Hi everyone! Nancy here today with a crafty tutorial featuring embroidered tags. Nothing says handmade quite like sewing. I also love the personalized aspect of embroidery.
I started this project with muslin tags from the Happy Things collection by Pinkfresh Studios. I love the dipped dye look of the fabric tag. I took it one step further and added an embroidered ombre letter to each tag.
I chose “C” and “A” to represent California which is the topic of my page. You could do family initials, numbers or simple icons to customize them to your own story.
1. Start with an embroidery template (this alpha kit by Amy Tangerine is a favorite), a piercing tool, mat, and 2 skeins of embroidery floss in a medium and dark shade of one color and 1 skein in a cream color that matches the tag.
2. Use the piercing tool and template to poke holes through the fabric to create a sewing guide. I started with the outside portion of the letter first. Begin stitching at the top with the cream color floss, then switch over to the medium shade and finally end the letter with the darkest shade.
3. Next, line up the template and poke the center outline of the letters. Repeat the sewing technique above start with the top of the letter in cream and ending at the bottom with the darkest shade.
4. Use Versafine or Staz-On ink to add a stamped image to the fabric tag. The trickiest part of this technique is piercing the holes with a wide enough needle so that you can still see the pattern when you remove the template. TIP: You could carefully use a very sharp pencil to mark small dots where the sewing lines would be. Just make sure they are very light marks.
Happy customizing your embroidery to your stories. It's easier than it looks!
~ Nancy Damiano
DAY 17 GIVEAWAY
Day 17 already! The time is going fast but we are far from over. Today we are so pleased to featured Carta Bella. And we love Carta Bella for so many reasons. The feel of this rich paper, the classic, sophisticated designs and a very talented team make this a great company to work with! When we told our friends at Carta Bella that we would be celebrating them this month it took about 3 minutes before they said they would love to be a part of the celebration and offer YOU a great prize! Take a look!
The Soak Up The Sun collection and ice cream stencil are perfect for all your summer crafting! Designed by Alisha Gordon, it boasts a beautiful assortment of fun summer memories. Who can resist that sweet ice cream truck? Not us! For an opportunity to win today's prize, be sure to leave a comment below by September 2nd! Winners will be randomly selected and announced on September 4th. Good luck!
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Thank you for joining us today! We loved Nancy's project and we loved celebrating Carta Bella. Now, go soak up the sun and enjoy a wonderful Wednesday!
~ Catherine
Awesome prize. I love Carta Bella!
Love Carta Bella; what a great summer collection! Thanks for the chance to win!
OOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Love the Hot Air Balloon and Ice Cream cone papers!! This is a great collection !
I also love the Happy Things collection by Pinkfresh Studios!!! I have made a few cards using it!! The colors are amazing!! TFS!
Love the ice cream and bathing suit papers. The stencil looks delicious! Thanks for the prize chance.
I love this summery collection with the pretty pastel colors! Thanks Carta Bella
I love Carta Bella! Thanks for sharing!
Wow love those. What a nice opportunity.
Love the tags and the ombre letters. Thanks for the chance to win!
The colours say summer. Enough said!
I think summer is my favourite! Thanks for the chance to win
Ice cream ice cream who wants ice cream? ME! Thanks for the chance to win this fabulous prize!
Carta Bella style is so much fun! Love the bright colours!
What a fun little collection from Carta Bella! That ice cream stencil is awesome.
That ice cream cone stencil is the coolest!
The summer theme is so fun. The colors of the papers are lovely. I love this company. A great give away!
Wonderful giveaway! I love the cheerful colors
Gorgeous layout, love the tags! Love the colours of summer scrapbooking, this collection is perfect!
Thanks SCT!!!
Beautiful tags.. Love the ombré embroidery.. What a generous giveaway!! Thank you so much ?
I love those hand stitched tags on the layout! what a wonderful, personal touch!
and such a cute collection of papers from Carta Bella! that stencil is the cutest. :) thanks for their generous giveaway!
So prettying! Carta Bella has such wonderful collections.
wonderful summery collection – thanks for the chance to win
Love this collection! Thanks for the chance to win.
That collection is so summery and cute. And no, I can’t resist the ice cream truck either!
What a fabulous collection. Thanks for the great ideas!
Love any collection from Carta Bella!
Always love your LOs Nancy! and THANK YOU Carta Bella! I am not interested in Halloween yet, and I’m not even going to mention that other holiday! I am still into soaking up the summer sun, I have but a couple precious weeks with my little gal before she heads back to school and I’m milking it people! LOL (and then I want to scrap each precious memory!)
So thank you for pretty papers and a yummy looking stencil!
Summer sun and the living is easy. What wouldn’t you give for an icecream. Great giveaway for this time of year.
What a fun California Dreamin layout! Carta Bella – what fun goodies!
Great layout. I like the stitching on the muslin tags.
Great prize too.
Great layout and prize. I like the stitching on the muslin tags.
Carta Bella rocks! Their collections are consistently a favorite of mine. THANKS for the chance to win.
love carta bella! this is such a fun & cute collection
Love Carta Bella products. Thanks for the chance to win another great giveaway.
I love summer and I love this collection! Thanks for the chance to win :)
I love Summer collections. So fun to scrap book to show how we spend our Summers. Love all those scrumptious embellies!!!
Thanks for sharing with us!!!
Great prize!
Beautiful page by Nancy.
Beautiful! Thank you for the chance to win this!
The summer collection is so cute!
And the ice cream collection goes great with it.
Love that layout, Nancy – you’ve given me an idea for a series of pages I want to do – thanks for the inspiration! And the Carta Bella collection is great – I’ve been looking for a summer collection just like this!
This line by Carta Bella is so pretty. It just screams – Let the fun begin!!!!
I’ve seen a few layouts with this collection, and I’ve loved them all. Great collection!
Carta Bella is always so fun and fresh!!
I love the layout! Stunning, with those stitched ombre’ tags…and lots of layers~
I want to continue to Soak Up Some Sun…maybe with that awesome kit and hopefully, we get plenty of sunshine well into Fall this year!
Oh stitching project is super cute!!!!! I love that stitching kit.
And the kit from Carta Bells is very cute, that ice cream stencil is adorable.
Such a cute collection, and I love that stencil!
Carta Bella is one of my faves!
How lucky are we to have a chance to win such an awesome prize! Carta Bella makes beautiful and fun collections. I love the bathing suit print paper and the bright,cheery color palette!
Great collection! Thanks for the opportunity to win.
Looks like a fun
collection and I
love the scooter
in it!
Carla from Utah
What a fun and colorful collection, and I love that cute stencil! Thanks for the chance to win!