan style stitch where most of the thread goes from points on the rim of the leaf into a single hole where it joins the stem. This can easily be converted to a loop stitch using the same holes but having much less thread on the back of the card…